Under the incandescent lights in the police station lobby.
The inside of the wooden door of the office was banged and rattled by a group of killers, as if bloodthirsty devils were charging at the door of hell and were about to escape.
Steve fought against the outside all by himself and pushed the wooden door back with inhuman strength, but he could not control all areas. To the right of the door, the glass window from the office leading to the hall was shattered, and a shard of glass flew out. chair, and then the middle-aged version of Jonathan, who was holding a machete, leaned out his upper body and smiled ferociously at everyone, showing his white teeth.
"Stop him, don't let him in!" Steve shouted,
boom!
Catherine raised her hand and shot the man's head off. The bloody corpse was stuck in the window. The upper body hung down into the hall, and the blood mixed with brains fell to the floor.
But after this one died, two more killers carrying sticks and guns climbed out on top of the corpse of the same kind, and shot Catherine in the chest.
Although she was protected by a bulletproof vest, the dizziness and severe pain of being shot did not diminish at all. Catherine screamed and fell to the ground, but before she fell, her raised hand instinctively pulled the trigger and shot the gunman in the neck.
The only killer with a bat climbed into the hall, but before he could swing the bat, a mountain-like charging figure appeared in front of him. Barbara blushed and pushed a heavy double table into it hard. He hit him, pushed him against the wall, and his upper body fell forward with the inertia.
Barbara grabbed the ashtray on the table and hit him on the back of the head. Her face was as fierce as a she-bear guarding her calf. Jonathan picked up the gun on the ground and pulled the trigger to kill him.
The three corpses turned into blue light and disappeared, and the invasion by the window temporarily stopped.
But the high school students didn't dare to stop and take a breath, and quickly built a hill in front of the windows and wooden doors with tables, chairs and sundries, blocking the two entrances to the outside world.
breathe…
"Catherine, are you okay?" Barbara approached the pale reporter and glanced around. In the fierce exchange of fire in just a few seconds, all the companions were covered in hot sweat, and the muscles on their cheeks were as stiff as sculptures.
"It's nothing serious...it just hurts a little," Catherine frowned and rubbed her chest, "Everyone is not hurt, right?"
"No..." Steve wiped the sweat from his forehead and gave a weird smile, "Do you feel it? After killing these bastards, they seem to become stronger."
Jonathan nodded excitedly and blankly, recalling the feeling after pulling the trigger just now, "A wave of heat surged through my body, soothing my fatigue and strengthening my strength. What on earth is going on?"
"boom!"
Fierce firefights interrupted their discussion. Standing upside down behind a bullet-riddled bunker table at the entrance of the police station, a black police officer's neck was torn open by bullets, and he fell backwards bloody and groaned.
"Damn it, Nick got shot, go get him to the infirmary!"
With his back against the wall, Hope gave the order, and at lightning speed, he leaned out towards the door on the right and at the same time raised the spray gun on his chest. With one spray, the killer who rushed towards him with a knife was knocked away several meters.
Another small police officer took the opportunity to drag Nick backwards with his butt raised, opening a bloody path on the ground. The high school students rushed forward to help and glanced outside the gate.
Under the moonlight, the dark figures roared in unison, and the knives, sticks, guns and various weapons in their hands reflected the terrifying cold light. They rushed towards the door of the police station like hungry wolves that had lost their minds. The police officers rushed to the door of the police station. The gun spits out flames, playing a symphony of death, and the bullet casings falling to the ground carry a fierce rhythm.
"Director, we can't kill all these devils. I'm probably going to die this time." Tom glanced at the number of attackers outside and touched the pendant on his chest with despair on his face. "If I die, help my wife more." Apply for some pension.”
"Shut up, if you say such depressing words again, I will take your wife away and change your son's last name! Everyone, listen up, turn around and put on your glasses!" Hope put on his protective goggles and took off a pair of glasses from his waist. A flash bomb was thrown far outside,
Click.
The extremely bright orange light shone through the dark road. The killers outside the police station screamed and covered their eyes. Their bodies lost balance and fell to the ground. Some of them were swaying around in circles.
Da da da!
The police officers took the opportunity to shoot with submachine guns, pistols, and shotguns. The storm of bullets cleared a large area, but the killers were endless. One group fell, and more immediately came out of the air.
…
The situation was critical, and the high school students persuaded the police officers in the infirmary who were trying to stop the bleeding of their companions to get a pistol from the armory next door.
Then sizzle...
There was a harsh cutting sound, and several electric saws with rotating shiny saw teeth came out from behind the office door that was blocked by tables and chairs. The electric saws cut huge gaps in the wooden boards, and several muscular arms were exposed.
"Fire, don't let them in!"
Catherine yelled in fear, and together with six high school students, they emptied the magazine towards the office door, sending away several killers behind the door in a splash of blood.
Then a stream of secret power flew out of the corpse and poured into the bodies of the six high school students. Their faces turned red, vitality surged from their bodies, and fatigue and fear were swept away.
