Was it Qiao Wei and his father who arranged for the wizard to be killed? But we didn't hear anything outside.

If there is no one to stop Qiao Wei and me, then there are only two possibilities, one is that the wizard decides to give up on his liliang, and the other is that we are looking in the wrong direction at all!

If I can have infinite life, I can have Liliang beyond ordinary people, then I will not give up on these no matter what danger there is, so I prefer to believe that we are not in the right place at all.

After leaving the tomb, Qiao Wei immediately called his father to inquire about the current condition of the painting, and the result was exactly what I thought, the "Dark Surge" was still intact, and the evil spirit sealed in the painting had not been eradicated.

Qiao Wei and I went back to the tomb to examine it carefully, but there were no other ashes in the tomb, and there was nothing that we had left out that could be linked to the deceased.

What went wrong?

We have purified the souls of the Stephensons, and it was indeed Stephenson's ghost who was sealed in the painting that caused people to commit suicide before.

Could it be that there are other evil spirits in that painting?

Two wizards sharing the same medium?

I told Qiao Wei my guess, and this was the only explanation he could think of. Regardless of whether the final result is as we thought, the only estimate we can make now is to go back to Qiao Wei's house and think about it from the beginning.

At two o'clock in the second half of the night, Qiao Wei and I returned to his house, and then in the classroom on the third floor, we described the whole process of our soul purification to Qiao Wei and his father in detail, without missing a single detail.

Qiao Wei and his father also frowned suspiciously after hearing this: "The process is right, and the spell is not wrong, what is going on?" Did the wizard transfer the bones of the Stephensons? ”

"Nope! I saw Stephenson during the Soul Purification, his ghost burned out! I said immediately.

"But there's still his soul in this painting." After saying that, Qiao Wei and his father immediately took out the "Dark Surge" and spread it on the table, and then recited a few Latin incantations to the painting.

I quickly took out the vision glasses and put them on, and through the lenses, I immediately saw a human face with a painful expression emerging on the surface of the painting, it was Stephenson, who had been purified by Qiao Wei before!

"How could he still be in the painting?!!" Qiao Wei asked with wide eyes in surprise.

"I didn't expect this to happen, it's really hard to do it now." Qiao Wei's father suddenly became very serious, and his whole person's aura was different from the previous state of hee-hee-haha.

"What the hell is going on?" Qiao Wei asked again.

"Haven't you seen such a simple thing?" Qiao Wei's father did not directly answer Qiao Wei's question, but asked rhetorically.

I've been wondering why we failed to purify our souls since the way back, and I was really confused when I saw Stephenson's ghost still present in Undercurrent, but then I came up with the most plausible explanation.

"Qiao Wei, the judgment we made at the beginning was right, there are definitely two ghosts in this painting, but they exist in different ways!" I chimed in.

"Different? …… Yes! I know! Qiao Wei was also enlightened by my reminder, and he said: "Stephenson's ghost is attached to this painting, this is his ghost root!" In addition to him, there is another evil spirit sealed in this painting, and that is the root cause of this painting's inability to be destroyed! ”

"Then don't be stunned, let's go over!" I pointed to the painting.

Qiao Wei shook his head at me, "It's useless, I haven't tried it all when I was in the detective agency." ”

Listening to Qiao Wei's words, I also remembered that it was true that Qiao Wei had already tried all the spells he could try when we first got the painting back, including the transcendent scriptures.

Judging from the current situation, it is obvious that in order to get rid of Stephenson's ghost, we must first get rid of the evil spirit sealed in the painting, but we don't know who this evil spirit really is. Evil spirits periodically release the power of evil spirits to affect the people around them, but those who commit suicide are obviously influenced by Stephenson, and there is no way to find clues based on the death characteristics of the victims.

Where do you start? My head was a complete mess! However, I still have a lot of experience in dealing with this kind of confusion, and I know that the most important thing to do at this time is to empty my head, and then sort out the clues in order, and then put them in my brain for analysis.

So I proposed, "I think let's sort things out first!" ”

Qiao Wei also nodded in agreement: "Okay, you say." ”

"First of all, those who committed suicide must have been influenced by Stephenson, he became a ghost because he had a grudge, and his resentment was because he killed his whole family, so he felt guilty! That should be right, right? I said.

"Well, that's right."

Then move on to the next one. It shouldn't be possible for the ghost to work so quickly, so Stephenson's instant effect on people is because the power of that evil spirit periodically leaks out, can I understand that? ”

Qiao Wei didn't answer me immediately, but turned to look at his father.

Qiao Wei's father also seemed to want to know what I was going to say, he quickly nodded in confirmation, and then locked his eyes on me.

"So the question is, if Stephenson's ghost is not attached to this painting, what will happen to the people around him if the evil spirit Liliang periodically leaks out? Uncle Qiao, you are the most experienced here, now is not the time for class, I think you can tell us directly. ”

Qiao Wei's father nodded and said, "There are many forms of influence, including anger, gluttony, **...... To put it simply, it is the Seven Sins Sect, and people who are affected by evil spirits will magnify their evil deeds and lose their restraint on their actions. Either way, the end result will end in deprivation of life. ”

"Then suicide shouldn't be a human evil, right?" Shu Xin interjected and asked.

"Suicide is a sin, but it is not a human evil." Qiao Wei's father replied.

"That's right!" I analyzed: "Stephenson is a violent person, and the evil spirit in the painting caused him to lose control and kill his family, and when he came to his senses, he chose to commit suicide. Or maybe he wants to be with his family forever, so he clings to the painting and becomes a ghost. After that, the evil spirit will still have a periodic effect, but it does not affect the people around it, it only affects the ghost of Stephenson, and I think this should explain that Stephenson can make people suicidal in an instant. What do you think? ”

Qiao Wei's father didn't make any comments on this, he looked at Qiao Wei with an observant posture like a mentor, waiting for his son to make a judgment.

Qiao Wei thought for a while and said, "It seems that I turned around and came back!" Isn't that the judgment we made at the beginning? The first victim is the Stephensons, and we still have to find someone related to the Stephensons! ”

"Wait a minute, I don't think anything will come of you if you continue to look like this." Shu Xin interjected again.

"What do you mean by that?" I also hurriedly asked.

Shu Xin explained: "The Stephensons have been dead for almost ninety years, and you can't find anyone who knows their family. We don't know who the evil spirit in the painting is now, it can be anyone, so the only hope is to find the wizard. ”

"That's right! I also want to find this wizard along the lines of the Stephensons! I argued.

"So you shouldn't start with their house, don't you think it makes more sense to find the people around this painting? You've said before that the wizard will always keep an eye on the whereabouts of this painting, and he will take back Liliang from time to time to sacrifice, a foreign oil painting in China, and the English people who have been around this painting, so it's more efficient to find it, right? ”

Shu Xin's words completely stunned me.

Shu Xin has indeed helped me come up with various ideas in the past few strange events, but those are based on her overly rich imagination; This time the situation was completely different, she got to the point in one sentence, and touched on a key issue that Qiao Wei and I both ignored.

While I was stunned, Qiao Wei's father clapped his hands and said, "Beautiful riposte!" Girl, you have a lot of brains, learn exorcism from me! ”

I don't know if Qiao Wei and his father have also seen that advertisement, but with Shu Xin's personality, he will definitely answer that sentence.

Sure enough, Shu Xin lived up to his expectations and smiled evilly and said to Qiao Wei and his father: "Who are you, uncle?" ”

And I also added a sentence "add sauce~" in my brain next to me~"