Chapter 4239

The agent had already learned about the clown actor from Bruce. And after Bingo provided this important information, everything was connected.

The high-ranking members of the Mormon Sect were not all fools. The managers spoke of morality, but in their hearts, it was all business. They did this not because they really believed in God, but to exploit the believers. And the assets exploited naturally had to be put away in a good place.

So for many years, they moved assets step by step to big banks in other cities like ants moving house, to pave the way for their future. And that clown actor, that is, Burger's father—old Burger—was also one of the members who participated in the asset transfer plan. In other words, he was the owner of some of the safe deposit boxes. So as a descendant of Burger, Linda had the right of inheritance.

But that's not the point. The point is the safe deposit box that the agent and the Hunter came into contact with at the bank. It was speculated before that this should be the evil spirit's conspiracy. By letting the person who touched the box satisfy two conditions at the same time, the evil spirit put this box into the bank's safe deposit box.

And this box was exactly the jack-in-the-box used by the clown in his stage performance. This couldn't be a coincidence.

If the evil spirit already existed before the tragedy in the town, and it was also long before the tragedy that someone deposited a jack-in-the-box capable of hurting people into a bank's safe deposit box, then who this evil spirit that had already appeared was, was already self-evident. This old Burger must have a problem.

Having cleared up the clues, the agent didn't delay any longer. He said to Bingo: "There's nothing for you to do staying here, why not leave with me. You are more familiar with the situation in the town and can help me point the way."

"But I..."

"Your mother is crazy now, even if there is no evil spirit watching her, she might not follow me. Since you said the two of you have deep feelings, then you at least have to help me persuade her."

"Alright," Bingo agreed immediately, and said, "But I can't appear in the spirit world in the form of a spirit body, otherwise I will be discovered by the evil spirit immediately; he hates me to death. You'd better find me a hiding place."

"The person he hates most now shouldn't be you. Let's go."

After speaking, the agent ignored Bingo's wishes at all and picked him up. Bingo screamed and clawed, but he didn't seem to be a very powerful evil spirit, so besides struggling a bit, he couldn't do anything else.

The agent took Bingo and floated upward, and soon floated to the water surface. Bruce was stunned when he saw him holding a child.

And upon seeing Bingo's face, he immediately reacted and said, "You are that Bingo who was roasting fish in the cave, right?"

"That's right, it's me. But... have you already come into contact with the evil spirit's trap?"

"What do you mean?"

"Although the news of the town's tragedy was suppressed, this town used to be quite popular, so it's inevitable that some people would still come over. The evil spirit set some traps in the real world; as long as you come into contact with related items, you will fall into the memories of that year. And the more you come into contact with, the more your spirit will lean toward the spirit world. If you get hurt in the real world again, you will soon be tricked into the spirit world and never be able to get out."

Bruce recalled. He had indeed seen some unusual people among the townspeople before; some looked like law enforcement officers, and some were hikers. They might all have been brought in this way.

"It might be a trap for ordinary people, but it's not for us." The agent said, "Alright, we still have one teammate we haven't found yet. We must take advantage of the evil spirit's absence to explore this world properly."

In fact, Peter had already started exploring. Because he had recovered a certain amount of spider-sense, which allowed him to avoid most dangers, he simply started searching house by house, and he really did find some clues.

Peter stood in a residential house, holding a telephone yellow pages in his hand, which was the phone book used by the town's residents. At the top of this phone book, there was a phone number that had been repeatedly written over many times, with "Respected Pastor" written on it, and the name "Familo" written in the name section; and there was another name "Debi" below, only this person had no phone.

Peter immediately thought of the memory he saw when he came into contact with the Book of Mormon. At that time, it was two men walking through a place that looked like an underground tunnel, and then he saw a magic circle, and was pushed by someone behind him, falling onto the magic circle.

Could it be these two pastors?

Of course he hadn't forgotten that when he first came in, there was a person who called himself Pastor Familo who gave him cup after cup of water; he had long known that this person was not a good person. But if they were the two people in the memory, then they must know something.

Just as Peter was thinking, Bruce and the agent brought Bingo along the traces and found Peter. After the three exchanged information again, they all looked at Bingo.

"Alright, I lied about one part," Bingo said, "You also know that the townspeople were chronically poisoned, it couldn't have been that they all died on the same day. Because the sect preached that seeing a doctor was not allowed, there was no doctor in the town, and they couldn't leave, so if they had any symptoms of physical discomfort, they couldn't get treatment. But the high-ranking members were different."

