Chapter 419: The Ghost in the Choir (5600 words, ask for a monthly ticket!) )

In fact, the completion of the task of [Mr. Changing Heads] is not much different from Yan Junze's expectations.

First of all, the level of this quest is "Horror (Medium)", which means that Colone's weirdness level will not exceed that of the Ethereal, and at most it will be a semi-Ethereal.

But judging from just now, Corrant can't even reach the half-void spirit, and it may be a high-level plastic spirit.

It's just that this guy should have some special means, such as the use of canes, tall hats and other items, which can make his attack power grow rapidly or explode in a short period of time, so he can kill so many spirit slayers in a row.

The way to break this weirdness is actually very simple, through the mission information Yan Junze has already learned about the background of Colone, and then combined it with a search on the Internet, you can probably get the real cause of Colone's death.

After such a long period of understanding of breaking weird obsessions, Yan Junze knows very well that some weird obsessions seem to be difficult to crack, but in fact, to put it bluntly, many answers are around.

No matter how difficult it may seem, if you think about it or look it up, you will always find an answer that satisfies your obsession.

After learning about the causes and consequences of the headless murder case on the Internet, Yan Junze found a photo of Croft Connor before his death, and sure enough, this person's dress is very similar to the legendary headless Mr. Colant.

With such a comparison, things are basically clear.

Then Yan Junze wondered where Croft's head was.

He actually had two guesses, one was that after the killer cut off his head, he took it back and gave it to Croft's wife and her mistress, but when he thought about it, it was completely unnecessary.

Since the killer was hired, there is no need for Croft's wife not to believe that the other party only receives money and does not work, and there is no need to bring such horrific "evidence" back to her to confirm.

And the news report also said that Croft's wife confessed to herself that she did not see her husband again until she was arrested, but only looked at the photos taken by the killer.

Then the second guess is that since the killer cut off Croft's head and took a picture, he must not discard the head at will, but find something on the spot to hide the head.

In this way, Yan Junze had a whim, would the killer directly stuff this head into the tall hat that looked a little funny, so after a look just now, it was indeed the case.

It saves a lot of trouble when things get here, the cause of death is clarified, the head is found on the spot, and the obsession for Croft is completed, and it seems to be very efficient.

In the opinion of Sandy, the small leader of the Resa organization, it is indeed very efficient.

So much so that after Yan Junze spoke to him, Sandy still looked at this young man with a Huaying face with wide eyes and a word.

Yan Junze looked at him staring at him, and unconsciously touched his cheek, trying to find out if there was anything dirty on his face.

"Just ...... Just now, you ...... Headless ...... Mr. Headless ......" Sandy pointed to where Colone had disappeared, unable to utter a complete sentence, apparently unable to accept what had just happened.

Yan Junze shrugged his shoulders: "My way of removing spirits is different from yours, I am helping the weird to complete his obsession, and Mr. Colone's obsession is to find his own head." ”

As he spoke, he lowered his head and swept his gaze over the remaining 12 heads on the ground one by one, "Obviously, I found it for him just now, so he left contentedly and will not appear again." ”

It took Sandy a long time to come back to her senses and nodded, this time finally smoothing out the words: "Mr. Headless, he won't kill again, right?" ”

"Not anymore."

"Then these heads ......," Sandy said.

Yan Junze said: "Please clean up, after all, I am an outsider, and I can't find any good way to deal with these things." ”

At this time, the phone in Sandy's trouser pocket rang, and he took it out to connect, and his voice was a little low: "You all come up." Filton ...... He's dead, his head is in room 409, and his body should still be in the hallway, search. ”

Yan Junze knew that the soul slayer named Felton and Sandy should have just died, but he couldn't help it, now he urgently needed energy points, and his current return was not enough, and he couldn't spend more energy on people he didn't know, otherwise the plan would be extended indefinitely.

Even if Felton hadn't touched himself and died, as a soul slayer, he should have expected this day to come.

Hanging up the phone, Sandy asked Yan Junze: "This gentleman, when you saw me just now, were you asking where there is still a tricky weirdness?" ”

"Yes." Yan Junze nodded.

