Under this residential building, John threw the cigarette butt in his hand on the ground, crushed it twice with his thick cowhide leather shoes, and then walked upstairs contentedly. However, John, who was on the side, lit a cigarette for himself again after entering, and in just ten minutes, he smoked three cigarettes in a row.

Second-hand smoke hit Chas's face again, but this time he didn't have too many emotions, instead walked up to John and asked, "John, you said you wanted to help me bring my daughter back, I can understand coming to Los Angeles, but what are you doing here?" ”

"Take it easy, old man, don't always be sad, we didn't come to Los Angeles from London with a deep hatred. You see, Lena's soul isn't in her body, and the last clue I can find is Los Angeles, and this is where Tracey used to be, and we're going to have to find some clues. ”

After comforting his old friend for a while, John continued to walk upstairs, and the conversation between him and his old friend Chas in the corridor also attracted the attention of the residents who lived here.

"John, I think something is wrong, this can't be a trap."

"Who has nothing to do and uses an old residential building as a trap."

Helplessly, John also stopped near the middle of the residential building, frowning, because there were many empty rooms in this building, and he didn't know which was the room where his old friend's daughter had stayed. But this is not a problem for him, he is a magician, and it is not a problem to use magic to find a lost soul, but he is very reluctant to use magic to solve problems.

Magic is indeed a discipline that goes against the science that humans currently know, but most of the time it abides by a law, the law of conservation of energy, and if you want to use magic to help you do something, you have to give something first. It may be your soul, or it may be your rest of your life, although this equivalent quid pro quo is a bit ridiculous, but it is not impossible.

The magic of finding a lost soul can be big or small, because you don't know where this soul has gone, if it's just a simple wandering outside, then everything is easy to say, John can still bear the price, but if he is captured by a demon monarch, it will be a big trouble. Just when John was worried about this option, an old man passing by suddenly pushed John, and pushed John directly in front of a room.

"What's the matter with you!" However, Chas and Connor, who got up, saw a scene that surprised them a little.

The old man who pushed John did not leave just like that, but stood there in a daze, pointing to the door in front of John and Chas, after a white light flashed in his eyes, his dull expression recovered, and he looked at John and Chas in front of him suspiciously, a little incomprehensible why he was here, and then left quickly.

This strange phenomenon gave both Chas and Connor a bit of a headache, especially Chas, he is not like his old friend, who often runs around in various supernatural events, and the strange phenomenon of the old man makes Chas faintly feel that his daughter's soul is not so simple to detach from her body.

"John, do you remember what I just said, I think it's a trap."

"So what, do you have a choice, Chas, Tracey is your daughter and not mine, how can you be more timid than me." After teasing his old friend, John pushed open the door in front of him, the door was unlocked, but he didn't need to use magic to locate it, because he had found the room where his old friend's daughter had been.

Kicking the door open, the hidden door slammed against the wall at John's feet, and the air currents kicked up a cloud of dust in the empty room, covering their mouths and noses, and John and Chas walked in one after the other.

"Ahem, John, what are you doing here?" Chas asked.

"Because this is the room where Tracey has stayed, I don't know why it looks like it hasn't been lived in for years, but if you want to find Tracey, you have to step on it."

"So what's next?"

"Close the door and make sure no one can come in."

Ha? Chas was a little puzzled, but it was a matter of his daughter's life and death, and he did not refuse, closed the door, pressed his body against it, and then looked at his friend John. Konstantin's next operation. John took out a bottle containing some kind of animal hair from inside his trench coat, took a pinch out of it, and sprinkled it around the room before finishing his work.

"Ten years of black cat hair, in Southeast Asia, black cats have always been considered to be able to guide the living to see the souls of the dead, although Tracey is not dead, but they are all about the same, next, is the main thing."

After explaining, John stood in the center of the house, his hands outstretched, and the golden magic circle condensed on his palms, followed by the recitation of a mantra: Et pelagus modo retro et guidelines pro reditu errant meam illud (note). As the spell ended, the black cat fur that spread around the house also burned, and the smoke formed formed an image in front of John and Chas.

A little girl with black hair, probably 15 or 16 years old, and another girl of the same age, but with blue hair, snuggled together, and the faces of the two girls, one forcibly calm, the other fearful.

"Tracy!" Chas could see at a glance that the girl who was forcibly calm was his unconscious daughter lying on the hospital bed, and he couldn't help but shout, and his body was about to leave the door.

"Stay there for me, don't move! Chas, this is just a memory of Tracey recorded by this house, and it may also be a place where Tracey's soul has been, and it is easy for you to confuse this information when you rush over! ”

Hearing John's warning, Chas held back his steps to lift himself and fixed himself there. And here, the image shown is still evolving, Tracey and another unknown girl snuggled together, forcibly calm Tracey's hands bloomed with the same magic array as John, as if defending against something, and a giant red hand rushed over, swept over Tracey, and then Tracey fell unconscious into the arms of another girl, no matter how the girl called, there was no response.

This was the end of the image, and the smoke cleared and disappeared into the room as a wisp of smoke, and Chas fell to his knees as if he had lost his strength, holding his head, hating his own incompetence as a father.

"How could this happen, and why! Why! ”

"Calm down, Chas! Everything is not so bad, the owner of the big hand took Tracey's soul Yes, but this is not necessarily his purpose, the girl next to Tracey is also the key, about her, do you have any impression. ”

"I don't know, Rena and I have been separated for seven months, and if it weren't for her phone call, I wouldn't have known that something like this happened to Tracey in Los Angeles." Chas replied bitterly.

"That girl, the girl who was with Tracy just now, do you know her!"

"Rena told me that she called Rena and helped bring her to the hospital, and I heard Rena say that her name is Raven. Rachel, a friend of Tracey's in Los Angeles, is there anything wrong? ”

"Big problem, old friend. But why does Tracey know magic, I don't remember you being the one who would expose your own children to magic, Chas! ”

Chas looked up at John, "Have you forgotten the incident that happened ten years ago, John, that incident caused us to part ways, we both know what we all lost in that exorcism, and since then, I have burned everything about magic, only that one, the manuscript of the first time you learned magic, I kept, but I didn't expect Tracey to learn these things." ”

"Alright, cheer up, old friend, we still have a lot of work to do." Listening to his friend's answer, John didn't know whether to scold or be relieved, his friend had never forgotten the friendship between the two of them, but his niece was implicated because of her access to his magical manuscript.

Helping his friend up, the two of them walked out of the room, this time it was not without clues, at least the other girl might be the cause of his niece's soul, and John's need to find out the reason. Getting into the car, John rolled down the window, lit a cigarette, and began to smoke again.

"Where are we going next, John?"

"Find someone who can answer our questions, or maybe the Demon King or the Angel, forget it, go to the Light, you can find it on the navigation."

"Got it." Holding the steering wheel, Chas was silent for a while, but said, "Thank you, John, you are my best friend, it's good to have you." ”

"Don't say that, I'll tell you beforehand, if you want to save Tracy's soul, you have to be prepared to lose everything."

"You can take my life at any time!"

"There's something more important than your life, old friend, let's go."

Listening to John's words, Chas was also a little puzzled, and his grief was diluted a little, and without saying more, he stepped on the gas pedal and drove towards the bar where his friend was.

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