Forces of Temptation

Since Nanzhou and the others set foot on the land on the east coast, there are actually no demons.

On the east coast, there is only Pastor Keith, and the soul of a demon seed that has long been buried.

Shelley was a dream that Keith met when he was a teenager.

He rode a newly bought pony and sneaked out of the castle to play.

The horse has not been fully domesticated yet, and he was overturned on a rocky road and ditch, breaking his calf.

And Keith and his father happened to be going to Duke Shelley's new East Bank Church.

Keith picked up a disgraced little duke.

When he squatted down to wrap the little duke, the young man looked at him with bright eyes and patted his shoulder.

Keith looked up and found that he was holding a rose that was originally pinned to his chest.

Shelley's over-romantic and flirtatious nature has emerged at a young age: "Thank you for helping me, Mr. Young Pastor."

Keith: "…"

Keith said nonchalantly, "Thorns."

Shelley: "…"

His ears drooped in frustration: "Oh."

Compared to Keith, who is indifferent and steadfast, Shelley is a carefree and happy aristocratic boy.

Under his father's teaching, Keith learned to conduct worship at an early age.

Only this noble boy sat in the front row, and was the least serious, just looking at him with warmth.

Keith is not a roseless wood.

He understands the content in his eyes, and also understands that the persistence of the young man will dissipate quickly if there is no response.

He thought that if he responded with silence, he would understand.

Shelley didn't bother him much, didn't force him to abandon his beliefs, didn't even mention the word "love" to him.

Only occasionally when visiting the museum, he would sneak up on the hem of his clothes.

Only when hunting together, he will be desperate to keep him late and pull him to see a star he recently discovered.

I just made an agreement with him that if he has anything to look for, he will write to himself, his messenger will always serve him.

It's just that....

After his father died, he took over this small church and his devout faith.

His beliefs clearly told Keith to love pictures, but he clearly did not allow this relationship to happen to a same-sex man.

The only thing Keith can do is to reject all possibilities of marriage.

He thought that even if Shelley had a wife in the future, he would never marry.

Occasionally, he would also ask himself in his confession what kind of feelings he had.

The answer is clearly yes.

But he chose not to reveal it.

During an outing, Shelley, who was chatting and laughing with him, accidentally fell off the horse again.

This time it wasn't a funny accident.

After examination, he had a tumor in his brain.

For a long time after that, Keith put everything down and prayed day and night, asking God to bless his people.

But it's probably because Shelley had no plans in his many prayers, and there was never God in his eyes, only the young man who was bathed in the holy light of the cross...

In short, God will not bless such impure people.

Shelley's condition is getting worse day by day.

Keith sent anti-tumor drugs to God, and the double blessing of science and theology could not save Shelley.

One day, he visited Shelley at West Bank Castle.

Shelley was suffering from a high fever and dazed at the time of his visit.

Because of his mental breakdown, he told Keith about his plan.

…that mad, desperate, cursed time travel plan.

Keith sat beside his bed, resting his fingertips on the back of his hand, listening to his shocking ideas.

No condemnation, no questioning, and no walk away.

Keith stayed in the castle and did not return overnight, giving up the daily Mass.

During the night, Shelley's fever subsided and she woke up.

He also realized that he had said something wrong, so he smiled embarrassedly, grabbed Keith's hand and said, "Maybe I'm really crazy."

Keith showed no mercy and said, "Yes. Love drives you crazy."

This is the first mention of "love" between them.

Interestingly, Keith was the first to come up with it.

"Sorry, I don't know what love is," Keith said.

Shelley laughed, her golden curls trembled, like a lively lamb: "You don't have to understand. Love, that's my own world, no will disturb you."

Keith stood up: "Your world, I already live in it. Isn't it?"

The young duke was stunned.

"You don't do anything." Keith looked at him calmly. "I have another way to find you a new, completely healthy body."

This sounds like a fantasy.

But Mr. Duke nodded obediently: "But, will you succeed?"

