American Horror Story, Starting from Falls Town

Chapter 245 Lakeside Cottage
That said, Madison, Zoe, and Maria of the Apocalypse Society still haven't found Carrie.

Because Mortel Snow was nearing the end of his life, he dared not use his third eye to predict Carrie's location, which led to the girl seemingly vanishing into thin air, leaving no trace of her life or death.

So where is Erica now?

Roy sensed Kayako's cursed dagger and found that it was very close, probably on this small island.

He tried to retrieve Kayako's cursed dagger, but for some reason Kayako did not respond to Roy's summons.

How could this be?
Just then, Roy suddenly heard a beautiful song, as if a woman was humming a song. The direction of the song coincided with the location of Kayako's cursed dagger, as if it was guiding him there.

interesting!

Roy quickened his pace to the source of the song and saw the blonde beauty Erica sitting on a small dock, humming an unknown song.

This song has only a melody and no lyrics. Erica sings the whole song using simple syllables, but it is very beautiful and inexplicably catchy.

Kayako seemed to be possessed at this moment, lying next to Erica as if she had fallen asleep.

A ghost can actually sleep? Something's not right!

Roy immediately became alert.

The dead do not completely avoid sleep, they just do not need to sleep every day.

Some powerful undead can reduce energy consumption by sleeping, such as vampires.

However, evil spirits like Kayako are definitely not included in this category. What could put an evil spirit to sleep must be some kind of powerful black magic.

At this moment, Roy also felt a little dazed, and in his vision, Erica seemed to have become a different person.

A beautiful woman with the same long golden hair, wearing a flower crown and a white dress, radiating maternal glow.

Most importantly, the woman's belly was bulging, clearly indicating that she was pregnant.

Damn it! I've been infected!

Roy's 54 points in Willpower attribute give him a very strong resistance to various mental abilities, as long as they don't seduce him.

As a straight man, Roy would definitely not be able to resist the advances of a beautiful woman.

Fortunately, Erica only wants to hypnotize Roy, so he can still hold on.

boom!
Roy pulled out his Smith & Wesson M629 Ivory Edition and fired a shot, attempting to interrupt Erica's terrifying, siren-like singing.

The shot didn't hit Erica, but it did interrupt her singing.

Roy shook his head, realizing that the image of the blonde woman in the white dress he was seeing was overlapping with Erica's.

Both of them had long, golden hair that was styled in a bun, and they looked somewhat alike, only their clothes were different.

Erica was wearing a business suit, while the blonde woman in the hallucination was wearing a casual white jumpsuit.

But something outrageous still happened: Roy suddenly noticed that Erica's belly was also swollen, just like someone who was ten months pregnant and about to give birth.

How could it be so fast?

Roy clearly remembered that just an hour ago, Erica's waist was still very slender, after all, he had been in close contact with her.

How could her belly have gotten so big in less than an hour?
Is it Lee, Barry Allen?
Erica, whose singing mood had been interrupted, turned to look at Roy.

At this moment, Roy noticed that the blonde beauty's eyes were now only white, and her entire face was covered with strange black lines.

Generally speaking, this state indicates possession by an evil spirit.

Therefore, Erica must have been possessed by the blonde woman in the white dress that Roy just saw, which is why she looks like this.

Great! Barry Allen has been exonerated!
If it's just an evil spirit, then it shouldn't be difficult to deal with.

But considering the powerful hypnotic ability he had just witnessed, which had easily hypnotized even an evil spirit of Kayako's caliber, Roy decided it was better to be cautious.

At that moment, Erica suddenly climbed down from the wooden stakes on the dock and walked toward Roy in a very mechanical and awkward manner.

This left the cautious Roy completely bewildered.

That's it?

After walking a few steps, Erica suddenly fell to the ground and became motionless, leaving Roy speechless.

Trying to stage an accident for extortion, huh?
Roy's shot just now completely missed Erica due to the hallucination; it went astray.

So Erica's transformation definitely has nothing to do with Roy.

