Forces of Temptation

From the moment Nanzhou and the others set foot on the land on the east coast, there were actually no demons.

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

Shelley is a dream that Keith encountered when he was a teenager.

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

The horse had not yet been fully domesticated, and he was overturned in a rocky road ditch and broke his calf.

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

Keith picked up a disgraced little duke.

And when he knelt down to bandage the little duke, the boy looked at him with bright eyes and patted him on the shoulder.

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

At a young age, Shelley's overly romantic and coquettish nature has already emerged: "Thank you for helping me, young pastor."

Keith: "..."

Keith said coldly: "There are thorns."

Shelley: "..."

His ears drooped in frustration: "Oh."

Compared with Keith, who is indifferent and stern, Shelley is a carefree and happy noble boy.

Under the tutelage of his father, Keith learned to preside over the worship service early on.

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

Keith is not wood that cannot grow roses.

He understands what he sees in his eyes, and he also understands that the boy's persistence will quickly dissipate if he doesn't get a response.

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

It is true that Shelley did not bore him much, did not force him to abandon his beliefs, did not even mention the word "love" to him.

Only occasionally when visiting museums, he would secretly hold up his hem.

Desperate to keep him late when hunting together, pull him to see one of his latest discovered stars.

It's just an agreement with him, if he wants to find himself for anything, write a letter to himself, his messenger, and always serve him.

It's just that... that's all.

After his father died, he took over the small church and his father's pious faith.

His beliefs clearly told Keith to reciprocate his love, but clearly did not allow this relationship to happen to a man of the same sex.

Therefore, 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 for life.

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

The answer is clearly yes.

But he chose not to expose it.

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

This time it wasn't a funny surprise.

After examination, he had a tumor in his brain.

For a long time after that, Keith dropped everything and prayed day and night, asking God to bless His people.

But it is probably because Shelley has no intentions in his many prayers, and he has never seen God in his eyes, only the young man who was bathed in the holy light of the cross...

In short, God is unwilling to protect such impure-minded people.

Shelley's condition worsened day by day.

Keith sent anti-tumor drugs to God, and the dual blessings of science and theology could not save Shelley at all.

One day, he went to visit Shelley in the castle on the west bank.

At the time of his visit, Shelley was suffering from a high fever and fainting.

With a mental breakdown, he tells Keith about his plan.

...that insane, desperate, and sure-to-be-cursed time-travel project.

Keith sat on the edge of his bed, lightly resting his fingertips on the back of his hand, listening to his astonishing vision.

There was no condemnation, no questioning, and no walking away.

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

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

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

Keith cut his teeth and said, "Yes. Love drives you crazy."

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

Interestingly, it was Keith who first proposed it.

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

Shelley laughed, her golden curly hair trembled like a lively little lamb: "You don't need to understand. Love, it belongs to my world alone, and I won't bother you."

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

The young Monsieur Duke froze.

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

This sounds too much like a fantasy.

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

Keith pointed to the other side of his room, where the church loft was.

He said: "If I fail, I will light the light in the attic. Until then, you can do whatever you want. But until then, we will not meet each other, but only by letter."

Shelley looked up at him in confusion, "Why?"

Keith: "I'll give you enough time to forget about my face."

Shelley blinked: "Why? How handsome."

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

Shelley didn't understand.

But he trusted Keith.

So he nodded again: "I don't see you. I don't ask other people to see you. You concentrate on your business."

Keith grabbed his shoulders and looked at him fixedly: "Promise me. Don't do things that offend God."

I'm alone, that's fine.

"Don't worry." Mr. Duke showed a pale and weak smile, "I promise you. If you don't allow me, I will die without surgery."

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

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 priests in the church, he summoned the demon Ami and made a deal with him.

He traded the souls of God's faithful followers for demonic power.

Then he sent the demon away.

However, from this moment on, he is no different from a demon.

He can no longer touch any sacred objects, holy water is sulfuric acid to him, and crosses will cause endless heart palpitations.

Every minute and every second in the church is like being in the fire of hell.

He bore what he deserved with a deadpan face.

This is the pain he deserved for betraying the gods.

But it was precisely because of this suffering that he realized that gods obviously existed.

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

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

Ami's ability is a technique to replace life force.

Now, Shelley needs a healthy body.

However, without a personal test, Keith dared not use this spell on Shelley.

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

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

The condition is that it is best for young people from other places to have no relatives or reasons.

Shelley did not ask her why.

On the third day after his letter was sent out, six new young people crossed the long-unused suspension bridge and arrived at the door of his church.

Next, Keith discovered that the purpose of these six people was not pure, and they were always investigating and wandering in the church, as if they had other thoughts.

But he doesn't care.

