Long-term salvation

Perhaps it could be explained by the fact that the earthquake had just ended and the residents hadn't yet begun to clean up, but the strange atmosphere continued to squeeze the minds of those who came in, making them feel irritated, gloomy, and painful. Evil was slowly crawling, drilling under the wallpaper, gradually corroding the steel supporting the walls, just as it corroded human reason, making them crazy, extreme, and... stupid.

"The atmosphere here is bad, but it's stronger underground - maybe we need to check the underground parking lot."

Rhodes frowned and said to Bai Zi who walked in slowly. The girl still had a bit of unwillingness on her face, as if she felt sorry for not being able to catch Rhodes just now.

After hearing the former's words, the wolf girl's ears twitched and she whispered:

"Okay, but there are still people living here. Do we need to evacuate them?"

"...No, wait a minute, let's determine the status of the book first." Rhodes felt a bit of a headache. Although the fragmented memories in his mind had told him some information about "The Evil Dead", the main thing was that the thing could possess humans and was extremely evil. In addition, if one wanted to expel it, the possessed person had to be completely dismembered and killed!

The evil spirit summoned by this book has been shown in different movies and TV series to possess (corrupt) multiple people at the same time - this makes Rhodes feel a little tricky, or to put it another way - the residents of this apartment are likely to have been "marked", and letting even one person go may cause the evil spirit to escape and spread.

"Then we can go from the elevator... The elevator is broken," Bai Zi pressed the elevator button. She pried the elevator door open with force and carefully looked inside. Then she frowned and said, "The whole elevator shaft is filled with a disgusting smell. The smell of death is spreading."

"Then let's do it quickly. Let's go down the stairs. Jumping into the elevator shaft is not a good decision."

Walking down the stairs and arriving at the parking lot, Rhodes felt a stronger sense of darkness:

There were indeed fluorescent tubes lighting the place, but the once bright white light now emitted only a faint dusky glow, like a faint yellow speck drifting across the empty space, gently licking the shadowed walls and damp ground. A faint malevolence permeated the place, draining away all sound and filling every space with a dead silence.

If you look further, the light will be completely obscured by the thick darkness ahead, and only the entrance for vehicles to enter this place can be vaguely seen - this even gives people a strange and creepy feeling, as if that is not a smooth road to leave, but the bloody mouth of a wild beast.

A crack on the ground attracted Rhodes' attention. He took out his revolver and slowly approached. The dust from the earthquake covered the ground, and a series of messy footprints went straight into the crack.

Someone's already been in there? That's definitely not good news.

"smell."

Bai Zi, who had also drawn her weapon, twitched her nose. She stretched out her fingers and rubbed them on the ground, rubbing them a few times between her fingers. She said to Rhode, who was looking back at her sideways:

"The smell of pizza...someone was here not long ago, a man and a woman, uh, one man and two women."

Rhodes: “…”

Because you are a canine, your sense of smell is so sensitive... You smelled me before, so you did that on purpose, right?

Throwing these random thoughts out of his mind, Rhode pondered for a few seconds, then turned his head and said to the wolf girl:

"Baizi, you stay outside and wait for me. Be alert to the surrounding situation."

"..."

"Do not worry about me."

Rhodes smiled slightly and reached out to touch the girl's head, watching the pair of wolf ears droop to the sides like airplane ears, but when his hand moved away, they suddenly bounced up again and even shook a few times.

It's quite fun. Next time I'll try Mary's cat ears, Hina's bat wings, or Mika's wings. Rhodes has always been curious about whether the base of their wings are really very sensitive.

Taking a deep breath, Rhode pulled out his assault rifle and slowly walked down the slope of the crack into the darkness. The air inside was unusually turbid. The moment he stepped onto the vault floor, he saw hundreds of giant cockroaches crawling out of the darkness!

Countless rustling sounds suddenly filled his ears, almost making him subconsciously pull the trigger or simply pull out an incendiary grenade and throw it in! But in just a breath, the cockroaches burrowed into the cracks and shadows of the wall and disappeared without a trace, as if it was just an illusion.

Turning on the tactical light on his rifle, Rhode scanned the area around him, before switching his goggles to thermal imaging and taking another look. The area was covered in dust, with only footprints and traces of fallen bodies extending into the darkness.

