One hundred and thirty-nine. New stories and new knowledge
The visible song, the crowd of suffering, the twisted knowledge of the headless spirit shrouded Lu Li like a dark veil. The whispers of the other world sounded deep in the heart of the pollution.
It's enough for Kig Foley. Continuous acquisition of distorted knowledge will make it easier to distort the mind and sanity.
However, Lu Li recovered faster than he imagined. The comprehensive bonus from the Book of Doomsday Apocalypse gave Lu Li attributes that surpassed everyone else. The murmurs gradually disappeared like sourceless water.
"Then it's my turn to tell a story?" Rhode said sleepily, with the warmth of the rock behind him, and he raised his eyelids.
Ma Fulin poured himself a glass of rum, and the shadow of the dark golden liquid cast on the gravel: "I hope you can tell a good story to end the party."
The night is gradually becoming dangerous. The last party ended at nine o'clock in the evening, but now it has to be advanced to eight o'clock.
"This is appropriate." Rhodes sat up straight and left the rock, sleepiness fading from his face. "Then let me tell a story about Uncle Michael."
Rhodes looked at Lu Li intentionally and said.
"Michael Tesla, a member of the Tesla family of exorcists in the Allen Kingdom, and my uncle who lived with me when I was a child."
Young Michael Tesla didn't like The Exorcist.
Never liked it.
This may be related to the fact that his parents died mysteriously at the same time when he was young.
Michael, who had just turned 15, was sent to the care of Rod's father. At that time, Rod was only three or four years old. Adults and the weird world were still far away from him, so Rod often ran to find people who were more than ten years older than him.
"Uncle" play.
At that time, Rod already knew that Uncle Michael's parents had left this world forever. As children, they had a unique way of healing their companions: companionship.
Michael, who was in the rebellious stage, was taciturn and refused all good intentions, except for Rod, who was always running around. Rod's parents saw this and allowed the two children to stay together all day long.
As time passed, Michael did begin to accept the outside world again, and a smile gradually appeared on his face. But there was one thing only Rod knew: this uncle never got over the shadow of his parents' death.
At that time, Rhodes was almost ten years old. With the knowledge passed down by his family, he knew more than ordinary children, including weird things. And Michael had changed from a boy to a young man, but he still stayed in the family with little knowledge.
Go out.
In other words, he stays in his house and rarely goes out.
So Rod couldn't understand how deep a love would keep Michael imprisoned in his heart for six years.
Finally, while passing by his parents' study by chance, Rod heard his parents worry about Michael: poor Michael saw his parents being killed when he was ten years old, and then lived alone for five years before coming to their home.
The death of his parents cut open Michael's heart, and loneliness solidified his wounds.
Even the healing at the Rhodes house only glues the heart together, not heals it.
Michael resisted the inheritance of the family and became an exorcist. His condition was not suitable for becoming an exorcist, so he was assigned to the family's property and chose a profession he liked: an embalmer.
Dress up the dead and send them on their last journey.
Rod, like most members of the exorcist family, began to learn to become an exorcist. Of course, he did not forget that his uncle Michael, who had lived with him since childhood, came to his house one night in winter bringing gifts.
Michael drank a lot. Rod had never seen him drink so much. Later, he learned that today was the day Michael's parents died.
Drunk Michael narrated the nightmare scene of that day in a dream: a huge rocky hand that looked like a house and was covered with vines and moss stretched out from the abyss and grabbed Michael's family of three. His father held up a black umbrella as an exorcist.
Resistance, but the mother realized something, finally pushed herself out, and said I love you with tears on her face.
The giant hand grabbed Michael's parents and held them together, and then... they couldn't tell each other apart anymore.
The giant hand fell back into the abyss, and the huge will that was awakened also fell asleep again. Michael was rescued by other family members who arrived.
Michael was only ten years old at the time.
Rod didn't understand why his ten-year-old uncle would deal with weird things. Others in the family told him that Michael was a genius. He was born with amazing inspiration and a stronger sense of consciousness - the latter made him more resistant than ordinary people.
The invasion of the breath of the other world stabilizes the sanity value.
But no one expected that Michael's future would be shattered at its most vulnerable point.
In short, Rod often went to accompany his uncle, even after officially becoming an exorcist at the age of fifteen.
The separation has not erased the affection between the uncle and nephew, although it is true that it is difficult to get together because of their increasing busyness.
Until one day after dealing with a strange incident, he heard something from his parents: his uncle had a wife.
The parents were not happy, and the confused Rhodes asked and got the truth: Michael's wife... was a ghost.
The Tesla family has a history of hundreds of years, and its ancestors can even be traced back to the founding of the Demon Slayer Association. More than 90% of its family members died from weird or weird-related foods.
Water and fire can never touch without hurting each other.
Michael encountered resistance from family members, but it was full of complications - all family members knew the story of the rising genius in the family who died in a blink of an eye.
Those families that have good relations with the Tesla family, such as the Ma Fulin family and the Foley family, have not targeted Michael.
In the end, a balance was maintained between Michael and his family: Michael became an exorcist and left the Mainland in exchange for being with his wife.
Before leaving, Michael actually met the 17-year-old Rod.
Michael regretted that he could not celebrate the coming of age ceremony for Rod, and Rod also felt sad that Michael had to stay away from the family.
He saw his uncle's wife, a very gentle woman named Adangfuya. Michael discovered her ghost when he was decorating her body. She was the legitimate daughter of a large family, but she was
Ordinary family.
This is how equilibrium is achieved: a peer-to-peer transaction
The Tesla family has received stable resource assistance, Adangfuya's family no longer has to worry about strange intrusions, and the lovers Michael and Adangfoya can get rid of prejudice and hostility and live happily together.
Michael, who went to Belfast on the Allen Peninsula, did not lose contact with his family and exchanged letters every few months. His achievements gradually became known to family members.
The only regret is that because of the original agreement, Michael cannot return to his homeland at will.
Even though his family is no longer against Michael's ghost wife.
This is the rule across the continent: weirdness is the enemy of mankind.
"So I'm different from these two guys." Rhodes pointed at the other two, with a hint: "Like my uncle, I have no prejudice against weirdness."