Académie des Surnaturels 3

Chapitre 11

In the open space outside the chapel, Father Wright had planted a huge wooden cross in the center of the ground, with two white skeletal human figures hanging from wooden poles on either side.

Wright, wand in hand, stepped forward, gazing at the white foam rising from the dark sea to the north. With a whoosh, he planted the wand in the ground, made the sign of the cross with his hands, and then, looking at the sea, loudly chanted a spell in broken Hindi. With his deafening incantation, the tip of the wand on the ground flashed with dazzling white light in the darkness, the surrounding air began to vibrate, and the waves roared and surged.

Then, Father Wright shouted "Adanana!" to end the incantation. With this shout, the two-meter-tall wooden cross behind him miraculously burst into flames, instantly transforming into a huge cross-shaped fire on the open ground, illuminating the surrounding darkness.

"Come out! Evil spirit, I call you out in the name of the Lord!" Father Wright raised the cross hanging on his chest high and shouted the incantation towards the shore.

"Come forth! Demon! Reveal your true form! I declare war on you in the name of the Lord!" Father Wright continued, raising the cross high and shouting. At the same time, the cross in his hand inexplicably flashed red light, and his voice became extremely piercing in the howling sea wind, as if it possessed divine power, piercing through the night sky and spreading into the distance.

In an instant, less than five minutes, the sky changed drastically. It seemed to turn dark and furious, and eerie, howling winds, like the roars of a thousand demons, surged from the sea towards the southern part of North Spirit Island. In a flash, the beach where Wright stood was transformed into a scene of flying sand and stones, swirling and crashing in the air – a truly terrifying sight! The nearby chapel and woods were also instantly whipped into a howling, trembling sound, the trees swaying like ocean waves, leaves flying and spinning high in the air. The chapel's windows and doors rattled loudly as tidal waves of wind swept across the sky, engulfing everything in their path. Large sections of tree trunks and branches were whipped upwards, aimlessly crashing down on Father Wright and his chapel – a truly horrifying sight.

Father Wright immediately drew his wand, swung it towards the sky, and shouted, "Hit!" Instantly, hundreds of tree trunks, branches, and rocks that were being swirled towards him from all directions by the wind exploded automatically in mid-air around Wright as if attacked by an invisible divine force, turning into countless pieces of ash that slowly fell from the sky, a truly spectacular sight!

At the same time, a thunderous roar ripped through the night sky, and a bolt of lightning, flashing with blinding white light like a fiery serpent, instantly illuminated everything around the chapel and lit up Wright's entire body as he held up his wand!

Immediately afterwards, a torrential downpour began, accompanied by flashes of lightning and deafening thunder, as if trying to shatter the air around the entire island. In an instant, the surrounding area was engulfed in a raging storm of wind and torrential rain, as if driven mad. In the flashes of lightning, a very dark cloud could be vaguely seen, surrounded by swirling clouds, surging towards this place like a flood, covering the sky and filling the night sky in an instant.

"Hahahahaha!" At the same time, amidst the terrifying, pattering rain all around, faint, eerie, devilish laughter echoed in the air.

With a deafening roar, a terrifying arc of white lightning, like a sharp sword, swept straight down from the exposed gale and struck the canopy of a large banyan tree more than four meters tall next to the church. Instantly, with a deafening roar, dazzling sparks flew everywhere, and half of the tree's canopy was blown off by the lightning. In an instant, fragments flew everywhere in the storm like flying flowers, which was extremely terrifying!

With a loud "roar," the banyan tree, now only half its canopy remaining, somehow transformed into a gigantic, terrifying octopus-like monster. It roared horribly, brandishing its tentacle-like branches, trunk, and roots, and charged menacingly towards Father Wright!

Hearing the howl, Father Wright turned around and, to his horror, could hardly believe his eyes. The canopy of the banyan tree rushing towards him was now covered with countless terrifying skulls, densely packed and roaring menacingly at him, a truly horrifying sight in the pouring rain!

With a "whoosh," the tree trunk deformed, revealing a gaping maw covered in blood. The maw, swift as lightning, spat out a root covered in suckers, which flew through the air and, before Father Wright could react, coiled around him like an octopus. Father Wright screamed in agony as the giant tongue of the root lifted him into the air, pulling him towards the gaping maw within the tree, which was chuckling menacingly. Good heavens, it was going to devour Father Wright!

