Chapter 24: The Ritual of Spiritualism
Boom-
A small box placed at the top of the cabinet caught Taunai's attention.
The small box was just a small corner peeking out, and the black one almost blended into the black wall.
"Don't touch that box."
An alert voice rang out from the depths of Taunai's heart, screaming frantically to stop her.
The long-cultivated sensitivity to the dangers of ghosts made Taunai subconsciously want to escape, but her body couldn't move.
At this time, she felt the gaze that had been staring at her in the dark.
She couldn't describe what that gaze was like, it didn't look like the cold and vicious of a demon.
The deep and mysterious gaze like an abyss made her tremble.
In the dark, it was as if a cold, invisible hand had touched Taunai's arm, forcing her to reach out and touch the box.
Completely unable to control his body, Taunai panicked.
No matter how hard she tried to contend with something that controlled her body, her hand took the box off and opened it.
Quickly closed his eyes, Taunai was afraid that something more terrifying would emerge from the box.
But she waited for dozens of seconds, still ignoring what happened.
She couldn't stalemate here, she cautiously opened her eyes and looked at the box in her hand.
Almost as soon as she opened her eyes, the power that controlled her vanished.
Inside the dilapidated tin box was a huge photo album.
The heartbeat finally slowed down a little, Tao Nai raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from the corner of his forehead, put the box in the emperor, and picked up the photo album.
After opening the album, the first photo was a family photo that felt very familiar to her.
In the photo, the obese man is smiling brightly as he hugs his wife, while a boy and a girl sit on the chair in front of them.
The boy has the same face as Li Xiaoming, while the girl is delicate and beautiful, her eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to Li Xiaoming, and she smiles happily at the camera.
The difference is that the wife in the arms of this obese man is not the same person at all as the woman on the family photo that Tao Nai found for Li Xiaoming.
The date in the corner of the photo is September 30, 1980.
The thoughts that had come to her mind were becoming more and more mature, and Taunai couldn't wait to look at other photos.
There are a total of 20 pages in a thick photo album, and the photos on the first 19 pages are all of this family of four, and they look like an ordinary family of four, living happily and happily.
It wasn't until page 20 that the photograph changed dramatically.
Taunai looked at the four photographs on page 20, and her eyes were full of disbelief because she was so shocked.
The first photo was taken in the same church before her.
Dressed in a hospital gown, a beautiful girl was tied to a humanoid bronze statue, her left hand was bleeding, and it was evident that a finger was missing from her left hand.
Several doctors in nurses' uniforms and white coats knelt neatly in front of the humanoid bronze statues, two of them looked exactly the same as men knelt in the front, and a handsome young man stood in front of the girl, holding a bandage in his hand.
And those two men who look exactly the same are the head chef.
All of them looked at the bronze statue of the Hanging Man with immense fanaticism, as if they were its most devout believers.
When I saw this Tao Nai, I understood, it turned out that it was not her illusion, it was really two head chefs.
Swallowing a tight throat, Taunai hurried to see the second photo.
In the already yellowed photo, a man covered in bandages is hung in front of an upside-down humanoid bronze statue, Director Liao holding a knife in one hand and a match in the other.
This is completely consistent with the scene she had seen before the hanged ghost before his death.
Obviously, this person covered in bandages is Xiao Ai, or her twin sister.
The third photo is a photo of the girl with a fire on her body, and those kneeling on the ground are laughing, and the firelight reflects their distorted smiling faces, which looks particularly terrifying.
There was only one person with tears in his eyes.
Taunai took a closer look at the photo and found that there were two chefs kneeling in the front who looked exactly the same, and although the man on the left was also smiling, the tears and compassion in his eyes were real.
These three photos were all recorded on March 12, 1980.
And the fourth photo and the first three have nothing to do with it.
In the dimly lit room, a fat man knelt in front of a table, and on the low table was a worn-out bear doll, and in the bear doll's arms was a photo, and it was vaguely visible that the photo was two little girls, but the faces could not be seen clearly because of the pixels.
In front of the bear doll is a half-amputated finger, a bowl of blood, and a small miniature bronze statue of the upside-down hanging man.
The date on the photograph is March 12, 1983, and there is a small line in the narration of the date.
- I didn't believe in God before, but because I wanted to see you again, I prayed to God that we could meet again.
Wanting to see who the girl in the photo really was, Taunai took the photo out of the album.
The sharp edge of the album seal cut through the girl's delicate fingers, and blood dripped into the box below the album.
A heavy sense of foreboding welled up in her heart, and she looked into the box.
In the box was half a finger, and a small bronze statue of an upside-down hanged man.
[Ding - Detected that the player has obtained rare items, how to use them??? 】
[Ding - Detects that the player has signed a contract with the idol to become an apostle of the god, triggering the limited-time ritual mission: complete the unfinished spiritualism ritual and listen to the wishes of the deceased.] 】
As the sound of the system fell, the lights in the room suddenly went out, and it fell into darkness where you couldn't see your fingers.
In the darkness, the girl's pupils constricted, and cold sweat flowed down her forehead.
The three things she feared most in her life.
One is the starving ghost, the second is the claustrophobic fear, and the third is all kinds of strange and terrifying rituals.
Call-
With a low sigh, a faint light suddenly appeared in front of Tao Nai.
It was still thick darkness, except for the small low table in front of her, barely lit by the burning candles on the table.
In addition to candles, there are bear rag dolls, delicate bronze statues of hanging people upside down, and a bowl of clear water on the table.
In the arms of the bear doll is a picture of two identical girls.
At this time, Tao Nai finally saw what the girl in the photo looked like.
has the same beautiful face, looks like he is only about fifteen or sixteen years old, and his eyebrows and eyes are full of youth.
They wore different dresses, one standing on the grass and the other in front of a flowerbed full of flowers.
This is not a complete photo, but two photos that have been cut apart and spliced together.