When Howling Wind returned to the castle, it was already the middle of the night.

The sound of laughter woke Andy from his sleep, and he sat up from his bed, the moonlight outside the window shining on the floor through the gaps, with a sense of intoxicating silence.

Margaret curled up like a kitten, perhaps disturbed by the sound of the howling wind, and she snorted and buried her head in the covers.

Andy smiled bitterly, rubbed his temples, stepped out of bed, put on a robe, and walked out of the room.

"Ha, Xiaoli, are you awake?"

Howling Wind saw Andy come out, his eyes lit up, and he strode towards Andy, and then pulled him to the table, and then waved his hand at Jiang Shan on the side, Jiang Shan smiled at Andy, turned around and left the castle, and didn't know what Xiao Feng asked him to do.

"You came out just in time, see what this is?"

Excitement flashed across Howling Wind's face, and he carefully took out a palm-sized box from his arms and placed it on the table.

Andy's heart pounded, and he pursed his lips, his voice trembling a little.

"Stand-in dolls?"

"Uh-huh~"

Howling Wind nodded, squinting his eyes with a smile and patting Andy on the shoulder, his tone with a hint of lightness.

"Open it and take a look, drop your blood on the doll, and the demonic curse will have no effect on you. ”

Andy was silent for a moment, then he looked up and looked at Howling Wind.

"Thank you, Uncle Howling Wind. ”

"Ha, you kid, what are you talking to me about?"

With a little comfort in his eyes, he looked at Andy's face, very similar to the Nie Xiao he remembered when he was young, and Xiaofeng raised his head, looked at the top of the castle, and blinked his somewhat sour eyes.

"Let's drip blood first, I've been dealing with those guys all day today, I'm really tired, phew, I'd rather fight a huge sea beast than have some bullshit meetings with those guys!"

Howling Wind muttered and urged, he looked a little tired, but still holding on.

"Good. ”

Andy didn't pin his hopes on the golden mask of the pharaoh that Jack said, after all, on the way to find the golden mask, many accidents may happen, and Andy's body can't experience accidents.

In the box was the legendary perfect stand-in doll, Andy couldn't control himself, his outstretched palm trembled slightly, and opened the black wooden box.

Inside the box was a palm-sized doll that looked like it had been woven with linen thread, but Andy knew that the material for the stand-in doll was far from simple.

The stand-in doll is similar to the voodoo doll in terms of material, the core is an ancient animal bone and special straw, and the outside is wrapped with hemp wiring, except that the voodoo doll needs to be made by someone close to them, preferably with something like the hair and nails of the cursed.

Voodoo dolls are special because they are contaminated with the breath of the cursed, so when the doll is successfully made, the face will become very similar to the cursed, and after the stand-in doll is made, the face is nothing.

The doll in the box is like this, its face seems to be covered with a layer of black mist, and no matter how hard Andy tries, he can't see what it looks like under the black mist.

He took a deep breath, and under Howling Wind's encouraging gaze, Andy bit his finger and squeezed out a drop of blood.

The blood fell on the twine, and it was quickly absorbed, and a vortex suddenly appeared on the doll's face, and the black mist swirled and was absorbed into the head of the stand-in doll, revealing a face that was exactly the same as Andy's under Andy's shocked gaze.

That's right, the face of the stand-in doll is exactly the same as Andy's.

It was as if it were a human skin mask, and there was no trace of twine at all.

This is the perfect stand-in doll, which can not only resist damage, but also replace death, and even reduce the damage of the soul.

In order to make this stand-in doll, Blackbeard consumed a lot of precious materials, and in a small stand-in doll, hundreds of pure souls were imprisoned, and these souls were sacrificed for Andy's substitute.

When the face of the stand-in doll completely changed to Andy's appearance, Andy felt a strange and strange connection between him and the stand-in doll, and his mind moved, guiding this connection towards the cursed symbol on his soul.

The moment the power of the stand-in doll touched the curse of the six-pointed star, it was like encountering food, wrapping the six-pointed star, isolating its power and consuming each other.

The six-pointed star symbol that was originally attached to his soul suddenly emitted a ghostly light, and the power of Andy's deep darkness and despair reappeared, breaking through the power of the stand-in doll and tightly enveloping Andy's soul.

The expression of Xiao Feng on the side changed suddenly, and his originally soft gaze instantly became sharp, full of surprise, and stared at Andy deadly.

In the split second, Howling Wind felt a cold and evil force, with endless darkness, that seemed to be able to devour all light.

Howling Wind knew what power it was, it was the power that belonged to the abyss.

Xiao Feng looked at the stand-in doll on the table, his eyebrows furrowed, his fists clenched, he didn't know what to do, at this time, he could only choose to believe in Blackbeard, believing that the stand-in doll was useful.

Andy felt like he was falling, or rather, his soul was falling, and countless whispers appeared in his ears, like souls struggling in the abyss, and like the most vicious curse of demons.

At this moment, a pure power appeared from nothingness, and souls with smiles on their faces surrounded Andy, and Andy looked at them and felt kindness and light.

The souls stretched out their hands as if on a pilgrimage, holding Andy upward, and a warm white light shone on Andy's body, like a mother's embrace, and Andy unconsciously closed his eyes.

He felt himself drifting upward, the darkness and cold moving away.

And the souls that lifted him up were mercilessly devoured by darkness and fell into a flame below.

Andy opened his eyes gently, in front of him was Xiaofeng's worried face, Xiaofeng's eyes were a little bloodshot, his hands were clenched, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Andy open his eyes.

The stand-in doll on the table suddenly rose with black smoke, and a flaming palm rushed out of the stand-in doll's body, turning into a thick black smoke that slowly dissipated.

There was only a cloud of ashes left in the box.

That's proof that Andy survived.

Andy breathed a sigh of relief, and the feeling of oppression in the depths of his soul disappeared, which meant that the exploration of the Cursed Gate was truly over......