"The temperature here is at least ten degrees lower than in the wild."
He tightened his windbreaker, and Klein commented while trembling.
Of course, part of the reason is the blood loss I just suffered. I heard that the human body will feel cold after blood loss. In addition, the temperature here is lower than outside, which makes me feel like winter...
Klein added silently in his heart.
He can't show too weak, otherwise the captain will probably let him go back to rest first and use Old Neil to solve the curse ritual.
Dunn didn't seem to hear Klein's complaints. He walked slowly in front of the team, his eyes half-closed, and entered a state of meditation. His eyes swept ahead. The translucent shadows floating in the corridor with unclear body shapes and faces calmed down under his gaze, and then the figures faded away and no longer appeared.
"This can only appease them temporarily. We need to arrange the ceremony as soon as possible to completely solve the 'abnormality' in this house."
Leonard followed Klein and whispered.
He held up the oil lamp he took from the carriage, and the faint light illuminated the way forward for Klein.
The two "Sleepless" in the team can find their way and identify objects by relying only on the weak moonlight. This lamp is purely prepared for "Seer" and Klein.
The three of them walked through the corridor next to the living room and approached the dining room of the house, the center of the house surrounded by coldness and shadows.
Dunn didn't pause at all, and pushed Door Opening directly in. Klein glanced at the other end of the corridor before following in.
Over there was the living room that Angel was guarding alone. In order to allow Klein to find her way through the lights and use candles to arrange the ceremony, the three of them left her there.
And Klein guessed that leaving Angel alone in the living room may have another meaning - if she wants to escape, this is the best opportunity.
"Magician Pocket Watch"...
In Angel's explanation just now, Klein finally knew the name and effect of this Mystical Item.
So is this the reason why she developed "photophobia" symptoms last week and was wandering downstairs of the company, refusing to enter?
Recalling the Angel she saw at Zouteland Street last Tuesday, who was just as frightened as she was after seeing the lights just now, Klein clenched her fists and looked at the altar in the center of the restaurant.
It was a round dining table filled with puppets, with an empty space in the middle. Although most of the bone-chilling chill had dissipated, you could still feel that it originated from the center of the round table.
Three extinguished candles were placed on the edge of the round table, forming an equilateral triangle.
Countless shadows floated in the air of the restaurant. When they saw someone entering, they silently adjusted their direction and floated towards the three of them.
Dunn, who was walking at the front, had his eyes fixed, and the approaching shadows were suspended in the air, as if they had lost their target, or had fallen into a deep sleep and no longer chased the living people.
"A terrible curse ritual. Fortunately, we have destroyed it... Hurry, appease them."
Leonard frowned and looked around the restaurant full of shadows, urging.
Klein nodded, walked under the shadows, came to the round table, stretched out his hand to sweep the puppets to the ground, and with sharp eyes, he discovered that these rough-made puppets were all labeled with names and corresponding birthdays, spiritual numbers and other information.
"Joyce Meyer?"
One of the familiar names caught his eye. Klein ignored the ceremony and picked up the puppet with Joyce's name on it.
"Who is he?"
Dunn's deep voice sounded in his ears, as if it had some power to induce sleep.
"One of the survivors of Alfalfa Tragedy, Klein divined for him."
Before Klein could answer, Leonard had already opened his mouth to explain. He took the puppet and studied it carefully.
Klein took out the candles he carried and replaced the three ones that had obviously been sacrificed to the evil god. He took out essential oils, sandalwood and other materials and arranged the altar.
After quickly using the ritual knife to create Wall of Spirituality that surrounded the three people, he lit candles and prayed to Evernight Goddess, completely appeasing the shadows near the house.
They should be the victims of this curse ritual, those who had their remaining lives wiped out by "Stealing".
Unfortunately, no useful clues were found in the following Spirit Channeling. These souls had been completely destroyed by the curse ritual, leaving only some incomplete fragments.
Even the altar itself did not divine enough information.
"After the ceremony was destroyed, the shadows could hardly rely on Spirit Channeling to obtain information, and the altar also took Anti-Divination measures. Those two people must be skilled workers."
After hearing Klein's words, Dunn looked around without giving up. The shadows after being comforted had faded away, leaving only the handmade puppets in the empty restaurant.
"The names and information on the puppet are related to 'Alfalfa Tragedy'. I saw several familiar names. Based on their number, it is likely that the names of all the survivors in Tingen City are on it."
Leonard took the "Joyce" puppet and rummaged through the pile of puppets on the ground to find a few more that he recognized.
"I guess they are planning to use the lives of dying people as sacrifices and use the Curse Altar curse to kill the survivors of Alfalfa. There are many of them, located in various places in Tingen City, and their whereabouts do not intersect with each other. They even have official Beyonder surveillance and protection. If we do it directly, we may not be able to kill a few before we find out."
He spoke with confidence, seeming very familiar with these rituals.
Dunn also nodded, approving Leonard's analysis. "Choose patients, choose people with dark hearts who are easily susceptible to Instigation. In this way, spreading, using diseases and accidentally killing dozens of people can easily be considered by the police as 'normal deaths', and the extraordinary factors behind them will not be discovered in a short period of time. When the police found something wrong in the statistics, reported it to us, and tracked them here, they have completed the ceremony and drifted away."
"But what about Tris? He was responsible for the tragedy of Alfalfa, but it was two other women who presided over the ceremony..."
Klein I thought of the young man with a round face on the wanted poster, but I couldn't connect him with the two Beyonder I met today.
"Perhaps he has another mission, such as continuing to search for the dying person, and then having his accomplices cause premature death... Let's go upstairs and have a look. There may be clues in their residence, and we can use Spirit Channeling or divination to try to track Tris."
Leonard put down the puppet in his hand and looked at the ceiling.
After a while, the three came to the second floor of the house.
Compared to the closed windows and tightly covered curtains on the first floor, the second floor seemed slightly more normal.
Both bedrooms were decorated like rooms inhabited by living people. The bedding in one of them was randomly placed on the corner of the bed, and various women's clothes were placed messily. A large suitcase was opened in the corner of the room, as if the owner of the bedroom had thrown it here before he could pack it away.
There were various opened cosmetics on the dressing cabinet. The makeup mirror on it was broken. There were fragments less than the size of a palm scattered on the table and the ground. There were signs of being hit by hard objects, which was obviously vandalized.
The three of them shook their heads together. The opponent's first target was the mirror, obviously to counter the subsequent divination. The gain from spending Spirituality on Spirit Channeling would not be very great.
The furnishings in the other bedroom next door are much more elegant than this one. The quilts are stacked like squares and the dresses are hung neatly in the closet.
It seems that these two bedrooms are occupied by two Beyonder. I just don't know which one "Demoness of Pleasure" lives in and which one "Witch" lives in...
Secretly guessing, Klein discovered that the full-length mirror embedded in the closet door was intact.
Could it be that the Beyonder in this house left in a hurry without having time to destroy the mirror? Maybe she wanted to interrupt the ceremony and not care about this...
He was secretly happy that along the way, he finally encountered useful clues.
In occultism, the mirror is the door to the unknown and to Spirit World. As long as it is still intact, it can definitely be used for divination and what Spirit Channeling can come out!
He rubbed his cold and stiff hands and took a step forward.
But then, Spirituality's intuition stopped him: the mirror in front of him was dangerous!
"Wait, don't use it for divination, this mirror is a trap!"
Leonard's panicked voice also came from behind.