"That is to say, this kind of witchcraft is sometimes effective?" Nick was surprised: "I thought they were all like Strange, what kind of such witchcraft are there? I will know how to deal with them in the future!"
"Many, most of the folk magic methods are Meishan in China, Black Mass in Russia, black witchcraft in Africa, and some witchcraft in voodoo, including divine magic! Divine magic requires belief to exert power, and it also belongs to willpower One, whether it is Satan or Jesus, many of the mass spells used by their churches fall into this category."
Nick put on the gloves skillfully. He was wearing black clothes and even a black sweater with a hood. Chen Ang laughed and said, "Why are you still wearing those things? Although you are bald, you don't reflect light. In fact, if you go out naked, no one will be able to see you unless you turn on the lights!"
"If you say this to me in other places, I will warn you about racial discrimination!" Nick pointed at Chen Ang.
"What about here?" Chen Ang raised his eyebrows and asked back.
"Here!" Nick cursed, remembering the unpleasant experiences on the road here, "In Louisiana, this is already a kind speech that is friendly to black people! There are black people everywhere here, and white people are still squinting their mother's eyes." Me, I always ask myself in doubt, has the South not been liberated yet?"
Nick raised the small tactical flashlight in his hand and said, "Are you going out like this? I think we are like two stupid thieves traveling at night!"
"Don't disturb them..." Chen Ang held up the flashlight and stepped out of the door. The dim light in the corridor cast their blurred shadows. They walked down to the first floor and began to search separately with the lobby on the first floor as the dividing line. Chen Ang told Nick in tactical sign language, he walked to the left and he went to the right.
Nick turned on the flashlight and groped to the left.
In fact, he had some doubts in his heart. Why did Chen Ang ask him to come here? The dignified S.H.I.E.L.D. and S.H.I.E.L.D. explored an old (for Americans) house like a second-rate detective, and he knew what Chen Ang seemed to be looking for. They have a tacit understanding.
When some clues showed that the house and its owner were weird, Nick had no reason not to play a game with Chen Ang.
In particular, some signs faintly reveal a very important message. The secrets in the house are related to voodoo.
Nick knew that among the five seals that were causing headaches for Aegis and Sacred Shield, there was one of Voodoo, which made it difficult for Nick to feel that this had nothing to do with the seals.
Nick pushed open the first door from the left of the porch, and saw two figures in the dark room at the door. The first thing he saw was the black figure standing against the door, which made Nick almost use his knuckles and twist Cut off its head, but soon Nick realized that it was just two dolls, made of pillowcases tied with straw.
At a rough glance, there are eyebrows and eyes, but a closer look is even more terrifying.
The light of the flashlight shines from the bottom of the puppet, and the light from bottom to top hits the face. Because of the uncanny valley effect and the shadow effect of the light, it looks very hideous. In a dark old house, it is even more terrifying, but As if seeing a familiar friend, Nick put his arms around the doll's neck, if it was a neck.
Nick smelled a strange smell on the dummy. He sniffed it a few times, then pulled out his dagger, and opened the pillowcase with a knife to reveal the straw-bound figure inside. He pierced the dummy and found that the scarecrow was wrapped in lime Something, like the dry internal organs of an animal.
And sulfur was what he smelled just now.
Nick searched the room quickly and carefully, and found that there was nothing inside, but found a few smaller puppets. He went to the next room. This time he had prepared for it, but when he opened the door, the hanging The dummy at the door still surprised him, with a rope wrapped around its neck, hanging from the door through the ceiling light.
This time the dummy was much more detailed. It was a plastic mannequin, its hands were twisted and tied behind its back, and its neck was slanted. Nick had a strange feeling that this dummy seemed a little different from the one in the last room. Although the dummy in a room looks like a dead thing, this sentence, although much more refined, actually gives Nick a sense of life at first glance.
As soon as he opened the door, Nick swore to himself as the King of Secret Service that he would never confuse a dummy with a corpse, and he had killed and seen far more corpses than the average person had ever seen a dummy. too much.
But this time he got it wrong! He almost thought it was a hanging corpse, so he was surprised.
Nick carefully observed the dummy, and he noticed that there was a unique vitality in the dummy, in other words, artistic expression. There was no difference at first glance, but Nick was sure that if he showed it to the artists, they would be able to find it. In other words, an ordinary dummy is just a prop, but this one here is like a work of art.
Artwork can often give people a vague feeling, showing something inner, something alive.
Nick noticed this kind of thing, he saw the struggle of the dummy, it kept struggling while hanging in the air, it was fearful, releasing the inner tension, it appeared at the door, it seemed to be on guard for something. Then that thing opened the door and came in, and it was suspended in the air, struggling, resisting the thing.
Then it was swallowed up, corroded by... !
Feeling this, Nick suddenly felt that the feeling of touching the dummy had changed. It was no longer the stiff, inflexible plastic, but cold and greasy, like human skin without temperature. The stench of the dummy, Nick felt the dummy he was holding start to press against him.
Its hands started to catch itself!
But he still has time to observe this room. This is a room that has been lived in, and there are traces of human activities not long ago, as shown by countless tiny details.
Nick believed in his power of observation. At this time, the cold and slippery body had slid into his chest, like a corpse soaked in water was fished out, and then stuck to him, just like Nick had felt all kinds of corpses. Hand, male, female, old, young, burned, drowned, suicidal, homicide, rotting, fresh!
At this moment, there was no fluctuation in his heart, and he even had the urge to sleep with it.
But his rationality prevented him from continuing to do such insane actions, so Nick had to insert his big hands into the hair of the doll, groped between the slender neck of the collarbone, and then twisted his hands slightly to remove the plastic. The puppet's head twisted down, and he held the puppet's head in his hands, as if holding a basketball, and made a shooting pose at will.
A black man's big hand can firmly hold a basketball in his hand. Compared with this, a small female head is nothing.
He threw the puppet's head out, it bounced off the wall, and was picked up by Nick again. He immediately performed a shooting action, dribbled the ball under the crotch, went to the blue in three steps, and made a super long three-pointer...
The doll's hair was wrapped around his hands, as if protesting something.
Chen Ang's voice came from behind him, and he looked at Nick with a strange look of perverted eyes: "How long are you going to play?"
"Have you finished checking?" Nick asked in surprise.
"I'm not as slow...so interested..." Chen Ang said: "There are dolls in every room, made of various materials, but there is a trace of people living in one room, and the dolls in that room are also a little strange! "
Nick hung the head in his hand on his waist, and asked, "I'm here too... what's so strange?"
"That's a leather doll, according to my experience, it looks like human skin!" Chen Ang wrote lightly.
Nick gestured to the head of the puppet tied around his waist, and said, "I seem to be able to move!"
"And..." Nick hesitated for a while and said, "It seems that something is looking for something in this room, and the puppets are like guards guarding these rooms. Once those things come in, they will grab the puppets, and they are looking for something. The target can get away with it. What do you say those things are looking for?"
Chen Ang smiled and said, "Of course it's the people living in the room...or things that aren't people!"
"Two rooms where people lived!" Nick tossed the doll's head, bouncing up and down, the headless doll wriggling and crawling on the ground, this scene can scare people out of a heart attack, but the two people in the room People don't care at all.
"There are strange puppets in the room, and they seem to be protecting the people in the room. All the puppets have traces of witchcraft. But the two rooms where people have lived, the puppets are the most different." Nick Chi Chi laughed: "Let's check all the remaining rooms on the first floor!"