Only Player

Chapter 116 Crime
The dead were: a butcher, a judge, and a model.

The butcher died alone in the room, while the judge and the model died naked in the same bed.

In the butcher's room, the corpse was leaning against the head of the bed, with eyes wide open, as if staring at someone he hated.

He clutched his neck tightly with both hands, his palms dyed red with blood, his mouth wide open, like a fish out of water, revealing a desperate struggle.

The doctor took out a pair of rubber gloves from his coat pocket and put them on. He pried the butcher's hands apart with force and saw a deep knife wound in the throat of the corpse.

The wound was clean and neat, having cut open the trachea and carotid artery. A large amount of blood pouring into the airway would bring about a strong feeling of suffocation, causing blood to quickly accumulate in the lungs, making it impossible for the butcher to even call for help.

Then enter the model's room.

The bodies of the judge and the model showed horror on their faces. They seemed to be in a relaxed state after just finishing something, so they were unable to react. They were also stabbed in the throat, and blood stained the sheets and bedding red, and dripped onto the floor.

"They died about twenty minutes ago," the doctor judged.

Twenty minutes ago... Zhou Yuan calculated and it seemed that was when he met the black shadow.

"After meeting me, the black shadow killed three people in a row. It turned out that my intervention caused the plot to go out of control... But Maeve's goal was to stop the ceremony. Why did she keep killing people? This is clearly to push the ceremony to completion..." Zhou Yuan seemed to be thinking about something.

"Where is Jenny?" The officer turned around and looked at Zhou Yuan, asking coldly.

Jenny is the name of a streetwalker.

"She's taking a shower." Zhou Yuan said, "We just had a lot of fun."

The officer frowned, looked at the plumber, and ordered without question: "Go and call Jenny over."

The plumber nodded and hurried downstairs.

Two or three minutes later, the plumber rushed up: "There's no one in the bathroom! The shower is on, but Jenny is gone!"

"What?" Zhou Yuan was stunned and shocked. "This is impossible. She was still in the bathroom when I came up!"

This is a lie.

When the incident just happened, Zhou Yuan knew that the movie protagonists would go looking for street prostitutes, so he asked Fang Qing to go to the bathroom and set it up to look like someone was taking a shower, so that he could naturally frame the murderer for the disappearance of the street prostitute.

"..."

The officer's expression suddenly darkened, and his cold eyes swept over the remaining movie protagonists present.

In an instant, the air froze, and everyone realized something and their eyes changed.

Even the nun who looked the kindest and holiest had a face that was subtly resentful and violent.

The sacrifice in the devil's ritual is half death.

Only 40 people out of the 10-person class are still alive. Excluding a traitor hiding in the dark, 10 of the 4 are dead now. Several movie protagonists know about the devil's blessing obtained by the street prostitute. They believe that Zhou Yuan would never be able to kill the street prostitute, and the street prostitute's disappearance could only be caused by Maeve.

In other words, if one more person dies, the final condition of the ritual will be met.

According to past practice, once the clock strikes midnight, people will begin to kill each other, pleasing Satan with blood and cruelty.

No matter what kind of feelings they have for each other, they will no longer exist at that time. The meaning of everyone's existence is to kill others until the sacrifice is completed.

It was not yet the scheduled time for the ceremony, but the special circumstances that had occurred at this time were enough to make the rest of the people ignore this convention.

Just kill one more person...

It's all over.

The five movie protagonists were in silent confrontation, like a volcano about to erupt, completely ignoring Zhou Yuan next to them - only those who made a deal with Satan could be sacrifices, and even if they killed Zhou Yuan, an outsider, to make up the numbers, the conditions of the ritual could not be met.

And at that moment, the officer moved.

Just like a sharpshooter in a cowboy movie, he completed the entire action of drawing the gun, aiming, and shooting in just a few tenths of a second, all in one go and smoothly.

Bang bang bang!
As the gunshots went off, several blood flowers bloomed on the nun's body. Her eye sockets and lips quickly turned black, and her pupils turned into yellow snake pupils in the blink of an eye. Her face gradually lost its color and became as pale as paper, turning into a demon nun resembling the one in "The Nun".

[No one stipulates that you can only sign a contract with one devil, right? The nun who committed the sin of hypocrisy signed a contract with at least five devils from hell. The devil possessing her body at this time is named Valak. 】

It really is a ghost nun... Zhou Yuan was surprised.

