As soon as the door closed, Dean lowered his voice and said anxiously, "Bobby, are you crazy? What's going on??"
Bobby immediately lowered his face and his voice became cold. "That's my wife."
Sam also frowned and said in a heavy tone, "Bobby, no matter how much like a real person that thing looks like, she is not your wife. The story of resurrection from the dead never ends well."
Bobby raised his eyes and asked them, "How do you know she is not her? Have you seen her? Do you know her?" Sam was a little unbelievable and asked him if he was serious. Did he really think this was normal?
Bobby sneered and tapped the table with his fingertips, "Do you think I am a fool? How many years have I been a hunter? My dead wife suddenly appeared at the door of my house. Can I test her in every way? Salt, silverware, holy water, she has it all There is no reaction; there are no wounds on the body, no rotten smell, and even the body temperature is exactly the same as that of a living person." He paused and his voice softened a little, "The tone of her voice, the smell of the baked pie, and the way she hummed out of tune, are all the Karen in my memory."
Sam frowned and said, but she came back from the cemetery.
Bobby shook his head and said that he had cremated her back then and only the ashes were buried in the tomb. I don't know how she came back intact.
At this time, the door curtain moved, and Bai Haorui walked in, holding a glass of warm water in his hand.
He was dressed in plain clothes and his eyes were calm. He glanced in the direction of the kitchen and said, "It should be the power of Death Horseman. The death energy wraps the living soul and condenses the soul to shape the body, so it is no different from the living person. Salt and holy water are only useful for evil spirits."
Several people looked at him.
Bobby's fingertips tightened slightly. He actually guessed that it was related to Apocalypse, but he just didn't want to think about it further.
Dean asked immediately, was it really Death Horseman who did it? Bobby nodded silently. "Through the flames, a pale horse appeared in front of me. The man sitting on the horse was holding a sickle. Now that he has stood up, the dead will also wake up. They came from him and were born through him."
Sam frowned and asked, why did Death Horseman resurrect more than a dozen people in a small town like Sioux Falls.
Bobby said he couldn't figure it out either. Dean leaned forward and said in a serious tone, "Bobby, if it is really Death Horseman's fault, there is definitely something wrong with these things. You know what we should do."
Bobby's eyes softened instantly, with an almost humble pleading.
He said Karen didn't remember anything, not being possessed by a demon, not remembering him killing her.
The sound of Karen humming softly came from the kitchen, and the tune was lost.
His voice became softer. "The scriptures only say that the dead are resurrected, but they don't say that this is necessarily a bad thing. Maybe this is the only good thing in this mess." He looked at the three brothers and begged them word by word, "Leave her alone Karen. Let her go."
There was silence in the living room for a moment. Dean looked away, feeling angry and sour in his heart - he understood Bobby's obsession, but the rules that the hunters had summarized with blood were there. Sooner or later something would happen to the resurrected thing, and he couldn't just watch Bobby fall in.
Sam was also worried. He understood the temptation of "lost and found", but he knew better that there was never a free lunch in Apocalypse.
Bai Haorui stood by the window, gently twirling Five Emperor Coins in his sleeve with his fingertips, and the warm touch of copper coins came to him. He could feel that Karen's soul was temporarily stable, but the death energy had seeped into the soul gap and could not last long. He did not pour cold water on it, but just thought in his heart - "Three Altars Body-Refining True Fire Art" contains a way to stabilize the soul, maybe...
Coming out of Bobby's house, the brothers leaned against Impala's car and blew in the cold wind. The wind picked up fallen leaves and hit them on the wheels, swirling them away.
Dean spoke first, with a firm tone. "There is nothing to discuss. You can't throw Bobby alone to this time bomb." Sam sighed and asked him what he wanted to do. He couldn't kill Karen with one shot in front of Bobby. Then Bobby would have to fight them desperately.
Dean gritted his teeth and said what if one day Karen turns his back and eats Bobby, he must keep an eye on it.
In the end, the two decided to divide the work: Dean stayed near Bobby's house to monitor and check for clues about other resurrected people; Sam went to the town to visit other resurrected families to see if there were any abnormalities.
Bai Haorui was not with them. He went back to the quiet room in the backyard, sat down cross-legged, and his mind sank into the depths of his consciousness and began to recall the "Essential Principles of Xuantan Soul Deliverance" he had watched before.
There is definitely no way to persuade Bobby. Instead of shattering this hard-won dream, it is better to find a way to change the bad ending for the better.
Dean squatted behind a bush, staring at the back door of Bobby's house. The autumn wind blew into his collar, and he shrank his neck and rubbed his hands in the cold.
Suddenly there were footsteps behind him. Just as he was about to reach out and touch the gun behind his waist, he heard Karen's voice with a smile, "Why are you hiding here? Don't freeze."