From the very beginning, Keith took a fancy to the taciturn and beautiful young man among them.

There is no other reason.

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

Shelley had been ill, so Keith wanted Shelley to have the healthiest body in the world.

However, when he was just trying to make a move, the first to do it were these outsiders.

Keith was tied up.

And these outsiders began to search his church.

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

Even his correspondence with Shelley had been destroyed by him long ago.

... Keith refused to leave even such a small gap of tenderness to himself who rebelled against God.

But he still walked on this road of no return.

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

When they left Hua Sisi to take care of him, Keith managed to arouse Hua Sisi's interest with a vague "You...not enough".

Keith kept using words to lure him closer, thus touching Hua Sisi's skin.

The next moment, the life force completed the first handover in a demonic way.

He came into a brand new body.

Being in control of the flow of your life doesn't feel good.

Headache, dizziness, weakness of limbs, stomach seems to be twisted by hand, all of which are complications of God against God.

But Keith knew exactly what he had to do.

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

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

Hua Sisi, who suddenly fell into the new body, died in Keith's body with the pain of his heart being crushed and unspeakable surprise before he even had time to groan.

Keith dragged his newly-acquired body, his hand severely wounded by the cross, and walked out of the church silently and numbly.

Outside, it's foggy.

The fog became his best barrier, allowing him the space to display his next plan.

He knew that the men who searched the church must have already turned on the lights in the dark attic.

He originally wanted to cross the bridge overnight to stop Shelley's blasphemous behavior, and to take him away before these people cross the bridge, so as to prevent them from hurting Shelley.

However, a discovery slowed him down.

... Keith discovered that this new body was somewhat special.

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

Based on Keith's inherent cognition, he thought that these people might be the messengers 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 did not allow them to cross the bridge.

That said, Shelley is out of danger, at least for the time being.

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

Once the bow is fired, there will never be an arrow back.

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

...into that perfect container called "Southern Boat".

Even if his operation failed, he could give him this slightly meaningful gift before the worst outcome happened.

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

The fog became his best barrier.

Keith generously hid in the fog, waiting for the time to come, waiting for Nan Zhou to find him.

When he heard footsteps coming from the mist, he leaped silently down the cliff and hung himself over the edge.

There was a bottomless abyss under his feet, and countless fine and loose sand and stones sifted down from the surrounding rocks he was grasping.

In this desperate situation, Keith's heart was calm.

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

Because he is strong, he is fearless.

As long as it successfully touches his skin for more than three seconds...

Who would have thought that the one who rushed to save him from the mist would be a gentle man with an ugly appearance.

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

Keith remembered his name, Guan Junliang.

Regardless of the danger, Guan Junliang knelt on the edge of the cliff and stretched out his hand anxiously: "Sisi! Grab my hand!"

At that moment, Keith was shaken.

He... probably shouldn't hurt someone like that.

However, as Hua Sisi was rescued by Guan Junliang, he couldn't explain his sudden disappearance and what force took him away.

Once you make a mistake, all previous efforts will be wasted.

He had already embarked on this path of desperation, and it was too late to turn back.

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

Guan Junliang was overjoyed, and with all his strength, he landed on his knees, his arms tensed together, and his palms and sleeves were held together in his hands.

After a few seconds.

The universe is reversed, and the position is changed up and down.

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

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

A belated scream sounded from more than ten meters away, and was swallowed up by the churning mist.

After that, Keith had only a scrap of fabric left under his fingertips.

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

His identity was almost discovered.

Fortunately, it took him more than ten hours to roughly understand the purpose of those "miracles" on them.

Guan Junliang carried holy water in the warehouse.

At this moment, he has been reduced to half a devil, and he has a very strong reaction to the holy water, and he is also familiar with the relevant information of other demon gods.

He put Ami's powers on the body of "Demon Phras", and at the same time, he crushed the holy water bottle silently, burned himself with bruises all over his body, struggled in great pain, and then "fainted" from exhaustion , pretending that the devil had been driven away.

While pretending to be unconscious, Keith felt the excruciating pain coming from every corner of his body, and thought calmly, maybe he could change another body.

……

Facing the two people who were at war, Nan Zhou restored her experience through Song Haining's trembling and implied infinite pain description, as well as what they had seen and heard in these days.

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

After waking up, she returned to her body.

Guan Junliang on the bed was already out of breath.

Seeing the blood on her hands, she panicked and walked out drowsily, and saw Nan Zhou and Ban Hang hugging each other, she was frightened and couldn't care less about anything else.

Jiang Fang is gone, Brother Guan is gone, so who else can Keith be with?

She yelled, "Get away from him! Brother Nan! He's Keith! Stay away from him!!"