New Gods of North America.

Chapter 312 Meeting
After realizing that you are in a state of "limited perception" or "misguided perception",

What Wayne started doing was continuing to try to wake himself up and making as much noise as possible.

These two things are actually a bit troublesome to do. The biggest problem Wayne faces at this time is that he is not sure what "he" is doing.

If he used the weapon randomly, Wayne might think he was shooting at the bad guys, but in fact he was misled by an illusion and was shooting his own friends.

Fortunately, although other indicators are unreliable, the consumption of Wayne's own spiritual power seems to be something that the evil spirit cannot tamper with.

So Wayne, like a blind man, began to grope in the misleading illusion.

For example, if Wayne "saw" a wall and "touched" it, but when he tried to inject spiritual power into the touched part of the wall and found that the spiritual power did not decrease at all, it meant that the "wall" was fake.

The same is true in reverse. There are some walls that Wayne "cannot see" or "feel", but spiritual power can be injected into them, which means that there are real "walls" and real "things".

If the consumption of spiritual power is abnormal, it may be due to contact with other people's bodies or strange equipment. Do not touch them randomly.
If you find that the "wall" is suddenly broken, it means that you have reached a corridor, door, or stairwell. You can then judge based on the conditions on the ground.

Suddenly I felt

It seems that the life of a blind person is really hard...

The evil spirit did not sit still and wait for death, and created various illusions to interfere with Wayne.
What is more troublesome is that the various illusions created by the evil spirits are very real. For example, the "fire" it creates is really scorching and hot. If you get close to it, you will feel the "heat". Your skin and limbs will seem to be burned and burned. You can even smell the burning smell in the process.
If the self-healing ability had not been ineffective and the spiritual power had not been lost in the process, Wayne might not have been able to tell the difference between truth and falsehood.

Even if ordinary people can tell whether the flame is real or fake, it may be useless. The fake pain will still make people suffer from excruciating pain.
Without the ability to heal oneself and the psychological support of previous suicide experiences, this kind of thing is not easy to endure.

Wayne then tried various methods of calling for help, such as shouting or firing a safety gun.
The bigger "job" was when Wayne, in the illusion of a snowstorm, touched the window on the outer wall and released a church-style fireworks handheld signal cannon out of the window.
Although Wayne himself was still in the illusion and could not "see" the fireworks rising into the sky, the launch should have been successful.

——The windows on the outer wall are constructed differently, so the position is probably correct; Wayne has confirmed the direction of the signal tube repeatedly, so if it is still wrong there is nothing he can do.

After the launch, Wayne touched one end of the signal tube, and his spiritual power could sense that one end had "become empty", indicating that the launch had indeed been completed.
Moreover, the self-healing ability suddenly became active, and the consumption of spiritual power was less than 1%. It was probably because the fingers were burned by the residual heat from the fireworks...

Wayne didn't know which of his methods really worked.

But finally, as a dazzling white light suddenly lit up in front of his eyes, Wayne suddenly felt as if his head was pierced by hundreds of needles at the same time.
Then, when the white light faded, he discovered that "he" was still in the house he had checked last.

At this time, there were quite a few people lying in a mess in the house, most of them were Wayne's team members who were responsible for the inspection.

They were all staggering and falling to the ground unconscious, and the special church oil lamps were extinguished and fell to the ground.

Looking at the situation inside the house, there was blood dripping everywhere, and many bloody handprints were left from the wall to the floor, and a few were even on the window glass.
Although Wayne also felt that this scene looked a bit creepy, it seemed that these bloodstains and bloody handprints were actually caused by Wayne when he was in a hallucination. Wayne's body was still stained with a lot of blood...

David Mills, glowing with fluorescent light, soon broke in from the main gate with two or three other men who looked quite powerful.
At this time, a group of people who looked like exorcist priests had gathered outside the house. Some of them were holding candlesticks and chanting scriptures. The "white light" just now seemed to be their work.

David Mills was obviously also shocked by the bloodstains all over the house. He grabbed the member lying closest to him and dragged him out the door, while shouting orders:

"The reserve team must immediately participate in the rescue. The evil spirits are very cruel. We must minimize casualties. I repeat, the evil spirits are very cruel!" Hmm...

Wayne did not defend the evil spirit. After all, if one had to say it, it was indeed the evil spirit that committed the crime.

……

There were a bunch of professional exorcist priests from the church present, but Wayne didn't go to watch the final battle between the priests and the evil spirits.

After David Mills finished his work, he came over to inform Wayne of the situation:
"Although the evil spirit is very weak, its status is not low. We have tried to seal it back."

"Oh," Wayne nodded, "what else?"

David Mills thought for a moment and said, "No more. This is probably all we can confirm at the moment. We may need more time to study the origin of the evil spirit."

"No, our detective agency has dispatched so many people tonight. Look, I'm still covered in blood. Isn't there any contribution reward within the church?" Wayne was very simple.

"Well... dealing with evil spirits is the daily work of the local exorcism department. You have accepted my personal commission, so you may not be able to get any additional contributions..."

Wayne then became more honest and decided to try it out first:

"Don't veto on behalf of your superiors. Report our detective agency's active cooperation tonight, the actual results achieved, and our reasonable demands to Pastor Bazzini and let him decide. He may be a generous parish administrator beyond your expectations."

David Mills nodded. Seeing that it was getting light, he asked Wayne, "You didn't get a good rest last night, and you were seriously injured. Do you need me to write a certificate to ask for leave for you?"

Wayne's eyes lit up, "Is it okay?"

"Of course, the local exorcism department has some connections with your seminary, so it shouldn't be a problem to ask for leave within a week."

Within a week...that's boring.

"Then please help me write it separately. Break the whole week's proof into six daily sheets. I will use one today and I can use it again when I need it later..."

As Wayne spoke, he recalled what happened before:

"Has our academy church sent reinforcements? I also want to meet the guy who can find Beyonders in a crowd."

David Mills heard this and pointed a little further away:
"The person you are looking for is actually Reverend Pycelle. He is over there now."

Wayne looked over and saw the elderly pastor who looked very old and frail. He also looked over at this moment.

The expression on the other person's face was kind and he nodded slightly.

(End of this chapter)