A silhouette of a human figure flashed in the darkness, strong, weathered, and solid, like a rock standing in the rapids.
It has not become fragile at all under the beating and washing day after day, but has been sharpened to become clearer and sharper.
An arrogant and unruly aura like strong liquor filled the air, tearing through the darkness and shooting straight into the sky.
Shattered the psychic power Dean used to observe.
He groaned and exited the dark realm of his mind. When he opened his eyes, he saw neatly arranged bookshelves and black carpets.
Sitting next to him with her legs curled up, a little girl with long, slightly curly hair withdrew his little hand from his palm like an electric shock. She had a frown on her young face and nosebleeds dripping down drop by drop.
"Sorry, Dean, I couldn't see your father's specific address. I only know that he is in the northeast."
"Thank you for your hard work. This is already a big breakthrough." Dean grabbed the tissue next to him and wiped her nosebleed. He stuffed a candy into her little mouth and asked her to go next door to play games with Dustin. Relax.
Looking at her leaving figure, a flash of memory flashed through Dean's eyes.
During this period, I have repeatedly activated the black field in my mind to capture Lu Guangming's position, but I can only feel the general direction and vague figure of the other party. This time I activated the black field with Jane, and my spiritual power doubled, and I could accurately capture Lu Guangming's position. The outline, unfortunately, was shattered by a mysterious force before he could open his mouth to communicate.
"This isolation should be the power that envelopes Midian. Lu Guangming entered Midian and changed dramatically."
Dean's eyes were solemn. More than two years ago, from August to September 1979, when Lu Guangming escaped from the Toad Man's underground base in Lafayette, he was just an ordinary regenerator. (Chapter 208)
Branded by Otto the chameleon, he became one of the seven in the fable, traveling to North Athabasca and East Peace River to follow the footsteps of Midian.
In just two years, some inhuman changes seemed to have taken place in his body.
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"Has Lu Guangming begun to transform into a nocturnal species?"
Dean looked at the shadow next to him. The face that looked exactly like him had drooped eyes and a bitter smile on his lips, revealing the helplessness deep in his heart——
The shadow itself is an inhuman ghost.
Mother Lena became a snake demon.
The father has a tendency to transform into a nocturnal species.
Three monsters in one class?
"Don't worry too much. At least Lu Guangming is still alive and well. Well, Sean and the two just told me that something was gained. Go ask about the situation."
Dean patted Ying's shoulder, then opened the node and wandered from the void into a food warehouse filled with shelves.
Under the wall on the right, Damien, who was wearing a floral shirt, greeted him respectfully and pulled open an oilcloth, revealing hundreds of small tin cans underneath, like black building blocks.
"Master, here are the five tons of high-energy protein food you asked for."
Dean summoned a can in the air, sprayed out a beam of platinum life energy from his index finger, and opened the lid of the can like a spray gun.
Milky white like lobster, delicate flesh like a sponge soaked in water.
Dean took out a piece the size of a fingernail and tasted it. There was no peculiar smell, and it was light with a sweet aroma. As soon as he took it, it turned into abundant heat that washed over his body and filled his hungry body.
It tastes quite interesting.
"Well, 20g contains energy equivalent to a hundred pounds of flesh and blood. I only need to digest and absorb 50g to completely restore life energy."
Dean was satisfied with loading all the cans into the fantasy space, thinking about finding a time to disperse them to safe houses around Hawkins.
Not far away, Dr. Sean in a white coat handed over a pile of documents stacked high like a tome, "This is all the information about supernatural monsters that we currently have access to."
Dean turned over a page at random - water monkey: a man-eating water monster that lives in Central America. It is half human and half monkey, with a hand on its tail. It is used to grab people near the water. When hunting, it will make a human-like cry to attract people. , especially like to eat human eyes, teeth, and nails.
Then there are the long-haired half-human banshee El who loves carrion, the half-human and half-bird friendly Aaron, the two-headed lizard, the lava monster, the Crying Lady, the Corruption Beast...
Most of the monsters in the data live in human society, or in nearby sewers or suburban forests. They hide their true identities and delay the onset of the convergence law through various methods, such as transforming into human forms and moving regularly.
They have left only sparse records among the people and the market, forming specious legends and fairy tales. They have existed for thousands of years and have learned how to coexist peacefully with humans.
Their powers are also all kinds of weird, involving mind control, emotion extraction, physical super strength, fangs and claws, poison...
But in Dean's view, 99% of the combat effectiveness is only level 2 or 3. He is still fighting against firearms, which is just a matter of his own punch. "Are all the monsters recorded by your special operations department so weak?"
