The lush green plants began to visibly diminish, and the land became barren.
The terrain also began to gradually slope downward, as if the edge of the forest was leading to a space in the lower levels of Limbo.
After the clock tree jitters several times.
Everyone came to the end of the tracking mark and arrived at a yellow land that was almost a desert.
The place is so desolate that there is not a single green tree. Instead, there are a large number of strange-shaped rocks. From the barren land between the rocks, plumes of pungent white smoke rise upward, like countless snakes emerging from the ground and reaching into the sky.
The sky here is not completely blocked by white mist like in the forest. It is so high that the top cannot be seen, and the air is filled with an unsettling atmosphere.
The four of them circled the area twice, restrained their steps, and carefully walked around the rocks to the end of the trip.
As soon as Dean looked up, he saw a familiar monster with a goat's head and body standing like a statue on top of a solitary peak that was more than ten meters high and looked like a cobra.
Catherine was hanging motionless on the edge of the cliff, her eyes were closed tightly on her pale face, and her black blood vessels were twisting, looking very ferocious and painful.
Her body swayed from side to side with the breeze, like a flag of human skin.
"Shet!"
A sharp look flashed in Dean's eyes,
"What does it want to do? Turn Catherine into jerky?"
"No, this is an ancient assimilation ritual, a different kind of devouring. The subjects have to undergo desperate and cruel torture..." Mona showed an unbearable expression and nervously squeezed the pistol, "until the heart becomes twisted and the soul grows. A lot of darkness.”
"So it wants to transform Catherine into the same kind?" Dean's eyelids twitched.
"Well, after all, goatmen cannot reproduce normally and can only plunder from outside." Mona nodded,
"Let's do it, man, your reporter lady can't hold on much longer, and we've scouted and there are no other goatmen around." Hope couldn't wait to open the gasoline can and draw a wide protective circle of gasoline around everyone, " Let’s beat it up!”
Dean nodded, took out the fully loaded grenade launcher and put it at his feet in advance, then took out the TAC-50 and replaced it with a .50BMG incendiary bomb.
Dean held the gun target in his right hand, lightly pulled the trigger with his index finger, and held the butt of the gun with the five fingers of his left hand, applying even force. The back butt was placed in the shoulder socket under the collarbone.
Putting his head down and hanging his chin, he opened his eyes and moved closer to the aiming line, aiming at the dark figure on the lonely peak.
All parts of the body work together to form a stable rigid structure with TAC-50.
LV3's shooting becomes instinctive.
Dean pulled the trigger with his index finger.
boom!
Gunfire.
The ground shook violently, yellow mud and sand filled the air, and a huge noise exceeding ninety decibels tore through the silent wasteland.
The powerful recoil pushed the rear stock of the gun into Dean's shoulder, but he only swayed slightly to regain stability.
The three Hopes behind them were frightened by the huge movement, and their faces turned pale.
And on the isolated peak in the distance, the frozen figure suddenly trembled, its chest was penetrated by a bullet, and a dazzling flame burst out. It fell like a kite with its string broken, drawing a red straight line in mid-air.
But before it landed on the ground, its cloak swayed behind it, its dark wings spread out, and a burst of sand and dust rolled up from the ground. It turned around and flew into the air again.
His dark green eyes suddenly turned to where Dean was,
Hoho!
With a shrill roar, it turned into a black wind and swooped in. The rushing air blew out the flames in its chest. The damaged holes in its body healed in the blink of an eye. It passed through dozens of meters and got closer and closer.
Dean stood up without changing his expression, holding up his sniper rifle with both hands, just like the bow of a ship on a stormy sea, raising his whale gun to fight against the rolling waves and the behemoth sailor of the deep sea. He pulled the trigger towards the sprinting figure, and at the same time From three directions behind him, Hope held up the MP5, Mona held the M1911A1, and Ying held the M1900 and fired wildly with the sniper rifle, emptying the magazine in one breath!
Bang bang bang!
Da da da!
