Long-term salvation

The wind died down, and the children who had been rescued, chosen, and shaped walked out of the passage and saw a spiral tower in front of them, made of layers of human bodies. The broken bodies of the missing children floated above, slowly rotating along the tower, dripping with rancid blood.

The wide wooden door at the bottom of the tower, like a circus stage, suddenly opened, and the face of the clown Pennywise appeared, grinning with a huge mouth full of fangs.

"I'm going to drag you into hell."

It says.

In an instant, countless sewage gushed out from the concrete pipes, attacking the Red Right Hand Team from all directions!

Chapter 360: Strike a Heavy Punch! (2/3)

The sewage dispersed.

The entire underground space became wider, as if it was enveloped by an even wider space from deep within. Stone pillars like sharp fangs suddenly protruded from the tower of corpses, and the surrounding rock walls also slowly grew sharp serrations, making the entire inverted funnel-like "nest" resemble the mouth of a lamprey.

The clown Pennywise's huge body slowly emerged from the wide wooden door, even though it was only big enough for a young child to crawl in. When the former's body was completely exposed to the turbid air, it was almost immediately attacked by fierce firepower!

A metallic storm of bullets slammed into Pennywise's chest, sending a series of dark red blood splatters flying. The monster then let out an eerie roar, a cross between a steam locomotive and a night owl. A faint orange-yellow glow shone from its gaping maw, like the final gasps of a dying gas lamp.

"Keep suppressing fire!" Carl shouted angrily as he stood in the ankle-deep sewage. "Use your strength as needed... They're coming!"

Nightmares, the nightmares of the small town and the Indian children for thousands of years, became reality and pounced out from the increasingly deep darkness - ferocious beasts, monsters from ancient legends like the Wendigo, icy winds and twisted human bodies in memories... All the terrifying things came like a tide at this moment, clinging to the rock walls, allowing their skin to be scratched and allowing the corrupted blood created by supernatural evil forces to fall like a rainstorm.

Amidst the bloody storm, the clown Pennywise laughed loudly and pounced on the soldiers of [Mobile Task Force Red Right Hand].

"Tsk, that's really troublesome."

Carl took a half step back, pulled off the grenade hanging on his chest and threw it forward. Amid the roar of the explosion, he turned around and knocked over a skinny monster that looked like an Indian with the butt of his gun. The latter's face was sunken by the huge force brought by the mechanical exoskeleton, and his body collapsed backwards into the sewage.

After firing another shot, Carl looked at the other members of the team:

Lucas and Aiden cooperated with each other and waded through the waves of monsters to carve out a bloody path, trying to reach the clown Pennywise's location.

Lucas, the eldest of the Wendigo brothers, fired relentlessly from his semi-automatic shotgun. The specially formulated pellets exploded against the monsters' skin, shattering their flesh! Meanwhile, Aiden, his younger brother, suppressed his strength, firing short bursts from his P90 submachine gun, mowing down every enemy that stood in his way. He didn't want to risk losing control while dealing with a group of small monsters.

11 is guarding Sharon/Alessa, who is carefully calling upon the energy of the surrounding other world in order to replace the larger Silent Hill world with this place... Because of this, the super-powered girl is carefully guarding her companions, and any monster that tries to get close to them will have its head crushed out of thin air!

The clown Pennywise constantly provoked the Red Right Hand with words, and the latter's faith was being tested - fearlessness! They were obviously blessed by virtue - the overwhelming advantage of fear and darkness was curbed and slowly pushed back.

In other words, it is about to be replaced by an equally dark and evil force.

"You're just a bunch of little brats with a little extra power!"

Pennywise the Clown was shocked to find that even in his home turf, he couldn't crush the Red Right Hands! These young children were fighting in a harsh environment that even adults could hardly endure. They might be a little panicked and nervous at first, but as the battle progressed... they would discover:

The enemy is no more than that.

These scum merely rely on their petty tricks to bully innocents who are unaware of the truth. Can they clash with humanity's iron legions on the plains? Can they survive the precision attacks of thousands of ballistic missiles? Can they rise from the desolate wasteland after the atomic flash?

Maybe, but it definitely won't be you, clown!

The Red Right Hands no longer roared or shouted in anger, but instead carried a pure, almost indifferent killing intent. The confidence gained from their previous hard training was taking root in their bodies, allowing them to perfectly control their own dark power, and then—

Return this power and cruelty to the perpetrators.

