A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

As everyone was silent, Freddy continued to narrate calmly: "...you have proved my truth, and at the same time proved that hell does exist...it is deep in each of you.

"Time is a source of pain, because once the concept of 'past', 'present', 'future' exists, it lingers. You were never afraid of Freddie... because of all the fears...

"It's all a reflection of one's own weakness."

Max's vision changed, and the gravity he felt seemed to be deflected. The warm sun shone on him, and the air was filled with the fragrance of spring flowers.

In the distance are the high-rise buildings of Manhattan, which can be clearly seen even in Long Island—that is a world belonging to another kind of people.

"The strange thing is..." Suddenly, a well-mannered middle-aged man in a jacket with sunken lips stood beside him, turned his head and smiled at him: "You are not afraid of the muzzle of gangsters, you are not afraid Blood and fire, not afraid of the day when your wife and children die, but afraid of this standard American suburban life. This should be your most relaxed and happy moment, Officer Payne!"

"Freddie?"

Max lit a cigarette and asked in a flat tone.

The middle-aged man chuckled and smiled: "It's me, that's right, your most loyal friend Freddy. God, officer, I feel young again... This normal image is really long gone, thank you .Do you mind if I guess why you are most afraid of this sight?"

"...please," Max said.He really didn't want to admit it... But when he was standing here, pain arose in every corner of his mind, and he just wanted to escape as soon as possible.Generally speaking, we call this reaction fear.

"Floyd said that when a person is in pain that cannot be overcome and cannot be avoided, one loves the pain and sees it as happiness. Honestly, Officer Payne... Do you always feel like you are in How about atoning yourself for suffering? It even brings you a sense of sacrificial holiness that makes 'self-destruction' even a noble act."

As Freddy said, his face was obviously normal and even a little kind, but there was still a hint of danger and ferocity inexplicably: "...but your deeper fear is that you know that these are useless, that you know You are just escaping, and one day even this semblance of redemption will disappear, and your incompetence and weakness will no longer be concealed."

Max shrugged noncommittally, smoked a cigarette and said, "How about I also guess what you are most afraid of?"

Freddy seemed to hear something funny, opened his eyes and grinned, and after a while, he stretched out his hand to signal Max to continue... He is the embodiment of fear, what would he be afraid of?

"...I have seen your criminal record." Max knew that this guy had a certain degree of mind-reading ability, so he didn't try to lie or engage in any text traps, but just said plainly: "Let me tell you that I don't know much about psychology. However, I have done many cases, enough to summarize some patterns. In most cases, criminals who violate children have a strong sense of inferiority, especially your kind who only stare at children, use harm and intimidate minors A serial murderer whose human behavior has given him the illusion of being 'powerful'. As for where he feels inferior, I also have a close guess..."

The confident smile on Freddy's face had long since disappeared, which made Max affirm his thoughts even more.

He raised the corners of his lips silently, watching the phantom of the American suburb in front of him being knocked into pieces bit by bit, and finally dissipated.

All fear is a reflection of one's own weakness... What a wise saying.

"What's the point?" Freddy's face returned to that rotten pomegranate after the whole space collapsed, he looked at Max, and said doubtfully: "You found out my fear, but you're not me, Can't use it to hurt me...you're just pissing me off and trying to get me to attack you."

"And you have never attacked me... This means that although you used some method to create this illusion, you are still in reality, so you can't hurt me. As long as one of us is still awake, you It's over..."

Max replied like this, but he really didn't expect who the awake person was.

When the illusion dissipated completely, when he lay on the ground and opened his eyes, he found Xue Li squatting beside him, and lifted him up with both hands.

"Old bald head, don't try too hard." The owner of the tavern said, Lori, Gibb and Kia stood beside him, looking with concern at the old man who had just escaped from the illusion.

"Did you give Freddy a hard time?" Max sat up and asked with his forehead.

Xue Li turned his mouth to the door, where there was a flash of fire: "Molotov cocktail."

Chapter 24 Reverse Scale

The factory shed on the other side had already turned into a bloody arena at this time, and Selene had no time to listen to what Max was shouting on the intercom... Of course, she couldn’t hear it even if she wanted to. The front has been smashed to pieces.

Broken scrap metal was scattered all around. She and Jason had large and small wounds on their bodies. The only difference was that Jason would never get tired, but she would.

In addition to having to avoid the powerful slashing of the machete, she had to concentrate and keep staring at the giant, for fear that he would disappear into the shadows in the blink of an eye and then suddenly appear behind her quietly.

