Chapter 353 A strange call, a curse that breaks the rules
Seeing that Katie and Tom couldn't quite understand the meaning of his words, Su Fan sighed.
"Even if you spend a lot of money to buy something, no one will throw it away casually even if it is trash. There is a high probability that it will be kept. Even for psychological comfort, there is no guarantee that it will be used."
Hearing this, Katie couldn't help but nodded.
Most people have this kind of mentality, especially with Aunt Angela's calculating character.
"If she did what Katie said and placed the anti-evil charm next to the baby, the curse on the video tape would not be effective."
"In this case, the curse will start looking for another substitute."
"Replacement?"
Katie and Tom were quite surprised.
In their eyes, curses and magic are almost the same thing. Once activated, it will end regardless of whether it takes effect or not.
This was the first time I heard Su Fan's statement.
"Then let's put it in a way that you can understand. A curse can be seen as a kind of debt."
"The holders of the capital are the source of the curse, and they can spread it either directly or through intermediaries."
"The simplest and easiest example is the incident of the cult believer's sacrifice ceremony that Tom and I dealt with before."
"Cultists steal other people's souls for the devil to gain power from the devil. But if the cultist fails and the ritual is interrupted, the devil takes the soul of the cultist himself."
"The creditor will never bear the risk of loss in any case."
Tom understood immediately after hearing this.
"That means that if the talisman you gave Su Fan works, the curse will come back to the caster, right?"
"That's it."
After getting the affirmative answer, Tom also became relaxed.
"Very good, we don't need to worry about this matter. Evil will be punished, let the one who cursed go to hell."
Katie on the other hand was thinking much more profoundly than her simple-minded brother.
If the backlash really happened to Emma, according to her behavior, she would never accept her fate.
At that time, he might get mad and drag Aunt Angela and the others into the water.
When the time comes, Angela will think that the evil-suppressing charm is useless again and come to her door...
No...
Thinking of this, she suddenly froze.
Su Fan had already mastered some of the information they discussed earlier during the conversation.
In other words, in his prediction, Aunt Angela would eventually come to visit again no matter what.
Only then did Katie truly understand why Su Fan always felt like watching a show on the day of her meeting.
Developments that had seemed hazy before seem not so complicated in retrospect.
Katie looked at Su Fan not far away, and suddenly felt that he was very far away from her.
Could it be that in the eyes of the other party, everything is a single route that has been expected and has no changes?
Was the intersection with himself and Tom a coincidence, or was it the result of him following the flow of the future he saw?
Katie felt as if her thoughts had fallen into a deep ocean, but at this moment, the slight pain of a hard object hitting her forehead brought her back to reality.
"Don't drown in deep thinking."
Su Fan raised his hand, and the coin that had hit Katie's head returned to his palm. Then he picked up the teacup and spoke to Katie who was grinning and rubbing her head.
"Are you thinking about why Emma is so crazy?"
"That's not true. I'm just in a daze..."
After experiencing Amber's backstabbing incident, Katie has learned to be more ruthless.
If all Su Fan's predictions come true, Emma is an inherently evil antisocial psychopath, and it is impossible to reach a consensus with ordinary people.
She's not stupid enough to empathize with that kind of person.
After hearing Katie's answer, Su Fan nodded with great satisfaction, blew on the tea, took a sip, and swallowed it without words.
"This tea... doesn't seem to be to your liking."
Tom was a little embarrassed to see Su Fan's reaction.
"You are all people who have studied the serious culture, why are you still drinking Lipton tea bags?"
"...Limited by the conditions, the money on hand is only enough to buy this kind of thing."
"..."
The fact that the British love drinking tea can be regarded as a stereotype, and they will not give up afternoon tea even during the war.
But it is a pity that the price of tea here is far from being as close to the people as in a large Eastern country. With the same consumption level, the grade of tea purchased is completely different.
Especially the Lipton tea bags that Tom got, they were pure waste.
"You should keep this thing to entertain Angela."
"As you said, Angela and her family have the talisman you gave them, and they..."
Before Tom finished speaking, he suddenly heard the landline phone ringing in the house.
"It's so late...are you still calling? It's really..."
The former didn't think much and went to answer the phone immediately.
