A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

However, this bloodline is not enough to make her completely immune to the sun's damage, and the behavior of going to the beach to bask in the sun like a human is still avoided.

Several people came to the sofa in the living room and sat down. After looking at each other for a while, Tom, who is still the father, spoke first: "... I have to thank you for taking care of the girls these days and not letting them have any accidents. Especially the previous One night, Jason went on a killing spree at the party, and even many police officers died...I didn't find them at the scene, but I was so scared to death."

Actually something happened...

Lori thought so, but she didn't tell Papa about Gibb.He must have not slept all night, so don't let him worry or be afraid.

The same goes for Gibb's parents, not to mention whether they don't care about Gibb's life or death at all, how can I tell them that their daughter has become a vampire...

"Wait!" Thinking of this, Lori suddenly yelled, and asked her father, "You didn't tell Sergeant Williams what you found, did you?"

"Of course not, Lori. That's your decision. As long as you confirm that you entered voluntarily and walked out safely, I can rest assured. Why bother the sheriff?" Tom patiently explained to his daughter, "And I used to It’s true that I’m too protective. I’ve always treated you like a child, kept you from any dangerous things, and didn’t tell you anything. Dad apologizes to you. Just please understand...Since your mother died, you have been my only one My loved ones are my whole world..."

Looking at this scene, Selene couldn't help lowering her eyes, and the corners of her mouth twitched.

Maybe she wanted to smile, but she had forgotten how to make that expression.

After the rare father-daughter warmth time, Lori finally remembered the most important task now, and asked her father: "... put Jason aside for now, what happened to Freddy? How did you defeat him four years ago? his?"

"We didn't beat him."

Tom shook his head and told the girl the story of the past for the first time: "It's your mother. You should remember that I didn't make it in time when she died... I only had time to hold her hand and listen to her finish Final words. She said 'don't be afraid'...

"The other two boys survived and they spoke the truth at the police station.

"It's Freddy Kruger...the child-killing freak. He lures children into his boiler room where he rapes, kills, and burns their remains in a high-temperature furnace. Parents and police No proof, but we all know it's him... Parents who pick up their kids from school have seen him look at you. Since the law can't punish him, parents do it themselves... But obviously, parents can do it Not quite. He died, but became one of the most terrifying demons in hell, with the ability to manipulate and enter and exit people's nightmares.

"The first time he appeared like this was 18 years ago, at 1428 Elm Street."

Lori said in surprise, "Isn't that our house? God, Dad, why do we live here?"

"Who would believe this kind of thing before they have experienced it?" Tom asked, "Those people would have disappeared 18 years ago. If it weren't for the police station to keep the files of this incident, we would have even You don't know who you're dealing with."

While listening to his narration, Max tapped his fingers unconsciously on his thigh.As soon as Tom finished speaking, the former New York police officer immediately asked: "What about the 14 years in between? Did Freddy rest in peace for 14 years, or..."

Tom shook his head helplessly: "Unfortunately, he will appear every few years. It's just that he was very smart in the past few times without leaving any living victims. People believed it. Until four years ago, he was pulled into the dream of an adult...that adult has a very rare synesthesia ability, and is born to sense other people's dreams. Lori...she is your mother."

If Lori's mother had been born hundreds of years ago, she might have become a witch, using her talent to gain insights into people's hearts, predict good and bad luck, and practice medicine and spells; in modern times, she would not have such a wonderful career, but He still became a teacher at Chunmu Town Middle School because he was "good at communicating with people" and "loved by children".

When Freddy went viral among some of the kids at Springwood Middle School, she too was caught up in the affair.She used her power to build a high wall to protect the children in her dreams... Although she failed to defeat Freddy in the end, she saved the lives of two boys and finally knew the source of Freddy's power.

"After understanding that Freddy's power comes from fear, we went through all the case files and created a 'forgetting plan'. As long as the children no longer know his name and fear him, then he will never be Returning... The two surviving boys were sent to a mental hospital by us and their parents. They took a drug that could make them unable to dream for a long time. All other text, sound and video materials were destroyed. Didn't talk about that name for years."

