Chapter 109 "Witchcraft: Branding Curse"

"Advantage?"

Jill doesn't quite understand. It's good if it's not hindered by the influence of the Ring of True Love: "One person is hurt and two people are happy". How can this develop into an advantage?

Perhaps because Gil was so happy to give him 5,000 reincarnation points, Lin Ge explained patiently: "Actually, this is not difficult to understand. The physical fitness of each reincarnation person present is different. It is very likely that three stabs in the stomach will dies, but if it is replaced by b, the injury will become a serious injury or a minor injury instead of a fatal injury. Then, if a and b are a team, b is attacked and seriously injured, and a is constantly being treated. b can be 'saved' from damage multiple times."

Gill looked at the two gentle men who died not far away, and said with some hesitation: "But... didn't they also..."

The skeleton suddenly said: "I understand what the boss means. First of all, when we tried it just now, we didn't know the 'mechanism', or the rules, of the female ghost. But after the analysis just now, we have mastered the rules of lies, questions, and the state of death. At this time, if we encounter a female ghost killing someone again, we can respond in a variety of ways."

Lin Ge nodded in agreement: "That's right, but... I can't take on the responsibility of a big boss. We are all workers of the Lord God. Just call me 'Taoist'."

"Now we have 35 hours to explore, and we need to find clues related to Belle and the main line. At present, the scope of our activities seems to be only the main teaching building and the two auxiliary buildings next to it. In a 'university' configuration From the looks of it, it seems a bit too crude.”

Echo said: "Boss... well, brother Taoist priest, regarding this, I have used drones to conduct searches when you left. The 'dark space' surrounding the school is not 'endless' like the main god's space." It's not pitch black, but like extremely dense black fog, because when my drone was scanning, I could vaguely capture the outlines of some buildings."

As he said that, the echo called up the picture taken by the drone and zoomed in finely. As expected, the building could be faintly seen "in the fog".

Echo continued: "However, the drone cannot enter the two annex buildings and the black fog. Once it enters, it will lose the signal. The lawyer has a biological detector with a life strength similar to that of an eagle, but it will die instantly after entering the black fog. So we concluded that special methods are needed to dispel or enter this thick fog similar to the 'fog of war'."

The lawyer nodded and said: "Yes, based on past reincarnation experience, I guess we may need to enter the annex building to activate some kind of mechanism, open the way to the black mist, or find some kind of prop to gain the qualification to enter, in order to be safe 'Enter the building in the fog."

"This is the school floor plan I collected." echo enlarged the picture to show the school's main building and two auxiliary buildings.

"The main storyline this time is to destroy the 'Five Sins Ritual' in the Obstacle Realm. There are two keywords in the mission, 'Obstacle Realm' and 'Five Sins Ritual'. Does anyone understand?" As the skeleton spoke, he looked at Lin Ge. Thinking that Lin Ge was a Taoist priest, he might know relevant information.

Lin Ge shook his head and said helplessly: "From the text in the newspaper and the clues in the main teaching building, we can infer that this is a Thai game. Unfortunately, I don't know much about witchcraft. I have never even heard of the obstacle world."

"What about the five sins?" The skeleton looked at everyone.

The lawyer said: "I have never heard of the five deadly sins, but the seven deadly sins are 'arrogance', 'jealousy', 'wrath', 'sloth', 'greed', 'gluttony' and 'lust'. I don't know between the two. Does it matter?"

The skeleton said: "Whether it is related or not, we can only use this as a breakthrough to find relevant clues."

After discussing the map detected by echo and lawyer, everyone decided that while the female ghost was still in the resurrection period, the team searched the three buildings as quickly as possible.

The reason why the "detachment" was proposed was not to deliberately commit suicide after watching too many horror movies, but to develop a strategy based on the "superiority theory" proposed by Lin Ge.

First, separate the pair of Hei Changzhi and Gil, who will suffer double damage. Hei Changzhi, who has stronger personal combat power, enters the auxiliary building on the left as "Team 1". His combat power is slightly weaker, but he has a lot of auxiliary equipment and props. Jill was "Team 2" and searched in the main building that Lin Ge had already cleaned once.

