Chapter 62: There are many ghost ship stories
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"Secure the rope, you're all waiting here. Lin Yue, Sun Yan, you come with me on the boat. β
"I'll go too." Red Moon screamed.
"You're still waiting here, and you're in charge."
"Alright then!" Hongyue retreated timidly like a wronged little daughter-in-law, which surprised me very much. It doesn't seem to be her character!
Anyway, I only took two players and a few NPCs on that battered ghost ship. This guy is really big, and the foredeck can almost be used as a stadium, but his tattered Cheng dΓΉ is indeed a bit exaggerated.
I pointed to a cabin entrance at the stern of the boat. "Sun Yan, you take four sailors down from there, open the guild channel, report anything immediately, don't take risks."
"Okay. You four come with me. Sun Yan led the four sailors to the entrance of the cabin.
I pointed to the entrance to the cabin at the bow of the ship. "Lin Yue, you take 4 sailors down from there. Be careful, call us immediately if you encounter any dangerous situation, and don't risk it alone. β
"Don't worry! It's just a broken boat, you can't do anything to me! Alright, you four, come with me! Lin Yue ran towards the bow of the ship with four sailors.
Although there are many undead creatures in the game, people's habits are not something that can be changed. Sun Yan and Lin Yue took away the 4 original pirate sailors, leaving me with the 4 undead sailors who were later expanded into the sailor camp. Anyway, I'm nervous, I'm used to the undead, and it's okay to bring four undead.
The two of them were sent to the bow and stern of the ship, and I had to come by myself in the middle. As soon as I walked to the door of the cabin, I heard Lin Yue's complaint in the channel: "Damn! There has been no one here for at least a few hundred years, and the doors are gone! β
Sun Yan's voice also popped out: "Then what are you complaining about?" β
"Why didn't I complain?" Lin Yue exerted her unreasonable skills to tell Sun Yan that there was no way. "Hey, what are you doing over there? Ping-pong? β
Sun Yan said: "I have a lot of doors here, but the handles are all rusty, and I can't open them, I'm smashing the door!" β
I smiled and said, "This kind of rag is probably not so strong, and slamming the door is not a trivial question...... Yes...... Bang...... Yes...... Bang...... Table tennis...... Boom...... Ping Pong...... Yes...... Oops...... Yes...... Bang...... Trumpet...... I...... Ah...... Bang...... Hey, hey...... Ahem, ahem! β
"What's wrong with you? What's going on? "Both of them heard me talk about it when I was in the middle of a strange noise, and they thought I had met some enemy.
"I'm at the bottom of the boat!"
"Huh? So fast? How did you get down? Why was it so noisy just now? What's the sound? β
"This damn wrecked ship, I don't know how long it's been floating here, the planks are rotten. I had just gotten out of the cabin when the stairs collapsed and I fell all the way to the bottom of the boat. You'd better be careful, the floor here could collapse at any moment. β
"Haha! But you're doing it faster! "Sun Yan actually laughed at me.
I said angrily: "If you have the ability, you can jump on the spot twice to ensure that you will also fall." β
"Haha! I just don't stop! I can't get used to your dirt elevator. Now that you're at the end, we won't go down to the bilge, so I'll leave it to you. β
"Schadenfreude fellow, may you fall too."
"I don't ...... Yes...... Ah...... Ping Pong...... Trumpet...... Bang! β
Sun Yan was hit before he finished speaking, and fell all the way from above. In the distance, the sound of wood breaking and heavy objects falling to the ground could be heard echoing through the cabin. When the voice stopped, I heard Sun Yan's half-dead voice: "You are really a crow's mouth, a good and not a bad spirit!" β
"Haha! It's called retribution! So, since you're down too, we're half of us in the bilge, right? β
"I'm not as weak as you! It's just that it has collapsed three floors. It's still some distance from the bilge, right? β
"Then you pray that you don't step on it again." I cursed badly.
