Alex, the blond, looked at the forest in the distance and suddenly asked, "Mr. Pollard, did you see Mrs. Peg, the younger sister of Fleury, when you were there last time? Does she look like Fleury?"
The owl moved its claws, "I didn't see her. I was very careful and didn't disturb her. I only saw the poor little girl, Mary. Oh, she has a good temper, but unfortunately she doesn't look as good as Mrs. Ferris, she doesn't have red hair and green eyes..."
"What a shame." Alex shrugged and took off the sapphire necklace wrapped around his hand.
As soon as the necklace left his hand, his eyes could no longer see the light on the other side of the forest, so he wrapped the necklace back around his hand.
The light of the sapphire wrapped around his hand dimmed, and at the same time his eyes became brighter, and he could see the scenes that ordinary people could not see.
He passed the time by playing with the sapphire necklace.
Suddenly, the street below became noisy and the noisy sound reached upstairs.
"... a witch... a monster..."
"... Go quickly... call Bruce and the others..."
Alex put away the sapphire necklace, leaned forward and listened for a while. When the noise below faded away, he turned back to the owl with a bright smile and said, "Mr. Pollard, we arrived just in time. These people have discovered Mrs. Peg and seem to be preparing to go over and cause trouble for her."
"In that case, we can wait here until they ruin Mrs. Peg's business. It won't be too late for us to take over and deal with it."
After saying this, he seemed to think his opinion was very good and blew a loud whistle.
Owl sighed, his tone somewhat sad: "Alex, if she succeeds, Mrs. Frizzle will be angry. Although Mrs. Peg is a little anxious, her time is almost up, and these ordinary people can't stop her."
"Okay." Alex stood up and stretched himself. "Looks like I can't stay here and watch the fun."
As he said this, he stepped on the window, shouted loudly, and jumped down from the third floor by grabbing the window frame.
With the help of the window sills and protruding bricks, Alex successfully went down to the first floor. He stood up, straightened his shirt collar, and kicked open the door of the first floor of the hotel with his toes. "Guys, have you finished eating? We should leave."
Winding torches flowed from the market place toward the path leading to the forest.
Not long after, a dozen knights, leading their horses, followed behind and caught up.
Mrs. Peg threw Meili to the ground, mumbling a series of vague chants, and Meili felt a sharp pain in her head. The shriveled goblin corpses hanging in the basement like specimens suddenly flew over, piercing her limbs like nails, fixing her in place.
Mei Li was unable to move and could only let out a few uncontrollable moans.
There were several bloody holes on her neck from being pierced by her nails. Mrs. Peg rubbed her fingers over the wounds, sniffed the blood, and then ignored her, leaving her to struggle on the ground.
"Although it's not the right time yet, it's almost time." Mrs. Peg said, walking to Hersha and spreading out her curled up body, making her look like a lamb to be slaughtered.
After chanting a passage in an unknown language, countless golden spots of light gathered from all directions, fell into Mrs. Peg's hands, and finally condensed into a dagger made of gold.
She pressed the dagger against Hesha's chest.
Hesha's eyes widened, like a deer's, filled with fear.
"No, don't—help me—"
She found her voice between life and death, but her voice for help was weak, with only tears flowing down.
Mrs. Peg's attitude was cold and she paid no attention to her pain, and she was about to stab her with the tip of the knife.
“Get lost!”
The sudden force from behind caught Mrs. Peg off guard and she staggered, and the golden knife in her hand only scratched a piece of Hesha's shirt on her chest.
When he turned around, he saw Mei Li, with blood gushing from his wrist, dragging his legs, which were also soaked in blood, holding a few shriveled goblin specimens in his hands, and rushing towards him with a ferocious look on his face.
Mrs. Peg didn't expect that she would break through her own magical restraints, and was knocked to the ground by Mei Li in surprise.
She opened her mouth, and Mei Li didn't know whether she was going to curse or chant a spell, so he simply stuffed the goblin corpse in his hand into her mouth.
Mrs. Peg: “…!”
"Hersha! Get up! Run!" Mei Li pressed Mrs. Peg and shouted, while trying to grab the golden knife in her hand.
The frightened Hesha covered her chest and crawled up. Mrs. Peg, who was stunned by her action, came to her senses after the shout. She was shaking with anger and her red hair almost exploded.
She exerted force with her hand, and the golden knife broke apart, and the hand grabbed her neck again.
Before Mei Li could react to what was happening, she heard the wind whistling in her ears and was pressed heavily to the ground. Her head hit the ground with a buzzing sound.
"Do you really think I won't kill you? All I want is your body... No, this is not your body. You are just a wilderness ghost who has occupied this body for some unknown reason and destroyed my first resurrection..."
"I could have let you live a little longer."
Mrs. Peg finished her words and chanted a spell, the sound of which was so overlapping and reverberating that it made one dizzy.
Mei Li lay on the ground, slowly feeling her body becoming lighter, and she involuntarily rose up.
Her soul seemed to turn into a balloon and float away from her body.