---Magpie Bridge Fairy

Reply [42]: What a clever Father Wright! He raised his wand, muttered some words, and shouted. With lightning speed, he swung the wand at the gaping maw of blood on the tree trunk!

With a "whoosh," in the blink of an eye, the javelin-like magic wand pierced through the rain and into the gaping maw of the monstrous tree that had transformed into a blood-red disc, instantly unleashing a dozen or so swirling bolts of lightning that shot outwards!

"Boom!" With a flash of lightning, the entire blood-red maw exploded in a burst of fire. Then, the entire hideous banyan tree monster exploded automatically like a machine gun, instantly blasting into a vast expanse of fire that shot skyward! In moments, the tree monster, covered in skulls and the blood-red maw, was blasted to smithereens by the magic wand's divine power, reduced to millions of burning fragments that flew wildly in the storm, resembling a massive fountain of fire—a truly spectacular sight!

Father Wright fell from mid-air back to the ground as the tree roots binding him exploded. The torrential rain and the flying, flaming tree branches and trunks struck his head and body, causing sharp pains.

Father Wright groaned as he got up from the ground, watching the rain of flaming tree debris falling like snowflakes, the ground littered with smoldering tree fragments and trunks. Good heavens, he felt as if he were in an unprecedented nightmare! The terror of this demon was far beyond his expectations!

"Hahahaha!" Amidst the torrential rain and howling wind, eerie laughter of demons echoed in the air. At the same time, the rain intensified, the dense raindrops blurring Wright's vision! Simultaneously, vast swathes of eerie white smoke inexplicably surged out from all directions, instantly engulfing everything around Wright along with the downpour!

Wright knew that delaying any longer would be detrimental to him! Although he had lost his wand, he still raised the cross in his hand and, facing the burning wooden cross standing behind him in the rain, shouted, "Arise! Fire Cross, in the name of the Lord, I command you to unleash your divine power and destroy the evil spirits!"

With a loud bang, the burning wooden cross unexpectedly spewed out several huge, raging pillars of fire, flashing with terrifyingly blinding light, like several ferocious fire dragons, rushing towards a black cloud in the sky where the rain was pouring down!

With a deafening roar, the pillar of fire and the fire dragon soared high into the sky, striking the eerie black cloud. A deafening explosion erupted, shaking the heavens and the earth. Father Wright was thrown to the ground by the tremors. In the rain, he could vaguely see the black cloud flashing red after being struck by the pillar of fire. Clearly, the pillar of fire on the cross had struck the demon!

With a deafening roar, the enormous fiery cross, unable to withstand the immense, invisible magical power unleashed upon colliding with the black cloud, exploded automatically, instantly shattering into more than a dozen burning pieces of wood that scattered in all directions! The pillar of fire that shot straight into the sky also disappeared into the rain.

"Hahaha! Demon! How did the divine fire attack taste?" Father Wright shouted as he scrambled to his feet in the muddy, rain-soaked ground. He was convinced that his all-out attack had severely wounded the demon!

To his surprise, the only response he received was a chilling, echoing "Hahahaha" of demonic laughter, like the snarling of millions of infants!

"Good heavens!" Father Wright couldn't believe his ears. Could it be that the divine fire attack he had just unleashed with all his might had failed to harm this demon spirit?

At the same time, the white light and demonic smoke surging towards him from all sides became thicker and brighter, and the eerie, infant-like demonic laughter became more ferocious and terrifying, shifting left and right, forward and backward, up and down, until Father Wright's mind went completely dizzy and disoriented! The demon let out a triumphant grin!

Father Wright's face showed great terror, but he still raised the cross in his hand high and shouted, "Demon, in the name of the Lord, I command you to reveal your true form! In the name of the Lord, I command you to go back to hell!"

"Hahaha!" With a sinister, echoing laugh, Wright saw a flash of red light appear in mid-air ahead. A figure of the Virgin Mary, draped in a blue and red robe, appeared in the red light. Good heavens, the Virgin Mary's eyes were flashing with an eerie red light, and her face had a ferocious expression! A red light, staring menacingly at Wright in mid-air!

