Chapter 487 Annabell

1957.

The seat of Kern County in the western United States.

A vast, desolate plain with few people.

A three-story southern-style villa, belonging to dollmaker Samuel Mullins and his wife Esther Mullins. The couple had a happy life, as can be seen from the size of their house. But many years ago, their daughter died in a car accident, which made the couple a little depressed. Looking at the empty house, they decided to transform the place into a children's welfare home.

They took in six orphans and a nun and invited them to live in their home for free. This model is very common in the United States and is called "HOMESTAY". It should be literally translated as "homestay". Many people who have studied abroad in high school should not be unfamiliar with it. Even some college students and graduate students will choose the "homestay" model.

However, the Mullins couple's homestay is a welfare program, and they do not intend to make money from it. However, most homestay programs for international students are for-profit and are part of the European and American study abroad industry chain.

Coincidentally, not long after the nuns moved into the house with the orphans, two young men and women came here, claiming to be college students from the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in education and psychology. They wanted to conduct a public welfare study activity and begged the Mullins couple to allow them to stay in their children's welfare home to carry out this activity.

This was originally a good thing, the two college students could help Sister Charlotte take care of six orphan girls, and they promised not to ask for any compensation. However, based on his attitude of responsibility for the children, as the owner of the house, Samuel Mullins decided to simply "interview" the two college students.

"Hello, Mr. Benzim."

Samuel first looked at the thin young man with freckles all over his face and brown-red hair. Although the young man was not handsome, his sunny smile made people feel good.

"Hello, hello, Mr. Mullins, just call me Ron. By the way, this is my companion, Zhang, she is Chinese and from New York. And I am a typical Oakland native."

Ron said with a big smile as he shook his hand.

"I heard it."

Samuel Mullins was quite satisfied with Ron's accent. He was a good guy from Auckland. Then he turned to look at the Chinese woman next to him and frowned.

The woman looked young and had beautiful facial features, but she had an indescribable temperament, cold and distant. Could this person really be studying education?

Samuel glanced down at his resume.

It is indeed a major in education.

"This is Zhang... um, sorry, ma'am, I'm not very good at spelling your name."

Samuel Mullins said apologetically.

"It's okay, just call me 'Zhang'."

The woman waved her hand and said.

"Oh, okay."

Samuel Mullins read the two people's resumes and school recommendation letters several times and felt that there was no problem.

The Chinese woman was a little cold, but Ron was enthusiastic. He was always holding a low-quality plastic doll in his arms. Although the synthetic resin doll was poorly made, Samuel Mullins, a wooden doll carver, looked down on this kind of factory assembly line product, but the other party's childlike behavior still made him feel good, thinking that the boy must be very patient with children.

"Okay, follow me."

Samuel Mullins stood up and said:

"I'll show you around the house."

They both stood up and followed him down the hallway.

"This is the kitchen, this is the study, this is the bedroom... Look, that's the stable outside the window. If you decide to stay here, I will arrange for you to stay on the second floor. The first floor is where the children live. They are all orphans. One of the girls suffers from polio, and it is inconvenient for her to go up and down the stairs..."

Samuel Mullins said as he walked.

The three of them walked along the corridor, and the host Samuel introduced the arrangement and purpose of each room one by one. At this time, the three of them passed by a room with a closed door. There were horizontal bars painted on the door frame, as if they were used to measure the height of children. When Samuel Mullins saw this room, his face changed slightly. He did not introduce this room but waved his hand vaguely and said:

"You can't enter this room. I'm not in a position to explain the reason. Anyway, just remember not to come in."

After saying that, he skipped this room and led the two to the stairs to the second floor to continue introducing other places.

Zhang Yuning and Ron looked at each other.

No words.

…

At night, in a room on the first floor.

There was a floor lamp next to the sofa. Zhang Yuning was leaning back on the sofa, wearing a waisted A-line dress with small floral patterns that was popular in the 1950s. Her hair was neatly ironed and combed. This kind of dress and hairstyle did not match her usual style and preferences, so Zhang Yuning looked unhappy. Ron sat on another single sofa.

"Zhang, this is how American women dressed in the 1950s. There is no other way. We must conform to the characteristics of the times, otherwise it will make people feel strange and suspicious..."

Ron explained earnestly.

"Oh, stop nagging. It's annoying."

Zhang Yuning waved her hand impatiently and said,

"I'm sure we've come to the right place. This is the place we're looking for, the locked room on the first floor. Anna Belle is in there."

