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Chapter 255 Salem

Sitting on the bus to Massachusetts, Zhou Ning was thinking about something.

His target now is Salem.

It's not the city of Salem in northwest Oregon, but the town of Salem where the famous "Witch Chasing Case" took place in 1692.

There is no story on this journey, except that a big man at a certain rest stop wanted to borrow his chrysanthemum for use, but he was sterilized by him, and there was no disturbance.

When he arrived at the place, Zhou Ning began to feel pain in his egg.

The original small town has now become one of the most historic seaport cities in Ugly Country.

In this context, it seems to take a lot of trouble to find the dimension entrance.

To the bar, of course.

If you want to get news that is more gossip-colored, then you should go to a bar that has something to say and nothing to say.

Zhou Ning went to the second-hand car market first, and bought a Ford Mustang that was rotten and rotten except for the shell for the price of scrap iron.

After casting a spell on the car, while the boss was stunned, he drove away in the revitalized and powerful car.

In an ugly country, a car is really a very necessary means of transportation, especially in this era, the public transport system is poor, and you can’t live without a car even if you don’t have a house.

Zhou Ning drove around in the street, looking for a bar he thought was suitable.

As a result, before he found the bar that fit his expectations, he found a strange house first.

The reason for the discovery is also very simple. With his current perception, he is very sensitive to the perception of the soul.One of the assessment criteria for him to choose a bar along the way is to see how many people are in the bar.

Waiting for the car to see here, I found that there are more than 500 people in this house, so naturally, I knew that this independent house with a usable area of ​​less than [-] square meters, even the front and back yards, was a ghost house. .

Parked the car diagonally across the asphalt road from the haunted house, the moment Zhou Ning got out of the car, Zhou Ning felt like the boss of the Wen family in the American drama {Evil Force}, a muscle car, and a handsome boy.

Crossing the street in front of the tricky house, Zhou Ning first looked at the black wrought iron fence.

This fence has a sense of age, and it matches this Gothic building very well.

The gate was open, and he deliberately reached out to touch it, and sure enough, he felt the power of the law.

Only the power of law can build a soul cage here, so that the soul cannot escape.

Not only that, Zhou Ning believes that there is not only the law of imprisoning souls, but also the law of concentrating souls. After all, not every dead person will separate out their souls.

Especially in this world of unbelievers, where the soul basically dissipates at death.

The unbelievers here do not mean that they have no belief in gods, but that they do not believe in ghosts and gods, and do not believe in the back garden of life.

Of course, if you don’t believe in these things, you are not necessarily a materialist.

But if you don't believe this, the soul does not have the basic conditions for precipitation and condensation after death.

Under such a background, it will be much easier to return to the original ashes to ashes and ashes to ashes.

On the contrary, human beings in the extraordinary world are prone to zombie ghosts, and their deaths are not complete.

Zhou Ning took a step forward, looking ordinary, but it gave him the feeling that he had stepped from one world to another.

He raised his head and glanced at the view behind the window on the second floor of the adjacent independent house, which was covered by the curtains. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and he had already outlined a story about a haunted house in his heart.

Even if it is refurbished and refurbished, the history here is more than 300 years, and there are more than 500 dead souls. On average, less than two people die every year. The low killing efficiency makes him feel pained.

If there is no horror effect, no atmosphere, and no weak and stupid parties involved, the tragedies that have happened here will be pediatrics that would be a waste of time if you don’t spend money.

As the saying goes, horror is not enough, perversion is enough.

Aren't the neighbors who peep, witness death, gloat over other people's misfortune, and even join in the fun, just perverted supporting roles?

Small budget horror film.

Zhou Ning thought, walked, came to the front of the house, and rang the doorbell.

Moments later, a woman opened the door for him.

"Wow!" Zhou Ning was rarely amazed by the other party's appearance.

Although the other party was wearing pajamas and no make-up, his hair was obviously simply combed, looking sloppy and haggard.

But the foundation is really good, and there is a sense of déjà vu of seeing 36-year-old Beckinsale (movie Family Journey 2009).

Especially with the look on his face at this time, I really feel sorry for him.

At the same time, seeing that Zhou Ning didn't take the initiative to speak, the woman asked impatiently, "What's the matter with you?"

Zhou Ning smiled, reached out and pushed the woman aside, and entered the room.

The woman frowned and raised her voice a few decibels: "Please leave immediately, or I will call the police."

While looking at the layout and decoration of the room, Zhou Ning said, "You haven't moved here for long, right? They just make you restless and suspicious, but they didn't do anything to you. It shouldn't be enough to make you die tragically in the room." conditions here."