Keith pointed to the opposite bank of his room, where the church attic was.

He said: "If I fail, I will light the lights in the attic. Until then, you can do whatever you want. But until then, let's not meet each other and only communicate by letter ."

Shelley raised her face in confusion and looked at him: "Why?"

Keith: "I'll leave you enough time to forget the face I have now."

Shelley blinked: "Why? How handsome."

Keith: "The next time we meet, maybe it won't be the same face."

Shelley didn't understand.

But he trusted Keith.

So he nodded again: "I don't see you. I don't ask others to see you. You focus on your business."

Keith grabbed his shoulder and looked at him, "Promise me. Don't do anything that offends God."

I am alone.

"Don't worry." Mr. Duke smiled pale and weak, "I promise you. If you don't allow me, I will die and I will not have surgery."

Since then, no one has set foot on the East Coast.

Shelley even dismissed the loyal believers in the castle, cutting off the possibility of anyone going to the east coast.

After Pastor Keith sent away all the clergy in the church, he summoned the demon Ami and made a deal with him.

He traded the souls of God's faithful believers for the power of demons.

Then he sent the devil away.

However, from this moment on, he is no different from the devil.

He can no longer touch any holy artifact, holy water is sulfuric acid to him, and the cross will cause endless heart palpitations.

Every minute, every second in the church is like being in hell.

He took what he deserved with a blank face.

This is the suffering he deserves for betraying the gods.

But it was because of this pain that he realized that God clearly exists.

Since God exists, he would rather see him fall than help him.

He used this burning pain that existed every moment to strengthen his determination to plunge into the darkness.

Ami's ability is a spell that replaces life force.

Now, Shelley needs a healthy body.

However, Keith did not dare to use this technique on Shelley without personal testing.

Unfortunately, there is no one on the east coast for him to experiment with.

So he wrote to Shelley asking him to recruit a new clergy for himself.

The condition is that young people from other places, no relatives and no reason are the best.

Shelley did not ask her why.

On the third day after his letter was sent, six new young people crossed the long-uncrossed suspension bridge and came to the door of his church.

Next, Keith found that the purpose of these six people was impure.

But he doesn't care.

From the very beginning, Keith was attracted to the taciturn and beautiful young man.

No other reason.

After careful observation, Keith was convinced that his physical strength was extraordinary and that he was the best of the six.

Shelley was sick once, so Keith hopes Shelley can have the healthiest body in the world.

It's just that he was just trying to make a move when he wanted to, and it was these outsiders.

Keith is tied up.

And these outsiders, began to search his church.

Those old, sinful traces have long been annihilated by him.

Even his correspondence with Shelley was destroyed by him.

…Keith refused to leave such a warm space for himself to betray God.

But he still walked on this dead end without turning back.

Now, he needs to break free and find a way to survive.

When they left Hua Xixi to take care of themselves, Keith successfully aroused Hua Xixi's interest with a vague "you...not enough".

Keith kept using words to induce him to approach, thus touching Hua Xixi's skin.

The next moment, the life force completed the first handover in the way of the devil.

He came to a brand new body.

The feeling of being in control of the flow of life is not wonderful.

Headache, dizziness, weakness of limbs, and stomach as if it was twisted by hand.

But Keith knew exactly what to do.

Keith grabbed the cross that was originally hanging on "Keith"'s neck, gagged with one hand, and slashed the tip into the current "Keith" in the piercing pain with the other. thinking" chest.

Fingers to heart, but Keith didn't feel any pain.

Hua Si Si, who suddenly fell into the new body, didn't even have time to let out a groan, and died in Keith's body, accompanied by the pain of his heart being shattered, and the unspeakable surprise. .

Keith walked out of the church silently and numbly, dragging his newly acquired body, his palm severely injured by the cross.

It's foggy outside.

The fog has become his best barrier, giving him room to display his next plan.

He knew that when these people searched the church, they must have turned on the lights in the dark attic.

