Haunted Places Live

It has been more than a month since Chu Yang and Lin Qi pretended to defect from the Council of Elders and join the Devourer Organization.In order to gain trust, they brought out a treasure from the Presbyterian Church - the "truth mask" that can only be worn by successive elders, and it is said that it can have a certain degree of connection with the king in yellow, and dedicated it to the leader of the Devourer "prophet".

However, as the two troublesome figures who killed several generals in the Devourer camp, most Devourers still hold strong hostility towards them.

They were placed in the city of Bangkok, which had been completely occupied by the Devourers, and were monitored day and night by some Level [-] Devourers.The only highly registered Devourer they could see was a Thai priest named Pak from the Temple of Chaos.Instead of Chu Yang and others, he gave the real mask to the Prophet, and then sent a message to Chu Yang and Lin Qi on behalf of the Prophet, asking them to prove their determination and loyalty. After leading a team to occupy Ayutthaya in the next attack, the Prophet will will meet them.

Only the Great Elder and a few elders knew about Chu Yang and Lynch pretending to defect and become undercover agents, so in Ayutthaya, they were likely to confront people they knew and kill each other.Chu Yang was obviously very nervous, and he hadn't closed his eyes for several nights.

Lynch could only use some simple chants to relieve his stress.

The ruins of ancient pagodas were invaded by creatures brought by the Devourer from countless realities, and were corroded by substances that could not be distinguished as animals or plants.The originally lush plantain forest was swept away by the color of the stars, leaving only dry and decayed branches.Chu Yang deliberately released the news in advance so that ordinary people had enough time to evacuate, but when they attacked, they still inevitably hurt some zero-level observers who did not have time to evacuate due to various reasons.Chu Yang watched a hound devouring a screaming woman, and couldn't help but want to step forward to intervene.But Lynch gently took his arm.

"She is hopeless, her lower body has been crushed..." Lynch whispered, "If you act now, it will definitely arouse suspicion."

Chu Yang stopped abruptly.

The woman's last bloody eyes stared at him, and Chu Yang felt as if she was cursed by those eyes.

He sank deeper into the quagmire of sin.

Among the people who tried to fight against the Devourer were people they knew, and it was Chu Yang's few friends in the Presbyterian Church, Xu Bai.Xu Bai looked at him and Lynch in disbelief. Shocked and heartbroken, Chu Yang dared not look him in the eyes.

"When they told me, I still didn't believe it." In the pain, only anger was ignited, Xu Bai yelled at them, "Are you crazy?!"

Chu Yang was speechless, but it was Lynch who spoke, "You know in your heart that it is impossible for the Four Holy Sees to defeat the Devourer. Our reality will collapse sooner or later. Is there anything wrong with wanting to live?"

"You spineless traitors!!!" Xu Bai roared angrily, spitting out the Earth Burrower from his throat.

After a fierce battle, the Four Holy Sees were defeated and suffered heavy casualties.But Chu Yang and Lin Qi let Xu Bai leave.If they wanted to take Xu Bai's life, they still couldn't do it.

After this victory, the Prophet appeared as promised.Like all observers, he is dressed in black, tall and tall, with long black hair tied up with a black ribbon, but wearing a white mask on his face, which is somewhat similar to the real mask, but the eyes and mouth are different. It is an exaggerated crescent shape, especially the mouth. The corners of the mouth are connected to the edge of the mask, forming a smiling face with a sinister aura.

Like the masks that ancient Greek comedians would wear on their faces.

The Prophet walked out of a halo that suddenly tore apart the space in the void, with long hair flying behind him, and his steps were as light as the wind.His body shape is obviously similar to that of Lin Qi and Chu Yang, but for some reason, there is an indescribable... sacred feeling about him.

This sacred feeling seeps out from every step he takes, every sway of his hands following his steps, and permeates everyone's mind silently.Chu Yang saw that all the devourers around were kneeling on their knees, their heads bowed, and they surrendered from body to heart.

