Mary's Nineteenth Century

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, not the Mid-Autumn Festival in the seventh month of the lunar calendar.The time difference of one month perfectly avoided the days when the gate of hell was wide open.

Mary briefly comforted Taylor.Please believe that the Mid-Autumn Festival tonight is the reunion of people and people, and the full moon night a month ago is the reunion of ghosts and people.

What's more, geographically, New York and the East are separated by oceans.The laws of the underworld in the East do not apply to the Western world, please stop divergent thinking.

Then again, Mary doesn't believe in the so-called Ouija boards to cure madness.

She speculated that the reason for Miss Belle's madness was most likely related to arachnophobia, a mental disorder caused by excessive fright.

Unfortunately, there is no professional psychiatric or mental illness treatment facility today.

What?Isn't there already a mental hospital?

There is still the possibility of self-healing if you don't go to that place, but if you go there, you may have no chance to be normal physically and mentally.

The three walked to Bernie's house.

The moonlight pours down, illuminating the road ahead.On a full moon night, the moonlight is particularly bright.

This may sound like nonsense, but it still needs to be emphasized, because the moonlight is also extraordinarily cool tonight.

At the end of September, late autumn has not yet arrived.

The three of them entered Benny's house, and were led to the living room where they were preparing to summon spirits. When they reached the door, they all felt an inexplicable chill.

"The design of this house..."

Mycroft shook his head slightly. From the simplest point of view, the lighting was not good enough.

Combined with Bernie's spider phobia, dark and damp places attract spiders, and Bernie's living here increases the possibility of being frightened.

I don't have time to visit the whole house for now, there are already four people in the living room.

Benny was tied to a wooden chair, with her head hanging listlessly, as if she was completely immersed in her own world and didn't care about people coming from outside.

It was Bailey who invited everyone to come.

As the eldest brother, he is the only living relative of Bernie, and he simply said a few words of welcome.

Melissa, who attended the banquet with Bernie before, was also present, and Kenan, who was invited to use the Ouija board to summon the soul.

"Humph!"

Kenan glanced at the door, obviously dissatisfied that someone arrived later than him, so why should he wait for someone.

Hum what hum, hum strange?

Taylor just pretended not to hear, and he was not late for the meeting, and there were still more than ten minutes before the agreed 08:30.

"Thank you for coming here because of Bernie's illness."

Bailey didn't want to make an argument, so he changed the topic, "Now that everyone is here, can we start to act?"

"How can there be so many people in the room if you want to use the Ouija board to summon spirits. One board, two people, and the rest can't be left behind."

Kenan's tone was strong, "There are too many people and it is impossible to attract Miss Bailey's lost soul. Mr. Bailey, do you really want your sister to recover?"

"For half an hour, we'll wait at the door."

Bailey didn't argue for the time being, and everything focused on treating his sister.This proud inventor of the Ouija board was introduced by a friend. It is said that he has become quite famous in Ohio in the past year, and Kenan has successfully summoned spirits many times.

Others have no opinion.

Let's take a look around after the deal, I didn't want to get started with the actual operation.

Bailey's request was not high, as long as he opened the door to let him see Kenan's every move clearly, he couldn't let a man of unknown character be alone with his sister.

"Humph!"

Kenan glanced sideways, although he accepted the condition of opening the door, his eyes said everything.Bailey's worries are unnecessary, because he can't starve at a crazy woman.

"you……"

Melissa was the first one who couldn't stand it. Why did Kenan look down on her friend, but was stopped by Bailey.

Bailey didn't want to argue, "wait at the door first, and hope for a good result."

The living room is a double wooden door, just enough for five people to watch.

Kenan moved a chair and sat down opposite Benny.He put the Ouija board on his lap, and the room suddenly fell silent.

A kerosene lamp was lit next to the two of them.

At this moment, a completely different look finally appeared on Kenan's face.

