Chapter 892: Spirit Exploration Program, Scientific Ghost Catching

"A horrific murder case from thirty years ago! Evil spirits, ghosts, and poltergeist disturbances..."

"Is this really information from the Spirit Realm? Or can it be explained by science?"

"Tonight, we will unravel the mystery in *Spirit Exploration Records*. We are the Miskatonic University Spirit Exploration Club!" A white youth dressed like a hippie with a headband was holding a DVD, filming the gate of an abandoned residence.

"I am Rick, a spirit exploration host who believes in science."

He said to the recorder, "This is our Miskatonic University occult enthusiast, a secret history researcher with twelve years of occult research experience, Sophia from the History Department!"

A young woman with long hair, dressed as a witch, appeared in front of the camera.

She pushed up the glasses on the bridge of her nose and said to the camera, "My grandmother was a famous Gypsy witch. When I was a child, she told me—I have the bloodline of a witch!"

"From that time on, I became interested in occultism. I have studied occultism and the Spirit Realm for twelve years. I dare to be certain that beyond reality, there is indeed an incomparably mysterious world!"

"And our mad scientist, Nick from the Physics Department. He is a radio enthusiast who joined the Spirit Exploration Club because of a strange radio wave!"

Following Rick's explanation, the camera turned again to another thin white man who better fit the nerd stereotype.

"Evil spirits are just electromagnetic waves!"

Nick said to the camera, "I am absolutely certain of this point. In the previous few spirit explorations, the wave detector I modified detected strange electromagnetic waves. They might be the brain waves of people who died miserably, left in a magnetized specific electromagnetic field because of thunderstorm weather, and then broadcast under specific circumstances."

"The principle is the same as a video recorder, except the tapes they play are the brain waves of the dead!"

Rick set up the DVD to film Nick's determined face, then gave a close-up of the instrument like two iron rods in his hand.

"Nick, what are you holding in your hand?"

Nick raised the iron rods and turned on the switch of the instrument on his back. A wisp of current flowed through the iron rods, and a fine current between the two metal rods jumped with a *zi* sound.

"This is an overclocked ghost-driving instrument. Strong magnetism and current can disrupt the magnetic field of a spiritual body. After several previous studies, I found an electromagnetic wave that is particularly effective against evil spirits!"

"You are a madman, Nick!"

A low voice interrupted him from the side, accompanied by slightly heavy breathing. The camera turned to reveal a middle-aged man with a beard, holding a wine glass and looking down-and-out. Rick smiled awkwardly: "Professor..."

"Don't call me Professor! I have already been expelled by Miskatonic University!"

The middle-aged man took a sip of the wine in the bottle and said drunkenly, "Evil spirits are just spiritual aggregates wandering in the Spirit Realm. They come to our world and will indeed observe abnormalities in electromagnetic waves, but this does not mean that electromagnetic waves are evil spirits. Nick, you are a genius; you discovered the secret of Spirit Realm radio waves with just a few electromagnetic waves from residual spiritual bodies."

"But dark creatures are not just evil spirits; there are cultists, vampires, and werewolves, and even the most terrifying demons that covet our souls."

"There are too many things that cannot be driven away by Spirit Realm radio waves!"

"You need this..." The professor pulled a gun from his waist: "Colt Python, eight-inch barrel,. 357 caliber, equipped with silver bullets. One shot can blow the head off a vampire baron."

"And this!"

He unbuckled the silver-ornamented classical gun on his back: "Pedersoli side-by-side flintlock double-barreled shotgun, from an old friend of mine who was a demon hunter. The bullets are all reloaded by me, melting the old silver lamps from the Lantern Father's church and casting them into thirty-eight silver beads, paired with flame gunpowder improved from ancient dragon-breath gunpowder. A gravedigger for werewolves, a friendly greeting for demons!"

Carrying the shotgun, with three pistols tucked into his waist, and full of ammunition belts and grenades under his jacket and trench coat, the old professor bit on a cigar and took out a lighter to light it.

Puffing out smoke, he said, "I was once a folklore professor at Miskatonic. I arrogantly took my students to the New World to explore clues left by the Original Sin Sect, and ended up killing all my students, for which I was expelled by Miskatonic!"

"Now..." He cocked the shotgun: "I am addicted to exorcism modifications for firearms and thermal weapons. One day..."

His eyes were blood-red: "I will kill my way back and kill those sons-of-a-bitch demons!"

