Chapter 227: Ash Wednesday

If you ask the audience who watched the premiere of "Guillotine Valley", after the headless horseman connects the head, the picture of the gradual growth of blood and flesh on the skull is terrifying, most viewers should say horror.

But Alexis knew that if that image was not in the movie, but really in front of people, it would be far from terrifying.

She had just witnessed such a scene.

First, the white bones were wrapped in blood like worms;

Then the blood gradually coagulated and turned into hideous muscles;

The muscles gradually become denser, and finally they are covered with skin and hair......

Alexis had a hard time describing what it looked like, but she was sure she didn't want to watch it a second time.

Of course, the last thing that appeared in front of her was not the face of Christopher Walken, who played the Headless Horseman in "Guillotine Valley".

Not even Rivan Phoenix.

It was a well-mannered man's face, and with his full tan hair, Alexis was instantly reminded of his elementary school literature teacher.

"It won't be allowed, come back from the dead!"

There is something strange about the way men speak sentence breaks. Although he spoke English, Alexis always felt that something was wrong.

"He speaks Old English!"

Charlotte looked at each other,

"Hey, I'm right, right? You must have been born for a long time, right? You can't be a contemporary of Shakespeare, right?"

"Earlier, Shakespeare!"

The man shook his head. This made Charlotte feel a little sorry,

"I hope to meet a ghost who has met Shakespeare!"

"There's no chance, you!"

Men still speak in Old English,

"It's going to die, if you don't stop. ”

"Really?"

In the face of the other party's threat, Charlotte disagreed,

"It's a pity, it's past 12 o'clock at night, and it's not Halloween anymore, whether it's as a ghost or as a headless horseman, your strongest days are over!"

"So what?"

Men are equally unimpressed. It seems that in his opinion, against Charlotte, there is no need to go all out at all.

Charlotte also saw this,

"Looks confident, but don't forget, it's Wednesday after Halloween!"

As she spoke, Charlotte hooked her toes on the branch and hung upside down on the tree of death.

"Oden's Day!"

Looking at Charlotte's upside-down figure, the brown-haired man incarnated by the Headless Horseman suddenly became solemn.

On the other side, Alexis also understood

Wednesday (Ednesday) is actually the meaning of Oden's Day. And Oden is the name of the Norse god Odin in the Germanic language.

Previously, during the filming of "Guillotine Valley", Charlotte explained this knowledge to Alexis and Charlize.

According to the theory that Charlotte's spells originate from the human heart, Odin will reach his strongest power on Wednesdays. And Charlotte is now making this upside-down gesture, obviously intending to borrow Odin's power.

After all, Odin is also known as the Hanged One.

As the main god of the Norse lineage, Odin once hung himself upside down from a tree for nine days and nine nights, thus creating the ancient runes.

Looking at Charlotte's figure hanging upside down from the Tree of Death, Alexis realized that this guy must have planned for a long time again.

"Actually, when it was confirmed that "Guillotine Valley" would be released on Halloween in the UK, which is Tuesday, October 31, I made up my mind."

Charlotte still hangs upside down. With a wave of his hand, a large number of ancient words flashing with light appeared on the trunk of the Tree of Death.

"I delayed the premiere, not just to avoid Halloween in the UK, but to wait for Wednesday!"

"Borrow the power of Odin, you think!?"

The man in the form of the Headless Horseman looked remorseful, obviously not expecting Charlotte to play such a trick.

"If you're in trouble, pull out the biggest gun first!"

Charlotte laughed evilly,

"After all, most of the systems of local British myths and legends are essentially variants of Norse or Germanic mythology, so when the local ghosts of England, no matter what, face the power of Odin"

will be suppressed by instinct!

Alexis suddenly understood.

This is the same as how powerful an Englishman is, when he meets the Queen of England, he will always be a head shorter.

What's more, Odin's power is not like the Queen of England, only symbolism remains.

And

"In response to the twilight of the gods, Odin would have collected the undead of the war dead, so he also had the title of King of the Undead. ”

Charlotte Finger Headless Horseman,

"A man like you who died in battle can't resist Odin's power at all. ”

"War dead, I'm not!"

The Headless Horseman's answer was somewhat unexpected.

After all, in his opinion, except for the situation of Rivan Phoenix who was artificially induced to become a headless horseman, most of the ghosts that can become a headless horseman are very powerful.

These ghosts can be said to be powerful warriors or invincible commanders during their lifetimes.

Only those who have killed countless enemies and finally been beheaded are qualified to become truly powerful headless horsemen.

And the headless horseman in front of him obviously has a boundless murderous and destructive aura on his body, but he just said that he is not a dead man.

If you don't die in battle, how can your head be cut off?

Charlotte didn't think that someone who had their head cut off by the guillotine or the executioner could become a Headless Horseman, unless they lost their head entirely......

Wait a minute

Charlotte suddenly thought of a possibility,

"Knight, didn't your head hang on the spire of Westminster Abbey when it was cut off?"

The Headless Horseman's face suddenly turned ugly.

"Oops, looks like I guessed right!"

Charlotte hung upside down and saluted,

"What a disrespectful man, Lord Protector!"

Oliver Cromwell, in the 17th-century English bourgeois revolution, was the leader of the Independents.

In the two civil wars from 1642 to 1648, he successively commanded the "Iron Cavalry" and the New Model Army, and defeated the army of the royal party.

In June 1645, he won a decisive victory over the royal party at the Battle of Nasibi.

In 1649, under pressure from urban commoners and yeoman farmers, King Charles I was executed and a republic was proclaimed.

In 1653, he established a military dictatorship and appointed himself "Lord Protector".

Cromwell can be said to have had a profound influence on the course of British history.

Charlotte's suspicion that the Headless Horseman was him, of course, was a combination of his habit of using Old English and his clues that he lived in an era later than Shakespeare, but more because Cromwell's head was indeed cut off.

After death.

After Cromwell's death, Charles II was restored. He exhumed Cromwell's body from Westminster Abbey, London, where it was buried, and symbolically hanged him.

For a long time afterward, Cromwell's head was hung on the spire of Westminster Abbey.

So, Cromwell was indeed not a war dead.

But he was a powerful commander, but he ended up headless.

In Charlotte's opinion, such an experience, if transformed into a Headless Horseman, is absolutely very suitable and powerful.

Even, Charlotte thinks that he may be the most powerful headless horseman in Britain.

That's why Charlotte made a guess.

It makes sense that a movie about the Headless Horseman, like "Guillotine Valley", was screened in the UK and attracted the strongest Headless Horseman!

Of course, even if you guess wrong, it doesn't really matter to Charlotte.

That's why he really dared to speculate.

However, now that she had guessed correctly, Charlotte felt that the situation was suddenly in her favor

After all, knowing the ghost's real name still has a great impact on it.

Charlotte felt it was time to speak her own solution