Their eyes intertwined, and a realization arose in their hearts - it turned out that killing these killers would be of great benefit to them!
"I can't stop it!"
There was a sudden roar behind them, and a group of killers knocked over the bunker at the door under fire and threw the police officers to the ground.
The police officers began to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy in an unorganized manner, constantly fending off punches, kicks and weapons from all directions, but in the end the number was too small, and they were soon covered in blood and their strength faded.
The entrance defense line was lost.
The attacker pounced on the six terrified high school students with murderous intent.
…
And at the same time.
A fast-moving black shadow passed across the night sky.
Dean passed through the long dark and silent street as silently as a bat, and flew a hundred meters outside the Hawkins Police Station.
Seeing a black wave crazily pouring into the door from a distance, his face became stern, and he stretched out his five fingers and closed them.
brush-
The "Shadow" flew into the air, with transparent telepathic tentacles stretching out from its body, twisting and twisting and shooting towards a group of killers surrounding the police station.
In the hall, the killer pounced on the crowd of high school students with bared teeth and claws. He seemed to be entangled by a giant python and dragged backwards, and strangely formed patches of pale frost.
Not only them, but the killer who pinned the policeman to the ground and tortured him was also covered in ice. He was lifted into the air without any resistance and flew to the empty playground outside the police station.
The telekinesis tentacles pulled the "prey" and swung wildly like demons, leaving afterimages all over the sky. They squeezed towards the center with great force, and instantly squeezed the prey into a ball of blood the size of a car, dripping in the air. Medium rotation.
The blood balls exuded an attraction like a black hole, and the killers emerging in the air were sucked in and crushed into slag as soon as they landed.
In just ten seconds, no new killer was born outside the entire Hawkins Police Station. The blood cells shrank and faded visibly to the naked eye... and were finally completely annihilated in the air.
A reminder flashed in front of Dean's eyes, Shadow absorbed a large amount of soul essence, Shadow lv3 (300→380/400)
Dean landed lightly and teleported into the police station. Looking around, the floor, walls, tables and chairs were covered with bullet holes and cracks from impact, as if they had been washed away by a tsunami and were in ruins.
The dozen or so police officers who were lying around were all unconscious and unconscious. Hope was not spared either. Fortunately, protected by body armor and helmets, he still had half of his life left.
Under the heavy protection of the police, a group of high school students and Catherine stood in a row with pale faces, their bodies covered in sweat but with no obvious wounds.
"It was so dangerous, everyone was almost dead." Catherine rushed over and took Dean's hand. Her sweat-soaked cheeks were covered with dust and mud, and she was extremely embarrassed.
Dean wiped the blood from her face and looked at the high school student apologetically, "Sorry I'm late. I was searching the farm in the suburbs."
"We rushed back in just three or four minutes. It was already very fast. No one was injured, but the police officers..." Barbara said gratefully and guiltily, and rushed to the switchboard to pick up the phone and call for an ambulance. Jonathan Several people took out the first-aid kits in the infirmary and simply bandaged the police officers.
After experiencing two consecutive pursuits, the young faces of these high school students gained a trace of calm beyond their years, baptized by blood and fire.
Dean also cooperated and turned around, injecting life energy into the bodies of the police officers to stabilize their injuries and prevent them from getting worse.
Nancy asked, "By the way, Dean, is there any news about the badge?"
Dean shook his head, "I searched all suspicious places, but there are no clues."
"We found a place." Jonathan revealed his guess about the drive-in movie theater on the west side of the town, and then gritted his teeth, "We must find the badge as soon as possible and stop it, otherwise we don't know how many people will be injured."
A trace of surprise flashed across Dean's eyes. It was a wonderful fact that the creation of dreams was actually a movie.
He glanced at everyone, "Catherine, you stay and wait for the ambulance, and go to the hospital with the police later. And everyone else, in order to avoid the badge from attacking again, come with me to the drive-in movie theater and find it!"
…
After making arrangements, Dean calmly processed the police surveillance, then took six high school students and drove the Dodge car at the door and set off to the west.
Along the way, Steve couldn't help but talk about his strange experience, and even deliberately bulged his biceps.
"After I killed an attacker before, I seemed to have absorbed his power. Dean, do you know what happened?"
Jonathan touched his belly and nodded, "I feel the same way. I didn't have abdominal muscles before, but now they have become very obvious."
A group of people showed off their positive changes.
Dean looked at the deep moonlight and the dead road outside the windshield, thinking that this should be the phased reward of the badge to the trialists, but it was far from over.
Having said that, the badge appeared because of this group of high school students. They are qualified to know the truth. Dean will not forcefully take away their opportunities just because he wants to gain abilities. "The badge is testing the six of you. If you can pass You can gain some special power through the test.”
Special power?
The six high school students in the car were stunned for a moment, and then their expressions became very exciting, with doubts and desires in their eyes.
