Chapter 112: Twin Souls, Occult Club Outing

Louis looked at Maria, "What is the name of the other person inside you?"

Maria lowered her head and replied, "Ailan."

Subsequently, ignoring the voice of opposition in her mind, Maria poured out the whole story.

"She is my twin sister..."

Of course, she omitted certain parts.

After listening, Louis was lost in thought.

Having once abandoned a twin sister—generally speaking, if one didn't want a child, one would abandon both; there was no logic in discarding one and keeping the other. Her family didn't belong to any religion, so they shouldn't have been influenced by any strange Xie Sect.

Then...

It was highly probable that her twin sister had some deformity or a congenital disease.

Louis asked a few more questions, and even Madison, who had been shrinking in the back, had some details dug out of her.

Long-term repressed family life...

A twin sister who died in infancy...

Another voice in the mind...

Combining this with the medium knowledge Elise had mentioned back then.

Louis thought of a possibility: could it be that Maria's sister died when they were young, but her soul didn't leave, instead attaching itself to Maria? Because she lost her physical body and was too young, she couldn't grow, and coupled with Maria's long-term repressed life, the soul gradually merged into Maria's body.

This formed an acquired twin soul.

That was indeed Maria's sister, but in essence, it was another part of her.

A soul-version of split personality.

Thinking of this, the way Louis looked at Maria changed. If this were the case, then Maria's soul must possess some uniqueness. Right now, it was just a personality split in reality, but the future was hard to say.

She might just turn into some kind of special medium.

Louis was still pondering when Madison, unable to hold back any longer, asked, "Is there something wrong with Maria?"

Louis glanced at Madison, "Nothing much, it's just that she's been repressed for too long and might lose control, doing some incomprehensible, irritable things."

"You can simply understand it as a split personality, and it may continue to change in the future."

Split personality?

Mental illness.

Madison opened her mouth but couldn't say a word. Maria was indeed very strange today, practically like a different person, but mental illness...

On the contrary, Maria looked calm, as if she had expected this long ago.

"Aren't you afraid?"

"Not afraid, it doesn't feel like much. She has done many things for me that I didn't dare to do; it's quite good."

Maria replied as such.

This answer surprised Louis. He looked Maria up and down, recalled what she said yesterday, and asked.

"Any interest in following me?"

A smile bloomed on Maria's face, "Very much!"

"Good, I will help you find a way. You also try your best to control the other personality inside you; don't be easily seduced by her. Some of her dangerous remarks are actually your own extreme thoughts. If she doesn't behave..."

Louis suddenly smiled.

He took out a willow leaf from somewhere and blew on it gently.

The next instant, the willow leaf actually floated up.

Ahhh!!!

Maria looked at the willow leaf in amazement. The leaf brushed past her shoulder, and her brain felt a wave of pain. In her mind, the other consciousness seemed to be screaming.

It looked like it had been frightened by something.

Maria shook her head violently, maintaining her sobriety.

"Let's go."

Louis patted her shoulder and walked out.

Maria nodded and hurriedly followed. Madison, behind them, had a bitter expression—Maria had already followed, what else could she do?

However, if what he said was true, and he had helped Maria yesterday afternoon, perhaps it wasn't that dangerous?

Madison was half-doubting, but her footsteps still followed quickly.

Walking in front, recalling the talented people he had met since his debut, Louis couldn't help but marvel at the magic of this land.

Perverted dwarves, freaks, cannibals, doll spirits, immortal serial killers, hell demon kings...

And now, a twin soul.

The gifted individuals on the American continent were truly as numerous as crucian carp crossing the river.

He wondered what he would encounter in the future.

Time flashed by.

October arrived, and the ice skating competition preparations were in full swing. Even some people outside the school knew about it, including socialites; presumably, many people would come when the time arrived.

The school's ice rink was also packed every day. Maria and Madison were practicing inside. Because Maria was different from before, Lily's popularity had plummeted, but she couldn't do anything about Maria.

She could only compete with her at the ice rink all day long.

But this had nothing to do with Louis, because Louis had already boarded a bus to attend the Occult Club's activity.

This Occult Club activity had two locations. Considering the travel distance, they finally chose the one closer to the urban area and gave up the other.

And this one in the urban area was a long-abandoned villa.

Gilmore gave a passionate speech inside the rented minibus, "The villa we are going to this time was the former residence of an antique collector who loved collecting items. Later, this antique collector died mysteriously overnight. There are rumors that he bought something unclean, which led to his accidental death."