However, Roy was still quite puzzled as to why Erica had become the way she was now; perhaps Kayako could tell him the answer.

So Roy ignored Erica, who was lying motionless on the ground, and instead picked up the cursed dagger and then woke Kayako from her slumber.

"Kayako, what exactly happened just now?"

When the married woman ghost was awakened, she was somewhat confused, like someone who had just woken up and whose head hadn't quite turned yet.

However, after seeing Roy, Kayako quickly regained her senses and began to explain, with gestures, what she had seen while following Erica.

Roy had played many friendly matches with Kayako and Sadako and had developed a good understanding with them. He guessed and pieced together what Kayako meant.

While Roy was fighting Jason, Erica took the opportunity to escape to this island and spoke with a middle-aged man with red hair and a red beard.

I can't quite put my finger on what Kayako is saying, I guess I'll have to ask Erica later to find out.

Then, the red-haired middle-aged man suddenly pushed Erica from the dock into Crystal Lake, and then drove away in a speedboat.

Roy turned to look at Erica and, sure enough, noticed some water stains on her clothes.

So is this why Erica looks like this? Is she possessed by some water ghost?

Speaking of which, in many regions, water ghosts are depicted with large bellies, which may be an indication that they drank a lot of water before they died.

So Erica's current pregnancy might not necessarily be due to Barry Allen getting her pregnant; it could simply be the influence of the water ghost.

Barry Allen: Is this ever going to end?

After learning the truth, Roy walked over to Erica and prepared to exorcise the water ghost from her body.

With the Key of Solomon in his possession, Roy could easily exorcise a water ghost.

But it was precisely for this reason that Roy became a little careless.

While they were turning Erica over, the blonde beauty suddenly opened her mouth and spewed out an enormous tongue.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Assassin's Heart alerted Roy, causing him to instinctively enter bullet time.

The tongue's speed was so fast that even in bullet time, Roy could barely dodge its attack.

But that wasn't all; Erica's tongue quickly curled back, seemingly trying to wrap around Roy's neck.

Fortunately, Roy still held the Kayako Cursed Dagger, which he used to sever Erica's tongue. The long tongue, losing its support, fell to the ground, yet it continued to wriggle and jump, as if it still possessed life.

Something's not right! Water ghosts don't have that kind of ability!
In many myths and legends, there are indeed some water ghosts that can use illusions or sounds to lure people near the water to the water, whereupon they are dragged into the water and killed by the water ghosts.

However, no water ghost can remain alive and kicking after its tongue has been cut off.

This immediately reminded Roy of what happened to Jason, the boy who killed a hundred people. Could it be...?

Sure enough, the next second, Erica's stomach split in two, the inside filled with serrations and tentacles, looking extremely disgusting.

"Get out of here!"

Without hesitation, Roy kicked Erica, sending her flying.

After landing, Erica lay on the ground, her entire body turning light red, and several extra pairs of arms and bone spurs grew from her body, making her look like a spider.

Furthermore, Erica's face became exceptionally ugly. Although it wasn't covered in tentacles like Jason's, it was covered in red pimples, triggering trypophobia in some people.

"Ni Zuokai!"

Roy's initial feelings of pity for Erica vanished at that moment. Humans are indeed visual creatures; seeing Erica like this, Roy only wanted to kill this ugly thing.

He took the chainsaw sword from his inventory, then entered demon form. The Hellfire chainsaw sword easily severed Erica's limbs, and then cut off her head.

Even so, Erica could still pupate on the ground, but that was all.

It's probably because Erica herself was too weak and didn't have Jason's physical abilities, so even after the mutation, her initial combat power was relatively low.

Roy plunged the Hellfire Chainsaw into Erica's chest, and the Hellfire blazed fiercely, igniting Erica from the inside out.

"Solve it?"

Erica stopped the pupa, but Roy wasn't sure if she was dead. After all, the blonde beauty wasn't a special person, so there was no system notification to corroborate her death.

Just when Roy thought Erica had been killed, her huge, watermelon-like belly suddenly began to swell rapidly.