Speaking of this, Tom shook his head while holding his forehead: "Unfortunately, it seems that he still found a way and insisted on returning to Elm Street."

When Lori heard this for the first time, she couldn't help feeling sad for the many children on Elm Street over the years, and her heart was filled with nostalgia and regret for her mother.She remembers that when she was a child, her mother would always hug her tenderly on weekend afternoons, and read to her a story about a princess, a witch and a dragon while sitting on the swing in the backyard; even when she grew up, her mother would definitely smoke Time to make art, cook with her, and spend time with her mother and daughter every weekend was what she looked forward to most during the week.

She used to be unable to accept why her mother, who was so gentle and never had any disputes with others, was killed?

Because her father always refused to tell her the truth, she even suspected him for a time, thinking that he killed her mother and got off the crime by virtue of his good relationship with the sheriff.

Now she understood that the source of all evil on Elm Street was Freddy.If Freddy doesn't get rid of, Springwood Town will be in trouble.

Seeing that she was silent, Gibb had no choice but to take up the conversation and said to her father: "... Now we have a plan... Maybe these two demons can never harm people again. But we need the help of official power, And one more thing to know... Has anyone ever brought Freddie out of a dream?"

She didn't expect to get any definite answer from this nonsensical question. Presumably, several people will go to the police station to persuade Sheriff Williams and check the case files over the years.

But Tom immediately nodded and gave an affirmative answer: "Yes! I am very impressed with this, because your mother also tried, but failed. Eighteen years ago, a girl named 'Nancy Thompson' was in The police station clearly mentioned that she was awakened while catching Freddy in her dream, so she brought the devil to reality to defeat... But we didn't bother to try again, because it was obvious that Freddy was It came back after a few years. Even if you kill his physical body in reality, you can't destroy him."

"Great. This is part of our plan. It doesn't matter if we can't destroy him... It's the same to make him unable to harm anyone and return to hell." Gibb immediately clapped his hands and asked seriously: "...we How many 'no-dreams' drugs and liquid nitrogen can we get by tonight?"

Lori's father, Tom, is also a doctor. As soon as he heard the word "liquid nitrogen", he immediately understood how the plan would be carried out. He opened his eyes and asked, "So who is going to bring Freddy to reality?" Woolen cloth?"

His daughter Lori stared at him closely, and replied in the firmest tone of her life: "Me."

Chapter 20 Farewell

"No... Lori, why does it have to be you?"

As everyone expected, Tom's reaction to this plan was great. He could no longer sit on the sofa comfortably, but stood up and paced anxiously, saying as he walked: "We can move, leave Springwood Town immediately, go to Your aunt's house is temporarily staying..."

"Dad." Lori stood up and took his hand, and said to him calmly: "I am not a personal heroism on the spur of the moment, let alone a hasty decision made when I didn't understand the possible consequences. There are 1000 students in Chunmu Town Middle School Multiple students, how many will be killed by Freddy and Jason before we all get away?

"And... why should I hide from the devil who killed my mother? I want to destroy him once and for all, and you know our plan. There is indeed hope for success."

It was Max's turn to go out. He touched his bald head and explained in detail the plan he had made in the tavern. In order to increase his persuasiveness, he even took out the New York City police badge that he kept as a souvenir.

... Anyway, no one here knows that he quit long ago!

Seeing that her father was still very conflicted, Lori continued to persuade: "Escape cannot solve the problem. I have dreamed about Freddy, and my mother once fought against him. He will never let us go... We want to find peace, There is only one way, and we must work for it ourselves."

"Lori..." After pondering for a long time, Tom raised his head and looked at her with relief: "You have really grown up."

Half an hour later, the group walked out of the house again.

Lori stayed at home. She said she wanted to talk to her father and go to the police station together later; Kia also went home to say hello to her parents. She has been out of bed for the past two days and has made her parents a little suspicious up.

Only Gibb has nowhere to go.Even if she didn't go home for ten days and a half months, no one would care. My father was probably hungover, or he found some cheap wandering warblers to have fun.He spent all the monthly support from his mother in this way, and none of it was handed over to Jibb. Even her tuition was earned by himself, and friends' parents helped him.