It was no longer arrogant and arrogant, but closed his eyes seriously and piously.For what seemed like ten seconds, he closed his eyes tightly and hung his hands above the Ouija board.

The room seemed to be dead silent, only the strange sound of moonlight flowing outside the window.

Does moonlight have a sound?

Kenan didn't care, he just heard him say suddenly, "Ouija board, Ouija board, did you bring the lost soul of Bernie Bailey?"

There was no response at first.

After Kenan repeated the question three times, the divination tablet he was pressing with his right hand began to move.Some fluttering started to move on the Ouija board, and finally landed on the "NO" in the upper right corner.

"my God!"

At the door, seeing this scene, Melissa couldn't help crying out in a low voice, and covered her mouth tightly again, fearing to disturb the spirit summoning ceremony.

So weird!

Melissa stared at the room, Kenan actually looked solemn, and the divination tablet did not seem to be manipulated by Kenan's subjective will.

It was as if an invisible force had pushed the divination tablet to answer the question, but it wasn't Bernie's lost soul that had been summoned.

Who is the undead coming?

Does it know what to do with Bernie's madness?

Is Bernie's soul all right?

Where should I find Bernie's soul?

Questions like these were raised one after another.

The Ouija board at Kenan's fingertips also turned faster and faster, and at the same time, it turned more and more chaotically.

It couldn't spell a complete word at all, only successive letters or numbers.

Time passed little by little.

Unknowingly, 44 minutes and 44 seconds passed.

Sweat broke out on Kenan's forehead, as if he had exhausted his energy to a great extent.

His lips were also faintly pale, and he asked one last question before sending the undead away. "Miss Belle is afraid of spiders. Do you know where the source of everything is? Which demon is at work?"

In the next second, a hand suddenly appeared on the Ouija board.It was a slender hand with faintly visible blue blood vessels.

Kenan was caught off guard and was taken aback.

At this moment, he still kept in mind the rule of never letting go of the divination tablet until the undead is sent away, and stared at the opposite side with wide eyes.

At some point, Benny, who was tied up, broke free from the shackles on her left hand.She raised her left hand and put it on the divination tablet, but her gaze was still extremely dull.

The divination tablet was pressed by the two with one hand each, and it started moving again three seconds later.It is very different from the past, it even slowly spelled out a word - "SHAXBERD".

Kenan stared at the Ouija board closely. After the last letter D appeared, he no longer had the energy to continue summoning spirits, and asked in a weak voice: "This undead who was invited, are you willing to leave? Now Can we say goodbye, please?"

The divination tablet did not respond immediately, as if reluctant to part.

It seems that I haven't communicated with a living person for too long, and I am willing to leave easily, but after a stalemate for 1 minute, the divination piece finally moved to the "GOODBYE" at the bottom of the Ouija board.

Seeing this, Kenan breathed a sigh of relief, but his shoulders slumped, and he slumped on the wooden chair.

The Ouija board and the divination tablet fell to the ground, and he didn't have the strength to pick them up. Exhausted, he shouted angrily: "You don't come in yet! The undead has already left, so you shouldn't be afraid of it!"

It's amazing.

After watching from the sidelines, Taylor slightly changed his view of Kenan. At least this arrogant guy was serious about recruiting spirits.

As for whether Kenan played it?

It doesn't look like much, because Kenan's expression is too realistic, and his character doesn't seem to bother acting.

Mary and Mycroft glanced at each other and nodded slightly, both expressing a meaning.

The Ouija board inventor didn't look like he was acting at the moment. At least Kenan didn't show any details of lying and deceiving. He firmly believed that he had just communicated with the undead.

Next, Kenan told everyone the question and answer about the spirit call just now.

In the first forty minutes, there were no clear clues, but after Benny also stretched out a hand, he got a word with a clear meaning.

"SHAXBERD", some people may be unfamiliar with it, but its other spelling is widely known-Shakespeare, which is the well-known Shakespeare.

