Chapter 1004 The troubles of fathers

The ghosts who lived here at Rashomon fled because they were afraid of the cruelty of humans.

——Rashomon

Orvieto is not far from Rome, and Xavi should have arrived.

Joseph took the blackberry and looked for signals everywhere, but after searching the entire monastery, only the signal near the greenhouse was slightly better. As a result, unexpectedly, he met Father Stein, the former exorcist.

He was picking eggs from the chicken shed next to the greenhouse when he saw Joseph appear and said hello symbolically, and then continued to do his own business as if he didn't exist.

"I've heard of you." Joseph pursed his lips and said stiffly.

"I've heard about you too." Stein said without looking back while picking up eggs, "How did you sleep last night?"

"Not bad." Joseph said insincerely. In fact, he slept very poorly, and there were even faint black shadows under his eyes.

"You didn't feel anything unusual?"

"What's abnormal?"

"I kept feeling like there were people walking up and down the hallway, and the door opened three times the first night I got here."

Joseph was silent

"I can only tell them that my bladder will be particularly tense when I'm in a strange environment. You know, it's normal for people to go to the toilet several times at night as they get older."

"I got up twice, and every time I opened the door, there was no one outside." Joseph said in a deep voice, "I thought someone was going to the toilet at night."

Father Stein stared at Joseph, as if trying to discern whether he was telling the truth.

"In 1987, there was a German girl named Anna. She had been taking care of her seriously ill father. One day, when she was in a daze after taking care of her, she seemed to see a black snake crawling across the hospital bed to bite him.

Her father, she wanted to get rid of it, but found that her right arm could not move. When she looked at her hand, she found that her fingers had turned into small black snakes. She was frightened, and all she could do was

Praying, but the scriptures that appeared in her mind were all in English, and she lost the ability to speak German. Some people said that she was possessed, but she insisted on seeing a doctor. After undergoing hypnosis, she saw the illusion again, and later she completely

She was cured. The doctor said she suffered from conversion hysteria, which is caused by psychological trauma or repressed desires manifesting themselves as physical disease symptoms through the conversion mechanism. Have you heard of this disease?"

"Yes." Joseph said coldly, "They even told you this?"

"I'm discussing Anna's case with you." Stein put down the egg. "I've been thinking about what drove Anna to suffer from malingering. Thinking about the snake that tried to bite her father, maybe this is the reason.

"

"She no longer wants to take care of her seriously ill father?"

"She's a good girl, but she's under so much pressure that she's so tired that she's delirious."

Joseph scoffed.

"when are you leaving?"

"After the investigation is completed..."

Stein had the same weird expression as Sean.

"What?"

"Like you, I will leave after investigating the case 400 years ago, but I am an old guy, and it is actually quite good to retire here."

"I'm different from you." Joseph said calmly, "What do you think is that person wandering around the monastery in the middle of the night?"

"Ghost, but I don't know if he is Guillam or Halzer. The former may have died from the curse, while the latter died from the trial. At that time, the church..."

"I know, in order to avoid the situation becoming more chaotic." Joseph stopped Stein from continuing, "Because he felt that he had been wronged, so Halzer turned into an evil spirit?"

"Or worse, this place is targeted by demons. There is a convent in Romania..."

"I know." Joseph interrupted Stein again with a solemn expression. "Father Gordon has been there."

"Women are keener than us in psychics, but unfortunately, there will be no nuns to help us. I think we have to rely on ourselves this time." Stein patted the dust on his hands. "You want to go see the prison where we were detained?"

The Viscount’s room?”

"What is the name of this monastery?" asked Joseph.

"It used to be called Prince's Monastery, but now it's just a strange monastery. It would be great if we could burn it down to solve all the problems."

"What happened to Viscount Wilkes?"

"Five years after the trial ended, he also died. It was said to be an accident."

"Someone killed him?"