But she has no position to criticize her father... Didn't she slowly become the same person herself?Drinking, smoking, climbing into the beds of all kinds of men, that's about it for her high school career.

She used to think that this was fate, that after graduating from high school, she would probably work as a waitress in a pizzeria or a cafe, or find a job that also did not require education or skills, and spend her days in a daze until she married like her mother Giving birth to someone you didn't love, giving birth to a child you didn't want, getting divorced, spending your final years in a rented apartment, dying alone only to be found out a few days later.

But after one night at the party, she turned into a vampire, who would have imagined that...

"Here, here you go." Behind her, Max handed Selene a vial.

"What's this?" Selene asked.

"Sunscreen...the few useful inventions of human beings should be more useful to you."

Selene played with the bottle, squinted her eyes, and looked up at the sun.Recently, fresh feelings have been pouring in. I drank mead, ate some meat, killed my own blood lord, walked the street in the sun... any action was the first time in 600 years.

"I don't need it," she said, and decided to continue feeling the pain from the sun's burn.

Isn't pain the proof of being alive?She hadn't lived for a long time, and she didn't want to let go of any feeling, even a negative one.

Gibb, who was walking in front, noticed the conversation between the two adults, turned his head and asked, "Fortunate to Mike, we are not so afraid of the sun now...do vampires pay attention to anything else?"

"Thirsty for blood," Selene replied, "a hunger that only human blood can quench."

"What about Amelia?" Gibb immediately pointed out the problem.

Amelia doesn't want to go back to her own world anymore. According to her own statement, she has no interest in exploring other worlds in the near future. She just sits there and plays with dolls with mechanical prosthetic hands. She doesn't seem thirsty for blood.

Is blood thirst not so terrible?Or is there any other reason?

Seeing that Selene put the small bottle of sunscreen in his pocket and didn't intend to return it, Max shrugged his shoulders, lit a cigarette, and responded to Gibb first: "As the boss said, everyone in our bar Living things don't get sick, grow old, or die. Starvation is certainly a form of death, so I guess we got rid of the effects of hunger and thirst while we were there, just can't imagine how the food we eat gets digested... says Wake up, Xue Ta only eats and doesn't exercise all day, but he hasn't gained weight either..."

"...you've been studying this kind of thing all day?" Selene couldn't help complaining.

"...Is what you are studying meaningful?"

Max asked back, but Selene thought of what Victor and Klein had been doing for hundreds of years, and was suddenly speechless.

Across Springwood, Kia knocked on the door.At this time, the father who is a lawyer should still be busy in his office, and the mother is probably the only one in the family.

Although her family is the most normal of the three sisters, it may be because they are too normal that they don’t have a high sense of presence in the story... It wasn’t until she was about to face a life-and-death decision that Chia remembered to come back and watch Look at your parents.

Sometimes she wondered to herself, why did she choose to hang out with Lori and Gibb?She is obviously not like many classmates who need to stay in a dazzling small group to maintain her sense of superiority among her peers, and the small group of three is not dazzling; the only common hobby of the three of them is to discuss boys. In addition, even the aesthetics of TV programs are different.

She thought for a long time but couldn't come to a conclusion, and finally saw the relationship between her father and mother, and then she had a vague idea: maybe this is a habit.She felt relaxed only when she was with those two girls, listening to Lori talking about her curiosity about the world, listening to Gibb talking about her ridicule about the world, and herself talking about her compromise with the world... The three of them used these small things The time spent together and gossip replenished each other's spirits and made her happy from the bottom of her heart, even if she was regarded as the two girls' follower.

When did the three of them care about other people's opinions?

The door of the house opened, and to her surprise, it was her father standing inside.Like Lori's father, the tall, muscular, middle-aged black man hugged her tightly and whispered in her ear, "My God Kia. Where have you been, why didn't you call home?"

