owlsbooks Chapter 2174
Chapter 2174
Chapter 2174
Abnormal phenomena on Earth have been occurring too frequently recently, so frequently that ordinary people have begun to get used to them.
First, a strange virus appeared in Chicago. Although this virus was not as scary as the zombie virus in the movies, it was also very strange. It could make people's evil thoughts burst out and turn them into thugs who did all kinds of evil.
Then came the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons in Paris and the Great Plague in London.
In a word, there is no safe place.
Of course, the Earth is not completely passive, and many secret organizations have come to the fore at this moment.
For example, the Shadow Bureau and S.H.I.E.L.D., which few people know about, have come to the fore because of this unusual occurrence. Only the S.H.I.E.L.D. in China is still hidden in the shadows.
Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Why is there such an evil spirit!" Dean sat down on the ground, covered in sweat and blood.
On the other side, Dean's younger brother Sam and an old man with a white beard were sitting on the ground back to back. Their chests were heaving violently and their bodies were in a mess. The old man with the white beard was the worst off, having been shot in the thigh.
They are the famous Winchester brothers.
The most outstanding player among the demon hunters, they have long occupied the title of the most dangerous partner... This title does not simply refer to the fact that they have completed many dangerous missions, but also because they have a kind of beauty of being born alone. When the two of them team up to go out hunting demons, they can usually turn danger into safety. But once they team up with other people, it will be terrible, and the demon hunters who team up with them will most likely be finished.
In the beginning, many demon hunters suspected that the two brothers were doing something shameful behind the scenes... There is no training institution for demon hunters, and there is no supervision, so it is inevitable that there are good and bad people.
Moreover, demon hunters basically have no fixed jobs and income, so in order to make a living, these people who are obviously doing extremely great things also do a lot of illegal activities behind the scenes... There is no other way, these people also have to make a living. They wander around for a long time, have no fixed residence, and naturally cannot have no fixed job.
So they can only engage in some gray industries, such as stealing credit cards... The Winchester brothers are masters of this, and they have been stealing credit cards for a long time.
In foreign countries, swiping cards is a very common way of spending. When swiping credit cards offline in China, everyone is used to using passwords to pay, but in foreign countries, credit card swiping usually does not require a password. For example, North America (the United States, Canada) and Europe are typical "signature" verification areas. Transactions usually do not support password verification. Merchants will check your signature on the back of the card when you use your credit card to make purchases. The elimination of the password verification step also increases the risk of cardholders being stolen to a certain extent.
Do you need a password to pay by credit card abroad?
No, the card swiping requirements vary from country to country. Some merchants require a password verification and require a 4-digit password or 4-digit PIN. In this case, you only need to enter the first 4 digits of the card password.
But in the United States, it's really simple.
The Winchester brothers are relatively principled. They generally don't spend too much, and they don't make any big purchases, just eating out and filling up their gas tanks.
This is already a very high moral standard.
Some unscrupulous demon hunters would even go deeper into crime, such as becoming assassins... Yes, demon hunters would become assassins. There are even drug dealers.
There's no way, it's really hard to talk about the group of demon hunters.
The largest source of this group is those who have survived supernatural events. These people often have very serious psychological trauma, so it is inevitable that they have some personality problems.
Many demon hunters embark on this path because their family members have been sacrificed in various supernatural events.
The most typical example is the father of the Wen brothers.
He became a demon hunter out of despair because his wife was killed by a demon. In order to hunt down those inhuman beings, Wen Dad would even do some cruel things.
There are actually only a few demon hunters like Dean who choose to become demon hunters because of their father's inheritance. After all, most demon hunters will deliberately not start a family because those non-human beings and demon hunters have a unique fate.
If you don't believe in ghosts, gods, and other things like that, you may not encounter such events in your entire life.
But once you encounter it, it's like you've been marked with meaning.
When you are chasing those monsters, it will be easier for them to find you.
In this case, if a demon hunter formed a family and left offspring, it would be like harming others.