"...Am I getting weaker?" The clown Pennywise's heart sank. He originally wanted to drive the monsters, but now it seems that he must do it himself. However... The monster cast his eyes on the ship girl standing at the edge of the battlefield. There were several monster corpses lying beside the latter, but it seemed that she only fought back against the enemies who attacked her.

The children's fear was slowly fading. Was it because of that strange being with the appearance of a human woman? Most likely, because after all, this being didn't have the slightest hint of fear.

Thinking this, Pennywise the Clown moved his spider legs, bending and leaping! His hands transformed into sharp blades, he suddenly leaped across the battlefield and pounced directly at the being who was looking back!

The clown heard a little sound, which was the sigh that only came from when facing an ignorant fool.

New Jersey clenched his right fist, took a half step back, pushed off the ground, twisted his waist and hips, and gathered the strength of all the muscles in his body at one point, and punched!

The explosion and strong wind caused by breaking the sound barrier instantly swept through the entire underground space, cutting the turbid air in half, and the darkness seemed to be dispelled in this instant!

The battlefield was silent, and everyone subconsciously stopped fighting until the clown Pennywise silently gathered the minced meat and body parts and reshaped his body at the farthest point.

Soon, the battle continued, but no one dared to approach there anymore.

"Damn it, how could this happen... How could this happen? I'm going to..."

Pennywise the clown angrily reassembled his body, but then he heard the sound of an air raid siren. Although he had only heard it once, he still remembered it clearly:

The same dark power was summoned here. The air was no longer filled with the stench of decay, but with the charred scent of burning buildings. The jagged edges of the surrounding rock walls slowly shattered, floating upwards, and then turned into ash that drifted down.

Using two fingers to crush the ashes that fell on her fingertips, Alesha raised her arms - the pyramid head, the armless man, the swollen-faced nurse, the model spider... the monsters of Silent Hill appeared here with the help of the power released by the clown Pennywise - the new monsters rushed towards the old monsters like a tide!

Monsters vs. Monsters!

Both sides are indeed monsters, and the brains of the only two ordinary humans are even more abnormal.

At this moment, Pennywise the clown just felt like he had swallowed shit.

Needless to say, the Pyramid Head who had already picked up the big blade and started spinning it was a big deal. The other weird monsters alone were even more twisted than the nightmare incarnations of fear on their side. They were so twisted that it seemed as if the deepest and most unspeakable desires and longings in every human heart were revealed here without reservation.

Why are you humans so disgusting?!

The clown Pennywise took a deep breath - it didn't need to breathe, but it needed to use this action to relieve its tension and inner doubts - then, the monster puffed up its chest and let out a shrill howl, but the next second, the sound was blocked by a rocket fired from an M72 rocket launcher!

The explosion ripped the monster's throat open, leaving it with only whimpering sounds of anger.

Seeing the monster's ridiculous appearance, Carl patted 11's shoulder, who was carrying the bazooka, and raised his finger to mock the monster who was constantly scratching his neck:

"Aha, I hit it! It probably doesn't know that our brave Army Without Borders is guarding Earth! A country bumpkin from the other world."

"You! You damned——"

The clown Pennywise's head swelled up like a balloon because of anger, but it shrank back the next second, because Alesha/Sharon had found a way to stably extract energy from the surrounding world to continue to maintain the existence of "Silent Hill"... There was no such good opportunity before!

Now, the girl is more like the monster that caused the disaster in the other world.

The emptiness and pain brought about by the sudden withdrawal of power surged from deep within his body, causing this monster from outside the earth to scream in pain, and the incarnations of fear that appeared here slowly dissipated - in just a few minutes, the clown Pennywise was surrounded and beaten by a group of Silent Hill monsters.

Lying in the ashes and mud, the clown struggled to crawl out from the surging monster tide. It had long lost its huge spider body and now returned to human size... Suddenly, a foot slammed in front of the monster, completely thwarting its idea of ​​crawling away.

The clown raised his head, only to see a few cold eyes.

"Anyone want to personally take action against this thing that's even more obscene than frog piss?" Carl kicked Pennywise the clown in the abdomen, causing the monster to curl up and scream in despair after being cursed and having its fear power drained away. "Hehe, that's interesting... It seems that cursing without fear will make it painful."

"Honestly, I want to taste it."