Lin Qi and Chu Yang also fell to their knees hesitantly.All I could see was the pair of feet that were gradually approaching.Those feet were actually naked, and they were extremely beautiful, with fair and smooth skin that was rare among boys' feet.

Chu Yang couldn't read his emotions, he was just like Lin Qiao, like a mysterious black hole.

He surpassed Chu Yang and Lynch too much... Could they really assassinate such an observer?

Will he be level six?

One hand gently lifted Chu Yang's jaw, and he met the curved eyes on the mask.That hand was very cold, and Chu Yang shivered.

The crooked eyes stared at him, and Lynch at the side obviously felt a kind of...deep uneasiness.He quietly raised his head to look at the profile of the prophet.

For some reason, Lynch felt very uncomfortable.

Seeing the other party grab Chu Yang's jaw, the uncomfortable feeling was replaced by anger.But he also knew that he couldn't be impulsive now.The Prophet is unfathomable, and provoking him will only lead to more misfortune.

The voice behind the mask was very strange, as if there were many voices—both men, women, and children—speaking at the same time.

"Thanks for your hard work." The voice was actually very gentle, "You guys did a great job."

Chu Yang and Lin Qi never expected that the Prophet would have such an attitude, which was completely different from what they had imagined.

Then, he let go of Chu Yang, took half a step back, looked at Lynch, and asked softly, "Did you choose the Devourer out of fear or hatred?"

Lynch replied calmly, "A rational choice."

"Because you know that this reality has no future?" There was a trace of compassion in the prophet's voice, "Not only this reality, but most of the realities... are too bad. There are more and more differences, and we are far from the final goal. Farther and farther away, even the four Holy Sees are gradually forgetting that the gods they worship are still waiting for them, and each is content with their own reality, living in endless plunder and hatred. Even without me, these realities will sooner or later be destroyed .”

"So you're going to unify all realities?"

"No, I want to give all realities a chance to unite and fight to the death. I want to give all realities a common enemy." After the prophet finished speaking, he didn't intend to continue explaining, and said in a lighter tone, "Welcome to join the Devourer."

prophet……

An incredible man, an existence that runs counter to all the imaginations of Chu Yang and Lin Qi.

He doesn't show up often, and most of the time, his most trusted senior five-level observers formulate specific strategic plans, and he only gives some general directions and guidance.The role is a bit like Lynch's father, TheAdvisor.It's just that the Devourers seem to regard him as the spokesperson of the gods, and some even say that the Prophet is the incarnation of the only high-entropy god who can come and go freely in countless realities--Crawling Chaos Nyarlathotep.

But the Prophet seemed to favor Chu Yang very much, he appeared in front of Chu Yang more than once, and even talked with him alone.At first, Chu Yang was so nervous that he was breaking out in a cold sweat as if he was facing an enemy.But gradually he found that talking with the Prophet could even be described as relaxed, because the other party never mentioned to him topics related to the Observer, the Four Holy Sees, the Devourer, or the Big Crunch. On the contrary, he talked about insignificant things , such as showing him some strange plants that invaded from distant realities, chatting about the culture of some sacred races that only exist in other realities, and even talking about music...

Chu Yang became more and more confused, but sometimes he had to admit that the Prophet did have a kind of strange charm similar to all saints from ancient times to the present, such as Jesus Sakyamuni and so on.Even some of his words have the effect of being close to enlightenment.

And Lynch's fear of the prophet is getting deeper and deeper.He felt that there was an impenetrable darkness hidden under the calm surface of this prophet.He wanted to corrupt Chu Yang and turn Chu Yang into his minion.

"He's influencing me..." Even Chu Yang himself knew it.At night, he hugged Lynch tightly, and said in a tense voice, "You said...does he know what we're here for?"

Lin Qi also locked Chu Yang firmly in his arms, "I'm not sure...but we have to do it as soon as possible."

Otherwise, Chu Yang would be dragged down bit by bit by that abyss-like man...

In the deepest and darkest lair of the enemy, the two of them could only hug each other tightly in such a way that they could find a little bit of comfort in the endless fear.