The nun's muscles quickly regenerated and she squeezed the bloody bullets out of her body. She opened her bloody mouth and roared at the movie protagonists, stirring up a tremendous surge of invisible energy.

Bang!
The protagonist of the movie was blasted away by the devil's telekinesis and slammed heavily into the wall. The terrifying telekinesis, which was enough to push a car moving at high speed, squeezed them, making everyone stick to the wall in the shape of a "big" character, and their bones let out a whine as they could not bear the weight.

"Your name is... Valak."

The officer was clearly well prepared. Knowing the demon's real name, he said with difficulty, "You are a poisonous scorpion, a blasphemer, you are an evil serpent... In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, I curse you to return to hell!"

The wind was blowing violently, and the demon inside the nun's body roared like a wild beast, and was sent back to hell.

Obviously, the demons in this movie world view will be driven away from the world by their real names, while the demons in the real world do not have this fatal weakness.

Boom... the telekinesis disappeared and everyone fell from the wall.

When the nun saw that something was wrong, she ran away. By the time everyone got up, she had disappeared.

A cold light flashed in the doctor's eyes, and a sharp scalpel slipped from his sleeve. He caught the handle steadily and stabbed it into the vital part of the plumber next to him.

The plumber rolled and crawled to avoid the attack, pulled out a hand axe from behind, stood firm, and chopped at the doctor.

when!
There was a clash of metal and iron. The doctor blocked the axe blade with a small scalpel. With a twist of his wrist, the blade shot out like a poisonous snake and pierced the plumber's fingers.

The plumber withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted, but his finger was still cut by the blade and blood was flowing out.

He snorted coldly, and his eyeballs turned dark in the blink of an eye, activating the devil's blessing bestowed by Satan. His physical fitness improved in all aspects, his fingers no longer bled, and his wounds healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The doctor's face was gloomy. His blessing ability was not suitable for combat. If he really had to fight with the enhanced plumber, he would be the only one to die.

He glanced to the side, trying to sneak attack one of them. If he could injure one person, the others would divert their fire and he could get away. But before he could see clearly, the plumber's axe blade came towards him with a scream.

On the other side, the goatee-bearded teacher quickly stood up and kicked the officer in the face. The latter quickly raised his hand to defend himself, but the goatee-bearded teacher unexpectedly swung his leg and kicked the pistol in his other hand.

The pistol flew out and fell in the corridor far away.

The officer grabbed the goatee-bearded teacher's foot, which he had no time to retract, and pulled him to the ground with all his strength. He quickly turned over and sat on the goatee-bearded teacher, strangling his neck with both hands.

The goateed teacher's face instantly turned red, and he punched the officer on the diaphragm. The intense pain caused the officer's eyes to go black, and the strength in his hands couldn't help but loosen a little. Taking advantage of this brief opportunity, he suddenly exerted force with his body, pushed the officer away, and tried to get up from the ground in panic.

But the officer didn't give him the chance, and grabbed his feet, locking him to the ground. The two men wrestled again, using all kinds of brutal and deadly moves. "Stop fighting!"

Zhou Yuan, who was watching the battle from a distance, shouted: "You can't kill anyone like this!"

No one cares about him.

"Tsk." Zhou Yuan was unhappy. He walked behind the plumber and was about to make a move when he saw the strange black shadow appear in the corridor.

In one hand he held a long knife, in the other he held a bloody human head.

It was the nun who had just escaped.

The black shadow threw the head over, and with a thud, it slowly rolled in front of everyone, leaving a fresh trail of blood on the ground.

The four people who were fighting immediately stopped and looked at the black shadow with doubt, confusion and vigilance.

[This black shadow is a puppet created by Maeve using a mystical ritual. After losing the exorcist's holy weapon, it was replaced with an ordinary machete, but it is enough. ]

"What exactly do you want to do?" the officer asked coldly.

Maeve actually took the initiative to complete the final condition of the ceremony... He instinctively felt that something was wrong. This damn cousin must have some ulterior motive.

The black shadow did not answer, or perhaps it did not have the ability to speak at all. It exploded into black smoke with a bang and disappeared.

"..."

