Mysterious Hunting Ground

Chapter 276 266. Release the Queen of the Night
The entire hall began to shake from its foundations.

Dean quickly put on a sports suit on his naked body, and used his mind to extract the most valuable scales, feathers, fangs, and venom glands from the corpse of the phantom snake and put them into the space.

Then he picked up the unconscious Lena in the corner and rushed towards the people lingering by the blood fountain.

Katie was heartbreakingly staring at Jacob, who was soaked in the blood tank but unresponsive, with tears covering her cheeks like broken pearls.

And Scott yelled frantically, "There must be a way to save him. Everyone, please say something! Please!"

"Unfortunately, there is no cure," Dean looked down at Jacob's completely extinguished light of life and took over the words, "He is already gone."

"But he died with great value," Gonzalez's fierce rough face rarely revealed a gentle look, "He protected the two people you care about most. And he found his own God in the end. It can be said that he died in peace. No regrets.”

Brother Seth recognized the patrolman for the first time and nodded heavily, "I think he has been reunited with his wife in heaven."

Jacob found God.

When Katie heard this, she took a deep breath and wiped away her tears. The greenness on her weak face faded and turned firm. She turned around and held her crying brother in her arms.

At this time, a huge stone fell down like a ceiling collapse, making a big hole in the ground, and cracked lightning-shaped cracks in the wall next to it.

A passage appeared on the innermost stone wall of the hall, revealing a spiral staircase.

"There's no time, come with me!"

Dean pulled off his telekinesis shield to block the rain of falling stones, and led everyone up the steps. Soon they entered a flat, narrow road, with a wall blocking the end.

"Faco! This is a dead end." Seth complained,
Dean took Lena from Shadow's arms, and the latter raised his hand to encourage his telekinesis, "I'll blast it away."

"There's no need to harden it... This inscription is the prologue of an ancient book. I can unravel it." Aiden approached the stone door and looked at the scattered tortoise shell-like runes. "It's quoted from the creation myth of the Bobo Martial Scripture." , destruction...rebirth...seeing the dawn again. After the death of the phantom snake, it can be turned on."

Aiden muttered to himself, pressing a piece of "tortoise shell" with both hands and closing it in the middle.

Boom!

The stone door trembled for a moment, then automatically lifted up, revealing a bright passage.

Everyone filed in and suddenly found themselves back in the "Rulang" bar on the ground, standing on the stage right in front.

The hall in front of the stage was filled with the pungent smell of blood, and dozens of new corpses were added.

Unfortunately, all the dozen or so people who had been left on the ground died after their necks were bitten open and their arteries and trachea were torn.

Next to them lay the corpses of another group of ferocious-looking snake demons. They were all killed by a single blow to the seven-inch vital area on the back of their necks.

Even Carlos, the stage host who Dean had met once before and the target of the Goco brothers' multi-million bond transaction, was lying in the pile of corpses and died in silence.

A beautiful figure stood among the corpses on the ground, with red hair shawl, slender fingers hanging on both sides with blood dripping, and a frilly black tube top dress dragging to the ground, revealing a perfect figure and wheat-colored skin.

"Queen of the Night Santanica...have you been waiting for us in the hall?" Ricky's expression began to lose control again, and there was a slight look of obsession behind his glasses.

Scott, Gonzalez, and Seth stretched out their claws, bared their teeth at her, and tensed their bodies vigilantly.

Dean looked over her shoulder. The door to the entrance of the bar had been opened, revealing the wide square outside and the dim sky before dawn.

"Fearless warriors, don't be nervous, I don't mean any harm. I'm just here to welcome you back to the ground." The Queen of the Night's blood-red lips slightly curled up, and she spoke to everyone, "You killed the one who has tortured the Mexican people for hundreds of years. The ancient monster saved everyone from the tyranny of the phantom snake."

"I can't thank you enough for rescuing me from this demon and its minions." Santanica moved her long legs, twisted her waist and gracefully approached the stage, pointing to the corpse of the snake demon on the ground, " To show my respect, I have cleaned up the remaining fish for you, and I guarantee that there are no evil snake demons belonging to the Blood Sacrifice Gang in the temple now."

She deliberately emphasized the evil in her tone, and her eyes subtly glanced at Seth's three newborn snake monsters.

"You kill these vampire snake demons?" Dean let go of Lena in his arms and looked at the Queen of the Night up and down. After losing the blessing of the phantom snake, she also lost the mysterious aura that made Dean afraid. From the white light around her Look, she only has about level 4 life strength, which is far inferior to the phantom snake. She can't stop Dean for a few times, "Are you not in the same group with them?"