At this level, even Selene, who has always been very confident in herself, has to admit that the other party is really stronger than her, maybe even stronger than Marcus and William.

However, the hunter doesn't necessarily need to be stronger than the prey in a hunt...especially if the prey is acting on instinct alone.

Just now, she used Jason's strength to make him crash into a pile of discarded equipment, and took the opportunity to tie a machine tool to him with a thick iron chain, barely restraining his movement.

Jason remained silent, standing still and staring at her in the other direction.The dirty and tattered jacket on his body was about to be soaked in blood and mud, and he finally slowed down... Not only was there a few tons of weight tied behind him, but he was also mentally adapting to the "death walker" " During the battle, the movements became a lot more cautious.

"... Tsk, trouble..."

Selene, who was squatting high and staring at Jason, pursed her lips.Who's going to tell her what this guy's weakness is?According to Gibb and Lori, there are still people who survived the Crystal Lake murder, and I don't know how these survivors did it?

While the vampire and the murderer were still confronting each other, the sound of a police siren was finally faintly heard outside the window.

Selene relaxed, and couldn't help but glanced out of the window, but then realized something was wrong... She had been trying her best to control herself from staring at Jason, but at that moment she suddenly forgotten!

She turned around quickly, but it was already a step too late.

The heavy steel was like a reed in Jason's hands, and he threw it towards Selene effortlessly, so fast that even the experienced death walker had no time to react. The voice was hit firmly on the chest.

The speed she was proud of only allowed her to remove her heart at the last moment, but at least eight or nine of the 12 ribs in her right chest were broken. Foam of blood comes.

She couldn't control her body, let alone feel her balance. She floated into the air, broke through the ceiling and flew out at a speed that seemed to break free from the shackles of gravity.

I don't know how long it took before she fell heavily to the ground.Ordinary people would probably go into shock long ago after being hit like this, and only the strong body of a vampire can stand up again after suffering such a serious injury, and it can roughly maintain the integrity of the five senses.

The downside is that she still has to be awake to fully experience the full pain.

Some human beings have to grade pain when they have nothing to do. Remember there are five grades in total?Then... the pain she is experiencing now should be level 127.No joke.

"...Damn it..." She knew she was still in danger, and that monster Jason might show up at any moment and chop her head off with that machete.It is true that vampires are immortal to some extent like Jason, but there is always a limit to this immortality... all blood loss from the body, owl heads, steamrollers, wood chippers, individual missiles and more thermal weapons, These can make the "immortality" of vampires a joke.

Must hurry up...stand up...

Selene tried to get up, but the pain in her chest spread to all parts of her body, and the pressure on her nervous system was too great, making her limbs tremble, and she couldn't control herself at all.

Fortunately, she heard the sound of fast running footsteps, and an old bald man appeared beside her, and helped her up together with the owner of the tavern.

"Don't try too hard."

Max told her so in the words he had just heard from someone else.

"Hiss—gentle, cough... ribs, pierced, lungs..."

There was no longer a struggle to control her body, Selene said.Ten days and a half months ago, she would never have imagined that she would trust two humans so much, and even relax under their support when the enemy was present.

She opened one eye that was not covered with blood and looked around.

This is inside the fence on the side of the steel factory... She didn't fly too far, and landed in a pile of weeds.Xue Li and Max, who had just come from the flaming torch Freddy, had witnessed the whole process of her crashing through the ceiling and spiraling down, so they ran over to rescue her so quickly.

"Jason...that guy is impossible to deal with." She complained and closed her eyes again.The serious injury made her feel an uncontrollable bloodthirsty impulse, and it was best not to see other people's blood vessels at this time.

Xue Li put the "Goddess of Moonlight" on his shoulders, and said to Max: "I have to take her back to the doctor as soon as possible. If you get it done, don't stay too long...don't let the world's officials know about our existence." Otherwise, Luo Li and the three of them will never have peace."

"It's done? Are you still confident?" Max said.

"Isn't that already over?" Xue Li pointed to the other side. The first police car had already driven into the steel plant. Under the dazzling headlights, he found Lori in a sweater from nowhere. Just as he was striding forward, brushing his blond hair, he walked tremblingly towards Jason, who was carrying several tons of machine tools and was struggling forward.

Max looked at the girl over there, frowned and asked, "What is she doing? Jason is going to cut her in half."