"I'm not as unlucky as you, you better check the bilge honestly. Satsuki, will you check it on the upper floor? I'll take a look at the middle layers, and the deepest hell will be reserved for our most moldy grown! β
"Haha! I'm in favor. "Lin Yue is also a master who doesn't think it's a big deal to watch the excitement." By the way, all the sailors you brought with me should follow me, and you don't have to take them with you anyway. β
"Okay. But you have to gather them yourself. β
Now that it had fallen, there was no other way, and I was forced to start checking the bilge. But before you do that, you have to get yourself out of this pile of rotten wood. It collapsed a lot of things when it fell just now, and it seemed to hit a bed halfway through, but it didn't stop the trend of falling and fell with me.
grabbed a broken piece of wood with one hand and tried to push it away, but with a force on his hand, the wood was actually crushed like a shortbread. No way! Isn't that an exaggeration? Move your legs, kick a crossbar, and then throw away the rest of the rags, and jump up. Suddenly, I noticed a strange problem, the wood on the bottom of the boat felt completely different from the floor slab above. In order to confirm whether it was an illusion, I squatted down and carefully knocked on the floor, for fear that it would be troublesome if I knocked it through the leak.
The sound of the underlying planks was different, the wood seemed to be very strong, and there was no decay at all. No wonder the ship did not sink when it was broken like that, and the wood underneath was not broken. But the wood used for the bottom and top of the boat should be the same! The top is all flour, how can the bottom be the same as new?
I approached the baseplate again and asked the Phantom to help me take a look, as he should be able to detect some minor problems with his knowledge. But the phantom couldn't find the reason after watching it for a long time, but instead made more doubts. After the Phantom confirmed, the material of the bottom of this ship was the same as the top, and there was not even special treatment. It is said that the same material should have the same durability! How can there be such a big difference?
The whole bilge was inspected, and it was exactly the same, the whole underneath was like new, and there was no mark of time at all. But the hull structure told me that the timbers were installed together on the ship, and this should not be the case at all.
After thinking about it for a long time, I really couldn't figure out the reason, so I simply summoned Ling and Xiaochun out. Tell them these suspicious points and let them see if there are any clues.
Ling and Xiao Chun studied the planks together and compared them to the decaying ones. Xiao Chun said: "I can only feel that these woods are surrounded by a layer of special energy, and it feels like something dark, I don't know what it is." β
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I turned to Ling, and she replied, "It's the unjust soul, and the entire wooden plank at the bottom is surrounded by the resentment of the low-level unjust soul. The wood has been undead, like the bones of a skeleton soldier, and it will not be weathered for many years without an external force breaking it. β
"It's a ghost ship!"
Ling continued: "The strange thing is that such a strong resentment can only be caused by the collective death of a large number of creatures, and the corpse must be nearby, otherwise the resentment would have dissipated a long time ago. β
"You mean the undead are nearby?"
"No, not the undead. These undead spirits are not undead, just simple resentful spirits with no consciousness, and they are all concentrated on wooden planks. I'm talking about corpses, and their corpses should be nearby! β
"But there's nothing here!" I looked around, and this floor was the bottom compartment, which was the isolation passage for the personnel to enter when repairing the bottom of the ship, and there was nothing at all, except for a few pillars, and the cabin had an unobstructed view, if there were corpses, it should be seen at a glance.
"Could it be down here?" Xiao Chun pointed to the floor.
"This is the bottom of the boat, and there's water under the planks, don't you think the corpse is soaking in the water?"
Ling actually helped Xiao Chun and said: "What Xiao Chun said makes sense, this may be a disguise, maybe there is a mezzanine." Master, you just make a hole and try it. β
"But what if there is no mezzanine and the water leaks?"
"The leak can be plugged! You just have to make a little hole. With such a large ship, even if it leaks, it will not sink in a moment and a half. β
"Oh well! You two prepare the wood first, and be ready to stuff it up if it really leaks. β
Take out Eternity and turn him into an awl the thickness of a finger, standing tip down on the plank. I didn't exert myself, and the sharp eternity began to sink down on its own because of its own gravity. I really didn't expect that this layer is still thick. The awls that have become eternal have pierced half a foot deep, and they have not yet passed. "Holy! This board is too thick! β
"Maybe that's the bottom of it." Ling explained.
We waited a little longer, and the cone suddenly slipped downward, apparently losing resistance. As soon as I put my hand on the hole, the cone immediately rose again. Put the bead that eternally turned back to red back into the dragon's mouth on the arm, and look at the hole again, it seems that it is indeed a mezzanine, because no water comes out.