According to the study of Shakespeare, it is known that his signature is not fixed, and there are more than eighty spellings.

Shakespeare, a spelling that has been customary since the late eighteenth century, but Shaxberd spelled out on Ouija boards is very rare.

There were seven people present, except for Benny who was still dull and sluggish, the other six people all remembered that scene clearly.

At that time, Kennan asked who was the demon that caused Bernie to be afraid of spiders?Under the action of Kenan and Bernie's two hands, the divination tablet actually spelled out the word "Shakespeare".

"Mr. Kennan, are you sure that this answer is a hint from the undead, not Miss Bernie's subconscious?"

Mary didn't think it was an unnecessary question.Kenan didn't get an effective answer when communicating with the undead before, but Benny stretched out his hand and spelled out the words.

"Of course it's an instruction from the undead!"

As soon as Kenan was questioned, he stood up abruptly.His legs were no longer sore, his head was no longer hurting, and he returned to his usual arrogance. He raised his chin.

"You can't feel the undead because your heart is not sincere. Even if you buy a Ouija board, you will only question it blindly. I am different. I can communicate with the undead, which is a skill that you can't envy."

Kennan didn't bother to argue, and only looked at Bailey. "You invited me, I have successfully completed the task. The hints of the undead are always profound. How you solve the secret behind "Shakespeare" depends on your own abilities.Don't send it, remember to checkout later. "

After all, Kenan put away the Ouija board and left Bernie's house.

In the living room, Taylor smiled instead, "It's good, there should be laughter here. We should celebrate that Mr. Kennan is not possessed by evil spirits. The style and tone of this picture are very Kennan, just like him. "

With this interruption, the atmosphere was no longer awkward, but turned to another kind of silence.

On the wooden chair, Bernie lowered her head.

Mycroft knelt down to look at him, but only saw a pair of eyes immersed in his own world.

In the past, Benny would be terrified, but now she completely cut off communication with the outside world subjectively, and never gave the slightest reaction.

"Miss Benny, you used the Ouija board together just now, do you have anything to say?"

Mycroft asked, "Do you remember me? We met at the banquet, that is, the banquet with the ghost spider with the broken leg."

no response.

Bernie didn't respond to the spider, as if she couldn't hear the outside world at all.

"What happened this month?"

Mary was finally able to ask about the previous situation, "What happened after that dinner party?"

Bailey had heard Melissa mention the September dinner, and knew who helped his sister, so he said a few more words right away. "I was not in New York the day Bernie's accident happened. It was about 10:30 in the evening, and the servant said that there was a sudden influx of spiders on Bernie's window sill. How many were there, maybe forty or fifty?"

Bernie's bedroom was on the second floor. She was about to put out the candles and go to bed, but she heard a slight but strange sound on the window sill.

"Benny was the only one in the room. Later, the servant heard a tragic scream. Benny rushed out of the room while screaming. Her hands kept beating her body and head, as if trying to drive away any spiders that might have crawled onto her clothes. "

Bailey shook his head, "In the middle of the night, the light from kerosene lamps and candles couldn't clearly illuminate what's going on on Bailey's body. While the servant was helping her check, another one rushed into her room."

After that, no traces of spiders were found on Bernie's body, but the servants witnessed black spiders forming groups on the windowsill.A spider that looks like an ant.The servant killed several of them on the spot, and some fled away.

The next day, when Bailey returned to New York, Bailey had already developed a fever and fell into a coma due to excessive shock.

"The servants panicked, and it was Melissa who helped call in the doctor overnight. Afterwards, Bernie's fever subsided, but she also went crazy. Sometimes she yelled, and the rest of the time she never recognized anyone."

Bailey approached an insect researcher and asked, "It is reported that what appeared that night was a black-legged ant spider, a spider with special habits that likes to live in groups."

Black-footed ant spiders, as their name suggests, look like ants, and ants are a form of their camouflaged mimicry.

