"Why did you come along?" Sitting on the drive back to Seattle, I turned my head to ask Annie, who was sitting next to me.

After that night, a few of us wasted three days on things I didn't even bother to mention before we officially drove home, but there were a few things that I thought I had to mention.

First of all, the person who cleaned Xiao Jie's sister's room was none other than Xiao Jie herself, but she didn't expect to verify the idea that I forced it to be at the bottom of my consciousness.

But why didn't she meet me in the form of a spirit?

According to Annie, I have a stench on my body that is difficult for pure spirits to approach (certainly not the one that humans can smell. And Annie happens to have the physique of a psychic medium, so Sister Xiaojie begged to be attached to Annie's body and meet me.

Alas, in short, whether it is a person or a ghost is what she said, I don't quite believe it.

The second is that it turns out that Haruka also knows Annie.

According to her, the two families were very good neighbors when they lived in Vancouver. Annie's grandmother was a well-known psychic medium in the area, and Annie seemed to have a better physique than her grandmother, but she was just inexperienced (that is, half a godclub), but since the family moved to Seattle, she has rarely been in touch.

I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I thought about it, just imagine a yellow-skinned Chinese sitting in front of a large crystal ball in a dark little room, dressed in a dark black shrine maiden costume......

Isn't that hilarious?

Annie seemed to know what I was thinking, glared at me and said, "My grandmother and I are following the traditional Chinese psychic method, without those Western tones!" ”

Maybe it was because she didn't tell me anything, so I snorted and said, "The ghost knows your tune." Look at you, even the name has been changed to English, what Annie! Hum! ”

Her angry face also turned purple, and she said loudly: "You are an unreasonable person! Who told you I don't have a Chinese name?! ”

I glanced at her coldly and said, "You never said that. ”

She was choked by the words and turned her head to the side in annoyance. Huang Shiya...... My name is Huang Shiya. She said in a low voice.

"I can't hear you!" I deliberately leaned my ear close to her and shouted.

"You ......," she was so angry that she couldn't speak anymore.

"You guys have a good relationship." Haruka turned her head and grinned at the two of us.

Huang Shiya and I glared at her and scolded in unison: "There is something wrong with your eyes!" ”

The speed of the return trip always feels much faster than when I go, and in the beating and scolding, a few hours passed like this.

"I don't know how Jone's investigation went." Jame said casually.

I frowned.

Sister Xiaojie's last words still lingered in my heart for a long time. "She's already in action...... "Action!" What exactly is the action? Against whom? Don't......

Suddenly, a thought crossed my mind. That's right! Ever since I found Xiaojie's gem pin in the church, I have stubbornly believed that she has something to do with the events of the church. But I never connected the puppet to the thing we had summoned.

Comparing the nature of the Ablaculus Exorcism Array in my memory, I couldn't help but shudder, and a terrible conclusion was formed in my mind......

If this judgment is correct, then the puppet should be in that place......

As the car drove into the only road into town, we were surprised to find that the road ahead was blocked, and a bunch of policemen stood in front of the guard post in full gear.

A middle-aged man in a conspicuous uniform stopped us and said, "The front has been cordoned off, and we can't go through it for the time being." ”

Jame stuck out his head in surprise and asked, "Is something wrong?" We are the ones who live in the town and only left four days ago! ”

"What!" The middle-aged man's face changed, and he immediately asked us to get out of the car and stuffed us all into a large medical car.

After checking for a while and proving that there was no problem, he breathed a sigh of relief and explained, "There was a plague in your hometown two days ago, and most of the people are sick. So until this problem is resolved, no one can be allowed to enter here. ”

Suddenly, an unprecedented shock struck our brains.

"I ...... What happened to my parents? Haruka asked in a dry tone, almost crying.

"I don't know." The middle-aged man looked at her with sympathy and said, "But there are still some people in the town who are not infected, they live in temporary houses provided by the government, and maybe your parents are also there." Then he gave an address.

The car began to move slowly again, and the silence continued in the car.

“DCUI。” It took a long time for me to speak slowly.

“DCUI？！” Jame turned his head to look at me in shock, and then repeated as if to verify, "DealwiththeCentreinUrgentIncident?" ”

"That's right." I nodded: "They are not ordinary police officers, let alone the Plague Handling Center, but people from the Emergency Handling Center attached to the US military. ”

"How do you know?" Jame asked nervously.

"Inside the medical van, I noticed that some of the equipment had the DCUI logo printed in some very inconspicuous places, instead of the DCP (DealwiththeCentrein Pestilence' logo. ”

Yaojia looked at us nervously in puzzlement, and interjected: "Maybe DCP already has a task, so I sent DCUI to solve the problem here!" ”

"You don't know......" Jame shook his head, "DCUI is a permanent force of the military, and it is usually not easily dispatched. And he and DCP are two troops with completely different attributes! But it's strange why there is a DCUI in the place where the plague occurs......"

"It's simple." I said coldly, "Because it's not the plague that's happening in the town. If I'm not mistaken, she must have gotten into action! ”

"She?!"

Right! It was her, the puppet. I finally know the meaning of Sister Xiaojie's last sentence......

The so-called uninfected people in the town all live in a large hotel provided by the government. Fortunately, Uncle and Aunt Haruka were safe and sound, and when we found them, they were still eating dinner in good spirits.

From my constant questioning, I found that the people here didn't know what was going on in the town, and were just wishful thinking about DCUI's supposed reason for the plague.

Since we couldn't get any clues, we gathered together again.

Mark also arrived, and according to him, seventy percent of the people in the town had fallen ill, and of the twenty-one members of the Seattle High School Paranormal Society, only three were left, him, Jame, and Haruka.

"You called three days ago to ask for clues between the puppet and the rich man, and I heard that Jone made a great discovery, but he also fell ill two days ago." Mark said lamentingly.

"Well, it looks like we're going to have to sneak into town." I thought about it.

"But all the roads have been blocked, and there are still patrols in the nearby woods, so it's really hard to get in." Jame was distressed.

"I know there's a path to get into." Mark laughs and says, "I have one condition, though. ”

"If you want me to take you with you, then it's not negotiable." I glared at him and said, "I'll go alone this time, and I can't let you take any more risks!" ”

"What? You want to go alone! Jame was surprised, "No! This is a matter in our town, and it should be up to us to take care of it, and we should never let you, an outsider, risk it for us! ”

I glared at him and laughed and said, "Haven't you found a problem yet?" ”

"What's the problem?" Jame and the others asked puzzled.

I frowned and said, "According to my investigation just now, almost all of the townspeople who have not fallen ill now are new residents who have only moved in the past fifty years, and the old residents have all contracted strange diseases, which should be obvious!" ”

Jame snapped, and hurriedly said, "You're saying her curse is limited to the natives of the town?" ”

"Yes. By all indications, she only has a strong grudge against the indigenous people here. I nodded and said, "That's why I asked to investigate alone, which is the safest and most reasonable." ”

"So...... I'm not from here, I'll go with you. Shiya looked at me and said.

"Me too!" Yaojia naturally raised her hand not to be left behind.

"Okay, I've decided that Shiya will go with me." I thought about it.

"Why can't I go?!" Yaojia, this little girl, was immediately dissatisfied.

"It's very simple, because you have to stabilize Uncle Yao and Aunt Yao so that they don't worry." I'll be categorical.

"What! It's obviously eccentric! She pouted aggrievedly.

I looked at the four people around me, stretched out my hand and said, "Good friend!" ”

"Good friends!"

Immediately, five people, ten hands, clasped tightly together......