Chapter 109: The Investigator's Extra: Secret (I)
If Justifa could see through the mirror to the other side, he could see Aung and Nick sitting in the hallway, a mirror hanging from the closed door.
Inside the room, Sersi smelled the smell of wax oil, and as soon as she raised her hand in the darkness, she saw that her hand was scarlet.
Startled, Sersi sat up and looked closely to see that her hands were covered in something like red rust.
It was red mold, and at some point the pillow and quilt were already covered with mold.
Just as Sersi was observing the details of the mold stained on her hands and trying to break free from this hallucinatory world, behind her, the wax figure standing in the doorway had melted!
The white wax oil melts and drips, revealing the gray skin under the wax oil.
As the wax oil fell into a puddle on the floor, the 'shell' on the wax figure had been mostly peeled off.
What was revealed was a thin corpse, her slender body wrapped in wax, white candle tears remaining in her features.
Her face was a stiff gray, and some of the dehydrated flesh was too much to support the skeleton of the corpse, making her appear a skinny emaciation, and when some of the wax blocks fell, a part of the skin was torn off, leaving some of the corpse's limbs exposed, exposing muscle and skeletal tissue.
The corpse wrapped in a wax figure slowly turned its head to look at Sercy.
At this time, Selsey also heard the sound of the wax figure's shell peeling, her body stiffened, and she looked down to see the shadow of the wax figure on the ground, and the shadow faithfully reflected the wax figure's activity.
Selsey is not afraid of corpses - corpses are just dead things, voodoo materials for her use, and she uses them to make voodoo dolls - the core secret of voodoo.
Every voodoo wizard is proficient in voodoo doll making, an ancient African witchcraft used by shamans to protect themselves – in the ancient legend of Voodoo, they are the priests of the tribe, guarding a door to the soul behind which 'death' is located.
To avoid death, open the doors of the soul and take their souls with them.
The wizards created stand-in dolls out of hair and sorcery in the hope that they would trick 'death', and even if the wizard was caught by death, they could attach their souls to the voodoo dolls to avoid being caught behind the door. All along, wizards have guarded the 'doors' with voodoo dolls to prevent the door of the soul from being opened.
It also avoids what is behind the door of the soul, and the power of death comes out of the door.
Voodoo dolls are not seals...... It's a seal.
Because the 'door' is a non-physical existence, a concept from life to death, representing the concept of going from one world to another, the ancient tribes that originated from Voodoo could not guard the 'door' entity like Wakanda and Ebola, so they made a voodoo doll that had the souls of all the dead wizards of Voodoo.
Guarding that 'door'.
Right now...... The original, and strongest, voodoo doll was taken from him...... The door is also open!
An open door means that the road from the world of the dead to the world of the living has been opened, it means that something can return to this world from behind the door, this door is formless and insubstantial, but a concept, and anything that has the concept of communicating another world can be a 'door'.
For example - mirrors!
Or a specific time - the Middle Yuan Halloween Festival, the night walk of the hundred ghosts.
Or a ritual – lighting a candle at an intersection.
After the door is opened, these concepts that have been given specific meanings by human cultural activities have a different power, and the 'door' is not a physical thing, not something that can be seen and touched, but a cosmic law.
It represents the cosmic law of 'death'.
One day a few weeks ago, Sersi suddenly noticed that the door was open, and she was walking at night, and there was a strange noise coming from the attic, and she went up to check it - it was nothing, because the attic was where she kept her things related to witchcraft, and although it looked eerie, it was actually very safe.
Everything changed that day, and before that, although Sersi was a wizard who had taken someone else's body, she didn't look eerie, but rather happy, enjoying the bright side of life.
But that day, she saw the people she had killed—Caroline, a kind-hearted nurse, Luke, a promising young lawyer, and two children burned by their parents in black shells, Violet and Ben Devriots, who appeared before Sersi and gave her a sense of their suffering.
If it weren't for Justifa discovering something wrong and using witchcraft to save Selcy, she would have died in the attic.
From that day on, Sersi and Justifa knew they were going to fight these things forever until they fell into hell forever.
Voodoo dolls are stand-ins and janitors.
They made a lot of voodoo dolls and filled all the rooms of this house, they tried to use witchcraft to hide themselves so that they couldn't find themselves, voodoo dolls could prevent those things from coming out of the door, and they could also prevent them from stepping through the door, relying on these dolls, Sersi and Justifa were hiding, and if they wanted to get rid of these things completely, they needed to perform a witchcraft created by the Voodoo Empress Ravieu.
Ravieu's Blessing!
They need to kill two people, refine them into a special voodoo doll, and then cover their bodies with the souls targeted by the evil spirits, and create a fake soul shadow to cover the special voodoo doll to deceive those evil spirits.
Sersi and Justifa began to look for a candidate to make the voodoo doll, but before they could get ready, a young man claiming to be an insurance investigator approached the door, followed by a black man, who had to shift their target......
Selsey came back to her senses, she struggled from her involuntary memories, and she noticed that all the voodoo dolls in this room were alive - voodoo dolls protected them, but they were also not necessarily safe, and what was behind the door could infect the dolls, making them weird and even dangerous.
Selsi didn't know what the danger of the infected voodoo dolls was, as the ones that had been infected before. They all disposed of it. But she knows that voodoo dolls can be the sustenance of the soul, no less ...... It can also be the sustenance of evil spirits.
Cecil didn't have to think about these dolls that harbored evil spirits, and he knew that they didn't mean much to him.
The corpse in the wax figure began to dance, and she spun and jumped on her tiptoes, just like the graceful ballet she had before her death.
She was a brilliant ballet dancer during her lifetime, but she retired due to illness, and the desperate dancer turned to witchcraft in order to return to her beloved stage, and the wizard granted her wish but concealed the more cruel price...... In the end, the dancer is made into a wax figure, frozen in the moment when she dances.
Her soul is also imprisoned in a wax figure forever, and it becomes the wizard's best work - a voodoo doll!
The corpse danced, the tips of her toes supporting the full weight of her body, and her stiff body was as soft as possible, like a marionette pulling strings, which made her dance look like a puppet dance, hugging the stiffness of a mechanical dance puppet, dancing a standard ballet.
Corpses dancing in the shadows, a dance of life and death.
Thrilling horror and beauty!
"Why don't you go up and jump together?" Selci heard her husband whispering next to her, and Selci suddenly realized that the face was too young, just like Lawyer Luke's twenties.
But what terrified her was that Luke, a lawyer in his twenties—was not her husband.
The door rang, the hinge twisted, and the spring turned - 'click'
The slightly hidden door was pushed open by a hand, and Chen Ang's figure appeared at the door, he smiled, his steps were gentle, and he walked in, behind him was a thick shadow, and he had to look carefully to see that it was a person's shadow.
Chen Ang lowered his voice and said, "Did you sleep?" ”
He sat down in front of Sersi's bed, faced her and said, "There are some things I want to talk to you about!" He turned a blind eye to the dancing corpse behind him, as if he hadn't seen it at all.