Dean eagerly drove Catherine to the hospital, but within a quarter of an hour the woman woke up from her coma on her own, staring into the air with her eyes open and dejected.

"Are you alright, Catherine,"

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, I'm not well," she said, taking a deep breath and holding back the sourness in her nose, "I'm still an unapproachable weird woman." ”

"Why apologize, it's not your fault." Dean wrapped his arms around her, causing her tangle brow to stretch slightly, "It's something inside you that's at work. ”

Catherine's hairs stood on end when she heard this, "What are you talking about, what is in my body?" ”

"It's the owner of the voice you heard when you were drowning, an unknown evil spirit." Dean slowed down and analyzed with a solemn face, "It's been living in your body ever since, preventing you from being intimate with outsiders. ”

Catherine was so frightened that her face turned bloodless, and she leaned against Dean's body and asked, "Don't scare me, why is it doing this?" ”

"It's not clear at the moment, and the answer to all this can only be known by investigating the true identity of the evil spirit." Dean pondered for a moment, "By the way, there is one thing I think is best to tell you, the evidence we have gathered during this time shows that Ryan Reynolds kidnapped you precisely to help you exorcise this evil spirit through a mysterious ritual. Now it seems, he failed and paid with his life. ”

Catherine recalled the man's fierce eyes, rough tone, and shook her head, "It's impossible, if he wants to help me, why don't you just tell me, but go around in such a big circle to kidnap me and intimidate me?" ”

"He gave his life to save me? That's ridiculous, isn't it? ”

"I don't understand it either." Dean rubbed his eyebrows, "Maybe exorcists aren't ordinary people, so their thoughts can't be speculated on by common sense?" ”

After listening to Dean's analysis, Catherine fell into a deep silence, her expression dazed and fearful, like a disoriented little girl, no longer as strong and capable as before.

She could only use her shoulders to cling to Dean's body, absorbing some warmth and courage to resist the mystical concepts of fire, strange disease, and terrible evil spirits that lingered in her mind.

"Don't go to the newspaper office these days, I'll be with you all the time," Dean rubbed her head, "until you get all the troubles out." ”

Catherine looked at him gratefully and worriedly, "Won't this affect you?" ”

"I'm the man who went on a killing spree in Lake Mead, and ten more evil spirits won't hurt me," Dean puffed out his biceps and glanced at the slab in the space, "I want to see what that thing is sacred." ”

……

After Dean sent Catherine home, he spent an uneasy night with her.

Early the next morning, the two were enjoying breakfast together.

The BP machine on Dean's waist rang suddenly, and he called back through the phone in the living room and heard Carl's kind voice,

"Good morning, Dean, I have good news for you, I have finally found out the identity of Ryan Reynolds through the trust of the relationship, this guy's experience is quite complicated, it can be called a lot of ups and downs, and it is a little mysterious,"

"Hmm... What do you mean? Dean took a bite of the bread that Catherine had brought to her lips and asked,

"This guy has an extraordinary family, his father Kevin Reynolds and his mother Susan Reynolds are a well-known exorcist couple in Nevada."

"Exorcist, you're not kidding?" Dean asked,

"I consulted with several industry insiders to confirm this statement." Carl laughed, "Although I think exorcists are just liars who pretend to be ghosts and trick rich fools, just like the mediums who are often interviewed on TV and are interviewed. But the couple were very popular, and they could exorcise a demon for $100,000. So he amassed a large fortune and bought his own estate, steward, and servant. ”

"According to the memories of the dismissed housekeeper, Ryan Reynolds has lived the life of an uneducated rich kid since he was a child, drinking, smoking, gambling without taboos, and often mingling in night clubs and bars..."

"And does Ryan do exorcisms?" Dean noticed that progress had started to skyrocket from 55 percent again, and the rate of increase was staggering.

"I know a little bit about fur, but I can be an assistant to his parents at most on weekdays." Karl lamented, "It's a pity that this world is stingy with giving, but it often takes away, especially when people don't know how to cherish it, they will be quietly taken away." A few years ago, Ryan's parents were in an accident while performing an exorcism for the only son of a billionaire, and all three died, and the death was horrific, and it made the news at the time. ”

"Only Ryan, who assisted in the exorcism, survived, but the enraged rich man held their family accountable and suppressed them in all directions, almost causing them to go bankrupt."

