North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 799 A tragic victory
The black fog became much lighter after it dispersed in the air, but there was obviously something wrong with the black fog. Jimmy saw some hallucinations in front of his eyes. Some figures appeared in the fog, and the body of the big snake could no longer be seen at its previous position.

This was the first time that Jimmy encountered a situation that almost blinded him. He could only see an area of ​​about ten meters in front of him with his mind's eye vision. In the distance, the fog interfered with the color difference and he could not actually see far away. He had no choice but to switch back to real vision and use visual color difference to determine where the monsters were that were a little further away.

Jimmy stepped back slightly, guarding against the big snake that might appear from all directions. Suddenly, a figure vaguely appearing in the distance flashed several times and suddenly appeared in front of him. Jimmy was about to shoot but suddenly stopped. The person in front of him was very familiar. It turned out to be his family, his family from his previous life.

Jimmy was stunned for a moment, and just as he was about to confirm, he suddenly realized the danger, and immediately fell forward and rolled to the side. While he was distracted, the big snake suddenly launched an attack from the side and rear.

Jimmy just avoided its big mouth when he rolled on the ground. When he stood up, he swung the dagger in his hand upwards and inserted it into the snake's torso. At the same time, he fired continuously at the snake's torso with the revolver in his hand, aiming at the position where the core was found before. However, it was obvious that the snake's defense was still good after condensing its body. The bullets were successfully shot in but did not shoot out from the back. All of them were stuck in the torso. Jimmy was not sure whether the bullets hit the core.

After being shot, the snake immediately twisted to the side and left. After Jimmy pulled out the dagger, he removed the shell and reloaded the bullet. The figure that had appeared in front of him before had disappeared.

Obviously, the flickering human figure is one of the abilities of the snake. The figure is definitely not a real person, but Jimmy's own illusion.

This is very scary. It uses hallucinations to make people lose their rationality and then attacks from the side and rear. This method is absolutely fatal to ordinary people. Even the most ruthless people will always have people or things they cherish, and as long as they lose focus for a while, they will be attacked by the big snake. Could it be that the people who disappeared on the beach before were caused by it?
Jimmy changed the bullets and looked around again. This time the illusion was actually Nia, but she didn't say anything. She just waved at Jimmy. Jimmy didn't move. When he felt the threat from behind again, he turned around and fired two consecutive shots, lifting the snake's head again. He bent down and rushed to the side of the snake, and inserted the dagger into the snake's torso again.

He was still aiming at the core of the snake's torso, but this time he made a strong cut and immediately fired all four remaining bullets into it. The snake's torso suddenly swung wildly and hit Jimmy directly, knocking him several meters away and onto the ground.

The big snake did not take the opportunity to attack Jimmy, but ran away for a while, coiled up its trunk, raised its head, and made a hissing sound. Then a bright light suddenly appeared next to it, and a crack formed. Jimmy could even vaguely see the environment on the other side of the crack. Although it was very dark, he could still see that it was another forest. The only difference was that the trees over there were more depressing. There were no leaves, and the branches were intertwined and twisted. It didn't look like they were formed naturally.

This is very scary. This monster can actually open a rift in the world? Although he didn't know which world was on the other side, just looking at the way this rift appeared, it must have been created by the big snake. From his previous communication with Roland, he knew that this kind of monster usually traveled through the world by using existing rifts or new rifts that appeared due to the decline of the Dark Tower world.

Can I really handle this thing by myself?
Jimmy stared at the crack while mechanically changing bullets. Soon some mist floated into the crack and some things floated out of the crack, but Jimmy couldn't tell what those things were.

The crack did not appear for long. After some black fog and some things that came out of it exchanged positions with each other, it closed. The fog around the big snake was recycled back into its body, making the snake's body a little more solid. It looked as if it had used special moves to strengthen itself.

The big snake hissed at Jimmy and spit out black mist again. Suddenly, a phantom appeared in front of it. The phantoms took the form of people that Jimmy didn't recognize at all. They all appeared and smiled and waved at Jimmy, asking him to come over. However, Jimmy couldn't be fooled by these people, so he just watched the big snake playing tricks.

