Among the corpses and sewage on the ground, the twenty-three survivors all turned their attention to the young man standing in the middle of the hall, wearing jeans that were not stained with blood, and who was as calm as a human being.
They all noticed the other's textbook perfect archery movements before and realized that he was the one who killed all the monsters.
"A messenger from God?"
“The Exorcist of the Vatican?”
Dean put away his bow and arrows, looked at the dazed priest family and the Goko brothers, and suddenly stared over their shoulders.
As soon as the snake-man crisis was over, someone had a wrong idea. The surviving Texas patrolman picked up a revolver among the corpses, quietly aimed it at the back of the Goko brothers, pulled the trigger mercilessly, and emptied the magazine.
Bang bang bang!
The roar of bullets tore through the calm after the killing. Dean stepped forward to face the bullets, wrapped his hands in white-gold flames, and swung them continuously like baseballs, drawing countless afterimages, and then they all closed together in the blink of an eye.
Deans spread his fingers toward the ground, and six bullets slipped from his palm into a pool of blood.
watt? Catching bullets with bare hands?
Gonzalez, who had been a patrolman for more than thirty years, had never seen such a scene before and couldn't help but tremble his cheeks.
"Fake Squid, a dead hound in the garbage dump, attacks teammates from behind at this time! Are you a fool?" Brother Goko came to his senses belatedly and looked at Dean with gratitude and awe.
Gonzalez said angrily, "You killed Earl, and I want to avenge him!"
"That's enough, everyone, now is not the time for internal fighting." Pastor Jacob suddenly stood up and stood between the two groups. "We were just attacked by the devil's army. We managed to survive. The most important thing is to unite and cooperate to escape. .What do you think, Dean?"
In an instant, all eyes were focused on Dean.
"Listen, I don't care who you are or what your status is, police or criminals. Don't do anything under my nose. We'll settle the grievances after we settle them." Dean looked around calmly. He didn't mind saving innocent people. But I won't bring any troublemaking idiots with me.
He stretched out his hand and the revolver in Gonzalez's hand flew into his palm. As he closed his five fingers, sparks flew out and transformed into a twisted mass of scrap metal. "Whoever breaks the rules, I will crush this gun." , pinch him to death!"
The scrap metal was thrown at Gonzalez's feet.
"That's right, we have to find a way to get out of here." Jacob eased the tense atmosphere, "Everyone split up and look for an exit first!"
The survivors breathed a sigh of relief and rushed around the hall to check the columns, floors, and ceilings.
It has to be said that those who can survive the monster attack until now are basically shrewd, mentally mature, and have excellent physical fitness. Faced with the inhuman strength displayed by Dean, no one would jump out to question it and risk their lives.
Even Gonzalez temporarily put aside his hatred and checked the entrance door of the bar, only to find that there was no gap in the thick stone door, as if it was welded to the wall.
The Goko brothers walked to the back of the stage and fired a burst of bullets at the wall where the Queen of Night appeared before.
And Dean tried to use his mind to push the four walls and the stage on the second floor, but without exception, these places seemed to be reinforced by a mysterious force and could not be pushed at all.
A quarter of an hour later, everyone gathered in the center of the hall with sad faces.
"It's useless, there is no way out." A fit, blond lady in her thirties sighed, "We checked the backstage, there are no windows, no passages, and no way to the kitchen."
Pastor Jacob nodded, "This place is sealed tighter than a drum."
"We are locked up here with those who-know-what ghosts." Katie looked at Dean nervously, "What on earth do they want to do to us?"
"I'm still thinking about it." Dean rubbed his temples in thought.
"Then what are these monsters?" Seth looked at Ricky, "Have you foreseen them, or did the goddess whose feet you licked just now remind you?"
Ricky shook his head in the face of everyone's weird looks, "I knew something big was going to happen tonight, but I didn't know these Mexican vampires would appear?"
"Vampires can't eat my cross." The priest touched his empty chest distressedly, "Besides, they have snake-like fangs and scales."
"Maybe it's something related to the Mayans or the Aztecs," Gonzalez said solemnly. "The image of snakes often appears in the literature of these ancient Indians."
His Mexican face made this statement more credible, causing everyone to nod.
"You're basically right, it's related to snakes." At this time, a tall and thin man with red hair walked out of the crowd, the revolver on his crotch was really eye-catching, "What a passionate look, okay, I'll do it Let me introduce myself, my name is Aiden Tanner, a professor in the Department of Archeology at Alamo State University."
"You, professor?" Dean glanced at his black leather jacket, jeans, and crotch-crotch attire, "The clothes are very unique."
