Muke brought Will into the bedroom. When Will came, Muke quickly got up from the bed and rushed into the living room. The bed hadn't been made, and there were still wrinkles on the dark blue sheets, and the quilt had been lifted by a corner.

Will lay down under the quilt, and found that there was still the residual warmth of the previous owner in the place that was not lifted up and exposed to the air.

Mu Ke went out to get things, and Will took advantage of this time to look at the bedroom. This was not due to professional habits, but he was still curious about what kind of person Mu Ke was, and the layout of the room could reveal a lot.There is only a bed without bed rails in the whole room, and there is a low cabinet on the right side, where there are laptops and charging cables, and there is no wardrobe. When Will sees Muke walking into another room while taking clothes, he suddenly realizes To Muke is also a rich man like Hannibal.

There was a cashmere carpet at the foot of the bed, dark red with no pattern, and Will felt the price behind the soft touch when he stepped on the slippers. The blackout effect of the curtains is very good, and the place that has not been opened is still dark brown.

The air was dry and warm, and Will could smell the scent left on the pillow.Mu Ke came in with a brass-colored incense burner, cleaned the electronic products on the low cabinet aside, and put the incense burner on.

"What's this?" Will had seen this kind of three-legged incense burner in Chinatown before, he knew it was used to burn oriental spices, but what did Muke use it for?

"Censer, help you sleep."

Mu Ke uncovered the bamboo top cover of the incense burner. The gray-white incense ash had been spread out with incense sticks, and the incense charcoal was half buried in the incense ash. Mu Ke lit a match, and the completely red flame was on the dark brown wooden pole. The front end was burning, he lightly ignited the charcoal, put a pure white and almost transparent incense pill on the charcoal, and then put the lid back on.A few seconds later, gray-blue smoke slowly rose from the cloud-shaped pores.

"What's in it?" Will smelled a cold and lingering aroma, and he didn't expect to be able to distinguish the different aromas inside.

Mu Ke looked at the swirling smoke and was silent for a while, "I don't know how to translate the names of some wood, plants and animal products into English."

Will lay on his side on the pillow, looked at Mu Ke's silhouette against the light and smiled, "Actually, I may not understand the translation, can you close the curtains?"

Mu Ke got up and walked over to close the curtains. There was no light source in the room and he could barely see. "Have a good sleep." He lowered his head and kissed Will's forehead. of.

When he was about to leave to leave all the space for Will, Will suddenly sat up from the bed and stopped him, "My dogs..."

"Don't worry, I'll take care of them."

Only then did Will lie back on the bed in peace of mind, watching Mu Ke close the door and bury his face in the quilt. The cool smell of the incense burner was relaxing but didn't have much sense of presence. The smell of Mu Ke left behind lingered in his heart when he fell into a deep sleep.

The white jade sedative incense that Mu Ke ordered could allow Will to sleep peacefully for several hours, and the aura of snow fox bone marrow in the ingredients could dispel the nightmares brought by the demons.Mu Ke walked out of the room, went to the cloakroom next door to get a coat, put it on, and made a phone call.

"Hello, Crossroads Demon is at your service." Said the other side of the phone.

"Crowley, it's me, Mooko."

There was silence for a while, "I thought you had forgotten me, and I would be very happy then."

"I have a good memory and I need you to do me a favor."

"What would you like to exchange?"

"No pay."

Muke heard that there were other demons reporting to him from Crowley's side. Crowley gently asked Muke to wait for a while, then turned his head and yelled at the little demon who came to report the mistake, "Even this needs to be done." Shall I teach you?! I made a contract and failed to fulfill it, so I sent the hellhounds out to collect the **** souls, those dogs are smarter than you idiots, get out of my sight!"

"What do you want me to do?" Crowley resumed the businessman's politeness. He is a crossroads demon. The temper of a businessman is always much better than those creatures who want to rule the world and fight with their brothers all day long.

"Help me with some dogs."

"Listen? My puppies have been out collecting debts recently, and I happen to be lonely."

"It's not Titing. It's just an ordinary dog," Mu Ke replied, "I'll send you the address."

Crowley had no chance of retorting, "Well..."

"Don't feed them strange food, there's dog food over there." Mu Ke instructed.

"Wait," Crowley quickly stopped Mu Ke before he hung up the phone, "Mu, what do you think of Tian Qi?"

"Are you bored? I won't interfere." Muke said, "But, have your men signed a contract in West Virginia recently?"

"Recently? No, the contract business is not easy to do now."

Mu Ke hung up the phone, put on his coat and teleported directly to Grafton.

And Crowley threw the hung up phone on the side table, leaned on the chair and said to the person opposite: "Now I can be absolutely sure that he is neutral and on the sidelines."