"I don't understand, why are you so sure?"

Ron couldn't help but ask:

"Annabelle: Creation" was the box office champion of horror movies that year. I've seen it, and I remember that the movie didn't mention the time and location at all. You're Chinese, so you might not understand. Let me tell you this: there are houses and towns like this everywhere in the American West. There's nothing special about it. Are you sure you found the right place?"

Zhang Yuning glanced at Ron calmly:

"I mentioned it, but you didn't notice it."

After saying that, Zhang Yuning turned her head, crossed her arms, looked at the shadows in the living room, and explained calmly:

"If James Wan's five films in the Conjuring universe are not arranged in order of release date but in order of plot development, they should be The Nun, Anna Belle 2, Anna Belle 1, The Conjuring 1, and The Conjuring 2."

"Although the time nodes are not explicitly mentioned in the movie, there are many clues. Samuel Mullins' daughter Anna Bell's favorite song was called "You are my sunshine". It was recorded and released by American country musician Jimmie Davis in 1940 and was popular during World War II, that is, from 1939 to 1945. The story of "Anna Belle 2: Creation" officially takes place twelfth year after the girl's death, which is an important clue."

"In addition, Sister Charlotte, who led six orphans to Samuel's house, had been to the village of Biertan in Romania - yes, that Biertan village! This is a crossover plot between "The Nun" and "Anna Belle 2."

Zhang Yuning looked calm and spoke quickly:

"Between 1943 and 1944, the U.S. military sent bomber groups to bomb through the sea channel, and the Soviet Union attacked Romania from the north in August 1944. The ghost sister Valak appeared after the bombing, which means it appeared between 1944 and 1952. Sister Charlotte should have visited the Santa Teresa Monastery after the war, that is, after 1945. And because she doesn't look old in Anna Belle 2 and still looks like she's in her twenties, I have reason to believe that the photos of her taken in Romania were not taken more than ten years ago."

Zhang Yuning finally came to the conclusion:

"To sum up, if we add and subtract the time period and take the average, the film Anna Belle 2: Creation should take place around 1957."

"…"

Ron was stunned.

Staring at Zhang Yuning blankly.

I thought: As expected of the famous "Ghost Queen" in the reincarnation world, why can't others control this group of fierce ghosts and evil spirits! Just based on her spirit of research and exploration of horror movies, ordinary players are far behind.

Of course, he still remembered Biertan Village in Romania. The dungeon world that the four of them had experienced together was where they met, got to know each other, formed a community and became companions. Thinking back on it now, he still felt a lot of emotion.

"The Nun" is the opening chapter of The Conjuring Universe, and "Anna Belle: Creation" is the prequel to "Anna Belle", telling where this horrible evil came from.

"This is the time, as for the place..."

Zhang Yuning snorted and continued:

"There was a flash in the movie, right at the end of the movie, when the California State Police came to deal with the murder. There was a line of small words printed on the door of the police car, and you had to zoom in to see it. It said Kern County."

"Wow..."

Ron was simply overwhelmed with admiration.

You noticed all these details.

No wonder you can find it here easily.

"Oh, but…"

Ron suddenly felt something was wrong:

"Zhang, there are no DVDs or videos of the movie "The Nun" in the reincarnation world. The location can be explained by a single shot, but you remember the time details so clearly? Did you also make the transformation of Qingshan's MODOK brain?"

Zhang Yuning looked at Ron with pity:

"Of course my memory is not that good. The reincarnation world did not tell us in advance what universe this was. The reason why we can confirm that this time point does belong to Anna Belle 2: Creation, and the reason why we are sure that we have come to the right place... is because someone told me."

"Someone told you? Who?"

Ron asked in surprise.

The three of them were acting at the same time during this period, and Zhang Yuning actually had other sources of information, which Ron didn't know.

"Him."

Zhang Yuning raised her finger and pointed at the shadow of the living room, and a tall, hideous-looking ghost nun emerged.

Ron: "…"

"Hahahahahaha!"

A burst of laughter broke out in the living room.

The plastic doll sitting on another sofa could no longer pretend to be dead and laughed unrestrainedly.

Upton laughed so hard that he slapped the sofa.

Zhang Yuning also had a smile on her face.

Ron finally reacted at this time.