"The housekeeper mentioned that Ryan thought that it was his mistake that killed his parents, so he indulged in lust, gambling, squandering his savings, and finally spent all his money in various gold holes, and walked the streets of Las Vegas penniless, becoming a pathetic homeless man."

"According to the memories of a colleague at the Charity Kitchen, he was injured in the process of wandering, and his wound was inflamed, suppurated, and his life was in danger, and a hostess who was doing a public welfare activity rescued him,"

Dean interrupted, "Catherine Medici of the Morning News Station? ”

"Yes, a blonde stunner, the Las Vegas men's dream girl," Carl regretted, "I used to tune in to her news every day on time, but unfortunately she quit her job a few months ago, and I don't know which bastard will be cheaper in the future." ”

"Ahem, back to business!"

"Well, the kind-hearted Catherine not only sent Ryan to the hospital, generously paid for his treatment, but also introduced him to a job."

When Dean heard this, he glanced back at Catherine, who was drinking milk at the table, only to feel that the sunlight that dotted her blonde hair suddenly became dazzling.

At the same time, the limping back in his mind, the flesh and blood burned by the flames became extremely tall and majestic.

So Ryan Reynolds gave his life to help her exorcise demons in order to repay his kindness, of course, he may still have the obsession of avenging his parents and burning jade.

That's what he's really for!

The progress of the investigation reached 90 percent at this moment.

Carl was curious, "Since then, Ryan has become a down-to-earth citizen, working, volunteering... But more than two months ago, he left the charity kitchen and disappeared completely, and I can't find out his whereabouts anyway, do you know where he went? ”

Dean smiled bitterly, the prodigal son had given his life for his ideals.

No, it's not just life, the exorcism fails, and his soul may also suffer an accident.

……

Dean hung up the phone with a heavy expression and returned to the dining table,

"What's wrong?" Catherine, seeing that he was not in a good mood, pressed the back of his hand,

"I know Ryan's motivation for helping you."

As Dean spoke, the originally relaxed atmosphere became gloomy,

Catherine sobbed silently,

"It's all my fault, if I had died like that drowning, all this tragedy wouldn't have happened!"

Dean hugged her shoulders tightly, his eyes as sharp as knives,

"You didn't have a choice. And if it weren't for you, Ryan would have died tragically on the streets, and it's just human nature that he tries his best to repay you. ”

"It's the evil spirit that's wrong, whether it's for Ryan or yourself, we must get rid of it once and for all!"

"But what should I do?" Catherine asked, "Even a professional exorcist like Ryan has failed, we are just ordinary people, how can we deal with evil spirits?" ”

Dean groaned, if the evil spirit appeared, he had spiritual vision to track, and with the M1900's spirit bullet and the puppet board, two targeted measures could severely damage the other party.

But this guy was hiding inside Catherine, and he couldn't even see the target.

"The solution should be in those two antique books. I don't know if Owen, the teacher who taught Latin, finished translating. ”

Dean immediately called Hope and got good news.

"I've consulted before, and Owen has almost finished reading two antique books, so you can't wait, let's go now, um, meet at Hawkins Middle School."

"We'll be there shortly."

After making an agreement, Dean took Catherine to a small two-story villa with red bricks and green tiles next to the middle school to meet with Hope.

"You're finally here, please," Owen, dressed in a gray dressing gown, opened the door and ushered the three into the room, his handsome face covered with oil, a pair of heavy dark circles, and a stubbled chin and beard.

Hope was taken aback, "How did you become so sloppy and haven't been to school for a few days?" ”

"No way, I can't resist the temptation of not catching violations for half a year, and I don't have the heart to do anything else if I don't get this reward." Owen took a sip of his coffee and shuddered, "But there's a question, who exactly do these two antique books belong to?" ”

"Ryan Reynolds, a kidnapper who died in a fire not long ago." Hope noticed something strange in the guy's eyes, "What's wrong?" ”

"Not only is something wrong, these two books are full of old, grotesque, bold and novel ideas, some of which can be called evil. Follow me. ”

The three of them exchanged a look, and followed Owen to the huge bookshelf in the study, where two antique books "Labyrinth" and "Spirit" were spread out on the round table...