"It's cool, it's just my disguise," Aiden laughed and said seriously, "The main topic I have been researching is the special history of the Mayans and Aztecs, and I have investigated ten It took several years of hard work to discover this Rulang Bar built on the ruins of the temple. It is currently ruled by the Blood Sacrifice Gang, a pagan religion that believes in phantom snakes."
Blood Sacrifice Gang?
A group of people looked at each other.
And Dean nodded. He had already learned the relevant information about the Blood Sacrifice Gang from Teresa. It was consistent with the professor's statement. He went straight to the core and asked, "What is the purpose of tonight's killing?"
Aiden raised his voice and explained to everyone, "It is recorded in the book that the Blood Sacrifice Gang regularly uses human blood and death as sacrifices to sacrifice to the phantom snake to complete the ritual. From this, it can be inferred that the killing tonight , is a blood sacrifice ceremony carefully planned by the Blood Sacrifice Gang, and we unlucky ghosts have unknowingly become the sacrifices. And they have to hold a club night every month, which means there is a blood sacrifice every month. "
A man in a shirt trembled all over, "Is Mexico so dangerous? I was used as a sacrifice by monsters the first time I came here? If I can escape this time, I will never set foot in this hellish land again!"
"Don't interrupt, so the monsters that killed just now were all followers of the Blood Sacrifice Gang?" Dean looked at the system. After listening to Professor Aiden's analysis, the progress of "Bringing to Dawn" jumped from 15% to 100% after the previous clearing. Twenty out of ten.
Aiden nodded, "Yes, according to my research, they were originally just humans. Later, they gained extraordinary strength and wisdom by performing blood sacrifices to the phantom snakes, and had the power to transform into monsters."
"Blood sacrifice, humans turn into monsters, so ridiculous!" Seth couldn't help but shake his head, and a group of bystanders fell into unspeakable fear.
Several believers began to pray together with Pastor Jacob.
"After seeing it with your own eyes, do you need to question it? Accept the reality." Dean advised, then turned to Professor Aiden, "What are the temple ruins?"
"We are in a temple of the phantom snake. To be precise, this bar is the top of the temple, and the remaining 99% is buried in the ground."
Aiden pulled down a poster from the wall, revealing a simple and cold pupil-shaped pattern on the wall. Everyone could not help but shrink their necks, as if these patterns were alive, and some being was observing the arteries with abundant blood flow in the human body through them. Blood vessel.
"Look, this wall is full of glyphs and symbols of phantom snakes. The scale is so large. If I can figure them out, I might be able to win the Nobel Prize in archeology."
Dean thought thoughtfully, "Is the phantom snake you mentioned repeatedly related to Quetzalcoatl?"
Aiden explained patiently, "Some people think that he is the dark side of Quetzalcoatl, while others worship him as Quetzalcoatl himself. The Blood Sacrifice Gang is a group of fanatical believers of the dark side, bloodthirsty monsters."
As Aiden spoke, he glanced at Scott next to him. The latter helped lift a relatively well-preserved monster corpse on the ground to the table and began to popularize science.
"A large part of the stories about vampires come from the wrong impressions of these monsters by the Spanish missionaries who first used cannons to bombard Mexico. They were mostly right, but these creatures were more like bats than bats. Snake, look at this!”
Aiden naturally pinched his chin and turned the monster's neck to reveal the side face and several deformed and protruding blood vessels extending to the neck, "This is the poison gland, look at this."
The professor boldly opened the monster's mouth with his fingers, revealing two curved fangs at the upper gums. "Did you see the fangs? They are conical shapes of snakes."
"Professor, aren't you afraid of being bitten by your teeth?" Scott looked at the professor in surprise and admiration.
Aiden laughed and shook a bunch of broken hair in front of his forehead, "There is a saying in the ancient East, if a person is highly skilled, he will naturally be bold. That's me. Keep reading."
He gently bent the fangs, and then made a lifelike biting motion with his hands. "They hide these fangs in their gums, bite their prey with their mandibles like a snake, and inject venom." , sucking blood. To sum up, the monsters of the Blood Sacrifice Gang are not so much vampires as they are blood-sucking snake demons."
The progress jumped to 25%, and Dean had to admit that the professor wearing a revolver in his crotch had two brushes. If the other person's life strength was not normal, Dean would definitely regard him as a member of the Blood Sacrifice Gang.
"It's so crazy!"
Everyone's expressions became very exciting.
Vampire snake demon, what a ridiculous and terrifying creation.
But it actually appears in front of you!