After a series of changes, a person who surprised Jimmy was formed, Mary. She smiled at Jimmy, raised her hand and waved it, as if she was greeting Jimmy, but there was no sound at all.

This is impossible. The people who appeared in this monster's hallucinations before were all the most important people to Jimmy, and the ones who appeared now were all people Jimmy didn't know. Strictly speaking, Mary was just a secondary character related to Jimmy's concern for James. From the perspective of the priority of the people Jimmy cares about, it is impossible for her to be ranked first, unless, this is the image of a person whose soul the monster has absorbed, which means that it is indeed possible that Mary had part of her soul sucked away by it?

Jimmy fired another shot at the snake, and the phantom disappeared. The snake hissed at Jimmy again and opened its mouth to spit out black mist again, making the fog covering the battlefield heavier. At the same time, it disappeared from Jimmy's sight.

At present, it seems that the snake has no other physical attack capabilities, which means that it is only necessary to defend against the snake's own attacks. The rest seem to be using illusions to influence Jimmy's judgment. This is not an advanced ability and does not seem to be very dangerous. So how did Mary and the others have their souls absorbed by the monster?
It was impossible for it to directly attack Mary and the others, because the others did not notice the monster's attack at all, and Mary had no other injuries, so this big snake must have the ability to absorb souls, but it never used it on Jimmy, which was somewhat problematic.

Jimmy retreated while observing. The black fog could not cover too wide a area. This kind of black fog would interfere with Jimmy's mind vision. It would definitely be better to leave the range of the black fog and then fight.

However, he did not stop thinking about the abilities of these monsters just because he was on guard against them. For now, he could only rely on his own speculation. The archives at the church said that church members in the last century had solved that monster. Judging from Jimmy's current ability to deal with monsters, it was somewhat suspicious. Maybe they had only solved the little black snake that Jimmy faced at the beginning.

The big snake did not run away, but kept moving under the cover of the black fog. Because it was transformed from the black fog, it was not only able to move on the ground. There was no sound at all when it swayed in the air. Just as Jimmy moved, the big snake also followed and waited for an opportunity to move.

When Jimmy was leaning against a big tree to observe, the big snake suddenly rushed down from above, and its big mouth opened even wider. Jimmy avoided the attack of the snake's head by going around the big tree, but failed to avoid the tail behind him. Jimmy quickly stretched out his arms and crossed them in front of his face. He was hit by the tail and rolled on the ground twice before he got up.

The big snake did not give Jimmy a chance to adjust. The snake head went around the tree and rushed towards him again. Jimmy also became furious. After dodging the snake's head, he stabbed the big snake's trunk with a knife and fell directly on the big snake.

Jimmy had chosen the position to lie down, which was near the core he had discovered before. He stabbed the snake's body repeatedly with his knife. The snake twisted its body left and right to try to throw Jimmy off. Jimmy also held his torso tightly, stabilized himself a little, and then extended the revolver directly to the wound and emptied the magazine.

The snake struggled even more violently and even started to roll on the ground. Jimmy had no choice but to let it go. After landing, he rolled away from the snake and only stopped when he hit the tree next to him.

The struggling and twisted big snake in front suddenly dispersed and turned into black mist again after twisting several times, and Jimmy's previous few bullets were all fired at the core position, and obviously had a lot of effect.

Jimmy took advantage of the black snakes dispersing and immediately changed the bullets. When the core was revealed, he emptied the magazine again. The black fog core was hit continuously, releasing many black threads, which floated into the surrounding black fog and slowly dissipated. The core did not stop in the air, but moved left and right. However, as the number of Jimmy's hits increased, the speed of movement became slower and slower, and the surrounding black fog began to gather towards the core, and it seemed that it was about to condense into a solid entity again.

With all the spare bullets in his pocket in his hand, Jimmy took advantage of the opponent's inability to resist and reloaded and fired continuously until all his bullets were used up. When the black fog was about to solidify, the core seemed to be hit by too many bullets and suddenly cracked, and then exploded. The black fog also stopped shrinking, and as the core exploded, the black fog also exploded completely outwards. Jimmy stretched out his hands to shield his face, and the black fog in the air quickly dissipated, and the forest returned to its previous dim brightness.