Roy wasn't sure if the thing was going to explode or mutate further, so he could only use the Hellfire Chainsaw Sword to give Erica a cesarean section.

To everyone's surprise, something actually popped out of Erica's stomach, which Roy slammed to the ground with the blade of his Hellfire Chainsaw.

Upon closer inspection, it turns out to be a fetus, its blood-red body covered in amniotic fluid.

She's actually pregnant? What's going on?
The fetus on the ground seemed to be stunned by Roy's slap. It shook its head and then bared its teeth at Roy, looking like a newborn calf that was not afraid of tigers.

It's a small, unique piece that's truly something special!

The fetus seemed to frantically paddle its limbs before charging towards Roy.

However, the size difference between the two was too great. Compared to Roy, who was over three meters tall in his demon form, the fetus looked like a toy doll.

Roy lifted his foot, and the fetus missed its target.

Then Roy's foot landed, stepping on the baby's umbilical cord, but the baby was still rushing forward wildly.

He doesn't seem very bright!

Well, after all, he was born extremely prematurely, so it's normal for him to have Down syndrome.

Roy pinched the umbilical cord with his fingers and lifted the fetus up. The other party was still baring its teeth and claws at Roy, and was extremely fierce.

Then, Roy flicked the little guy on the forehead, and the kid actually started crying on the spot.

Oh, is this even possible?

At this moment, Kayako came over and started gesturing wildly with Roy.

"You mean, you'll take care of this little one?"

Kayako, who lost her son Toshio, seems to be overflowing with maternal love and wants to adopt the little one in Roy's arms.

However, Kayako is an evil spirit, while the little thing in Roy's hand is a corpse. How can they adopt it?

But after the little one was taken away by Kayako, the long umbilical cord was connected to her lower abdomen, just like some kind of contract.

Roy could clearly see the energy of Kayako's spirit slowly being transferred to the little thing, as if it were still in a pregnant state.

How could it still be like this?

Roy looked at Kayako and the little thing with some surprise.

However, this state also has its flaws. As the mother, Kayako cannot give unlimited functions to the little ones; there are limits to it.

Especially the little guy, who's like a mad dog, always trying to bite Roy.

So, Kayako, somewhat angry, grabbed the little thing and started spanking it.

Although the Seven Wolves weren't around, the little thing's eyes quickly cleared up. Sure enough, when a child is disobedient and keeps biting, a good beating will do the trick.

Of course, the little one was still hungry after the injection, and that problem still needed to be addressed.

Finally, the little creature began to devour Erica's corpse. Its stomach, like an alien gag, swallowed Erica, who was dozens of times larger than itself.

The undigested portion was fed back to Kayako, where it was slowly digested later.

At this moment, Kayako and the little creature had formed a peculiar symbiotic relationship, which Roy found very interesting.

"Kayako, since you're willing to take him in, then he's under your control. Don't let him cause any trouble."

Kayako nodded quickly, then took the little creature and crawled into the cursed dagger.

The island in the middle of the lake was only so big, and after exploring it briefly, Roy felt there wasn't much to see.

Judging from an old photograph, a family of four should have lived here.

The head of the household was a burly, red-haired middle-aged man. It was unclear whether this red-haired man was the same one Kayako had seen before.

There was a wife, blonde, wearing a white dress and heavily pregnant, who looked exactly like the woman Roy saw in his hallucination.

In addition, there are two children in the photo: a girl with blonde hair like her mother and a red-haired girl like her father.

"It seems there's nothing special. Let's go back to Nidi and see if we've found anything."

As Roy was preparing to return, he saw some lights on the distant lake, which, judging from the direction, seemed to be coming from the small town on the opposite shore of the resort.

What's going on? Could it be that Mr. R has returned with his men?
Roy quickly sought out nearby bushes to hide.

The firelight on the lake grew closer, and Roy saw a small boat dock at the pier. A dozen or so people carrying torches and wearing dark red robes and pointed hats got off.

Hiss! This isn't...

(Blonde Banshee)
(End of this chapter)