People are scared in America, my uncle is Dante

Chapter 131 The Monster That Devours Emotions

"Where were you transported to by the distant tree?"

Suren suppressed his doubts and asked:

Boyd gave a wry smile and pointed into the distance: "Don't even mention it. After I crawled into the tree hole, I was teleported inside the lighthouse."

"I walked around inside, but I didn't find any useful clues."

Boyd sighed.

"and then?"

"Surren asked."

"Since I couldn't find a way out, I came back here again, hoping to crawl inside and find you."

Boyd pointed to the monster corpses on the ground and said with lingering fear.

"But when I finally managed to find my way back here, I found that these monsters were like they were possessed, densely packed around the tree hole, not moving at all."

"I didn't dare to go any closer, so I could only hide in the bushes and wait."

"Until recently, they suddenly collapsed in large numbers, as if they had been poisoned."

Not long ago?

Suren looked at the corpses scattered on the ground.

That should be the time when Nicole presses the remote control and blows up the altar, right?

"It seems that our previous guess was correct."

These monsters are the transformed forms of the villagers who sacrificed children in the past.

Now that the sacrificial ritual has been disrupted and the demons that were the source have been killed, they too have met their true end.

He looked up at the tree in the distance. Who planted that tree?

Suren looked at Boyd, who was still rambling on about his experiences.

He looked up at the increasingly eerie crimson sky and interrupted the other person.

"In any case, the monster problem is temporarily solved. Let's go back to town and check the situation."

In the middle of the night in a small town, in a two-story wooden house.

Jim's family of five squeezed into the living room on the first floor.

The family originally just wanted to take a road trip to relax after the accidental death of their third son.

But they never expected to stumble into this eerie town and never be able to get out.

Jim quietly walked to the window, peeked through the crack, and looked outside.

For some reason, it's very quiet outside tonight.

None of the monsters that used to emerge from the forest and roam the streets every night appeared tonight.

He breathed a sigh of relief, walked back to the sofa, kissed his wife and children, and whispered to them to go to sleep, while he stayed behind to keep watch.

Late at night.

A soft "click-click" sound jolted Jim awake from his light sleep.

He looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the talisman stone that had been hanging behind the door had suddenly cracked.

Jim's expression changed drastically. Without the protection of the runestone, he had personally witnessed the gruesome deaths of those people, who were disemboweled by the monster.

"Wake up! The monster's coming in! Run through the back door!"

He rushed upstairs on all fours and pounded on the door.

His wife and children woke up in terror, and without even putting on their shoes, rushed out of the house with Jim.

But when they rushed into the street, they found it empty, without a trace of a monster.

Several neighbors heard the commotion and also came out. They looked at each other in bewilderment.

Some houses were completely silent, with doors and windows tightly shut, leaving one wondering whether the people inside were dead or alive.

"Boom!"

A bolt of lightning ripped through the night sky, illuminating the entire town.

Everyone instinctively looked up, their faces filled with horror.

A dark shadow hovered over the town.

The shadowy figure was not clearly visible in its exact shape; only four black limbs were visible, landing in the four corners of the town, like a giant dome covering the entire town upside down.

Jim was horrified to discover that light spots were beginning to float from himself and those around him.

These colorful points of light continuously converged towards the dark shadow in the sky.

The shadow absorbed the points of light and gradually expanded and grew larger.

As Suren and his two companions walked out of the edge of the forest, they also saw this shocking scene from afar.

"What the hell is this thing?"

Boyd looked up at the dark mass that almost covered the entire town, then knelt on the ground, burying his face in his hands.

Suren narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the dark figure absorbing the light.

He sensed no life force or energy fluctuations from this thing.

It was like a projection over the town.

Suren turned to look at the two people beside her.

Light spots began to float from Boyd's body, and similar light spots floated from Nicole's body, but unlike Boyd, Nicole's light spots were orange.

Even a faint speck of light drifted out from his own body.

But he didn't feel any discomfort, pain, or weakness; it was as if nothing had happened.

But as the points of light drifted away, he noticed that the excitement on Nicole's face from discovering the enormous object gradually subsided.

Boyd, on the other hand, appeared relaxed, his fear long gone.

"Is this thing... devouring emotions?"

A thought suddenly flashed through Suren's mind.

He recalled Nicole's diary entries from before.

Nicole had speculated that the reason those human monsters were nocturnal, driving humans into houses like cattle and sheep, was to enjoy the fear of the town's residents.

And this huge dark shadow is the container that collects emotions?

It even hangs quietly in the sky above the town most of the time.

Because of the manipulation of that yellow-clad demon, the intensity of the emotional harvesting was controlled in order to ensure a gradual and sustainable process.

Now, the demon in charge of guarding them is dead.

When this thing loses control, it begins to act on instinct without restraint.

Just then, Alessa, wearing a blue dress, reappeared beside Suren.

She looked at the dark shadow in the sky, then turned and pointed towards the center of the town to Suren.

"Where to?"

Suren asked in a low voice.

Aresa nodded.

Suren glanced at the two numb-faced people beside him, then his figure blurred into a blur as he sped towards the town.

On the street, the residents who had escaped were like walking corpses, their emotions drained.

They stood there, staring blankly at the dark shadow in the sky.

Even when Suren walked up to them, he didn't react at all.

This expression was exactly the same as that of the smiling monsters that surrounded Suren in the forest before.

Suren stopped directly below the shadowy figure.

He returned control of Silent Hill to Alessa.

In an instant, a darkness even purer and deeper than the darkness in the sky descended suddenly, centered on Suren and Alessa, and swallowed everything.

A faint glimmer of light appeared in the air.

The ground, walls, and houses all peeled away like pieces of paper, pulled by some force, floating into the air and dissipating.

Suddenly, an explosion was heard in the distance.

Suren's lips twitched.

The price of Silent Hill's complete descent is that everything inside will be released.

Of course, Madison, who was driven to rage by Alessa's torment, was also among them.

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