Finally we got out of the so-called path, and we finally came to the hillside not far from the town. It's already starting to dawn. In the faint light, the town beneath your feet was a little eerie.

"You're so smart, you should have guessed what I'm here for, right?" I deliberately tested Shiya beside me.

She smiled slightly, "You want to find the puppet." ”

"Not bad." I smiled with satisfaction: "You are half a god, you should know better than me under what circumstances the curse will be lifted." ”

"What, it's said that I'm a spirit medium, and you still call the god stick, the god stick, don't you bother!" She pinched me dissatisfied.

"Ahh I'm sorry. I forgot you're still half a god! I rubbed my arm and retorted.

"Okay, count me out. I can't talk about you! She threw away her armor and raised her hands: "It's still important to do business, let's talk about what to do first?" ”

I made a triumphant V-shaped and said, "Seriously...... Well, not all movies, books, and supernatural novels say that every spirit has its own medium, and if you destroy this medium, that spirit will also be destroyed, hey, then the curse will be broken, ha, right! In short, that's all I have to say! What do you think? ”

“…… Okay, grandmother said the same. But it's only the majority, and this one might be an anomaly. Shiya couldn't laugh or cry.

"Is there any better way for you?" I pretended to be a rare humble seeker.

"Do you know where that thing is, though?" She didn't answer, she didn't smile, she just tilted her head to look at me.

"It's boring!" I scratched my head and told her the cause and effect of the incident in detail, and smiled, "The Abculus Exorcism has a very special place, that is, it must have a spirit medium to work, so I'm sure that the puppet is back somewhere in the church." ”

"Hmph, I really don't know where your confidence comes from!" She pouted and continued, "It seems that there are a lot of people in DCUI who have camped in the town, aren't they afraid of being discovered when they walk over like this?" ”

"It's okay, if you get caught, it's a big deal to be sent back to China, just to save a plane ticket." As I walked down the hill nonchalantly, I said, "You're scared, just wait for me here." ”

"Humph! Who would be afraid! ”

The road to church had not changed, it was still so gloomy and damp, and the trees covered the sky with dense trees, as if something was about to break out of the cocoon.

Although Shiya has been accustomed to seeing terrifying things since she was a child, it is the first time that she has suffered such a strong sense of depression psychologically, so she can't help but put her arms around me and look around nervously.

I wanted to sarcastically say something to her, but when I saw the pitiful and delicate expression of the little girl on her face, I couldn't say it anymore.

Naturally, I hugged her tightly to show my courage for her.

Shiya glanced at me gratefully, nephrite in her arms, sniffing the faint body fragrance on her body, and then gave me the feeling that she was a girl.

Then, naturally, I let go of my hand in embarrassment. She seemed to sense something, blushed, and quickened her pace to move forward.

The church is still decadent, its broken wreckage exposed to the morning light. Without the slightest pause, we immediately began to search the entire church. This dilapidated church covers an area of about 300 square meters, and it is undoubtedly a needle in a haystack to find a small puppet inside.

Fortunately, there is Shiya, the spirit medium (I don't know why, I began to respect her unconsciously), and she seems to feel that there is an abnormality in the spiritual waves.

Hours passed, and we searched almost every inch of land, but we still found nothing.

"It's strange, the spirit waves on the ground are very average, and the average is a little abnormal!" Shiya sat on the ground in distress.

"On the ground?" I was so tired that I was pounding my legs when I suddenly exclaimed, "That's right! Not on the ground, that is, under the ground. ”

"You mean...... Morgue? Shiya's eyes lit up.

Formal European churches usually have a basement, and that basement is used to store the remains of monks from all over the ages. Hundreds of years ago, this architectural pattern spread to the Americas, and it has not changed in the slightest, especially those cathedrals that consider themselves formal and even pride themselves on the size of the morgue.

"It's quite possible." "But the entrance to the morgue has always been hidden, especially now that the church has fallen down again, it is impossible to find it!" ”

"It's okay, this situation is where I get into the air." I smiled mysteriously, picked up two wires of the same length and bent them into an L shape, then stuffed the short end into the plastic straw used at noon, and gently pinched the plastic straw in the palm of my hand.

In the past few days, Shiya, who is accustomed to seeing my endless strange ideas, silently watched me finish this series of actions, and then asked strangely: "What do you want to do here?" ”

"Have you heard of the Moast metal detector?" I looked at her surprised eyes and asked happily.

"Not at all, what is that?" She shook her head.

I explained: "This is an instrument invented by an Englishman named Moast, which can detect metal, sewers, secret chambers, and so on, buried deep underground. How it works is unknown, and the scientific community has not given any reasonable explanation, but many governments have tacitly acquiesced in its existence and used it to monitor the condition of sewers. ”

"Are you sure it works?" She asked.

