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Chapter 654 Interpretation of the Gift Scroll
As he slowly approached Blossom Street in Southeast Market, Eden felt an unusual chill in the street.

Eden stared at the street, feeling nervous.

Althea followed closely behind Eden, and she didn't seem scared at all.

Rather excited.

"I heard that there was a murder near here."

Eden took the initiative and said.

That's what he heard from Verdo's mouth.

"What's going on?"

"It is said that... a woman suspected her husband of adultery, and the furious husband killed her in a rage. It was not until much later that people smelled the stench and discovered the wife's body."

Eden briefly relayed what Verdo said.

He observed Althea's expression, and if she felt a little uneasy, he would take this opportunity to drive her back.

Unexpectedly, Althea looked even more excited.

"Are you saying this place will be haunted? Isn't this interesting?!"

Althea chuckled and then added:
"I think even if that wife turns into a ghost, she won't target me. First, I'm not a man, and second, I don't commit adultery. Hey, priest, you should worry about yourself and think about whether you have anything underground. Lover, I’ve heard that quite a few priests marry a wife in addition to the normal ones, and oh, forget it, let’s move on.”

Althea's excited attitude surprised Eden inexplicably.

Isn't she scared at all?
How should I say it….
Are you worthy of being a sinner who takes pleasure in killing?
After a short conversation, Eden and Althea went deep into this street. It was obviously noon, but the light in the street was extremely dim. The buildings around it were very high. The noise of the market slowly passed away, leaving this empty street. The streets showed a completely different silence.

They seemed to be walking in the dark. Eden swept through the houses and found that every house seemed empty.

For a moment, as if something had been kicked, Eden paused for a moment.

He lowered his head, relying on the dim light, and saw a gray-black sack at his feet.

The sack was swollen, as if it was about to burst at any moment, with several protruding corners, as if all the limbs were being put in it.

Eden swallowed and moved his foot away without touching it.

Then, he turned around and found that Althea had been staring in a certain direction.

"what happened?"

"Shh."

Althea made a gesture and stared attentively.

After a moment, she lowered her voice and said:

"Did you see...a figure?"

Eden quickly stared in the direction she was looking.

The building was very high, blocking most of the light. There was only a slight glimmer of light, which was imprinted on the pale walls of the street. It seemed that something was passing by in a flash, and there was no time to see it clearly.

Eden stared ahead warily and moved forward more cautiously.

In the dead silence of the street, there was only the sound of two people's footsteps.

As they moved forward, they found that the roads on both sides were much narrower than when they first came in, and it seemed that the streets became narrower and narrower as they went deeper.

Eden looked around and found that the doors of the houses on both sides looked more like they were ajar than closed. They were full of shadows. Nothing could be seen clearly from the outside, but the street could be seen clearly from the inside.There seemed to be a pair of eyes staring at someone in the tiny gaps.

Eden entered a spiritual state, but found that he still couldn't see the scene in the house clearly.

"What kind of isolation ritual is it?"

Eden was certain that he was getting closer to the gathering place of the shamans.

Soon after, the two of them came to a corner. The wall in the corner was painted with thick pale white paint, and a pungent smell emanated from it. This reminded Eden that some nobles always put paint on their coffins when they were buried. Covered with pungent spices to cover up the stench of corpses.

The houses after the corner look even bigger, and a snake is painted on the doorway of each house with white paint.

"I've seen this pattern."

Althea said:

"In many places...it means...healing, healing."

Snakes... this kind of cunning, vicious and strange creature in the eyes of the world. Its poison can kill people in just a few steps. At the same time, it also represents healing and healing. This can't help but remind Eden of those wandering snakes. In various villages, there are mysterious and strange witch doctors. They are not only superb in medical skills, but they can also bring unknown and bad luck to people.

The more he walked, Eden noticed that there were more and more snakes on the ajar doors.

He stared at the snakes, as if if he wasn't paying attention, the snakes would start to swim.

Slowly, they almost reached the end. There was a mansion that looked luxurious on the outside, but it was full of darkness inside. There was no fiber optic cable, and there were cobwebs and thick dust on the walls. It seemed that it had been abandoned for a long time. But if you look carefully, the dust beside the door seems to be thinner. It seems that someone visited here not long ago.

On both sides of the gate, there were more black sacks that I had seen before, almost piled up into a hill.

Eden felt an inexplicable sense of urgency.

The surroundings were extremely dark, with only wisps of faint light still floating in the air, like a flame that would go out at any moment.

Eden and Althea walked into the courtyard of the mansion. The heavy wooden door stood in front of them without any patterns on it. The two approached slowly.

The heel of the door was covered with moss. The scene in front of me seemed to express that the shaman's gathering was over.

Even though Eden thought about this, he still decided to explore within.

Squeak.

Pushing open the heavy door, Eden and Althea slowly walked into the mansion. Although looking from the outside, you can feel that the mansion is of extraordinary size, only by entering inside can you intuitively understand the size of the mansion. It feels astonishingly huge, just like a small or medium-sized castle.

Althea looked around, and then her breathing quickened slightly as if she saw something.

Eden looked in the direction she was looking and saw a series of dark bloody handprints on a peeling off wall. It didn't look like they were printed from the outside, but more like something was buried inside. Inside the wall, desperately trying to break out.

Althea opened her mouth and was about to say something, but suddenly she became quiet again.

Thumb, thump, thump…

In the darkness, it seemed to be in a certain direction, was it on the second floor?still…

Eden suddenly heard the sound of the rocking chair being moved.

"Is there... anyone else here?"

Eden tried to reason.

The priest hesitated whether he should go upstairs now.

No...don't rush, it might be a trap, you have to see what's on the first floor first.Eden took a deep breath, raised his feet, and tried to explore the first floor.