Putting one eye over the hole and looking down, my night vision allowed me to see things in the dark. Although it was unusually dark in the mezzanine, it did not interfere with my observation. At this glance, I found a lot of things, and I beckoned: "There are really corpses." β
Xiao Chun came over and leaned over to the hole and jumped up screaming after just one glance, Ling came over and looked at it indifferently and said, "It's just a corpse, it's just a little rotten." β
"Get out of the way, I'll make the hole bigger."
Xiaochun said: "Is it okay if I don't participate?" β
"Then you go back and rest first!" I waved her back to the Phoenix Dragon Space. It's really rare to hear the system prompt that loyalty is increased by 2 points!
After taking Xiao Chun back, I used Eternity to open a big irregular hole in the floor, anyway, it was a temporary passage, and I didn't have the tools, so I couldn't make it into a standard shape! Ling stuck the tail of her staff into the plank, and as I severed the last bit of connection, she lifted it up, and we pulled the cut up.
As the hole opened, an indescribable smell rushed over it. It's not a stink anymore, it's been so long, the stench has long since disappeared, but this smell is sour, and it doesn't smell very good!
"Look at this." Ling showed me the cut plank. It turned out that the wooden board was double-layered and looked like a sandwich biscuit. The upper and lower layers are three-inch-thick planks, with a two-inch-thick layer of white ash in the middle. It seems that eighty percent of the corpses below are suffocated, and this layer of wax is used to seal them at all.
Now that you open the hole, the situation below is much clearer. The whole cabin below here is a cabin, but it's sealed. Now there is a layer of corpses piled up on the ground of the cabin, and the floor is not visible at all.
I jumped down with my hand at the entrance of the cave, and there were all corpses underneath, and I couldn't hold the pen and the fun pavilion, and I planted a heel as soon as I landed, but fortunately it was soft. The bottom was exactly the same as the top, there was nothing but the pillars, and a large number of corpses were piled up. I found some gilded magic symbols on a nearby pillar, which is probably why these corpses are still soft after so long. But which pervert wants to keep the corpse fresh? Isn't it better to simply kill people and kill people to be thrown into the sea?
Think about throwing the corpse aside at your feet and clearing out a piece of floor. Raising his head and stretching out his hands to Ling: "You can come down." β
Ling jumped down, and I caught her steadily. After lowering her to the ground, he said, "Can you calculate the number?" β
"Looking at the thickness of the accumulation of corpses and the area here, it is estimated that there are no less than 20,000 people."
"Good fellow, mass grave!" I looked around, and Ling's estimate should be about the same. Reaching out and grabbing the face of a corpse, he turned around. This one is still a child, 12 years old at most. A corpse next to him was probably his mother, and he was holding him tightly. Rummaging through the corpses next to him, men, women, and children, there were all kinds of things, and they couldn't find anything in common at all.
Ling took the hand of a young female corpse, took her fingers and moved. "The flexibility is not bad, and the preservation is good."
I pointed to a belly fire next to me and said, "But some of them are very rotten!" β
Ling leaned over to the symbol on the pillar and looked at it. "This is a low-level necromancer storage circle, which necromancers use to preserve corpses. Manipulating too many corpses at the same time will make it difficult for necromancers, but corpses cannot be found at any time, so necromancers invented this thing. Usually collect the bodies that are found and take them out when they need to be used. β
"You're saying these people weren't slaughtered here, but the necromancer's collected materials?"
"No, these people were killed here. And this circle was painted long after these people died, so some of the corpses were rotten and some were not. These people didn't die together, those decomposing corpses died first, and there may have been a necromancer among the last people who died, and he didn't want his body to rot so he drew such a thing. β
"Really, what do you want corpses to do when people are dead?"
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"Normally, necromancers are the undead. However, some beings also learn necromancers and want to become necromancers, as long as they reach the advanced necromancer level, they can transform themselves into undead creatures, and they can retain their own consciousness and become immortal. But if they die unexpectedly if they don't reach the level of a high-level necromancer, they can't become immortal, but really die. However, as long as the body of this kind of necromancer is not damaged after death, the soul will not leave. As long as you continue to cultivate like this, sooner or later you can become a high-level necromancer and get up again. This guy who drew the formation is this kind of necromancer, and he wants to keep his body and get up sooner or later. β
"Can you find which one?"