The remaining four movie protagonists looked at each other in silence, and then they finally remembered Zhou Yuan next to them, but Zhou Yuan was nowhere to be seen in the corridor.

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library.

Zhou Yuan turned on the bulb of the wall lamp and pressed the button hidden inside.

Click.

Along with the sound of mechanisms operating, the bookshelf on the right slowly opened, and a stone door engraved with a ritual array appeared. Rumble... the stone door automatically lifted up, revealing a staircase leading underground.

"Who exactly are you?"

An officer's stern rebuke was heard from behind, and gunshots rang out at the same time. However, the flying bullets sank into a pool of blood, and there was no more Poland.

"Don't kill them, just trap them." Zhou Yuan instructed.

"Yeah." Fang Qing replied indifferently.

[As the story draws to a close, I'll remind you one last time: 40 people represent 40 crimes.]

Zhou Yuan walked down the stairs with a calm look in his eyes.

The stairs were spiral-shaped and there were no torches around to illuminate the area. It was pitch black and he couldn't see his hand in front of him. Fortunately, he had dark vision so he didn't grope around blindly.

The further down you go, the lower the temperature becomes, and there are constant strange noises heard, like the whispers of thousands of demons, as if the end of the stairs really leads to the depths of hell.

Soon, a light appeared in front, and a wide and huge space appeared before their eyes.

There were torches hanging on the walls, but the burning flames were dark green, which looked extremely strange.

A huge magic circle was carved on the stone floor. The patterns on the circle were complicated, and the runes with bared fangs and claws exuded a very evil nature. It was filled with scarlet blood.

In the center of the magic circle, there was a circular sphere with a diameter of three meters suspended. The surface of the sphere was burning with black flames from hell, and the inside was filled with some kind of liquid. A red-skinned demon with goat horns on its head and bat wings on its back was curled up and sleeping inside it.

[Demons cannot descend to the world in their true form. Even Satan can only walk in the world by possessing a human body. This is the body that Satan has tailored for himself. Once the ritual is completed, he can use this body as a container and completely descend to the world.]

Zhou Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly because there was a body inside the sphere!
It was a naked woman with her eyes closed. It was Maeve whom he had seen in the dream!
"Is this your last gamble?" Zhou Yuan whispered.

"Yes." Maeve's figure walked out from behind him. This was a projection of spiritual power. "I will merge with this body. When Satan enters this body, I will fight it to the death in the spiritual world.

To be honest, I wasn't very sure, but your appearance gave me hope.

If I lose, please kill Satan with the holy weapon."

"So you really gave the holy weapon to me on purpose?" Zhou Yuan raised his eyebrows. He thought the other party dropped it accidentally.

"That black shadow is a puppet clone I created using a ritual spell. In terms of combat power, some demons are no match for it. The fact that you can defeat it easily shows that your strength far exceeds that of most demons. You are more suitable to use the holy weapon than I am."

Maeve said seriously, “I don’t know who you are, or where you come from, but I can see your purpose, and I am willing to believe you.

The ceremony has come to an end, Satan is about to descend, please...be prepared."

"Yes." Zhou Yuan silently took out the holy weapon and waited quietly.

Maeve's phantom disappeared, and in the round sphere, her body melted into a pool of blood, flowing into the body of the sleeping demon.

A few minutes later.

A terrifying aura descended without warning. The strange dark green flame shook violently, and the temperature dropped sharply. A biting chill ran up Zhou Yuan's back, causing goose bumps on his skin.

In the round sphere, Satan's body began to tremble violently, as if the two consciousnesses inside had begun to fight.

After a long time, the tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and the yellow devil's eyes stared at Zhou Yuan with a weird smile.

Bang.

The sphere exploded, and the yellow-green liquid inside flowed all over the ground, bringing with it the sulfur and scorching breath of hell.

“Hmm… what a scary woman. I didn’t expect her mental power to be so strong. Even I was almost killed by her. She is indeed the most powerful exorcist in history.

But unfortunately, she is still too young. "

Satan spread out his bat wings and laughed fiercely, "From now on, demons will rule the world, and the world will wail in the flames of hell!"

"Don't worry, Laosa."

Zhou Yuan showed a mocking smile, "Or should I call you - Maeve?"

"..."

The smile disappeared from Satan's face.

(End of this chapter)