Voodoo Doll (Bonus Chapter for Ally Gongyuan1)

Obviously, this piece of information once again made Fang Linyan close his eyes and digest it carefully for a while. He quickly discovered that among these milestones, Great Minds Think Alike and Scholar were potentially achievable, but he first needed to pinpoint his own location before considering the rest. The others he would pass on.

Just then, the bathroom door was suddenly pushed open. A man wearing a plaid shirt walked in, glanced at Fang Linyan, and hurried over to the urinal to relieve himself. As the door swung open, the noisy sounds from the mall outside also filtered in.

A realization dawned in Fang Linyan's heart:

"Alright, does this mean the world has officially begun?"

He then walked straight out of the bathroom. He could see that this was on the fifth floor of the mall, with banners advertising discounts and promotions hanging everywhere. The place was bustling with people, yet the mall's order remained well-organized and quite impressive.

After turning into a corridor, there was a vendor selling onion rings and doughnuts. The aroma of frying filled the air, so there was quite a long line. At this point, Fang Linyan set his first priority: quickly determine his location. He headed straight outside.

However, just as Fang Linyan reached the adjacent corridor, an old man suddenly fell down ahead of him. As he fell, his wallet slipped out, revealing a thick stack of brand-new US dollars. The old man seemed to have fainted, and there was no one else around.

Fang Linyan paused. He was in dire need of money at this moment. The clothes on his back contained only twenty dollars besides the necessary documents, not even a phone. Now, with just a bend of his waist, a large sum of money was within easy reach.

But just as Fang Linyan was about to bend down, a thought struck him: his current situation was very peculiar—he needed money, and someone just happened to offer it. Wasn't this a bit too coincidental?

Although Fang Linyan was not yet twenty, he had grown up in an orphanage and wandered the streets for several years. He had seen all kinds of dark and shady dealings. Some of his friends had even been caught, had their limbs broken, and were forced to beg. So naturally, he tended to think twice.

After pondering for a moment, Fang Linyan chose to follow his instincts. He picked up the dollars—then stuffed them back into the old man's wallet. Next, he helped the old man up, leaned him against the wall, and only then walked away.

After leaving the mall, he realized it was quite hot outside. This place seemed to be a small town. Aside from a massive parking lot and a few dozen buildings, he could see billboards on the outskirts and a vast expanse of grayish-yellow desert, with only some undulating mountain shadows on the horizon.

After walking about two or three hundred meters, Fang Linyan realized that this arrival mode seemed designed to weaken Fang, but for him, who was impersonating Fang, it was an outright enhancement! If he had still been in his previous cancer-ridden body, he might already be out of breath by now.

This was the importance of health.

After looking around, the good news was that Fang Linyan finally found a street sign: CA154W Avenue, Gamel Town. But the bad news followed: he searched his entire body and found only twenty dollars.

In this situation, Fang Linyan reorganized his next course of action. First, he should familiarize himself with and practice the Voodoo Sect's black magic: Blood Spider. Then, he needed to get some money. As the saying goes, "A single coin can stump a hero"; without money, he couldn't move an inch.

As for why he needed to first practice the Voodoo Sect's black magic: Blood Spider?

It was because Fang Linyan was like someone who had memorized a gun maintenance manual and firing instructions but had never actually shot a gun. There was still a gap between theory and actual combat capability. In this situation, Fang Linyan's optimal choice was definitely to maximize his immediate combat power first.

So, he turned around and walked back into the supermarket. This time, he was going to buy spell-casting materials. The memory fragments in his mind made it very clear: to perform any Voodoo Sect black magic, one indispensable casting tool was the Voodoo Doll.

Five minutes later, Fang Linyan walked out of the supermarket with a bag of materials. He found a secluded spot to sit down, with a can of iced cola at hand.

In Fang Linyan's memory, the best way to make a Voodoo Doll was extremely cruel and complicated. One had to chop off the head of a ruthless murderer who had killed countless people, then use the Voodoo Sect's unique head-shrinking technique to reduce the head to the size of a fist, and use it as the core for crafting.

Such a Voodoo Doll not only greatly enhanced the power of black magic but could even come with additional spells.

However, with Fang Linyan's limited resources at hand, he could only buy basic materials like paper, wax, cloth, and straw. He tied together a very simple Voodoo Doll. It looked quite crude, but upon closer inspection, it had a strange, harmonious beauty, as if it contained some natural principle.

Why did this happen? It was determined by Fang Linyan's unique personal experience. Starting from the age of eleven, he had received relevant training in crafting, so he was quite skilled in this area.

Thus, the Voodoo Doll he made with his own hands would naturally receive corresponding bonuses. The strange, harmonious beauty of the Voodoo Doll was not some abstract concept; it could be directly quantified into data—it was the golden ratio in craftsmanship.

Dividing a whole into two parts, the ratio of the larger part to the whole equals the ratio of the smaller part to the larger part—that is the golden ratio.

When this ratio approaches the number 0.61803398874989484820458683436565, it is recognized as the most optimal and aesthetically pleasing proportion. Simply put, it's like water boiling at 100 degrees or freezing at 0 degrees—a law of this world.

Painters use this principle by extending the legs of a human figure so that the ratio of legs to height approaches the golden ratio, creating visually pleasing masterpieces.

But the Voodoo Doll just tied together couldn't be used directly. It still needed two procedures: soul infusion and blood quenching. The reason the Voodoo Doll made from a human head was so powerful was that it condensed the fierce souls and intense malice within.