Li is the only medic among the remaining ten who has various auxiliary and therapeutic abilities, so she is naturally assigned to the safer team 2.

The skeleton has a "ghost agent" device that can take a member into an invisible state for a short period of time. Although it does not last long, it can be used to save lives at critical moments. In addition, he and echo were old partners, so the two formed "Team 3" and entered the auxiliary building on the right.

As for the lawyer, her abilities are mainly mental detection, blockade, and auxiliary equipment, so she is classified as "Team 2" that needs protection.

In the end, the two pairs of Lin Ge and Ou Yongqi, Xu Ming and Guangmai were left.

In fact, when Lin Ge left the rooftop to chase the female ghost, Li tried to communicate with Ou Yongqi, but Ou Yongqi did not make any response.

So Skull originally wanted to use Lin Ge as a breakthrough point to conduct a simple test to confirm whether Ou Yongqi was the follower that Lin Ge brought into reincarnation.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they entered the three-meter range, the opponent immediately pulled out the demon knife with a blood-red aura wrapped around his waist. Coupled with Ou Yongqi's body exuding an aura similar to that of a female ghost, the skeleton immediately gave up the idea of ​​continuing to test.

But thinking of Lin Ge's promise to protect his female companion, he gathered everyone three meters away from Ou Yongqi to discuss it.

This is why when Lin Ge came back, he would see the skeleton group gathered just three meters away from Ou Yongqi.

However, through observation, everyone found that Ou Yongqi was not breathing. In addition, Lin Ge and her did not have any communication, but they acted in perfect harmony, so they guessed the identity of her follower.

Due to Ou Yongqi's special situation, it was obviously impossible to separate from Lin Ge, and it would be a waste to keep Lin Ge's strong combat power in the main building.

In the end, everyone discussed and decided to divide the two into "Team 1" and explore a building with Hei Changzhi and three others.

Of the remaining two, Xu Ming's personal strength is very strong, and according to Cream, she is just a support with relatively strong mental power, but she is unwilling to be separated from Xu Ming.

It just happened that it was appropriate for Su Ming to be left to protect the three of Gil, so Su Ming and Cream were assigned to the 2nd team.

The detachment ended and when they were about to set off, the skeleton stopped Lin Ge: "Brother Taoist, what about you? As a Taoist, you should have a lot of talismans and exorcism tools on you, right? If the quantity is sufficient, can you sell some to me?" I?"

"Uh, I want to buy some too." Jill came over and said.

Lin Ge:?

The actions of Skeleton and Jill were a bit unexpected for him, but it also opened up new ideas. It seemed that this was also a business opportunity?

Uh-huh!

Lin Ge pulled out a yellow cloth and spread it on the ground. He laid out all kinds of talismans and exorcism tools, and introduced them in a professional manner.

"Exorcism talismans, evil-suppressing talismans, and small-level 'Wine Sacrifice Yuke' talisman seal engravings are equivalent to the power of D-level talisman paper. The main god space sells them for 100 each, and I only sell them for 50."

"D-level enchanted weapon, Bagua mirror, seal-engraved evil seal, no need for blood to activate, it can be used as soon as you shine it, F means resentment soul, you will die if you shine it! The price of the main god space is 3000, I only sell it for 1500."

"Grade D..."

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"Finally, the treasure of the shop is the 'Tianshi Suppressing Evil Talisman', which the junior-level 'Jiu Yu Ke' spent three days and three nights painting. Have you all seen Uncle Ying's movie? One picture can blow up Mao Zong. This is the flying yellow talisman. The main god space sells for 1,000 a piece, but I only sell it for 500."

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Everyone suddenly felt that the eerie rooftop, although a little colder, seemed less scary.

Brother.

You are the boss of Hongmen.

Not to mention showing off your identity, but you need to show off your personality, right?

As soon as I heard that someone was buying exorcism props, I would immediately set up a street stall, but what does the eloquence of gold medal sales mean?

Although they wanted to complain, everyone had seen Lin Ge's strength and knew that they could not lie under the influence of the "nightmare effect". These things should be "genuine" genuine products.

