The barbed wire pulled Dalia up into the air, and she looked at the mummy on the hospital bed high above.
At that moment, Dalia's expression was terrified, and her face was twisted. She was no longer as "righteous and calm" as she had been when she burned the "demon."
Below her, seven or eight sharp iron wires entangled and ruthlessly pierced into her body.
Amid miserable screams, blood dripped down from the sky, followed by a mist of blood.
Luke looked at Dalia, who looked as if she had been cut by a dozen steel saws, and didn't feel anything.
Apart from the barbed wire that had been used on the old woman, the rest of the wire spread out in all directions to wrap up, strangle, and kill all the locals who couldn't escape.
Miserable cries filled the entire church. It was like hell.
Was this a cruel scene? It did look cruel.
But Luke wasn't moved.
Because he was the only one here who was truly alive.
Whether it was the "person" on the hospital bed, Rose and her daughter, the little girl with disheveled hair, or the locals who had been wrapped up by the barbed wire, they were all half-real and half-fake, just like this strange town.
From the moment he entered the church, the names of the locals on the system panel all had the label "evil spirit."
So, they weren't human at all.
That was why he had used his faith when he killed the tall man.
Otherwise, if he had shot him in the head, the other party might come out alive and kicking the next day.
That was why he had used a gun to kill the nameless monsters outside.
After all, without experience and credit points, using faith would be a pure loss.
When he left the first time, he had clearly asked Rose if she wanted to leave with him, which was to give her one last chance.
If Rose didn't leave, she could only resign herself to fate.
It was hard to persuade a damned ghost with good intentions.
Luke couldn't risk Stacy's life to save a stranger.
When he saw Rose again after he returned the second time, there was also the label "evil spirit" next to her name.
According to the little girl with disheveled hair, it was clear that Rose had been successfully transformed into an evil spirit during the time Luke had left and returned, and she had come to destroy the church for the little girl.
Rose might have been deceived, but there was nothing Luke could do.
He could negotiate if he wanted to kill humans, ghosts, or demons, but to turn an evil spirit back into a human? Sorry, there was no such method in demonology or black magic.
There were ways to turn evil spirits into puppets and slaves, but those steps were inhumane.
Using the method of killing N people to save one person to help Ross? Sorry, but Luke wasn't that great.
The locals were all red-named evil spirits, and Ross, the only outsider apart from Luke, was a "vehicle." Then, he looked at the bed, which had clearly been burned and wrapped up.
Coupled with the fact that I have investigated some of the cases that happened in this town in the sixties and seventies, this story is basically clear.
In the sixties and seventies, this group of locals, led by the old woman Dalia, established a church organization.
As a means of uniting and wooing the members of the organization, Daria labeled all the women who were recognized as "cheap and slutty" as witches.
Then she held secret gatherings again and again to "purify" these "witches" — that is, to burn them to death.
The townspeople who participated in this ritual became accomplices and could only join them.
Until one day, Daria's sister got pregnant out of wedlock and gave birth to a little girl, Aretha.
This was a major blow to Daria's prestige.
She burned the women who seduced other people's husbands, but in the end, her sister gave birth without a husband.
When the little girl, Aretha, was in elementary school, Daria finally couldn't take it anymore and simply put her "niece" on the stove to "purify."
In the end, there was an accident when Aretha was "purified," and the overturned stove caused a huge fire, which inexplicably ignited the coal under the town.
Many people were killed or injured in the disaster. The survivors couldn't live in a place full of poisonous gas, so they all moved away, and the town was abandoned.
What the outsiders didn't know was that Aretha, who had been "purified" during the fire, really awakened as a "demon" in pain and despair.
She created an enormous spiritual energy field and pulled in the local believers whom she hated, forming the present Silent Hill where white and grey interweaved with darkness.
In fact, both Aretha and the locals had died in the fire in the seventies.
It was Aretha who had "preserved" herself and these people in this half-real, half-fake world with her terrifying mental abilities.
These people would always have food and clothes when they went out.
That was why they didn't have to worry about food or toilet paper for decades, because they didn't realize the "unreasonableness."
It was just like how it was perfectly normal to "refresh" resources and monsters in a game.
Of course, Luke didn't know everything after the fire.
In reality, the files only showed that a lot of people died in the town, including Aretha and Daria.
But that didn't stop him from concluding that the "locals" in front of him had become evil spirits in this world after the fire thirty years ago.
Everyone here, except for Ross and a woman with messy hair and a dirty face, were all red names.
Aretha and Daria, their archenemies, both had super red names that were almost black.
Ross and the unkempt woman hiding in the corner were all Aleisa's targets.
Well, Luke himself was included.
But the barbed wire didn't do anything to him even after he tried several times.
He simply drew a knife from his waist and cut the barbed wire that was close to him.
This made Alexa, who was lying on the hospital bed, subconsciously glance at him, but she immediately averted her gaze.
Compared with dealing with this strange outsider, she was more eager for revenge.
Aretha had pulled these people into this world.
But this world had its own characteristics. She was very weak in the white and gray environment.
She was very strong in the dark, but she couldn't break through the fanaticism of these people and enter the church.
A sturdy fortress was always more likely to fall from the inside.
In the end, she found Ross, the "delivery man," and tried to smuggle herself in.
Although the plan went awry, the outsider who showed up unexpectedly didn't stop her from entering this place.
Now, she was going to enjoy this wonderful moment of revenge.
For a moment, blood splattered everywhere, and screams echoed everywhere.
Daria, the culprit, had been stabbed into a sieve by countless barbed wires.
If this had been the real world, she would've died a hundred times over.
But in this world, she hadn't died, and could only hang in the air as she suffered the punishment of being pierced by thousands of wires.
There was nothing the old woman could do except scream.
Below Daria, Ross's daughter, Sharon, was already standing quietly.
A smile appeared on her little face, and when Daria's blood fell on her face, she suddenly giggled and spun her hands in circles.
His laughter was filled with extreme happiness, and it was filled with childishness.
Luke raised an eyebrow and pondered for a moment. "Victoria, play a song."
Victoria, the AI program, asked, "Sir, which one?"
Luke said, "The nursery rhyme from a few days ago."
Victoria said, "Okay, sir."
Amidst the sound of the piano, Claire's deliberately pinched voice sounded exceptionally clear and immature, "Ding, Ding.
dong，
I
know
you
can
hear
me，open
up
the
Door … "
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