But Su Fan, who was not far away, suddenly frowned.
"Stop."
Tom's outstretched hand stopped mid-air.
Katie and Tom looked at Su Fan, and when they saw the latter's serious expression, they immediately became nervous.
Tom wisely wanted to take his hand back, but suddenly found that his palm was motionless, as if it was fixed there!
The former subconsciously wanted to save himself, and the remaining hand that could still move freely quickly transformed into sword fingers, but the last step was as difficult as climbing to the sky!
Something is forcibly preventing him from casting a spell!
Tom was horrified in his heart, and a cold air rushed straight to the sky!
Although the ghosts and demons we encountered before were terrifying, nothing like this has ever happened before!
The tried-and-tested method he relied on to save his life suddenly lost its effect. An unprecedented panic swept through Tom's mind, and he didn't know what to do for a while!
Katie, who was closest to Tom, saw that the situation was not good. She jumped up from the sofa and rushed towards her brother. However, her body seemed to have hit a transparent barrier and she could not move forward at all.
Fear spread in the hearts of the two siblings, and they were not able to concentrate, unable to make the handprints that could ward off evil as taught by Su Fan!
Suddenly, the receiver of the landline phone floated up on its own and headed towards Tom's palm!
Just as he was about to fall into the latter's hand, another hand suddenly reached out and snatched the phone away.
At this moment, the power restraining Tom and Katie seemed to disappear out of thin air.
The heavy burden on their bodies disappeared, and their bodies seemed to have lost all their strength, and they almost collapsed.
The reason why I am still holding on is because I want to see clearly the current situation of the landline phone!
In the sight of the two of them, the black-haired young man held the receiver in his hand and raised it to his ear.
"Seven days..."
The little girl's cold voice came from it, and even though it was a distance away, it still clearly fell into the ears of Katie and Tom!
The siblings shivered all over.
If possible, they wished they didn't have ears so that they wouldn't have to hear those cold and weird words.
After the girl-like voice fell, they felt as if a pair of evil eyes opened and stared at them from the darkness.
It was as if their lives were in each other's hands.
Those who were listening were all silent and did not dare to speak.
Katie couldn't imagine how much pressure Su Fan would feel when facing the threat directly.
"Su...how do you feel now?"
She stood up and stepped forward, holding on to the furniture next to her, to check Su Fan's face, and her hand unconsciously touched the latter's chest. Su Fan was trying to save Tom and became his target instead. If something happened, Katie would commit suicide and feel uneasy!
"The curse has begun to take effect."
There was no trace of falsehood in Su Fan's answer, which immediately made Katie's face turn pale.
Her expression changed, and the look of guilt made her feel confused.
He didn't notice at all that Su Fan's expression on the opposite side was calm, and he didn't look like he was about to die.
Seven days?
Su Fan sneered in his heart.
Little brat, I'll scatter you within three days and scatter your ashes across the English Channel.
No physical changes could be concealed from his perception, and now Su Fan could clearly lock onto the ghost hand mark imprinted on his body by the other party.
Just to avoid alerting others, he didn't try to remove it.
According to the original plot, only those who have watched the strange video will receive a call announcing their death at midnight.
There must have been a mistake somewhere in the middle, causing the other party to directly target Tom.
If he hadn't been at the scene, Tom might have been tricked by now.
[Sure enough, without direct investigation and relying on empiricism, errors will inevitably occur. 】
Perhaps the source of the curse this time is not just as simple as the female ghost in the midnight bell.
To break through the established communication methods and directly attack the enemy, either the power will be greatly enhanced, or other evil spirits will be integrated.
Just as Su Fan was thinking this way, he suddenly felt his cheeks being wrapped by a soft and warm touch.
When he came back to his senses, he saw Katie's cheek in front of Su Fan.
The other person held his face with both hands and looked at him solemnly with his eyes.
"If Tom and I are of any use this time, just ask. As long as we can help remove the curse on you, we can do anything."
It was the first time for Katie to observe Su Fan's appearance so closely.
The latter's facial lines are not considered rigid in mainstream aesthetics, and are even quite feminine from a European and American perspective.
Su Fan, who was immersed in thinking, seemed to have a more melancholic temperament. Thinking of him being cursed at this time made Katie even more anxious.