The footsteps of the two were very soft, almost tiptoeing. The entire huge mansion was filled with a strange dead silence. The doors of the rooms they saw along the way were all closed.

Eden touched it and found that those rooms seemed to be locked from the inside.

When passing by the stairs, Eden smelled a strong and pungent rancid smell, which smelled like long-stale pig offal and dried human blood mixed together.

They hurried past the stairwell and beyond. There was not much light in the house and the surroundings became even darker. They walked to the deepest part of the corridor and found a hidden room.

In the darkness, Eden saw a snake drawn with pale paint on the door.

The snake is painted here as if it is meant to heal or cure something.

Althea looked at Eden, as if asking: Do you want to go in?
Eden took a deep breath. All the other rooms on this floor were locked. It was impossible to enter without violence.

Only this room was ajar, and they could only walk into it.

Although Eden doubted whether this was a trap, it seemed that they had no other choice.

Pushing open the door, Eden realized that this seemed to be a study room, with tall bookshelves standing on both sides, filled with all kinds of books. There was also a corner in the room, and the space inside was in a visual blind spot. Standing there From the position of the door, you can't see what's inside at all.

There were a pile of books scattered on the ground. Eden lowered his head and looked at the words on the cover. They were books about rituals, such as "How to Completely Peel Off the Bone Marrow", "Living the Heart", "Witchcraft to Stop Bleeding", " "Ritual Scapevation"... These are not just witchcraft books, but also related to some mysterious and strange witchcraft.

On the ground, Eden also saw a copy of "The Devil Summons".

"...are there devils and sorcerers in the shaman society?"

Eden's nerves were slightly tense.

He still remembered Lozmer. At that time, in order to deal with this troublesome devil wizard, he and the witch coven spent a lot of effort and even risked their lives.

The two of them turned the corner and looked into the deepest part of the study.

Eden's pupils shrank, while Althea's eyes widened.

In the deepest part of the study, there are several tables, which look like desks or experimental benches. On the chair in front of the desk, there lies a corpse with its face raised to the sky, its hands hanging on the ground, and its thighs A book, the whole body is very thin, the face is full of helplessness and despair.

The desk was covered with a white cloth, and there was something bulging inside.

After making eye contact, Althea stepped forward and slowly opened a corner.

Inside... there seemed to be some tools used on the human body, including dental extraction forceps, saws, hemostats, awls... and all kinds of strange tools. They were all clean and had obviously been well maintained.

Eden glanced at the corpse and found that its skin was not stiff and had some elasticity.

"Did...he didn't die for a long time?"

Eden's eyes lit up.

In other words...can you channel?

Thinking like this, Eden quickly tried the simple psychic method taught by the witch Mona.

As expected, spirituality slowly gathered together. Generally speaking, there are two types of channeling, one is to summon the spirituality to directly inquire, and the other is to directly search the spiritual memory.

The first one is more convenient and direct, but the second one allows one to better understand the whole picture.

"What have you been through?"

"What have you been through?"

"What have you been through?"

Eden silently pondered the question in his mind, and when he touched spirituality, he chose the second option.

The scene in front of him slowly changed, and Eden was entering the memory of the deceased.

The deceased seemed to be a young shaman who had just been granted the status of a shaman. Under the order of the president, he was ordered to come here to interpret the gift scroll.

There were many shamans who came here to interpret the gift scrolls, and the entire mansion was once overcrowded.

The deceased who had just arrived was not assigned any important tasks. The shamans asked him to go to the study to familiarize himself with the work and draw a snake outside the study.

The snake, called the ritual snake by shamans, is painted on the door to mean being healed.

The deceased did not understand at first why a ritual snake was painted.

But he worked diligently and began to familiarize himself with the job he was about to take over day and night. However, every night, he could always hear the scary crying and weird laughter upstairs.

The deceased didn't know why at first, but gradually, the number of people in the mansion... seemed to start to decrease at some point.

When it came to this period of memory, it suddenly began to become chaotic. The surrounding color blocks were blurred and filled with all kinds of strange sounds. Eden could only reluctantly judge that something terrible had happened in the work of interpreting the gift scroll.

The deceased seemed to have gone upstairs and discovered something, and then he kept running away in a panic, and something kept following him.

Soon after, the scene returned to normal. Eden saw that the deceased was breathing heavily in front of the desk. He closed the door, neither closing it nor opening it, as if he was escaping from something.

He seemed to have seen something terrible and kept begging for God's blessing. He never dared to step out of the study until... he starved to death here.

click.

The memory was interrupted, and the scene in front of Eden became fragmented.

After the channeling ended, Eden pressed his eyes and combed them a little.

The ritual snake painted on the door means being healed. In other words, has this room been "healed"?
And the deceased had stayed here and dared not go out, was it because it was safe?That should be the case, after all, he died of starvation and was not killed by external force.

Moreover, the door with the snake painted on it seems to be ajar.

Eden recalled the experience before entering this mansion.

Interpreting the gift scroll...There are fewer and fewer people in the mansion, which means...dead?Becoming some kind of sacrifice?
Could it be that inside those sacks...

Eden's heart skipped a beat.

He took two deep breaths and calmed down.

Althea on the side came over, picked up her fingers, and drew a few times out of thin air.

Eden stared at the traces of his fingers carefully and realized that Althea was asking: Did you find anything?
The priest nodded slightly and pointed upstairs, indicating that he would go up and have a look later.

Althea lifted the crossbow in her hand.

After leaving the study, the two continued to move forward and came to the stairs again. Eden smelled the rancid smell that made people vomiting again.

Althea pinched her nose and followed Eden up slowly.

(End of this chapter)