The spells that he couldn't understand were chanted faster and faster, and the dizzy feeling was getting worse and worse. Mei Li saw Mrs. Peg smiling through a layer of blurred vision.
Mei Li struggled to wake up and cursed in her heart - what are you laughing at! Bah, I'm living a good life now, I just found a boyfriend, you want to mess with me? Dream on!
Perhaps because her intention was too strong, the dizzy feeling of detachment was alleviated, and her body and Mrs. Peg's hand formed a subtle pulling state.
In this strange state, everything suddenly stopped, and the dust raised by her struggle stopped in mid-air. She saw a black cat approaching with an elegant cat step.
It’s Black Cat Emerald!
This black cat, which she never let touch, swept its tail across her face as if walking in a gap where no one could see.
In an instant, Mei Li felt herself fall heavily to the ground. The black cat disappeared, and Mrs. Peg's spells fell apart, unable to form a whole sentence.
Mei Li was still in shock, but Mrs. Peg looked like she was going crazy. She grabbed her neck with a ferocious look and shouted, "Why! Why can't you get out of this body!"
"This body belongs to me!"
"My power... I want more power!"
She turned her head sharply to look at Hesha, who was already running towards the stairs, trying to escape from there.
Mrs. Hesha stretched out a hand and whispered to Hesha's back.
In an instant, the stairs leading upstairs disappeared, and Hesha screamed, took a step back and fell to the ground.
Mei Li could see clearly that every time Madam Hesha cast a spell, her red hair faded a little and her body became weaker.
She also became furious, and when she saw Mrs. Peg was about to stand up to kill Hesha, she grabbed Mrs. Peg's hand, which could be called a weapon.
I'll exhaust you to death!
Mei Li didn't care about the injury on his hand, and even burst out with such strength that Mrs. Peg couldn't break free for a while.
When Hesha looked back, she looked even more panicked and helpless. She wanted to run, but the stairs had disappeared and she didn't know where to escape.
Mei Li shouted again to remind him, "The stairs are right there, go up!"
Hersha couldn't see it, but she could see that the stairs that were made to disappear by Mrs. Peg were still there.
Mrs. Peg was dragged by her several times, and she impatiently threw her off again, her hair flying and rushing towards Hesha, "Give me your heart!"
Hesha screamed, looked at the empty space in front of her, closed her eyes and stepped on it.
Just as Mrs. Peg was about to grab Hesha's back, the basement suddenly shook.
The shock was so violent that turbid mud slowly seeped out from the top of the head and dripped right at Mrs. Peg's feet.
She realized something, her eyes widened slightly, and she looked up, "How could it be!"
There is a fairy blessing circle magic in this house, and swamp monsters cannot enter without her permission!
The vibrations above her head became more and more intense, and it sounded as if the whole house was about to collapse. Mrs. Peg watched helplessly as a piece of the basement broke open, revealing the face of the swamp monster, and she regretted it deeply.
She should have imprisoned the guy who occupied Mary's body in the house a long time ago and shouldn't have let him run around and caused her so much trouble!
She underestimated her!
Who knew this swamp monster could go this far for her.
Mei Li was lying on the ground with a severe headache. The wounds on her wrists and feet that were torn in her attempt to break free from the fairy's control were still bleeding, staining her skirt red.
She couldn't get up for a moment, but suddenly, her nose, which was filled with the blood of the basement, smelled a scent of rain and grass.
The smell broke through the stagnation of the basement and came to her.
She saw a hand reaching out before her eyes.
It was the hand of the swamp monster, but the hand seemed to have melted, and mud was constantly dripping down, and its shape had become strange.
The straw ring she had put on him earlier was still stuck on her finger, and the haphazardly woven hay ring was being lost in the melting plaster.
She grabbed it without hesitation, "Cute..."
The swamp monster that tore the house apart and almost turned the whole house into a swamp first reached down with one hand, and soon squeezed into the basement with its half-melted body. It fell down like a piece of mud, splashing a patch of mud.
With his arrival, the entire basement was slowly turning into a quagmire.
Through the hole he made, he could see the half-destroyed house outside and the dark night sky.
The swamp monster's thin body climbed up and moved closer to Mei Li.
Mei Li could see clearly now that his face was deforming and melting, and half of his body had melted away, with half of his chest completely gone.
But he didn't care at all. He looked at her for a while with his grey eyes, then stretched out his hands to hold her up, as if he wanted to hug her.
Mei Li struggled to sit up and threw herself into his arms, covered in mud.
Seeing that the swamp monster was about to take her away, Mrs. Peg no longer cared about Hertha. She could go find someone else to take her heart to temporarily maintain her strength, but there was only one Mary, and if she ran away, she would never have another chance.
She took out an emerald necklace from her lapel, held it in her hand and sang quickly.
The basement was paved with white pebbles, emitting the light of the moon as she sang.
Many translucent shadows of moonlit night fairies emerged from the boulders. They held hands and formed circles of different sizes, overlapping each other, encircling the swamp monster and Mei Li, almost locking them up like chains.