In the hall full of taxidermy, Faraj looked at the bearded man with no closeness and respect,

"Uncle Trent, I didn't expect you to be such a person."

The bearded man lowered his head, "Scold, the sins I created in the past deserve to be scolded." ”

"It's been more than twenty years, have you ever regretted your shameful act?" The priest looked at him, "Have you ever been condemned by your conscience?" ”

"Why not? Guilt has made me in a trance for most of my life, and I still dare not get married. "And I go to visit Thomas Crowley every year, how can I compensate for setting myself on fire?" ”

Dean asked, "Aside from you, where do the other two arsonists, Samson and Bob, live?" ”

"I don't know," the bearded man shook his head blankly, "since that accident started, their family moved away from Honey Island and cut off contact with me. For more than 20 years, they were long gone in New Orleans. ”

Dean was not discouraged, "Did the three of you take a group photo, and you can do it in your childhood." ”

The bearded man looked surprised and got up and walked to the bedroom.

"I'll have to flip through the photo album, wait a minute."

……

Take advantage of this gap.

Faraj looked at Jacob, "According to your Christian teachings, will these three bastards who bully the weak and set fire to hell when they die?" ”

Jacob clasped his fingers on his forehead and prayed in a whisper, "Everyone makes mistakes, especially the accidental mistakes of immature teenagers and children, and if they sincerely make amends and repent, God will open the net." ”

Dean shook his head, "Then Victor Crowley, the murderer who brutally killed three people, will go to hell?" ”

This time, Jacob was silent for a long time and kissed the cross heavily, "Victor's harm to innocent people stems from human discrimination and bullying against him, and he is a poor man who lives in sin and can't help himself. If he sincerely repents, God will forgive him. But if he continues to kill, he will be too vicious, that is, he will follow Satan, and God will punish him. ”

"We must stop him before he continues to make mistakes!"

Faraj sighed, "You are much more religious than my father, a fake voodoo wizard, where did you become a priest before?" ”

"Northside."

"Isn't the priest busy?" Dean asked the bottom of his heart, "Why did you take a pair of children and drive an RV road trip?" ”

"Please don't tell Scott and Katie that I'm leaving," a look of confusion flashed in Jacob's eyes, "I was confused, and I stayed in church for a long time with no one to guide me, so I brought my family out to find out." ”

"I made the right choice, I saw the supernatural on this trip, I am on the right path, and I am close to the answer."

……

"Found it."

The bearded man walked out of the bedroom and spread out a photograph on the table of three ten-year-old boys smiling happily over their shoulders.

"The dark-haired one in the center is me..."

"Samson on the left with a hooked nose..."

"The one on the right with glasses and a mole on his chin is Bob."

"Samson and Bob are cousins, inseparable, and probably live in the same place."

"Very well, give me pen and paper," Dean looked at the photo carefully, asking for more, "Tell them both of their family backgrounds, personalities, experiences... The more detailed I am, the more likely I am to find both of them. ”

The bearded man nodded and began to speak.

When Dean had filled a few pieces of paper, he couldn't help but ask,

"What happens when you find them?"

"Bring them here." Dean said, "If we want to rest the resurrected Victor, we must rely on the strength of the three of you initiators, are you willing to help?" ”

The bearded man's face froze, but under Dean's sharp gaze, he nodded, "I will do my best to make up for my past mistakes." ”

"Wait for the call, don't run around." Dean winked at his companions and got up and walked to the door.

The bearded man stopped them and asked tremblingly, "Wait, did Victor say anything?" ”

"No, he's murderous and destroys everything. If you don't cooperate with us, you will be killed by him sooner or later. ”

Leaving behind their miserable beards, the three of them left the double corridor house and drove the Chevrolet to a telephone booth on the side of the road in the Lower Garden District.

Dean walked in alone, flipped through the photos and transcripts, pretended to make a phone call, and searched Samson and Bob from God's Perspective, and found it very easy to perceive where they lived.

For ordinary people who are not covered by mysterious powers and are not far away, Dean does not need to deprive the sink with the help of miniature senses, and only uses the ability to search to make them have nothing to hide.

……

Dean returned to Chevrolet,

"To downtown Baton Rouge, northwest of New Orleans."

The three Gretchen were surprised by the speed with which the guy was looking for someone, but they didn't ask much, and after filling up the gas station, they drove to their destination.