Unlike many other spiders, which are solitary, these spiders tend to live in groups of ten to fifty on a web, and they move together.

A group of spiders is moving, just in time to bump into arachnophobes.

Even people who aren't generally afraid of spiders can be uncomfortable seeing dozens of them all together, let alone Bernie.It is not difficult to understand why she would be directly frightened crazy.

"Do you think it was a coincidence, Mr. Bailey, did you examine the whole house afterward?"

Mary thought of the ghost spider with a broken leg at the banquet. A dead spider appeared on the lampstand that shouldn't be there. Is it a coincidence or a conspiracy?This time, is it a coincidence or a conspiracy for a group of spiders to move?

"Of course I checked, but nothing came of it."

Bailey invited an entomologist who is engaged in spider research to investigate whether there is any problem in his sister's room inch by inch, but he did not find any man-made traces that induced the spider to climb to the balcony. "Everything may be just a coincidence, and I can't think of anyone who wants to harm my sister."

At this time, Melissa also spoke. "Benny is very kind and has never had any enemies with anyone. I can't find any reason why anyone would want to harm her."

"What about the relationship?"

Mary looked at Melissa, noting her expression.

Don't forget that after the big move with the spider at the banquet, Melissa was the first person to appear next to Bernie.Reporters are sometimes murderers.

"Benny is only 19 years old, and as far as I know, she has no close or affectionate men."

Melissa shook her head, "Unlike I got engaged early on, Benny didn't say that she really wants to be in love. At least, I haven't heard her mention it."

A good lady with simple interpersonal relationships, who would want to harm her?

Bailey said, "I'm already investigating whether some of my business rivals have harmed my sister."

The progress of the investigation is difficult to say, because no directional evidence was found.

Mycroft thought of the words spelled out on the Ouija board. "Mr. Bailey, does your sister like to read Shakespeare?"

"I'm not afraid to tell the truth, Bernie must have read Romeo and Juliet. But she prefers the popular novels of recent years to Shakespeare."

Bailey pointed to the second floor, "It's a bit late now, if you don't mind, you can take a look at Bailey's bookshelf tomorrow. As far as I know, Bailey likes books that are closer to this era, such as M's "Wall Street Love, Hate, and Enmity", sorry I forgot its proper name."

Mary: Thank you.

"Analysis of the Reality of Wall Street in the Nineteenth Century", this book is not only serious in name, but also super serious in content.

That aside, Bailey wondered why the Ouija board spelled out a rare Shakespeare signature?

Why not just write the most common spelling, even if it's all about the "Shakespeare" thread?Had Kennen recruited an old undead, unfamiliar with contemporary habits?

So Bailey asked, "Mr. Taylor, do you think there are really ghosts?"

"No."

Taylor gave an affirmative answer, "If you believe my spiritual perception, I can definitely say no. Although I admit that Kenan seems to have summoned the undead, at least he himself is convinced that he successfully recruited the undead with the Ouija board, But I didn't feel it."

Taylor went to the seminary because he had a special physique, and he had a different reaction to the scene of a major murder, mass graves and other places.It's not that I can see ghosts, but there will be some discomfort, which may be explained by the perception of strange magnetic fields.

Those who believe in this kind of thing will believe it, and those who don't will just scoff at it.

In any case, tonight's spirit summoning ceremony ended without any surprise or danger.

Bella's madness seems to be a coincidence, but she also got a difficult clue.Even if you want to investigate in depth, you have to wait until tomorrow to discuss arrangements.

The sun rose as usual the next day, but not everyone could see it.

Which comes first, the accident or tomorrow?

The inventor of the Ouija board, Mr. Kennan jumped from the fourth floor of a luxury hotel and died on the spot.It is said that at that time he yelled: SHAXBERD!don't run!I can definitely catch you!

Then, Kenan jumped off the ledge without hesitation.

'Boom! '

There was a bloody mess all over the place.