Sensing the other party's overflowing concern, Su Fan did not immediately pull her hands away, but nodded lightly.
Seeing this, Katie felt a little better, and immediately realized that her actions were a bit offensive, and retracted her palm as if she was electrocuted.
As for Tom, his eyes flowed between Katie and Su Fan.
"Dingle bell..."
The sudden bell rang again, suddenly breaking the somewhat delicate atmosphere in the venue.
Katie immediately pulled Su Fan to retreat, and Tom felt like he was facing a formidable enemy!
"It's okay, no problem this time."
Unlike the previous calls that aroused my whim, this time it was just an ordinary call.
After getting the news from Su Fan, Tom cautiously answered the phone.
"Hello, who is this?"
"I'm Angela, I have an emergency with Katie."
The woman's anxious words came from the receiver, and the apparently normal human voice also made Tom, who was always tense, breathe a sigh of relief.
But after knowing the identity of the caller, he became indifferent.
"Wait a minute, I'll ask her to answer the phone."
Katie was on one side, reaching out and taking the receiver.
"Aunt Angela, it's me, Katie, what's the matter so late?"
"Katie, you have to find a way to save us, wuwu..."
There was crying on the other end of the phone, and the whole story was presented to Katie along with his intermittent narration.
……
Noon the next day.
The three people who had just finished lunch immediately drove to the address of Angela's family without taking a break.
"I still can't figure it out. Didn't they keep saying that they were atheists? How could they think of moving to escape."
"She didn't go into detail during her conversation with me."
Katie shook her head.
During the call last night, the other party cried and cried throughout the whole process, and the logic of the narrative was confusing.
What she told Tom and Su Fan was a complete version after she sorted out the information.
"Su, how do you feel now?"
"It's okay."
Su Fan was sitting in the back seat, his expression as usual, showing no signs of being tortured by the curse.
"That's good."
Katie let out a breath.
What she didn't know was that the absence of any abnormality was simply due to Su Fan's extraordinary physique.
If the Yin Qi carried by the mark appeared in the body of ordinary people, they would have been tortured by various terrifying hallucinations to the point of mental weakness, and even started to self-mutilate.
In fact, Su Fan also has some hallucinations appearing in front of his eyes.
For example, a dry well in the forest...a horse that died miserably...a woman with a strange face...
However, in Su Fan's opinion, these things were nothing more than trivial tricks.
Regardless of his own character, he has experienced so many exorcisms and has never seen anything.
Trying to break through his defenses with just these gadgets is a fool's errand.
"Not far away is their home... It's strange, there is something wrong with the air conditioning in this car."
Having said this, Tom reached out to turn up the temperature of the air conditioner, but ended up getting a slap on the forehead from his sister.
"I asked you to read more books in normal times, but now you are embarrassed here... This is clearly a sign of excessive accumulation of Yin energy."
The temperature inside the car was quite suitable before, but it changed when it got close to Angela's house. It was obviously due to the abnormal temperature caused by the accumulation of Yin Qi.
While Katie was talking about Tom, she took out a thermometer from the glove compartment in front of the passenger seat.
Sure enough, as the vehicle drove, the temperature displayed on the thermometer dropped a little again.
"Take out the talisman I gave you before and use it."
At this moment, Su Fan in the back seat of the car spoke.
Katie did as she was told, took out the talisman from her purse, wore it with her, folded another one and stuffed it into Tom's collar.
As the talisman sticks close to the body, the cold air around him that seems to penetrate into the human bones is swept away, as if there is an invisible barrier that isolates him from the outside.
Not long after, the vehicle stopped in front of a house.
You can see from a distance that Angela, who is wearing a blanket, and Robert, who is sitting in a wheelchair, are already looking at the door.
However, Su Fan in the car did not ask them to get out of the car immediately, but instead gave instructions.
"After you enter later, check the infrastructure immediately and use a camera to record it and leave evidence."
"At the same time, pay attention to the movements of everyone indoors and do not let anyone leave the house."
Tom had no doubts about Su Fan's request.
Outsiders don't know what they are doing. If someone controlled by evil spirits rushes out and screams, it is very likely to cause unnecessary trouble.
(End of chapter)