The final shot was given to a man who was covering things up. He introduced to everyone, "This Tudor-style detached villa has a history of two hundred and fifty years! The owner before the last was Professor Georgia from your Miskatonic University. He died accidentally thirty years ago. Later, the villa was sold to the Ronda family who had left. As a result, one night a month later, all five members of the Ronda family living here disappeared!"

"Therefore, this place has also become a famous haunted house in Kafas City..."

"Alright!" Rick pressed the pause button: "This is enough to edit an opening! Hmm, I need to use night vision mode to shoot two more segments, add some shaky shots, fast-forwarding, and sprinting clips."

At this time, Nick was still debugging his instrument, a modified radio.

"The electromagnetic wave frequency here is indeed close to the Spirit Realm... the degrees are very messy, there is indeed a relatively strong interference. It might be an evil spirit!"

Rick nodded and said, "Since *Spirit Exploration Records* started airing on TV, our Occult Science Research Club has received a large amount of program revenue and donations, and Sophia's audience disturbance theory has also been confirmed. The brain waves of a large number of program viewers who are paying attention indeed interfere with and destroy the background electromagnetic waves of the magnetic field, disrupting the magnetic field environment of the haunted house that is close to the Spirit Realm!"

"The Night Watchers are already prepared to give us further support. Professor, they are willing to grant you a special gun license."

Sophia pushed up the glasses on the bridge of her nose and said seriously, "This shows that anti-secrecy theory has the possibility of further development. In terms of the true destructiveness to secret rituals and the source of Spirit Realm power, television is many times more terrifying than the Lantern Father's Holy Light technique!"

The professor took a swig of wine, stared at the pitch-black gate, and said, "Don't be careless!"

"Professor Georgia did indeed die here! He was suspected of being a cultist of the Original Sin Sect, and then committed suicide in this villa! The Ronda family who moved in later indeed disappeared!"

Rick said in surprise, "What about the Board of Trustees? Didn't they come to investigate?"

"We are already the third club entrusted by the Board of Trustees to investigate here! After the war ended, the Spiritual Cultivation Society came to investigate simply and took away all the books collected by this old thing Georgia!"

"Then the Night Watchers and the Holy Church also came to investigate, but at that time the war had just ended, and there were too many more important things to be busy with."

"After the Ronda family disappeared, the Board of Trustees entrusted the Tower of Omniscience to investigate. The people from the Tower of Omniscience believed that this was a case of sacrificing demons in the Spirit Realm. The villa left by Georgia was targeted by someone with ulterior motives! Suspecting that he had hidden something inside, the poor Ronda family became sacrifices used for the ritual..."

Sophia flipped through the investigation report in her hand.

"Professor Georgia's death was indeed strange. Although there is no evidence, he was at least a transcendent at the level of the Baptized, and his suicide was very much like a secret ritual. So some people suspected that he transformed himself into an evil spirit, so the Blood Cup Church used the Ronda family for a blood sacrifice and performed a spirit-summoning secret ritual."

Rick pushed open the outer fence. This was an iron fence that was very popular in the previous epoch.

Rick noticed that they were all cast in black iron into pointed tops like lanterns.

"This is a fence decoration commonly used by the rich in the middle of the Fourth Epoch. At that time, the Camelot Kingdom was very chaotic, and the gangs and blood drugs caused by the Blood Cup path in the city worsened public security. They believed that using lanterns to shape the fence, surrounding their houses, and lighting these lanterns at night could drive away darkness and defend against evil."

The professor pointed to these fences and explained.

Rick brought the camera closer, reflecting a scene of intertwined light and shadow.

"This camera has been modified by us and can capture more traces of Spirit Realm radio waves. At the same time, it also symbolizes the audience's gaze, which plays an important role in the subsequent unveiling ceremony." Rick whispered, explaining to the newcomer behind him: "It can break through secrecy!"

Pushing open the fence gate, Rick stepped into the small courtyard of the detached villa. Suddenly, he felt a chill drilling into his clothes along his neck.

The entire villa, shrouded in darkness, exuded a quiet and mysterious atmosphere.

As an emerging scientific spiritual cultivation school, Rick was very sensitive to people's gazes, but at this moment, he always felt that several gazes were cast from the darkness, staring at him.

The half-open door was blown by the night wind, making a creaking sound!