Dean turned around suddenly and saw Karen standing behind him holding a porcelain plate, wearing a floral apron and a piece of chocolate pie on the plate. His eyes were calm and not malicious at all.
Dean My back is a little stiff.
Karen smiled and invited him into the house to eat pie, saying that Bobby was busy in the garage, and treated it as a secret between them. Dean hesitated, looked at the pie in her hand, and followed her in.
There are several kinds of pies on the kitchen counter, including apples, cherries, and chocolates, and the aroma is filled with warmth.
Karen handed him a chocolate-flavored piece, watched him eat it, and said with a smile that he must like sweet things.
Dean was chewing the pie and asked her if she baked it all by herself. Karen nodded and said that she didn't know what happened. After she came back, she always wanted to bake something without sleeping. Maybe she was too excited, or maybe she died once and felt that she didn't have enough time.
She put down the plate and looked at Dean, her tone as calm as if she was talking about someone else's business. "I know you don't trust me, and you stay here just to keep an eye on me, right. I also know that Bobby is not an ordinary scrap collector. You are hunters, and I am what you want to hunt. I understand."
Dean put down his fork and told her seriously, "Sam and I will never let Bobby get any harm. Bobby is like a father to us."
Karen nodded and said that she understood that Bobby was really lucky to have a child like them, but they were not the only ones who cared about him. Dean raised an eyebrow and asked, right?
Karen's eyes darkened, and his fingertips gently rubbed the edge of the plate. "I remember everything. What happened when I died, the evil things the devil did to me, and Bobby had no choice but to kill me with his own hands." Every time I look at Bobby's eyes, I can see the deep guilt inside, so heavy that it almost crushed him.
Dean was stunned for a moment, and the fork in his hand paused in the air.
He asked her why she didn't just tell Bobby that she remembered everything.
Karen smiled softly, with a bit of bitterness. "It seems that you have never really loved someone. He is my husband. What I want to do is to give him peace, not to add pain to him."
Dean felt as if something had hit him hard in his heart, and he was so congested that he panicked. Before, he only thought, "This is a monster, and it's dangerous." But the woman in front of him remembered all the pain, but she was still thinking about Bobby.
He opened his mouth, but didn't say a word for a long time.
Bai Haorui, who had just reached the kitchen door, stopped and did not go in.
He lowered his eyes and looked at the Spirit-Stabilizing Talisman he had just drawn in his hand, with yellow paper and cinnabar, and neat runes. His fingertips tightened slightly - this time, no matter what, he had to give this couple a chance.
On the other side, Sam found the home of Ezra Jones according to the list of resurrected persons. It was a small single-family house with withered autumn chrysanthemums placed at the door. After knocking on the door for a long time, she could only hear violent coughing sounds coming from inside, each sound getting heavier than the last, as if the lungs were being coughed out.
Sam called Madam twice through the door, but no one answered.
Just as he was about to push the door open and go in, a scream suddenly came from inside, followed by a low growl like a beast, with a sticky chewing sound.
Sam's expression changed, he raised his foot and kicked open the door violently, and the door panel hit the wall with a clang.
There was a fishy smell in the house.
The old woman Ezra's face was ashen, her eyes were so cloudy that they were covered with a layer of white. She rushed towards him with her mouth open, saliva dripping from her mouth, her nails were black and long, and she was completely irrational.
Her husband fell to the ground, his stomach had been chewed to pieces, and he had long since lost his breath.
Sam dodged sideways, Ezra missed it, hit the cabinet, then turned around and rushed at him with a roar.
Her strength was astonishing. When Sam held her arm, it was so shocked that her arm went numb.
He hit her on the back of the neck with a backhand elbow, causing Ezra to stagger, not affected at all, but pounced on her even more fiercely.
Sam took the opportunity to retreat to the door, pushed her back into the house, and locked the door with a click.
He pressed his back against the door panel, gasping for air, and his shirt was soaked with cold sweat.
He slid and sat down against the door panel, and the last bit of luck in his heart was completely shattered - five days, which happened to be the fifth day.
These resurrected people will eventually turn into man-eating monsters.
Karen's face flashed in his mind, and Bobby's gentle eyes flashed across his mind, and his heart felt heavy.
Bobby is lying to himself and them, but reality will not accompany him in acting. If he delays it any longer, Karen will become like this, and Bobby will only be in more pain.
He did not dare to delay, so he stood up with his support on the wall and hurried to Bobby's house, his steps fast and urgent.
Sam made a lot of noise when he pushed the door open, bringing in a gust of cold wind.
Bobby immediately made a silence gesture, lowered his voice and told him to keep his voice down, saying that Karen was sleeping upstairs.