Owen's fingers trembled as he ran his fingers across the spine of the book, "They seem to contain powerful magic, and just reading them has kept me awake all day long." ”

"Is your brain confused, you can't sleep, obviously you drank too much coffee," Hope lit a cigarette and spit it in his friend's face, "Tell me, what is this "Labyrinth" about?" ”

The latter was full of excitement, and rubbed his cheeks vigorously with both hands until his cheeks were red and his eyes returned to clarity, "It tells of an ancient method of exorcism. Use a large number of witchcraft symbols and exorcism materials to build a sacred labyrinth..."

"The Sacred Labyrinth?" Dean interrupts,

"That's right, he needed Admiralty cypress, sandalwood, boxwood, camphor, and nanmu to create the first layer of the wall, and then carved the 'witchcraft' symbol on the inside of the wall with ink mixed with obsidian and special blood,"

Owen excitedly flipped to a certain page, and the pages of the calf paper were drawn with a large number of crooked and mysterious symbols, most of which consisted of the words "VV" and "PM", in addition to a large number of diagonal lines or black lines like a maze,

"The labyrinth took shape at this point. The camouflage of the sacred labyrinth is a complicated and meticulous process. ”

Hope frowned as he listened, he hated rituals, witchcraft, and all that kind of gossip the most.

"Wait, why pretend," Catherine asked in a crisp voice,

"Ma'am, if you knew that the house in front of you was a labyrinth with no exit, and once you entered, you would be trapped in it forever, would you still go in?" Owen asked,

Catherine thought for a moment and shook her head.

"That's right... Camouflage is to decorate the most superficial layer of the maze to make the target feel familiar, safe and harmless, so as to deceive and lure it in. ”

"What is this?" Dean looked at the slow rise, and was already about to reach 100 percent of the investigation progress asked.

"Spiritual creatures, that is, what people call demons and monsters, and evil spirits that live in the human body. The purpose of the labyrinth is to trap these evil spirits in it, so that they have nowhere to escape, and then the maze builders can use fire to destroy them! ”

Hearing this, Dean, Hope, and Catherine were all in good spirits, and these descriptions were completely consistent with the clues in the burned wooden house.

"'Labyrinth' is roughly finished, and it's the turn of this 'Spirit', which depicts a legendary evil creature—"

A sickly flush appeared on Owen's sweaty cheeks, and he motioned for the three of them to sit in a circle around the desk with him, and then pointed to a small classical Latin poem in the book, and began to recite it in an ethereal voice,

"Swing along the forest and spread the green sea,

Lost spirits inhabit the central area,

The green-eyed goat man hovers the border,

Waiting for the alternation of life and death,

The secret passage opens..."

In this poetic rhythm, in the study where the four of them are located, the light outside the window dims, and the air is filled with a palpitating coldness, and the temperature seems to have dropped by a few degrees.

Dean hugged the trembling delicate body beside him, Hope took out Marlboro and lit it, his fingers trembling and holding the cigarette, inhaling deeply,

Owen turned to page fifty-six of the book,

"This ancient creature is called the Goatman, of course, a little different from the legend of the Goatman that most people know, it lives on the edge of the Wanderer's Forest, or the Wandering Soul Forest, with a sheep's head and a human body, a tall and strong body, covered in black hair, green eyes, sheep's horns, and a pair of huge black wings, it is an evil spirit that the owner of the antique book wants to deal with."

This page reveals an illustration depicting a black sheep-headed monster.

It stood still, a bat-like black winged banner spreading out to the side, filthy flesh dripping from its triangular jagged teeth, and a bloodstained, mutilated corpse lay at its hoof-shaped feet.

Its eyes glowed with a strange green light,

The four people present seemed to have been greatly impacted, and they couldn't help but hold their breath, staring deeply at the dark green whirlpools and attractive eyes.

Catherine clutched her towering chest uneasily, her heart was about to pop out of her chest, and a strong feeling of dizziness surged in her body inexplicably, so dizzy that she couldn't help but vomit.

This terrible sheep-headed monster is parasitic in my body?

