Mysterious Hunting Ground

Chapter 361 Chapter 351. Journey to Another Degree 2
"Call his name and I'll help you." Nailhead said calmly.

"Larry, look here, I'm Christine, I'm here to save you!" The girl held her hands on both sides of the mirror frame and shouted at the man who was peering into the pain inside, and the scene in the mirror also evolved. Like a reflection in a running stream: the corridor, the cracks in the door, and the entangled figures all shattered, turning into a cold and empty room.

Larry, who was squatting in the middle of the room, was shaken when he heard a familiar voice coming from behind.

"Oh my God, Christine, my baby girl!"

He wiped the tears on his face, ran to the mirror, and stared at each other through the mirror with his daughter. He reached out excitedly to grab each other's hand, but was bounced away by a soft film.

At this time, the high priest's right hand, painted with black nail polish, suddenly reached into the mirror, pulled Larry Cotton out, and dropped him to the ground, just like pulling a fish out of the water.

"Daddy!" Christine threw herself into the man's arms and hugged his waist. The man subconsciously stroked her hair, and his red eyes looked over her shoulders, flashing with deep doubts, especially... When he saw Dean in a black suit and the cold-faced high priest in a butcher-like black leather jacket beside him, a fear originating from the depths of his genes suddenly surged in his heart.

"God, who are they! Kristen, what happened to me? Wasn't I chained up and hung in the sky?" Larry looked a little crazy, and memories kept flashing back in his pupils like a frame-jumping slideshow. , said with a big tongue, "I'm not witnessing Frank and Julia's betrayal, again and again, but why are you now? What are these mirrors, what's wrong with me?"

Larry looked around in horror, like a madman struggling to escape from a mental hospital!
"Is it all an illusion?"

"Quiet!" Dean snapped his fingers, and with a hint of memory, he activated the "Suffering Master" at the same time, sucking out all the pain and fear in Larry's heart. He suddenly fell limply into his daughter's arms as if exhausted, and fell into a coma. past.

"Wait..." The high priest and Dean looked up at the distance of the tunnel at the same time.

"Bad news," the high priest's eyes turned cold. "She is not in the fire pit, thinking cage, or personal prison. There is only one possibility."

The discussion did not last long.

"Don't mention such ridiculous fairy tales as heaven and God in front of me..." The high priest's face showed undisguised contempt and disgust. He had obviously heard enough of this rhetoric, "God will not bless you, and heaven has long since Not here."

But under Dean's life perspective, these few tentacles actually revealed level 5 light of life. He couldn't help but asked in a low voice, "What is this?"

"Of course, you haven't ever wondered why God has never appeared and other gods have gradually become legends in the past thousand years? Because it is true."

Could it be that after this apocalypse, the gods will no longer be the rulers of the world?
Has a higher level of existence emerged?

Nailhead folded his hands on his chest and stared at the frightened back of the girl running in the mirror like a deer. He said meaningfully, "Look, such a genius can be swayed by emotions and become fragile, sentimental, and vulnerable. Emotions It is indeed the most chaotic poison in the world.”

Screams and bloody light floated out from the doorway, echoing endlessly in the tunnel.

Several tentacles at the end of the tunnel were still spinning towards the four people.

The end of the world, the fall of heaven.

"She is undergoing transformation in the core area, the labyrinth, and transforming into a purgatory monk, but this is normal. An old man who has been suffering from illness for several years finally survived. He has an extraordinary mind and has the potential to become a monk."

"I don't know the specifics. In short, the doomsday crisis completely changed the world." Nailhead said, "The increasingly powerful laws of convergence and suppression in the real world are all related to it."

But it was too late.

Kristen nodded gratefully to Dean, then turned to the high priest and asked, "What did you damn monsters do to Larry?"

Accident?

These grand and dark images left Christine in shock and unable to speak for a long time.

……

"No, the power given by our Lord allows me to defeat the chaotic part of human nature," Nailhead said to himself, "It will only become fuel and bring me closer to the ultimate answer to the flesh-and-blood puzzle."

"Your grandma is still suffering, hurry up."

Dean fell into silence and began to recall what the vampire Tepesh once said - Gods can't make the decision either.

The high priest said and turned to Dean sharply.

"Yes, Debra!" Kristen kissed the side of her father's face and began to search for relatives around the mirrors.

"Not here," Christine said with a pale face. "Grandma is not here."

Dean only felt a chill rising from his tailbone. Heaven was long gone, and God's whereabouts were unknown?
"Are you serious? The gods have undergone unknown changes?"

Some strange creatures emerged from the ceiling - several tentacles wrapped in bright red muscle bundles. There was a ring of white sharp teeth like wolf fangs at the top of these tentacles, and the central slit opened and closed like a deep-sea lamprey. The long body rotated into the dark doorways on both sides of the corridor, like a clump of skinned pythons hunting for escaped prey. It looked extremely disgusting and ferocious.