More than a hundred kilometers, from morning to afternoon.

Several men entered Baton Rouge, the capital of Louisiana on the east bank of the Mississippi River, and the second largest city outside of New Orleans.

Along the way, he had no intention of admiring the natural scenery, followed Dean's guidance, circled the state university, entered a botanical garden, and quickly found a one-story red-roofed log cabin nestled among lush flowers.

Dean let a few people stay in the car, got out of the car and slowly leaned over, God's perspective opened, observing every corner of the house.

The interior is simple and warm, and the family is not wealthy.

A middle-aged man is busy in the kitchen, with a huge nose and a strong chin, and Samson's appearance in the photo can be vaguely seen between his eyebrows.

In addition, his eyes are narrow and a little cloudy, but he has a happy and warm smile at the corner of his mouth, and he is humming a song while frying steak, and he is in a good mood.

In the room behind him, a plump brunette woman teased a giggling baby girl in a crib with a feeding bottle, her face glowing with motherhood, and a little boy of five or six in a gray sweater held a toy airplane and snorted down the orange carpet behind his mother.

In every way, this is a warm and happy family of four.

Apparently Samson has long since shaken off the shadows of his past and forgotten the mistakes he made as a teenager.

A hint of hesitation flashed in Dean's eyes, and then he shook his head... He stepped forward and knocked on the wooden door.

"You are?"

"Samson, remember Victor Crowley in the Honey Island swamp?"

"What?" This sharp question instantly shocked the man's expression, and then the long and terrible memories flooded back into his mind, and his face changed drastically, "I don't understand what you mean, you found the wrong person." ”

"If you make a mistake, you pay a price." Dean stared into his eyes, his pupils filled with a wave of starlight, "Say goodbye to your family, and follow me immediately!" ”

The man hung his head, a look of pain on the face of the gloomy, but in the blink of an eye his sanity and persistence were overwhelmed by the realm of divinity, and his twisted cheeks relaxed.

"What's wrong, dear?" The woman noticed the movement at the door, greeted her, put her arm around her husband, and asked with a smile, "Who is this friend?" ”

"Cliff, a colleague, introduced me to a big business, and I'm going to go out with him right away." Samson gently touched his wife's hair, his expression returned to normal, only a trace of helplessness flashed in the depths of his eyes,

"In such a hurry, finish this meal and leave?" The woman said coquettishly, and smiled and invited Dean,

"No... I need to hurry up and earn money for my baby girl's milk powder and diapers. Samson glanced nostalgically at his little daughter in the crib, hugged his wife and eldest son, and followed Dean into the car.

Sitting in the back row in a daze like a puppet.

Chevrolet continued east, picking up a third key man, Bob, in an apartment near the state university.

Wearing glasses, polite, in his forties, he has not yet married and had children, but his hair is half gray, and his emaciated body is full of sickness.

He didn't have a good time, and he was still working as a tally clerk in a department store when he was older.

Under the pressure of Dean's divine realm, Bob honestly got in the car and sat with his cousin Samson.

So far, in less than half a day, the three people who ignited Victor Crowley's house on Honey Island more than 20 years ago have all been found and obediently captured.

The three of Farahi, Gretchen, and the pastor, who witnessed the whole process, only felt that it was like a dream, and the efficiency was incredible.

Faraji's swarthy and delicate face was full of shock and adoration, "Dean, I can guarantee that the FBI's most prestigious tracking expert is not as good as a finger of yours." ”

Gretchen smiled proudly, "If you go to work at LVPD, that one person is worth three teams." Yes, you will guide me often in the future! ”

"No problem." Dean nodded, and then turned to the two "prisoners", "You don't know why I called you over?" I'll help you remember your shameful deeds again..."

……

Chevrolet returned to the twin aisle in New Orleans' Garden District in the early evening.

Dean sends Samson and Bob into the Trent house, where the three teenage playmates reunite after years of absence.

Then he said in a commanding tone, "You have made mistakes in the past and caused bad results, but you have chosen to escape from reality. Victor Crowley, who has now been killed by you, has crawled out of hell to settle accounts with you. ”

The three of them were white, and even though they had only heard the others describe the changes in the swamp of Honey Island, they also felt a terrifying killing intent.