"Yes." Sandy nodded as well.

"Where?"

"Star Theater."

Etoile Theatre.

This palatial building is located in the eastern side of Santa Garra, next to Santa Gara Cathedral, and the choir sometimes borrows theater equipment for rehearsals and performances.

Ophelia is the lead singer in the theater's choir, which is called the Etoile Women's Choir and is affiliated with the theater.

The theater choir has just been hand-picked to participate in the state banquet performance in the capital of the United States, and the theater director Bernard attaches great importance to this, and has been arranging the choir to rehearse all day long, in order to impress the presidential palace in the state banquet performance.

Including Bernard himself, he will be present at almost every rehearsal to supervise and guide, and if he can't come, he will also call the choir director Oliver about the relevant rehearsals.

It's just that the rehearsals in the past month have been a mental torture for the choir members.

Because all the members, including the lead singer Ophelia, found that sometimes during the rehearsal, there was a very discordant sound in the choir.

There are even times when a member finds that there is an unfamiliar woman next to his place, who seems to be singing, but the voice of the song makes people get goosebumps.

If, in the process, the member who found one more person turned his head to check, everything would be back to normal, next to the other members who were familiar, and nothing unusual.

Of course, this doesn't happen very often, and maybe once in the course of four rehearsals a week.

Bernard, the head of the Star Theater, has already reported to the Half Moon Society, and has even reported to other small-scale exterminating organizations in Santa Gara.

However, like the Soul Removal Organization in Huaying Dadu, the Half Moon Association also has to queue up, and it is said that Bernard spent some money to advance the queue by a hundred places, but it still needs to wait for a while.

However, the Ressa organization rushed to the Star Theater as soon as possible, and they waited in the theater three times, during which time they noticed something unusual, but they didn't catch anything.

There was also a small group of soul eradicators who stated that they could not handle it, so they simply did not come to the theater.

This was the last rehearsal of the week, and with two weeks to go before the official performance at the state dinner, all the members were under a lot of pressure, especially at the thought of the weirdness that would appear in the ranks at any time and place.

Ophelia stands in the front row, because she is the lead singer, and halfway through the last song, she is choreographed to step out of the line, walk to the microphone in front of her, sing a solo part, then merge her voice with the choir behind her, and finally pull out the climax and then close the curtain together.

It's been a good week, nothing has happened, especially the choir leader Oliver who was sitting in the audience was very satisfied.

If this trend continues, she believes that the Star Women's Choir will definitely leave a deep impression on the people in the presidential palace.

There are three songs, and the titles of the songs are "The Little Girl Under the Poka Mountain", "Santa Lucia", and "The Swan of Spring".

The first and second songs are pure choruses, but they are divided into three parts of the high and low bass, and the last song "Spring Swan" needs to pull out the lead singer, and the lead singer and chorus will work seamlessly together.

"Santa Lucia" is an unaccompanied chorus, which relies on the uniformity of the chorus and the ups and downs to impress the audience.

At this time, on the high platform of the theater, the choir was rehearsing this "Santa Lucia".

The choir leader, Oliver Live, sat in the audience, clasped her hands to her chest, smiled at the corners of her mouth, and stared at the performance of everyone on the stage without blinking.

At this moment, standing on the right side of the second row and counting the third woman, Betty, suddenly heard a very discordant voice beside her.

Because the song was unaccompanied, it was all a cappella, so the dissonant sound sounded so harsh that Betty's own voice trembled violently, and she almost fell dumb in her throat.

The other woman next to Betty was stunned for a moment, then turned her head to look at her.

"Stop!"

The head of the group, Olive sat in the audience, and naturally heard the abnormality clearly, but she didn't seem to hear the strange voice that Betty heard, but just stood up and said, "Betty, why are you distracted?" Just now your singing voice was like a pebble falling into a clear flowing stream, disturbing the beautiful melody of the whole choir. ”

"No, it's not me." Betty quickly explained, she turned her head to look at herself, next to her was her long-time good friend Villar, and there was no one else at all.