"Let's get to the point! So the Queen of the Night, Santanica, who was dancing on the stage just now, is also a vampire snake?" Ricky asked with an ugly face. He couldn't accept that the goddess he had been obsessed with for a long time was actually an ugly snake?
After hearing this, everyone present also imagined that the goddess's perfect face turned into an ugly snake demon face, and they felt as if they had eaten a fly.
Aiden thought for a moment and nodded, "But there are some differences. I have read a legend. Many years ago, the phantom snake coveted Santanica's beauty, so he sent someone to throw her into a snake cave and be bitten by thousands of snakes. The pain transformed into a half-human, half-god snake demon, imprisoned in this temple as a lover."
Dean also heard Teresa talk about this legend, so he asked,
"So Santanica is part of the Blood Sacrifice Gang that attacked us, or is she the leader of the Blood Sacrifice Gang?"
But he denied it in his heart. Santanica's statement seemed to indicate that she couldn't help herself.
"Santanyica is far more powerful than the ordinary snake demons of the Blood Sacrifice Gang, but she did not kill anyone before, but chose to leave directly. This shows that her relationship with the Blood Sacrifice Gang and this temple is very complicated and not simple. Collaboration." Aiden said, "If we can see Santanica again and have a good chat with her, we will definitely be able to completely clarify the doubts at hand."
"Wait a minute, this thing is moving!" Katie suddenly pointed at the snake demon on the table. The fanged mouth opened and closed twice, and a strange sound came from its throat, as if it was about to wake up from a coma.
Everyone was startled and instinctively retreated.
Dean stepped forward and turned the snake demon over. The flying ax in his hand was aimed at a soft black scale on the back of his neck and fell.
There was a flash of white light.
A fountain of blood splashed out!
The snake demon straightened its limbs and trembled violently, and then its whole body became limp like mud and lost its life.
Proficiency +2, fighting level 4 (230→232/500).
"So that's it. The snake demon and the snake have similar vital points. Look here to start." Dean pointed to the wound on the neck of the snake demon queen and said loudly, "The place where the back of the neck starts to get thicker, the snake's seven... Inch, where the heart is, a fatal blow!"
Finally knowing a way to completely kill the snake demon, everyone couldn't help but look up.
In fact, Dean hasn't finished yet. Snakes are cold-blooded animals and are naturally afraid of cold and low temperatures. Snake demons are no exception, so Dean can use telekinesis to deal with them, which will most likely produce miraculous results!
His homemade poisonous arrows can also dissolve snake monsters.
"The discussion about the vampire snake demon is over for the time being. Get moving, grab your weapons, work in groups of three, look for any other snake demons that you missed, and kill them all to avoid sudden fraud."
Dean gave the order without question, and everyone picked up the knives, sharpened table legs, and guns on the ground to arm themselves, and searched for the unconscious and breathy snake demon.
Seth put an unconscious female snake monster on the table, and Ricky aimed at the back of her neck and killed her instantly.
Katie and her brother, with the help of Jacob, nervously held the stake high.
"Fake Squid, die, monster!"
Several men, who were about to collapse under great pressure, poked at the snake demon's corpse as if to vent their anger, causing blood and flesh to fly everywhere, prompting everyone to follow suit!
And Dean quickly turned the snake demon over, drew his bow and fired an arrow through seven inches of harvesting proficiency, quickly and covertly took out the venom glands filled with colorless venom on their side faces and necks, as well as two fangs, and put them in. Fantasy space, ready to find time to forge new weapons.
Two minutes later, more than a dozen half-dead snake demons in the field were killed by everyone, and most of them died at the hands of Dean. He successfully collected fifteen poison glands and thirty fangs, and the shooting came. lv4(488/500).
By killing a small group of snake monsters, Dean's shooting can be upgraded to level 5, with a high probability of obtaining more powerful characteristics!
"Wait, everyone, I recognize this speedster. He was sitting next to me just now. He was not a snake demon!" Gonzalez used the table leg to turn a snake demon wearing a black leather vest around and pointed at this person. With a rough face, he said, "The snake demon bit his throat."
"So he turned into a snake demon after being bitten, and it was the venom in the fangs that transformed him." Dean pondered that maybe the snake demon's venom had a more clever use, but he glanced at everyone and warned sternly, " No matter what, don't get bitten by this thing, unless you want to turn into a monster."
A group of people moved away from the corpse on the ground in shock, pulling up their collars and sleeves to cover their skin.
