Both start in hell: but their talents are multiplied a hundredfold.

Chapter 270 Release, Recognition

Shen Jue remembers the movie "The Cabin in the Woods".

As a well-known film that satirizes horror movie tropes and is half comedy and half thriller, "The Cabin in the Woods" features nearly 100 kinds of monsters from horror movies.

Many of the monsters are tributes to games and classic horror movies.

In the underground space of the cabin in the woods, there are many monsters that are not very powerful, but are quite well-known.

Tank, from the game Left 4 Dead, is a giant zombie that stands over three meters tall. It can smash the ground with its giant fists to create deep craters or throw a car like a cannonball.

Its signature entrance is a deafening roar.

There are also the twin sisters from the classic thriller film "The Shining".

The evil spirits in "Evil Dead".

Similar to the nail-headed monk in "Hellraiser," but the nail has been replaced with a saw blade.

There are also strange creatures resembling facehuggers in the Alien series.

Not to mention classic creatures like werewolves, vampires, goblins, mermaids, and zombies.

Fortunately, most of these monsters are extremely similar pirated creatures.

It is not a monster that has all the original abilities.

Otherwise, the mutated rabies virus in Left 4 Dead and the facehugger alone would be enough to cause headaches for humanity.

When Shen Jue sensed the existence of the cabin in the woods, he could hardly contain himself.

The intelligence provided to him by the American government contained no information about the cabin in the woods.

Not to mention those strange organizations that control the monsters.

Panic was spreading in the underground control room.

Sitson rested his hands on the console, leaned forward, and stared intently at the main screen.

The five college students in the picture are gathered in the center of the living room, and all their eyes are focused on the same spot.

Something is talking to the college students.

But in the surveillance footage, there was no one at that location.

There was no heat source signal, no acoustic signature, and no physical trace that could be captured by instruments.

Even the several cultivators in the control room were unable to detect anything.

"All sensors have completed their self-tests and are all normal." A thin layer of sweat appeared on the technician's forehead, and his voice was filled with fear.

"It's not a equipment malfunction."

"Something is communicating with them, ignoring our barriers and surveillance."

"Based on preliminary assessment, it is highly likely to be a high-ranking demon."

Sitson was silent for five seconds.

"The ceremony cannot be stopped." Her voice was hoarse; clearly, she was under immense pressure.

"No matter what breaks in, the established process cannot be changed."

"Time is running out."

"Release the secondary induction group," her voice regained its commanding brevity and decisiveness.

"Twins, facehuggers, werewolves, deploy them all."

"I don't care what they saw, I only care that the sacrificial ritual must be completed tonight."

"The Japanese branch was unable to complete the sacrifice due to the influence of that Sun Emperor."

"We are our only hope."

The technician pressed the button.

As the machines operated, the evil spirits and physical monsters that had been sealed within special barriers and magic arrays were released.

Inside the cabin in the woods.

Shen Jue and Jian Zi stood in the center of the living room and got straight to the point.

"You have been chosen as sacrifices."

"This wooden house is a site of sacrificial rituals, and there is an organization controlling everything beneath the floor."

"There are surveillance cameras and hormone-releasing devices everywhere here."

The five people were stunned.

After a brief silence,

Everyone turned to look at him.

"Why us?" Kurt asked rationally, without any doubt.

From the moment he arrived at the resort, he felt something was very wrong, even nine-tenths of the time.

It wasn't until Shen Jue and Jian Zi appeared that he confirmed his guess.

Shen Jue pointed to the ground beneath her feet.

"identity."

"Those guys down there have labeled you."

"The sacrificial ritual can be completed by killing people in sequence."

Just then, a slight noise was heard.

Outside the cabin in the woods, the werewolf's roar exploded.

The heavy door groaned under the impact.

Shen Jue turned his head to look at Yotsuya Miko.

"You're here, Komiko."

The sound of the door shattering was like a gunshot.

