Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 298
The final battle is about to begin!

The basement horror and Caroline's possession plunged the survivors into the deepest abyss.

Blood Lord knew very well that the evil witch Basshiba was merging with Caroline's body. Once completed, she would become a terrifying being who could walk on the material plane and unleash the deep power of the lost plane. At that time, even he and Jiang Jin would have no choice but to use the return rune to escape.

"We can't wait any longer!" Blood Lord's voice was hoarse but carried a resolute determination. He looked at Jiang Jin and said in Chinese, "Jiang Jin, give me the Crimson Jade first! Don't worry, since I've given it to you, I won't ask for it back. I'm just borrowing it for a bit!"

Jiang Jin looked at him suddenly and immediately understood!
Blood Lord quickly explained, "The Reincarnation System previously reminded me that the seal on the Blade of Breakthrough is only temporary! As long as the energy is strong enough, I can forcefully break through the first layer and temporarily restore my LV3 Soul Refiner strength! Only when I reach that level can I forcefully enter the deepest layer of the Lost Layer, and even reach the gap between the Lost Layer and the Annihilation Layer, find Basshiba, and eliminate her before she completes her possession! This is the best way to stop the possession process!"

Time was of the essence, and there was truly no better choice. Jiang Jin gritted his teeth, took out the jade stone radiating a warm red light from his watch space, and tossed it to the Blood Lord without hesitation: "I'm counting on you!"

Blood Lord took the Crimson Jade and felt the immense energy within it, which Jiang Jin had enhanced through the manipulation of the rules. A glint of light flashed in his eyes: Why does this thing seem to have become even more powerful than before?
He immediately sat down cross-legged, put on the jade pendant, and began to frantically absorb its power to break through the first seal remaining in his body from the "Breakthrough Blade"!
Soul power surged from his body, reflecting the light of the crimson jade!
At the same time, Jiang Jin knew he had to race against time.

He activated his Ghost Eyes with all his might, his gaze sweeping across every corner of the house like a searchlight.

Jiang Jin knew very well that for the evil spirit to use Caroline as an "anchor" in the material world, it couldn't completely pull her into the contaminated layer. Otherwise, once she was contaminated, her role as an anchor in the material world would become invalid. Therefore, she must still be within the material world of the house!
He must find the possessed Caroline on the material plane and ensure that while attacking the evil spirit within her, he minimizes the damage to Caroline's physical body.

Jiang Jin recalled the information he had gathered on the Reincarnator Forum: Possession is an extremely terrifying form of corruption, meaning that the host's SAN value has fallen to the deepest level of the Lost Layer, and may even be beginning to slide towards the Annihilation Layer, with zeroing out only a matter of time.

The possessed person acts as a living "anchor," allowing the power of the contaminated layer to directly affect the material layer—one of the situations that reincarnators fear most. The Zhu You profession, with its powerful spiritual purification and stabilization abilities, is an expert in dealing with possession, extremely difficult to possess, and capable of dispelling possession… Unfortunately, it's not available here now.

"Found it!" Jiang Jin's dark eyes suddenly locked onto the mezzanine corridor on the second floor!

Caroline's physical body is there, but her soul is being eroded by Basshiba's resentment!

"Lian Xuan! Follow me!" Jiang Jin roared, immediately taking out the farmer's chainsaw. The medium Lian Xuan followed immediately, knowing that as a spirit observer, he could play a crucial role in fighting deep possession.

The Warrens were dumbfounded. Was their student a magician? Where did he get such a huge chainsaw?
"I'm going too!" Roger, the male homeowner, said with red eyes, wanting to follow.

"You stay down here!" Jiang Jin said sternly without turning his head. "What can you do up there besides cause trouble? Protect everyone else here! Lian De, Su Wan, you two stay here and help the teacher and his wife protect the remaining children!"

Jiang Jin and Lian Xuan rushed up to the second floor. Reaching the entrance to the mezzanine, Jiang Jin pulled the start cord on the chainsaw without hesitation—whoosh! The roar of the engine ripped through the silence. He raised the roaring chainsaw and sawed fiercely down at the sealed wall!
Wood chips flew everywhere, and pieces of wood scattered in all directions! Soon, a hole large enough for an adult to pass through was forcibly opened.

Jiang Jin and Lian Xuan rushed in one after the other.