"It's okay, Dad. I'm fine, I've always been fine." Kia was in a daze for a moment, then pushed her father away pretending to be disgusted, and lied: "An accident happened at the camping party yesterday. Lori was so scared that she stayed up all night, and Gibb and I spent the night at home with her."

"...Good boy. If only your younger brother was as kind and sensible as you. He fought with his classmates again yesterday. Have you eaten yet? How about I ask your mother to get you something to eat?"

Her father hurriedly let her into the house, talking behind her.

Of course he was also worried, and Kia could see that he looked haggard, and he might have stayed up all night waiting for her call, which made her feel a little regretful.But... tonight she still had to leave temporarily, and she didn't want to tell her parents what she was going to do.

She was afraid of scaring her parents to death...

"...my mother's cooking is terrible. I'm going to accompany Loli later. Give me some money to buy some tacos on the way." Kia said, "My phone is out of battery. Let’s charge the battery first. If I’m still staying at Lori’s house tonight, I’ll call you in advance, Dad.”

"Haven't I been eating it for more than ten years? It's not bad if she is willing to make it for us, otherwise you have to eat takeaway since you were a child."

The father didn't see that Kia was pretending to be relaxed, he just replied subconsciously, and at the same time secretly heaved a sigh of relief.Lori's father is a good man, and the two of them have known each other for a long time... Jib, although that little girl is quite capable of being crazy, she is not bad at heart, and she has never done anything like bullying her classmates or lower grades. thing.Kia is friends with these two girls, and as a father, he can feel at ease.

He is a lawyer, and he only lives in a place like Chunmu Town because of the good environment and cheap housing. In fact, his workplace is in the city, and he has to drive two hours to and from get off work every day.

Since my daughter is fine, don't ask for leave this afternoon. I have a case that is quite urgent recently.

When Kia walked out of the house again, Lori's father was already waiting for her outside the car.

"Get in the car, Kia, let's go to the police station together."

Kia came over and opened the car door and sat in the back seat, and asked Gibb beside her, "Where are Max and Selene?"

"The two of them are going to choose a location. It's better to have a location with no people around and enough space to put two large tanks of liquid nitrogen. After sending me back to Lori's house, they will leave first." Gibb replied.

Kia also knew about Gibb and her parents, so after hesitating for a long time, she asked again: "Didn't you go back to see your father?"

Gibb shook his head, glanced at Tom in the driver's seat, and whispered to his sister: "I didn't go in...Although I walked home subconsciously, I think he didn't want to see me. I I also want to understand, why do I have to want to get his attention on this kind of day? Will I still die because they don't care about me?... I won't go back again, they both can do whatever they want. "

Kia fell silent. Even good sisters had better reserve their own opinions on such matters.

Although the circumstances are different, the three girls have finally settled down to their respective affairs and are mentally prepared. When the medicine is issued and the night comes, they will take the initiative to find the sinner who disturbed the peace of Elm Street. .

Freddy Kruger...

Chapter 21 Falling asleep

Evening in Springwood came quickly, rather too quickly.

In an abandoned steel mill outside town, Max put down the cell phone he had brought from Gibbon and cursed, "What the hell!"

Selene, who was putting an iron chain tied with a huge steel furnace to the pulley block, turned her head and asked, "What's wrong?"

"...Our plan is so simple... It is impossible for the students in the entire Springwood Town to take medicine at the same time. The police and educational institutions have no valid reason at all, and even if they lie and say that if they don't take the medicine, they will get sick and die from infectious diseases. There are also people who don’t believe it.” Max said helplessly.

Based on his knowledge of ordinary high school students in the United States, he simply announced that the pill was a new type of non-addictive tonic and asked them to pay for it. Maybe a little more people would take the pill voluntarily.

However, there was not only bad news, but also good news: the police had brought Jason under control.For some unknown reason, this strong man fell into a deep sleep clutching his machete after the killing spree in the campsite, and has not woken up until now.

In connection with what happened to Gibb and the last sentence she heard "she is mine", it is easy for everyone to think that there must be internal strife between these two monsters.

