"Bart, let's forget it. I have a bad feeling." Ya'erli said timidly. He looked a little submissive, as if he was worried, and his voice became softer.
The light in the basement was dim, with only burning candles bringing a little light. The three of them sat together, and there was an incomplete magic circle on the ground where they sat.
The magic circle was drawn with chalk. In the center of the magic circle was an unburned brazier. In the brazier were placed some personal items they brought from home, which were used as a medium for summoning.
Bart saw Ya'er's timid look and said, "Are you scared, Ya'er? You see, Anker isn't even scared. Are you not as courageous as a girl?"
Anker blinked his eyes and said: "Let's get started, Ya'erli, go and light the last candle."
Ya'er lowered his head and muttered aggrievedly: "I just think it's a little weird. This notebook looks suspicious."
The magic circle was drawn according to the description in the notes.
Ya'erli looked at the black leather notebook in Bart's hand. He always felt that the leather notebook gave him a very uncomfortable feeling. The textured cover seemed to be human skin.
But Ya'er didn't dare to say these words, because he would definitely be ridiculed by Bart again.
"Come on, don't make excuses for your timidity, Ya'erli." Bart thought for a moment and did not light the last candle, but handed it to the timid Ya'erli.
"To practice your courage, come and light it up." Bart said.
Ya'erli's face suddenly turned pale. If he remembered correctly, the last person to light the candle would become the monster's sacrifice, that is, food.
"..." Ya'erli held a candle in his hand and hesitated to light it.
Just as Ya'erli was having a strong psychological struggle, Mrs. Bart's voice came from upstairs, "Would you like to eat some fruit!?"
The sudden sound scared Ya'erli to the point where he almost jumped up from the ground. He felt as if his heart was about to jump out of his chest.
"Mom, I told you not to disturb us when we were having a secret meeting!" Bart couldn't help shouting upstairs.
"If you want something to eat, remember to call me!" Mrs. Bart's voice preached from upstairs.
"Okay, don't disturb us, we will find food by ourselves when we are hungry!" Bart said angrily.
This was just a small episode. After the three of them looked at each other, Bart smiled and said, "If you are hungry, you can tell me and I have prepared snacks."
After saying that, he took out a bag of snacks from under the table behind him, which he had prepared in advance.
"I'm not hungry, Ya'erli, what about you?" Anker asked Ya'erli casually.
"...Give me a bag of potato chips." Ya'erli felt that he needed a bag of potato chips to calm himself down.
Bart handed over the potato chips.
"Okay, let's continue, Yali, you light the last candle." Bart said.
Ya'erli was still a little hesitant, and the lighter in his hand could not be settled. After he finished the bag of potato chips despite his hesitation, the candle was still not lit.
"Are you planning to wait until dawn?" Finally, Bart couldn't help but said.
"Forget it, you coward, I'll light the candles, give me the lighter," Bart said.
Ya'er wanted to prove that he was not the coward in Bart's sky, but his heart was full of fear about these unknown things. In the end, he handed back the lighter in his hand.
At this moment, Anker said: "Otherwise, I will do it."
Ya'erli was a little worried, but before he could speak, Bart nodded, handed the candle and lighter to Ankel, and pretended to be a gentleman and said: "Of course, no problem, ladies first."
With curiosity on his face, Anker took a lighter, lit the candle, and then threw the candle into the brazier. Their personal belongings were then burned to ashes, but nothing happened.
The three of them were silent for a moment, and there was no movement around them.
After a while, Bart couldn't help showing a disappointed look on his face, "It seems that what is written in this note is not reliable."
Anker's face was also slightly disappointed, but she controlled her emotions well.
"Bart, show me your notes to see if we've missed any steps." Anker said.
"No way." Bart opened the note and carefully compared the ritual contents written inside.
"How about forget it, what is written in this notebook is not reliable at all." Ya'erli said.
Suddenly Bart said: "No, wait, we missed a step. The ritual will fulfill a wish. In other words, we need to make a wish."
"Make a wish?" Anker seemed to be confirming.
Bart nodded and said: "Yes, but it seems there can only be one. Do you have any wishes?"
Anker shook his head and suddenly asked her to make a wish. She didn't know what to make.
Bart looked towards Ya'erli, who immediately shook his head. He would never make a wish as described in the strange note.
Seeing that neither of them had any ideas, Bart couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
"By the way, do you remember that chemistry teacher from seventh grade?" Bart asked the two of them as if he remembered something.
Of course Anker and Ya'erli remember that guy, because of him, a girl in school jumped off a building. Although she survived in the end, she was disabled for life.
That girl is still Anker's best friend.
But after the incident passed, the chemistry teacher was not punished in any way, and the matter was settled. This made Anker very angry, and he once wanted to report the chemistry teacher for molesting the students.
There is just no evidence that the teacher did such a thing.
"We should give him some punishment as revenge." Bart's suggestion immediately gained support from the two of them.
Anker and Ya'er both nodded in agreement.
"Then how should we make a wish? I mean, what punishment should we give him?" Ya'erli asked.
"Let him lose his job," Anker said.
Bart thought for a while, shook his head and said, "That would be too cheap for him."
"Isn't he a vicious man? Let's just make him unable to speak in the future and become a mute." Ya'erli thought for a while and said.
"That's a good idea," Bart said.
An Ke'er didn't have any objections either.
"In this case, let's make a wish." Bart made a praying gesture and made a wish into the brazier.
Bart opened his eyes and was wondering why there was no change, when suddenly, the candle in the basement went out.
Three people screamed in the basement.
It wasn't until Bart's mother turned on the lights in the basement that the three of them calmed down and looked at each other in confusion.