Cursed Creatures (10,000-Word Chapter, Please Subscribe)

Mississippi, located in the southern United States on the east bank of the Mississippi River, bordered Mexico to the south, Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, and Louisiana and Arkansas to the west.

Despite being depicted by the famous left-wing writer Mark Twain as picturesque and full of romantic charm,

it was, in reality, the most economically backward and impoverished state in the United States, with the worst racial discrimination and a breeding ground for all manner of extremist organizations and cults.

Voodoo, in particular, which had spread from Dahomey to Haiti and then from Haiti, had long since taken root in this land.

Combined with its vast territory and sparse population, many poorly educated, stubborn, and foolish people often possessed an inexplicable fanaticism for religion and mysticism.

Some farms and ranches operating under the banner of a certain sect were, in fact, merely tools for cults to amass wealth.

They treated their so-called believers as free slaves in modern society, forcing them to perform grueling physical labor every day without paying them a cent, while brainwashing them day after day.

They even induced men within families to offer up their wives and daughters to the cult leader and other higher-ups as proof of their devotion to "God."

Of course, if it were merely about making money and satisfying personal desires, that would be one thing. It was evil and despicable, but at least not enough to strip them of their humanity.

But among the many cults, a small number were genuinely insane and conducted a series of brutal, deranged rituals, including live sacrifice and suicide.

With the added BUFF of rampant firearms, the pitiful local police forces did not even dare interfere.

As long as nothing major happened and the media did not expose them, the two