Freddy did control Jason to kill for him and make Elm Street fear him again, but it seems that once he regains his powers, he doesn't want another demon to rob him of Elm Street's soul.

"...So, it seems that Freddy has more grasp of the reality than we thought, and has the ability to force victims to sleep." Max quickly made a decision, "The situation has changed, and so has our plan... The police are preparing Liquid nitrogen is here, we need to bring Freddie into reality as soon as possible, and hold them both before the liquid nitrogen arrives."

"Jib and I can do it. Your boss also told us..." Selene put the chain aside and quickly checked all the weapons on her body: "Any plan must be guaranteed by force."

"Yeah, Goddess of Moonlight... I think so too. Lori and the others are driving over, and the sun is setting. Let's do it!"

Max threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stamped it out, and also pulled out his weather-beaten M1911.Although he is no longer an American, he still has a strong American flavor from head to toe, even his weapon... used to this most classic American gun, he can even shoot from 50 meters away Hit small to medium flying birds on the head.

In fact, Lori arrived in the van faster than the police... The Hollywood-like efficiency of the local sheriff's department made Max want to curse.If these bastards were his subordinates in New York, they would definitely not have a good word on their evaluation forms.

Lori, who was slamming on the accelerator, slammed open the gate of the steel factory, and the van stopped in the yard with a beautiful flick.

"Max, Selene!" she yelled, jumping out of the car, not even waiting for the car to turn off.

Lori's father also appeared from the back of the van. He opened the door and, together with two other girls and a young police officer, lifted Jason, who was more than two meters tall and extremely strong.

It was the first time for the two guests from outside the world to see the famous "Crystal Lake Killer", but it only took a few glances to know how difficult he was.

Not to mention his giant-like height and weight, just look at the head under his hockey mask, the deformed lump, the blue-gray skin with a few strands of messy hair, the flesh and blood that almost merged with the straps of the mask... ...You should understand that this is a demon, a monster far beyond human experience and imagination.

Whether it was luck or misfortune, Freddy could still affect him.Not only did he control him to come to Elm Street to kill people in a way that everyone didn't know, but he also pulled this monster into sleep after turning his face.

"How long will it take liquid nitrogen?" Max asked a few people to lift Jason to the steelmaking plant, and the first sentence he asked.

"...Two hours at the most. Shall we wait until then?" replied the young police officer.

"I'm afraid not... This guy has woken up several times on the way. We don't know what happened in his mental world, but we have to get ready... Get Freddy out!" Gibb also said Interjecting to answer, she looked at Lori and Kia beside her, and the three girls nodded together.

"Okay. Put him here first... Selene, block him when he wakes up, don't try too hard, pay attention to our situation, and force him here if possible, let these two monsters Let's play together." Max immediately arranged, "Lori, Kia, let's go to the other side. I know you two are nervous, but try to relax...I also prepared something to help you fall asleep."

Lori's father followed them to another shed of the steelmaking plant. Looking at the two deck chairs and a pile of electronic equipment there, he couldn't help asking in a low voice, "...Sorry, but what have you prepared?"

"Quick-acting sleeping pills, the U.S. tax code," Max said without looking back.

The young officer shrugged, agreeing with Max's choice.Speaking of which, he also once thought about taking the civil service exam in the tax bureau, but later found that he was not that material, and felt dizzy when he saw the tax code... Others have no position to laugh at him, and there are only a few people who don't feel dizzy after seeing that thing.

[17. No. 17]

The tax law of the United States is the largest, most complex, and most difficult to intuitively understand legal text in the world. The full text includes more than 340 million English words. Just listing the titles of all the items can produce a book, which is comparable to a peerless martial art. The directory belongs to is.

Lori was the first to go into battle. After analysis, everyone believed that she inherited her mother's blood and was a young woman with an unstable mental state. She should be the most likely to attract Freddy's attention.But it goes without saying how dangerous it is. After the children of Springwood Town Middle School began to enthusiastically discuss urban legends, it is impossible to predict how powerful Freddy will become.

The worst case is that he locked Lori in a dream, making it difficult for her to wake up... Of course, there is no way to bring him back to reality!