With the tacit cooperation between Chu Yang and Lynch in several battles, the Prophet trusted them more and more.Both of them knew that the time was getting closer.

Lynch managed to get in touch with the Presbyterian Church and learned that the Four Holy Sees were planning a battle that was almost the final battle.If the Prophet could be drawn out and weakened in that battle, it would be the best time for Chu Yang and Lin Qi to do it.

At that time, almost all of Asia and Europe had fallen into the hands of the Devourer, and the space had become extremely unstable. A large number of refugees fled to North and South America. All the leaders of the Four Holy Sees also gathered in New York, preparing to fight the Devourer.It was an extremely tragic and extremely crazy battle, alienated people and monsters beyond imagination were entangled together, mucus and plasma covered the soft and wriggling ground.In the beginning, the four Holy Sees were obviously at a disadvantage, and there were countless casualties. It was not until the four patriarchs brought all the fifth-level observers to open the judgment circle that the situation began to turn around.

But then the Prophet appeared.

Not many people believe that there are really six levels in the world until they see the Prophet.

In the blood-colored sunset, the prophet's body kept getting taller and bigger, and finally reached the sky, and the mysterious smiling face on the mask was covered by the colorful clouds.He was wearing a wide black robe, but it spread out like mist at the bottom.Immediately afterwards, countless formless darkness rushed out from under his robe.It is not smoke or fog, not any substance, not touchable nor comprehensible.It's just pure nothingness, pure chaos, pure entropy.All order forces in all things touched by this entropy will be swallowed, and chaos will completely disintegrate those creatures in an instant.

Therefore, whether it is observers, ordinary people, animals, plants, or even inanimate buildings and stones, they all devour everything in all directions like a tsunami, and the living things become part of the entropy force after a short period of collapse, decay and mutation. , those without life will directly scatter into dust, no observer or holy race can resist.

A one-sided massacre.

When Chu Yang and Lin Qi saw all that, they both felt an unprecedented fear without any hope.They seem to have seen the ending of the entire universe, and the ending of every living being.Those twisted human bodies that screamed and wriggled, those muscles and bones that turned into liquid and dripped on the ground, those eyes, teeth, limbs that grew out of places that shouldn't be saved... Then decay, eternal decay, eternal stench and collapse.

How could they kill such a... thing?

When everyone fell into despair, suddenly the darkness was suppressed, and they gradually began to retreat, spitting out meat, internal organs and blood that had not been fully absorbed.But he saw a star burning hotly under the night-shrouded sky that was facing the Prophet from afar.It was not really a star, but a person.

Lin Qiao.

Lin Qiao held a scepter in his hand, a scepter that had never been shown to anyone.The coat of arms in the shape of eyes on the head of the staff seems to be somewhat similar to the old seal, but it is not the same.There is an awe-inspiring and indestructible thickness in those eyes, an incalculable sense of eternity.

Lynch looked at his father in disbelief, forgetting to breathe.He saw Lin Qiao declaring war on the Prophet with endless darkness, raising his scepter to him...

If that reality still exists, this battle will be remembered by all survivors.It was like a battle between two gods, at the cost of a real existence.The forces of darkness collided in the universe with brilliance beyond the comprehension of the human brain, and the entire continent was trembling.

However, Lin Qiao lost.

Lynch watched as his father turned into countless stars and disappeared into the darkness.His eyes were wide open to the dying lights, as if he himself were dying too.

"No..." Lynch murmured, "Dad..."

Chu Yang knew that the relationship between Lynch and his father was not close, and he rarely even mentioned the Advisor who was revered by many members of the Presbyterian Church.However, that was Lynch's only relative in this world after all.

Chu Yang has experienced the feeling of losing a loved one more than once.And when all your relatives have been lost, people seem to be cut off from all connections in this world, like a fallen leaf, with nothing to lose, coming and going in a panic.He knew that he couldn't help Lynch at this time, or even accompany him.Because in this most painful moment, everyone must bear it alone and taste it alone.