"No, there is no difference between him and the dead before he was resurrected, I can only be sure that his body must be intact, but there are so many intact corpses here, I don't know which one is!"
"That's trouble! It seems that these people are going to become puzzled. β
"Not necessarily." Ling held out a finger and pointed it on the forehead of a corpse, and then as her finger moved up, the corpse actually stood up. "Have you forgotten who I am? Can I do this little trick of controlling corpses? β
"Ahh Forget about the necromancer's boss here! Quick, ask him what's going on. β
"The corpse can't answer the question, I can only read the approximate memory, it depends on whether his soul is still around!" Ling closed his eyes and stood for a moment, and the corpse suddenly collapsed. Ling reopened his eyes: "Unfortunately, there are only a few fragments of his memory left. It is probably known that they are the family members of some pirates, and the rest is unknown. β
"Try the one next to it, it should be in good condition, right?"
Ling lit a corpse again and stood up, only to be left with fragments. More than a dozen corpses came to a halt in a row. "These people were attacked by spiritual magic before they died, their minds were confused, and there was nothing useful left!"
"Looks hopeless!" I grabbed a female corpse by the neck and picked her up and looked at it. "Pirates? This little girl with thin skin and tender meat will be a pirate? The sea breeze is more wrinkled than time, right? β
"The memory fragment is like this, maybe she was born with good skin! Look at this, at most thirty years old, and they are almost bark! β
I turned my head to look at the one Ling was carrying, and it looked like a tree bark. When I turned my head back again, the eyes of the female corpse I was holding by the neck suddenly opened, and those cold eyes stared at me wide. I froze for a moment, then removed my helmet and pulled her closer. I almost leaned over her face and looked at her for a long time, especially after looking at her eyes, to confirm that the eyes could focus and track objects, not because I had encountered some nerve reflex action, but really opened my eyes. "Haha! Woke up one. β
Being messed with by me like this, the female corpse's eyes changed from cold just now to bewilderment, and later there was a little bit of fear. I put her down to make her stand firm, patted her on the shoulder and asked, "Can you speak?" β
She looked at me with complicated eyes, clapped her hands, and then looked at me again. "Why don't you run away?"
"Escape?" I looked around, "What am I running?" Is there a danger here? β
"I'm dead. Isn't it right for a normal person to scream and faint or run away quickly when they suddenly open their eyes when they see a corpse? β
I scratched my hair to look at Ling, and she actually pointed at me and laughed. I turned around and smiled awkwardly, "It seems that I'm a little abnormal!" β
Ling came over and patted me and said, "Master, you are becoming less and less human-like now!" β
"What are you talking about?"
"People are scared away when they see the dead bodies, you actually look very excited!"
"I call it straightforward. Besides, I'm so excited! Don't you know that curiosity is a very strong **? Suddenly, there was an ...... that could answer my question: "I'll look at this undead girl." ββ¦β¦ of the undead. Can I not get excited? β
"Okay, okay, you have a reason!" Ling walked over to the girl and said, "Who are you?" β
"Why should I sue you?" The undead girl's surprising answer made us all stunned for a moment.
I held out three fingers: "I really want to know why and how things happened now, you have three choices." First, talk to us about business, we fulfill some of your requests, and in exchange you tell me what I want to know. Second, you refuse to answer, and then you answer when we torture you to the point where you can't stand it. Thirdly, you are strong-willed, and you have been tortured by us until your bones are gone, and your soul dissipates. Pick one, shall we? "Really! Actually pretending to be a big name in front of me, I'm not a good person, I don't know about the preferential treatment of prisoners, and I am very familiar with torture to extract confessions.
The undead girl laughed and said, "I don't choose any of them." First, you may not be able to deal with me. Second, even if I am not an opponent and have been accused by you, but I am an undead spirit, and I have no pain, how can you torture me? β
Ling and I were stunned again. The undead have an instinctive fear of Ling, and try not to clash with Ling even if they are not necessarily obedient. The one in front of him didn't seem to care about Ling's strength at all. Is she amazing? But I don't feel it! How powerful can an undead be? The low-level undead who have just woken up should be easy to deal with! I think she said that eighty percent of the birth calves are not afraid of tigers, because she doesn't know Ling's identity and strength to be so brave.