The nun named "Charlotte" had been to the Santaca Monastery, and Valak must have seen her. Now seeing the nun in person here, he could naturally confirm that he was in the right place. As for the specific time point when the Soviet army bombed the village of Biertan in Romania, it was not because Zhang Yuning had a good memory. The seal of the ghost nun Valak was blown open at that time. Of course, the demon remembered it, and Valak told Zhang Yuning.

Upton must have realized it long ago.

But he remained silent.

Just waiting to see Ron's joke.

"you..."

Ron thought angrily:

You two teamed up to laugh at me, and you all think I'm stupid and have a low IQ. It makes me so mad... Just wait, wait until Qingshan comes back, I want him to do justice for me!

Thinking and thinking.

Ron thought of another question:

"Zhang, as you said, Anna Bell is in this house right now, so won't she hear what we just said here?"

"Won't."

Zhang Yuning shook her head:

"Anna Bell is still sealed. Only a trace of power can be transmitted through the seal. She still needs the help of others to open the seal. So don't worry. We have plenty of time to deal with her."

According to the plot in the movie, the Mullins couple lost their daughter in middle age and were immersed in grief all day long. They did not hesitate to seek help from some evil forces and prayed for their daughter to return to them. Later, it really worked. The phonograph at home suddenly started playing their daughter's favorite song "You are my sunshine" automatically, and the daughter's phantom flashed in the house from time to time... Later, the couple realized that the phantom was not their daughter, but a demon who came to the real world with the help of a doll body. After the demon scratched his wife Esther Mullins, they asked the pastor to seal it in the closet of their daughter's room - the room they passed by during the day.

"So what are you waiting for?"

Ron said excitedly:

"We'll go over and subdue Anna Belle."

In his opinion, with Zhang Yuning, the "Queen of Ghosts", present, and the seven fierce ghosts all joining the battle, wouldn't Anna Belle be easy to capture? She was nothing to be afraid of.

"no."

Zhang Yuning shook her head again and said:

"We happened to come to the Conjuring Universe this time, not to capture ghosts for me, but to find a wife for Upton, to find a companion for this single ghost. If I wanted Anna Belle, it would be easy, but if we want Anna Belle to be convinced, for Mr. Dupont's future family status, we have to have some fun with her."

"open!"

Upton patted his chest loudly:

"For your kindness, no matter how many wives Qingshan wants to marry, you will always be the first lady of THEM in my mind. I will always support you!"

Zhang Yuning's expression suddenly changed when she heard this:

"Shut up, why are you talking about something else?"

…

The next day, the two of them officially participated in the daily life of the mansion. Mr. and Mrs. Mullins and Sister Charlotte were all easy to talk to, but most of the six orphan girls were around thirteen or fourteen years old. Children of this age are hated by everyone, regardless of gender, Chinese or foreign.

Zhang Yuning didn't like children in the first place, especially children of this age. She left all the so-called study tasks to Ron and went back to her room to have some free time.

Ron was quite patient with these children. The little girls all liked this brown-haired uncle with freckles. It seemed that stupid people were not completely useless. At least they were likable.

Among them was a little girl, Jenny, who was the youngest and the one suffering from polio. She needed to use a cane or sit in a wheelchair at all times. Due to her congenital physical defect, she was often ostracized and ridiculed by other girls.

Ron took special care of the girl. He played with her, comforted her, and gave Jenny a plastic doll, Mr. DuPont, which had been with him for many years. All these actions deeply touched the Mullins and Sister Charlotte.

In fact, Ron cares about Jenny for another reason.

Jenny is the protagonist of this movie.

A lame naughty kid who would not die unless he courted death, it was she who released Annabelle. In the end, Annabelle also possessed her body, left the rural county town, and came to the city to start a new killing.

…

Nightfall.

In Jenny's room.

The girl has fallen asleep.

She held a plastic doll in her arms.

Breathing evenly, sleeping soundly.

There was a soft, warm yellow light in the corridor, which seeped into the room through the gap under the door. At this moment, someone seemed to walk silently outside the corridor. The light in the gap flickered, and then a piece of white paper slid into the room.

"Knock, knock."

There were two light knocks on the door.

There was no movement after that.

Jenny frowned and turned over slightly.

The plastic doll in my arms suddenly opened its eyes.

Upton skillfully broke free from the girl's arms, tiptoed off the bed, came behind the door, bent over to pick up the white paper, and saw a line of small words written on the paper in red crayon. The handwriting was crooked and resembled a child's handwriting:

"FIND ME."

Upton's lips curled up in a wicked smile.