Jimmy looked around and found that the black fog had indeed disappeared, but there were still some light-colored silk threads floating in the air. He touched his pocket and found that he had no spare bullets left. He tried to cut a thread with his dagger and fired a few shots into the air with his Glock, but it did not seem to have any effect. The thread slowly floated upwards and soon disappeared from his mind's vision.

Jimmy ejected the empty shell and walked towards the place where the fight had taken place, carrying his revolver. The other revolver had fallen to the ground and he had not had time to pick it up, so it was now empty.

After finding the revolver, Jimmy reached out and touched his trouser pocket. The holy water bottle that he had placed in his pocket seemed to have been bumped during the fight and was now broken in his pocket. The holy water flowed on his trousers and legs. He unbuckled his belt and took a look. There were also several small cuts on his legs caused by glass. Jimmy pulled out the glass fragments with a grimace and simply took off his trousers to prevent any more glass fragments from being discovered.

The monster was destroyed and Jimmy had run out of bullets. Now he had no ability to attack monsters except a dagger and an exorcist badge. Regardless of whether he could find other monsters or not, it was time for him to leave.

Wearing a tattered white shirt, three guns exposed, bare legs, and a pair of dirty leather shoes, holding the pocket made of pants with his wallet and cell phone in it, Jimmy walked out of the woods, looked in the direction to confirm his previous location, and walked back to where they parked.

There were constant gunshots from Jimmy's side. Although they were in the woods, the sound could still be heard to some extent. Kag vaguely heard the sound, but he knew that he would definitely be a hindrance, so he naturally did not chase after him, but waited here for Jimmy. As for Father Royte, his nose was broken and he was in poor condition, so he had to leave early to get treatment.

Kag heard that the gunfire had stopped for a while and was wondering whether to go and take a look. As a result, he saw Jimmy walking back from a distance, and his appearance was very eye-catching.

Kagra opened the car door, took out his police jacket from inside and walked towards Jimmy, "What's wrong with you? Put it on first."

Jimmy took the jacket and gave the trouser pocket to Kag, saying as he dressed himself, "It's done. Where's Father Royte?"

Kager: "I went to the hospital. I had a serious fracture."

Jimmy: "Well, let's go back first. I need a doctor to treat my wound."

Kag: "Come with me."

Jimmy drove and followed Kag's police car and soon arrived at a community hospital in the city. After Kag got out of the car, he looked around and waved to Jimmy. The two entered the community hospital from the back door. Soon a doctor and a nurse came in with equipment and medicines.

Kag: "Check carefully, don't miss any wounds."

The doctor didn't say anything, just nodded. He looked at Jimmy and said, "Take off all your clothes."

Kag was standing aside, and Jimmy did not shy away. He took off all his clothes, including his underwear, and threw them on the chair next to him. He just stood there with his arms open, allowing the doctor and nurse to examine him from head to toe.

While checking the wounds, the doctor reported the number, location and size of the wounds. The nurse next to him took out a pen and paper to record them. After all the statistics were completed, Jimmy was allowed to lie on the operating table. The doctor calculated the dosage and injection location of the anesthetic. After making sure that the anesthesia took effect, he began to clean the wounds little by little and then stop the bleeding and suture them. Some particularly small wounds were just disinfected, dressed and covered with a Band-Aid.

Jimmy's wounds were not particularly deep, but many of them were caused by branches piercing his skin, so the blood holes needed to be cleaned internally. Jimmy had to be anesthetized, otherwise he would not be able to bear the treatment of these wounds. Even if he could accept it, the doctor would not dare to do it.

After all the wounds were treated and anti-infection drugs were given, Jimmy did not get up until he was fully awake. Kag, who was waiting outside, came in with a new set of sportswear and shoes. Jimmy changed into them before leaving the hospital with Kag.

When Jimmy came to the car at the back door, he looked at Kag and said, "How much is it? I'll send it to you later."

Kag shook his head: "We are one family, don't worry about it, I should thank you for saving me."

Jimmy looked at Kag in surprise, "What?"

Kag: "Just now, I am much more awake, thank you."

(End of this chapter)