'Shua! 'A figure appeared in the hallway, a blood-stained young woman with the upper body chopped off.

The woman with a dead face said to Zhou Ning: "But you have made enough conditions for yourself to die tragically. You shouldn't have broken into this place without the master's permission."

While speaking, the door of the room closed itself with a bang, and the curtains on the windows facing the stairs in the living room and the second floor were also closed by themselves, and the overall light in the room suddenly dimmed a lot.

The four-year-old woman seems to have experienced similar situations many times, so although she was frightened, it was only a small fright, or a kind of deep, cumulative fright, where her sanity was still online.

She said: "Sir, you also saw that, right? The door and curtains were closed by themselves."

Zhou Ning didn't pay attention to the strangeness of blood wheezing at all, took it as air, turned his face to the woman in his forties and said: "Listen to you, you must have done it recently in order to prove to your family and neighbors that you are not suffering from auditory and visual hallucinations. It's embarrassing and painful, right?"

The four-year-old woman's eyes lit up, as if she had grasped a life-saving straw, and asked again, "You saw it too, didn't you?"

"Of course, generally speaking, they don't play like this. Their basic gameplay is isolation. What they want is that even if you sit in a room, you still don't feel the slightest warmth, and you can only feel the warmth of treating mental patients. Anxiety, impatience, cheap sympathy, and even schadenfreude.”

When Zhou Ning said this, the woman immediately felt a sense of sympathy, and she couldn't help but shed tears.

Zhou Ning stepped forward and stretched out his hand: "Hello, my name is Swaite Salazar, a gypsy, and my main occupation is a psychic medium. I know that what you saw and heard in this house is true. "

The forty-year-old woman couldn't hold back any longer, and threw herself into his arms, crying like a child.

The handshake failed, and Zhou Ning, who was shaking his arms, was a little embarrassed.

He smiled at the blood-clothed woman, and then patted the woman in her forties on the back, leading her into the living room.

The blood-clothed woman roared ferociously: "You saw me, I'm going to kill you!"

Zhou Ning still shouldn't, as long as he shouldn't, even if he smiles at Gui Gui, it can be interpreted as a nervous smile in the air, which does not trigger Gui's lethal rules.

So the female ghost could only further force him to trigger the rules with incompetence and rage.

Zhou Ning gave the female ghost a silly look, and continued to coax the [-]-year-old woman.

Next, it is the link between the psychologist and the patient.

The woman who called herself Lucy could be regarded as having caught a qualified confidant. Once she poured out negative energy, she completely treated Zhou Ning as a mental trash can.

It has to be said that before the birth of the profession of psychiatrists, psychics were really part of the business of part-time psychiatrists.

Another more formal and widely recognized professional profession is religious personnel. Isn’t the main content of the confession just to suffocate and pour out bitterness?

It must be said that it is an efficient way to narrow the emotional distance between each other without being afraid of embarrassment and revealing a lot of shit about oneself, including privacy.The premise is that the atmosphere and the feedback from the person being confided are all in place, otherwise it will be very easy to become angry.

Zhou Ning's performance is still okay, Lucy's negative emotions have been greatly released, and she has calmed down a lot.Even, the atmosphere became a little ambiguous.

Then Lucy began to try to go further. At this time, even if Zhou Ning didn't do anything, the two of them would be successful.

However, Zhou Ning stopped it.

Lucy felt extremely embarrassed immediately.

Even if the atmosphere is open, it is still a patriarchal society. If the woman takes the initiative but does not get a positive response, it is easy to think of Ji.

Zhou Ning said: "Give me three seconds to explain?"

Lucy tilted her head in displeasure. At this time, most of her desire-fire had faded away. The reason why she didn't become angry from embarrassment was not only because the preparation was so good before, but also because Zhou Ning gave her a very special feeling, with an indescribable feeling. charm.

If it weren't for this, the throwing in the arms at the beginning, and even the confession later, would be unlikely to happen.She is not a lust-girl, on the contrary, she is on the conservative side, and she has always kept herself clean. This is the first time.

Zhou Ning said: "Come, meet the big guys."

As he spoke, amidst Lucy's suspicious expression and slight resistance, he stretched out his left middle finger and index finger, and wiped it on Lucy's eyelid.

'boom! 'Lucy felt as if something exploded in her head, look again, good guy!In the living room, there are three circles inside and three circles outside, surrounded by N people. The front row is lying, then kneeling, then standing, and then floating in the air. More importantly, none of these people It's not what it looked like when it died tragically, but it's still alive...

