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"Have you heard of the story Lina told later?" I asked the thin man.

"I think I've heard of Plague Town," the thin man replied.

The three of us walked towards the fountain. The road was now empty, and lively cheers and singing could be heard ahead.

"What kind of story?" I asked.

The thin man looked at me, "Brother Qi, you want me to...use my ability again? But, the one I used before seems...to have failed..."

The thin man was troubled. It can be said that it is his ability that has put us in the dangerous situation we are in now. The content of the story has changed. No one knows whether we can successfully deal with the ghost and whether we can go back smoothly.

The thin man didn't know that the past and reality had also changed.

I suspect that the thin man's abilities were disrupted by this change. There is nothing wrong with the thin man's ability in itself. Originally, it was supposed to be based on the story in his mind, which was a vicious incident in which an abandoned toy came into being and took revenge on society. We just need to find Lina's new house here, find the doll, and destroy it to end everything.

It is much easier to find a toy in a small town than to find a toy all over the world. Toy people may hinder us, and the ghost king from the future world may also disrupt our plans, but overall, it is something we can handle.

Now, things have changed.

What Chen Xiaoqiu is worried about is that there are at most two possibilities for the carrier of the ghost possession. The doll is fake and the corpse is real. What I'm worried about is our current position and the trouble we have to face with a ghost king. The ghost kings in the future world are all ghosts who have lived for who knows how many years, are rational, calm, and can skillfully use their own yin energy and special abilities. They are not as easy to deal with as ordinary ghosts.

If Slim Man can add a layer of restrictions to the Ghost King and artificially create a weakness, then our chances of winning can be guaranteed.

Seeing my persistence, the thin man stopped and started thinking.

Neither Fatty nor I urged him. Neither of them would doubt my motives for proposing this. If Chen Xiaoqiu were here, he might think more. I have always been cautious in front of Chen Xiaoqiu, for fear that she would guess the changes in the past and my memory would be wiped out.

After a minute or two, the thin man's eyes lit up. This wasn't acting, he really thought of something.

"Plague Town! Yes, there was a Plague Town! It was very early, a long time ago, and the church insisted that there were devils in the world. The plague was also regarded as the devil! Then people who got the plague would be executed. There was This seems to be the case in a small town. The priest of the local church said there was a devil, right..." The thin man frowned and thought hard, "There was a murder case and the body was thrown in the church. The devil. And the whole town started looking for the devil."

My heart beats faster. The beginning of this story seems to be somewhat similar to the scenes I have seen.

"The priest executed some suspicious people, and then some people were still killed and the bodies were dumped in the church. Later people inferred that a serial killer might have appeared in the town. People at the time did not doubt that. The corpse disposal plan at the time There were also problems, and the sanitation was not good, so there was a plague. They thought the devil was at work, and the church had been contaminated by those corpses. Later, they probably hired people from cathedrals in other cities to do the work. , what was done in that church... The search for the devil began again, and some people were executed in the church. In the end, more than a hundred people were executed. The plague was not contained in the end, and the town was abandoned and burned. Many people in the town were burned to death."

When the thin man said this, he paused and looked dazed, "There is a ghost story version of that story. One version is that the church became a gathering place for ghosts, and the fire could not burn it down, but it always stood. Later it became A supernatural place. It is usually called a mysterious abandoned church. It is often mentioned in some rankings of supernatural places. It is an unrecorded church. There is no mention of that church in local historical records or church records. I don’t know who built it. Except for the decay, everything inside is well preserved. There are no other buildings around. Some people have seen ghosts and heard cries and screams.”

This doesn't sound like the Morristown church I saw.

The thin man became serious, "Another ghost story is the story of a survivor, who is also a real devil. After the town was burned down, a girl survived and was adopted by a nearby farmer. Later, where the girl stayed, Serial murders will occur and plagues will occur. There is no way to verify this. Some historical records that someone found are the death records and plague records in that area, which is a more reasonable explanation. . But in the ghost stories circulating, the girl is still alive and is the body chosen by the devil. And..."

The thin man spoke for a long time and then exhaled, "Someone has really studied the history of that area, which is what I just said, death records and so on. Those towns with problems have one characteristic, that is, there are Water sources are connected to each other. It may be a water-borne disease, or the serial killer travels to various cities by water. It is said in ghost stories that the plague devil relies on water to survive, and fire cannot kill it because of the water source. "

"So, fire can burn it to death, as long as the water source is cut off in advance?" the fat man asked.

The thin man nodded vigorously.

"That ghost is at the fountain now, right? It's afraid that we'll set fire to the whole town," said the thin man.

This statement is a bit far-fetched, but the thin man clenched his fists and looked serious. He must have successfully brainwashed himself and believed that fire can burn that ghost to death.

"What should we do? It has already reached the fountain. Lead it away, and then we set it on fire?" the fat man asked.

"Those toy people are holding candles, right? There is a source of fire." The thin man said.

I flew up, looked at the terrain, and pointed them to a dead end where they could set fire to.

The thin man and the fat man would go there to make arrangements, while I would go and deal with the ghost head-on. If I could destroy it directly, then this backup plan would be unnecessary. But if I lose, I will lure the ghost into a dead end and set it on fire. Maybe I can completely kill the ghost.

I don't have a lot of faith in my mind about this backup plan. But it seemed that the thin man couldn't think of any other ghost stories being tied to this matter. To make up a story completely on your own is probably not what Slim Man is capable of.

In this case, it still depends on whether I can catch the ghost king.

I feel a little sorry.

The success rate has not improved, but it has not dropped to a desperate level either.

Separated from them, I floated to the top of the toyman alone.

Amidst the blazing fire and noise, I saw the fountain sculpture.

I saw it correctly before. The sculpture is a child standing on a high platform, or a little girl. She looks very similar to Lina. The ghost floating beside the sculpture is in the shape of a rag doll.

Ragdoll noticed me immediately, turned around, faced me, raised his hand, and the noisy crowd immediately fell silent.

Good night everyone~