Calming himself, Rhodes slowly walked deeper into the place - it looked like an old vault. A few steps inside, he could see a wooden statue of Jesus. There were still black marks on the face of the statue, as if from dried blood and tears. There were tiny cracks all over the statue, and it was obvious that it had not achieved the effect that the statue's creator had intended.

There was not only the statue of Jesus, but also hundreds of thousands of thin iron chains hanging above the vault, with small crosses and statues of Jesus at the ends of the chains. However, the statue of Jesus, which was almost as tall as a person, was completely useless.

This was definitely not good news for Rhodes, as he was unable to suppress the evil spirit with his own characteristics.

Deeply regretting the loss of his new toy, Rhode exhaled slowly, adjusted his mindset, and carefully walked to the sarcophagus in the deepest part of the vault. Scattered here were records written in Latin and English, written on ordinary paper, parchment, and some human skin. The contents of the latter were particularly unsettling, seemingly a tracing of the book's contents.

Just like on the ground, there are traces of someone here. The footprints are not big, and the traces left by fingers are not big either. It looks like it was just a child... Most importantly, these traces are very fresh, and the things placed here were taken away recently.

"Tsk...it's really been taken away. I'm a step too late."

Rhodes sighed helplessly, but when he gathered the scattered documents and was about to turn around and leave, he heard a shrill female scream!

Screams surged from all directions, causing the very space to tremble. The tactical light on the rifle instantly exploded, and the surroundings were plunged into pure, eerie darkness. The air was so thick it seemed almost palpable, but soon, the darkness vanished, replaced by a blazing flame!

A blazing flame with a stench of sulfur swept in front of Rhodes, but in the leaping flames, he saw the figure of a woman - steel thorns pierced into her body, twisting under her skin, crushing her flesh, and scratching her bones!

Her name is Ellie, a mother of three children.

At this moment, Ellie was screaming and crying in pain, but the thorns were torturing her soul mercilessly. Even the flames poured in through the thorns, tasting the blood unscrupulously and enjoying her pain.

Rhodes raised his eyes slightly and walked forward against the flames. Every step he took was like walking in the sea, difficult and facing the impact of the tide - the flames wanted to tear at his body, but were forced back by the hotter light. The light from the stars and the sun temporarily dispelled the evil fire at this moment, forming a perfect circle with Rhodes as the center, and kept moving as he moved forward.

A malicious gaze carefully shot out from the leaping flames, slowly circling around Rhodes' body, trying to find a gap to get in and taste the delicious and sacred soul... But it couldn't do it. In this supernatural space, it seemed as if some powerful force was keeping it out.

Compared to the calm and composed Rhodes, Ellie, who was possessed by the evil spirit, was in great pain. She felt like she was being fried in a frying pan!

"Beth...you need to help me...I'm so hot...I'm burning to death!"

Ellie spoke with difficulty. She seemed to have heard the voice of Beth, her sister. The voice was so far away, and it was distorted and weird after being twisted by signals and electric currents.

Suddenly, Ellie's pain disappeared temporarily, or rather, was temporarily suppressed.

She raised her head with difficulty and saw a silver-haired young man standing in front of her. His deep blue eyes were filled with unparalleled majesty and scrutiny. He also radiated a burning heat, but it was more like the scorching summer sun than the current hellfire.

Ellie wanted to cry, but her tears had already been evaporated by the flames.

"It seems you have been possessed by that evil spirit, by some otherworldly creature summoned by some unknown being."

The young man in front of him said this, and he touched his forehead with his fingers, bringing a long-lost coolness.

“I… please…”

"I can't restore you to normal, I can only offer relief," the young man said with an apologetic look on his face. "At the same time, I can make the culprit who caused all this receive a more painful punishment than you."

"No...my...children...three children...please...save them!"

"Three children," the young man raised his eyebrows slightly, "one boy and two girls?"

“Yes…yes!”

"In that case."

Rod said, pulling the trigger.

The bullet passed through Ellie's forehead and exited from the back of her head, ending her life completely and transforming this poor soul into pure spiritual energy and merging into the treacherous tide of the other world.

"I respond to your request."

Chapter 234: People Playing Ghosts! (3K)

"I respond to your request."