The head of the group, Olive was stunned for a moment, as if she remembered something, and asked, "Betty, did there be a discordant voice next to you just now?" ”

Betty nodded immediately, and turned her head again to look in the direction of her partner Villar, which made the little girl Verral pale and panicked.

"Dear Betty, what do you think I'm doing? Don't scare me! Villar shuddered.

Olive glanced strangely at where Villar was standing, she hadn't noticed it just now, but her instinct told her that Betty seemed to be Villar all the time by her side, and no one else had ever appeared.

If an unfamiliar figure suddenly appeared in the entire choir, Olive would definitely notice the anomaly immediately, but she hadn't seen anything just now, and she wasn't sure if there was anyone else around Betty.

Lead singer Ophelia spoke at this time: "Ms. Olive, I think it would be here for today's rehearsal." ”

After a pause, Ophelia added, "Just now, I heard it too. ”

Her position was in front of Villar, that is, if there was another person standing next to Betty, that person would be behind Ophelia.

Now the goosebumps on Ophelia's body did not subside, and the terrible voice just now, which was more like a miserable howl than singing, made her whole heart clench.

Olive's expression was tangled, mainly because Bernard was staring too closely, and he took the show very seriously. But now it is clearly no longer suitable to continue rehearsals.

After a pause, Olive was about to announce the end of the rehearsal, when not far behind her, a young man's voice suddenly sounded: "No need to stop, you can continue, just leave it to me." ”

Oliver looked back and saw that it was Sandy of the Resa Soul Eradication Organization that she was familiar with, and next to Sandy stood a young man with an unfamiliar Huaying face, and the person who spoke just now was obviously this young man.

"This is Jill Steve, a very good soul slayer." Sandy smiled and introduced to Olive Live.

Including him and Ou Life, they didn't notice it, and when they said this name, Yan Junze rolled his eyes, and despised Zhang Xiaomo's bad taste again in his heart.

"Hello, Mr. Steve." Ou Lifeu reacted and immediately greeted Yan Junze with a smile.

"Hello." Yan Junze nodded at her, and then looked at the choir on the stage.

"Jill, I've told you the details when we came, and we haven't been able to catch the weirdness in the choir. Please take a look at what to do. ”

After experiencing Mr. Headless**, Sandy has obviously thrown himself into Yan Junze, and his tone of voice at this moment is respectful, and he also has a sense of friendship.

"Please call me Steve, thank you." Yan Junze said expressionlessly.

"Okay, okay, Steve...... Mr. Sandy quickly changed his tune.

Yan Junze turned his head to look at Ou Life, and a smile appeared on his face: "Can I say a few words to the girls in the choir?" ”

"Absolutely." Olive nodded and made a gesture of please.

Yan Junze walked onto the high platform, and Sandy did not follow, but stood in the audience with Olive.

"This man...... Is it your Resa organization? Oliver asked.

Sandy smiled and shook his head: "No, he is a high-level spirit slayer that I finally hired. For the sake of your theater, I, Ressa, have paid a lot of money. By the way, the price may go up a bit, but it won't be exaggerated, and that's the difference between us and the Half Moon Association. ”

Oliver nodded: "No problem, I can call the shots, as long as I can solve this trouble as soon as possible." ”

"Girls." After standing on the stage, about two meters away from the lead singer Ophelia, Yan Junze spoke: "The song you are singing now should be "Santa Lucia", I have heard it before. Now please go ahead and sing it from the beginning. But remember, this time you have to finish the song, and no matter what you hear or see in the middle of the song, don't stop, and don't hesitate until you finish the song, okay? ”

Everyone didn't speak, just looked at Yan Junze in surprise.

Yan Junze's tone became stern this time: "If anyone is interrupted halfway, they must all start over until they finish singing it all over again." Otherwise, this weird one of you will always follow you. Forever - far! ”

All the girls in the choir trembled, and one by one they couldn't help but nod their heads.

"Alright." Yan Junze clapped his hands, "Everyone calm down, try to think about how to finish this song, don't care about the interference of other strange voices, just finish singing it." ”

As the words fell, he turned his head and gestured to Olive with his eyes.