Faces as ugly as ghosts emerge from memory again.

"But injustices and debts have their owners, and Victor has gone too far, and he should not have poured out his anger on the innocent." A cold light flashed in Dean's eyes, "I want to let him rest in peace, or I will destroy him, and this will require your strength." ”

"What should we do?" Trent asked tremblingly,

"Zumbi is still working on a solution, you guys wait first." An unpredictable glow flashed in Dean's eyes, and he looked directly into the eyes of the three of them, "Don't try to escape or contact the outside world. ”

The three of them nodded their heads.

……

After finding out the true identity of the short-handled axe maniac and catching the three key people, Dean and his party can be considered to have completed today's mission and quickly returned to the witchcraft shop on Bourbon Street.

Second floor.

Hundreds of books covered the tables and carpets, and Zumby, Katie, and Scott rummaged eagerly through them, their eyes bloodshot from overexertion, as if they had not rested for two days and two nights.

Dean and Gretchen tiptoed over the floor and handed out the packed hamburger set to the trio.

Zumbi took over the hamburger and began to check with his daughter about the progress on their side.

Scott, with a beef burger in his mouth, shouted impatiently, "I've found an important clue!" The murderer on the island is indeed not a reincarnate, he is a higher level called Voodoo Rebirth... Not... The presence of the Regenerator... Ahem..."

Is Victor a Voodoo reincarnate?

Dean noticed that the system's progress had jumped to thirty-seven percent.

"You can choke on a burger, when will you grow up and be less frizzy." Jacob handed his son a bottle of water and patted him on the back with a helpless expression.

Scott breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly spread out a thick tome, the pages of which were smeared with a strange human shape in sticky black,

"The Regenerator is a being far more powerful and evil than the Revenant, he was not born naturally, but was powerfully cursed by the wizards of the Voodoo cult."

"I knew it wasn't that simple." Dean shook his head and sighed, "So the curse is the source of Victor's transformation into a murderer, but who would curse a deformed person with a miserable fate?" ”

"According to the Trent trio's confessions, Victor lived in that dilapidated wooden house most of the time, and had extremely limited access to people," Gretchen analyzed with his hands around his chest, "The person who cast the curse is also easy to rule out, and his father Thomas has no reason to hurt his adopted son... Trent and Samson are all ordinary people who don't have this curse ability. ”

Faraj continued, "So the remaining possibility is that the rest of the inhabitants of Honey Island at that time are the rest of the inhabitants of Honey Island at that time?" ”

"There is another possibility, the curse is that Thomas hid in Victor before he moved to the Honey Island Swamp with him." Dean sighed,

"That's hard to track." Faraj said.

"Let's not talk about the curse caster," Dean changed the subject, "the rest of the regenerator's birth conditions?" ”

Katie continued, "He still has to be angry, and there is a lot of anger in his heart. ”

"Totally satisfied." Dean told the few people left behind in the store about the tragic life of Victor Crowley,

Scott empathized and said, "It's much worse than me, I've only been bullied by a small group of my classmates, but except for my father, the rest of the people around him are no less than demons." ”

Katie gave a worried expression.

Zumbi took over and pointed to a page of records, saying,

"He had to die a terrible death to add to this resentment."

"When he died... It will be entangled with this sleeping earth, and all the evil and terrible substances, spirits, and thoughts in the swamp will aggravate the bad luck of his death, and the resentment in his body. ”

"At a critical moment, on Halloween night, when the magic of heaven and earth is at its highest, someone casts a voodoo spell in the swamp, and the regenerator will wake up from his slumber."

Zumbi's heavy voice echoed in the study,

"Victor's tragedy, premature death, and resentment forced him to relive that Halloween night of death, night after night, and over again.

"After becoming a reincarnator, Victor was left with nothing but anger and an obsession with revenge on those who stepped into the swamp and honey island."

"Those who stop him will be affected by the curse in his body."

Dean nodded, which was in line with his own experience.

"The land of the Honey Island Swamp, and the obsession in his body, make him immortal, and every time he dies, his broken body will immediately recover, wander on the Honey Island, and continue to kill..."

"From every night until dawn."

The expressions of the seven people in the library became wonderful, as if they had heard a horror story.

And the progress has reached fifty percent.