"God loves mankind, and mankind loves God." The Holy Mother, radiating red light, slowly descended from mid-air. "I am the Lord, Father, you have no choice but to kneel down before me!" In the wisps of red smoke, the Holy Mother appeared even more sinister and terrifying!

"You audacious demon, how dare you transform into the Virgin Mary! The Lord will surely not let you go, die! You demon!" Father Wright roared, he could hardly believe his eyes, this demon dared to appear as a Catholic deity! He could not tolerate this terrible scene, he screamed and threw the crucifix in his hand, which flew towards the Virgin Mary that the demon had transformed into!

"Hahaha!" The Virgin Mary in the red light let out a heavy, devilish laugh, transforming back into a man. The instant the cross struck, with a "whoosh," she turned into a cloud of red smoke and vanished without a trace, leaving behind wisps of shimmering red smoke. Utterly bizarre!

Father Wright then realized how terrifying this demon was. Not only was its magical power unfathomable, but it could also see into people's hearts and transform into the appearance of a god. He roared, "Demon, I will take you down with me!"

---Magpie Bridge Fairy

Reply [43]: He turned around and faced the two skeletons behind him, ignoring the gusts of rain and wind hitting his face and body! He loudly chanted the divine incantation, "Genna Posina, skeleton spirits, revive! Fight with your invincible power!"

With a loud "whoosh," the two hanging skeletons miraculously burst into flames along with the incantation, instantly turning into two fiery skeletons. At the same time, the two fiery skeletons opened their mouths and let out terrifying cries of "Heavens!" "Heavens!" "Heavens!" In the flames, they were resurrected!

At the same time, with a whoosh, the two short axes tied to their feet also automatically spun and flew into their skeletal hands!

In an instant, the two fiery skeletons wielding sharp axes became imposing and murderous, like two battle-hardened warriors! They let out a fierce roar in unison, then spun around, swinging their axes, and flew straight into the air like two fiery windmills, rushing towards a terrifying, eerie black cloud that was descending from the sky and landing on the hilltop.

With a whoosh, two ferocious skeleton warriors split into two groups in mid-air, flying towards the demon spirit on the mountaintop, ready to deliver a fatal blow!

With a deafening roar, two terrifyingly long, forked bolts of light, white and blinding, ripped through the dark night sky and struck down squarely, hitting the two burning skeleton elf warriors who were already high in the air.

Instantly, with a deafening roar, the two flaming skeleton warriors automatically exploded into two enormous white fireballs in mid-air, shattering into pieces amidst the blinding white light, their forms and spirits utterly destroyed! The terrifying white fireballs instantly turned the church, which was shrouded in heavy rain, a fiery red!

Father Amright clutched his head, letting out a painful scream and groan. He collapsed to his knees on the muddy, wet cement ground, vomiting large clumps of green liquid that splashed everywhere – a truly horrifying sight!

"Boom!" Another terrifying thunderclap, both soul-stirring and awe-inspiring, white lightning bolt ripped through the night sky, striking Father Wright, who was kneeling on the ground groaning, squarely in the back. A huge burst of terrifying sparks erupted! Wright let out a final scream, was split in two by the lightning, and collapsed to the ground, dying instantly!

As soon as he fell to the ground, his upper and lower halves of his body spontaneously burst into flames, their eerie red glow illuminating everything around him!

"Hahahaha!" At the same time, the eerie laughter of demons echoed through the surrounding mist and rain. "Boom!" Another blood-red lightning bolt struck down, hitting the roof of the small church. With a "boom," the entire small church was instantly blasted into flames by the lightning. After the explosion, the fire blazed fiercely throughout the small church, illuminating the surrounding terrifying forest in a crimson glow!

It felt like the end of the world!

Then, the rain began to subside, the wind began to slow down, the surging waves on the shore calmed down, and in the glow of the burning church, a dark and thick cloud slowly left the island!

The fiery red flames illuminated Father Mott and Zhang Wen, who were watching the battle from the woods, and revealed the tragic death of Father Wright!

The two of them couldn't help but burst into tears!

They never expected that this demon would be so powerful! It so easily defeated Father Wright, who had many years of experience in exorcism!

Part 9

The next morning, the sun rose in the east, and the sky was clear and cloudless!

Before leaving this terrifying island, Zhang Wen looked at the beautiful morning with the sea and sky blending into one, a brilliant blue, and simply couldn't imagine the terrifying battle of magic that had taken place the night before!