The space inside the compartment was cramped and covered in dust. "Caroline" was curled up in a corner, her body contorted at an inhuman angle, emitting a low, eerie growl. Her eyes were completely black, without a trace of white, and her face was covered in grotesque, bulging veins!
Just as Jiang Jin tried to get closer...

An invisible yet tangible terrifying force field suddenly erupted from "Caroline"!
That was a rule contamination originating from deep within the Lost Layer, even carrying a trace of the characteristics of the gap between the Lost Layer and the Annihilation Layer!

"Ugh!" Jiang Jin groaned, feeling as if he had been hit hard in the chest by a heavy hammer!
Subsequently, large patches of bluish-black bruises appeared on his exposed skin at a visible speed, as if he had been beaten by invisible sticks!

The chilling malice pierced his very bones like a needle, and his SAN value began to plummet!

"Spirit Wall - Guard!" Lian Xuan shouted, his body radiating a soft white spiritual light as he attempted to construct a spiritual barrier to resist the surging torrent of pollution.

The white light collided violently with the invisible dark force field, producing a sizzling corrosive sound. Lian Xuan's face turned deathly pale instantly, and his body trembled slightly. Clearly, as a LV2 medium, he was having an extremely difficult time holding on.

Jiang Jin gritted his teeth and tried to move forward again, but with each step closer, the bruises on his body increased and the mental impact became stronger!
He brandished the chainsaw, but the attack had no effect on this pure corruption of rules!

A sense of despair welled up in my heart again.

Jiang Jin and Lian Xuan both clearly realized that they were too weak!

Even though Jiang Jin, as a near-LV3, had already faintly touched the threshold of entering LV3, their resistance was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot in the face of an evil spirit that could exist in the gap between the Lost Layer and the Annihilation Layer!

Jiang Jin realized that he probably didn't have much of a chance against Yamamura Sadako, who was able to enter the Annihilation Layer!

Just when the two were almost overwhelmed by this terrifying power, and Jiang Jin even considered using the return-to-town rune to abandon the mission...

The Blood Lord's urgent voice came from downstairs; he clearly sensed the predicament upstairs: "The photo! Master's wife! Quick! Take that family photo upstairs and show it to her! Let her remember!"

In the original film, Caroline ultimately overcame the evil spirit's corruption by relying on her deep love for her family and children.

Of course, in this strange world of rules distorted by meme contamination, it is impossible to expect pure maternal love to create miracles, but it is indeed the only way to interfere with the possession process and buy precious time for the Blood Lord to break through to LV3!
Lorraine Warren immediately understood. She grabbed the family photo on the table, taken on a sunny beach, showing the Perrins smiling broadly, and rushed upstairs without hesitation!
Reaching the hole, risking contamination, she shoved the photograph inside and screamed at the distorted figure within, "Caroline! Look at me! Look at this picture! Do you remember? You said you'd never forget that day! You said they meant your whole world! Look at Andrea, Nancy, Christine, Cindy, April! And Roger! Your family! Your whole world! Now…don't you want any of it?!"

Caroline's body jolted violently!
There seemed to be a very faint tremor in those dark eyes.

The happy smiles of the family in the bright sunshine in the photo stand in stark contrast to the darkness, distortion, and despair of this moment!
"Ah...ah ah..." The possessed Caroline let out an incomprehensible roar, a mixture of pain and struggle.

Within her, the indomitable will of Caroline, rooted in maternal love, ignited like a tiny flame in a storm, fueled by Rowling's cries and the photographs, began to fiercely resist the cold, venomous corruption of Bassiban!

A perilous tug-of-war, taking place deep within Caroline's consciousness, has begun!

The evil spirits' corrupting influence constantly assaults and attempts to completely extinguish that glimmer of humanity, but Caroline's will, fueled by her deepest love and memories of her family, stubbornly holds on!

This stalemate lasted even longer than in the movies, miraculously lasting for more than ten minutes!

These precious ten minutes bought the Blood Lord downstairs the most crucial time!
boom!
A surge of soul power, far more powerful and refined than before, imbued with the essence of refining and control, suddenly erupted from the Blood Lord!

In addition, the Crimson Jade was greatly enhanced by Jiang Jin, and the Blood Lord possessed terrifying talent as a Soul Stealer...

His tightly closed eyes suddenly snapped open, and it seemed as if vengeful spirits were wailing within them, and soul fires were burning within them! LV3 Soul Refiner!
Seal broken!