Xue Li looked around for something that looked like a door, and at the same time taunted Max: "You guys are being compared to a little girl this time. It's Kia, who was not affected by Freddy's illusion and came to the tavern quickly Called me to wake you up, and she was the only one who paid attention—she used the sheriff's authority to borrow the crystal lake murder file when she was in the police station."

Lori over there has come to a place where Jason can see. She gritted her teeth, took a deep breath, tried to keep her voice as low as possible, and shouted at him, "Jason!"

In the surprised eyes of all the policemen.Jason actually stopped, turned his head slowly, and looked towards Lori.

"Freddie lied to you!" Lori thought I was probably crazy, but she clenched her fists and continued shouting, "Freddie lied to you by pretending to be a mother!"

Jason paused, then jerked his head in the opposite direction.

More than 100 meters away, Freddy was still howling in the flames, slapping the bullets fired at him by the young policeman one by one, trying to find an escape route to avoid the eyes of others.

Jason clenched the machete in his hand, and strode towards this perverted direction. The several-ton machine tool chained to him behind his back didn't even slow him down, but was dragged forward to slide forward. , dragging out a deep gully on the ground.

Under the fence, Xue Li was just about to finish his words: "...the first murder case in Crystal Lake was committed by Jason's mother. The local department characterized it as a psychopath attacking tourists, and kept a few photos of her , blond female with big eyes. I think she is exactly the same as Lori except the hair length is different and she is older! Gibb also mentioned that when she was attacked in the dream, Freddie showed her I've seen his deeds of 'changing a little and fooling that idiot Jason'..."

Max listened quietly, feeling a little sad for some reason.He shook his head and said hoarsely, "I thought that guy had no feelings."

"...he used to be human too. Just like our 'Goddess of Moonlight'." Xue Li replied.

The mentioned Selene just raised her head at this moment, coughing up blood and said weakly: "Aren't you going to take me to the doctor?"

"Oh, yes." Xue Li said hurriedly, carrying her body and walking towards a certain factory shed. There was a door there, and he could use his "key" to lead to the tavern.

Max stood there silently, watching the police in the distance pull out a water spray hose from a tank truck carrying chemicals, and run in the direction of Jason and Freddy go.

Liquid nitrogen has finally arrived.

As in all assembly-line popcorn movies, the cops and their solutions always come too late.But unlike those movies, at least they can catch up and perform well here.

Jason was wrestling with Freddy, and the burning flames on the other side couldn't stop his anger.He picked Freddy up immediately, no matter how the succubi screamed and left all kinds of deep and visible scars on his body with its claws, he just pinched Freddy's neck and squeezed the machete inch by inch. The ground slammed into the thin, withered chest.

Freddy didn't struggle anymore, but gritted his teeth with hatred, and shouted angrily at the cold hockey mask: "...see you in hell, big man!"

As he spoke, he used his last bit of strength to insert the claw of his right hand into Jason's throat.

But at this time, the police officers had already pointed the long pipe at the two monsters and opened the pressure valve.

As soon as the extremely cold liquid nitrogen comes into contact with the air, it is immediately vaporized by a higher temperature, and at the same time, the water vapor in the air is condensed into large groups of white mist.But the greater pressure at the back of the pipeline quickly sent out new liquid nitrogen, continuously cooling the objects and space in front of them, until the two monsters stopped moving and made no sound, and turned into two clusters of white ice. statue.

"We beat them!" the officers cheered.

Max touched his bald head, looked left and right, and quickly turned around to catch up with Xue Li.

Chapter 25 Cheers

"If all the patients you bring back are at this level...then I can only suggest that you find other doctors. I'm not very educated, and I've only learned to treat humans..."

In the operating room of a hospital in London, Mike joked with the patient while performing the operation.

Selene lay there, gurgling beer.Hearing what the doctor said, she rolled her eyes and replied, "You don't need any treatment at all... just put my bones together, suture the wound, and wrap the blood, and I can walk out by myself the next day."

"If you drink more, you will have more than a pack of blood. Drinking alcohol will cause increased bleeding...Of course you are not human, and I don't know if my common sense is still applicable."

Mike said, while still busy sewing up the wound on the vampire's abdomen.

Selene answered with vacant eyes: "It's okay... If I'm not in the tavern, what I drink is not wine. I don't know what it is."

"...Then why do you want to drink?" Mike, who finished the last wound suture, cut the thread, put the equipment in his hand on a tray aside, took off his gloves and mask, and was about to wash his hands.

"I'm used to it." Selene replied in a low voice.

She may not have noticed, but she is becoming more and more "humanized"... Her expressions, small movements, and hobbies are all rapidly increasing, and these trivial things are important signs that distinguish humans from non-humans.

