September 8, 4 a.m.

It was the darkest hour before dawn, and a figure hurried down the road, carrying another man on his back.

Passing through several deserted streets at a rapid pace, he stopped in front of a building, opened the door with the key, and quietly went up to the second floor without alarming the landlady.

The cat master walked out of the room in his nightgown, with the same half-dreamy and half-awake expression on his face as during the day...... But when he pushed open the bathroom door, his whole face froze for two seconds, and then he ...... He actually closed the door again.

"Sleepwalking...... Looks like there's been a lot of pressure lately......"

"Hey! What are you doing? Wang Xu chased out of the bathroom: "What is your reaction?" ”

"Cut...... You're just a hallucination, what are you yelling about......"

"You're hallucinating! Let's face it! ”

The cat man sighed deeply, and looked into the bathroom again: "What is that...... Where have you been for the past few hours...... Actually, I've been sleeping for a whole year...... Let me go back to sleep if I can......"

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An hour later, Wang Xu came out of the bathroom: "I gave her something to eat, she fell asleep in the bathtub, my God...... After washing three jars of black water, and after washing it, it was even more shocking. ”

The cat master lay on the armchair and said lightly: "She should have fallen under some kind of curse, if it is not lifted, this disease will continue until she dies." ”

Wang Xu said: "Then how to lift the curse?" ”

"I've lifted it."

"What? When? ”

"Before you wash the first tank of water."

"You're done with a little bit of effort?"

Mao Ye explained: "In fact, it is not difficult to solve those curses of foreigners, to put it bluntly, it is a kind of perpetual spell, which is activated through a certain object or a certain ritual, and its operation always depends on some kind of energy, such as spiritual power, telekinesis, witch power, whatever......

For example, the curse in Sleeping Beauty is triggered by the princess's hand pricked by a needle from a sewing machine, and the dismantling ritual set by the caster is the prince's kiss. Ordinary people naturally have to follow this procedure, which is why this kind of wizard seems mysterious and boundless.

And for us psionic people, there is no difficulty, as long as we use our spiritual power to expel the energy that is working, I just noticed her abnormality, and I lifted the curse with my hand. ”

Wang Xu nodded and said, "Oh...... In this way, I didn't expect you to help others too. ”

The cat master sneered: "Ha! You've got her back, what else can I do? Waiting for her to rot in the bathroom? That's not easy to deal with, is it......"

Wang Xu didn't bother to complain to him, he then asked: "I still don't understand one thing, even if it's a curse to make her like this, but will a mermaid eat people when she's hungry?" ”

The cat master replied: "I don't know what a mermaid will do when she is very hungry, I just know that she is not a mermaid at all." ”

"Huh? No? ”

"Hey...... Looks like I'm going to have to teach you a lesson, where to start...... Oh, there is, say, in that ancient Greece ......"

Wang Xu interrupted rudely: "Tell the point! ”

The cat master shook his head and sighed: "Young people nowadays are really impatient...... Well, to put it simply, she's a Siren, and that's what the Siren in Greek mythology refers to.

Legend has it that the sirens were the daughter of the river god Ekrous, a beautiful goblin born from his blood. Many years ago, they were in the form of human heads and birds, but because they failed to compete with the muse, their wings were plucked, so they could not fly, so they cruised in the sea, transformed into mermaids, and attracted sailors with their songs and beauty, causing them to suffer a catastrophe.

You've probably heard stories of sailors who were attracted by their passive singing and eventually caused the ship to hit the rocks, or someone on the boat who saw a beautiful woman sitting on a reef jumping into the sea to look for it, never to return. Anyway, the end of these stories is undoubtedly that the kraken has a full meal and there are no human bones left. ”

Wang Xu swallowed his saliva and looked back at the door of his room: "So...... Should I actually kill her? ”

Master Mao said: "I can't say that, in fact, there are some legends that the sirens may have been sea gods or sea elves at first, well...... According to us Chinese, it is a fairy. Isn't it based on them that Hans Christian Andersen wrote "The Daughters of the Sea", if you haven't read that book, you have always read Disney's "The Little Mermaid". ”

The corners of Wang Xu's mouth twitched twice: "Forget it...... Save all the help, help people to the end, and send the Buddha to the west. ”

The cat master took a sip of coffee: "You rescued it, you are responsible for it yourself, I am quite busy today, and I will have to go out immediately." ”

"As soon as it's dawn, you're going to go out to pick up girls?"

Master Mao replied in English: "No, no, no...... As I have already said, my relationship with that lady is very pure, and I have a pure admiration for her. ”

"You don't talk to me in English, I am most annoyed by your British English, and you are still talking about two sentences of bird words."

The cat shrugged his shoulders and brought the conversation back to the point: "My itinerary is very planned, I have a lot of things to do all day today, don't forget, today is September 8th, and in about forty minutes, Anne Chapman's body will be found, she is the second 'confirmed' victim of the Ripper." I'm going to survey the scene in the short time between the Ripper's escape and the discovery of the body, lest the fools of Scotland Yard destroy all the useful evidence. ”

Wang Xu stared at him and said, "Oh...... Then you're going to get down to business first, and then you're going to pick up girls......"

The cat master got up and went back to his room, and before closing the door, he left a sentence: "Take care of yourself, be careful of being eaten by the fairy daughter you rescued." ”