North American Gunslinger Detective

The doctors here have done a comprehensive examination on Nia and the others, but they still can't figure out the reason why they are unconscious. So the most likely possibility is that there is some supernatural event in the ghost lake, and Nia and the others happened to encounter it, so this is the reason why they are unconscious. It can be explained that doctors have difficulty in distinguishing the reasons from a scientific point of view.

There are many supernatural incidents that can be dealt with, but to relieve Nia and the others from their current state, the only person Jimmy can think of is the church.

He grabbed Nia's hand, reached out and touched her face, stood up and said to Superintendent Porter: "I need to make a call, wait a moment."

After speaking, he walked out of the ward and looked around. There was no quiet place here. He took the elevator directly downstairs to the open space next to him and dialed Father Rodney's number.

Jimmy: "Father Rodney, I... need your help."

Rodney: "What's wrong? Jimmy, what happened?"

Jimmy: "My wife, Nia, fell into a coma while working on a case. The doctor had done all the tests for them and could not find the cause of the coma. There were two other police detectives like her. They were in Here in Newport, Rhode Island, the location of the accident is a ghost lake here."

Rodney: "You mean Ghost Lake? Are you sure it's caused by ghosts?"

Jimmy: "I don't know. I just arrived at the hospital and the doctor has no choice but to wait for them to wake up. But I'm worried that they are really in a coma caused by ghosts, so we can't wait any longer."

Rodney: "Let me think about it...you arrived in Rhode Island today?"

Jimmy: "Yes, we just arrived in the morning. They fell into a coma yesterday afternoon, and it has been almost a day. Rodney, please help me, I really have no choice."

Rodney: "I don't know what happened to them. If they are really ghosts... I will contact the nearest person."

Jimmy: "Thank you, Rodney, please make arrangements as soon as possible. By the way, I put the ring on Nia before you gave it to me. She was also wearing this ring on her hand when she had the accident."

Rodney: "Are you sure? Is there any damage to the ring?"

Jimmy: "It looks like nothing will change for the time being."

Rodney: "I know, I'll get someone over there as soon as possible. That's it."

After Rodney finished speaking, he hung up the phone, looked up at the cross in front of him with a serious expression, made the sign of the cross on his hand, then walked out of the church while holding the phone and looking for the number.

Jimmy is their current focus, so they will naturally investigate Jimmy. His experience with Nia in the past few years and their analysis of him can be seen. Jimmy is completely different from other American youths. He is very Care about family and family.

Now that something like this happens to his wife, it must be the highest priority for him. Jimmy is also familiar with supernatural events. According to his description, there is a high probability that the thing that caused his wife to coma this time was caused by ghosts. Moreover, Rhode Island is a place with a traditional high incidence of supernatural incidents, because it was one of the earliest colonies in England. There were quite a lot of tragedies that happened there, but in recent decades there have been very few supernatural incidents. , so there is not so much attention.

In addition, although Rhode Island is one of the traditional New England regions, the proportion of Protestants is not high. Nearly half of the residents are Catholics. This is related to the original history.

Rodney was driving and talking on the phone, and it didn't take him long to decide on a candidate.

Jimmy returned to the ward. Superintendent Porter stayed with Jimmy for a while and then asked that he need to go back to the police station to deal with the matter and would return soon.

Half an hour later, Jimmy received a call: "Jimmy, this is Bennett from the church."

Jimmy: "Father Bennett, long time no see. Have you recovered now?"

Bennett: "Thank you for your concern. I'm much better now. Father Rodney has called me. Where are you now?"

Jimmy: "The hospital in Newport."

Bennett: "OK, I'll be here soon. I live in Providence."

Jimmy: "Thank you, Father Bennett."

This time it was really unexpected. Jimmy originally thought that Father Rodney would fly over directly from New York. He was already prepared to wait until the afternoon or evening for them to come. But he didn't expect that there were acquaintances in Rhode Island who could come nearby.

