From the moment Nanzhou and the others set foot on the land on the east coast, there were actually no demons left.
On the east bank there is only Reverend Keith, and the soul of a demon seed that has long been buried.
Shelley is a dream that Keith met when he was a teenager.
He rode his new little pony and sneaked out of the castle to play.
The horse has not yet been fully domesticated, and he overturned him on a rocky road and ditch, breaking his calf.
And Keith and his father happened to be going to Duke Shelley's new East Bank Church.
Keith picked up a disgraced little duke.
And when he squatted down to bandage the little duke, the young man looked at him with bright eyes and patted his shoulder.
Keith looked up and found that he was holding a rose that had been pinned to his chest.
At a young age, Shelley's over-romantic and flirtatious nature has emerged: "Thank you for helping me, Mr. Young Pastor."
Keith: "… "
Keith said nonchalantly, "Thorns."
Shelley: "…"
His ears drooped down in frustration: "Oh."
Compared to Keith, who is indifferent and steadfast, Shelley is a carefree and happy aristocratic boy.
Under his father's tutelage, Keith learned to conduct worship at an early age.
Only this noble boy sat in the front row, and was the least serious, just looking at him with tenderness.
Keith is not a wood that can't grow roses.
He understands the content in his eyes, and also understands that the boy's attachment will quickly dissipate after he gets no response.
He thought that if he responded with silence, he would understand.
Shelley really didn't bother him too much, didn't force him to turn his back on his beliefs, didn't even mention the word "love" to him.
Only occasionally when visiting museums, he secretly pulls the hem of his clothes.
It's just that when hunting together, he'll be desperate to keep him late, pulling him to see a star he's recently discovered.
Just made an agreement with him that if he had anything to look for himself, he would write to himself, his messenger, to serve him forever.
It's just that... that's all.
After his father died, he took over the small church and his devout faith.
His beliefs clearly told Keith to love pictures, but he clearly did not allow this relationship to happen to a same-sex man.
So, the only thing Keith can do is to reject any possibility of marriage.
He thought that even if Shelley had a wife in the future, he would never marry.
Occasionally, he would also ask himself in repentance what kind of feelings he had.
The answer is clearly yes.
But he chose not to reveal it.
During an outing, Shelley, who was chatting and laughing with him, accidentally fell off the horse again.
This time it wasn't a funny accident.
Upon examination, he had a tumor in his brain.
For a long time after that, Keith put everything down and prayed day and night, asking God to bless His people.
But it's probably because Shelley didn't have any plans in his many prayers, and there was never God in his eyes, only the young man who was bathed in the holy light of the cross...
In short, God would not bless such impure people.
Shelley's condition is getting worse day by day.
Keith sent anti-tumor drugs to God, and the double blessing of science and theology could not save Shelley at all.
One day, he went to see Shelley at West Bank Castle.
At the time of his visit, Shelley was suffering from a high fever and dazed.
It was because of his mental breakdown that he told Keith about his plans.
… that crazy, desperate, and damned time travel plan.
Keith sat on the edge of his bed, resting his fingertips on the backs of his hands, listening to his startling ideas.
There was no condemnation, no questioning, and no walk away.
Keith stayed in the castle and did not return overnight, giving up the daily Mass.
During the night, Shelley's fever subsided and she woke up.
He also realized that he had said something wrong, so he smiled embarrassedly, took Keith's hand and said, "Maybe I'm really crazy."
Keith showed no mercy and said, "Yes. Love drives you crazy."
This is the first mention of "love" between them.
Interestingly, it was Keith who first proposed it.
"I'm sorry, but I don't know what love is," Keith said.
Shelley laughed, her golden curly hair trembled like a lively lamb: "You don't need to understand. Love, that's a world that belongs to me alone, and I won't bother you."
Keith stood up. "Your world, I already live in it. Isn't it?"
The young Mr. Duke was stunned.
"You don't have to do anything." Keith looked at him calmly. "I have another way to find you a new, completely healthy body."
This sounds too much of a fantasy.
But Mr. Duke still nodded obediently: "But, will you succeed?"
Keith pointed to the opposite bank of his room, where the church loft was.