Ling smiled and said, "What a cute little mm, no one has dared to talk to me like this for a long time." Although you are already a high-level necromancer, the gap between you and me is still insurmountable. Other than that. She paused. Don't use a boring skill as low-level as summoning zombies against me. β
I saw the undead girl's surprised gaze and heard screams. Looking back, there were more than two dozen corpses behind us, surrounded by green flames, struggling in agony. Seeing the corpses slowly burned to powder, the undead girl's surprised mouth never closed.
After those zombies were burned, the little girl returned to normal, and she sneered, "Don't think that you can be great with the fire of the undead, you have the ability to try to burn my guard knight." As she spoke, she saw two knights in full armor standing up behind her, and it seemed that they were also undead knights who had just evolved.
With her confident smile, two undead knights walked up to her and pressed her shoulders left and right, and actually grabbed her. Ling smiled and said, "I don't even bother to ask for this level of undead knight, you are still a treasure." Dare to command and fight without writing the soul blood contract, how did your mentor teach you? I don't know if a summoned undead without a blood contract can be deprived of the right to control by a necromancer with stronger mana? Looks like you're a half-necromancer! You can also be resurrected from the dead, how lucky you are! Just now, he actually said that even if he was caught, there would be no way to torture you, and now let you see what it means to live without death. β
Ling snapped his fingers as he spoke, and the two undead knights let go of the undead girl and stepped aside. But the freed girl fell to her head in agony, and she screamed as she rolled around on the floor covered with corpses.
Ling asked playfully, "How is it?" Is this kind of torture considered intense? If you don't think it's exciting enough for me to have something better, why don't you try it? Guaranteed to keep you cool. β
I walked over and asked, "Are you willing to answer questions now?" β
"Don't think!" She's still so hard.
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I looked at Ling helplessly, and Ling Huiyi snapped his fingers again. The undead girl on the ground suddenly jumped up, then fell again and rolled all over the ground. Suddenly, she got up and hit her head against the pillar, but the undead's body was very strong, and the pillar was broken, and her head was not red. After breaking the pillar, she began to frantically search for something, and suddenly she seemed to find it. It turned out to be a dagger. She plunged the dagger into her heart, but there was no response, she was still rolling.
Ling Dao: "I said, let you experience the feeling of not being able to survive without dying, and I won't let you commit suicide." I just used the Undead Compound Enhancement Technique - Raging Heart on you. Now all your senses are very sensitive, the pain is more intense, and you can't die from any physical injury. What do you think? Enjoyed, right? Let's take a look! In 1 hour, your soul will collapse due to extreme pain, and your soul and ** will disappear together. β
"Ask for ...... Beg...... You guys...... Bypass me! β¦β¦ I say...... I say......! β
The super torture finally worked, the face thing is really boring, and a little girl has been holding up for this nothingness for so long. After Ling withdrew the magic, the little girl collapsed as if she had collapsed, and it looked like she was already dying.
I crouched down next to her. "Next time, remember, be easy-going and don't pretend to be arrogant. You are not much better than anyone, there are always people who are better than you, don't make you the best in the world. β
The little girl nodded with difficulty.
I continued, "Now please explain who these people are and why you are being held here?" β
"We are pirates of Hope Island. Because of the long-term harassment of the maritime traffic of various countries, those countries bought off the sacrifices of the Temple of Light. β
Ling continued: "Then the Temple of Light sent troops to suppress you, and those of you who were set up as rebels were collectively caught and killed here, and you happened to learn necromancy and thought of using this method to survive?" β
The girl nodded. "That's pretty much it, but we were supposed to be sent back to the temple for trial, but I don't know why they suddenly stopped providing food and water halfway through."
"Do you know what that wax seal is?"
"I don't know. We didn't have that thing when we were alive, and there was a door here, and I don't know why it became sealed! β
"Are you the last to die?"
"It's not. There were still a few people who didn't die when I lost consciousness. β
"Then you go find those people, if I'm right, one of them shouldn't be there."
"What do you mean?"
"You don't care what I mean, just go find it."
The undead girl reluctantly got up and began to look for the corpses of those people, seeing that there are so many corpses here, it is estimated that she will be looking for a while, I will contact Lin Yue and Sun Yan first. "Did you two find anything?"