"Most of them had been missionaries, traveled north and south, didn't believe in the set they preached at all in their hearts, and were more afraid of death than anyone else. In fact, they would leave the town every year for physical examinations. When their bodies showed discomfort, they actually discovered it very quickly, and then prepared to leave the town for treatment. Of course, I couldn't let them leave."

"For some reason, after I turned into a ghost, I also possessed the ability to control bodies. But my own body was really too weak, so I controlled my grandfather's body, that is, Burger's corpse, and killed all the high-ranking members who wanted to leave the town. These two should be the ones who slipped through the net."

"However..." Bingo frowned in confusion and said, "I am very sure that no one could leave the town. Besides my mother, there are no living people in the town. Where did these two go?"

Peter had already found paper and a pen from the side. He started to sketch continuously, and then drew a rough pattern, handed it to Bingo and said: "Do you know what this is?"

After Bingo looked at it for a while, he shook his head and said: "I don't know, is this some kind of drawing?"

Bruce and the agent both took a look, and then the agent said: "This looks like some kind of magic circle."

"Supernatural events should be real," Peter said, "There must be occult power playing tricks in this series of events. I already saw Familo in the town before, which proves that he might already be dead. But if according to what I saw in the memory, Familo was pushed into the magic circle by someone, then did this Debi who pushed him into it gain something through this act?"

"You mean he sacrificed Familo, and then escaped through the magic circle himself? Is he that powerful?"

"Ah!" Bingo suddenly cried out, and said, "I remember."

"What?"

"I remember where I saw a similar pattern. My grandfather had a box, a black box with many circus performance props inside. But that wasn't his thing either, but something his father left to him. I remember when I was rummaging through the box, I seemed to have seen this pattern on some photo."

"This is also old Burger's thing, right?"

Bingo nodded and said: "If nothing goes wrong, yes. You said this is a magic circle, what is a magic circle?"

No one answered him, and they all thought to themselves. The agent had already determined that this old Burger might just be some black magician, who had been playing tricks in the town after his death. The formation of the spirit world must have something to do with him.

"We still have to go back to your house," Bruce said, "That is, the place where two generations of Burgers lived, there must be some traces left there."

So they walked toward Aunt Kane's house. In the spirit world, this house was not only not old, but ridiculously new, without a trace of dust, almost like a toy house.

They searched the house, but found nothing. Everything in the house looked like it had just been taken off the factory assembly line, without even a trace of use. Or rather, everything in the entire spirit world was like this. This was probably the heaven in the ideals of those cultists.

"My house has a basement," Bingo said, "Let's go to the backyard and take a look, there should be an entrance there."

They came to the backyard, but didn't find any entrance; the entire backyard could be seen at a glance, and besides the lawn, there was nothing.

"He must have hidden the entrance," Bingo said, "Let me think... the tool room, let's go to the tool room and take a look."

So they came to the tool room again. As soon as they came over, they found something wrong; this tool room was more like the real world, and as they approached, they found it was in a translucent state, just like the state when those spirit bodies were about to be drawn out of this world.

"This might be the entrance to the real world," Peter speculated, "That evil spirit wants to enter the real world, either through an ownerless body, or it must be at a designated location."

"Wait." The agent discovered something in the corner of the room; it was a small doll, exactly the same as the doll that popped out of the jack-in-the-box they encountered in the bank safe deposit box at that time.

Then he remembered that when he was rummaging through things in the tool room in the real world, he found a box without a doll, and thought it was unfinished at the time. Now it seems that this doll should have been removed.

"He can also possess dolls?" The agent picked up the doll in confusion and looked at it, and after squeezing it, he found that there seemed to be something inside. So, he dismantled the doll from behind and found a finger bone inside.

"It's an adult's," the agent said, "And it's been some years. This might be old Burger's bone."

He groped inside again, took out all the cotton inside, turned the entire leather cover inside out, and then on the inside of the doll's skin, he saw a pattern somewhat similar to the previous magic circle.

"Sure enough," the agent said, "This guy is the real son of Satan. He has been studying black magic, and can directly operate in the real world by possessing dolls. He could entirely use the doll's body to hurt others and snatch their bodies. Perhaps he used this method to possess Aunt Kane who was far away in New York back then, ultimately causing Burger's escape plan to fail and brewing all the tragedies."