With twisted minds and no worries, demon hunters will naturally produce many strange people...so it is not uncommon for demon hunters to kill other demon hunters.
The Wen brothers teamed up with others many times in a row, and each time only the two brothers were safe and sound, while the others suffered heavy casualties. Naturally, other demon hunters would be suspicious... Fortunately, although they encountered such things many times, they were not wiped out every time, and there were still survivors.
In addition, the Wen brothers are actually very good people, so some people speak for them.
They really didn't mean to cheat people, it's just that these two brothers were lucky...how to put it?
You say it's bad, but they can always turn danger into safety.
At most you'll get hurt, but it's not that easy to die.
You say they are lucky... They always encounter those particularly fierce monsters. Just like demon hunters deal with ghosts... It must be emphasized here that ghosts are actually very rare on Earth. After ordinary people die, their souls will dissipate and return to nature. Only a very small number of ghosts will remain because of special geographical conditions or strong obsessions. And among ghosts, there are even fewer who can become fierce ghosts.
Many demon hunters go years without encountering a single evil spirit.
Ordinary ghosts can only scare people, but evil ghosts can really kill people! And the more people they kill, the more evil they become.
Generally, demon hunters deal with ghosts, and rarely deal with evil spirits.
But almost all the ghost incidents encountered by the Wen brothers were evil spirits, some even being hundreds of years old...they were truly ruthless characters.
They are just that lucky. They encounter various events with a high frequency and of frighteningly high quality. Teaming up with them is purely for excitement. Although most of the demon hunters are very courageous... those who are timid will not take this path.
But no one would go out of their way to seek excitement, after all, this group of people is also very superstitious.
As a result, they have a very bad reputation in the entire demon hunter community, almost like the plague god. Everyone actually admires them, but forget about forming a team with them.
But there is one person who never leaves them.
That was their true master…Bob!
The father of the Wen family is a demon hunter madman who has been hunting demons all his life, so he is the one who disciplines the two brothers. Therefore, the former partner and guide of the father of the Wen family has become the person who spends the most time with the two brothers. In fact, the enlightenment of the two brothers in demon hunting was thanks to Bob.
However, Bob is already very old, so most of the time he works behind the scenes, providing intelligence and various logistical support.
But recently Bob has come out.
It’s not that Bob is old at heart, but the situation has become very serious.
The Wen brothers have some relationship with Kai. Kai's current body is a half-brother of the Wen brothers. A few years ago, when the Wen brothers were dealing with their father's belongings, they discovered the secret of Wen's father.
After Mom Wen died, Dad Wen met a woman during a demon hunting trip. This woman was Kai's physical mother.
Then there was Kai’s predecessor, Adam Wayne.
It's just that Wen's father is a scumbag who can't forget Wen's mother, so he didn't get together with this poor woman. Wen's father didn't tell the Wen brothers.
Later, the two learned that they had a younger brother, so they took the initiative to go to Adam Wayne's hometown, wanting to see this brother they had never met.
As a result, Adam died early and was replaced by Kai.
Kai did not make things difficult for the two brothers... When the three of them met, the Wen brothers' ghost-seeing physique was activated again, and they encountered a very powerful evil creature... a female corpse that had not decayed for hundreds of years... This female corpse was the corpse of a witch.
In fact, the predecessor of this female corpse was not a witch at all. She was just an ordinary shepherdess in the Alps.
When it comes to the word witch, many people will think of dark forests, flying brooms, crows in the sky, and hunchbacked old women with hooked noses. The image of witches is deeply rooted in Western cultural works. Whether in Europe or America, the Christian world has a special feeling for this word.
The Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages launched a "witch hunt" that lasted for 300 years. According to official records, 10 innocent "witches" were killed during the entire campaign, 99% of whom were women. The European "witch hunt" was a disaster in human history. The Roman Catholic Church recorded that 300 people died in 10 years, but according to folk statistics, there were hundreds of thousands of women who died in vain because of witch hunting. A large number of women were tortured beyond recognition under the torture of the Inquisition and were finally sentenced to cruel death. In world history, the late 4th century AD to the 16th century belonged to the "European Middle Ages". This period of time, from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in Europe to the awakening of new nationalist countries, was a long dark age of a thousand years. The Middle Ages is associated with the word "darkness". At that time, religion dominated Europe, and religious order was above all human laws. In this era of "divinity but no humanity", countless absurd and cruel farces occurred in Europe. "Witch hunting" is a notorious religious action in the Middle Ages. It was born in the era of Pope Innathan VIII. In 1484, the pope issued an edict ordering all Christians, especially church clergy, to hunt witches to purify the environment in Europe. The pope suddenly attacked "witches" because Europe at that time had been tortured beyond recognition by natural disasters and man-made disasters, and the control of the church over Europe was greatly weakened. The root of everything can be traced back to the Black Death, the most terrifying plague in human history that broke out in Europe in the 14th century. This "god of death" from Asia took away one-third of the population of Europe in a few decades, and about 2500 million people died of illness. From England to Italy, from Spain to Russia, the whole of Europe trembled under the shadow of death. The "massacre" of the Black Death dealt a heavy blow to Europe's productivity. A large number of cities and rural areas became no-man's land, fields were barren, and bandits were everywhere. After the plague, a great famine struck, and Europe was full of starving people, and farmers exchanged their children for cannibalism. This was the darkest century in the West. The cruel reality destroyed the spiritual world of Europeans. The pain of reality made Europeans doubt religion. In some remote places, the Vatican was forgotten and even collective apostasy occurred.
At this time, the Vatican began to re-establish its authority. In the Middle Ages, religious theology was the only philosophy, so the Vatican also found the cause of real suffering in theology, which was the persecution of Christians by "devils" and "pagans".
Under the instigation of the Vatican, Europe began a bloody xenophobia movement, and the earliest victims were the Jews. In Mainz, Germany and Strasbourg, France, tens of thousands of Jews were slandered as "poisoners" and "sources of the plague", and they were responsible for the great plague in Europe. More than 300 Jews were burned alive, and the remaining survivors were hacked to death or hanged by angry locals. Tortured by suffering, Europe became a hysterical mental patient, linking fantasy and reality in an imaginary way. After the Jews were massacred, the Vatican began to look for scapegoats for plague and famine. As a result, those beautiful, immortal, lustful and bloodthirsty witches in the books "walked" from novels to reality. The clergy believed that these "witches" would harm innocent Christians, so the fear of witches evolved into a massacre that lasted for years.
In human civilization, witchcraft is actually an ancient culture. Human primitive religion, medicine, chemistry, and aesthetics all have the shadow of witchcraft. Europeans have a long history of witchcraft, especially the Germanic people in the central part of China who were civilized later. People who know witchcraft were once regarded as "wise men". They can tell fortunes and treat illnesses, and are respected in the village. However, as the Catholic rule in Europe deepened, the witchcraft culture in Europe was constantly excluded until after the 15th century, when witches became the public enemy of Europe. Witches, especially "witches", were hated by the clergy. According to the analysis of later historians, this feature may have a lot to do with the long-term abstinence of the Catholic Church at that time, which led to a large number of clergy becoming homosexuals and suffering from "misogyny". In 1486, the Catholic Inquisitor Cramer published a guide to witch hunting - "The Hammer of Witches", which detailed the whole process from identification to interrogation, torture, and then execution of witches, which set off a climax of the witch hunting movement.
The exaggeration and absurdity of the witch hunt movement seems somewhat funny to people in later generations.
According to the regulations at that time, there were many criteria for judging whether a woman was a "witch": women with large birthmarks on their bodies might be suspected; women who did not participate in religious activities were highly suspected of apostasy; women who were unfaithful to women would be criticized by female neighbors and might use witchcraft to seduce men; wealthy widows might be pagans who used witchcraft to turn gold coins; women from other places who did not speak the language might be disguised witches; old women who took good care of themselves and looked young might also be using witchcraft. Later, even women with loud voices, physical disabilities, bad tempers, and even beautiful looks might be witches.