He found a crayon on Jenny's desk and quickly wrote a sentence on the back of a white piece of paper:

"FIND SHIT."

Then, with a push of his little hand, he pushed the piece of white paper out of the gap at the bottom of the door, and then waited patiently.

Not long after, a new piece of white paper slid into the room. Upton unfolded it and took a look:

"?"

A red question mark.

"Ga ga ga ga…"

Upton laughed heartily.

He drew a cross on the question mark and then drew a vertical middle finger next to it.

He pushed the paper out again.

There was silence outside the door for a while, and then no movement.

…

"Anna Belle is also an earthbound spirit, relying on a haunted house to exert her power. But she can escape. At the end of the movie, we were close to sealing her again, but she escaped from the county with the help of Jenny's body and went to the city under the alias 'Anna Belle'. So, we can't give her this opportunity. We have to wait until all the outsiders in the house leave before we can act."

Zhang Yuning said in a deep voice.

"Then how long do we have to wait?"

Ron asked.

Zhang Yuning looked at him:

"You can also take the initiative."

…

Anna Belle loved playing with her father Samuel Mullins, writing notes and playing hide-and-seek. Jenny had long been ostracized by other orphans and was the most vulnerable of the six girls. Anna Belle took advantage of Jenny's desire for companionship and friendship and seduced her into the room and opened the wardrobe.

However, Zhang Yuning and Upton refused to let her succeed. After Anna Belle failed to seduce Jenny, she tried to seduce the other five girls one by one. However, due to Zhang Yuning and Upton's obstruction, these attempts all ended in failure. Anna Belle seemed a little angry. In broad daylight, Mr. Samuel and Sister Charlotte could hear the occasional sounds of smashing things and hitting the door in the locked room, which was very strange and terrifying.

Samuel Mullins once again warned the crowd:

You must not enter that room.

Children were not a good target, so Anna Bell had to change her target and started shooting at adults. The Mullins knew her true identity, and Sister Charlotte served God devoutly. The three of them were not good targets. The only option was to target the two college students, who were both from other cities and showed a lack of awe for the mysterious and spiritual powers in their conversations, so they were good targets.

She first tried to arouse Ron's curiosity.

However, just as Ron was about to open the door, for some reason, by chance, he was seen by Samuel Mullins, who sternly warned Ron not to enter - Anna Belle was so angry that she smashed the wall again.

Then, one day, the opportunity came.

The Mullins and Sister Charlotte decided to take the children on an outing, and Teacher Ron Benzim was going to accompany them. The whole mansion suddenly became empty, leaving only one woman alone, the black-haired Chinese woman!

Zhang Yuning was sitting alone on the sofa in the living room reading a book.

There was a plastic doll next to it.

Anna Belle used the power that had seeped out of the seal to start making noises in the living room, attracting Zhang Yuning's attention. Then, she used her curiosity to seduce her towards the room little by little, and watched with satisfaction as the woman turned the handle that should have been locked and walked into the room...

"Plop!"

The door behind me suddenly closed automatically.

The curtains were drawn tightly, and the room was pitch dark.

Zhang Yuning looked around the room. It was a typical girl's room with many wooden model toys, all handmade by Anna Bell's father, Samuel Mullins. There was almost no need for the devil to make any noise to prompt her. Zhang Yuning found a key in one of the models herself. After some comparison, she confirmed that the key could open the closet door.

Zhang Yuning came to the wardrobe.

He raised his hand, bent his fingernails and gently scratched away the fan cartoon stickers on the wardrobe, revealing the contents underneath. It turned out that there was another layer of stickers under the cabinet door stickers. These stickers were densely covered with small words, all of which were from the Bible.

This is the seal of Anna Belle.

Tear up the Bible and stick the pages on the closet door one by one with glue - that's really uncreative.

Zhang Yuning secretly complained in her heart.

There are three treasures in Western exorcism:

the Bible, holy water and the cross.

Maybe these three things really have no creativity, so they often fail in later horror movies. However, any evil spirits and ghosts with a little fame are not afraid of these three things, and it has become a common plot for priests to be humiliated and nuns to be beaten.

Zhang Yuning looked at the closet covered with Bibles, chuckled, inserted the key and turned the lock, then raised her hand to open the closet door. "Creaky", the closet door slowly opened outwards, and it was pitch black inside. A pile of clothes could be vaguely seen...

There sat a wooden doll.