The bearded captain piloted the motorized fishing boat and took Father Mott and Zhang Wen away from Beiling Island!

Back in the city, the two found a clubhouse and sat down in silence.

After a twenty-minute silence, Father Mott finally spoke, "Ah Wen, why don't we leave Hong Kong? Otherwise, it won't let us go!"

"No, absolutely not!" Zhang Wen, who had always been calm and composed, began to become agitated! He was like a raging storm, his voice trembling with fear. He was a man of few words, his voice trembling with rage. He was a man of few words, his voice trembling with anger ...

“Are you crazy, Awen! You saw it last night too, how terrifying this demon is! It’s hard for us ordinary people to fight against it! Staying here is just waiting to die. Why don’t you come with me to the Vatican to ask for help!” Father Mott said, wiping the cold sweat from his face.

"Go ahead, Father! I will not leave!"

“Awen, I don’t want anything to happen to you! You need to wake up!” Father Mott emphasized.

Zhang Wen punched himself on the head, then sighed deeply. "Go to the Vatican for help! But I'm staying here, Father, you don't need to try to persuade me anymore!" He was trying to think of a way to take the demon down with him. "Alright then! Wen, I plan to go through the formalities this afternoon, and I'll try to leave tomorrow. But be careful, I don't want to lose another friend!" Father Mott said with a wry smile.

"I will be careful, Father!"

"Also, Awen, you have to grant me one request."

What are the requirements?

Father Mott stared at Zhang Wen with a grave expression. "Whatever you do, whatever you do, don't go to New Conley Hospital again!"

This morning was also Lu Manlin's first day at work, and a big day for Xin Kangli Hospital, because Dean Bai had found another wealthy investor. So when Lu Manlin drove to the hospital entrance, the gate was covered with banners and flowers welcoming the new tycoon!

When Lu Manlin got out of the car, he saw Uncle Long crying next to the security booth. He quickly went over and asked, "Uncle Long, why are you crying?"

"Waaah, Dr. Lu, my two wolfhounds, Ah Huang and Ah Chen, died inexplicably last night. It's so terrible... Waaah," Uncle Long cried.

---Magpie Bridge Fairy

Reply [44]: "What's so scary?" Lu Manlin asked, puzzled.

“It rained heavily last night. Ah Huang and Ah Chen went crazy in the middle of the night, barking at the open space where it was raining. Then they suddenly and inexplicably vomited blood and died. Think about it, these two dogs are very strong. How could they die so strangely?” Uncle Long’s voice was clearly filled with fear.

"How could this happen?" Lu Manlin rushed to the nearby burial site of Ah Huang and Ah Chen. He lifted the raincoat covering them and saw two stiff, dead wolfhounds. Their deaths were extremely gruesome, with their mouths wide open and their eyes bulging out, looking as if they died with their eyes wide open!

Just as Lu Manlin was about to close the box, he suddenly saw something wriggling in the mouths of the two dogs. Before he could even calm down, he saw three or four disgusting cockroaches stretching their disgusting wings and crawling out of the stiff, white, bloody mouths of the dogs. Then, swarms of cockroaches poured out of the mouths, noses, ears, and anuses of the two dead dogs like a river, covering their entire bodies in an instant and spreading to the ground in all directions.

Lu Manlin screamed in fright and quickly retreated. At the same time, even larger swarms of cockroaches poured out of the dog's corpse, surging towards Lu Manlin in a dark mass.

Several caregivers and security guards who happened to be passing by rushed over, grabbed brooms and wooden boards, and frantically swatted at the cockroaches. Soon, they had beaten the cockroaches into a bloody mess, leaving corpses strewn all over the ground!

Lu Manlin and Long Bo looked at each other in bewilderment, with only one thought flashing through their minds: the deaths of these two dogs were too bizarre!

At noon, a buffet was held on the lawn in the back garden of New Conde Hospital to welcome the wealthy investor. Under the bright sunshine and gentle breeze, Bai Dewen was on the stage, boasting and talking wildly. He claimed that he would sweep the Hong Kong nursing home market within three years, and also bragged about how many high-ranking officials he knew and how powerful he was.