Santanica shook her head firmly, "On the contrary, they and I are mortal enemies, and I hate them to the core."

"Hundreds of years ago, the Phantom Snake took a fancy to me and asked its Blood Sacrifice Gang to kidnap me and transform me into a monster body."

"From then until now, I was forced to maintain rituals for them, and perform blood sacrifices to the phantom snake every once in a while to fill its appetite... I witnessed countless innocent people dying in pain in the temple, and my heart So I suffered a lot,”

Santanica held her chest with her slender fingers and said with pain and anger, "When the Phantom Snake was still there, I couldn't change the situation. Now that it is dead, I no longer have to endure these evil and cruel souls, so I send They went to hell!"

Everyone looked at each other in confusion, not knowing whether this woman's words were true or false.

Especially Seth and Scott, the three snake demons. In the past, they firmly believed that snake demons were an evil species, but now that they have become snake demons themselves, their stance has to become flexible.

"I believe you." Ricky nodded, then looked at Dean with unpredictable eyes, "Have you forgotten the mural we found underground? It clearly showed that Santanica was just an innocent girl who was being coerced. "

"A girl who is hundreds of years old?" Seth looked at his lustful brother with a strange expression.

Dean just looked at the corpses in the hall, "Who killed the humans who were left here before?"

Santanica shook her red hair apologetically, "Carlos led his snake monsters to kill them. Unfortunately, the phantom snake was still there at the time, so I couldn't save them."

From this point of view, everyone who stays or goes underground is dead,

"If you are telling the truth, then why didn't you run away immediately without the shackles of the phantom snake? Instead, you waited here. Aren't you worried that I would kill you directly?"

"Whether you are voluntary or forced, over the past hundreds of years, countless people have come to the temple to admire your beauty and dancing, and have become sacrifices because of you."

The cold question caused the temperature in the hall to drop several degrees.

Santanica lowered his head, frowned slightly, and his black jewel-like eyes were filled with mist. He looked so pitiful and pitiful that one couldn't help but feel sympathy.

"I am indeed guilty to a certain extent, and I am willing to accept the punishment. But I believe that you are not demon hunters who indiscriminately shout and kill the aliens. I believe that you can understand my difficulties."

She looked well-behaved, her posture was very low, and there was no trace of the queen's arrogance in her words.

"Of course, the most important thing is that I am not free yet, because I still cannot leave this temple even half a step without a crucial step."

"What steps?" Professor Eden in the crowd rubbed his chin and asked curiously,

She looked around at everyone with anticipation in her eyes, "After you killed the phantom snake, did you find a dark brown snake with short arms in its body?"

"Is this what you're talking about?" Dean took out the trophy from the space. The snake head and body, which were originally divided into two parts, were unknowingly bonded together. Dean held it in his hand and wrapped it around him instinctively. His arms, hissing out the letter, his small and delicate head shaking from side to side, actually looked a little cute.

Dean also confirmed that it had no intention to attack, and had no spirit or soul, leaving only a living body, so it could be placed in the fantasy space.

"Yes, that's it!" The Queen of the Night couldn't help but take a step closer to Dean again, clasping her fingers in front of her belly and pursed her lips, "If you give it to me, I can get the freedom I have longed for for hundreds of years."

"What on earth is this?" Dean stared into her fiery eyes, "If you lie to me, it will destroy the equal and friendly relationship, and I can only regard you as an 'enemy'."

With obvious hesitation and fear on his face, Santanica walked around the stage and nodded, "This is the 'heart' of the snakes...the snake of power. The one who masters it can command all the snake demons."

There were expressions of surprise on the faces of Seth’s snake monsters.
Even Katie and Scott temporarily recovered from the grief of losing their father, looking horrified.

Control all the snake monsters?
Dean recalled his experience in the previous battle. After the phantom snake lost it, it could no longer deter Seth and others, so Santanica should not have lied.

He gently touched the cold snake head on his arm, "How to use it specifically?"

"Swallow it into your belly. If it was originally a snake demon, it will be strengthened. If it is a human, it will merge with the snake of power and transform into a snake demon. It will become more like yourself, not afraid of ice and fire, regardless of day and night. and night, through dusk and dawn.”

Santanica's water-like gaze swept across everyone's eyes, blooming with a strange light, "Healthy, strong, long life..."

Professor Aiden was very moved when he heard this.

Dean frowned. He had no interest in becoming a snake monster.

"Putting aside the situation of the Snake of Power, I still have some questions to ask you."

Dean moved Jacob's body to the front of the stage, "Can you revive him?"

"No, his life aura has completely collapsed, and his soul has also..."