Flaxen bangs, two large pigtails, a white dress, round eyes, exaggeratedly high cheekbones and blush that looked fake... The face of this wooden doll was originally tilted to one side, but suddenly, the doll turned its head and looked at Zhang Yuning steadily, with that stiff and weird smile on its face, and its eyes even blinked.

Zhang Yuning also winked at her.

A mysterious smile on his face.

Anna Belle showed a hint of confusion on her face.

The pitch-black smoke permeated the entire room like ink. Soon, figures appeared one after another: an ugly nun in black, a woman in white with disheveled hair, a man with a burnt face and sharp claws in a red and green striped sweater, an ancient demon with a lion's head, eagle's claws, scorpion's tail and four wings, a famous opera actress in a blue costume, a high school girl in a school uniform... Anna Bell was stunned.

What do you mean, are you coming to my house to have a party?

"Drink!"

A figure jumped up at Zhang Yuning's feet:

"Don't ignore the invincible ghost doll killer!"

Another plastic doll rushed into the closet with a "whoosh", grinning, with a fierce face and a folding knife in its hand. Anna Belle's attention was attracted by the ghosts outside, and she was caught off guard by the ghost doll. Unexpectedly, the ghost doll did not cut her with the knife, but hugged her shoulders and kissed her cheek fiercely.

"Bobo Bobo!"

Upton kisses and kisses continuously.

"ah--"

The wooden doll actually screamed like a woman.

Zhang Yuning couldn't help but raise her hands to cover her face:

"Upton... please, restrain yourself a little."

The sound seemed to be squeezed out from between teeth.

This teammate is shameful, so shameful.

"I can't help it, Zhang. This is the first time in all these years that I've encountered a ghost doll of the same style as me."

Upton said as he kissed her wildly.

"Get lost!"

With a low roar, an invisible force instantly pushed the doll away, and it rolled backwards, knocking over a bunch of tables, chairs, benches, furniture and toys. Anna Belle floated out of the closet, and the wooden doll's face turned into a mutilated and rotten girl's face, glaring at the doll fiercely.

Zhang Yuning was wondering whether she should take action.

"Crash!"

Upton threw off the wood chips on his body and stood up.

He stood proudly amid the devastation with his fists clenched.

A heroic and high-spirited posture.

Seeing this, Zhang Yuning withdrew her hand.

"Who are you to dare to offend me?"

Anna Belle demanded angrily.

"I am the ancestor of the ghost dolls. I am your ancestor!"

The ghost doll shouted and rushed forward again:

"Get down and open your mouth!"

"Wow…"

Zhang Yuning curled her lips and looked away.

I thought to myself, I really can't afford to lose this person.

Fu Qinghai would never speak to her like that.

But she would raise her head and open her mouth...

Ahem, we've strayed off topic, let's get back to the topic.

Strictly speaking, Chucky and Anna Belle are not the same kind of dolls. The former is made of synthetic resin, while the latter is made of wood and paint. The main reason is that Anna Belle's ability is completely superior to Chucky. If Chucky wants to kill someone, he has to throw a socket into the bathtub while the person is taking a bath. Anna Belle doesn't need to go through such trouble. She is more about torturing and playing with humans, enjoying the moment when they are terrified and panicked.

But Upton is different from Chucky. Although they both use the same spell to become the same kind of doll, Upton has absorbed a philosopher's stone and has been immersed in the energy of the subspace. He has the ability to fight Anna Belle, and most importantly, he has a strong desire to "fight" Anna Belle.

Zhang Yuning stood by and watched.

Watch Upton charge back and forth.

Finally, with unremitting efforts and determination to fight again and again, he successfully persuaded Anna Belle. The wooden doll surrendered in tears and decided to temporarily submit to Upton's overalls, reluctantly signing some kind of binding contract with him.

The original text of the contract comes from Zhang Yuning.

Fu Qinghai was collecting technology everywhere, and Zhang Yuning was naturally not idle either, and was also collecting supernatural literature everywhere. Just as the Duke of Santaca summoned the demon Valak, Zhang Yuning could control Valak in the same way, and the Mullins summoned Anna Bell in the same way, and now Zhang Yuning can control Anna Bell in the same way. Western supernatural settings, including magical settings, are actually similar. The key to controlling demons lies in one point:

the real name system.

