Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 283 Stealing the Doll and Exorcism
"Oh, right, there's something I need to remind you of." As Blood Lord locked the door, he said to Jiang Jin, "I know who that Level 2 witch puppeteer is. She's a new member of the Dawn team, a disciple recently accepted by Su Yuan, and her name is Su Wan."

Jiang Jin was taken aback: "Disciple?"

"Hmm." Blood Lord nodded, his tone indifferent. "Su Yuan has tried to curry favor with Nirvana many times before, hoping to remarry Yu Tianlun, but he has been rejected each time. Therefore, Su Wan may not have a very friendly impression of Nirvana, especially as the vice leader. Be careful in the future."

“You seem to know quite a bit about the Dawn team,” Jiang Jin glanced at Blood Lord. “I don’t think she even recognized you.”

Blood Lord chuckled, a hint of calculation in his voice: "Of course I know. The Dawn team is actively negotiating a cooperation with us in the Blood Clan. They've suffered heavy losses recently and are looking for a way out."

"Oh?" Jiang Jin became interested. "So, did you agree?"

The Blood Lord leaned forward slightly, lowered his voice, and revealed a smile that any man could understand—a smile that mixed ambition and admiration: "I gave Su Yuan a choice: marry me, have my soul imprint planted in her, and the Bloodstained and Dawn teams unite through marriage, merging resources and sharing power. With Su Yuan's strength as a Level 4 witch and Dawn's resources, if I can succeed in this, my strength will undoubtedly advance even further." The Blood Lord spoke as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

"So...she agreed?" Jiang Jin pressed.

Blood Lord spread his hands, his tone tinged with regret: "No, she refused. She said she could consider a marriage alliance, but she would never accept having her soul imprinted on her. Otherwise, given my style, if I really married Su Yuan, wouldn't the wedding be a grand affair, known to everyone?"

Jiang Jin's inner monologue: There's a saying in the circle, "Southern Su Yuan, Northern Xia Yu." Both women are priestesses. Su Yuan, despite having relatively weak talent, rose from a plot character to a LV4 priestess, while Xia Yu, with high talent, has only just advanced to LV3. Both betrayed their husbands and are both loosely connected to powerful men. The difference is that Xia Yu relies on various male strongmen, while Su Yuan directly built a reverse harem, collecting numerous male favorites. The Blood Lord is probably quite disappointed that he didn't take the opportunity to include both in his collection. After all, everyone in the reincarnation circle knows he has absolutely no interest in innocent young girls, but he's always been open to married women and prostitutes! For example, Bernadette, Valeria, Kim Suk-mi, Georgia, Aurora, etc., aren't they all former prostitutes? What was that movie line again? I bet the Blood Lord could run into nine men who'd... well, you know, slept with them just by going out to buy a pack of cigarettes...

As a fellow man, Jiang Jin simply couldn't understand his bizarre minotaur collecting obsession. How could a grown man like him, with not a single decent woman by his side, insist on collecting worn-out shoes worn by a bunch of people?
Jiang Jin immediately pulled his somewhat erratic thoughts back, but suddenly, he began to feel something was off.

Why are I and Blood Lord acting like old friends, joking around like this? Are they really that close?
At that moment, the Warrens, who were about to go out, opened the door to their house and saw one of their students—Su Wan.

“Mr. Warren, I’m so sorry to bother you,” Su Wan said, her face showing just the right amount of anxiety and apology. “I think I just dropped a very important family heirloom brooch in the museum. It’s a keepsake from my mother… May I go in and look for it?”

Ed looked at the quiet, composed female student from the East, without suspecting anything. He glanced at his watch, looking somewhat troubled: "I have an urgent matter to attend to and must go out... Here's what I'll do: I'll give you the key. Go inside and look carefully. Once you find it, please lock the door and then give the key to the nanny, Georgiana. She knows where it is."

"Thank you so much, Mr. Warren! I will be careful and will not touch anything inside!" Su Wan quickly assured him, secretly delighted.

Having obtained the key, Su Wan once again stepped into that suffocatingly eerie museum.

However, she didn't look for the brooch that didn't exist; instead, she went straight to the standalone display case.

The Annabelle doll, dressed in a white lace dress, sat there quietly, her ambiguous smile appearing increasingly eerie.

Su Wan took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the chill rising in her heart.

“Master, Annabelle is the perfect person to be my destined magic doll.”

Su Wan's master, Su Yuan, the leader of the Dawn Team, is recognized as one of the peak witches, having reached the LV4 Summoning Witch!
Without further hesitation, she took out a special tool from her Reincarnator watch, put on special protective gloves, and carefully took out the Annabelle doll.

The moment she touched it, a cold, malicious wave traveled from her fingertips, attempting to erode her SAN value.

Su Wan snorted coldly, mobilizing the witch's power within her to repel the malice.

She quickly placed Annabelle into a specially made cloth bag covered with sealing talismans. Then, she took out a pre-prepared ordinary antique doll from her Reincarnator watch and used witchcraft to make it look exactly like the Annabelle doll.

She carefully placed the fake inside, making it indistinguishable from the real thing.

After doing all this, she carefully checked everything to make sure no obvious traces were left, then quickly left the paranormal museum and carefully locked the door!

……

This is a Catholic church located on the outskirts of Monroe, which looks rather old and solemn.

It wasn't a Sunday, so there weren't many people in the church, except for a few devout elderly people praying silently in the front row.

A relatively quiet corner near the side hall.

“Let’s do it here,” Lian Xuan said in a low voice. As a medium, he could sense that the barrier of the material layer here was relatively stable, but the fluctuations of the adjacent lost layer were also faintly discernible. “I will protect you here and watch out for any anomalies in the real world. Ade, it’s up to you.”