Dean saw Sam's expression was wrong, and immediately went up to him and asked what was wrong. Sam gasped and said in a deep voice, "Ezra Jones has mutated and chewed up her husband's stomach."
Bobby's face paled for a moment, her fingers clenched the armrests of her wheelchair, and she insisted that she was already crazy and could not be counted as evidence.
Dean lowered his face and took a step forward. "This is not a question of whether you are crazy or not! These things are getting worse one by one. We must deal with all the resurrected people, otherwise the whole town will suffer!"
With a "bang", Bobby slammed the table so hard that the coffee cup jumped. He stood up with support on the table, shouted with red eyes, "Get out! Get out of my territory!"
Dean was also angry. He scratched his head and asked, "Are you crazy? Are you going to shoot us?"
Bobby stared at him with red eyes, and his eyes were so determined that there was no room for change. "If Karen really changed, I will deal with it myself. You don't need to pretend to be kind." After saying that, he turned and went upstairs. The stairs made a clanging sound, and he closed the bedroom door with a bang, leaving the two brothers in the living room.
The two walked to the yard. Dean was so angry that he kicked the tree trunk, causing the leaves to fall down. "What should we do now?"
Sam sighed and said that after all, she was the wife he had loved and missed all his life.
Dean is even more angry. Can he deny his wife? We are his family too!
Sam pulled his arm and said don't worry about it now, the resurrectors in the town will all mutate soon, and they have to save the people in the town first, which is the more important thing.
Dean nodded and said that he would go back to Bobby's house to guard and stare at Karen. When it came to that point, he could only take action. Sam frowned and said that Bobby would fight him to the death if he saw it.
Dean said that he would not let Bobby see it, and asked Sam to go to the police chief Jody for help, saying that Sam was the best at persuading people.
At this time, Bai Haorui walked out of the backyard. His face was darker than before, his steps were still steady, but his fingertips were cold. He looked at the two of them and said calmly, "No need to do anything. I found a way."
Both brothers looked at him. Bai Haorui spoke slowly, "These living souls are wrapped in the death energy of Death Horseman. When the time limit is up, the death energy eats away at the souls and loses their sanity, and they will turn into walking zombies. I can deploy Eight Trigrams Soul Deliverance Formation and cooperate with Five Emperor Coins and Pure Yang True Fire to force the death energy out of their souls and stabilize their sanity."
He paused and added, "But I can't bring them back to life - their souls have been away from the body for too long, and their bodies have already decayed. Give them another twenty-four hours at most to say goodbye to their families. When the time is up, the souls will naturally dissipate and enter reincarnation, and they will not turn into monsters."
Dean's eyes suddenly lit up. "Really? No need to kill them?" Bai Haorui nodded, and added, "The price is that I have to waste a lot of cultivation, and I can only stabilize those who have not been completely alienated. Ezra Those who have lost their souls and only have their bestiality left can't be saved."
Sam breathed a sigh of relief, but was a little worried. "Am I forcing you too much? You haven't recovered from the last fight with Famine, okay?"
Bai Haorui shook his head lightly and looked in the direction of the bedroom on the second floor. "It's okay. It's better to let them say goodbye decently than to become a monster and be killed by their relatives. Bobby... There is no need to experience that kind of pain again."
Dean pursed his lips and patted his arm hard.
He knew that Bai Haorui never lied, and if he said he could do it, he would definitely do it.
At this time, the atmosphere in Sheriff Jody's house was depressing.
The lights in the living room were turned on very brightly, and Owen was curled up on the sofa, hugging the pillow and complaining that he was hungry.
He is the son of Jody, he is only seven years old, his face is as pale as paper, and his lips are so dry that they are peeling.
Jody touched his forehead and it was frighteningly hot.
She had just made a call to the doctor, and the thermometer showed 111 degrees. The doctor couldn't explain the reason and only asked her to cool down physically first.
Owen was still shouting that he was hungry, and his voice was getting more and more irritable, with a cry in his voice. Jody felt distressed and asked him to wait while his mother made soup.
As soon as she turned around and entered the kitchen, she heard her husband yelling from the dining room.
Jody's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly walked over to take a look, and instantly froze on the spot - Owen was lying on the ground, about to eat his father's arm.
Jody was so frightened that he screamed, his legs went weak and he almost collapsed on the ground.
At this moment, the door was kicked open with a clang, and Sam and Bai Haorui rushed in. Sam grabbed Jody and stepped back, while Bai Haorui took a few steps to pull her husband up from the ground and pulled him to a safe distance.
Jody was shaking all over, tears fell uncontrollably, and she cried that that was not her son, that was not Owen.
Sam pressed her shoulders, squeezed hard, and said in a deep voice, "Jody, calm down. Everyone in the town is in danger now, and we need your help. Can you hold on?"