Amidst the flying sawdust, a humanoid creature nearly two meters tall, covered in coarse hair, burst into the living room.

Its mouth was split to the base of its ears, and murky saliva dripped from between its sharp teeth.

The nails were thick and black, like curved blades embedded in the fingertips.

The werewolf's first action upon landing was to pounce on Kurt, who was closest to it, with incredible speed, so fast that Kurt didn't even have time to react.

The werewolf's claws swung down, accompanied by a sharp whistling sound that cut through the air.

Then it stopped in mid-air.

Jian Zi stood beside Shen Jue and raised his right hand.

Her expression didn't change much, except that her brows furrowed slightly, as if she were seeing a werewolf-like monster on the American continent for the first time.

The werewolf's entire body was pinned to the spot by the electric charge, its limbs outstretched, unable to move.

It let out an angry growl, its muscles bulged, and its nails scratched futilely in the air, but no matter how hard it struggled, it could not break free from the suppression of the electric charge magic.

All five college students witnessed this scene.

They simply couldn't understand how a girl who looked like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old high school student from Dongying could so easily control a ferocious werewolf.

Everyone felt as if a magical door was slowly opening for them.

"This..." Kurt took a step back, his voice cracking.

"How did they do that?!"

Seeing that the child did not answer.

Her attention shifted toward the corridor.

The twin girls in The Shining had reached the entrance to the living room, hand in hand, their steps perfectly synchronized, like puppets controlled by the same invisible thread.

Their eyes were dark, their faces were ashen, and their lips were slightly parted, emitting a low-frequency buzzing sound.

Those who heard the voice began to experience dizziness and hallucinations.

This is their core attack method in The Shining.

He Deng had already started to sway.

He gripped the sofa armrest, shook his head violently, and his pupils began to dilate.

Jules screamed, not at the twins, but at the facehugger on the ceiling that was about to bounce.

The carapace-covered arthropod contracted its eight thin legs simultaneously, its tail muscles tensing, ready to pounce on her face and shove its ovipositor into her throat in the next second.

Diana stood in the middle of everyone, holding nothing, but she neither screamed nor ran around.

She stared intently into Shen Jue's eyes, and amidst the chaos of the room, asked the only calm question: "Why are you helping us?"

Shen Jue finally turned around and looked at her directly.

This girl appears to be a virgin among the sacrificial offerings, but in reality, she's a woman who has affairs with professors over fifty years old.

Five college students, whose identities seem very clear, actually have much more complex characteristics.

"Because I'm here to find that thing underground," Shen Jue said.

He took a step forward, reaching out with both hands towards the twin lolis in the Shining.

In the silence of the twin girls, Shen Jue gently stroked the tops of their heads.

If Death God Shen Jue were here, he would probably face the consequence of being violently electrocuted by Shen Jue of the Slaughter Spire as soon as he returned to the White Space.

As the electric charge surged forth, the twin lolis let out a scream and vanished from the spot.

All the monitoring equipment in the control room simultaneously emitted a piercing electrical noise.

The three screens flickered like static for a full two seconds before returning to normal.

Sitson sat bolt upright: "What is that?!"

"I don't know," the technician said, frantically typing on the keyboard, his voice distorted.

"All the directional sensors experienced data overflow at that location; we've been interfered with!"

"Activate recognition! Play back every frame of this area!"

"I need to see what's there!" Sitson's composure finally cracked.

"I'm fucking doing it!" the technician yelled back, no longer caring about the superior-subordinate relationship.

But there was still nothing on the screen.

Shen Jue's position in the image is a blank space, a blind spot that can be seen with the naked eye but cannot be recognized by the machine at all.

And at this moment, this blind spot is moving.

Shen Jue walked to the facehugger and pointed at it.

His movement was subtle, just a light tap.

Finger marks appeared on the arthropod's carapace.

The facehugger let out a sharp hiss, its entire body convulsed violently, and all eight legs gave way.

The facehugger fell straight down from the ceiling to the floor, slid off the coffee table, and knocked over the wine glass that had just been placed there.