Rick pushed open the door and said suspiciously, "Why is the door open?"

The professor shrugged and picked up a bunch of keys, saying, "The Board of Trustees gave me the keys. I came to see it during the day. Maybe I forgot to close the door?"

Once the door was opened, he shone a flashlight around and found that the furnishings inside were very complete, all in the style of the previous epoch.

Rick turned on the camera and whispered to the recorder, "It's a bit scary!"

"Nick... did your instrument find anything?"

The pointer of the instrument on Nick's back swung wildly, and a *zi-zi* noise came from the radio: "The disturbance in the Spirit Realm is very severe, and the electromagnetic field is very chaotic."

Arriving at the dining room, Sophia insisted on lighting a silver lamp on the dining table.

"The lamp is very important! My grandmother told me that no matter what mysterious ritual it is, the lamp is always the most important one! She hated electric lights very much, thinking that this kind of light that disappears when the power is cut off is very unsafe."

Sophia lit the silver lamp, but found that the firelight burning with whale oil turned blue.

The living room, kitchen, and dining room, which were connected together, were all covered with a strange color.

At this time, the radio behind Nick made a *zi-zi* sound, and a trembling male voice suddenly sounded: "... what exactly do you want to know? I have already told you everything I know!"

"Professor Georgia..."

A hoarse and strange voice came from the radio. Perhaps the tone in the radio had changed, making it sound even less like a human voice.

"Original Sin says hello to you!"

The professor turned his head sharply, his eyes blood-red, signaling everyone not to make a sound.

A rich bloody smell reached everyone's noses. I don't know if it was a strange hallucination brought by Spirit Realm radio waves, or something that was really happening here.

"... it was not easy to find you. I didn't expect you to fall into the Blood Cup, Professor Georgia!"

"Blood of Envy!"

"That group of Blood Cup Church believers didn't come to find you, but to cover up your existence! During that war thirty years ago, when the Original Sin Sect showed signs of decline, you had already made up your mind to defect to another family, right!"

"But you are an important target targeted by the Church and the Night Watchers, the famous Blood-Thirsty Professor."

"Death? What you left for them was just a useless corpse! Only the Original Sin path can allow you to cut off the connection with the corpse and avoid the Church's burial holy ritual, right?"

In the radio, Professor Georgia's evil spirit wailed: "Who... who exactly are you?"

"This is not the means of the Original Sin Church!"

That low voice said lightly: "Of course we are not the Original Sin Church, but the Original Sin Church hid something that is very important to us. So, you should have the key to enter 'that place', right? Having died so many colleagues, you should always be able to get a key!"

"Original Sin Sect... they didn't trust me at all, thinking that my research was too close to the Blood Cup..." Professor Georgia gasped: "Give me a quick death! I have told you everything I know!"

That cold voice said cruelly: "How could that be? Professor, you are the wick I prepared!"

"You will burn in the blood lamp for a hundred years, illuminating all the traces left by the Blood Cup. Original Sin says hello to you!"

Georgia screamed: "Don't! No... you are... you are..."

The radio was suddenly interrupted here. Nick was sweating profusely while debugging the instrument, while Sophia pointed to the stairs leading to the second floor...

Rick shone the flashlight over, but saw a pool of viscous liquid slowly flowing down the stairs. Under the light of the flashlight, the liquid dripping along the stairs looked a bit black, but no one could deny...

"It's blood!" The professor said in a deep voice.

He shone the flashlight toward the second floor: "Let's go up!"

"Wait..."

Sophia picked up the silver lamp beside her, and the swaying light flashed toward the kitchen. A hooded shadow was suddenly illuminated for an instant.

Sophia and Nick both saw this scene, and the hair on her back stood up.

Nick screamed even more.

The professor covered Nick's mouth with his backhand, but saw him pointing at the kitchen direction constantly.

Rick shone the flashlight over, only to find that it was empty and there was nothing there...

But Sophia chanted a spell softly, and the light of the silver lamp turned white. She shone it toward the corner where the black-robed shadow stood, only to see dots of red light reflected back.

The professor lifted his leg and walked over. He was carrying a cocked shotgun, pointing in front of him. When he reached that position, he reached out and touched the ground, lifted his head and said: "It's dripping blood!"

"Someone has been standing here with a knife for a long time. He is watching us!"

At this moment, the spirit exploration team's scalp went numb! ===== CHAPTER 893 =====