"I don't know." I shook my head: "Never tried." ”

"You're ......," she was speechless.

I winked at her and said, "If it's useless, you'll find out if you try it." ”

Standing up, I began to walk around the church in a circle, gradually narrowing down the search. Shiya followed me without saying a word, her eyes were very strange, but there were nine points as if she wanted to see me ugly.

After less than ten minutes of searching, the wire in the straw gradually began to shake. I let out a deep breath, and my nervous heart eased a little.

"It's almost there." I whispered and slowed down. Eventually, the wire shook to the fullest on the ground where the church had once been the main dormitory.

"It should be here."

Shiya and I looked at each other and nodded, and started to tidy up the things that covered the area.

Sure enough, an iron plate appeared in front of me.

I used the shovel I had just found to break the iron plate, and a foul wind immediately hit my face. The cave was dark, I didn't know how deep it was, and all I could see was a staircase with a steep slope.

Gusts of hot air continued to blow out of the cave, and it could be seen that the ventilation conditions in the cave were extremely poor.

"Flashlight...... Feed! Wait, don't go in yet. ”

I stopped Shiya, who was about to enter, took out a candle from my pocket, lit it and threw it into the hole. The candle, which had been burning vigorously at all, was extinguished as soon as it fell to the bottom of the cave.

"It's a candle with magnesium, and as long as there is oxygen, it can't be extinguished even if you blow it and step on it, but look at it now! What the hell are you impulsive! I reproached.

Shiya didn't seem to care about her dangerous actions just now, but just looked at me curiously and asked, "You often carry these strange things with you?" ”

I was stunned for a moment, laughed dryly and said, "You think I'm Doraemon!" It's Haruka's birthday in a few days, and I originally wanted to fix her, but I didn't expect it to come in handy here. Then he turned on the flashlight, waved his hand from side to side to feel the temperature of the air in front of him, and said, "It's almost now, let's go down." ”

Shiya snatched the flashlight and said, "I'll go ahead." ”

"Why? Wasn't you scared just now?! I wondered.

She squirmed and looked at the beige pleated skirt on her body, and then looked at the stairs that were almost at a 70-degree angle, I suddenly understood, and laughed: "It's better for me to go ahead, I promise not to fake the public and private interests, I'm a gentleman." ”

Hehe, of course, whether it is a gentleman or not, only I understand.

I finally walked to the bottom floor, and with a flashlight of light, I saw a small stone chamber. The square, about twenty square meters, is parked with almost five sarcophagi.

Shiya looked around and frowned.

"Did you find anything?" I asked.

She said with a questioning face: "The spirit pressure here is so chaotic, especially near the coffin, it seems that there is a whirlpool that is constantly contracting. ”

"That's a lot easier." I kicked the sarcophagus lid, and the heavy lid slowly pushed open a corner. The two of us stretched out our heads to look inside, and we almost suffocated in surprise.

Puppet...... The sarcophagus was full of puppets. All kinds of puppets are messily stuffed into this small space, revealing the slightest unknown weirdness.

Shiya shuddered, and couldn't help but grab me again.

"Look at the other sarcophagus." I pressed down my heart that was beating wildly with shock, and said calmly.

She timidly agreed, but her hand didn't let go of me. I sighed and thought to myself, although Shiya is a so-called psychic medium, she is still an ordinary girl after all.

When we opened all the sarcophagi, we found that they were all stuffed with puppets, hundreds of puppets, which had been placed here for an unknown number of years, and their silk clothes would shatter at the slightest touch.

At the same time, we also found a lot of gasoline in the corner.

Maybe it was the remnants of the **** used by the Kobanis three years ago, but because it was placed in the basement, it was not affected by the fire and was preserved.

"Do you recognize which one is the culprit?" I asked Shiya, who was still in a daze next to me.

She came to her senses, and after looking at it for a while, she shook her head in frustration and said, "No...... I can not find. ”

"It's okay, I have one last resort." I smiled mischievously at her.

Dragging her out of the morgue, Shiya asked with a smile, "Is this ...... Is it really good? ”

"What's so bad?" I said leisurely: "Since I can't find the true son, then I have to kill a hundred by mistake, and this church is in ruins!" It cannot be counted as a crime. Then he tossed the match in his hand.

The firelight made a graceful curve and fell into the hole......

But what I didn't know was that a few years later, the history of this town actually wrote:

XX year, month, day, night.

An abandoned church in the east of the town suddenly burst into flames. The fire burned for a whole day and night before it was gradually extinguished, but the surrounding 500 meters of birch forest was burned to the ground, leaving the land bare for decades to come, without any trees or plants.

The source of the fire has long been untraceable.

But it is strange that when the fire was extinguished, the sudden plague disappeared with it......