He originally wanted to cross the bridge overnight to stop Shelley's blasphemous behavior, but also to take him away before the group crossed the bridge to avoid them hurting Shelley.

However, a discovery slowed him down.

…Keith found something special about this new body.

When he inadvertently raised his hand and woke up a sleeping floating display, he stood in the dark and looked back at the brightly lit church.

With Keith's inherent knowledge, he thought, these people may be the angels of the devil.

But they have limitations.

According to the so-called "rules of the game" displayed in the corner of the panel, the demons will not allow them to cross the bridge.

In other words, Shelley will not be in danger, at least temporarily.

Besides, if he rushes now, will he really have time to stop that stubborn and stubborn Shelley?

Once the bow is drawn, there is no turning back.

He thought, maybe, he could stay on the east bank and accomplish that ultimate goal.

…Enter that perfect vessel called "Nanzhou".

Even if his surgery fails, he can offer him this slightly meaningful gift before the worst happens.

He turned around and plunged back into the fog on the east coast.

The fog became his best barrier.

Keith hid in the fog generously, waiting for the time to come, waiting for Nanzhou to find himself.

When he heard footsteps coming from the fog, he silently jumped off the cliff and hung himself on the edge.

There is a bottomless abyss beneath his feet, and countless pieces of loose sand and gravel are sifted from the surrounding of the rock he grasped.

In this fatal situation, Keith's heart is calm.

He knew that in a world with heavy fog as the background, others may have scruples, but that strong and outstanding Nanzhou will definitely save people.

Because he is strong, he is fearless.

As long as you successfully touch his skin, more than three seconds...

Who would have thought that the one who rushed to save him from the fog would be a gentle and modest man.

When I saw his face that didn't belong to him, the man's expression was the ultimate surprise of what was lost and what was lost.

Keith remembers his name, Guan Junliang.

Ignoring the danger, Guan Junliang knelt on the edge of the cliff and hurriedly reached out to himself: "Hey! Grab my hand!"

At that moment, Keith was shaken.

He... probably shouldn't have hurt such a person.

However, being rescued by Guan Junliang as Hua Xixi, he could not explain his sudden disappearance and what force took him away.

Once you make a mistake, you will lose all your efforts.

He has already embarked on this dead end, and it is too late to turn back.

So, Keith held Guan Junliang's warm and generous palm with his hand burned by the cross.

After a few seconds.

The universe is reversed, translocation up and down.

He knelt down on the edge of the cliff, and while the sky was spinning, he looked sadly and calmly at those eyes full of surprise.

The palm was pulled by the strong gravity, slipped from his palm, and fell into the abyss.

After that, Keith's fingertips were nothing but a scrap of fabric.

However, Nanzhou and the others are too smart, and Keith cannot fully inherit the memory of the owner of the body.

His identity was almost revealed.

Fortunately, he spent more than ten hours to roughly understand the purpose of those "miracles" on them.

The warehouse on Guan Junliang carries holy water.

At this moment, he has become a half devil, he has a very strong reaction to holy water, and he is also familiar with related information about other demons.

in a state of exhaustion, and then "fainted" with exhaustion, pretending that the devil had been driven away.

While pretending to be in a coma, Keith felt the excruciating pain coming from every corner of his body, and thought calmly that maybe he could have another body.

…

Faced with the two arguing with swords, Nan Zhou restored her experience through Song Haining's trembling description, which contained endless pain, and what they had seen and heard during these days.

According to her, after she was forcibly exchanged by Keith into Guan Junliang's body, as soon as she learned his true identity, he was knocked unconscious.

When she woke up, she returned to her body.

Guan Junliang on the bed was out of breath.

Looking at the blood on her hands, she panicked and walked out groggy. She saw Nan Zhou and Ban Hang hugging each other. .

Jiang Fang is gone and Guan is gone, so who else can Keith be on?

She shouted: "Leave him! Brother Nan! He is Keith! Stay away from him!"