A moonless night where one could barely see their own fingers.
A dense temperate broad-leaved forest.
Something was lurking around, something extremely cunning and ferocious.
Phathu clearly smelled the scent of evil.
He had fought with several terrible enemies, whether it was the copper cat from thousands of years ago, or the Nine-Lives Cat in the Mahogany Forest, and other enemies hidden in the dark. He had a lot of experience fighting against demons, but the enemy in front of him seemed to be more difficult to deal with.
What was this place?
Phathu couldn't remember when and how he came here. He had spent at least a few dozen days in this strange forest.
At first, he wanted to walk out of the forest, but the forest was too vast. No matter which direction he walked, there was an endless sea of trees. There seemed to be no end at all.
Then one day, he suddenly noticed something unusual. This was a biological instinct. There was a terrible enemy nearby.
There were many signs to prove that he was not overthinking. He saw a meaningless killing. More than a dozen deer bodies were piled up in an open space in the forest. They were all bitten to death by sharp teeth, but they were barely eaten.
The incident in the Mahogany Forest made Phathu very cautious. He was not sure if these deer were sick. If they were, they had to be bitten to death in order to save more deer lives.
However, as it moved forward, similar meaningless killings occurred many times. The targets of the killings were not limited to deer. All kinds of animals that were bitten to death and not eaten appeared again and again. However, because the most common large animals in the forest were all kinds of deer, the number of dead deer was the most.
As a guardian of nature, Phathu was angry. Anyway, he couldn't find a way out of the forest, so he decided not to leave for the time being. He wandered in the forest looking for the demon.
But the demon was too cunning. It was like a ghost drifting around. Phathu searched in the forest for several days. Except for some subtle clues, he never encountered the demon.
If only he had help.
Phathu was very regretful. There were many species in this forest, but there were no wolves. Zhang Zian and the other elfins were not around. Otherwise, things would be much easier.
As time went by, Phathu's heart became heavier because he found a more terrible truth — God no longer answered his prayers.
After searching for the demon for several days in a row, he tried to ask God for help. He prayed to God, asking God to give him the all-seeing eye to see through the demon's disguise.
But … nothing happened.
God and his heavenly brother seemed to have forsaken him.
It was difficult for people without faith to understand the huge impact this had on Fathi's heart. He did not know if he had done anything wrong. Why would God abandon him?
Not only that, but the faint red marks on its four legs and left ribs were also slowly fading away, until they were almost completely gone.
Its power was fading away.
Fathom could only try to convince himself that this was God's trial for him.
It had not given up on tracking down the demon. This seemed to have become its only goal in life. However, with the disappearance of its power, its strength was not much stronger than that of an ordinary gray wolf. Sometimes, it could not even beat the leopards in the forest. Even if it found the demon, what could it do?
Crack.
The soft sound of breaking twigs came from the woods ahead.
Farpush immediately jumped out like a conditioned reflex. He had some kind of intuition that the one who made the sound was the demon he had been looking for.
Not far away, the sorrowful cries of deer could be heard. That damn guy was making meaningless killings again. But this time, it was very close, and Farpush might be able to stop it in time.
It leaped into an open space in the forest and saw more than a dozen animal corpses lying on the ground. Blood was still gushing out from their necks, chests, and abdomens. Some of them were not completely dead yet, and their limbs were still twitching.
Farpush saw the demon. The other party had its back to him, as if waiting for him.
Judging from the other party's size, Farney could tell at a glance that it was a gray wolf. It was very likely that it was also a European gray wolf. This was not unexpected because from the wounds of the dead animals in the past, he had found the sharp teeth marks of canines. A canine murderer that could slaughter so many large animals had almost no other choice.
"Finally … I found you! Prepare to go to hell, demon! "
Farpush was ready to attack. He disdained to attack from behind and shouted, "Face me, demon!"
The wolf slowly turned around, blood still dripping from its teeth.
Farpush saw the true face of the wolf, and his heart almost stopped!
God!
That wolf … that demon that killed wantonly looked exactly like Farpush. It was like looking into a mirror!
"Why …"
Farpush took a few steps back and stared at the other party in disbelief.
No matter how he looked at it, the wolf was no different from him, only stronger because of the abundance of food.
Farpush suddenly understood that it was not just a "look". That was it — a long time ago, it was a bloodthirsty killer wandering in the European forest. At the same time, it was also it in the future, it could not get out of the forest, and was abandoned by God. It was once again reduced to a bloodthirsty beast, and it bowed to Lucifer.
"No!"
Farpush roared in pain, "No!"
His body went soft and collapsed to the ground. His stomach felt like it was overturning the mountains and overturning the seas, but he could not vomit anything out.
The wolf looked at Farpush with pity, sticking out its long tongue to lick the blood around its mouth. It bared its blood-stained fangs, as if to say, "Join me, brother! Chase blood with me, don't suppress your inner desires anymore! "
Farpush lay on the ground, panting violently.
He had fallen into a desperate situation, abandoned by God, and his prayers were not answered. His body was weak because he only ate the minimum amount of food every day. It was absolutely impossible for him to be a match for the other him.
However, he would not give in, because he had a brother who could defeat the enemy without relying on the power of God.
After a long while, he tried to support his body and stand up again.
"No."
He said firmly and calmly, "You are not my brother, demon!"
The other him was enraged. He howled at the sky, then opened his bloody mouth and pounced on him.
Farpush used all his remaining strength to bite his opponent.
Fangs against fangs, claws against claws.
After a long time.
Silence was restored in the forest. The nearby lawn and piles of stones looked like they had just been swept by a tornado, and their appearance changed drastically.
In the empty space, a wolf covered in bruises stood up. These bruises were not caused by bites or scratches, but by scraping by dead branches and stones.
The moon came out.
The wolf's body on the ground slowly disappeared, and so did the scattered animal corpses. The blood on the ground was all Farpush's own.
Farpush's eyes regained clarity.
The past him, the present him, and the future him, the three were reunited into one.
The demon that was really to be expelled was not in the forest, but lurking in his heart, and was destined to never be expelled. Because he was a wolf, not a dog, suppressing his killing instinct and suppressing his desire for blood was against the will of God, which meant that he would have to fight with his inner demons for the rest of his life.
However strong he was, the inner demons would be as strong, or even stronger. In all kinds of myths and legends, fallen gods always had more power than before.
The inner demons would wear away his will, corrode his faith, weaken his power, and always want him to be corrupted like Lucifer and join the army of hell.
However, he had an advantage that the inner demons did not have, and that was that he had another human brother, which made him have a human nature in addition to his divinity and wolf-nature.
The five Divine Marks reappeared on his four feet and left ribs, very clear.
It lay down quietly and did not want to go anywhere. It also ignored the mysterious light floating above its head. Because it had successfully suppressed its inner demon, it had received a divine revelation. Although it was very weak, it seemed to be a divine revelation from another world very far away. Its brother was coming to pick it up, in a form and image that it could not understand.
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