Although Lin Qiao died, he also inflicted life-threatening injuries on the Prophet.The Devourers had to retreat, back to their nearest stronghold in another reality.The Prophet locked himself deep inside an abandoned church, and no one was allowed in to disturb his healing.

Lynch has no time to mourn, no time to grieve.The only chance for him and Chu Yang is now.

And Chu Yang also knew that this trip might never return.But he was not afraid, if he could die with Lynch, it would be a happy ending.

Their luck seemed to be good, they sneaked into the church and found the key to the secret passage of the church from the weird prayer book called "Secret of the Worm" on the pulpit.Everything went so smoothly that it was disturbingly smooth.But things have come to this, they can only bite the bullet and move forward.

In the dim light, the prophet was lying on an altar with his hands on his stomach, motionless, as if he had died.

During this period of time in the Devourer's camp, Chu Yang and Lin Qi created a song together, an adaptation and transformation of Chu Yang's Death Song, the most cruel song in the world, just like Death The fine bone fingers can accurately pinch the string of consciousness of any living being yearning for destruction.They are confident that anyone who has heard this piece of music will kill themselves in less than one movement.

That performance was Chu Yang's most perfect performance, and it was also Lynch's most beautiful singing.

They saw the prophet's body start to twitch, and saw the dark power overflowing from his seven orifices, quickly devouring him.They heard the sound of musculoskeletal disintegration, the sound of wet flesh falling.When the darkness dissipated, only the moldy clothes and a smiling mask remained.

Succeeded?

Did they really kill the prophet?

For some reason, Chu Yang didn't feel any relaxation. On the contrary, the hairs all over his body stood on end, and his strong intuition made his heart beat faster like a spasm.

"It's not right...it's not right!" Chu Yang grabbed Lin Qi, "Hurry up!!"

As soon as the words fell, I saw that dark power suddenly precipitated from the void again, and quickly gathered towards the altar where the prophet disappeared.

The two of them didn't need to look any further to realize how big a mistake they had made.

The Prophet itself is the carrier of chaos and entropy, how could it be possible to destroy him with the same force?

Without waiting for the Prophet to "resurrect", they rushed for their lives to the nearest door.Constantly traveling through reality, dare not even have a few hours of rest.The Devourer was hot on their heels, and they couldn't stay longer than three hours in any one reality.In the end they were so exhausted that they no longer had the strength to stand.

Every Devourer gives their DNA to the Devourer's Hounds when they join, so wherever they escape, the Prophet will know right away.Their only hope of survival is to return to their native reality.With the Prophet being injured one after another, the Devourer should not forcefully fight the Four Holy Sees for the sake of the two of them.

In order to confuse the public, they traveled through three or four realities before finally returning to the original reality.With the last of their strength they charged towards the stronghold of the Presbyterian Church.

However, Chu Yang did not expect that what awaited them was not asylum or welcome.

When they tried to explain that they were ordered by Antonio to assassinate the prophet, Antonio said calmly that he had never given such an order.He said that they were traitors to the Presbyterian Church, their hands were stained with the blood of countless compatriots, and now they told such shameless lies in order to survive.

Chu Yang was stunned.He didn't understand, didn't understand why Antonio would do this.There is no benefit in doing so? !

When the people around him tried to put the ring of Osar on him and Lynch, Lynch suddenly exploded.He surrounded himself and Chu Yang with the color of the stars, and retreated little by little.However, when he retreated outside the door, he saw countless masked devourers standing quietly a hundred meters away, at the border of the Presbyterian base.

They were besieged from both sides and had nowhere to go.

Lynch used the color of the stars several times when he was fleeing, and he was already overwhelmed.At this time, his originally smooth and thick black hair had turned gray, his skin had also started to turn dull and yellow, and the fine lines between his eyebrows had increased, gradually turning into a face of 50 to [-] years old.Chu Yang was afraid that Lynch would consume too much life and could not recover if this continued, so he tore off the clothes on his chest and released the filthy twins.

