September 8, 4:00 am.
It was the darkest hour before dawn, and a figure hurried along the road with another person on his back.
Passing through several deserted streets at a fast speed, he stopped in front of a building, opened the door with a key, and quietly went up to the second floor without disturbing the landlady.
Master Cat came out of the room in his nightgown, with the same half-dream and half-awake expression on his face... But when he opened the bathroom door, his whole face froze for two seconds, and then... He actually closed the door again up.
"Sleepwalking... It seems that the pressure has been too much recently..."
"Hey! What are you doing!" Wang Xu chased him out of the bathroom: "What was your reaction?"
"Cut... you are just an illusion, what are you doing yelling..."
"You're hallucinating! Face reality!"
Master Cat sighed deeply, and looked into the bathroom again: "What is that... Where have you been for these few hours... Actually, I have slept this sleep for a whole year... If possible, let me Go on and go to sleep..."
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An hour later, Wang Xu came out of the bathroom: "I gave her something to eat, and she fell asleep in the bathtub, my God... I washed three tanks of water black, and after washing it, it looked even worse." shocking."
Master Cat lay on the armchair, and said calmly: "She must have been under some kind of curse. If it is not lifted, this disease will continue until she dies."
Wang Xu said, "Then how to lift the curse?"
"I've lifted it."
"What? When?"
"Before you clean the first tank of water."
"You can get it done after you come in and shake around for a while?"
Master Cat explained: "Actually, it is not difficult to unravel those curses of foreigners. To put it bluntly, it is a kind of permanent spell that is activated through a certain object or a certain ritual. A kind of energy, such as spiritual power, mind power, witch power, whatever...
For example, like the curse in Sleeping Beauty, the initiation ceremony was that the princess was pricked by the needle on the sewing machine, and the release ceremony set by the caster was the prince's kiss. Ordinary people naturally have to follow this procedure, which is why this kind of wizard appears mysterious and powerful.
But for us psychic power users, there is no difficulty, as long as we use spiritual power to get rid of the energy that is working. I just noticed her abnormal state, and easily lifted the curse. "
Wang Xu nodded and said, "Oh... that's it, I didn't expect you to be happy to help others."
Master Mao sneered: "Ha! You have rescued her, what else can I do? Wait until she rots to death in the bathroom? Then the body is not easy to deal with, right..."
Wang Xu didn't bother to complain to him, so he continued to ask, "I don't quite understand one thing. Even if it was a curse that made her like this, can mermaids eat people when they are so hungry?"
Master Cat replied: "I don't know what the mermaid will do when she is so hungry. I only know that she is not a mermaid at all."
"Huh? No?"
"Hey... looks like I have to teach you a lesson, where do I start... oh, yes, by the way, in ancient Greece..."
Wang Xu interrupted roughly: "Get to the point!"
Master Cat shook his head and sighed: "Young people nowadays are really impatient... Well, to put it simply, she is a sea monster, and the Siren in Greek mythology refers to her.
According to legend, the Sirens are the daughters of the river god Ecroueus, beautiful goblins born from his blood. Many years ago, they were in the form of a human head and a bird. Because they failed in the music competition with the muses, their wings were pulled out, making them unable to fly. So they cruised in the sea and turned into mermaids, attracting people with their singing and beauty. Sailors, bring it to ruin.
You should have heard this kind of story, for example, sailors were attracted by the sound of singing, and eventually the ship hit the rocks, or someone saw a beautiful woman sitting on the rocks on the boat, jumped into the sea to look for it, but never came back . Anyway, the ending of these stories is undoubtedly that the sea monsters have a full meal, and there are no human bones left. "
Wang Xu swallowed, and looked back at the door of her room: "So... I should actually kill her?"
Master Cat said: "You can't say that. In fact, there are some legends that the sirens may be sea gods or sea elves at first, um...according to our Chinese, they are fairies. Didn't Andersen write "The Daughter of the Sea" based on them?" Prototype, if you haven’t read that book, you must have read Disney’s The Little Mermaid.”
The corners of Wang Xu's mouth twitched twice: "Forget it... I've saved everything, help people to the end, and send Buddha to the West."
Master Mao took a sip of coffee: "You rescued it, you are responsible for it to the end. I am quite busy today, so I have to go out soon."
"It's just dawn, and you're going out to pick up girls?"
Master Cat replied in English: "No, no, no... I have already said that my relationship with that lady is very pure, and I have a pure appreciation for her."
"You don't speak English with me, I hate your British English the most, and you can't talk in a few words."
Master Cat shrugged and brought the conversation back to the topic: "My itinerary is very planned. I have a lot of things to do throughout the day. Don't forget, today is September 8th, about forty minutes Later, the body of Anne Chapman will be found, she is the second Ripper victim to be 'confirmed'. I will start with the short time between the escape of the Ripper and the discovery of the body. Go and survey the scene before the fools at Scotland Yard destroy all useful evidence."
Wang Xu squinted and said: "Oh... Then you should go to business first, and then pick up girls..."
Master Cat got up and went back to his room, before closing the door, he said: "Take care of yourself, be careful not to eat the fairy girl you rescued."