"I'm sorry, Mr. Owen," Catherine broke the silence in the study, enduring the humiliating urine in her lower abdomen, "where is the bathroom?" ”

Call... Suck...

The excitement in Owen's eyes decreased slightly, and he wiped the cold sweat on his forehead,

"Get out of the study and go to the left."

……

Catherine leaves.

Dean looked at the 100 percent progress in the system and asked, "I have a question, what is the Wanderer Forest?" ”

Owen replied, "According to the book, this place is also called the Spiritual Prison, a lush, boundless forest, and the resting place of the souls of ninety percent of the dead. However, in addition to the spirits of the deceased, there are some other strange beings, such as the powerful and rare evil spirits of the goatmen, but on the whole, it is equivalent to another society with a stable structure, but there is not much description of this in the book. ”

Hope's expression moved, his dead daughter Sarah was not in the Soul Prison,

Owen continued, "The goatman has a peculiar hobby, and he likes to take away pure souls... Whenever we live in the real world, when a child or teenager enters a near-death state due to an accident, a secret passage will open between the real world and the Soul Prison, ready to send away these newly born undead. ”

"But the goat-people will seize on this loophole and flap their wings through the passages, from the Prison to the real world, into the bodies of dying children and teenagers, and take the opportunity to control these fragile and pure souls."

"Mommy Fake! Demons who persecute children! Hope let out an angry roar,

"Be quiet!" Dean swallowed, "How to control it." ”

Owen flipped to a passage in the book, "The goatmen used their power to save their lives, and then parasitized them, forcing them to be pure, that is, unable to have intimate relationships." ”

Dean nodded, this was exactly Catherine's symptoms, "That's all?" ”

"No, when the soul is fully matured at the age of thirty, the goatman will create an unexpected situation to kill the host, reactivate the passage of the Spiritual Thin Prison, bring them back, and devour them."

I see!

Dean suddenly realized that what maintains purity is only a superficial phenomenon, and in the end, this evil spirit will still harvest and devour the soul, no wonder Ryan risked his life to solve it!

And Dean remembered that Catherine was 29 years old and had only a year to go, and he eagerly asked, "Did you write in the book what the goat-man was capable of?" ”

"Heal, fly, manipulate souls, attack souls, but the description is very general and I can't say anything more specific."

"What about weaknesses?"

"Flames can destroy it, exorcism witchcraft symbols, salt, and sage can weaken and damage it, and sacred labyrinths can trap it." Owen emphasized, "But note that the goatmen are extremely cunning, and they are by no means the stupid evil spirits that are left to be driven out in the movie." What the host hears and sees, it knows. Any unusual movement will make it more difficult to deal with, and it may even reverse deceive. ”

Owen solemnly reminded, "It is recorded in the "Spirit" that when the exorcists want to deal with this kind of parasitic goat people in the human body, they will keep the host strictly secret, and the gods will lure them into the labyrinth to trap them unknowingly. ”

At this time, the last question in Di An's bottom was answered-

Ryan concealed Catherine's actions, was unwilling to reveal the slightest information, and deliberately disguised his attitude as indifferent and vicious, all in order to deceive and deceive the goat man in Catherine's body!

But Ryan still failed, because Dean and the police investigated, and constantly leaked Ryan's arrangement and hidden information to Catherine, and also to the goatman, so that he realized that he was being deceived and raised his vigilance, so as to survive the exorcism!

A hint of guilt flashed in Dean's eyes.

He seems to be helping, but in fact he is ruining the painstaking arrangement of the exorcist Ryan Reynolds!

The progress of the investigation has reached 110 percent.

"Once the goatman realizes that he is being investigated by professionals, there is a powerful presence threatening it. Then the situation will become very bad. Owen regretfully pointed to a passage in the book and said, "It is likely to cause an accident in advance and take the soul of the host, which also means that the host will die suddenly before the age of thirty!" ”

Fako!

Dean's face changed drastically-

Catherine, the host of the goat-people, was here to discuss with everyone how to deal with it.

So does it get it?

Dean instantly swept into the bathroom from God's perspective - Catherine was lying on the edge of the sink, her blonde hair and half of her dress wet with cold water, and her face buried in the water.

The pale hands drooped weakly, and the whole person lost his life as if he was asleep.

Dean rushed!

(End of chapter)