Continuous gunshots echoed across the wasteland.
The dense incendiary bombs formed a black storm of bullets in mid-air, instantly covering the charging goatman.
This alien evil spirit is invisible and atomized in the real world, ignores conventional physical attacks, and has never been baptized by modern weapons.
But in Limbo, its solid body was no different from that of flesh and blood, and it could no longer evade physical sanctions. It burst into dazzling flames under the collision of roaring warheads.
Dozens of bullets penetrated its body, and strips of black flesh flying in the air like ribbons were pulled out from behind its broken body.
It didn't even have time to let out a wail, and its burning body rushed five meters in front of Dean with a fishy wind.
The hot breath made his face red and burned his light black hair. Dean raised his head indifferently.
boom!
An invisible shock wave exploded on the ground.
The power of his mind was shaped into a battering ram and hit the charging monster head-on. Its swooping body was instantly bounced back and flew to the ground, rolling and pulling out a ten-meter-long charred ravine.
And Dean was shaken by the recoil and took several steps back.
Stabilizing his body, he immediately called his teammates to hide behind a shield-shaped rock, threw away the sniper rifle that had missed, and reached out to grab the grenade launcher.
Aim at the wailling Goatman in the distant flames.
Pull the trigger.
boom! Click!
boom! Click!
Several consecutive rounds of grenades exploded, and a small earthquake occurred in the entire deserted land. A large amount of dust shook off the shield rock. Splashing firelight, suffocating heat waves, and thick gray fog filled everyone's vision, making them I couldn't help but hold my breath.
After a few seconds.
The strange thing disappears.
The ground not far away was blasted into a large, uneven, pitch-black pit. High-temperature black smoke was rising out of the pit, making it look like purgatory.
The goat man who was hit head-on by the grenade was nowhere to be found, as if he had been completely blown into ashes.
But Dean glanced at the system records.
You hit the goat man, proficiency +1, shooting level 3 (350→351/400),
Isn’t this even dead? An ordinary wandering spirit would have died a hundred times under this attack.
He pressed his back against the rock and looked around warily.
"Light the fire, Hope!"
Hope threw a lit lighter onto the pre-paved gasoline path.
Boom!
A large fire wall with an inner and outer circle separated by half a meter rose up to protect the four Deans, but the fatal flames also brought a trace of burning pain to their souls.
Almost at the same time.
A black shadow like a sharp arrow shot up from behind a duck-shaped rock in the distance. A goat man with a broken hoof hovered in the air, waving his black wings covered with bullet holes, scorch marks, and leaking wind, and shook them down towards the crowd. A wonderful swath of black dust.
These dust particles are like tiny black holes that disperse in the air and quickly absorb all the light around them.
In an instant, Dean felt that the space they were in became eerie and dim, even the red flames surrounding them turned black, and a pair of dark green vortexes began to rotate in the darkness.
Firmly attract everyone's attention.
Fa Ke, do it again!
Dean thought of the bad experience before crossing the border, and pushed the three people in a daze headfirst to the ground. "Close your eyes!"
The three of Hope buried their cheeks deep in the soil as if they were waking up from a dream, and remained motionless.
But Dean had a pistol in his left hand and a paddle in his right hand. He closed his eyes and didn't even dare to open the God's perspective. He only relied on his hearing and sixth sense to alert him to the crisis in this darkness.
The goatman suspended in mid-air took the initiative with a pair of eyes as bright as green searchlights, fluttering its wings across the dark sky, gliding towards the four Deans.
The strong wind caused the wall of fire around the four people to sway suddenly.
boom!
Dean fired several shots based on intuition, and several bullets penetrated the air and hit the Goatman's left chest and wings, corroding and making a sizzling sound.
It shrieked in fright, flew straight up into the deep and dark sky, and turned into a tiny black dot at an incredible speed.
Dean was on high alert without daring to breathe.
I don't know how long it took, but he was about to explode from nervousness.