"Thank you so much." Jiang Jin hadn't expected the two brothers to be so straightforward and willing to help him. "It's nothing, Vice Commander Jiang, you're too kind. We all admire Commander Yu very much." After Lian De finished speaking, he closed his eyes and began to chant an ancient and obscure prayer in a low voice, intending to draw upon the divine power emanating from the church.

A faint, warm white light emanated from the shrine in his hand, spreading out and enveloping a small area around him and Jiang Jin.

“Vice Commander Jiang, relax and follow my guidance,” Lian De said to Jiang Jin. “I will try to use the power of the shrine to dispel the evil spirits for you as you go deeper into the Lost Layer.”

Jiang Jin took a deep breath, nodded to Lian Xuan, and then began to venture into the deeper and more chaotic Lost Layer.

Upon re-entering the Lost Layer of the [Summoning] horror instance, a distorted imagery and chilling malice surged forth like a tide, attempting to erode his consciousness.

Jiang Jin relied on the faint but firm warm light emanating from the Lian De Shrine to barely maintain his sense of direction and avoid getting lost for a moment.

Lian De focused intently on maintaining the shrine while simultaneously sensing the flow of corrupted rules in the lost layer region where Jiang Jin's consciousness resided.

Soon, an extremely cold, dark, blasphemous, and resentful aura of curse forcefully invaded the area covered by the shrine without warning! Even the faint sacred aura that the church itself possessed and accumulated over many years could not stop its arrival!
The light in the church seemed to dim instantly, and a stench similar to that emanating from a tomb filled the air.

The elderly people praying in the front row seemed to sense something and began to stir restlessly.

In Lian De's perception, a terrifying figure gradually materialized in the Lost Layer, clearly appearing in the side hall of the church!
The tall figure was shrouded in a tattered black nun's robe, her skin was deathly pale, and her twisted, sinister face was staring at them with extreme malice!

The Demon Nun Valak!
She actually dared to show up inside the church!

Lian De was both shocked and furious, but he did not back down. Instead, he pushed the power of the shrine to its limit!

A warm, holy white light expanded from the shrine, attempting to banish the demon nun to the depths of the Lost Layer!

However, the evil nun's power far exceeded expectations!
She quickly stretched out her decaying, withered hand and gently pressed it against the light emanating from the shrine!
The shrine domain constructed by Lian De fluctuated violently, and the light was instantly blocked outside the Lost Layer, unable to advance any further!
He himself felt as if he had been struck by a heavy blow, let out a muffled groan, and a trickle of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth!

"Ade! Be careful!" Lian Xuan immediately activated his spiritual medium power, attempting to restrain the demon nun within the Lost Layer, but his power was like a mud ox sinking into the sea, unable to affect her in the slightest!

Jiang Jin, who was in the Lost Layer, also felt immense pressure. He saw the demon nun ignore Lian De's resistance, grinning maliciously as she walked towards him step by step, her withered hand reaching directly for his throat!

In the critical moment, Jiang Jin roared and the farmer's chainsaw, exuding a bloody and ferocious aura, appeared in his hand!

"Whoosh!!!" Jiang Jin pulled the start rope without hesitation, and the chainsaw engine roared violently!
He raised the chainsaw, its chain spinning wildly, and swung it fiercely at the demon nun who was standing right in front of him!
The chainsaw, imbued with the boundless malevolent aura of the rancher from Dead by Daylight, struck the demon nun squarely!
However, although the chainsaw did come into contact with the nun's evil spirit body and produced dazzling sparks and a series of teeth-grinding scraping sounds, the effect was far less than expected!
The demon nun merely swayed slightly, letting out a low growl filled with intense malice, and her attack on Jiang Jin didn't even stop!
She actually managed to withstand the direct attack of this murder weapon!
It looks like Jiang Jin is about to be captured!
"Roar--!"

At the critical moment, the death knell that had been guarding Jiang Jin's physical body moved!

The enhanced Ashhound unleashed its full power, instantly opening its ghostly domain and rapidly enveloping the Lost Layer with dense ash mist! At the same time, the Soul Splitter, which Valeria had enhanced for it, rapidly shone with ghostly light on its claws, and the phantom of the Hundred Ghosts Scroll also appeared and disappeared in the ash mist, emitting a mournful howl!
Deathstroke lunged forward, his body slamming into the demon nun with soul-tearing power!

This time, the attack finally had an effect!
The moment the Ghost Domain suppressed the Demon Nun, the Holy Light of the Church finally shone completely into the Lost Layer, directly affecting her!

The demon nun's pale face revealed an extremely venomous expression. She stared intently at Jiang Jin and Deathstroke, then her figure began to blur and distort, finally disappearing into the air as if erased by an eraser...

"She...she's too strong..." Lian De said, still shaken. "My shrine was almost destroyed by her with a mere flick of her wrist..."

Lian Xuan's expression was grave: "It seems Ye Xiao was right, this instance is very complex. However, she probably won't be able to return to the shallow areas of the Lost Layer for the time being."

Looking at the spot where the demon nun had disappeared, Blood Lord said in a deep voice, "After all, this demon nun was severely weakened in the shallow layers of the Lost Layer, and this is a Catholic church. We only managed to barely suppress her because we had so many advantages. In the main storyline of the movie 'The Conjuring 1,' the evil spirit in the Perrin family's haunted house is equivalent to an extremely powerful earthbound spirit. Once inside that house, it would be no less powerful than the demon nun. When we fall into the depths of the Lost Layer, Valak will definitely be waiting for us there!"

The exorcism ritual that follows cannot be performed inside a Catholic church, and the divine power that can be borrowed will naturally be greatly weakened!

"Never mind all that, I need to use this time to intensify my cultivation." Jiang Jin's eyes grew even more determined.

time flies……

Halloween is coming soon, November 1st...

(End of this chapter)