"Ah..." Lucy screamed.

However, there was no sound.

This is Zhou Ning's method.

But he didn't stop Lucy from screaming, and at the same time paralyzed part of her nervous system so that she could only scream.

Finally, Lucy couldn't scream anymore, but her consciousness was on the verge of collapse.

Zhou Ning snapped his fingers. According to DND, this snap is a zero-level spell, which belongs to the category of tricks, but after all, it has some magic.

Lucy naturally returned to her soul because of it, and then looked at Zhou Ning.

"Now, do you choose to see it or not?"

Lucy cried, "Please, let me go!"

"The problem is, it's not that I won't let you leave, but that you are already unable to leave. If you think about it, you should be able to remember that what I said is true."

Lucy did remember that every time she decided to leave, she lost her memory for some reason, and when she woke up again, she would always find herself sleeping on the bed at home, as if her previous behavior was a dream, and it was true. It's like a dream, and I can't remember most of the details.

"I don't want to see them!"

"Okay." Zhou Ning wiped on Lucy's eyelids again.

Lucy opened her eyes tremblingly, but she couldn't see them anymore. She asked, "Are they still there?"

"That's right, ever since you started talking, they have gathered in twos and threes to be the audience."

Lucy was speechless, and now she was panicked and confused at the same time.

"Now, do you understand why I refused? I really wanted it!" Zhou Ning showed a bitter face.

I don't know why, seeing Zhou Ning's deflated look, and hearing his words, Lucy wanted to laugh very much, and then burst into a 'puchi' laugh.

After laughing, she felt embarrassed again. Under such circumstances, she actually laughed out loud, which was a major subversion of her own cognition.

"Mind if I can offer you some help? After all, as I said before, I'm a psychic"

"Please, help me!"

"A beautiful woman begs, dare not obey."

Lucy's mood calmed down a lot.Of course she is aware of her beauty, for this appearance, in order to manage a good figure, she usually pays a lot.

When he looked at Zhou Ning again, there was affection in his eyes.

I wanted to play cards before, mainly because my emotions were high and my physiology was stimulated, and I tried to vent further.

If Zhou Ning complied, although it wouldn't be a good start to take advantage of others, it would not be a really good start. It's too Meng Lang. After playing cards and entering the sage state, embarrassment is almost inevitable.

It's different now, I want to quit, I have love, I like it, I feel good.

Zhou Ning smiled and said, "I know some magical tricks, not just limited to letting you see the undead."

As he said that, he tapped his fingers on the outside of Lucy's cup on the coffee table, and the cold black tea began to steam again, and it was not only steam, but also a new green light that made people feel refreshed.

"Come on, try it."

Lucy picked up the cup nervously, took a sip, then couldn't help but hum comfortably, and then couldn't stop.

Zhou Ning just waited with a smile.

Lucy finished her tea and said shyly, "I'm so sorry."

"It was specially prepared for you, do you feel better now?"

"Feel much better."

In fact, Zhou Ning can directly hit a life spell to achieve a better effect, but he feels that it is more appropriate to do this now, not only by adjusting the opponent's body glands to calm the mind, but also to enlighten the opponent and let the opponent accept the mystery. , the role of cognitive self-consistency, a two-pronged approach.

"Now, it's time to hear my story, which is not very long."

"I'm willing to listen too," said Lucy.

Zhou Ning smiled, and said directly: "There are supernatural beings in this world. It's just that there are very, very small groups of people, and there are more liars, and the government is not willing to let supernatural beings interfere with the current social order.

I am an extraordinary person, and the extraordinary factor flows in my blood.

But that's not the point. The point is that some kind of mysterious power is calling people like me, including those who are already extraordinary, those who don't know that they have extraordinary potential, and so on.

I came to Salem because of the mysterious call, but I'm not called, but more like a mystery investigator. "

Lucy asked curiously, "Are you affiliated with an official institution?"

Shaking his head: "They have my record, but they can't command me, they can only give me convenience. My behavior is only responsible for myself."

"Sounds great."

"Actually, it does work." Zhou Ning said and took out his certificate.

This was also done by the man in black, Jessica, shortly after arriving at the crossroads.

For the sake of convenience, the FBI senior agent, except for not obeying orders, everything else is true.

Lucy looked at the well-made certificates and badges, thought about Zhou Ning's previous performance, and believed it immediately.At the same time, the sense of security is greatly improved.