The goat man fell from a black cloud, landed in the defensive void above the fire wall, and stretched out his gleaming claws towards the standing Dean.
Dean felt the chill coming from the top of his head. He raised his left hand to the sky and pulled the trigger continuously, and with his right hand he pushed the catapult upwards.
Puff puff puff.
The bullet penetrates the flesh.
All six bullets hit the goat man's chest and abdomen, and the scorpion cut open its neck. Black blood spurted out, raining down on the four people on the ground, but was blasted around by telekinesis.
But the goatman's body with huge inertia successfully smashed into the ring of fire like a bomber.
boom!
The ground shook!
The goat-man who landed on the ground kicked his hooves, flapped his wings, and pounced forward as if he were reflecting back on himself.
Dust clouds filled the air.
Dean seemed to be swept by the dragon's tail and flew out of the wall of fire. He rolled on the ground for several weeks and almost fell apart before the piercing flames were extinguished.
He opened his eyes subconsciously.
The deep darkness was gone.
Hope and Shadow were knocked to the left side of the fire wall, but not everyone was so lucky. On the right side of the fire wall lay the goat man. Its eyes lost their breathtaking look and became dim, and its dark body was like It was like a honeycomb and full of pale holes, but its right paw, which was thicker than an ordinary person's waist, grabbed Mona's arms, and its left paw grabbed her legs.
Pull it!
Mona's limbs were brutally torn off by the Goatman.
No!
Ying waved his hand like crazy, and the surging telekinesis blasted the goat man ten meters away, lying on the ground like a puddle of rotten flesh, unable to get up.
Shadow rushed over and picked up Mona.
Dean stood up and shot all the M1900 magazines at Goat Man, causing it to vibrate against the ground like an electric shock.
Dean pounced on it fiercely, like pressing down a black hill, aiming at its neck and chest, raising the stilts high, and then lowering them hard, repeating, waving so fast that it left an afterimage. .
die!
die!
die!
The splash of black blood stained Dean's face, making him look like a madman.
The sharp slender board subconsciously drew "VV" witchcraft symbols on the goat man's body.
The spirit-breaking power of the jiban is mixed with the exorcism power of the witchcraft symbols,
The Goatman was burned horribly, and a lot of thick smoke came out of his body. Soon, it turned into a puddle of mud on the ground like a melted candle.
Dean, who was panting violently, stopped, and a surging vitality in the mud poured into his body.
The injuries that had been burned by the flames healed instantly, and another powerful cold power poured into his mind, instantly cooling down his extremely angry emotions, and his eyes that were like burning flames became as calm as lake water.
He just felt that he had become calmer than ever before, and it was like he had never been angry before.
A prompt flashed in the system:
You killed the green-eyed goatman, proficiency +20, fighting level 3 (130/400), supernatural hunter activated, you absorbed 2 points of will,
Will: 15.7→17.7.
…
"Mona, Mona!" A burst of exclamation interrupted Dean's meditation.
Not far away, Ying held his seriously injured girlfriend and her fallen limbs tightly in his arms. Translucent tears fell drop by drop on the girl's withered long hair. She was like a tattered rag doll. Minoru's body slowly became transparent.
"Hold on, I'll take you to the MPs, they will definitely be able to save you!"
"It's too late, they can't save me." A heart-wrenching smile appeared on Mona's pale face, and she tremblingly reached out to touch her boyfriend's face, trying to smooth out the wrinkles between his eyebrows.
"It's all my fault, I didn't protect you!"
Mona shook her head, "After meeting you, I feel that it doesn't matter if I die. I've been in Limbo for too long, and it's driving me crazy. I'll leave early. Dean, take me there." Look at that door."
"I promise you, let's set off right now!" Princess Shadow held the weak Mona in her arms, her eyes swept over Hope who was not far away with a look of unbearable expression, and then turned to Dean who looked calm,
…
What happened next went very smoothly. Without the Goatman's obstruction, Dean flew to the cliff with his telekinesis and rescued the unconscious Catherine.