"It's done!" Without the slightest hesitation, Blood Lord charged into the deepest part of the Lost Layer, ruthlessly breaking into the chaotic and painful crevice that intersected with the Annihilation Layer!
There, he immediately saw the twisted evil spirit of the witch Basshibana, which was closely connected to Caroline's body in the material layer through an invisible "thread"!
The Blood Lord's soul let out a silent roar, activating the Soul Refiner's skill—[Soul Weapon Resonance]!
"Basshiba!"

The two soul blades he had nurtured, forged from pure resentment, instantly appeared in his soul's hand and slashed out in a cross shape!

He simultaneously activated his professional skill, deliberately unleashing the curse of the dual blades instantly!

The power of the next strike suddenly doubled! The dark red blade light, like lightning, ruthlessly severed the connecting lines and continued its momentum into Basshiba's body!

Basshiba let out a desperate shriek, originating from the very source of his resentment!

She tried to mobilize the corrupting power of the rules within the gap between the Lost Layer and the Annihilation Layer to resist, but the Blood Lord's all-out attack precisely hit the core where her connection to the Materialist Layer anchor point was most vulnerable and where her consciousness was most concentrated!
The refining properties attached to the Soul Blade began to operate wildly, like two huge vortexes, forcibly tearing and stripping the vast and pure resentment that Basshibana had accumulated for hundreds of years from her core, and then melting and absorbing it into the Soul Blade!

During this process, Basshiba's shrieks grew weaker and weaker, and her distorted figure was like a candle flickering in the wind. In the end, under the devouring of the Soul Blade, she completely disintegrated and dissolved, and her resentment was completely transformed into nourishment for the Soul Weapon.

Reincarnators cannot kill ghosts, but Soul Reapers can seal the resentment that constitutes a ghost into a Soul Artifact!

The evil witch Basshiba, who had occupied the Peren family mansion for hundreds of years and caused countless horrors and deaths, had its very existence shattered and melted away at this moment!

The evil spirits that plagued the Perrin family have come to an end.

Materialist floor, inside the second-floor cubicle.

The terrifying, suffocating polluting force field receded like a tide.

The bruises on Jiang Jin's body began to slowly fade away, and Lian Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, almost collapsing from exhaustion.

Caroline, who was curled up in the corner, suddenly went limp, and the darkness in her eyes disappeared as quickly as the tide receded, returning to its original color.

She looked around blankly, her gaze finally landing on the family photo by the door, and tears welled up instantly.

"Caroline!" Roger rushed up and hugged his wife tightly.

The children gathered around, and the family hugged each other, their cries of relief and words of comfort filling the room.

As the Blood Lord entered the room, his youngest daughter, April, broke free from her parents and ran to him. She grasped his cold fingers with her small hand, looked up at him with teary eyes, and said sincerely, "Uncle... thank you... for saving Mommy..."

Looking at the child before him, feeling the faint warmth emanating from his fingers, Blood Lord was momentarily at a loss for words.

……

The sky finally brightened, and sunlight streamed through the windows, dispelling the last gloom in the mansion.

The Perrin family, who had experienced a nightmare, were fortunate to have survived, even though they lost their two children, Christine and Cindy.

Before leaving the instance, April took her crayons and drawing paper and gave each of them a new doodle.

Although the drawing of Blood Lord was even more crooked than Cindy's, it still featured a red, upward-pointing corner of his mouth.

Blood Lord took the childish yet heartwarming drawing, remained silent for a moment, then knelt down and stroked the child's head.

"You should also thank your mother. Without her, I wouldn't have made it to the crucial moment."

"Yes, I will, Uncle!"

Then, Blood Lord silently and carefully put away the ugly graffiti.

The Warrens then approached Jiang Jin, and Ed said, "I have nothing more to teach you..."

"Teacher, you will face many more crises in the future." Jiang Jin remembered that the Conjuring series had been made into several movies.

Soon, the time for their return arrived. The Blood Lord gazed at April before him, drifting into a state between sleep and wakefulness…

……

early morning.

In the hazy morning light, a new day begins at the zoo.

After their harrowing night shift, Liu Yan and the other four were reassigned to different areas for day shifts.

Liu Yan was assigned to a beverage shop near the rabbit park, where she sold drinks and souvenirs.

Her instructions were clear: check the shelves every hour to make sure there was no rabbit blood, and if any was found, remove it immediately.

Currently, research from around the world has largely confirmed that the so-called "rabbit blood" is merely a material manifestation of this "thing," while at the level of pollution, it is something else entirely...

(End of this chapter)