24 The House and the Ghost
"The house has internet access, a TV, a lawn mower, and a computer, in short, all the necessities are complete."
"Everything is new in the kitchen, but maybe you should go and buy a few more sets of cutlery, and sheets and bedding, I recommend the grocery store on the corner, the owner ......"
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On the edge of Nefu Town, outside a delicate house with a green meadow in front of the door, an old man dressed in simple clothes handed the key in his hand to Charles while admonishing:
"Anyway, kid, I want you to treat it like your home."
"I will." Charles nodded.
"I'm sure you can do it, you don't look like you're a scruffy guy, and you've been introduced by Bobby Sr."
As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Bobby, who was wearing a broken hat next to him, and said with a smile: "Although Bobby is a sloppy drunkard and has a bad reputation in the town, he is very good to his friends and has saved my life, I believe in his vision." ”
"How can an old bachelor not be sloppy." Bobby snorted, then patted him on the shoulder: "Happy going abroad." ”
"Pleasant? If I could, I wouldn't want to move a single step. The old landlord sighed
"No way, for the sake of the child."
"Yes, for the sake of the child......"
After a few pleasantries, the old man drove away in a silver Beetle. Bobby turned to look at Charles.
"Enough money? Why don't I lend you some? He asked.
After paying a year's rent before, Bobby had already found that Charles had basically no money left, so he asked.
"It's okay, it's enough." Charles replied, "And I'm thinking about learning how to steal credit cards." ”
"You'd better not do that, Charles." Bobby coughed dryly when he heard this: "When you stay in one place, try to use real credit cards, and the two brothers have been running around because they have not had an accident." ”
Charles nodded.
Seeing that he didn't refute, Bobby couldn't help patting his arm, and then said, "Remember to tell me if you have any difficulties, and besides, often go to be a guest." ”
With that, he said goodbye to Charles and left.
Talking about conditions, signing contracts, looking at houses, making payments, etc., they have already gone through the whole process before, and they naturally don't need to stay any longer now.
As they watched them leave, Charles turned and entered the newly rented house.
With Bobby's matchmaking, this house on the edge of the town is still relatively cost-effective to rent at the moment, not only is it complete with all kinds of items, but there is no mess in it.
The overall style of the house is classic and dark, and as soon as you enter the door, you will find a living room with an oil painting, with a kitchen area on the left hand side and a living area on the right hand side.
Two bedrooms, one storage room.
There's also a basement downstairs, but the landlord uses it to store personal belongings, so it's not rented.
After scanning the entire house, Charles pushed the door open and went to the bedroom.
The bedroom window is facing the green space outside, and as far as the eye can see, the quiet street, the grass is still clinging, and the occasional pedestrian passes by, which looks very leisurely.
However, Charles did not come here to "view the view", his purpose was mainly the computer in the bedroom.
Closing the door, he walked towards the computer desk, but before he took two steps, he suddenly stopped, and then raised his hand from a distance of about two meters.
A faint switch sounded, and then on the computer screen, a strange and familiar picture flashed.
“XP?”
Raising an eyebrow, Charles didn't move, just stood at the distance of the computer and began to use spells to control the device.
Move the mouse, click, open the web page, and enter the text.
The hands "crackled" in mid-air, and the keyboard was visibly concave and convex in rhythm.
Feeling the mellier use of spells than before, Charles smiled slightly, then gave up the playful game and stepped into the computer chair.
After he purified a demon last night, his spirit had grown a lot.
The growth here is the kind of real growth, not the increase in strength.
For example, if his spirit body used to be "1.8 meters", now it must be at least 2.2 meters.
It's a strange feeling, but it's true.
And after the spirit body is enhanced, the spells he casts will also become stronger.
"So if I clean up the whole hell of demons......"
Sitting in a computer chair, Charles couldn't help but think about it.
The demons of this world are more vegetable, or rather, may not be dish, but they have fatal flaws, so in general they are not difficult to deal with.
Their Cerberus is a bit tougher, but the Charr isn't too worried.
Unlike ordinary spells, the power of spells in the Overworld is closely linked to spirits, so as long as he repeats what happened yesterday......
"You can't be careless, you still have to understand again."
Muttering, he began to tap on his keyboard, searching for everything around the town. Shops, roads, special venues, etc.
And then there's the demon related.
Originally, his plan was to go around the entire United States to understand the situation, absorb grievances, and look for stepping stones by the way, but yesterday, after discovering the effect of the demon's "rations" on him, Charles immediately decided to use the demon to quickly increase his strength.
How to find demons?
The Winchester brothers may have a preference for the yellow-eyed demon, but Charles is not picky.
"Yarrow, graveyard soil, black cat bones, and special coins......"
Muttering, he narrowed his eyes.
These are the main materials for summoning the Crossroads Demon.
Obviously, there is nothing demonic, better or more accessible than this trading demon.
"It's just that the materials need a little bit of thought."
Thinking about it, he began to search for one of the hunter shops that Bobby had mentioned earlier, but before he could find a specific route, he suddenly heard a rapid scream in his ears.
Slightly stunned, he turned his head to see a figure dotted with sparks scurrying into the wall like crazy, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
"What's the situation? Is there a ghost in this house? ”
Surprised, Charles muttered a few incantations before getting up and walking outside the bedroom.
Although he had no plans to stay on a permanent basis, he felt that he would have to stay here for at least a few months. He couldn't let this ghost run around, so he quickly chased it away.
Under the effect of the spell of detecting the necromancy, the vision of the eyes is quite blurry with everything around them, but it is very clear when it sees ghosts.
However, it is a pity that it is daylight, and whenever he finds the ghost shadow, the other party will find out "in advance", and then scream and run away in panic.
Although the house is not big, including the warehouse and basement, it is not small, and after searching Charles, the ghost has escaped, and in the end, he has no trace of the other party at all.
Charles was helpless about this.
Even if the ghost stays for three or four seconds, he can kill it with purification, but under the premise of "warning" in advance, a ghost that can pass through the wall is obviously not so easy to catch.
"We'll talk about it in the evening."
With a sigh, he went back to the computer to do his own thing.
Use the Internet to determine the specific location of the hunter store, the route to go, the price of some daily necessities, and all kinds of common sense.
It wasn't until nightfall that he turned off his computer and set out on a ghost hunt in the rental house again.
Unfortunately, no matter how much he searched, the ghost, which had been burned many times, did not reappear.
"Ran out of the house? Or in the basement? ”
Frowning and thinking for a moment, Charles finally took out his mobile phone, called the "neighbor" Bobby, and briefly explained the current situation.
When the old man on the other side of the phone heard this, his tone was complicated.
"Are you sure it's the ghost of your landlord's son?"
"Sure, I've seen him, and he looks the same as he looks on the family portrait."
"Okay, you don't have to worry about this, I'll take the time to go to the cemetery, it's not far from my house, it's very convenient."
He sighed as he spoke.
"It's a hell of a friendship with that old thing in the morning, and now he's going to dig his son's grave......"
"You can tell Dean to do this."
"They just left." "Sam had a nightmare, and he took it seriously, and he and his brother went on a mission to a remote town in Kansas...... Wait, what's the sound? ”
"Looks like someone is screaming." Charles replied with a frown, and stepped to the window to look out, but heard nothing, but the sound of a woman's scream wafted back into his ears.
So he said something, put down the phone, and walked out the door.