Whether it is Marvel, DC, DND, Warhammer 40K or any other Western fantasy IP, the True Name system is the key to summoning and exorcising demons. After obtaining the demon's True Name, you can summon the demon or even control the demon, or expel the demon or even kill the demon. Unfortunately, some demon's True Names often contain powerful magic, and mortal bodies usually cannot bear this power.

The devil here does not only refer to the classic devil with bat wings on its back and horns on its head. This word should usually be translated as "evil", which refers to all evil existences, including all kinds of strange monsters and ghosts.

Of course, this real name system is useless when applied to the evil spirits and ghosts of the East, no matter whether it's Kayako, Chu Renmei, or even the Pen Fairy Kim Insook, their original names are their real names, and it is useless to obtain their real names. They are not affected by this real name system at all, and can only rely on other methods to subdue and seal them.

After a night of "fighting".

Early the next morning.

Ron finally returned with the Mullins couple, Sister Charlotte and six girls. He tried his best to create all kinds of accidents during the outing so that the family could stay in the hotel overnight. This was to buy time for Zhang Yuning and Upton and prevent these outsiders from interfering with the exorcism.

"Did it work?"

Ron came over and asked in a low voice.

"It's done."

Zhang Yuning nodded.

Ron looked at Upton who was sitting on the sofa behind Zhang Yuning. The doll still looked lifeless, sitting crookedly on the sofa, but when he met his gaze, the corners of its mouth began to rise uncontrollably, turning into a weird smile.

"It's really fucking uncanny valley."

Ron couldn't help grinning.

The ghost-type horror movie is the most typical application of the "uncanny valley effect" in the film industry. The prototype appearance of Anna Belle in the real world is actually not anthropomorphic, but an ordinary cloth doll. It was only after it was adapted into a movie that it was changed into this weird appearance that looks like a human but not a human.

He just couldn't figure it out.

A plastic doll and a wooden doll.

What happened... Anyway, I'm just very curious.

"Anyway, as long as Upton is happy, that's all."

Ron shook his head and said:

"Then I'll go say goodbye to them."

"Um."

Zhang Yuning said.

Ron went to say goodbye to the Mullins and Sister Sherlock, saying that his study program had ended and he was ready to return to the University of California. Everyone was reluctant to see Ron go, and Jenny even hugged Ron's thighs and was about to cry.

Zhang Yuning rolled her eyes at this scene.

They didn't know that most of them would have died at the hands of Annabelle, but now, the room was still locked from the inside, but the wooden doll in the closet was already packed.

At noon in California, the sun is extremely scorching.

Ron started a shabby second-hand Ford car, and Zhang Yuning sat in the passenger seat with a bag in front of her containing Anna Bell. Zhang Yuning didn't like the bright sunshine, which made her feel inexplicably unhappy. She used the baffle and clothes to cover the car window to prevent the sun from shining on her.

"Let's go, goodbye, bye."

A group of characters stood at the door to say farewell.

Ron leaned out of the car window and waved goodbye.

Just as he retreated back into the car, he suddenly noticed dust rising in the distance. Eight cars were speeding towards him, trailing a long trail of smoke. They crushed the roadside wheat fields and smashed the farm fences, and drove all the way to the gate of the mansion, where they braked suddenly and stopped. A group of people got out of the cars one after another, and soon surrounded the front gate of the house.

Zhang Yuning narrowed her eyes slightly.

Ron held the steering wheel with a puzzled look on his face.

This group of people are dressed differently and have different weapons and equipment, but without exception, they all exude a ferocious aura of disregard for human life, and they are obviously players at first glance.

"Zhang, do you still remember me?"

A skinny black woman got out of the car and asked loudly while looking at Zhang Yuning who was sitting in the passenger seat.

Zhang Yuning didn't say anything.

"Last time, our club was wiped out by you, and you were lucky enough to sneak into our base. Don't think you are so powerful, Zhang. I know your tricks very well."

The black woman continued.

Her dress is very distinctive. Her lips and teeth are deliberately dyed black. A nose ring made of animal teeth pierces her nasal septum cartilage. There are many gold rings on her slender neck. Her face is painted with thick chalk paint. She wears a crown on her head with colorful feathers on it. Her body is covered with various gemstone ornaments or animal bone beads.

A very classic witch doctor image.

"Your enemy?"

Ron turned around and asked.

"A defeated general."

Zhang Yuning said lightly.

"Why, I'm not worthy of asking you to get out of the car and talk?"

The black woman stared fiercely at the passenger seat:

"After you brutally killed all 67 players of our Voodoo Commune, did you ever think that one day someone would come looking for revenge on you? Did you expect this moment?"

