Jimmy had been looking up at the black smoke rushing to the roof, and when he looked down at Father Reuter, he realized that the priest had finished the ritual, and the apprentice monk next to him had already walked to the bed and began to untie the rope of the man.

Well, except for the last little bit of content that I didn't notice, the whole ceremony looked very ordinary, and there was nothing frightening at all. If it weren't for Jimmy's switch of mind-eye state, he would have seen the white cloth moving at most, and there was no other abnormality.

Fr. Reut held the cross up to his chest in his right hand and continued to pray in a low voice with a Bible in his left hand. When the prayer was over, Father Reuter turned to look at Jimmy.

Fr. Reuter: "Jimmy, do you see anything unusual?" ”

Jimmy was a little silent, he didn't know if he was going to say it.

Fr. Reuter: "Looks like you did see it, please keep it secret." With that, Father Reut walked towards the lounge.

Jimmy called out to Father Reuter, "Priest, is that the demon that just appeared?" ”

Father Reut turned to look at Jimmy, "Yes, many demons are disembodied, and they usually bewitch humans, possess them, and use humans to unleash their magic or achieve their goals. ”

Jimmy: "But they look weak, just a cloud of smoke that floats away and then disappears, not at all as powerful as the legendary demons." ”

Father Reuter: "Of course they are not weak, the reason why you see it is so simple, it is because they have been bound to the host's body in advance, under the suppression of the church relics, there is no way to resist, I just did the last step of exorcism." ”

Jimmy: "Father, can I learn to exorcise?" ”

Fr. Reuter: "Exorcism requires pure faith, Jimmy, you know." It's late and you can go back, good night. ”

Jimmy: "Good night, Father. ”

Jimmy left the church and drove back to the apartment.

After washing up, it was still early, so Jimmy turned on the TV and lay down on the couch in a daze.

In fact, in addition to observing the smoke-like demon just now, Jimmy also discovered some special places.

At first, Jimmy didn't notice anything unusual when the demon was a scattered cloud of smoke, but when the smoke converged downward into the humanoid form, although the humanoid figure was still a smoke cloud, Jimmy observed three white dots from the humanoid smoke cloud, which were very conspicuous compared to the black-gray smoke around them.

These three dots are not fixed, but move randomly in the smoke until the smoke hits the roof and disappears, and the white dots disappear with it.

Jimmy didn't know exactly what the white dots were, but it was the first time he'd observed them since he had had seen them.

Since there was no control group, only this one time was discovered, so Jimmy couldn't deduce the meaning of the white dots, so he had to write them down first and see if there was a chance to see a similar situation in the future.

Jimmy didn't have Roland's phone and couldn't call him to make sure, and if he didn't encounter this situation again in the near future, he would have to find time to ask Roland again to see what the white dot was that he saw.

In addition to the white spots, Jimmy was very concerned about what Father Reuter said, he only did the last step of the exorcism, and the demon had already been bound in the man's body in advance.

In other words, someone first fought the demon, used some special means to fix the demon to the person, and then sent it to the church to Father Reut, who then carried out the final exorcism.

This is a bit informative, unlike the exorcism movies Jimmy had seen before, in which the priest directly exorcises and even fights against demon-possessed people.

Now it seems that there are really professionals who fight demons in this world and protect the world, and they must be deliberately secretive, so that ordinary people are completely unaware. If the information is really widely circulated, Jimmy can't have been a police officer for almost 2 years without getting any news, especially since he is still a celebrity, and many people like to chat with him nonsense.

Jimmy watched TV for a while, then lay down and rested, today he used his brain too much, and he has been thinking about demons, and he ended up watching this at night, the exorcism ritual is really disappointing, so it's better to rest early to clear his mind.

The next day, Jimmy arrives at the police station, and when James goes to work, Jimmy walks into James' office.

James: "Jimmy, there was no danger last night, was it?" ”

Jimmy: "Not at all, just watching Father Reut's ritual and not seeing anything out of the ordinary. ”

James: "OK. James walked over to the safe on the floor beside him, took the key out of his pocket, turned the lock plate to open the safe, and took out a folder from inside.

James opened the file in the folder, added the time, place, and people of the previous night to the document, pointed to a place, and asked Jimmy to sign it.

After Jimmy signed, James let Jimmy leave, and he just closed the folder and put it back in the safe.

Jimmy is once again in a state of idleness, the aftermath of 911 is not over, the police officers have not yet had time to warn the gangs, and there are basically few major incidents now, so Jimmy, who does not have to patrol, is really bored right now.

Jimmy sighed as he took out his study materials and began to study the last part of the course, as long as he passed the assessment at the end of the year, Jimmy could apply for early graduation.

"Hi Jimmy. Amy comes to you, and she tells you to go straight to the director's office. ”

"Okay." Jimmy cleaned up his desk and walked to James' office.

James sat in a chair with an A4 piece of paper, Amy stood across from him, and when Jimmy came in, James raised his hand and gave the A4 paper to Jimmy.

Jimmy took a look, and a notice that the LAPD had captured a suspect in routine law enforcement, and the system showed that he had a wanted warrant for Pulaski County, and a letter confirming his identity.

Dick Dias, a white man, 48, who used a ride outside Little Rock, Arkansas, in August 1996 to kill a truck driver, was found and escaped, and has not been seen since, and the Pulaski County Police Department has issued a wanted warrant.

The reason why it was found that Dick Díaz was a repeat offender, living in prison intermittently since he was a young man, theft, robbery, illegal possession of weapons, etc., ranging from misdemeanors to felonies.

There are complete photographs and fingerprint records, and after Dick was arrested in Los Angeles, he got his wanted warrant through the system, so there was a letter from the LRPD to the Pulaski County Police Department.

(End of chapter)