I don't know whose blood is still pouring into her blood vessels, so that the powerful resilience of her vampire body is fully activated.The reattached ribs are healing quickly, the aching lungs will grow back to their full shape in a few hours, and the wounds on the body will disappear faster after being stitched.

Unlike humans, where every scar is left with the memory; vampires' skin is always so pale and smooth, as cold as their souls.

"How's Marcus?" Selene, who was bored after lying on the bed for a few minutes, suddenly raised her voice.

Mike came back wiping his hands, helped her raise the blood transfusion bag when she was sitting up and was about to get out of bed, and replied, "I'm just a doctor, so I don't know too much information, but...London has been sealing off an area every day for the past few days to evacuate people , saying that the gas pipeline was in danger of exploding. According to the news, he was not caught and was gradually moving away from the city center."

"...should be looking for William." Selene put on her boots and stood up, but then she groaned from the pain in her chest, and after a long time, she continued to step forward and said in a low voice, "I hope they won't be so easy." Die...I will go back and find him."

Mike followed her, walked out of the operating room holding the blood transfusion bag high, and said in the lowest possible voice: "...Have you not finished your revenge yet? Don't let revenge occupy all your thoughts, then what is the difference between you and before ?”

"Are you trying to persuade me like that old bald man?"

"Has he persuaded you?"

Selene spread her hands: "Yes. He bought me a book called "Moby Dick" and told me not to let beliefs become obsessions."

Mike smiled, hung the blood bag in his hand on the infusion stand next to him, and clapped his hands: "I'm glad to know that there are famous books I've read in another world. By the way, how are they now?"

"You'll find out if you go with me." Selene crumpled the beer can in her hand and threw it into the trash can beside her.There are still staff on duty in the hospital at night, the nature of this job is to respond to the needs of patients at any time; but today there seems to be no patients, and the corridor is still very quiet, only the two of them walking under the cold white light, she began to miss The atmosphere in the tavern.

"By the way..." She suddenly remembered something, and turned to Mike, "Have you read that book? What do you think?"

Mike stopped, thought carefully, and replied seriously: "...it is sad to take the act of venting resentment itself as the meaning of life."

"Don't you hate the driver who killed your wife?"

"Hatred... but I quickly realized how vain it was. ... Well, everyone feels that book differently, and you should read it yourself. You don't mean to go to 'the room 'Bar? Come on, I'm just trying to get a drink.'

Mike said.

In "that" tavern, Max was sitting in his seat drinking wine as usual, holding a tape recorder and playing his cowboy music; the hamster in the cage tore the paper towels thrown in by Daiger into strips, apparently intending to nest.

Xue Li was stuffing a pile of plastic into the empty space in the cabinet.The hydroponic pea pond he prepared eagerly might have to wait a little longer, because the peas would take at least two months to mature and set pods, and the pea sprouts from the wasteland world obviously hadn't germinated for half a month.

Amelia was sitting at the bar and moving her fingers. She was neither a guest nor an employee of the tavern, but she just wanted to stay here... the outside world?She has seen enough.

When Gibb walked in, he couldn't help but heaved a long sigh when he saw the peaceful and ordinary daily life.

She also began to get used to and even liked the atmosphere here...

"Hey, Gibb. Where are your sisters?" Xue Li beckoned her to sit down, poured her a glass of sparkling wine, and asked casually.

"They're dealing with the FBI." Gibb couldn't help laughing at the thought of this, "They were afraid that I would be sliced ​​and studied, so they let me go first. I can only leave it to them to deal with the official..."

As a transcendent creature that actually existed, if she really revealed her identity, she might have to go to sleep in the cold storage with Freddy and Jason.

[19. No. 19]

The mobilization of the police and the use of liquid nitrogen, and the appearance of "celebrities" like Jason from Crystal Lake, will inevitably attract the attention of the FBI.However, the local sheriff really held a non-cooperative attitude. He asked three questions and didn't know anything. He was so anxious that he even said nonsense that "liquid nitrogen is for keeping local agricultural products fresh".

It's just that it's useless if he doesn't cooperate this time... Freddy and Jason will definitely fall into the hands of the FBI, and the residents of the entire Springwood Town will move to another "New Springwood Town" more than 100 kilometers away from here. Elm Street was transformed into a cold storage and experimental base.

The urban legends about Freddy and Jason still circulate, but no one gets a dream killer or gets a machete through their chest on a lakeside vacation.