Oh my goodness... Ron was secretly shocked when he heard this.

He wondered how many murders Zhang Yuning had committed during Qingshan's absence. The society did not act together in every reincarnation world, and he and Upton were not very clear about many of Zhang Yuning's actions. But he also understood Zhang's temper and personality. Especially after being possessed by many ghosts, she was particularly murderous. She would start a massacre at the slightest disagreement, and would easily wipe out the entire society. She was notorious in the reincarnation circle.

Just look at the situation today... Ron thought to himself.

After Qingshan comes back, he will have to clean up her mess.

Zhang Yuning remained silent with her arms folded across her chest.

"That is... the Queen of Wraiths?"

"Uh, I haven't seen it either."

When the gun-wielding burly men heard that the woman in the passenger seat was the legendary "Queen of Ghosts," they were suddenly frightened and looked at each other with some hesitation on their faces.

After all, the Queen of Wraiths was too notorious, and they were just ordinary players who were paid to do things. There was no need for them to sacrifice their entire reincarnation lives for a few assimilation points.

"do not be afraid!"

The black woman shouted:

"You are not the reincarnationists of the supernatural side, you don't understand her abilities - but I know very well! I am a witch doctor who practices both World of Warcraft and Diablo, and no one knows more about souls and curses than me. It is now twelve o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun is the hottest, and her ghosts are greatly suppressed. Moreover, most of her ghosts are earthbound spirits, and there is no chance for her to occupy a haunted house now. As long as you find her weakness, anyone can kill this woman!"

The reincarnations calmed down a little after hearing this.

Although they were still very afraid of the Queen of Wraiths, after listening to the black woman speaking so confidently and logically, they felt that it was not impossible to fight her.

Ron, on the other hand, was greatly surprised when he heard this.

Many technological reincarnationists suffer losses when facing spiritual reincarnationists. The reason is that they don't understand them. Many people have never even heard of the setting of "earthbound spirits". However, the woman opposite Zhang revealed Zhang's trump card in one sentence -

Demons and monsters with earthbound nature must occupy a building in advance, and then they can kill and do whatever they want in this small world, teleport, create illusions, possess and control, distort reality... and so on.

Even someone as strong as Kayako is still an earthbound spirit.

This makes them passive in encounters.

"You killed sixty-seven of us. Sixty-seven by yourself. Yes, it's very impressive, but..."

The black woman changed the subject and sneered,

"But you were not careful enough and lost three hairs."

As she spoke, she raised a small rag doll in her hand. The doll looked very simple and even crude, but it made people feel that it resembled Zhang Yuning. On the top of the doll's head, three black hairs were intertwined and woven into a wreath.

It was not until this moment that Zhang Yuning's expression finally changed slightly.

"Clatter…"

All guns were pointed at the Ford car.

"Hand over Annabelle now."

The black woman said coldly:

"Perhaps, I can give you a chance to live."

So that's what this witch doctor did all this to make Anna Belle her voodoo doll.

Ron thought.

"Hehe…"

Zhang Yuning suddenly laughed again at this time.

"You're scared."

Zhang Yuning said lightly.

"I'm not afraid."

The black witch doctor frowned and said.

"No, you're just scared."

Zhang Yuning looked at her and smiled:

"After all this preparation, I thought you were going to fight me to the death, but it turns out that you just wanted Anna Belle? Haha, haha. So even with all this preparation, you still don't dare to fight me to the death, right?"

"you..."

The black woman was speechless for a moment.

Zhang Yuning is absolutely right.

She has died twice. The first time she died in a reincarnation mission, and the second time she died at the hands of Zhang Yuning. If she dies accidentally this time, it will be all over for her. This is why she dared not fight to the death even though she had all the advantages.

At this moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew up around the black witch doctor, and a white woman next to her disappeared instantly. Another whirlwind swept past the side, and Ron only felt his collar suddenly tighten, and then he was pulled out of the car window.

Almost at the speed of teleportation.

Ron was like a little chicken, being lifted up in the air by the woman's hand by the scruff of his neck.

"Let me introduce myself. I am the fourth generation speedster, Lilith Noelle. Nice to meet you, Queen of Wraiths."

The woman said with a smug look on her face.

"Uh-huh, hello, Speedster."

Ron spoke awkwardly while being lifted up.

"I'm not talking to you."

Speedster Noel turned his head and retorted to him.

