American Horror Story: A Tale of Terror from Silent Hill

Chapter 73 Expansion, Collapse

"You've already caught my attention, Maria. You can't get away from it."

His eyes, as bright as gold, radiated a sparkling light, and his tall and strong body hugged Maria tightly.

The warm body temperature seemed to melt her in his arms.

In the cold winter, Maria felt that her body was hot and she felt like she was sick.

"No! There is too big a gap between us. You are a demon, and I am a human. We can't be together."

Maria refused with difficulty.

"Humph! I won't allow you to reject me. Don't forget who you are. We are lifelong friends. Do you know what life means?"

Baling said this in an extremely domineering tone, and pushed Maria's body forward with his strong arms, bringing the two closer together.

They could even feel each other's breathing, the warm breath blowing on her cheeks, Maria felt like she was about to faint from the heat.

"I... I will grow old. When the time comes, you will see my old and ugly side, while you will still be as young as ever. I'm sorry... I can't face such a future."

Maria suddenly pushed Baling away with force, her eyes red and a tear suddenly fell onto the ice.

"No! You're wrong, Maria. No matter what you become in the future, you will still be as beautiful in my heart as you are now, and you will still move my heart as much as before. You will always be engraved in my memory, forever."

Baling looked at Maria affectionately, his eyes full of sincerity.

"I, I..." Maria suddenly lost her voice and was at a loss for words.

"The power of love is infinite. Love makes me capable of anything."

As he spoke, two dark red rays burst out from Baling's eyes and shot towards the sky.

The moon that had just appeared exploded with a loud bang.

"See? My power is so strong!" Baling roared to the sky, and a huge circular hole appeared in the thick clouds in the sky. In an instant, the light was as bright as day.

"But there are things you can't do," Maria argued softly.

"No! I can do it, absolutely. It's easy." Baling took a few steps forward firmly, holding Maria's hand, and said affectionately, "Even if that day really comes, I will slowly grow old and accompany you on this journey together."

"Ba Ling!"

"Maria!"

The atmosphere was set to this point, and the two faces gradually approached and their figures overlapped.

"Oh my god!" Not far away, a woman named Alan, who looked exactly like Maria, was watching all this happen with helplessness on her face.

"Gah! I don't want to see it! Such a disgusting unfolding, and it's all based on my half-body fantasy. How pathetic!"

She covered her eyes tightly, but the gaps between her palms were too big, so it was useless.

Beep beep beep——!
Suddenly, a loud and sharp car horn sounded.

Maria's fantasy was interrupted. She looked in the direction of the sound and saw a long school bus parked on the ice.

In the driver's seat of the school bus, a man wearing a dirty cowboy hat and with severe facial burns leaned out the window and greeted:
"Oh! I can't stand it. Young people nowadays have so much inner drama and are so imaginative. Their imaginations almost catch up with Uncle Freddy."

Everyone's eyes were focused on the man who suddenly appeared.

"No, who the hell are you? Is this the place you should be?" Alan shouted angrily when he lost the show.

"Kids, I'm Uncle Freddy, your nightmare!"

"Never heard of him. I only know Uncle Baling." Alan looked at Freddy unfriendly. It was obvious that he was an outsider with bad intentions who had intruded into this dream without permission.

Kill!

"No one can hurt Maria." Alan said coldly, pulled out a sharp knife out of thin air, and prepared to get into the car to kill Freddy.

"Kids, stop dating and go to school!"

Beep! Freddy laughed sinisterly, and the school bus under his feet immediately accelerated and hit Maria.

"No!" Alan's eyes were bloodshot and he ran quickly.

The school bus's starting speed and acceleration were far beyond the norm. In the blink of an eye, it rushed to the front with a roaring engine.

Now, the distance is less than two meters!

Dangerous!
"Baling!" Maria exclaimed.

biu!

Two dark red rays of light shot out, and the school bus exploded in an instant, with countless fragments splashing out in all directions. However, not a single fragment could reach Maria, as if an invisible protective shield was blocking it.

Freddy jumped in shock and did not break with the school bus, but his back was pierced by the fragments and turned into a hedgehog.

"Ahem! If you don't want to go to school, then don't go. Why do you have to blow up the car? That's so unkind. I'm going to call your parents..."

Freddy was covered in dust and dirt, and he got up in a mess. He complained a few words and looked up to continue talking, but his voice stopped abruptly.

The dark red light flashed again, and in an instant, Freddy was burned to ashes.

Before hanging up, he only heard a few cold words.

"Just an ant!"

Damn it, how dare they treat him with such contempt in his own home turf!
As the ashes were blown away by the wind, Freddy's figure reappeared somewhere, his resentful eyes fixed on Baling's back.

"I don't accept it. I am the master of dreams."

Freddy's body immediately became extremely tall, like a hundred-meter-high building. Then, he stepped down, and the huge sole of his shoe pressed down towards Baling and Maria.

"How dare you challenge me, you idiot! Die!"

Baling casually slapped his hands, and a giant palm covering the sky suddenly appeared in the void, and flattened Freddy with one slap, as easy as killing a mosquito.

"Quack! How could he be so strong?! Impossible!" Freddy was beaten into a piece of paper, his flesh and blood stuck to the snow. He muttered to himself in confusion, "Damn it! How could Baling, the fantasy created by this girl in her dream, be so powerful!"

Only Maria subconsciously believed that Baling should be so powerful, and the him in the dream must be extremely powerful!

Because Maria is the master of dreams, her subconscious mind will be reflected in the dreams.

"Wow! Baling, you are so powerful, I like you so much." Maria turned into a fan girl, her eyes full of admiration.

"Do you like it? This is all to protect you." The domineering Baling's cold expression faded away and he spoke gently.

On the side, Alan, who was accidentally injured by the flying debris, lay on the ground helplessly, and his heart also suffered a severe critical blow.

A few minutes later.

Freddy decided to use his real ability to invade dreams and modify data.

Since he couldn't compare to Maria's "Ba Ling in her heart" in terms of surreal fighting, he modified the underlying logic and changed it into realistic fighting, without fancy special effects or earth-shattering power.

It's just pure realistic fighting.

Freddy was full of confidence thanks to his extraordinary skills and the passive ability that was still secretly on and not turned off.

I will win, he thought.

(End of this chapter)