"Master, it's not that they are weak," said Yiantan on his shoulder, looking respectfully at the man with angular features but not too sharp. "It's that you are too strong. Your combat power is one thousandth of the best among all supernatural creatures."
Sean and Damien, who were leaning against the wall, also seized the opportunity to flatter themselves, "Even in the special operations department, you are an elite. But this is a normal phenomenon. Just like in human society, 99% are poor and the rich are no more than that. A handful.”
"In the supernatural world, the majority of creatures are level 1 to 3, otherwise the entire earth would be in chaos."
"But there are also particularly powerful ones, such as the two monster forces you asked us to focus on investigating before, Leviathan and Baphomet."
Sean suddenly reached out and pointed to a record in the file and read it out,
"Leviathan, the word means crack. In the Old Testament, the root of the Bible, God created the land giant Behemoth, the deep sea overlord Leviathan, and the sky out of clay on the sixth day of creation. The Lord lives on three giant beasts.
"When the end of the world comes, the three beasts will together become food for the holy ones."
"Among them, Leviathan has hard scales, sharp teeth, and spikes under its belly. It is good at countercurrent waves, roars in the water, has smoke at the tip of its nose, and spits fire from its mouth... It is the largest creature of chaos among the creatures created by God. Dragon, obey God’s command.”
"But in the later development of the Bible, the New Testament and later Christian literature, it degenerated into a symbol of evil, representing the second original sin of 'jealousy', which means the sin caused by unsatisfied desire,"
"At this time, Leviathan was jealous of the gods who were above them. He was jealous that they could command him and control all life in the world. And because of his jealousy, he had the desire to destroy everything. He wanted to kill all the gods, including God, and put them to death. The whole world turned to scorched earth.”
"Speaking of original sin, Christianity believes that all human original sins are derived from the first original sin of arrogance and the second original sin of jealousy. It can be seen from this that Leviathan is more evil than most monsters."
…
Dean rubbed the paper with his fingers, his eyes stern, "I am looking for the Leviathan related to the Hell Monk, not the illusory myths and legends in the Bible."
"But there is a definite relationship between them." Sean pointed to a record. "According to the investigation of the Special Operations Department, Leviathan now lives in a certain slave world on the earth and created a group of deformed monsters called Hell Monks. Humanoids, this group of creatures were summoned by the Mourning Box to come to the human world and take away certain gifted humans."
"Several groups discovered in the few encounters with the hell monks that the hell monks have no reason and extremely hate God, Christianity and other related things, and will fight to the death almost as soon as they meet. They represent Leviathan's will."
"So Leviathan is very similar to the demons who rebelled against God recorded in the New Testament..."
Dean frowned and fell into thought, "Is the Leviathan I'm looking for really a demon created by God?"
"No one can answer," Sean mused. "No one has seen Leviathan with his own eyes, and no one has returned to the world after being taken away by the monks."
"The only good thing is that although the Hell Monks are at least Level 4, their actions are infrequent and small-scale, and they only take away a few people they are interested in. They are almost paranoid and are not as harmful as the occasional street gunfights."
Sean circled Dean,
"They have a very low priority on the matters to be dealt with by the special operations department, so they have not been focused on or studied in depth, and the information is limited."
…
"Okay, Leviathan and monks should be a kind of demon related to God." Dean slowly turned to the next page, "Where is the other monster force I am looking for?"
"Baphomet." Damien came to Dean's side, spat on his finger, and turned the information to page 120. "This thing is also inextricably related to God."
"In various legends, it is described as a Christian demon with a goat's head and body."
"However, in Christianity, it is labeled as the original sin of 'jealousy'."
Damien paused and looked at Dean, "Do you see what Leviathan and Baphomet have in common?"
Before Dean could speak, he felt his shoulders shake, and Yiantan jumped up and said, "They are all demons representing 'jealousy'!"
Damien nodded, "Judging from this alone, they are clearly standing on a united front against Christ."
"But in fact, for unknown reasons, Baphomet and Leviathan are also mortal enemies, and their families will fight each other as soon as they meet."
Dean thought about the last time he saw the hell monks. The hatred these guys had towards him, the person marked by Bafu, was deep in his bones.
Damien continued, "Just like Leviathan has Hell's monks as minions to practice his own path."
"Baphomet ruled over the nocturnal species, confining most of them to Midian, and established an iron law that prohibited the killing or eating of natural species, that is, ordinary humans. A small number of nocturnal species violated the iron law and were driven out of Midian and exiled To all over the world.”