"Soul?" Dean's head moved. "I have never felt that snake monsters have souls, including phantom snakes."

"Our soul is different from humans and most living things." Santanica stared at him tenderly through her eyelashes. "It is integrated with the blood. When we suck the blood, we also suck the soul. When we die, the blood begins to cool down. , the soul will slowly separate and return to its true destination."

Blood and soul merge.

Dean suddenly realized, no wonder he didn't collect any soul essence when he killed the snake demon.

But he can't suck the blood of the snake demon to extract the soul essence.

Seth, the three-headed snake demon, was lost in thought.

Aiden patted the two sad siblings on the shoulders, "Since Jacob's soul is still in his blood, let's find an opportunity to take his body back to his hometown and bury it with your mother."

The siblings nodded solemnly.

"Have you thought about it, everyone? This temple won't last long." Santanica turned around lightly, and a light bulb fell from the ceiling with the vibration, smashing next to her snow-white bare feet, and the surrounding walls began to Cracks appear.

Dean still couldn't trust the Queen of the Night in front of him and shook his head, "I can't give you the Snake of Power."

The woman curled her bright lips after hearing this, climbed onto the stage, stared at Dean who was close at hand with her black eyes, and begged, "Can you give me the minimum freedom and bite me with the snake of power, like that?" I can also leave the temple." She deliberately glanced at the unconscious woman in Dean's arms, "Lena and I are sisters and have a close relationship, but we are all imprisoned in the temple, including the three newly transformed ones around you. The same is true for my companions, unable to step out."

Listen to her.

Everyone looked doubtful.

Aiden gave the snake demon Seth a look, and the latter rushed towards the open door of the bar in disbelief. As a result, there was a loud "bang", and he seemed to have hit a transparent wall of air and could not get out even an inch.

Seeing this, the Queen continued to emphasize, "Only this snake of power can grant us freedom."

Dean stared at the Queen's scorching gaze and pondered for two seconds. He couldn't just release the Snake Queen, otherwise God knows whether she would cause a bloody storm in the human world.

"You have to agree to a condition first, stay with us for a while." Dean glanced at Seth, Scott, and Gonzalez at the same time, "As an alien, you must abide by certain rules to survive in human society. .”

"I am not a cruel and murderous monster. I promise you, I swear to the great Quetzalcoatl." The Queen nodded decisively,
"How do I release you?"

"Bite me with the snake of power to break the binding spell," Santanica resisted the urge to snatch, threw the thick red hair on her chest back, lowered her head to the left, revealing her beautiful and delicate neck, as if Be coquettish toward your lover.

And Dean raised the snake of power wrapped around his wrist. As soon as the snake's kiss came close to Santanica's neck, it automatically bit him.

A small tooth mark bloomed on the smooth skin, and then a layer of complicated black patterns spread around.

Santanica hissed, revealing two fangs, and his body trembled spasmodically, as if he was suffering from great pain. At the same time, a large translucent spell appeared on his neck, and the spell was eroded by black patterns. , like the light spots through the gaps in the forest breaking and disappearing piece by piece.

Suddenly a gust of wind surged in outside the hall, and the wind blew violently.

Tablecloths and chandeliers shook violently.

And a distant chant sounded in the wind, just like countless invisible ancient shamans chanting sutras in people's ears.

The night is passing.

Dawn is coming.

Free us.

Let us return to the earth,
Dawn is coming…

Free us…

Return to the earth…

An invisible force lifted Santanica into the air, grabbed her limbs, and forced her to bend her body backwards, almost folding.

Then wisps of dark breath flew out of her body, passing through her thick red hair that hung like seaweed in the air, exuding a strange mellow fragrance.

Back into the snake of power in Dean's hands.

The black disappeared, and she landed lightly on the ground. Her tense body relaxed, and she raised her sweaty face and nodded gratefully to everyone, with a smile on her red lips, as if a heavy burden of hundreds of years had been lifted.

"thanks…"

She opened her hands and spun around in a circle, her long skirt flying like petals.
"I am free…"

"Finally out of this damn prison!"

"Can I... go out for a walk?" Santanica looked out the door happily, with both the innocence of a girl and the charm of a mature woman on her face.

"Leave with us later and find a place to discuss future arrangements." Dean said without doubt, then looked at his companions, "Seth, Scott, Gonzalez, you guys come here too, one by one. One bite."

……

Next, Dean released all his companions, including Lena, from their restraints, and then took the Snake of Power back into space.

Walked out of this temple filled with blood and death.