Lekosia stroked the black cat in his arms, and Sergio stretched comfortably, "But he doesn't sound like demons very much."

Crowley rolled his eyes. "We don't need him to like me."

"Let's start with the demon, we can make good use of his illusion."

"I have a question, why do people like Mu Ke have hallucinations, or do they have hallucinations with the humans around them?"

"Maybe it's because he likes him?" Lekosia said casually, staring at a catfish with half of its mouth missing in the fish tank at its feet.

Crowley shook his head, said something about the Greeks, and got up to leave.

"Where are you going?" Laikosia was finally willing to give him some eyes.

"Go help his little lover feed the dog, I really fucking owe him."

"Indeed." Lekosia looked at Crowley's back and said in a low voice. There were also traces of Crowley's involvement in Mu Ke's reversal of the Virginia ship back then, but Mu Ke just went to fight with Yan Qing. No one cared about cleaning up Crowley.

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Grafton Beach

Mu Ke put an invisibility amulet on himself, and only Will could see him. The FBI who were collecting evidence at the crime scene on the beach couldn't see Mu Ke standing in front of the totem pole.

Mu Ke walked around the totem pole, and the seventeen corpses were tied up with ropes to form a pillar. All the limbs of the corpses were broken and twisted into the shape the murderer wanted. The bones are tightly attached to the neck, and it is difficult to find out the owner of each leg and each hand from such a jigsaw puzzle of the human body. Some corpses have been air-dried and turned brown, and the lenses have been dehydrated and shriveled, leaving only sunken eye sockets. Some can still see The original color of the skin was revealed, but there were many places of rot, and a circle of black marks appeared in the place where the rope was strangled.

Detectives from the investigation department, wearing overalls with the three yellow letters of the FBI printed on the back of the blue background, are still collecting evidence on the totem pole and the seven empty graves that have been excavated around the totem pole. The forensic trio stand Analyze existing data.After finishing the final recording work, they will dismantle the corpses and transport them back to Quantico's laboratory. Mu Ke has little time.

The temperature in West Virginia is much lower than that in Baltimore. There is still snow on the beach that has not yet melted, and the bitter wind still makes people's faces hurt, but this does not make the smell of the scene much better.Some of these bodies were buried years ago, some decades ago, only the topmost male body was killed recently, there is no grave for him here, and the killer didn't even have time to take off his clothes.

His legs were folded back and crossed behind his back, feet in winter boots pressed against his cheeks.

The devil's contract will not last so long, the contract is only valid for ten years, and after ten years, the hellhound will come to collect the debt.All they want are souls, and demons—at least most of them—have little interest in people and human corpses themselves.

Mu Ke squinted his eyes and backed up towards the sea until his feet stepped into the sea. He raised his head and glanced at the direction of the sun. His spiritual observation penetrated the atmosphere to find the direction of the moon, and then stepped back a few steps into the sea. , until the boundary line between the land and the sea when the sea tide ebbs at night.Mu Ke conjured up a pen, and outlined in the air the figure formed by each limb on the totem pole, and finally formed a magic circle.

In the middle of the totem pole, there are three arms stretching out stiffly on each side, like the six legs of a crab. A picture is quickly rebuilt in Mu Ke's mind. Under the moonlight, the sea water recedes into the black ocean, and the moonlight is shining on the totem pole. On the pole, the entire magic circle was illuminated, the throat of the last victim was cut off, the black blood flowed into the sand along the totem pole under the moonlight, and escaped into the sea water along the tiny gaps between the sand grains, the blood was diluted , but turned into a wider form to convey information to the entire sea area.

This is a summoning circle, but who does this demon want to summon?Looking at the magic circle floating in the air, Mu Ke faintly came up with some ideas, but he denied them one by one, and the remaining ones were like seaweed, erratic and difficult to grasp.

The investigators of the investigation department have already started to dismantle the corpse. Mu Ke decided to go home and find out all the books related to the Western Magic Circle. More importantly, he went to see Will.Worrying about this kind of emotion made Mu Ke uncomfortable, but he was willing to do so.

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It's been a long time since Will has had a sleep without nightmares and waking up in a sweat.When he woke up, Will blinked his eyes and turned his head to the right. The incense pills in the censer had been burned, the swirling clouds of smoke had completely dispersed in the air, and the sun's spots on the satin curtains had disappeared , Winter has not yet completely left, it was getting dark early, and Will didn't know how long he had slept.

He lay on Mu Ke's bed with his eyes open for a while, the lights in the room were not turned on, and there was no light coming in from the window, everything was still in darkness.Will could hear the sound of his eyelashes trembling, and the beating of his heart seemed clearer. He pressed his palm on his left chest, and his heart was beating regularly and gently. The darkness didn't seem to have any effect on it.

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