Christine grinned fiercely, revealing a row of white and small teeth, as if she wanted to bite off a piece of flesh from the high priest's body. Dean supported her father.

hiss--

"Emotion is the expression of human nature," Dean stared into Nail Head's eyes, "If you despise it so much, why do you pursue human nature? Aren't you worried that you will become equally vulnerable?"

Dean's head sank, but his expression remained unchanged - could it be that he brought the mystery box into this place and caused the trouble?
Or is it because the "Master of Suffering" was discovered secretly sucking the pain belonging to Leviathan?
As soon as he thought of this, Dean immediately turned off the special effect, and the crazy transformation of attribute points temporarily stopped.

"Become a monk and stay here to serve the devil forever?" Christine hugged her father's arm and shook her head wildly, "No, my grandmother cannot become a monk. She is a devout believer. Even if she dies, she should go to heaven to serve God! "

"what's the situation?"

"What does it mean that heaven is no longer there?" Dean asked, with an edge in his tone.
The high priest was silent for a long time, "You are not an ordinary person. Let me reveal another news to you - according to the knowledge given by our Lord, a long time ago, an unprecedented doomsday crisis occurred in the real world. Although the world survived in the end... Heaven suffered heavy losses and was destroyed in the crisis. Many angels and gods in heaven...some of them became lords of purgatory. For example, our Lord (Leviathan) was betrayed by God's group of people. From the legendary sea monster, Became the lord of purgatory, the Christian demon (Baphomet) became the lord of beasts...and God, the other part of the gods, is missing, may fall, or may transform into something else..."

"You're talking nonsense!" Christine refuted,

Dean took a few glances through the doorway. Some people were rolling in the flames, some were freezing in the ice and snow, some were kneeling on the ground like ascetics and being whipped on the back. There were also incredible scenes of flooding, electric shocks...

According to Nailhead, these doorways are "personal prisons" where determined and more valuable souls brought from the real world are imprisoned, allowing them to enjoy higher levels of suffering.

Unknowingly, Dean's expertise gained 3 free attribute points, and the progress of "Journey to Different Dimensions" reached % under the patient explanation of the tour guide Nail Head.

Christine wandered around the thinking cage but failed to detect the whereabouts of her grandmother. The group of four continued to the core area and entered a gloomy tunnel. At the end of the tunnel, there was a terrible cold wind blowing, carrying the smell of blood, like a steel needle. Drilling straight into the cracks of human bones, there are thick stone walls on both sides of the tunnel, and dark doorways are displayed on them.

"What crisis is that?"

Nailhead wiped the saliva from his face and said, "Kristen, not everyone is as talented as you and can remain calm after seeing the sight of purgatory. Your father was tortured by the prison of thinking and became a little delirious. , but it can still be repaired. When you escape, see a psychiatrist, and you can recover after a period of training."

"My lord's tentacles...are more loyal and powerful than monks. They directly obey my lord's orders and are equivalent to personal guards." Each of the crisscrossed nails on the high priest's face revealed solemnity and surprise, "But they usually only The monks who violate the rules are reformed and punished in the labyrinth... They shouldn't appear in the personal prison, there must have been some accident that I didn't find out!"

For the first time, the high priest's poker face showed a nervous look. He pushed his hands behind him, releasing a black light that enveloped the bodies of the three companions and wrapped them in a light gauze. "Stand aside and squat down. I'll handle it."

Dean pulled Christine and his daughter to his side, added a layer of mental shield to isolate the breath, and then turned his eyes.

The performance of the high priest really makes people feel uneasy.
He had to make some backup plans, so he mentally locked the ten star arrows in the fantasy space and put them into use at any time.

Swish--the rotating tentacles on the ceiling came to the high priest in the blink of an eye. One of them instantly stretched two meters and stuck to the high priest's bare head, and then crawled down the neck, as if sniffing its scent. .

Faced with the torture of the level 6 tentacles, the level 5 high priest humbly lowered his head and allowed it to be inspected. Within three seconds, after the inspection was completed, the tentacles slowly withdrew from the nail head, but not before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief. , it opened its black mouth again and pointed directly in the direction of Dean——

It sensed something!
There were obviously no eyes, but a circle of ten curved fangs around the mouth clicked together and apart. At the same time, a glass syringe was spit out from the mouth, and the glass tube was filled with a green liquid. Use the sharp needle to ooze out a drop.

Tick ​​tock, landing.

Dean had a strange synaesthesia, hallucinating a body covered with punctures, slices, tightening, and scars covered in ash. It exuded a faint smell of vanilla, and a stench that could not be concealed beneath the smell of vanilla. The rotation emits dark light, penetrating into the soul and awakening the human nature that is buried deepest and closest to torture and suffering.

Christine's power-off clockwork robot lay motionless in Dean's arms, her eyes widened, her toes and fingers tensed, and her whole body was as cold as a popsicle.

Even Larry Cotton, who was in a coma, seemed to be in a nightmare, his brows furrowed in horror!
……

"Crack!"

The other three tentacles also meandered from behind, twisting their bodies like predatory snakes. The syringe above their head was aimed at Dean, and they pounced out——

shhh-

The arrow breaks through the air!