But complaints are complaints, and things must be bought. This also made Lin Ge's "business" very prosperous. Not to mention Xu Ming, even the "moneyless sister" Hei Changzhi gritted his teeth and bought a few evil-exorcism charms, evil-suppressing charms, and two Celestial Master-suppressing evil charms.

Lin Ge saw that nearly 20,000 reincarnation points were recorded in his account. Counting the 5,000 reincarnation points "thank you fee" given by Jill before, this amounted to 25,000 reincarnation points.

Suddenly I felt that in the world of reincarnation, who can talk to you about anything? The only way to earn reincarnation points while alive is to have a life flower!

However, Lin Ge finally spent 7,300 reincarnation points and purchased a lot of recovery items from the medical soldier "Li".

There are mainly props that instantly restore life and mental energy (aura), as well as a small amount of potions that slowly restore mental energy.

This is Lin Ge's fifth reincarnation. Regardless of the difficulty, it is also the most "weird" reincarnation.

There are no main rewards, no punishment notes, just a goal with almost no clues and a 168-hour time limit.

There were already two cracks in "Nuo Noodles". Lin Ge didn't know if he could hold on until he invited the second general to increase or decrease the number of times. Although as a disciple of Maoshan, it is the right way to ask the ancestor. But aside from the unreliability of the founder, Maoshan's formal magic skills are indeed much more advanced than those of officers, generals and leaders.

As for the "Nuo Noodles", Lin Ge had thought before that since he could use "Nuo Noodles" and the "General Invitation Curse" to recruit two generals with a high probability, he might as well prepare ten or eight Nuo Noodles.

However, the C-level Nuo noodles redeemed in the Lord God Space do not have the enchantment effect of "dispelling evil and avoiding evil" at all, and the price is as high as 8,000 reincarnation points, which is really expensive in terms of buying it for "testing".

Nuo noodles with the effect of "expelling evil and avoiding evil" are at least B-level, which is equivalent to the price of buying a suit of armor.

However, Lin Ge spent a lot of money to arm Ou Yongqi, and he also played a role in containing the enemy at critical moments.

Lin Ge, Ou Yongqi and Hei Changzhi entered the auxiliary building on the left.

As soon as he stepped into the auxiliary building, Lin Ge observed the surrounding environment with his eyes, feeling as if he had returned to the Tongzi Tower in Hong Kong.

The annex building on the left is the student dormitory. Each room has two bunk beds, wooden beds, and uniform mattresses, sheets and pillows.

There was no sign of the ghost and no useful clues. It feels like searching here is no different than procrastinating.

Lin Ge took out the liaison device distributed by Echo and contacted Team 2 and Team 3 respectively. The situation of the two teams was similar to his own, and no useful clues were found.

[Nightmare countdown: 27 hours, 11 minutes and 53 seconds]

After nearly nine hours, nothing was found, which made Lin Ge feel even more uneasy.

"It was mentioned in the news that Belle went home early because of severe abdominal pain before she disappeared, so there is a high chance that she will not live in the dormitory."

Lin Ge recalled the previous search of the dormitories. Although most of the dormitories were empty, he could infer from some dormitories with traces of previous residence that this place was more like a boys' dormitory.

“Female students, boys’ dormitory… Sweet Home.”

Combining various factors together, Lin Ge came to the conclusion of several key words: "love", "emotional entanglement", "cuckold" and so on.

"If we look at the five sins in terms of the seven deadly sins, then the most appropriate 'sin' should be 'lust'?"

Hei Changzhi walked behind Lin Ge and heard him mumbling. He asked curiously: "Taoist, you have been mumbling since just now. Are you accustomed to nagging in your line of work?" ?”

Lin Ge suddenly thought of something and asked: "Xiao Hei, we have almost searched this building. Apart from all the rooms with the same layout, do you still remember those rooms that have a different layout from the other rooms, or what is special about them?" Where?"

Hei Changzhi:...Xiao Hei?

"No. But to be special, all the rooms have house numbers on the door, but one room on the seventh floor does not have a house number."

Lin Ge said: "Let's go and have a look."