Aiden spoke out loudly, and with antlers already sprouting from his head, he squatted down and violently ripped off one of the clown's fingers. The monster howled in pain, but then tightly shut its mouth because of its eyes that were thirsty for flesh and blood. However, Lucas immediately threw the thing away and crushed it on the ground. He said angrily:

"What are you thinking?! Instead of eating this filthy, vile thing, we should go back and eat Angus steak."

The insulted clown's body suddenly shrank, and its voice began to fade away.

11 didn't curse, she simply tilted her head slightly, and then, starting with her fingers, the clown's limbs were slowly twisted, slowly but unstoppably, only to let the most tangible pain penetrate the monster's body. Perhaps when it was powerful, it could ignore this, but now, it was just a fragile rotten egg.

When the clown's body was loosened like a wrung-out towel, it was too weak to speak and could only look back at the last person with resentment and pleading eyes.

Alessa/Sharon squatted beside the clown Pennywise and asked with a chuckle:

"Why didn't you scream?"

Before the girl's outstretched hand completely covered his vision, Pennywise the clown, the evil and abominable creature from outside the earth (It), finally let out a terrified and desperate scream!

"Do not!!!!!!!!!!"

Chapter 361 You’re Fired, Clown (3/3)

The incident that would later be labeled "IT" came to an end, and the first "Mobile Task Force" in the history of the Army Without Borders achieved a near-perfect victory in the battle.

Standing outside the RV, Rod held a cigarette in his mouth and slowly read the report that Carl had racked his brains to write. Carl was standing next to him with his hands leaning on the road railing.

At the bottom of the winding mountain road, there was a faint cacophony of voices and cries. It was the town police leading the parents of the missing children to search for the last trace of their children - perhaps a corpse, or perhaps remaining clothes and small decorations.

There were several ambulances parked further away, and the medical staff had prepared tranquilizers and rescue equipment... These were prepared for the parents who were like zombies who had lost their souls.

In the lair of the clown Pennywise, only the three school bully boys who were beaten badly enough were lucky enough to survive, and the one who was worst injured, Henry, had to rely on a wheelchair to move around for the rest of his life.

As for the nest itself, Reality Veil Administration executive officers will monitor it, collect debris, and complete landfill.

"We're still late," Carl said slowly. He reached out and scratched his hair. Even after washing it, the young man still felt a rotten smell lingering on his body. "It's always like this."

"Unfortunately, when facing the other world, we are always the passive ones."

Rod spoke vaguely as he pulled out a box of Red Apple cigarettes from his pocket, shook it, and passed half a cigarette to Carl. Carl pursed his lips, then took the box, took out the half-smoked cigarette, and stuffed it into his pocket.

"I didn't actually plan to give you a whole box," Rhodes sighed, snapped his fingers, and lit Carl's cigarette, "but since you want it, here's the apple."

"Did I make a wrong decision?" Carl asked suddenly.

"In terms of your inevitable miserable future, yes, but it's not entirely meaningless."

Rod said with a smile, but then he put his arm around the boy's shoulder and gestured for him to look at the boy walking towards them—Bill Danbrook—who was holding a neatly folded yellow raincoat, his face showing guilt, pain, and relief.

The boy Billy and Rod were guarding the drainage outlet of the ditch below, but they did not wait for the clown Pennywise who might escape from here, but waited for the corpses and debris washed out by the sewage.

Now, the boy walked in front of Rhodes and Karl, took a few deep breaths, bowed deeply, and said seriously:

"Thank you for your help! Please let me join you!"

"...I've already told you to practice for a few more years, Billy the Kid."

"So, how many more years of training do I need? What else do I need to learn?" Bill straightened up and bravely looked at Rhodes and Carl. "What conditions do I need to meet in order to join you? This isn't revenge or venting—it's just because I don't want anyone else to suffer the same tragedy as my brother."

The warm sunlight shone through the branches on both sides of the road, casting mottled shadows on the boy's face, but did not shake his thoughts.

"In that case, I'd also be happy to see a new blood join, as long as he can prove himself."

After extending his hand to the somewhat shy and embarrassed Carl, Rhode smiled and took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to him, then said to Carl:

"Then you, the 'experienced one', can have a good chat with him. Let me go back to the RV and check on the thing first."

As he spoke, Rhodes patted Karl's shoulder, turned around and walked into the RV:

The rest of the Red Right Hand team was here, as was New Jersey. However, Kanmusu was hunched over her laptop, typing away, compiling a report on everything that had happened to her for the Cogito Foundation's board of directors—they were quite concerned about this Mobile Task Force, and several of them frequently visited Arkham Asylum.