"So, Victor Crowley, the reincarnation of Voodoo, only haunts at night?" Gretchen interjected,

Zumbi nodded, "Honey Island Marsh is safe during the day. ”

"So now we basically understand the whole process of the birth of Victor the Regenerator." Dean got up and walked around, pulled open a blackboard, and wrote a few paragraphs on it with a white pen, "Cursed by unknown characters→ suffering and torture accumulating resentment→ dying in agony and terror→ being awakened by voodoo magic on Halloween night... There are four stages in total. ”

As soon as Dean summed it up, everyone who was still a little messy suddenly felt that the clouds were shining in front of them.

"I have a feeling that it was all arranged, when it happened, and what step it took was planned. ”

Gretchen nodded in agreement, "I smell conspiracy. ”

"I can't say right now." Dean pondered for a few seconds and asked, "What about a solution to the Regenerator once and for all?" ”

"There are two ways to do it." Katie opened a book and said in a crisp voice, "The first way is to find the person who cast the curse on Victor Crowley in the first place and let him lift the curse." ”

"Have a good chat with Trent, Samson, Bob," Faraj analyzed, "maybe they know something?" ”

"I'll go, I'll talk to them tomorrow." Pastor Jacob clenched the cross and said "God will make them repent."

Dean nodded and turned to Zumbi and said, "It's not ordinary people who can release such a powerful curse, you try to use the information channels of the Voodoo Cult to find out what real wizards were in New Orleans more than twenty years ago, and the spellcaster may be among them." ”

"I'll go tomorrow." "But I can only reluctantly try, because I know liars who have no real talent and have been around for too long." ”

Dean said, "Just do your best." ”

"Also, I think the spellcaster may have a hostile relationship with Victor's father, Thomas Crowley." Gretchen put his hands around his chest and analyzed, "The spellcaster resents Thomas, so he curses his child?" ”

"That's a line of thought," Dean mused, "I'm going to go to the place where Thomas lived for clues." ”

"It was a wooden house on the east side of Honey Island, simple and dilapidated, and it had been vacant for almost a year." Faraj volunteered, "I'll take you there tomorrow morning?" ”

Dean looked around at the people who were so engrossed in the event that he was glad he hadn't directly erased their memories.

They help save a lot of time.

……

"What about the second solution?" Dean looked at Scott,

Scott said loudly, "Let the reborn complete his greatest obsession, so that he will be relieved and leave." ”

What is Victor Crowley's biggest obsession?

This question hovered in everyone's minds, and soon a word surfaced -

"Revenge!"

Gretchen said categorically, "Victor wants to kill the three culprits who caused the cabin to catch fire and die tragically, Trent, Samson, and Bob!" ”

"We can't take three big living people up to the island and send them to die, can we?" Jacob expressed mercy in a clear and unequivocal manner, "We can't sacrifice the lives of three living people to avoid death in the future, how is this different from the cruel blood sacrifices of ancient times?" ”

"Think of what these three bastards have done," Gretchen shook his head with a cold face as he grabbed the back of his hair, "they deserve this, and we should send them to Honey Island to face their fate now." ”

"But they didn't mean to burn down the house in the first place," Katie retorted timidly as she looked timidly at her adoring big sister, biting her lip, "they were wrong, but they weren't wrong!" ”

"Yes, Bob and Trent have been carrying a heavy burden of guilt for over twenty years, and their lives are in shambles," Faraj nodded, "and Samson has a wife and children, and a newborn daughter to take care of... He dies like this, a family will be completely shattered, and wives, children will fall into the abyss. We cannot implicate other innocent people in order to settle one sinner. ”

"If you make a mistake, you should pay the price!" Scott stood on the opposite side of his father and sister, "They bullied and killed a life, and they should pay for their lives, it's only fair." ”

"Alright, don't rush to sacrifice the three arsonists." Dean interrupted the heated argument, "Let's look for the curse caster first, I have a gut feeling that Victor will become this god-hating deformed form, which is the cause of the curse. ”

"Curses are the root of all tragedy!"

Dean quickly assigns work.

"Tomorrow, Zumbi will go to find clues about the voodoo wizards of more than twenty years ago."

"Jacob and Gretchen take Scott and Katie to talk to Trent and find clues about the cursed releaser."

"Faraj and I will go to the island to investigate Thomas's house."

(End of chapter)