Lin Yue said: "There is nothing valuable, not even a ghost shadow." β
"Sun Yan, what about you?"
"I've made some discoveries here."
"Oh? What did you find? β
"I don't know yet, but it seems to be a person. I just saw a back, and it disappeared in a flash, and I was chasing. β
"What floor are you on? I'll be here right away. β
"5th floor below deck. I was in the middle of the hull, and the target was going to the bow. β
Lin Yue immediately said, "I'll go and block the stairs." β
I also said, "I'm here too." I turned to Ling and said, "You look at her, I'll go up and come down in a while." β
"Don't worry."
I nodded, jumped and grabbed the edge of the hole with both hands in reverse. With a force on his waist, his legs went up through the hole, and his body flipped onto the upper deck. ran all the way up the stairs, and soon reached the level that Sun Yan said. "I've arrived, where are you?"
Sun Yan's voice was panting: "This guy went down to the 6th floor from the hole you smashed." Now to the stern. β
"Holy!" In a fit of excitement, he jumped straight down the stairs, only to step on the floor again, but fortunately only one floor fell this time. Climbed the 6th floor and ran in the direction of the stern, and soon caught up with Sun Yan.
"You're so fast?" Sun Yan was very surprised to see me.
I ran and asked, "What about that thing?" β
"What about that?"
I looked in the direction Sun Yan pointed, and sure enough, I saw a black shadow in front of me, raised my right hand and aimed at the position in front of the black shadow, and a crossbow arrow flew over with a whoosh. But to our surprise, the arrow actually passed through the chest, and there was no reaction to the guy at all.
"He's a ghost!" I took out the rune paper given by Polaris Jun from my body, and pinched a large handful in my hand, startling Sun Yan next to me.
"Zi** is a Taoist priest?"
I looked at the talisman in my hand: "This is a part-time difference." β
Quickly rushed to the front, and the ghost could already be seen, and raised his right hand again. Take out an arrow, then draw a talisman and wrap it around it before loading it back on the Avenger. Aim for that ghost, a motion spring. The crossbow bolt hit accurately, but this time it didn't go through, and the arrow stuck on the guy like it hit an entity. But when we rushed to the front, we heard a bang, and the black shadow disappeared. My arrow fell to the ground, and a small yellow piece of paper was floating down slowly.
"Isn't it! Puppetry? β
Sun Yan picked up the piece of paper and said, "We were deceived? β
I nodded: "I think it is!" This damn broken ship has a lot of ghosts. β
"What is this guy trying to do when he lures us away?" Sun Yan asked.
"Either I'm afraid that I'll be discovered, or I'm trying to turn the tiger away. If it was a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, his target should not be Lin Yue, she and we were not together in the first place. Could it be that the target is Ling? Impossible! A demon pet of Ling's level is also very powerful without an owner by her side, and it is not easy to attack her. β
"And what does he mean?"
Suddenly the voice of psychic contact sounded in my head. "Master, come down, there's a situation here!"
"It's not good, it's really rushing."
I rushed to the hole I had smashed through in the middle of the boat and jumped straight in. As my body fell, the cabins flashed through my eyes one by one. When he was almost at the end, suddenly in the middle of a layer, a female ghost with a blue face and fangs and a terrifying appearance appeared at the entrance of the cave. Under normal circumstances, most people would have jumped in fright, but my reaction was peculiar. I quickly reached out and hugged the female ghost, but the female ghost was startled by me and fell off the bottom cabin together.
As soon as I landed, I immediately pushed the female ghost to the ground, rolled over and rode on top of her, and pressed her underneath. His hands quickly pressed her hands to restrain her movements. "Pretending to be a ghost to scare me! Today is your bad luck, Lord Ben's nickname is ghostly, you hit the muzzle of the gun. "Holding her hands with one hand, I put one hand on her face and tried to tear off the mask, but it turned out that it didn't seem to be a mask, it seemed to be real." Hey! What a ghost! The female ghost, who was still panicked, immediately became excited when she heard my words, but when she heard my words, she wilted again. I said excitedly: "I'm so lucky today, I first met a necromancer to deceive the corpse, and then let me find a female ghost." "I pinched her face and flipped it from side to side." Yes, it's all already materialized! There is research value! β
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