Rumble!
The dust was flying and the ground was rolling. In just a few minutes, this modern and antique bar, together with the square outside, and the motorcycles and trucks parked in the square, all went underground with a loud thunderous noise. It sank and was completely submerged and covered by mud, sand and gravel.

In the end, only a bare slope and a few incomplete stones were left on the original site.

The phantom snake, the blood sacrifice gang, and the cruel blood sacrifice ritual... all sank into the ground and were sealed.

Dean thought that maybe a few hundred years later, some archaeological team would rediscover it by chance.

……

After leaving the temple, everyone got on Jacob's family's travel bus, and Professor Aiden drove to Juarez.

Too many things happened tonight and everyone was exhausted. We had to find a hotel to rest for the night and discuss future directions and plans the next day.

For example, how does a snake demon survive in normal human society?

For example, how should the Queen of the Night, who has lived in the temple for hundreds of years, find a new direction in life?

……

The cinematographer was supervising the Queen of the Night's treatment of Lena, while Dean sat on a chair in the middle of the station wagon, quickly gnawing on energy bars to satisfy his hunger, staring out the window, and at the right time, dawn quietly tore open the veil of the night, smearing a layer of fish belly white on the horizon.

His mind then sank into the system, and he began to sort out the unimaginable gains——

First are the feat changes:
After killing the phantom snake and accumulating countless kills of supernatural creatures in the past, his specialty of Supernatural Hunter was finally upgraded to the intermediate level.

The effect of improvement is simple and crude.

In the initial stage, you can only randomly draw one attribute from the enemy's various attributes that are higher than yourself, and no more than two points.

In the intermediate stage, two attributes are randomly drawn, which is no more than two points, but it doubles Dean's growth rate.

Moreover, after each kill, the vitality and spiritual power absorbed are doubled, which in disguise enhances Dean's endurance in group battles.

As long as you keep killing, you can keep fighting.

……

In addition, after breaking through 20 points of physical fitness, the Ironman specialty is still at the intermediate level, but the attached feature "abnormal self-healing" has undergone earth-shaking changes, and it can almost be said to be an advanced level:

From now on, the upper limit of cell division will be increased, the life potential will be increased, and the life span will be slightly increased.

The crystallized energy storage organ in your chest is further expanded to store more and higher-level energy, achieving the same self-healing effect as in the past with less consumption.

Your self-healing ability has been further improved, and you have entered the stage of rebirth of severed limbs. Even if your heart, brain and other vital parts are severely injured, you can quickly heal yourself.

If you are decapitated, as long as the head fits the wound within a short period of time (10 seconds), you will survive and return to normal quickly.

……

Dean's eyes showed satisfaction. This time he fought against the phantom snake and took the risk of getting into the snake's belly to wreak havoc. It was his powerful self-healing ability that allowed him to persist until the end.

Now, with his self-healing ability further upgraded, he no longer has to worry about serious injuries to his vitals, and he has a chance of surviving even if he is beheaded.

This abnormal self-healing power has begun to develop towards immortality, greatly strengthening Dean's survivability, fault tolerance, and expanding combat modes!

Of course, if it hadn't been for killing the mushroom-headed Anton before, which caused all the Mimic, Abyss, and Underworld Summoning skills to be on cooldown, especially the Underworld Summoning, then Dean could at least use the skull chain to interrupt the phantom snake's covering attack, and It freezes for a few seconds and becomes a target, making the battle easier.

……

Finished the “appetizers and desserts”.

Dean finally turned his attention to the "main course" - the event "Fighting Until Dawn", and was shocked to find that the difficulty had unknowingly changed from at least medium to high:

You entered the Rulang Bar, survived the blood ritual, and slaughtered all the snake monsters in the hall.

You follow the metal juicer to discover temple ruins, kill dozens of Canaans in the tunnels, and discover more historical information about the cult of the phantom snake.

You passed the advanced test of the phantom snake and emerged unscathed, advancing further into the heartland.

You discovered the true identity of the phantom snake in the cave paintings - an extraterrestrial life summoned from the stars by the Blood Sacrifice Gang. It is bloodthirsty and familiar with the mysteries of various stars.

You entered the heartland, fought a bloody battle with the phantom snake, killed it with the help of your companions, took away the "heart" of the snake demon, and rescued the ultimate goal of this trip - Lena.

You used the Serpent of Power to free Santanica, Queen of the Night, and used your strength to convince her to follow you.

With your efforts, the temple of the Phantom Serpent and the core members of the Blood Sacrifice Gang that has been ravaging Mexico for hundreds of years have sunk into the ground and become history. The progress of the event has been greatly improved!
The event completion is [-]%.

You can withdraw your rewards at any time.

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(End of this chapter)