As the sound came out of the phone, it completely shattered, and plastic and circuit board fragments fell to the ground through Beth's fingers, leaving her stunned.

Then a hoarse sound came from the bed, as if the person lying on the bed was twitching and struggling to break free from the restraints.

Beth twisted her neck stiffly, and then she saw her sister looking back. Her pupils had shrunk to black dots, and the surroundings were replaced by pale white. There was a ferocious smile on her face, and she said in a cruel yet elegant tone:

"I'm going to eat your face."

Beth stood up suddenly, looking at her sister who had lost her life earlier in disbelief, and slowly stepped back.

"I'm going to drive nails into your fingers."

Beth opened her arms to stop the three children who came running after hearing the sound. She looked at the "sister" who stood up in horror, and the latter's eyes were twisting and shrinking. At first there were only a few, and then dozens of them. These shrunken eyeballs were squeezed in the eye sockets, like the compound eyes of a fly.

"I'm going to grind you into pulp," the demon said, his voice full of artificial tenderness. "I'm going to stuff you into a rotten worm's nest, I'm going to—"

"run!"

Beth screamed, she stepped back, threw the children to the ground, and slammed the bedroom door shut—to no avail! The pale arm suddenly punched through the thin wooden door, not caring about the cracks that cut the skin and made it bleed, nor about the wounds that opened and turned, but went straight down, crushed the door handle, and then slowly opened the door:

“Knock~Knock~”

The woman possessed by the evil spirit smiled cruelly, holding a sharp glass shard as a weapon in one hand, and in the other hand, she held a fragment of the wooden door and slowly approached Beth and the three children.

"Leave me alone, get out of here—"

Beth was about to scream when she was knocked to the ground by the leaping evil spirit. The glass fragments scratched her face quickly and madly, not to kill, but to torture - it only wanted to torture every human it saw - drinking the warm blood and admiring the desperate and sad faces was its pleasure.

This evil spirit, which some scholars might have dubbed a "creature from the other world" or a "supernatural entity," was merely a small stream born from the turbid tides of the other world, watered by extremely painful emotions, growing up and suffering a curse that could never be lifted:

An insatiable hunger.

Pain is its food, despair is its water, and the emotions of the slaughtered things bring it strength while trembling.

Now, we are just repeating this process.

The evil ghost enjoyed the resistance of its prey, but was then hit by a wooden chair, which shattered instantly, leaving only the dust accumulated in the gaps that dissipated in the air. The evil ghost turned its head sharply, making its cervical vertebrae make a horrible crisp sound like steel breaking. It stared straight at the panting boy Danny who seemed to have mustered up the courage to run towards it.

The boy was startled and immediately turned around and ran out, but he was immediately pierced through the thigh by glass fragments...even avoiding the arteries and veins, just to weaken his ability to move!

The laughing evil ghost temporarily let go of Beth who was trying to get up with difficulty, and turned to walk towards the boy who was staggering and trying to escape.

The boy struggled to run out the door amid the panicked cries of his two sisters. He saw the evil spirit slowly approaching, the smile on its face becoming increasingly...fading? The evil spirit's smile disappeared, and its gaze no longer fell on him, but looked behind him.

The boy who moved backwards touched legs, not the legs of his two sisters, but the legs of a man.

"Looks like you were the one who took that book out of the vault," Rod said to the boy, Danny, who was puffing on his cigarette, letting the smoke escape from between his teeth. "And then read it? You did a stupid thing, kid."

"I just put the record..."

"We'll talk later,"

Rhodes twisted his neck, walked forward expressionlessly, and flicked away the cigarette butt in his hand.

This seemed to be a signal. The evil ghost suddenly pounced on Rhodes and flew backwards two seconds later - it was kicked in the chest, and even the bones strengthened by supernatural power made bursts of cracking sounds. The broken bone spurs pierced the skin, bringing out blood and internal organ fragments, and a cloud of blood mist exploded in the turbid air.

But it immediately flew back at the same speed, like a stray dog ​​kicked by the roadside:

The wolf girl, having broken in through the window, instinctively kicked the demon in the back, nearly sending it tumbling backwards. Just as it grunted, Rhode punched it, sending it flying into the nearby wall and slowly sliding down. Ellie's skull, possessed, slumped inward, sticky brain matter and blood oozing from her nostrils, mouth, and ears.