After the Inquisition received the report, the process of identifying witches became even more absurd. The torturers would strip the witches naked and look for moles, scars and birthmarks on their bodies, which were said to be the places where the devil parasitized. Then the jailer would prick these places with needles. If the woman screamed or bled, it proved that she really had an affair with the devil. If the woman denied that she was a witch, the Inquisition would use torture to force a confession, including drowning, iron branding, whipping, acupuncture, and "pyramid punishment" similar to the "wooden donkey punishment" in ancient China. Most women would confess their so-called crimes under torture. Their confessions were wild and unrestrained, showing the absurdity of the medieval church: some of these witches killed more than 100 of their own children, some ate their husbands alive, and some gave birth to children with goats (the embodiment of the devil in Christianity) or caused the death of a large number of local livestock. Most witches were sentenced to death for "rejecting Christ" and were burned alive at the stake or beheaded and their bodies were dismembered and burned. In the ignorant state of Europe at that time, the execution of witches not only failed to arouse people's sympathy, but turned into a barbaric carnival. Germany, which was dominated by Germanic people, was the "mother of witches" in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church. It was the worst-hit place in the witch disaster, with more than 300 people executed in 25000 years. The execution of witches was common in Germany at that time, and even became a local ritual celebration. When a town was going to execute a witch, all the people in the surrounding villages and towns would go to watch. These people brought their old and young, and brought food and goods to the square. There were small vendors around the stake, and the venue was as lively as a temple fair.
The execution of witches was like a show. These poor women would be stripped naked, tied up and whipped, then beheaded with an axe, or hanged, but the most popular method was burning at the stake. European religions believed that fire could purify sin, so apostates, pagans, and witches were mostly sentenced to burning at the stake, and even the bodies of witches would be burned to ashes after being executed.
This absurd movement lasted for more than 200 years and was finally stopped by some conscientious religious personnel. In 1782, Anna Godil, the last witch in Europe, was beheaded. She was the last innocent person executed for the crime of "witch" in Europe. Anna's story is a microcosm of a standard European witch farce. Anna Godil was a beautiful and plump woman with an unfortunate family and a gloomy personality. She once fell in love with a mercenary, but the other party abandoned her after she became pregnant. Godil gave birth to a child, but the child unfortunately died. She was actually sentenced to "infanticide" and placed under house arrest. Anna Godil later remarried, but the marriage was unhappy, so she left her family alone to make a living. In 1780, when she was a maid for a wealthy family, she was reported as a "witch" by the owner of the family. The evidence of Anna's crime of being a witch was very naive. At that time, the 7-year-old girl in the family found a needle in the cup when she was drinking milk. People suspected that it was done by Anna Godil from outside. Godil was immediately kicked out of the house, but later the needle was found in the young lady's milk. The ridiculous family did not expect that they had wronged Godil, but instead thought that she had witchcraft and could harm people from a distance! So Godil was arrested. Under torture in the court, she admitted that she was a witch and was finally sentenced to death for "poisoning people". On June 1782, 6, Anna Godil was beheaded. She was the last woman in Europe to be executed for the crime of "witch".
The female corpse was of the same type, but apparently those crazy people in the Inquisition did not expect that they had wrongly accused an innocent woman and tortured her inhumanely, and actually created a witch. Even though this witch was just a corpse, this corpse still caused huge casualties.
Then the female corpse ended up in the United States and was dug out... and Kai and his friends happened to find it.
So after dealing with the female corpse together, Kai opened a back door for them, provided them with financial support, and even arranged a position for them later!
That’s right, the Winchester brothers later worked for S.H.I.E.L.D.
Become a regular federal employee. Later, SHIELD even recruited a lot of demon hunters. Anyway, there were not many of them, and the federal government paid for them, so they were very generous.
This time the invasion from another dimension caused a large number of supernatural events to break out, so many demon hunters were sent out to deal with them.
But there were too many things to do, and the official witchers couldn't handle them all, so semi-retired witchers like Bob had to come out.