Bennett arrived at the hospital an hour later. When Jimmy saw Bennett, he said in surprise: "Father Bennett, it seems you are recovering well."

Because Bennett was possessed before, all the muscles and fat on his body had been consumed, and his face almost turned into a skeleton. But now he looks like a relatively thin middle-aged man, and he has got rid of the miserable look he had before. look.Father Bennett was wearing a priest's robe, so it was impossible to tell whether his figure had recovered, but his complexion was much better.

Bennett nodded to Jimmy: "Thank you, let's see them first."

Jimmy: "Okay, come with me."

Jimmy took Father Bennett to Nia's ward. The other two were in other wards, but they were all equally unconscious.

Bennett came to Nia, reached out and turned her eyelids, looked at her eyes, then opened her mouth and looked, but found nothing unusual. Then he stood up straighter and held it with his left hand first. After opening the Bible with his right hand, he reached into his pocket and took out a badge that Jimmy had never seen before. When he was ready, he began to pray.

Only a few minutes later, Jimmy could already detect through his mind's eye vision that there was some faint halo around Father Bennett.This speed seems fast, but it is much slower than when Jimmy accompanied Father Rodney and the others to exorcise demons. It seems that if Father Bennett is not much worse than Father Rodney and the others, there is only one explanation. , the damage caused to him by the last possession was not only physical, but also maybe mental and religious damage.

Bennett held the badge in his right hand and gently placed it on Nia's head. He continued to pray in this posture and soon stopped.

He put away the badge, frowned and turned to look at Jimmy, "I think your guess is right, but I can't wake her up yet."

Jimmy also frowned: "What? Is there any problem?" Bennett nodded: "I think so, she has not become a vegetative state, and her soul is still there, but there seems to be something that I don't understand suppressing her. , so that she can’t respond to us, maybe we need to go to the place where they had the accident.”

Jimmy: "I haven't confirmed the location with the police here. I've been in the hospital since I arrived."

Bennett thought for a while: "Let's go take a look, maybe we will find something."

Jimmy nodded, took out his cell phone and dialed the former Superintendent Porter's number. He left Jimmy his phone number when he left, otherwise he would have to go back to the police station to find him now.

Fortunately, Superintendent Porter did not refuse and arrived at the hospital soon. Jimmy and Father Bennett followed him downstairs and drove with him and another police car to the location where Nia and the others were found.

Ghost Lake is located in a remote area northeast of Newport City. It is relatively remote and is next to a low hill. For the locals, there is no scenery here, so no one comes here at all. One of the roads is still a hardened dirt road with no pavement at all, and it seems that it has not been maintained for a long time. The soil has been washed away by rain erosion in many places, exposing a lot of stones that were pressed under the road.

Superintendent Porter and two policemen stopped on the roadside in front. Jimmy and Father Bennett also got out of the car. Superintendent Porter pointed to the woods in front and said: "There is no way to drive in front, let's go from here." Go over there."

A path passed through the woods, and soon a small lake appeared in front of them. The surface of the lake did not exceed 200 meters, and it looked very clean. At least there were no garbage islands composed of various industrial waste, plastic bags, etc. on the lake. , there is basically no wind now, and the lake is very calm.

Superintendent Porter: "Here, this is where the missing students set up their tents." He pointed to a piece of ground and said, "This place has been cleaned up, and the tents and items have been recovered to the evidence room of the police station."

Jimmy has been switching back and forth between mental vision and normal vision frequently since he got off the car. Because mental vision cannot examine evidence or see traces on the ground, it can only be used to discover certain special things, so in Superintendent Porter's opinion , Jimmy's reaction was somewhat delayed.

Jimmy didn't find anything dirty here. He looked at Father Bennett, who shook his head. Jimmy looked at Superintendent Porter again: "Have the three students found any trace of them? Or, in other words, corpses."