Suddenly, the evil ghost straightened its body and crawled on the wall like a spider. Its suddenly extended tongue licked the wall, leaving hideous marks like blood vessels on it. Black liquid flowed in it, making a hissing sound.

The evil ghost screamed at Rhodes and fled out the door suddenly. Although this evil ghost was terrifying and could possess people and control corpses, it was still limited by flesh and blood. Even a shotgun could break its limbs... just like Beth did in the original movie.

Without giving the evil ghost a chance to harm the neighbors, Rhodes exerted force on his feet, causing the floor to creak. He instantly crossed the short distance, grabbed the evil ghost's ankle, and threw it to the ground in the room again.

Dirty blood splattered!

The demon twisted its body in a spiral, avoiding Rhodes's stomping, and stood up, howling angrily at Rhodes:

"I am the sin of all living beings, the evil thoughts of all living beings, and I am invincible!"

The next second, Rhodes grabbed the evil ghost's calf again and threw it back and forth on the ground until its entire back was completely eroded and slightly embedded in the floor. If the evil ghost had not immediately summoned supernatural power to bless it, this body would have been completely shattered in the first throw!

"Oh, invincible," Rhodes spat disdainfully.

"Is she... is she dead?"

Beth, who was helped up by the wolf girl, was panting. She looked at her "sister" lying on the ground in shock, but the latter's eyes suddenly moved, staring at what had just happened, and even her limbs began to move unsteadily.

"Obviously not. You guys stay together. I have something to ask."

Rhode frowned slightly. He raised his gun and blew up Ellie's physical head - just like he had shot through Ellie's soul head just now - its entire head exploded, leaving only a tongue hanging from its chin, but a strange, hoarse whisper slowly leaked out from it:

"Hehehe...what else do you want to ask...it's that kid who picked me up...his bitch mother has been burned to ashes in the flames of hell...hahahaha..."

From that squirming throat burst a violent laughter, and it was not just the headless body - the table lamps in the room were bending back and forth with laughter, the small statues hanging on the wall were laughing with their mouths wide open, the windows were constantly opening and closing, and books were falling from the bookshelves with laughter.

Such a strange scene made Beth hug the three equally terrified children in horror, and they subconsciously huddled around the young man.

"Baizi," Rhode said, turning his head to the girl standing at the window, gun raised and on guard. The girl's wolf ears twitched, but she didn't turn around to look at him. "Go to the back room and look for the remaining pages of the Necronomicon and other strange things."

"clear."

The wolf girl nodded slightly, raised her hand and smashed the poster that was laughing crazily with the butt of her gun, then let out a low roar from her throat - her beautiful eyes lit up, and the ghostly breath symbolizing death instantly filled the entire room, causing the furniture that had long been alienated by the energy of the other world to immediately fall silent, and no longer dared to make even the slightest sound.

Wherever Anubis looked, natural and supernatural life all prostrated themselves on the ground, not daring to offend his majesty.

Rhode raised his gun and shot through the demon's hands and feet, leaving it wriggling on the ground like a maggot. Ignoring the vicious and filthy curses, Rhode turned and looked at Beth and the three trembling children.

Rhode glanced at the wounds on the men's bodies, then took out a small piece of black stone and handed it to them, explaining:

"You will not leave this stone until the matter is resolved."

"My mom...it..." The little girl asked quietly with Beth covering her eyes, "What will happen to it?"

"Please let her go!" Beth whispered in pain, blood oozing from her wounds. "Let this nightmare end!"

"I will, but not right now. I need to make sure the mission is completed first."

As Rhode spoke, he mentally contemplated how to completely destroy the demon before him. Dismemberment was the worst option, after all, in every film, the protagonist, Ash, had failed to completely destroy the summoned demon. While the evil aura might simply be a foreshadowing or a casual Easter egg left in the film director's mind for the next film, in this world, the possibility that demons could only be expelled was a must.

Suddenly, Rhode remembered his authority. He calculated his current points in the inner world and made up his mind:

Just an experiment.

Let's experiment and see how powerful the sword is when fighting against non-religious creatures in the world... The last battle in Paris ended too quickly, and Rhodes fell into a coma afterwards and didn't have time to review it. Today is a good opportunity.