"If I fail, I'll turn on the lights in the attic," he said. "By then, you can do whatever you want. But until then, we won't meet, we'll only communicate by letter."
Shelley raised his face in confusion and looked at him: "Why?"
Keith: "I'll give you enough time to forget the face I have now."
Shelley blinked. "Why? How handsome."
Keith: "The next time we meet, maybe it won't be the same face."
Shelley didn't understand.
But he trusted Keith.
So he nodded again: "I don't see you. I don't ask others to see you. You focus on your business."
Keith grabbed his shoulders and looked at him determinedly. "Promise me. Don't do anything that offends God."
I am alone, fine.
"Don't worry." The Duke smiled pale and weak. "I promise you. If you don't allow me, I will die and I won't have surgery."
Since then, no one has set foot on the East Coast again.
Shelley even dismissed the loyal followers of the castle, cutting off the possibility of anyone going to the east bank.
After Pastor Keith sent away all the clergy in the church, he summoned the demon Ami and made a deal with him.
He traded the souls of God's faithful believers for the power of demons.
Then, he sent the demon away.
However, from this moment on, he is no different from the devil.
He can no longer touch any holy artifact, holy water is sulfuric acid to him, and the cross will cause endless heart palpitations.
Every minute, every second in the church is like being in the fire of hell.
He bears everything he should bear with a blank face.
This is the suffering he deserves for betraying the gods.
But it is precisely because of this suffering that he realizes that God clearly exists.
Since God exists, he would rather see him fall than help him in the slightest.
He used the burning pain that existed every moment to strengthen his determination to plunge into the darkness.
Ami's ability is a spell that replaces life force.
Now, Shelley needs a healthy body.
However, without personal testing, Keith dared not use the spell on Shelley.
It is a pity that there is no one on the east bank for him to experiment with.
So he wrote to Shelley, asking him to recruit a new clergy for himself.
The condition is that young people from other places, without relatives or reasons, are the best.
Shelley didn't ask her why.
On the third day after his letter was sent, six new young people crossed the long-uncrossed suspension bridge and came to the door of his church.
Next, Keith discovered that the six people had impure goals, always investigating and patrolling the church, as if they had other intentions.
But he doesn't care.
From the very beginning, Keith had taken a fancy to the taciturn and beautiful young man among them.
There is no reason for him.
After careful observation, Keith was convinced that his physical strength was extraordinary, the best of the six of them.
Shelley was sick once, so Keith wanted Shelley to have the healthiest body in the world.
It's just that he was just trying to make a move, and the people who made the move first were actually these outsiders.
Keith was tied up.
And these outsiders, began to search his church.
Those old, sinful traces have long since been annihilated by him.
Even his correspondence with Shelley was destroyed by him.
… Keith refused to leave even such a tender space for himself to betray God.
But he still walked on this dead end without turning back.
Now, he needs to break free and find a way out.
When they left Hua Xixi to take care of themselves, Keith successfully aroused Hua Xixi's interest with a vague "you...not enough".
Keith kept using words to induce him to approach, thus touching Hua Xixi's skin.
The next moment, Life Force completed the first handover in a demonic way.
He came to a brand new body.
The feeling of being in control of the flow of life is not wonderful.
Headaches, dizziness, weakness in limbs, and stomach as if someone had been twisting it with their hands were all complications of acting against God.
But Keith knew exactly what to do.
Keith grabbed the cross that was originally hanging around "Keith"'s neck, gagged with one hand, and slashed the tip into the current "Keith"'s chest with the other hand in the piercing pain.
Fingers crossed, but Keith didn't feel any pain.
Hua Xixi, who suddenly fell into the new body, died in Keith's body, accompanied by the pain of his heart being shattered, and the indescribable surprise before he even had time to let out a groan.
Keith dragged his newly acquired body, his palm seriously injured by the cross, and walked out of the church silently and numbly.
Outside, it's foggy.
The fog became his best barrier, allowing him to have space for his next plan.
He knew that these people must have turned on the lights in the dark attic when they searched the church comprehensively.
He originally wanted to cross the bridge overnight to stop Shelley's blasphemous behavior, so as to take him away before the group of people crossed the bridge and avoid them hurting Shelley.
However, a discovery slowed him down.
… Keith found something special about this new body.
