Chapter 572 Curse (Please Collect, Recommend, and Vote)
Kristen's house is located in the middle of downtown Los Angeles and the beach on the west coast of Los Angeles. The environment here is very good. It is obviously the city center, but there are dense woods, which provides the privacy barrier that many celebrities want to enjoy. Luxury homes here generally start at US$10 million. For example, Christine's house costs at least US$30 million. It has its own driveway, gate, swimming pool, tennis court, garden, and security system.
Just looking at these luxurious decorations and expensive facilities, it is no wonder that so many people want to become celebrities. Look at Christine, she has only been in the industry for five years, and she already has the financial resources to buy such a mansion. You can imagine how much those celebrities earn.
In fact, in front of real stars, Kristen is just like that. Really awesome stars basically have their properties all over the world. Take Charlize Theron, for example, her properties are all over the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Europe, South Africa. This portion of real estate alone is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
So Christine is still just a child.
Of course, Kai wasn't here just to tour the house. He has business to attend to.
"This is the letter." Christine drove away the servants and security guards at home, leaving only the three of them in the house. Although the servant's expression when he left was thought-provoking, Kristen had no time to care about that.
Kai opened the letter and immediately smelled the pungent smell of blood. This thing... doesn't seem to be ordinary human blood.
Kai picked up the letter and smelled it without reading the content first.
"Belladonna?" The blood was mixed with the smell of some herbs. Although Kai was not very good at witchcraft, he still knew some general information. "Well, there are also thistles. The smell should be thistles. And...Amanita muscaria? It should be like this, and finally there is sage."
Then Kai quickly put the letter away. The smell was really not good.
"What are those?" Sharize Theron asked curiously.
"Herbs used for witchcraft." Kai didn't hide this, because this thing is now in the streets: "Belladonna, maybe you have heard that the herb native to Europe will bear black fruits. Belladonna will It makes the user feel uneasy, have hallucinations, and feel drowsy. After waking up, they may forget what just happened and suffer from memory loss. Thistle has no medicinal value, but it represents revenge and also represents the heart. "It's as painful as acupuncture."
Thistle flowers are very common. When Kai was a child, he could see this kind of flower on the roadside in the village. When he was a child, he only thought that the smell of this stuff was pungent and unpleasant. It looks ugly. But in fact, this saying has a long history in the ancient West. There are two legends about this flower. One is that in Greek mythology, the goddess of the earth fell in love with the versatile Chris and wanted to find an opportunity to express her love to this shepherd, an expert hunter who could recite poems and compose music. Unexpectedly, the fallen flower was interested. Liu Shui is ruthless and suffers from the sorrow of unrequited love. She turns herself into a thistle to express the pain of "heart like needle pricks". The other is a plant that is said to have grown out of the ground after the Virgin Mary removed the nails from Christ's crucifixion.
At the same time, this thing also has a high status in witchcraft. Generally speaking, wizards or witches who want revenge will use this flower as a medium to curse their enemies.
"Amanita muscaria and sage have similar effects. In the past, many wizards would use these things as medicine. But now few people use them. After all, the side effects are too great."
Seeing Kai's lucid analysis, Christine gradually gained a little confidence in her heart.
"Then...could this be poisoning?" Sharize Theron asked carefully after listening to Kai talking about herbal medicines for a long time without mentioning any supernatural events.
"No." Kai shook his head. Then he looked at Christine: "Congratulations, you won the prize."
"What?"
"You have been cursed by a wizard."
"WTF?" Christine cursed. What the hell is this called winning the lottery?
"Hehe, do you know how many people are left who know witchcraft today?" Kai said with a smile: "Anyway, I have only met one in these years."
Kai had no problem lying. Since returning to modern society, Kai Zhen has only met one person who knows witchcraft. That was the psychic who helped Kai solve the murder case in Springwood Town's ghost dream. In fact, strictly speaking, psychics are only members of witches, not real witches.
"The things I just mentioned are at best some crude hallucinogens in the hands of ordinary people. As long as they are not taken directly, basically nothing will happen. But if these things fall into the hands of people who are really good at witchcraft, then It became a murderous weapon," Kai explained.
"In other words, what Kristen encountered this time was not an evil spirit or a demon, but a wizard?" Salize Theron's eyes widened, her expression full of curiosity. After all, she had only heard of wizards, but had never seen them before. Of course, in fact, she had never heard of many things before, so she was particularly curious. "The kind of wizard who rides a broom and rubs crystal balls?"
"Close." Kai was not interested in popularizing that wizards couldn't ride broomsticks and rarely used crystal balls for divination. Anyway, it was enough to get the idea.
Salize Theron and Kristen looked at each other. They had just finished playing Snow White and met the wizard. It felt really amazing. Especially Sharlize Theron, she had so much confidence in Kai that she didn't worry about anything going wrong, so her curiosity took over.
"Then what should we do? Go directly to the wizard?" Shalize Theron asked eagerly.
Kai rolled his eyes at Sharize Theron: "We have to find him or her. As it happens, I am not very good at witchcraft."
Christine's face turned pale.
When Sharize Theron saw her like this, she immediately comforted her: "Don't be afraid, Kai will definitely find a way."
Unexpectedly, Christine shook her head. She pointed directly behind Sharize Theron and Kai.
"There is something there!"
Kai and Sharize Theron turned their heads immediately, and there was nothing behind them.
But when the two turned their heads, they found that Christine was looking at them in horror.
"Ah!!!!"
Shariz Theron rushed up and grabbed Christine, shaking her desperately: "Christine! What's wrong with you? Wake up!"