Jonathan stammered, "You mean superpowers? Like Spider-Man and Superman?"
"That's understandable, but at most I can make you stronger and run faster. You can't shoot out spider webs or fly." Dean looked at the people in the rearview mirror who were almost jumping with excitement, shook his head and poured a bucket of cold water. , "The test is fatal. No one knows how many more 'selves' you need to kill, ten, a hundred? If you want superpowers, you have to risk your life. Whoever has confidence, I will take him to face it." A test of the badge.”
Steve was obviously moved, but Nancy grabbed him.
Others fell silent recalling previous horrific experiences.
…
"We've arrived."
The car passed through a white forest and arrived at a parking lot next to the road, which is the so-called open-air drive-in movie theater.
After Dean bought a movie ticket, he drove in and parked near the entrance so he could run away at any time.
in this spacious venue.
Under the illumination of the road spike lights, there were more than a dozen cars parked sparsely. They all parked widely, and turned off their lights tacitly, and quietly faced the huge screen erected in front of the parking lot, which was playing A black and white film.
"There used to be hundreds of cars every time a movie was shown, and people with cars from the nearby towns basically came." Steve looked at the too empty scene outside the car window and shook his head, "It's a pity that it's winter now, and last week there was another There was a heinous murder and there were so few guests."
"Look ahead," Barbara looked through the window at the flashing picture in the distance, "'Night of the Living Dead', a black and white horror film directed by Romero, a good movie."
"Have you seen it?" Jonathan turned his head, turned on the car radio, and began to receive the sound of the movie.
"Okay, Vince, hit him on the head, between the eyes!" Barbara imitated the lines and smiled happily, "This is the best movie of 1967!"
"I think so too." Jonathan nodded heavily, looking like he saw a confidant, "After a difficult adventure, watching a favorite movie is not a good way to relax."
"What's the point of a black-and-white film? It's boring." Steve shook his head. "It's not as good as Raiders of the Lost Ark."
"Okay, you guys stay in the car and I'll look for the badge. If anything goes wrong, you drive away immediately, understand?" Dean glanced at everyone's face and warned sternly,
"Okay, we understand."
"Jonathan, get in the driver's seat."
…
After Dean got out of the car, he slowly circled around the edge of the cinema. In the dim light, his body became shorter and stronger, a beard grew on his face, and he quickly transformed into the snake demon Seth.
He summoned a life shield and ghost armor to wrap around his body, and scanned every inch of land and every car within a hundred meters from God's perspective.
The parking lot occupies a large area, but there are very few cars. The drivers are concentrating on watching movies, eating popcorn, and petting their dogs.
Nothing unusual.
When Dean walked to the big screen, he stood still as if he was frozen.
The system shook and the progress jumped to 100%.
Stars twinkled in the sky, and under the starlight, five meters in front of the screen, a half-palm-sized brass badge was suspended out of thin air on top of the tip of a red ice cream cone.
It moved up and down lightly, facing the direction of the big screen, enjoying the plot of "Night of the Living Dead" just like other guests in the car. It even spun in place for several weeks because of the excitement of the plot.
From the outside, it looked like it was just a cold, old badge, but its liveliness and spirituality gave Dean a strong illusion that it was a living life, filled with human joys, sorrows, emotions, and emotions. Desire, and a mysterious power.
This power radiates outward, peeling away the surrounding space as easily as peeling off an orange peel, revealing dark and narrow space cracks that rhythmically move like water ripples. There is chaos in it, rippling with danger and unknown colors.
The badge seemed to sense that someone was peeping at it, and it slowly turned around, facing Dean. The sixteen runes embedded on the edge blinked like sixteen eyes, and the cross-shaped ravine in the center spread out to both sides. It opened into a four-petal mouth, and a lively and curious child's voice came out of it, "Finally we meet, the eternal person who interfered with my trials twice."
This was the first time Dean had seen such a strange thing. He carefully looked at the strange badge's face with sharp eyes, "A badge can actually speak, or is it the language of the world?"
"Do you think only humans and animals are spiritual? Time and history can enlighten the stubborn stone." Badge smiled slightly, "And the language of the eternal world is related to the origin. I have been buried in the origin for hundreds of years and learned a little bit. "
Dean asked, "Why come to the eternal world to choose the successor instead of staying at the origin?"
Badge said with longing, "Although the original is good, it lacks imagination and emotion compared to the ordinary world. It is empty and monotonous. Human beings in the ordinary world have a low starting point, but have more potential and can bring unlimited possibilities to skills, such as You, you want it too, right?”
"The wonderful skills are hidden in my body." The badge's sixteen rune eyes sparkled, "You seized an opportunity when you found me. As long as you dare to bet your soul, you may get it."
"Come on, catch me!"
The badge slipped into the space rift around him and appeared in the horizon a mile away in the next second.
Dean gave chase.
(End of chapter)