People who are driven to a dead end will always burst out with a sad and powerful force like a swan's final song.Roegel rushed into the sky like a purple sun, and Zaal's vines burst out like a raging sea.All his perceptions spread like the heaven and the earth with the filthy twins, fiercely entwining the Devourer's enemies who wanted to drive them to a dead end.

However, Chu Yang and Lin Qi didn't realize that this was a trap.

It was not a trap set for them, but a trap set by Antonio Lian and the other three patriarchs for the Prophet.

When Antonio started chanting the incantation, suddenly the entire Presbyterian stronghold fell into a dense and strange atmosphere.An indescribable feeling of numbness rapidly spread throughout the body, both the Foul Gemini and his original limbs were rapidly falling into a freezing state.

The originally empty ground began to emit light, forming a huge magic circle that enveloped everything.

That was the powerful formation that was used to control and destroy the Devourer during the decisive battle - the judgment formation.Although the formation is powerful, it can only trap or kill observers of level five or below, and it has no effect on the prophet. .

Unless... two high-level fifth-level observers can be sacrificed.

As for the sacrifice, who else is more suitable than Lin Qi and Chu Yang, two dangerous elements who do not obey discipline?

The two people in the circle completely lost their ability to resist.Chu Yang dragged the countless heavy vine tentacles and tried hard to climb towards Lin Qi.And Lynch also collapsed on the ground, and the color of the stars had already retracted into his decayed and cracked hands.He raised his eyes that were still so focused even now, looked at Chu Yang, and stretched out his hand towards him.

At that time, they didn't have time to think about anything in their minds, they just thought about catching each other, hugging each other tightly, not to separate...

But Chu Yang saw that Antonio was wearing a yellow cloak and walking towards Lynch slowly.In both of his hands, he held a golden dagger reflecting a cold light.

"No...no...please..." Chu Yang begged, tears welling up in his eyes, and muddy mud flowing down his face.He jumped forward with all his strength, but in fact he only moved an inch.

At this moment, how much he hoped that, just like the close-up scenes in those movies, some miracle would happen and Lynch could be saved.

At that moment, he watched Antonio grab Lynch's hair and force his head back, exposing his long neck.Then the extremely sharp golden dagger swept across the neck.

The skin was torn apart little by little like torn paper, and blood gushed out like a waterfall.Lynch's throat was cut, and blood poured into the trachea. He couldn't breathe, convulsed and struggled in pain, but his eyes were fixed on Chu Yang from the beginning to the end, as if he wanted to deeply reflect Chu Yang on the scene that was about to happen. Depths of consciousness extinguished until the last second.

As for Chu Yang, he could only watch as Lin Qi, his favorite Lin Qi, his last harbor in this world, the last thread that pulled him, and his final destination, twitched in pain in a pool of blood. , screaming silently, like a stranded fish.

The miracle did not happen after all.

Lynch's death was neither peaceful nor beautiful.He died extremely painfully.

The once perfect and slender body tensed tightly, and then suddenly and completely relaxed; the light in the charming eyes dissipated little by little, and finally extinguished in the eternal silence.

He doesn't move anymore.

The moment Lynch finally stopped twitching, Chu Yang felt relieved.

At least his Lynch finally doesn't have to continue to suffer anymore, doesn't he?

Unreal, extremely unreal feeling.As if it was all a nightmare.When Antonio walked towards Chu Yang, he even wanted to smile.

Yes, to die...to die and to wake up.When he woke up, he was still in Lynch's arms, and nothing had happened yet.Maybe he was still in that dark cell, maybe he never came out.Maybe all of this is just his fantasy, Lynch is still alive somewhere, instead of lying in front of him with a blue face, cloudy eyes, and distorted posture.

Don't come to him, don't come to rescue him, let him rot in that cell.As long as Lynch is still alive, with his steamed buns, and Xu Bai, Zhao Cen, and the others living in a certain place, it will be fine.

Lynch, who is clean and elegant like his prince, Lynch who has many kinds of appearances and always makes jokes indecently, and Lynch, who has to keep his hairstyle from being messed up even in the most embarrassing time, how could he die so embarrassingly? ?No... definitely impossible... He doesn't want such a result, he doesn't want such a reality.