According to Mona, she could only fully recover by returning to her body and recuperating for a period of time.
…
Dean carried Catherine on his back, Shadow held Mona, and Hope carried her stump, and the five of them continued to walk some distance outside the border.
It was a calm journey, and the barren terrain actually became full of vitality and greenery again. Towering ancient trees, bifurcated intersections, and turquoise lakes gradually appeared, dotted with green plants.
The breeze caressed Dean's cheek, bringing a moist warmth.
The temperature here is very suitable. There are no wandering souls or abnormal things. It is like a paradise in limbo.
And right in the center of this paradise, stands an ancient prismatic stone door more than ten meters high. The door beams are carved with lightning, paw prints, petals, branches and insect patterns that exude a rich historical atmosphere, as well as various obscure patterns. There are incomprehensible runes, and the door is filled with shimmering darkness and chaos.
When Dean looked around, he seemed to see dim stars, blue auroras, and suffocating vacuum forming a majestic and vast starry sky.
…
"What kind of door is this?"
Dean looked at Mona in Ying's arms. Her solid body was quickly disappearing, as if she would disappear at any time, and her voice was so weak that it was almost inaudible.
"The door of the cycle, the old ends and the new...behind the door begins."
"The end of the old, the beginning of the new."
Hope fell into deep thought because of these mysterious words.
And Dean felt an indescribable feeling of suffocation holding his throat. The shapeless air suddenly became extremely viscous, and he had to work very hard to maintain smooth breathing.
His heart beat unusually fast, as if he had exercised a lot and was exhausted.
A certain description in the Red Dragon Meditation Method emerged uncontrollably from the dusty memory——
"Everyone has to go through the process of birth and death repeatedly, saying goodbye to the old life and starting the next new life."
"again and again."
“The cycle of life and death never ends.”
"And the red dragon in everyone's destiny receives the legacy of soul and vitality at the end of each cycle. It hangs eternally deep in the starry sky, illuminating your path in the dark."
This is actually true, this cycle of life and death is going on in Limbo!
"The dead enter Limbo, and the wandering souls in Limbo begin to be reborn in the door. This is the complete cycle."
Dean raised his head high and actually saw a red star in the dim sky of Limbo, with a circle of magnificent craters clearly visible. Staring at this familiar scene, he couldn't help but start running the Red Dragon Meditation Method. .
In just a short moment, he meditated once, twice...more than a dozen times.
Then the "red dragon" disappeared.
A reminder flashed before Dean's eyes.
You have deepened your understanding of "Red Dragon", Red Dragon Meditation lv2 (286→300/300),
You can increase this ability at any time.
…
"Dean, if I have a chance... I will still be with you." Mona touched Ying's face with reluctance, and the light in her eyes quickly dimmed, "Next time, I hope to go to Los Angeles to see the Walk of Fame."
"Mona!" Ying cried and hugged his silent girlfriend, "Please, don't leave me!"
"Throw her out the door!" Dean suddenly shouted like an order, "Quickly."
Ying was shocked, but the inertia he had developed over a long period of time allowed him to execute the order without hesitation, and he aimed at the dark prismatic door and released his hands.
Mona was mercilessly swallowed by the cold abyss, as if she had floated into the boundless black sea and disappeared.
Shadow knelt down in front of the door in despair and held his head.
"My brother, you should be happy for Mona. No matter how happy and beautiful Limbo seems, it is just a prison for wandering souls. And now Mona is finally free from the maddening dullness and boredom here, and she is about to Start a new life.”
Ying Wenyan looked at Dean with tears in her eyes, "Will she still remember me?"
"I think she will cut off all ties and forget all memories of the past, including you."
Dean looked at the ancient circulation door, glanced at Hope who was in a daze next to him, put his arm around Ying's shoulders, and gave him a hopeful look, "But you can take the initiative to find her and re-establish a bond with her. "
"Okay, guys, there isn't much time left, we must rush back right away!"
…
(End of chapter)