Of course, I still feel uncomfortable, after all, there are a bunch of ghosts watching.

"I felt the extraordinary appeal of Salem, so I came here to look for it. I wanted to get information from the bar, but when I was looking for the bar, I found that there are more than 500 creepy in your house. Even if you drive a Patty, you can't squeeze it in. With so many, they will naturally come to the door.”

Lucy was taken aback when she heard 'more than 500 creepy'.After finally waiting for Zhou Ning to finish speaking, he hurriedly asked: "There are so many, are they all there?"

"Not at all." Zhou Ning said: "I counted roughly, and in this living room, at its peak, there were no more than one hundred and fifty, and most of them were in the basement."

Hearing the basement, Lucy recalled some very bad memories, and her face changed.

Zhou Ning patted her hand, and Lucy snuggled into Zhou Ning's arms.

"You, do you think I'm slutty?"

"I'm so happy, I'm worrying about gains and losses now, I hope you will only be so dissolute to me in the future."

Lucy laughed again when she was shaken by Zhou Ning's earthy love words, and the atmosphere became ambiguous again, but this time it didn't go any further, it was just ambiguous.

Zhou Ning continued: "When I come to the door, I naturally want to seek justice and do not ask for anything in return. If the owner of the house is unfortunately killed during the process, I will avenge them.

But when I saw you, I became motivated. I decided to focus on helping you, and then solve the tricky problems here, instead of recklessly sacrificing the owner. "

Lucy slapped Zhou Ning: "You're a pervert." Although it was a complaint, but under the ambiguous attitude, it was more like flirting.

"No way, you have a different kind of magic power, which can not only make me fascinated, but also make me honest."

Rustic love talk, third-rate skills, so direct that it makes people want to run away, but the person involved has already entered the state of love brain, these seem to be just right.

Lucy whispered in Zhou Ning's ear, saying that she hadn't played poker for several years since her divorce, and that her poker addiction was resolved by herself.

What Lucy didn't see was that Zhou Ning frowned instead of her teasing.

What he said to Lucy just now is mostly true, but there are also some untrue places.

The truth is that he really wasn't that impatient. The reason why he didn't play violent demolition was not because the sperm was in his head and he was fascinated, but because he discovered that this place was a delicate law bomb.

Nine chains, rings and rings, constituted a clever bomb, but he got into the game and hung up the string.

In human terms, he broke in without the owner's consent, thus triggering the fatal rule.This is a false pretense.

I didn't expect it to be such a delicate game in advance.

Before, he only thought that the house with the beiger was the house, and even the house was the gateway to the dimensional world.

But when I came in, I found out whether the house had beigs outside it, but the weirdness here is that everyone has beigs.

It gave him the feeling that this was a murder house, and these tricks represented different ways of murder.

It can be said that if there is a power of law called murder, then the cunning here has thoroughly detailed this power.

It is precisely because of the refinement, precisely because there are a large number of lethal laws, that it is very expensive here, and the refined laws make it easier for the system to see the essence of the laws.

This is like the more microcosmic it is, the more people can understand the compositional essence of matter.What is the basic unit and what kind of connection mode constitutes this substance and endows it with properties.

Laws can also be analyzed in this way, at least he can analyze it in this way.

Because he believes in this, it has become an extraordinary manifestation of his wish come true.This is his law, and also his way, to achieve legend, saint, and even godhood, all rely on this, deepen, strengthen, refine...

Well, it is not impossible to violently demolish it, but he will not be able to get the most valuable part here, and he is not satisfied with just recovering a little power of law.

And if you want to be a good bomb disposal expert, you need a good start.

Lucy, is the beginning, or rather, the key.

She has been nailed to the position of medium by this ghostly house.

Zhou Ning's idea is that Lucy and her family are responsible for creating new murders to meet the needs of this strange house.

When Lucy's family is in deep trouble, they will be murdered and become a member of this place, and then the house continues to be sold or leased, attracting new key holders...

But now, Lucy said she was divorced.

Zhou Ning's first thought was not that the two could play cards reasonably and legally, but that the murder pattern of Lucy's family was probably no longer the murder pattern he thought before, but...

"Catching a winner? Anyone who is greedy or develops feelings of admiration will trigger the death rule?"

'puff! 'A knife came in from the back and came out from the front, and immediately, Zhou Ning's strange voice exploded in Zhou Ning's mind: "Hey, do you feel any surprise?"

Zhou Ning was surprised: "The owner of the Rubik's Cube dimension is waiting for me here!?"

(End of this chapter)