When he inadvertently raised his hand and woke up a sleeping floating screen, he stood in the dark and looked back at the brightly lit church.
With Keith's inherent knowledge, he thought, these people may be the angels of the devil.
But they have limitations.
According to the so-called "rules of the game" displayed in the corner of the panel, the demons will not allow them to cross the bridge.
That said, Shelley won't be in danger, at least temporarily.
Moreover, he hurried now, really had time to stop that stubborn, stubborn Shelley
Once the bow is drawn, there is no turning back.
He thought, maybe, he could stay on the east coast and accomplish that ultimate goal.
… into that perfect vessel called the "Nanzhou".
Even if his surgery fails, he can offer him this slightly meaningful gift before the worst happens.
He turned his head and plunged back into the fog on the east coast.
The fog became his best barrier.
Keith generously hid in the fog, waiting for the time to come, waiting for Nan Zhou to find himself.
When he heard footsteps coming from the fog, he silently jumped off the cliff and hung himself on the edge.
There was a bottomless abyss beneath his feet, and countless pieces of loose sand and gravel sifted down from around the rock he was clinging to.
In this desperate situation of death, Keith's heart was peaceful.
He knew that in a world with heavy fog as the background, others might have scruples, but that strong and outstanding Nan Zhou would definitely save people.
Because he is strong, he is fearless.
As long as it successfully touches his skin, more than three seconds...
Who would have thought that the one who rushed to save him from the fog would be a gentle and modest man.
When he saw his face that didn't belong to him, the man's expression was the ultimate surprise of what was lost and what was lost.
Keith remembered his name, Guan Junliang.
Regardless of the danger, Guan Junliang knelt on the edge of the cliff and hurriedly stretched out his hand to himself: "Hey! Grab my hand!"
At that moment, Keith was shaken.
He... probably shouldn't have hurt such a person.
However, being rescued by Guan Junliang in the identity of Hua Xixi, it is difficult for him to explain his sudden disappearance and what force took him away.
Once you go wrong, you will definitely lose your efforts.
He has already embarked on this dead end, and it is too late to turn back.
So, Keith held Guan Junliang's warm and generous palm with his hand burned by the cross.
Guan Junliang was overjoyed, and with all his strength, he landed on his knees, his arms were tense together, and he even held his palms and sleeves in his hands.
After a few seconds.
The universe is reversed, and the upper and lower positions are transposed.
He knelt down on the edge of the cliff, and when the sky was spinning, he looked sadly and calmly at those eyes full of surprise.
The palm was pulled by the powerful gravity, slipped from his palm, and fell into the abyss.
A shriek, which was heard later, sounded from more than ten meters away, and was swallowed up by the churning mist.
After that, Keith's fingertips were nothing but a scrap of fabric.
However, Nanzhou and the others are too smart, and Keith cannot fully inherit the memory of the owner of the body.
His identity was almost revealed.
Fortunately, he spent more than ten hours to roughly understand the purpose of those "miracles" on them.
Guan Junliang carried holy water in the warehouse.
At this moment, he has become a half devil, he has a very strong reaction to holy water, and he is also familiar with other related information about demons.
He put Ami's ability, Zhang Guanli, on the "Devil Flash", and at the same time silently smashed the holy water bottle, burned himself with bruises and bruises, struggled with great pain, and then "fainted" exhausted. , pretending that the devil has been driven away.
While pretending to be in a coma, Keith felt the excruciating pain from every corner of his body, and thought calmly that maybe he could have another body.
…
Facing the two people who were arguing with swords, Nan Zhou restored her experience through Song Haining's trembling description that contained endless pain, and what they had seen and heard during these days.
According to her, after she was forcibly exchanged by Keith into Guan Junliang's body, as soon as she learned his true identity, she was knocked unconscious by him.
After waking up, she returned to her body.
Guan Junliang, who was on the bed, was already out of breath.
Looking at the blood on her hands, she panicked and walked out groggy. She saw Nan Zhou and Ban Hang hugging each other. In addition to being frightened, she couldn't care about anything else.
Jiang Fang is gone and Guan is gone, so who else can Keith be on
She shouted: "Leave him! Brother Nan! He is Keith! Stay away from him!!"