"Well, it seems that in addition to blood sacrifice, biting can also transform the snake demon." Aiden analyzed and looked at the ground and said, "But I recalled that only a very small number of the dead were transformed, the vast majority, two hundred Many corpses were thrown into the cracks in the ground by the snake demon, and they seemed to have other purposes."
Katie asked innocently, "Where did the body go underground?"
Everyone present also looked puzzled.
Dean knelt down and knocked on the floor. He heard that the sound was hollow, so he circled along the ground. He soon caught the slight "rumbling sound" of the machine with his superhuman hearing. He followed the sound and found a thin line on the left side of the stage. Long cracks.
Dean pressed his palms up, and his mind power accumulated in his palms, compressed and condensed, and released like a transparent cannonball.
boom!
There was a huge earthquake, the ground shook, and a large cloud of dust shook from the ceiling.
The floor covering an area of about one square meter on both sides of the narrow gap was completely blown open by telekinesis, revealing a brand new area below.
Dean looked around and saw two cylindrical gears with a length and thickness of more than five meters, mated three meters below, rotating relative to each other. There was only a narrow groove in the center, reflecting an extremely viscous red light. .
That's the color of blood.
The two giant gears were dotted with crushed meat, bones, and tattered strips of cloth left behind by clothes and shoes.
From bottom to top spewed out a vomiting-inducing stench of blood and putrefaction.
Dean could imagine that the moment the body was thrown down, it would be cut into pieces and minced by two giant gears and five horses.
The system progress jumped to 30%.
"Wow..." Professor Aiden looked at the blood-red millstone with gleaming eyes, "This is simply a huge human juicer. Everyone, now we know, this group of blood-sucking snake monsters from the Blood Sacrifice Gang are going to We make pies and juice, part of which is used to satisfy hunger, and the other part may be used for blood sacrifices to complete the ritual.”
Human juicer?
This terrible word shocked everyone, and they felt a sense of fear that their worldview was shattered.
On this planet, in the inherent knowledge of human beings, they have always been at the top of the food chain, but now, they are regarded as complete food by other aliens, and they have even designed a set of terrifying machines to process food!
"What kind of devil would create this thing?" Several survivors took one look and backed away with pale faces, as if they were trapped in an endless nightmare.
"It should be the work of the ancient Mayans, the most brilliant engineers," Aiden exclaimed. "I didn't find any electrical circuits. This juicer seems to have other energy sources."
"Don't be crazy about the juicer! There is a place to stay against the wall. I'm going to go down and find a way out." Dean looked at everyone, "Does anyone want to come with me, or stay up there and wait for news? To be honest. , I think the blood sacrifice is not over yet, the snake demon will attack again, and it may not be safe to stay in the hall."
"Take me with you." Texas Patrolman Gonzalez was the first to stand up, looking at the gears below, his eyes flashing with anger, "I'm going to hang all these man-eating demons on the gallows!"
"Magician, we are companions, so naturally we have to set off together." Brother Goko walked behind Dean and looked at the patrolman on the opposite side in warning.
"Let's go too!" Jacob's family of three came out, and the old pastor looked solemn. "This monster attack is God's judgment on me. I can't give up halfway, I must go to the end!"
Aiden flicked the revolver in his crotch and bowed to Dean, "My investigation has just begun. Please allow me to follow you."
Later, a fit blonde woman and four men chose to go together.
But the remaining eleven people insisted that all the snake demons had been killed, and it was safer to stay than to go underground and get close to the terrible gear.
Dean didn't force it, so more than 20 people were divided into two teams.
Dean jumped down three meters lightly and landed on the platform next to the gear that could just accommodate one foot. His telepathy was certain.
The centrally rotating juicer was suddenly stopped by a powerful force and stopped rotating.
"Jump...I'll catch you!"
Dean said hello upwards, and then used his telekinesis towards the falling figures one by one, gently cushioning the pressure of their landing.
He hugged Katie and put her aside.
The little girl smiled and said, "Thank you."
Dean nodded, "You're a little heavier than I expected."
Soon all twelve teammates landed safely on the edge of the terrifying gears. They looked at the juicer that had started to rotate again in the center and did not dare to breathe.
"Be careful if you slip, I won't be able to save you if you fall." Dean hooked his hand and took the lead to move slowly forward, while "Shadow" flew a hundred meters ahead to explore the path.
"The terrain seems to be gradually going downwards?" Jacob looked at the darkness ahead. Its shape and structure were like a sewer, but the central ditch was not flowing ordinary sewage.
"Yes, we are entering the real Phantom Snake Temple." Aiden followed Dean and said, smelling the chilling blood in the air. "We are also going deep into hell."
(End of chapter)