When asked by reporters about the intern doctor's violent killing spree a few nights earlier, he offered no explanation or evasion. He claimed that he had long suspected the doctor named Wang Ming was problematic, but his boss, Wang Tiansheng, insisted on keeping Wang Ming, despite his repeated attempts to dissuade him, which ultimately led to the major incident. He felt deeply saddened and believed that if Wang Tiansheng hadn't died unexpectedly, he would have been impressed by his foresight.

Lu Manlin couldn't listen any longer. He grabbed a lunchbox, filled it with rice, and took some char siu, shrimp, braised pork, and vegetables. He walked alone to a secluded lawn to eat.

He sat down on a fake rock and took a few bites when suddenly, for some reason, he felt a wave of dizziness wash over him, and his whole body felt inexplicably cold. He picked up his chopsticks, intending to force himself to eat a few more bites, when suddenly a terrible smell of blood hit him. He couldn't help but look down, and what he saw horrified him so much that goosebumps rose all over his body and his hair stood on end! Good heavens, this lunchbox didn't contain any barbecued pork and shrimp rice, but a huge box of horrifying bright red human blood, with seven or eight large gray spider corpses floating in the blood—it was absolutely terrifying! Lu Manlin screamed in fright and threw the entire lunchbox to the ground.

Strangely, when the box of human blood spider rice fell back onto the lawn, it instantly transformed back into a pile of char siu shrimp rice on the grass, returning to its original form.

"Hehehe," Lu Manlin gasped for breath, staring at the scattered shrimp rice on the grass. He couldn't believe his eyes, but he was certain that the blood-splattered spider rice he had just seen was not a hallucination, because he could even smell the terrifying stench of blood.

Lu Manlin had a strange intuition that the terrifying scene he had just witnessed might be an ominous sign, foreshadowing a great disaster that was about to befall the hospital!

His unfortunate premonition later came true.

After saying goodbye to Father Mott, Zhang Wen returned to the police station. He and his assistants Zhu Mingshi and Xiao Tan reviewed the case files related to Wang Tiansheng's sudden death, but made little progress. For some reason, Zhang Wen felt unwell all over, weak and unable to concentrate.

Xiao Tan then recounted an incident: when he questioned Wang Tiansheng's wife yesterday, she claimed to have had a terrible nightmare in which her husband was killed by a ghost. She also claimed that a voice in her dream told her that many people would soon die at Xinkangli Hospital and that a great calamity was coming!

"Do you believe her or not, Brother Wen?" Xiao Tan asked.

"I..." Zhang Wen was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses. "I don't believe it. These gossipy old women are so boring!" As he spoke, he felt a headache coming on again.

Seeing that Zhang Wen didn't look well, the two quickly advised him to go home and rest, since he was already on vacation for the next few days anyway. Zhang Wen said he wanted to rest in his office for a while. The two hurriedly left.

Zhang Wen lay down on the sofa and slept for a while before falling asleep.

He didn't know when, but he found himself in a long, dark hall that seemed to have no end. Suddenly, the Indian street performer he had seen at the dock the day before yesterday, who had performed the fire-catching act, appeared in front of him.

In the darkness, the Indian man was catching the fire stick with incredible speed while staring at him strangely.

"Hurry up and go east! Hurry up and go east! Otherwise you'll die!" The Indian vagrant said, tossing a fire stick into the air. Suddenly, the stick turned and slammed down on Zhang Wen's head. Good heavens, his hair was on fire... on fire... "Zhang Wen was jolted awake from his nightmare. He still felt a burning pain in his head, as if the nightmare was real! But his dizziness and headache were strangely much better, as if the nightmare had cured him.

"Hurry to the east, hurry to the east..." The voice of the Indian man in his dream seemed to echo in his ears. How strange!

---Magpie Bridge Fairy

Reply [45]: "East? East?" Zhang Wen muttered to himself in a half-dream state. Suddenly he remembered that there was a children's central park to the east of the police station. Could this dream be telling him to go there to find a savior?

He quickly got up, changed into a suit, walked out of the police station, and headed towards the park about a hundred meters to the east.

He quickly entered the park, a small park covered with lawns and trees. In the center of the park was a circular fountain, about ten meters in diameter. In the middle of the fountain was a rockery and seven white stone sculptures of Western-style angel children, which circled around it. Water jets sprayed from the urination sites of these seven naked angels, each with a different shape and lifelike appearance!