It twitched twice and then stopped moving.

The carapace began to melt, and under the influence of the electric charge, the facehugger turned into a puddle of black mud under the extreme and instantaneous high temperature.

The werewolf who was stopped by Miko had his head explode as Miko threw a punch!

It was smeared directly onto the faces of the college students in the living room!

The five college students, suppressing their nausea, began wiping themselves off the filth.

Shen Jue glanced helplessly at Jian Zi.

Seeing that Zi was embarrassed, she stirred her long hair with her fingers.

Beside her, the werewolf collapsed limply to the ground, seemingly out of consciousness.

The control room was deathly silent.

"...The twins lost signal." The data analyst's voice was so soft it was as if he were talking to himself.

"The facehugger sample showed zero vital signs."

"The werewolf cannot execute any commands."

Sitson looked at the image on the screen.

The female college student named Diana was looking directly at the camera while cleaning the stains.

It didn't seem like a coincidence, nor did it seem like an unintentional glance.

Her gaze had already bypassed the concealment devices and was now fixed on the surveillance equipment hidden behind the wall.

"Give up resistance, give up releasing those evil spirits and monsters."

"You still have a chance to survive."

Shen Jue's voice came through the monitoring channel clearly this time.

Everyone in the control room heard those words clearly, as if the person was standing right in front of them.

"I know you're listening."

"Give up, I've come this far."

"There is no need to continue this sacrificial ceremony."

"Because I've come."

Shen Jue paused, his voice calm, as if stating an unchangeable fact.

"These evil spirits and monsters are the reason I'm here."

"Human survival does not require the sacrifice of a few."

"Let me handle that thing down there."

A smile naturally appeared on Shen Jue's face.

He withdrew his hand, glanced down at the pile of facehugger remains on the ground, and added a sentence.

"Those pathetic ancient gods are just speed bumps to me."

Marty wiped the blood from under his nose with his sleeve, glanced at the dead werewolf, then at the dead facehugger on the ground, and finally fixed his gaze on Shen Jue.

"Okay," he said, "I've decided to believe you."

Diana reached out and supported Corden, who was still feeling dizzy, her gaze never leaving the location of the hidden camera on the ceiling.

"So you really are watching us," she said, her voice not loud but steady, each word deliberate and clear.

"You chose us, brought us here, and made us part of the ritual."

She took a deep breath and then said the words that no one present, including everyone on the other end of the monitor, wanted to face.

"Then are your actions truly just?"

No one answered in the control room.

It's not that I don't want to answer, but that no one can answer.

Sitson's finger hovered over another row of buttons that controlled the delivery of the primary induction group.

Chemical poison gas, release of all zombies, and deliberate destruction of building structures.

Once these things are activated, whoever the unseen person is, he will have to deal with a full-blown catastrophe on a physical level.

But she didn't press her finger down.

It wasn't out of fear, but because Shen Jue's voice came through the speaker again, as if he had guessed what she was thinking.

"Oh, right, there's one more thing."

Shen Jue lowered his head, his gaze piercing through the ceiling, through the concrete layer, through the monitoring lines and fiber optic signals, reaching the room hidden deep underground, reaching the middle-aged woman covered in sweat.

"You're offering sacrifices to satisfy that thing underground, right? The ancient evil god."

The temperature in the control room seemed to drop suddenly, and no one spoke.

"When I come down to find you, I'll take care of this while I'm at it."

Shen Jue's voice was completely calm and without any threat.

"Hopefully it won't wake up too early."

"Otherwise, I would have been a little more efficient at reducing him to ashes."

It was only then that Sitson heard Shen Jue's voice, and she tried hard to discern the source of the voice.

A truth that she could neither believe nor fear struck her.

She finally remembered where the voice came from.

Those are among the few battles that have been passed down around the world, taking place between China and Japan.

That strangely familiar voice.

Sitson's teeth and legs were trembling.