Bang!!
The instant the gunshot rang out, two bodies fell backward at the same time.
Thud, thud.
A crow flapped down from the air and landed on one of them, casting its venomous gaze toward Constantine as if it were watching his death.
Crackle—
A bolt of lightning fell from the sky.
Leaning against the wall, Constantine had his head lowered. A bullet hole marked his chest, and great swaths of blood soaked through his clothes and flowed out from within.
The torrential rain poured over him. He looked utterly unresponsive, as if he were dead.
Whoosh!
A pale hand suddenly shot out, grabbed the crow's body, and brutally stuffed it into his own mouth.
Alan Wake propped himself up from the ground, clutching his chest as he chewed in great gulps. His mouth was unnaturally large, and his chest writhed, forcibly squeezing a bullet out.
As the crow was completely swallowed, the gunshot wound seemed to gain some kind of replenishment and rapidly healed.
"In this town, light and dark are forever in balance. When the side of light grows too strong, the dark side opposed to it naturally becomes stronger.
"Constantine, thanks to you, I now have this power."
Alan stood up from the ground, his mouth full of blood, and mocked him.
Before Constantine appeared, Alan had not possessed this ability. But after Constantine appeared, he gained the power to control Taken.
And as his power grew, the desires in his heart swelled more and more.
He knew perfectly well that he was a character specially created by the real "Alan Wake" to protect his wife, Alice.
Once that "Alan Wake" came out from the bottom of the lake one day, his life would be declared over.
And the contents of those manuscripts were like lines of