The Memoirs of Cultivating Immortals

Chapter 53 Footprints
Li Ang wanted to learn more about the extraordinary power of the world through this mystic scholar. After all, he knew very little about Western mysticism. With the rich experience of the library, you can know the autumn from a leaf, see the leopard from the tube, and analyze the operation principle of the so-called "magic".

We must know that the aura of the present world has collapsed. For practitioners in the East who advocate the connection between heaven and man, losing their aura is like a stranded fish.
"We still have to go to the factory where the ghost ritual was held to conduct an on-site inspection."

After thinking for a while, Li Ang found a hoodie, sunglasses, a mask and a flashlight from the closet, stuffed them in his shoulder bag and pushed the door out.

This time he didn't wear a mask, because there must be surveillance cameras and closed-circuit televisions around Sapa Manor, and the Gotham Police Department and S.H.I.E.L.D. must be watching closely recently.

The tragedy of the Sapa family did not cause many waves. Even if there may be a possibility of gangster revenge, it must not be reported in the newspapers. After all, the social impact of this kind of thing is too bad.

"The lighthouse is located in the southeast of Gotham City. From this angle, only Sullivan Island, Paris Island and Cape Triangle can be seen. Of these three, only Paris Island is the most remote. With the accident of a scarecrow gas leak a few years ago After that, all the vegetation on Paris Island died, and all the residents evacuated, even today, it is still a deserted area that not many people would visit."

Li Ang rode all the way, crossed the cross-sea bridge with few vehicles, and came to this dead and desolate area under the blessing of the yellowed billboard saying "Welcome to Paris Island".

He took out his phone, compared the location of the Gotham Lighthouse in the photo, and walked south.

The hurricane hit the island indiscriminately. The cut dry trees fell on the roadside, the unattended vines climbed the poles, the abandoned cars parked randomly, and the windshield in front of the driver's seat was covered with dry white. Bird droppings, and the corners of the tires were covered with broken branches and dead leaves.

"It seems that when they held the ceremony, the hurricane hadn't come yet."

Li Ang turned on the flashlight while talking to himself, and walked in front of an abandoned textile factory. The collapsed steel shed was half-dragged at the door, like a giant with a broken spine.

He entered the textile factory, stepped on the pile of soft dust, and moved with his steps, the accumulated dust fluttered and dissipated, filling the air.

Li Ang bent down to carefully examine the footprints left by other people in the hall, "The post clearly stated that there was a gust of wind, but these few days ago, the footprints made of dust did not disperse at all, which means that the wind was caused by the host. Hallucinations formed during rituals."

He has specially studied criminal investigation courses on the Internet, and he can tell the gender, height, weight, and even the irritable or relaxed mood of the person who stepped out of the footprints through the texture of the shoes and the depth of the footprints.

"Two men and two women. The one who brought the goat in was a girl who was slightly taller than 1.6 meters. She was very slender. I guess she was the poster who posted the post. Well, she was wearing a pair of sneakers with a 4.5cm rubber sole. According to the logo on the toe, it might be Prada's printed calfskin."

Li Ang took two steps forward and checked again, "This footprint is slightly heavier, girl, it may be 1.7 meters high, color block running shoes style rubber sole, the toe should be buckskin, it should be laceless sneakers, Italian style, price Not cheap."

He looked at a total of four sets of human sneaker footprints and one set of goat footprints. These footprints were all concentrated in the textile factory hall, which was a circular clearing where the dust was swept out. The magic circle drawn with white chalk in the center had been smeared Traces of destruction, a bunch of complicated patterns can be vaguely glimpsed,

In the center of the pattern was a mess of blood. Li Ang stretched out his fingers to gently lift up a blood clot, put it on his fingertips to grind it carefully, and then put it on the tip of his nose to sniff.

"It is indeed goat blood. According to the traces of blood and footprints, the goat was roughly pushed to the ground by the girl wearing Italian sneakers. Regardless of her struggle, she cut the goat's throat with a sharp object and watched the goat tremble. I watched it ruthlessly lose its strength little by little, and finally died of depression."

There was a strange brilliance in Li Ang's eyes, "According to the footprints, the two men, that is, B and C, were frightened and stupid at this moment, standing outside the magic circle, not daring to move."

"Although the post has been using 'he' to describe it, this girl should be A. She is wearing expensive brand-name sneakers, and she is probably underage. She has the courage and stamina to kill a large living thing. Using its blood in an undecent ceremony, I have to say that this A really wants to see his little brother who died of leukemia."

Li Ang continued to analyze that after slaughtering the goat, A shook the goat's blood on the ground and demanded a ceremony.

They lit the candles, held hands around the magic circle, and began to chant mantras. Then the wind rose and the clouds moved, ghosts cried and gods howled, the Ouija board broke, and no sawdust fell on the ground, indicating that the Ouija board was indeed separated into two perfectly. valve.

"Interesting, after the Ouija board was broken, they ended the ceremony. They even thought about dragging away the goat corpse, picked up the broken Ouija board, used their shoes to remove the blood-stained magic circle in the center, and removed the five-pointed magic circle on the ground. Candles arranged in star positions,

According to the footprints, the people doing these jobs are B and C. The footprints are very stable, not to pretend to be brave and strong in front of the girls, which shows that the two men are not very afraid, and they even have no reason to be afraid. "

Li Ang stood up from the ground and carefully reviewed the content of the post, "In other words, the two boys did not feel the wind, footsteps, or even the sound of breathing on their shoulders described in the post. These supernatural perceptions only appeared In the case of the two girls, the spirit body cannot be a male chauvinist, only intimidating the girls but not the boys, so why is that?"

He thought about it, patrolling back and forth around the magic circle, and suddenly remembered something, holding a flashlight against the wall of the textile factory and began to look for something.

Sure enough, he found something in the darkest corner of the mill.

Another set of human footprints, not belonging to the one described in the post, the footprints of the fifth person.

These are wooden slippers with more obvious traces. Judging from the molding time, the four people who performed the spiritual ceremony entered the textile factory at the same time, and the owner of this group of slippers has been wandering around the corner, hiding in the darkness like a night owl. , quietly hid behind the loom, watching the holding and ending of the spiritual ceremony with greedy and cruel eyes.

(End of this chapter)