At home, Hal has always been a good child in his parents' eyes.
Obedient, sensible, polite and studious, these excellent qualities are concentrated in Hal.
Ever since Hal came back from a party, something happened that gave his parents a headache.
That's because Hal often screams in his sleep and keeps saying some incomprehensible crazy words.
His parents thought maybe there was something mentally wrong;
Hal's grandfather suffers from Alzheimer's disease, a mental illness that may be inherited.
But the disease usually occurs in the elderly, and one of the symptoms of this disease is hallucination, so Hal was sent to the hospital for diagnosis.
Under the doctor's observation, the doctor initially suspected that it was neurasthenia with onset in adolescence.
This discovery brought relief to Hal's parents.
Perhaps it was just because the pressure of studying was too great, they comforted themselves in this way, so they were determined to agree to the doctor's suggestion to stay in the hospital for observation for a week.
The midnight bell rang, and Hal climbed out of the bed sleepily.
This is Hal's third day in the hospital.
Recently, the strange scenes in Hal's dreams have become less blurry and he can start to see some outlines.
There were some people worshiping a ferocious-looking statue. Although their appearance could not be seen, their madness could be seen from their kneeling posture.
"My dreams are clearer tonight," Hal thought.
Young Hal had no idea that it was an evil ritual, he was just curious about the statue.
At this moment, Hal's stomach made a gurgling sound, accompanied by the peristalsis of his intestines. He realized that it was time to go to the toilet for a while.
So he walked to the toilet alone in a daze.
Just as he walked out of the ward, he saw a suspicious-looking man scribbling on the wall at the corner of the corridor not far away.
Hal watched the man's bizarre behavior in the mirror around the corner.
After the man finished painting on the wall, his figure disappeared, leaving only the mark on the wall.
It was a bright red mark, twisting like a whirlpool.
Hal's spirit was instantly corroded by the power of the mark. Some disgusting little bugs appeared in Hal's head out of thin air, invading Hal's thinking, and growing rapidly without Hal's knowledge with the help of the nutrients in his body.
After looking at the mark, Hal felt a pain in his head, but the pain soon disappeared, along with some of his memories of seeing the man and the mark.
He just remembered that he needed to go to the toilet, so he went straight to the toilet.
"Hualala"
Hal had solved his urgent need and flushed the waste away. When he was about to leave the toilet cubicle,
Suddenly, he felt a pair of eyes staring at Hal from above. Hal raised his head and saw a monster flapping a pair of huge bat wings staring at him from above the toilet cubicle.
There was a hint of surprise in the monster's eyes, and then it stretched its ferocious head to Hal's side and sniffed;
The tentacles on the monster's head emitted strange fluctuations, which resonated with the images in Hal's soul, but Hal himself was unaware of all this.
The monster seemed to lose interest in Hal and flapped its bat wings away.
Out of fear, he curled up his body, hugged his knees, and dared not move.
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Hal looked at Virus with terrifying eyes, held Virus' hand, and said something horrifying.
"Then, can I eat you?"
Virus showed a look of surprise for a moment and tried hard to pull his hand back, but his hand was as if it was clamped by an iron clamp and could not move at all.
Verus realized that this was going to be bad, so he put the copper whistle hanging on his chest to his mouth with his right hand and blew it hard!
The sharp whistle echoed in the empty hospital, and Joe Butran and others' faces changed drastically when they heard the sound!
Although the cautious Joe Bruin had already used a cross to test the boy who called himself Hal, he still made a mistake.
The boy was now giggling, his head turning at a strange angle, and the cross on his chest was already shining with a dazzling glow, obviously suppressing Hal's change.
Verus couldn't escape at all at this time. At the same time, the fallen corpses around him gained mysterious power from the boy Hal's transformation and slowly crawled up from the ground.
Hal tilted his head 90 degrees to the right, and a lot of pits slowly appeared on the young boy's face.
Verus could see countless tiny strange insects wriggling in the pit that suddenly appeared. It was obvious that Hal's body had been occupied by these insects.
Previously, in order to let Hal hold his sleeve, he had to free his left hand and put the flintlock rifle issued by the Investigation Bureau on his waist. Verus gritted his teeth, pulled out the gun with his right hand, pressed the safety bolt with his thumb, and fired without hesitation.
An orange flame lit up from the muzzle, and a loud bang accompanied the roar of gunfire.
This flintlock pistol should be held with both hands for accurate shooting, but at this moment, Varus couldn't care less. There was no need to aim in such a close-range combat.
The powerful recoil acted on Virus' body, with his right hand holding the gun being hit first.
The base of his right hand was cracked and the base of his thumb was fractured due to the recoil. What was even more frustrating was that after firing the shot, with his left hand clamped and his right hand injured, Verus was unable to complete the reloading of the gun.
So this shot is Varus’ only hope right now!
This shot will determine the fate of Verus. Either Hal's head will be ruthlessly pierced by the bullet, or Verus will be eroded by those worms and become a zombie of those evil beings.
The mithril bullet spun in the air and hit Hal's head along a straight trajectory, but the bugs jumped out of the pits one after another and merged into a thick tentacle!
The thick tentacles were covered with disgusting mucus and formed hard scales at lightning speed.
The rapidly spinning mithril bullet hit the scales, sparks flew, and just as the bullet was about to be blocked by the abominable scales, the cross hanging on Hal's chest shattered, emitting a ball of blazing white holy light!
Along with the appearance of the holy light, the tentacles made of insects emitted a high-frequency cry, stinging Virus' ears;
And the insect could no longer maintain its tentacle form.
The insects' mournful cries were even more damaging to Verus' ears than the noise of the musket fire.
Mithril has been used by the church since the Middle Ages. It is a rare metal that has the power to absorb holy light.
After being carved with inscriptions by excellent craftsmen, it still needs to be infused with power at the level of a black-robed priest before it can become a qualified magic-breaking bullet.
The holy light blooming from the cross left by Jobtran weakened the stability of the worm rooted in Hal's body. The mithril bullet pierced through the head, which could no longer be called a human head, when the tentacles disintegrated!
The mithril bullet, born from the fusion of technology and faith, brought a glimmer of hope to Varus!