"Isn't Bafumo a demon?" Dean frowned and looked at him, "Why do you want to restrict your relatives from eating people?"
Damien stared at the sky with his blue eyes, lost in thought, and shook his head after a moment, "I don't know. In short, those exiled nocturnal species entered society, multiplied with humans, and their blood circulated in the human world. Their number far exceeded that of the Hell monks." …It is no exaggeration to say that there are hundreds of nocturnal species in every state in the United States, but most of them have diluted their bloodlines, shed all their alienated characteristics, and turned into cannibals.”
Dean nodded. He had had relevant experiences before.
Damien said with fear, "Think about it, it has superhuman strength and lifespan, but it can also reproduce with humans. What a strange race. The special operations department has tried to capture nocturnal species and use them as a model to concoct biological weapons."
Damien pointed to a humanoid creature with pangolin-like scales sketched in the information, "After various experiments, the nocturnal species have a very self-centered personality. They are not bound by worldly morality and can do whatever they want. Their personalities can be said to be extremely complex and changeable. The appearance and abilities vary greatly, and most of them can blend in with human society..."
Dean nodded with deep sympathy, flashing through his mind the snake-haired man (Chapter 97), the Hedgehog-head (Chapter 149), the Chameleon (Chapter 208) who died under his own hands...
"However, the special operations department's investigation found that, without exception, the nocturnal species have a soul-level hatred or contempt for God and Christianity. They firmly believe that Midian is the real 'heaven' and Baphoth is theirs. 'God', they are not exiled, but undergo a test. When they die heroically in the predicted battle, they pass the test and their souls return to their homeland. The firmness of this belief is comparable to that of a fanatic believer."
"This is not groundless. After death, the body of the nocturnal species will wither and weather, and the soul will return to a certain place without being manipulated or captured."
"Members of the action team never had the chance to investigate Midian's whereabouts."
"I told you an address," Dean glanced at the two people's eyes, "North Athabasca, East Peace River,"
This is the clue Dean got from the three nocturnal species before.
Damien shook his head, "Unfortunately, we have checked all known locations on the world map during this period, and there are no these two addresses."
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"Everything we investigated is here, Master." Dr. Sean smoothed the golden center part on his forehead and concluded his statement, "Baphomet and Leviathan are both demons called 'jealousy'. They hate God, they are also mortal enemies."
The system was shaken.
The progress of the event "Bloodline" that has not changed for a long time has jumped from 80% to 82%.
Leviathan and Baphomet both belong to the original sin of jealousy,
What exactly does this do?
"This kind of information is too general." Dean shook his head dissatisfied, "I want to know their weaknesses and nemesis, especially Baphomet."
In Las Vegas, Dean had long been branded by Buffer. Although he had never been harmed by the other party, as his willpower improved, the strange summons that he once had did not occur for a long time.
But if you want to find Lu Guangming, you must face Bafu Mie. This thing must be a god above level 6.
Dean must know more about the other person.
Sean mused, "To understand deeply, the only way is to enter the legendary Leviathan Hell and Midian in person, and we currently do not have this ability."
Dean looked towards Yiantan, who blinked blankly with indescribable eyes.
"Okay then. You continue to help me investigate the information about the two demons. If you have any news, please inform me in your heart."
After Dean finished his instructions, he took the information, opened the node and left the food warehouse.
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Next, he returned to Hawkins Town, found a roadside phone booth, and called Professor Aiden.
After all, not long ago, he also asked Aiden to help him investigate (Chapter 276).
"Hi, Aiden. Any news about what I asked you to do last time?"
"Well, it's still under investigation...I can fax you some of the information." Aiden enthusiastically introduced the collected information through the phone, but unfortunately it overlapped with the information obtained by Sean and Damien.
Dean said disappointedly, "No more?"
"There is an occult expert who is mainly engaged in research on Leviathan and Baphomet. I have been unable to contact him by phone before. I suggest you go and see it in person. William White, 58 years old, white male, Columbus, Ohio , Germantown in the south...it was introduced by Kenny from Alamo University.”
"Ohio?" Dean looked up at the road to the east outside the phone booth. This was right next door to Indiana, where Hawkins was.
Not far away.
He can reach it in less than an hour by flying at full speed using telekinesis at night. If there is a problem, he can roam back to the safe house in Hawkins at any time.
"Do you have a photo?"
"Unfortunately, no, I just had a few chats with the professor."
"Okay, I'll visit in person."
(End of chapter)