Dean threw a star arrow.

A dazzling starlight lit up in this dark tunnel.

Eight small black holes emerged from the starlight and instantly swallowed up four of Dean's tentacles.

“你杀死了利维坦的触手*4，熟练度+10*4，射击lv5（220→260/700)…超自然猎人发动，汲取到0.2感知，感知：25.3→25.5。”

Dean looked at the only two star arrows left in the space and helped Christine up.

The high priest turned to look at him deeply and sighed, "I'm sorry, I can't take action against them, otherwise it will be regarded as betrayal. Now seize the time and complete the task before the tentacles react," the high priest hooked his hand. , walked quickly outside.

Dean directly used the power of his mind to pick up Christine and his daughter, and flew out of the exit of the personal prison as if teleporting. Then his body trembled and he narrowed his eyes——

They entered an extraordinary and huge space. They stood with their feet on the top corner of the room. Under their feet were many square houses with open roofs close together. They were too numerous to count. They were arranged together like an endless building. An unbounded maze.

And in the secret room lived monks wearing black robes with signs of dismemberment and torture.

Some were reading a copy of "The Scarlet Gospel" and studying "The Art of Suffering", some gathered together and shouted loudly, some were wrestling with their feet, and some were unabashedly having sex between men and women in front of their companions. thing...

Their appearance is too strange, ugly and ferocious at the same time, no less than the green-faced and fanged army of nocturnal species that Dean had seen in his vision.

The last one was a level 4 creature, with a disgusting charm, but whether the specific number was 666 like the beast in Midian, Dean couldn't count it for a while.

……

The cold wind howled like ten thousand meters high in the sky.

Dean looked up again. The top of the maze was no longer closed like the previous locations, but an open space, filled with endless darkness and depth, just like the moon when dusk and night intertwined. Before the stars have risen, the sky is surrounded by a layer of mist.

Between the dark sky and the corner line of the maze, there stood some strange containers that looked like vertical black coffins.

The most eye-catching thing is that above these containers, in the center of the sky, there is a huge golden building suspended between a spindle and a prism.

It is like a floating golden palace, with a size of twenty stories. It slowly rotates horizontally and releases dark light outwards, making people dizzy.

The first time I saw it, the progress of "Journey to Different Dimensions" jumped to 80%.

When Dean was illuminated by this black light, many illusions appeared in front of his eyes - painful scenes from the past. However, under the influence of the mirror shield expertise and super strong will, he shook his head and forced himself to wake up, and then heard the sound of his hair being blown by the strong wind next to him. Kristen's shouts turned into a mess,
"Mom! Don't go, don't leave me!"

"No, grandma, you can't die!"

"Kristen! Wake up!" Dean grabbed her shoulders and shook her, and instilled a surge of life energy. Kristen's dazed eyes regained consciousness, and she cried and threw herself into Dean's arms, "Oh Woo...Mr. Kenny, I went back to my mother's bedside when she died, and I saw her and grandma suffering together..."

Dean comforted, "It's okay, it's all an illusion."

The high priest advised again, "Be quiet, you two, and don't attract the monks below. We have arrived at the end. This is the labyrinth, the core area of ​​Purgatory, where monks live and where new monks are transformed."

Dean asked, "What is that golden prism building?"

"Can't you see?" the high priest said with awe, "This is my Lord at the center of the world."

Is this golden structure Leviathan, a sleeping god?

Dean's eyes flashed with surprise, and he asked again, "Why is its shape and surface pattern so similar to the mourning box after it is completely opened?"

Dean was extremely sure that the completely solved Rubik's Cube also changed from a cube to a golden prism.

"Because the Mourning Box is a Rubik's Cube built with reference to the symbolic form of our Lord, it contains the ultimate puzzle of flesh and blood and suffering as well as great power, so solving the puzzle can open the door to two worlds."

The high priest looked down at his fellow creatures in the maze and said with emotion,

"The world built by our Lord is a place full of order... No matter whether you are a monk or a soul in the real world, you can find your proper home here and receive teaching and transformation day after day..."

"But it also has a shortcoming. It is like an ancient machine that has been operating for thousands of years. The slow gears rotate slowly with the decaying flesh, and the changes are extremely slow."

"I have been waiting for decades, and finally the moment of change has arrived."

Nailhead took Dean, Christine, and Larry and flew along the corner line toward a black coffin-like transformer not far away, "When they transformed me, they hid my humanity inside. Christine’s mother will most likely be transformed in one of them, Mr. Kenny, go destroy them.”

But Nailhead's words ended.

Suddenly, a clear whirring sound came from behind the prismatic building.

The fog dissipated, casting huge shadows.

A giant bone dragon with a length of more than thirty meters flew over with its rugged white wings vibrating. The pupils in its empty eye sockets were like needlepoints, burning with faint will-o'-the-wisps, and it looked around the maze, looking for something.

The high priest flew to a transformer on the left like lightning, "Oops! The alarm has been triggered... Destroy it before it finds us, don't hold back!"

(End of this chapter)