Returning to the room on the seventh floor, Lin Ge found that this room was no different from an ordinary room. Except for two bunk beds, there was nothing else.

Hei Changzhi was rummaging around the house, while Lin Ge opened his eyes to observe, but still found nothing. He frowned and thought of a possibility.

"Apparition talisman."

Lin Ge took out a manifestation talisman, lit it with spiritual energy, and cooperated with the sky eye to observe that the bed on the left was emitting a black smoke that was only as thick as a finger and seemed to be dissipated at any time, drifting toward the window.

At this time, Hei Changzhi also noticed vague scratches on the bed. After careful inspection, he followed the scratches to the window.

"window."

Lin Ge and Hei Changzhi discovered the key clue at the same time.

Hei Changzhi retreated behind the desk, pulled out the dark demon knife, and used the knife to pry the window. With a harsh sound, the window was slowly opened.

Hei Changzhi was about to find an angle to observe the dark space outside the window, when suddenly, there was an unusual "thunk" sound. A corpse fell out of the window, strangled by a rope, and hung in front of the window as if hanging.

Although the scene was terrifying, Hei Changzhi just frowned and looked back at Lin Ge, as if asking him how to deal with it.

Lin Ge observed through his eyes and found no resentment in the corpse wearing the student uniform, but for safety reasons, he flew a few exorcism charms and affixed them to the forehead, chest, limbs and other parts of the corpse.

"Pull in and have a look."

Hei Chang grabbed the corpse's ankles, raised his hand to cut off the thick rope, and dragged the corpse into the house with one hand.

No matter how much the corpse weighs over a hundred kilograms, Hei Changzhi can easily drag it in with one hand, which shows that its strength is not low.

The two of them checked the body, but found no clues. However, when Lin Ge recovered the talisman and pulled off the talisman on his chest, he saw a faint black energy in a daze, so he put a revealing talisman on it. .

It's that black smoke that's about to dissipate again.

"There is resentment, but it's very light. It's so light that it can't even turn into a ghost. However, I can't find the breath of a resentful spirit."

At this time, Hei Changzhi noticed that after pulling the body in outside the window, there seemed to be a shadow in the dark space outside.

She stood up and held the demon knife close to the window to observe, and said at the same time: "Taoist, this window seems to lead to other places."

"oh?"

Lin Ge heard the words and came to the window, and sure enough he saw the outline of a house in the dark fog.

"According to what echo said, the black fog is not a completely dark space, but a deadly thick fog that blocks the building."

Hei Changzhi said: "But now the black fog has only faded, not disappeared, and we can't get through it."

Lin Ge tried to light the exorcism talisman and throw it into the black mist, but with a soft "chi" sound, the exorcism talisman went out as soon as it flew into the black mist.

"This should be the correct 'passage', but it requires special means to enter." Lin Ge rummaged around in the dormitory.

I saw that every room had the same furnishings. I searched a few floors without finding anything special, so I just browsed through them casually. After all, there are dozens of rooms on the first floor, and all nine floors of dormitories were searched on a carpet basis, not to mention 36 hours. , even 72 hours may not be enough.

After searching for three beds and looking for the fourth bed, Lin Ge opened the pillow and found a small bulge on the sheets.

He knocked it with the mahogany sword and found it was a little hard. He opened the sheet and took a look. Inside was two black clay dolls tied together with a white rope.

Lin Ge redeemed "LV1 Detection". When he looked at this thing, a line of small words "Weird Doll: Curse" was displayed next to it.

"curse?"

But when Lin Ge looked at the black earth doll, no black energy appeared. After thinking for a moment, he used his peach wood sword to pick up the part of the white rope and lifted up the black clay doll. He first moved close to the corpse and found that the black energy emanating from the corpse's chest was stronger and would not dissipate at any time.

Lin Ge then carried the black clay doll to the window, and carefully carried it out the window. The black fog outside the window dispersed, revealing a three-meter-wide stone road leading to a room on the opposite side. The lights were on in the house, and no one was seen for the time being.

Lin Ge put his sword back, took out a Heavenly Master Suppression Talisman, and used it to "get" the doll. He held it in his hand, but there was no special reaction.

