518 Stanley Hotel
Impala was driving down the road at a very fast speed, and Downey sat in the back seat and watched out the window.
This matter is not simple, and any time the gods, especially the evil gods, come back to life, it will have extremely serious consequences.
If nothing else, take the example of the soon-to-be-reborn God of Stories, whose completion of a thousand and one stories would have dire consequences, as Downey could have imagined.
Donnie didn't care about the Federation's losses, but now that he and Lawrence were involved in such a thing, it would be difficult for him to get out.
These stories are likely to be like a web that holds everyone together, and no one can afford to do it unless the source is disposed of.
Just as Donnie was looking out the window, he suddenly used a spell to stop the car. Lawrence didn't expect Donnie to do this, and was taken aback.
But Donnie didn't have an idea to explain to him for the time being, and the figure disappeared in an instant, and then appeared straight outside an alley.
"What do you see?" Lawrence got out of the car and rushed to Donnie's side, and when he asked, he didn't forget to look around, but fortunately, there were few pedestrians on Boggins' road, and judging from the few pedestrians, they should not have seen the strangeness of Donnie's appearance at the intersection.
Downey looked around, too, but more seriously than Lawrence.
But even so, Donnie didn't find the person he wanted.
"Maybe I'm wrong." When Downey said this, he obviously didn't intend to tell Lawrence the truth, and with Downey's current strength, the possibility of seeing the wrong thing was too low.
Not to mention that Donnie also has the ability to have a general eye, and it is unlikely that this matter of misunderstanding can happen to him.
In fact, it was also true that Downey was not telling the truth to Lawrence, he saw a person, and a person who should never have been here.
In the deep spirit world, Donnie once tried to bring out the last survivors of the snow fragments, but failed, and unfortunately the young man named Podil was distorted by the power of the dream banyan tree, and finally became a puppet of the spirit lord because of his recklessness.
Donnie had thought that Podil, who possessed the divinity of the Dream Banyan Tree, would be able to escape, but he definitely didn't expect Podil to come out so quickly.
That's why Donnie was so excited when he saw Podier's figure appear at the entrance of the alley.
But Donnie had calmed down now, and he knew that he wasn't wrong, but that the mental erosion was too severe to bear.
Donnie's strength has indeed recovered very well, and there is no pressure on the transcendent moves of the fourth sequence, but there is a serious problem with the mental will, and the degree of erosion and influence has been deepening since he left the City of Angels.
If Donnie's strength hadn't increased significantly, I'm afraid he wouldn't have been able to survive until now.
"How on earth did I ignore such an important issue?" Downey was still standing at the entrance of the alley, feeling that something was wrong.
Donnie has tried to undo his own erosion repeatedly, but has been unsuccessful. This time, he had this idea when he was still in the spiritual realm, but he was disturbed by Lawrence's message.
"If I can't clean up the mental erosion as soon as possible, I'm afraid it will seriously affect my judgment."
Podier's figure is so real that as long as Donnie doesn't use the eyes of knowledge, he can't see through whether he is real or not. Once things get more serious, Donnie is likely to be affected even more severely, and if he makes the wrong choice, he is likely to attack the people around him.
That said, both Lawrence and the Paper Goblin are in danger of staying with Donnie. However, the Porkins are about to usher in the resurrection ritual of the God of Stories, and the separation may bring them even more serious danger.
Because of this, Donnie was a little undecided for a while.
It wasn't until Donnie returned to the apartment that he didn't come up with a good solution, but he didn't suffer much along the way.
"Why don't you go? Wait..."Donnie thought with his head down, and Lawrence's sudden stop startled him, and if he hadn't known that Lawrence wasn't such a person, he might have thought he was playing a prank.
Of course, Lawrence had no intention of playing a prank, and he parked his car because the dilapidated apartment from last night was gone.
Downey vividly remembers that it was a six-storey flat-roofed red brick building, but now, the original location no longer exists, and instead it is a retro hotel. And the repair is extremely luxurious.
"How is this possible?!" Lawrence looked dazed, why is my house so big gone?
Downey's voice came from the back seat, "Maybe it's the power of the story, maybe everyone else didn't realize it, and this place was converted into a hotel." ”
Downey's explanation sounded quite in line with the status quo, as Moore had made it clear to them that if they couldn't stop the sixty-six stories that reached the end of the plot within a week, the gods would return from the dead.
The power of the gods is enough to reverse all this and modify the memories of others, as for the memories of Donnie and Lawrence and others, it may be that the power that the god can use is not enough.
"What are we going to do? Looking for a book first? Lawrence has a headache about the problem at hand, and the villain in the story is equivalent to an enemy who can't be killed, so maybe he has to find a way to change the ending of the story.
"No, you don't." Downey waved his hand to wake up the paper goblin who was sleeping in his pocket.
As weird, the paper goblin must have some idea of the situation at hand.
The paper goblin was quickly woken up by Donnie, and when it understood the current situation, its eyes widened, and it could be seen that the paper goblin was the power of the gods. As a weird person who really likes books, and even feeds on them, turning the stories in books into reality is undoubtedly the power it hopes to get the most.
"Let me think about it!" The paper goblin paced slowly on Lawrence's shoulder, and his eyes fell on the 'Stanley Hotel'.
"The Stanley Hotel... If I remember correctly, there are multiple spirits in this hotel, and it is connected to Hell, which is a very hellish place. ”
The paper goblin quickly retrieved the story from its memory, the Stanley Hotel was the result of a well-known oral story, and the main characters of the story were a family of three who struggled to survive in the hotel.
In the end, the woman and the child survived, and the father was controlled by the demon and ended up in hell.
"In other words, we have to find a way to change the outcome, and it doesn't sound too hard."