When Antonio grabbed his hair and pulled his head up like Lynch, when his neck also felt the slightly warm touch of the dagger that was still stained with Lynch's blood, Chu Yang's eyes were empty, without any reaction or resistance.

If he died at that time, perhaps it could still be regarded as a happy ending.

It's a pity that Chu Yang should have known a long time ago that whatever he wishes is impossible to come true.Everything he holds dear will surely be taken away.This is a curse, a curse left to him by countless lives killed by him.

He didn't die, he was saved by the prophet.

The Prophet told him that his four friends were not killed by the Devourer. Before the Devourer invaded, the Elders had already killed the dead man, in order to stimulate Chu Yang to accept the task of assassinating the Prophet.The prophet also told him that his parents' car accident was not accidental, because Chu Yang's parents never gave up looking for their son, and gradually found the trail of the Presbyterian Church.Kim Hyun-min then sent someone to create an "accident" and solve these two "troubles".

The Prophet also told him that almost everyone in the Presbyterian Church that day knew that Lin Qi and Chu Yang were not traitors, but they believed that sacrifices were inevitable if they wanted to kill the Prophet.

As long as the sacrifice is not oneself, sacrifice is always inevitable.

And Chu Yang, at the moment Lynch died, had already died.

From the moment he watched innocent people die without taking action, from the moment he thought that sacrifice was inevitable, from the moment he accepted the stigmata and chose empathy as the price, the one who would fight for his own sins Chu Yang, who collapsed and self-mutilated, felt sad for the suffering of others, and wanted to be a good person, had already begun to die.And Lynch's disappearance cut the last rope of his fall.

From then on, hatred and memories were the only things he could have.

And when a person has nothing but hatred and memories, it is the most powerful time.Because he is not afraid of anything.

When he began to accept the spells and secrets instilled in him by the prophet, when he sat on the top of the abandoned building and played the beautiful but deadly cello music, manipulating the power of chaos to swallow every observer of the original reality, when he brought As the other Devourers flattened every stronghold of the Four Holy Sees, when he lifted his foot expressionlessly and crushed Antonio's head fiercely, he was still thinking about it.

He was recalling the first time, Lynch stood in the halo projected from outside the door, walking towards him lightly like a cat.He recalled Lynch holding his hand and writing his name stroke by stroke on his palm.

He recalls Lynch trimming his hair carefully, as if cutting his hair was the most important and greatest task in the world.

He recalled that Lynch put one earphone into Chu Yang's ear, and put the other in his own ear, playing the music he liked on the ipod, and his body was still writhing with the exaggerated but inexplicable rhythm.

He recalled Lynch crouching on the sofa with popcorn in his arms and watching the tear gas scene in the movie, crying with snot and tears, and stuffing popcorn into his mouth while crying.

He recalled that Lynch kissed him for the first time, recalled that Lynch took his hand and walked out of the cell, recalled that Lynch walked with him in the forest near the old castle, the sun shone through the gaps in the leaves, and fell like rain all over.

He recalled that Lynch said to him, "I like to stay with you, watch movies, eat and chat with you. I want to do everything with you, take you to all cities and countries in the world, and eat every day." Delicious food in an alley.”

He recalled that Lynch said to him, "I want you to taste as much happiness as you have suffered in the first six years."

He recalls Lynch promising him that he would never leave him.

Lynch broke his promise.

And without Lynch, those things that I didn't have time to do, those cities and countries I didn't have time to visit, and those things I didn't have time to eat, would all disappear.

When Chu Yang's original reality completely collapsed, when he completed his revenge.Chu Yang tried to end his own life.

Because he couldn't find a reason to continue.

Living, for him, has never been an easy task.It was only after meeting Lynch that he really lived that short period of time like a human being.

But after he committed suicide for the third time but was rescued by the Prophet, the Prophet told him a secret.

He also had a chance to meet Lynch.

Not another real Lynch, but the real Lynch that belongs to him.

The author has something to say: The story of Chu Yang, the devourer, is finally finished...