"In other words, this kind of witchcraft doesn't work from time to time?" Nick was surprised: "I thought they were all like Strange, what kind of witchcraft are there?" I'll know how to deal with them later! ”

"Many, most of the folk sorcery – Meishan in China, Black Mass in Russia, black witchcraft in Africa, and some witchcraft in voodoo, including divine sorcery! Divine sorcery requires faith to exert power, and it is also a type of willpower, whether it is Satan or Jesus, many of the Mass spells used by their churches fall into this category. ”

Nick skillfully put on his gloves, he was dressed in black, and even a black sweatshirt with a hood, Chen Ang smiled: "What are you wearing those things for?" Although you are bald, you don't reflect light, in fact, you go out naked, as long as you don't turn on the light, no one can see you! ”

"If you say this to me somewhere else, I'll warn you about racism!" Nick pointed at Chen Angdao.

"What about here?" Chen Ang raised his eyebrows and asked rhetorically.

"Here!" Nick remembered the unpleasant experiences on the road and scolded, "In Louisiana, this is already a kind talk of being black friendly!" There were blacks everywhere, and the whites were still squinting at me. I always ask myself, isn't the South liberated yet? ”

Nick raised the tactical gland in his hand and said, "Is this how you go out?" I feel like we're two stupid thieves on a night trip! ”

"Don't alarm them...... Chen Ang held his flashlight and stepped out of the door, the dim light in the corridor illuminated their vague shadows, they walked down the floor and began to search separately with the lobby on the first floor as the dividing line. Chen Ang used tactical sign language to tell Nick that he was on the left and himself on the right.

Nick flashed his flashlight and reached to the left.

He actually had some doubts in his heart - why did Chen Ang call him here? The two bigwigs of Aegis and Aegis, like second-rate detectives, are adventuring in an old (for Americans) house, and he knows what Chen Ang seems to be looking for. They have a tacit understanding.

When some clues show that the house and the owner of the house are strange, there is no reason why Nick should not play a game with Chen Ang.

In particular, some signs faintly reveal a very important piece of information - the secret of this house is related to voodoo.

Nick knew that among the five seals that were giving Aegis and Aegis a headache right now, there was one Voodoo Cult, which made it hard for Nick to think that it had nothing to do with the seals.

Nick pushed open the door of the first room from the left of the porch, and saw two figures in the dark room in the doorway, and the first thing he saw was that the black figure was standing against the door, making Nick almost use his joint trick and break its head, but soon Nick came to his senses - it was just two dolls, made of pillows and straw.

At a cursory glance, there are eyebrows and eyes, but if you look closely, it is even more terrifying.

The light of the flashlight shines from the bottom of the puppet, and the light hits the face from the bottom to the top, because of the uncanny valley effect and the shadow effect of the light, it looks very hideous, and in a dark old house, it is even more terrifying, but Nick is like seeing a familiar friend, hooking his shoulders and wrapping his arms around the puppet's neck - if it is still a neck.

Nick smelled the strange smell of the dummy, he leaned in and sniffed it a few times, then pulled out the dagger, and opened the pillowcase with a knife to reveal the human figure tied with straw inside, he pierced the dummy with a knife, and found that the scarecrow was covered in lime and something, like the dried internal organs of an animal.

And the sulfur—all he had just smelled was the smell of sulfur.

Nick quickly and carefully searched the room, and found that there was nothing inside, except for a few smaller puppets, and he went to the next room, this time he was prepared, but when he opened the door, he was still surprised by the dummy hanging in the doorway, the dummy had a rope wrapped around his neck, and hung in the doorway through the ceiling lamp.

This time the dummy is much more elaborate - it is a plastic model, his hands are twisted and tied behind his back, his neck is slanted, Nick has a strange feeling, this dummy seems to be a little different from the one in the previous house, although the dummy in the previous room looks like a dead thing, but this sentence, although much more detailed, actually gives Nick a sense of life at first glance.

As soon as he opened the door, Nick swore in his capacity as the king of agents that he would never confuse the difference between a dummy and a corpse, and that he had killed more people than most people had ever seen.

But this time he got confused! He almost thought it was a hanging corpse—that's why he was shocked.

Nick looked at the dummy closely, and he noticed that there was a unique vitality in the dummy, in other words, artistic expression, and it made no difference at first glance, but Nick was sure that if he showed it to the artists, they would be able to find the vitality of the dummy, in other words, the ordinary dummy was just a prop, but this one here was like a work of art.

Artwork often gives a vague sense of something inward, alive.

Nick sensed this kind of thing, he could see the struggle of the dummy, it was struggling as it hung in the air, it was fearing, it was releasing the tension in its heart, it appeared in the doorway, as if it was guarding against something. And then the thing opened the door and came in, and it was hoisted up in the air, struggling, resisting the thing.

And then devoured, ...... Erode!

Sensing this, Nick suddenly felt that the feeling of touching the dummy had changed, no longer the stiff, inelastic plastic, but cold, slippery, like human skin without temperature, with a strong smell coming from his mouth and nose, and Nick felt that the dummy he was holding began to cling to him.

Its hands began to grab itself!

But he still had time to observe the room—a room that had been inhabited, and there were traces of human activity not so long ago, as countless tiny details showed.

Nick trusted his powers of observation, and by this time his cold, slippery body had slipped into his chest, like a corpse soaked in water being fished out and then attached to him—Nick had felt the feel of all kinds of corpses, male, female, old, young, burned, drowned, suicidal, he killed, rotten, fresh!

At this moment, his heart did not fluctuate, and he even had the urge to sleep with it.

But his sanity prevented him from continuing to do such a frenzied act, so Nick had to insert his large hand into the doll's hair, groping between the slender neck of the collarbone, and then twisted his hands slightly to twist the plastic doll's head off, and he grabbed the doll's head in his hand, like holding a basketball, and made a random shooting pose.

The big hands of a black man can hold a basketball firmly in his hand, and the head of a small woman is nothing compared to this.

He threw the doll's head, which bounced off the wall and was caught in Nick's hand, and he performed a shooting action - a crotch dribble, three steps to the blue, and a long-range three-pointer......

The doll's hair is wrapped around his hands, as if in protest against something.

Chen Ang's voice came from behind him, and he looked at Nick with a look of weirdness that looked perverted: "How long are you going to play?" ”

"You're done?" Nick was surprised.

"I'm not as slow as you are...... Then there is ...... Interest. Chen Ang said: "There are dolls in every room, of various materials, but there is a room where someone has lived in it, and the puppets in that room are also a little strange!" ”

Nick slung the head of the man in his hand around his waist and asked, "I'm here too...... What's so strange about it? ”

"It's a leather doll, in my experience - like human skin!" Chen Ang understated.

Nick gestured to the head of the puppet tied around his waist and said, "I seem to be able to move!" ”

"And ......," Nick hesitated for a moment, "it seems that something is looking for something in this room, and the dolls are like guards guarding these rooms, and once those things come in, they will grab the dolls, and the targets they are looking for can be used to get out." What do you say those things are looking for? ”

Chen Ang smiled: "Of course it's the people who live in the room...... Or something that isn't human! ”

"Two rooms that have stayed in people!" Nick tossed the puppet's head, tossing and turning, the headless puppet squirming and crawling on the ground, the image could scare people out of the heart attack, but the two people in the room didn't care.

"There are strange dolls in the room, and they seem to protect the people in the room, and all the dolls have traces of witchcraft on them. But in the two rooms where people have lived, the dolls are the most different. Nick scoffed, "Let's check out the rest of the rooms on the first floor!" ”