Superintendent Porter: "No, after our people discovered the tent here, they discussed it with Detective Yang and the others and sent these things back in advance. It is not clear whether Detective Yang and the others discovered it later. They were unconscious before. Not far away."

Superintendent Porter took Jimmy and the others along the lake for a few dozen meters. The place was overgrown with weeds. The tallest weeds had reached a person's chest. It was conservatively estimated to be over 140 centimeters. If someone was lying on the ground in a place like this, It's blocked by weeds so no one can see it.

Soon they came to a patch of downed weeds. "This is where they were found, only a few meters away from the lake."

Jimmy looked at Father Bennett, and the two nodded to each other. They began to inspect the scene from left to right, and gradually expanded the area until they reached the lake.

However, maybe it was noon and the sun was shining strongly here, so they didn't find anything special.

Jimmy returned to Superintendent Porter, "Superintendent Porter, can you tell me the legend of this lake?"

Superintendent Porter nodded: "When I went back, I asked someone to check it out. I also asked two old people to check the original story. Before the 40s and 50s, there seemed to be no such legend here. The story after that is It started from that time.

There was a couple. The man was drafted into the army and stayed in Europe for several years before returning. His lover thought he had been killed in action and had since married someone else.

After the man came back, they met again, and some bloody drama happened. However, they were discovered by the woman's husband. While they were dating here, the husband shot the man and threw him into the lake. Here, the wife was about to leave under the threat of her husband, but she took the opportunity to knock out her husband, came to this lake and committed suicide by jumping into the lake.

Later, when the husband woke up and discovered the tragedy, he jumped into the lake and took his wife to the lakeside. In anger and grief, he committed suicide here while holding his wife's body.

Since then, rumors of ghost sightings have spread here, and some say they encountered two ghosts here, trying to lure them into the water on and around the lake, but no one has evidence to prove this.

According to rumors, ghosts usually appear in the evening and night. The ghost is dressed in white and floats on the water. When there is moonlight, you can still see her emitting blue light spots. However, many people have come to look for it, and even according to the legendary time I came here to squat, but I never found it, and then nothing happened. In recent decades, no one has come to look for the ghost here again. "

Jimmy: "Is this story true?"

Superintendent Porter: "The legend is like this. The two old people I asked also said that there were such rumors when they were young. However, I haven't found the relevant personnel information from the police department information. There were too many various information at that time. It's so messy, and a lot of it is lost and damaged, so it's probably going to be difficult to find all the information.

There used to be several farms near here decades ago, but they have since been gradually abandoned, and no one comes here anymore. It is too remote. "

Jimmy looked at Father Bennett: "Father, have you noticed anything unusual?"

Bennett shook his head: "I didn't notice it. I thought maybe it was the wrong time."

Jimmy: "So, what do we do now?"

Bennett thought for a moment and said, "Let's move Mrs. Yang and the others to the church first. Father Rodney should be here in the afternoon."

Jimmy: "Is Father Rodney coming too?"

Bennett: "Yes, I think it might be more convenient in the church. Let's go back first. I need to contact the priest of St. Mary's Cathedral to make arrangements."

Jimmy nodded and spoke to Superintendent Porter. Several people returned along the original route. When they returned to the tent location of the three students, Jimmy suddenly stopped and turned to look at the lake, "Wait a minute. Be careful."

Jimmy's weird sixth sense appeared again. Someone was watching him and there was danger. Every time this feeling appeared, it was either a supernatural situation or being attacked. In short, it was not a good thing.

Jimmy reached out and pulled out two 1875s. He lowered his hands and was ready to shoot at any time. His mind vision was turned on and he stared at the lake, but he saw nothing. The lake was like a mirror, with nothing on it. "Superintendent Potter, stay back."

The lake water and the ground are connected entities, and the mind cannot see through the contents of these entities.

Father Bennett took out a cross from his robe and muttered something in his mouth, but after waiting for several minutes, nothing unusual happened. (End of chapter)