Olive nodded, put everyone in their seats, and took on the role of conductor during the official performance.

About five minutes later, the song "Santa Lucia" officially began.

Yan Junze had already returned to the audience and stood with Sandy.

Sandy asked uneasily, "Mr. Steve, are you sure that after that weird appearance, we will leave nothing to worry about?" ”

"Don't worry about it, just do what I say." Yan Junze nodded.

He then made a booing gesture and pointed to the stage.

At this time, a girl's voice obviously became very abrupt, and she seemed to be frightened out of tune by something.

"Do it all over again!" Yan Junze said loudly.

Everyone pauses slightly, and then starts again.

After doing so for the fifth time, the choir members seem to have finally found their senses.

Betty just now felt that behind her at this moment, the sharp, hoarse, weird, and even revealing an inexplicable miserable howl sounded.

The voice wasn't like it was meant to disturb everyone, but it was really singing, singing as best it could.

Betty's scalp was numb and goosebumps broke out all over her body, but she didn't hesitate and continued to sing.

In a short time, there was a terrible shout in front of Villar, that is, on the left side of the first row, like a woman with her throat torn out, desperately screaming, her voice turning from low to high, and gradually becoming clear.

At this point, the other members of the choir, including Olive, heard it.

Yan Junze and Sandy also heard it at the same time.

Following the sound, both of them looked to the place where the sound had come from.

I saw a woman in a white shirt standing there, her long bony brown hair completely covering her face, and her body trembled with the rhythm of the strange, poignant voice.

At this time, Olive also saw that her receptivity was no stronger than that of the Spirit Exterminator, so she trembled violently in fright and quickly closed her eyes.

The woman was standing next to the lead singer Ophelia, who was shaking all over her body, but surprisingly, she managed to keep her voice without a little trembling, and she followed the chorus fluently.

To Yan Junze's ears, the bizarre and strange voice was very similar to a song he had heard in his previous life, or a voice to be precise.

That song, to be honest, is hard to hear because it sounds like a ghost crying wolf, and it's called "Lost Rivers".

Some artists commented that the song is "a broken vocal wail from beginning to end", "a purely abstract scream using the flesh voice as a musical instrument", and "a vocal experiment completed by exhausting all possible vocal methods".

Anyway, Yan Junze in the previous life didn't finish listening to it, and he got goosebumps all over his body, and he didn't sleep well all night.

Now this terrible howling voice successfully evoked the terrifying memory of his previous life, and Yan Junze felt that he was no better than the girls on the stage.

"It's so ugly, the voice is terrifying, it's indescribable." Yan Junze turned his head and glanced at Sandy beside him.

The corners of Sandy's mouth twitched.

Yan Junze had to admire the girls in these choirs, with such a voice mixed in, he actually sang this song "Santa Lucia".

The horrible woman was not standing in the same place, and after a while she was behind Ophelia, to Betty's left, and continued to howl.

"This weird throat should be burned." Sandy whispered to Yan Junze.

At this time, the song is nearing the end, and all the singers are sweating profusely, as if they have experienced a war without gunpowder, and they are panting until Ophelia finally closes the whole song perfectly.

"Good!"

Yan Junze took the lead in applauding and walked to the stage.

At this time, the other girls had not fully recovered their senses, and Ou Lifu turned her head to look at Yan Junze, not daring to look at the white-clothed brown-haired woman who was still standing in place and had not disappeared.

Yan Junze waved his hand, pointed at Ophelia and said, "Except for this lead singer, the other members can leave first." ”

In fact, that weird obsession has been completed, and now Yan Junze just wants to return her a wish outside of this.

After all the other members of the choir dispersed in surprise, Oliver also left the stage at Yan Junze's signal and returned to Sandy's side, staring at the two remaining people on the stage in some surprise.

Ophelia still looked nervous, and most importantly, she didn't know why the Soul Hunter wanted her to stay alone.

At this time, Yan Junze came to the front of the lead singer, lowered his voice and said unhurriedly: "Please turn around, say goodbye to this weird lady, and then turn yourself in after the performance of the state banquet." ”