"After the collector died, this villa was rented out by his family to earn rent. This is an opportunity I fought hard to get. Someone just canceled yesterday, and I took it."

"How about we play a psychic game here this time?"

"By the way, let's look for the legendary collection that caused the collector's death."

Gilmore said so.

The club members were all full of enthusiasm, completely unable to see a trace of fear.

It could be seen that everyone was an expert at courting death.

However, there was a problem in the background Gilmore described: if the collector's family really rented this thing out, then if they went there now, could they really find that so-called collection that caused the collector's death?

Louis, sitting at the very back, felt it wasn't likely. It would be better to see how this so-called psychic game was.

Psychic games were much more interesting.

Especially in the West, this stuff had been played to the extreme by the vast number of youth courting death: Bloody Mary, Charlie Charlie, Ouija boards, the Four-Corner Game, etc.

Among them, Charlie Charlie had traces to follow; its source came from China's Fulu, later introduced to Japan and called Spiritism.

He had tried it in his spare time, but unfortunately, he didn't summon any souls to answer his questions.

As for other psychic games?

He hadn't played them.

But maybe the group he was following would be effective? After all, plots could be seen as fate in a sense.

This was also the reason why Louis chose to join the Occult Club at the beginning.

The minibus slowly pulled over to the side of the road. What came into view was a villa that looked quite large in area, with walls and iron fences outside. However, there was a car parked outside the gate.

"Eh? Wasn't it rented to me today? Who is this?"

Gilmore frowned and picked up his phone to make a call.

Louis and the others got off the bus and walked toward the villa, taking the opportunity to admire the luxury of the villa.

This was also the reason many renters chose to rent.

Louis didn't look at these; to him, this villa wasn't much. If he wanted to see it, he could go back to Miami anytime.

However...

Looking at the maintenance of the villa, Louis's eyes narrowed.

He squatted down and touched Meiqiu, who was already four months old, "Come, little Meiqiu, see what's strange about this villa."

Saying this, he also dripped ox tears into his own eyes.

A refreshing sensation moisturized his eyes, and he looked toward the villa.

But in his field of vision, everything remained unchanged.

Sure enough, no problem.

But at this moment.

"Woof!"

Meiqiu barked toward a direction of the villa, its whole dog body leaning forward slightly, baring its fangs, its tail no longer wagging, in an offensive posture.

???

Louis's eyes lit up. Did he miss something?

Sure enough, Meiqiu was more reliable in this regard.

Thinking this, he didn't wait for Gilmore and the others who were still on the phone, and walked straight in alone.

In horror movies, Louis acting alone would be dead next, but this was reality after all. Capable people have confidence in whatever they do.

Louis walked into the villa, but his pace slowed down. Being capable didn't mean being careless and reckless; that would still lead to death. Steady progress was the first principle of fighting supernatural events.

The lights in the hall were on. Had someone been here?

Following the lights, it was a corridor.

Louis looked at the dog and found it wasn't barking anymore, so he stepped over.

Moving forward along the direction where the lights were turned on, he soon reached an underground attic, where there was a faint sound.

He went down the attic and entered the basement.

He found that only one room was open, with lights inside and the sound of talking.

"Ms. Alma, this box won't burn."

"It's useless. That astrologer attached her soul to this set of Tarot cards, merging with the curse sacrificed by her life."

"Ordinary physical attacks cannot destroy these Tarot cards. We must start from the astrologer's soul. As long as her soul is destroyed, the Tarot cards she attached to will also disappear."

A hoarse female voice explained slowly.

"Now, we must use divination to dissipate her soul. Let me help you, let this curse disappear."

"Thank you very much, Master Alma!"

Subsequently, the three men and women in the room and a white-haired old woman began to prepare, and soon they placed things on the table to perform the ritual.

Outside the door, a figure stood tall; it was Louis, who was listening quietly.

He didn't rush in.

Without a doubt, he had encountered another horror plot.

Although there was a small deviation and it wasn't the plot of those Occult Club members, fortunately, the result was the same. It seemed his choice was correct; youth courting death were very valuable.

However, Tarot cards?

This was a very famous divination tool in the West.

Originating in medieval Europe, it later gradually became linked with mysticism during its development and evolution, appearing as a tool for divination. To this day, it has become a very common card game.

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