Then he turned to Zhang Yuning and said,

"So this is your boyfriend? I didn't realize that the Queen of Wraiths actually likes such a weak guy? Now that he is in my hands, can you seriously consider the suggestion that Adania made just now?"

"I'm not her boyfriend."

"He's not my boyfriend."

The two of them refuted almost at the same time.

"Ding-ling-ling..."

Just then, a cell phone rang suddenly.

After this ring, many cell phones rang.

Noel, the speedster, held Ron in one hand and subconsciously tried to take out his cell phone from his trouser pocket with the other hand. The other gun-wielding players also subconsciously looked down at their trouser pockets.

Suddenly, she realized something was wrong.

This was in 1957, and telephones were not yet widely available. Where did the communication base stations come from, and where did the mobile phone signals come from?

The black witch doctor Adania also reacted, and immediately thought of the legend of the "death call" and shouted hurriedly:

"Mizunuma Mimiko! Don't answer the phone!"

It's too late.

Just at the moment when everyone was stunned.

Ron, who was held up by the speedster Noel with one hand, suddenly had a large amount of dark blue gelatinous substance gushing out of his body, covering his entire body. Within a second, he turned into a giant muscular monster, opening his big mouth with sharp teeth and fangs, with his upper and lower jaws stretched to the extreme.

"Click!" The huge mouth closed.

The headless female corpse collapsed dejectedly.

The symbiote "Abomination" chewed twice in its mouth, swallowed the brain fragments with a "gulp", and at the same time suddenly opened its arms to both sides. The two arms instantly stretched out and turned into two thick spikes, instantly piercing through the bodies of the two rows of gun-wielding players on the side.

"Da da da da da…"

The reincarnations turned their guns around and began attacking the abominations.

But the bullet was like hitting some kind of super leather.

It does not affect the symbiote's violent killing spree at all.

Seeing this, the witch doctor hurriedly squeezed the puppet in his hand tightly. The puppet twisted and deformed between his fingers, and several squeeze marks appeared on Zhang Yuning, who was sitting in the passenger seat. The severe pain made her arch her body as if she had been electrocuted and screamed in pain:

"Uhhhhhh!"

Black smoke swirled out of the car windows.

There was clearly no one in the back seat of the vehicle, but the window had been quietly rolled down at some point, and a small figure suddenly flashed out from inside and rushed towards the witch doctor.

The Abomination quickly took care of the surrounding soldiers. His arms transformed again into two huge double-edged axes. He pushed off the ground with one foot and jumped up, rushing towards the black witch doctor.

Facing the attack from both sides by the symbiote Abomination and the ghost doll Upton, the black witch doctor Adania did not hold out for long. Her witch doctor curse had no effect on the abomination. Many voodoo spells were slow strangling magic that gradually weakened the opponent. They were DEBUFF types. Compared with other mages, the instantaneous burst was not very high, and the effect was not ideal for the symbiote. As for the ghost doll, the spells could not hit him at all. Instead, the toads, spiders, bats and zombies summoned by the witch doctor were all chopped to pieces by the ghost doll.

In the end, the witch doctor's knee was cut off by the knife.

The whole person was lying in a pool of blood.

The dark blue gelatinous substance quickly retracted into Ron's body. Ron turned back into the thin freckled boy again, squatting on one knee beside the black witch doctor. He shook his head helplessly and sighed,

"I'm not as famous as the Wraith Queen, but as her teammate, I'm not a waste either."

Zhang Yuning supported her shoulder with one hand, pushed the car door open with difficulty, and limped to the black woman who was only breathing. She lowered her head and looked down at her. Seeing half of her face submerged in blood plasma, she sneered disdainfully:

"You should be thankful that it's not my boyfriend who came today, otherwise... he would have blown up the entire planet."

When the witch doctor Adaniah gathered a group of mercenaries from the reincarnation world and dared to come and seek revenge, Zhang Yuning felt that his reputation was still not good enough. If it were Qingshan, others only had one team, but he had a whole fleet! Bombing a few planets was commonplace, and he didn't take such small fights seriously.

Behind this cruel battlefield.

That three-story villa mansion.

Everyone hiding in the room stared in amazement.

Jenny, in particular, watched with her own eyes as her favorite Uncle Ron transformed into a 2.76-meter-tall dark blue monster and then transformed back again, with his little mouth opened into an "O" shape.

I was speechless for a long time.

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(End of this chapter)