When Rhodes walked into the RV, he saw Sharon/Alessa pointing her finger at a transparent box in the middle of the aisle, inside which was the extremely weak clown Pennywise.

This thing could no longer dance with its eerie, mocking face, nor could it harm innocent people. At this moment, it had become old, wrinkled, small, and ugly, like a drunk's vomit, locked in a high-strength glass storage box.

A tiny black stone was embedded in the top of the box, and inside was a player that could play music in a loop for half a month. Low curses and humiliations echoed in it, continuously weakening Pennywise the clown but preventing him from completely dying. The scientific researchers of the Army Without Borders and future members of the Mobile Task Force would like it.

"You're fired, clown."

After meeting the monster's cloudy eyes, Rhode's mouth curled up into a mocking arc. He tapped the glass with his finger and said with a low laugh:

"But it doesn't matter. I will hire you. You will definitely like the new working environment and new colleagues."

Hearing this, Pennywise the clown's eyes slightly opened, and the despair contained in them became even stronger... After being taken in, the children kept telling him about those horrific experiments in the other world. Even the little girl named Sharon or Alessa suggested sending him to be bred with other monsters, or to be used as a breeding ground!

These little devils are born evil!

After laughing at the clown Pennywise, Rhodes remembered something important - the facilities to house the creatures of the other world and their main managers were still missing!

Although there have been no containment breaches so far, and the [Mobile Task Force] specifically designed for this is steadily training, it's still best to prepare early.

Because of this, Rhodes planned to build a huge otherworldly creature containment facility outside the real world with the Eternal Night City mentioned by Nyarlathotep as the core (Chapter 176), and then connect it through aperture technology or the portal technology that Black Mountain Laboratory is currently researching.

In this way, even if something goes wrong, it will not have any major impact on the real world.

At the same time, based on the situation of Alex Casey who works in the [Paranormal Investigation Bureau], Rod feels that he can definitely find Jesse Faden and her brother Dylan Faden in this world (all three are from the game "Control")... Maybe Alan Wake (from the game "Alan Wake")?

Jesse Faden, in particular, has a strong will and strange supernatural powers, making her a perfect choice to become the backbone of the Army Without Borders, or even the director of the containment facility. However, in the original game, she was only born this year (1992).

This wasn't a big problem for Rhodes. After all, Irons had fought in the Vietnam War and was still alive and well. It was also normal for Jesse Faden to be born early. Now he just had to try to find her... When Rhodes had this idea, the system interface flickered slightly, as if it was doing something secretly.

Rhodes, who didn't notice any of this, took out the [Shiting Box] and entered the names to avoid forgetting. He then reached out and poked Alona, ​​who was still sleeping, but the latter just grumbled a little and continued to sleep, as tired as if she had just completed a big project.

In fact, it was almost the same - after the completion of this system mission, in addition to obtaining the required inner world pollution points, Rhodes also received a system update that "subordinate troops can obtain a large number of inner world pollution points as rewards by completing inner world events."

Although there were points before, they were only a few or a dozen points. Starting today, they can obtain 70% of Rhode's completed tasks. In the future, they can be upgraded according to base construction tasks, which can greatly alleviate Rhode's "poverty":

A large group of technicians eagerly awaited his return of more Black Stone for research, or for some more unique technology and exchange blueprints. Furthermore, exchanging weapons, equipment, vehicles, and control powers would cost a considerable amount.

Just as Rhodes was recording the next task in the [Shiting Box], New Jersey leaned over and said to him:

"The interpretation of the R'lyeh Text is nearly complete. You and the professors at Miskatonic University seem to have discovered the location and entrance to R'lyeh."

Chapter 362: Deciphering the R’lyeh Text (3K)

After receiving the message, Rhodes did not delay any longer and directly returned with the Red Right Hand and the clown Pennywise by helicopter. As the captain, Carl Gallagher was able to drive the RV back slowly, just to continue his paid vacation.

After arranging a place for the children and handing the clown over to the researchers who had been waiting for a long time, Rhodes took New Jersey to Miskatonic University without stopping, ready to see what new tricks the professors had prepared for him.

Miskatonic University in the spring was no different from the past. It was still filled with the youth of the young people and the hatred of the strange and evil spirits. It was still conducting ordinary classroom teaching and terrifying summoning experiments... Listening to the monsters' desperate cries faintly carried on the wind, Rhode sighed comfortably.

“It’s a wonderful campus life.”