It's not that Lin Ge was overly cautious, but that he had a headache when he saw the "curse", so he sailed the boat with caution. After all, the two curses had just disappeared, and a new one was provoked, and the remaining life span was less than thirty years. Not enough for disaster.

"Are you waiting for me here, or should we go and take a look together?" Lin Ge looked at Hei Changzhi and asked. Now that he knew that the cursed doll could dispel the black mist, he naturally wanted to go to the room in the black mist.

"Together."

Lin Ge stepped on the desk with the cursed doll, carefully talked with his feet, and then asked Ou Yongqi to stand on the desk and pull him up, and stepped on the stone slab.

After the three of them entered the room opposite, they found that it looked like an ordinary residential house, with three bedrooms and one living room. The lights in the room were all on, but it was very dark.

After experiencing "Zombie" and "Hong Kong Spooky", Lin Ge had already adapted to this gloomy environment. What surprised him was that Hei Changzhi didn't seem to be afraid of this environment, and he searched the room calmly. clue.

Reminiscent of the evil sword exuding evil spirit used by Hei Changzhi, Lin Ge suspected that the other party was also a reincarnationist in "exorcism".

However, everyone has the nightmare effect of "not being able to lie" on their heads, so it's better not to cause trouble.

In the innermost bedroom, the bookcases were filled with books, and there were a bunch of messy things on the table. Half of the table was dark, like black soil.

Lin Ge put a little bit of black soil on the exorcism talisman and put it in front of his nose and smelled it. It had the same smell as the cursed doll.

"Is this where the cursed doll was made?"

Lin Ge rummaged through the things on the table and found a piece of paper with Thai text on a black background. As soon as he touched the paper, he heard the Lord God's prompt in his mind:

[Obtain "Witchcraft (50 spiritual power required for practice)". 】

"witchcraft?"

However, this witchcraft was written in Thai, and Lin Ge couldn't understand it. He simply took out the contact device, took a picture and sent it to the skeleton, asking the echo to help translate it.

After a while, the skeleton sent echo translated text.

"Witchcraft (Branding Curse)"

"The witchcraft of the Branding Spell is a heretical superstition in which two dolls are tied together to make them fall in love, one representing a man and the other a woman."

"Method: Use grave soil to make two dolls, and put each other's personal symbols into one of the dolls, such as nails and hair, and then use the warp threads from the deceased's body to bind the two dolls. The ceremony must be carried out by professional witchcraft people Once completed, ordinary people will not be able to work. After the ritual is completed, place the doll under the pillow of the person you love, and the witchcraft will begin to work."

The "holy thread" in witchcraft is also called the warp thread, which is usually a bundle of white cotton threads and represents purity, blessing and good luck.

The white rope tied to the two cursed dolls is made of white cotton thread.

This kind of thing is called "dharma rope" in Taoism. It usually comes in red, white or brown and is often used to ward off evil spirits.

For example, in Uncle Ying's movies, the ink bucket rope often used to soak black dog blood and chicken blood to bomb zombies is also called the magic rope.

Although red ropes can be used in Taoism, in witchcraft, only white ropes can be used for witchcraft that is beneficial to the target, and red ropes can be used for witchcraft that is harmful to the target.

Although this witchcraft uses white rope, it should be considered a witchcraft, right?

However, the "Branding Curse" actually requires 20 points higher spiritual power than "Raise the Dead, Flesh and Bones", which means that this witchcraft should be more evil, or more "esoteric".

"Tsk, a 'love spell' is more evil than a 'resurrection spell'. I don't know if it's irony or something."

Lin Ge put away "Witchcraft (Branding Curse)". Now that he had the "True Scripture" and the "Secret Technique", there was obviously no need to learn a "Love Curse".

"This charm seems to have been torn from a book. Look around for books on several shelves and cabinets to see if there are any books with torn pages, or diaries." Lin Ge looked around. Hei Changzhi said while browsing.

Hei Changzhi had a strange expression on his face, as if he didn't quite understand why he was looking for... a diary?

"Diary? Are you serious?"