Christine woke up like a dream, still in shock.
"Christine, what happened to you just now?"
Shariz Theron asked Christine while holding her.
Christine didn't say anything, but just kept looking at the two of them, as if she wanted to see something from them. Her eyes were so terrified and hesitant. As if she didn't believe what she saw.
"What's wrong with you?"
Sariza Theron didn't know what was wrong. She had never seen Christine like this before.
In fact, it was the first time Christine saw those terrible things in front of outsiders. In the past, she would only see those things when she was alone or asleep, but this time, she...
Just now, she saw two blue and swollen arms stretching out from the shadows behind Kai and Shariza Theron, grabbing their shoulders, but they didn't seem to notice anything. That was fine, but when she pointed out that there was something behind them, they turned their heads to look over. When they turned their heads, their faces were completely changed, their flesh was rotten, and even their eyeballs fell out of their eye sockets!
Christine couldn't tell whether it was her own hallucination or something else.
"Let me do it." Kai walked to Christine. But Christine kept shrinking back as if a ghost was approaching her.
Kai grabbed the woman's legs, pulled her to his side, and pressed her head.
"Look into my eyes!"
Hearing Kai's voice, Christine looked over instinctively.
As a result, when she looked up, she saw a pair of golden eyes.
"Ah!!!!" Then there was a sharp pain.
"Christine!" Sharize Theron hurriedly went up to hug Christine. "What's wrong with her?"
Kai let go of her hand and said, "Nothing, just temporarily help her expel the curse."
After a while, Christine finally woke up from the severe pain.
Seeing that Christine was no longer shouting, but just panting, as if she was about to collapse.
"What just happened was..."
"She didn't encounter any supernatural things, but was cursed. In short, everything she encountered these days was not real, but an illusion caused by the curse." Kai picked up a glass of wine and handed it to Christine. Alcohol can relieve her fatigue and weakness.
Christine finally recovered a lot. She took the wine glass tremblingly: "Why... This is the first time I can see those things so clearly... It was not like this before. Before... They would only appear vaguely, not like now..."
Salize Theron asked curiously: "What did you see?"
Christine hesitated for a while and told Salize Theron what she saw.
Salize Theron's eyes widened when she heard it. When she thought of a hand touching her body, she got goose bumps all over her body.
Kay ignored the two women and picked up the letter again.
Although there were indeed faint traces of witchcraft on the letter, Kai was sure that this power would at most make people dazed for a while, and it was impossible to cause such a strong reaction. Kai took the letter and planned to look at the spell.
It would be better if he didn't look at it. The more he looked at it, the more confused he became.
First of all, the spell on the letter was indeed ancient Celtic text. If the other party knew witchcraft, it would not be surprising to know such text. But the problem is that the spells in it are completely messed up. In short, these are not spells at all, but more like verbal curses, not curses.
If someone wants to curse someone to death with this thing, it's a joke.
Shariz Theron looked at Kai staring at the letter in a daze, thinking that Kai had discovered something: "Kai, did you find anything?"
"Ah. No, it's just that the things on this letter don't look like curses." As he said, Kai's hand trembled, and the letter burned.
Looking at the flames burning on the letter, Kai looked as if it was just as expected: "If this letter is really a curse medium, the color will definitely not be like this when it burns."
"What color should it be?"
"That's hard to say, any color is possible, anyway, it won't be the color of normal flames." The color of witchcraft items burning is generally green, but it is not absolute. According to the type of witchcraft, strength, and even the material of the medium, it may cause the burning flame to show different colors. This kind of thing is hard to say.
"So, this letter has nothing to do with what happened to Christine?"
"That's not true. There are still traces of witchcraft on it. I can only say that this thing should be the trigger, and it is it that caused the curse to break out." This is also Kai's guess. But it should be almost correct.
"What should we do?" Christine was a little anxious. Especially now that she saw the possibility of solving the problem, she was even more anxious.
Kai touched his chin.
"Curses can't come out of thin air. They must need a medium." Although Kai didn't know much about witchcraft, compared with spells, witchcraft, in addition to being weird, has another major feature, which is that witchcraft needs a medium. This is even more true for curses. It can't be that a wizard can curse others casually with a spell. It needs a medium that can connect the victim and the caster.
"What medium?"
"Medium... This thing is also very complicated to explain. In short, if a wizard wants to curse Christine, generally speaking, there are two ways. One is to obtain Christine's body fluids, hair or personal items. In short, it needs to have a strong connection with Christine. The other way is that the wizard prepares a spell-casting item and places it around Christine, and then affects Christine through that item."
"We can't find a clue about body fluids and hair for a while, so it can only be a witchcraft item. Let's look for it quickly!"
Salize Theron's mobility is not to be underestimated. She immediately started looking in Christine's house.
It doesn't matter whether others are willing or not.
Of course, Christine will never refuse. After all, Christine is not stupid. It's time to die, so why would she estimate this.
In this era, there are no anti-intellectual elements in later generations. The virus has been killed under their noses, and a group of people are still clamoring that it's all fake news and vaccines are conspiracies.
Soon the three of them were rummaging through the house, but they were busy all the time.
Nothing was found.
Of course, Christine would never refuse. After all, Christine was not stupid. It was a life-threatening moment, so why would she care about this?
In this era, there were no anti-intellectual elements in later generations. The virus was right under our noses, and a group of people were still shouting that it was all fake news and the vaccine was a conspiracy.
Soon the three of them were rummaging through the house, but they were busy all the time.
Nothing was found.
Soon the three of them were rummaging through the house, but they were busy all the time.
Nothing was found.