"He confessed almost all the local nobles in one breath, and they were almost burned to death in a dishonorable way." Stein said with a smile, "In order to protect him, the bishop locked him up in a monastery."

"This monastery?"

"Of course not. A few years after the incident, the entire Prince's Monastery was moved to its current location. There has been no case for four hundred years."

"until today."

"I heard that there is still a local custom. On the Sunday before Easter, locals will wear white robes and long-nosed masks and hit passers-by on the head with an inflated pig bladder."

"Do you think this is related to the incident that year?"

"I don't know." Stein said with an indifferent expression, "I really wish I could go back to Bavaria four hundred years ago to see what really happened back then."

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Mills turned on his phone, but he still didn't receive a reply from Joseph, so he put the phone back in his pocket.

What Isabella Taylor said made him very uneasy, and he didn't really want to go back to the hotel until he understood the situation.

Los Angeles does not have as many skyscrapers as New York. The main high-rise buildings are in the city center. It is not difficult to rent a motel in the suburbs.

There is no need to worry about being thrown to death on flat ground, but the hotel has a swimming pool, which Mills did not expect.

He couldn't help but take out his cell phone again, but there was still no new mail. Then he threw it on the table and lay in bed in a daze.

Now the doctor should be dissecting Angela Warren's body. He suspects that Angela will turn into an animal like a cat or leopard like the "Snake Lady" on the circus poster.

That weird circus not only performed in France, but also in New York, and it was also a street performance.

If someone really turns into a snake, the media will definitely not miss it. Mills can't find any other word to describe this thing except weird.

Compared with this, he would rather deal with armed robbers.

"Russian..." Mills murmured, "Does the FBI suspect that he is a Russian spy?"

This idea was so ridiculous that he almost laughed at himself.

Theoretically, Angela's father should have come from Detroit to see her, but it was said that the guy had just undergone heart bypass surgery and was in the hospital himself. It was precisely because of this that Angela ran to Detroit to find him.

After he was discharged from the hospital, it was time for Angela to be laid to rest. Burying her daughter was not a pleasant experience, for Mills anyway, especially since the news of his first fatherhood came from the murderer of his wife.

When you get it.

"I don't believe in that stuff," Mills said as he lay on the psychiatrist's couch. "But it makes me feel better to blame someone else."

Half of these words are true.

Mills picked up the cigarette on the bedside table, lit it skillfully, then lay on the bed and started smoking.

As for the uneaten pack of nicotine gum, it should have been buried in a garbage dump.

At this moment, he felt a kind of relaxation that he had not seen for a long time. It felt so comfortable to be a mortal.

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"I can't believe it!" Hermione Granger, as if she had a grudge against the pork chop, broke it down fiercely with a knife and fork.

"What's wrong with you?" Pomona was holding a cup of tea, leaning on the backrest of the booth and drinking it slowly.

"Ron!" roared the Gryffindor lioness.

"How did he offend you again?"

Hermione was like a deflated balloon, lowering her head in frustration.

"Every time I come home from get off work and have to clean up the room, he is lying on the sofa reading comics and eating snacks."

Pomona recalled.

This is one of Severus's rare advantages. This may be due to the Potions Professor's habit for many years. After the experiment, he should clean up the experimental table and utensils. He doesn't have to worry about being in the same room with Gryffindor.

That way, no matter how you clean it up, it will be messy.

"He won't comfort me when I'm angry, and he snores like thunder when I sleep!"

Pomona was shocked.

Severus would actually coax her after making her angry. How come she has only discovered this rare advantage now?

Girls will inevitably complain about their boyfriends when they are together. Most men are like Ron and don't take it seriously at all. Otherwise, they think buying a bouquet of roses and apologizing will be fine.

No wonder Severus Snape is regarded as the "Love Saint".

"He is a child himself, how can he be a father in the future?" Hermione frowned in sorrow.

Pomona's heart was ringing with alarm bells.

"you are pregnant?"
To be continued...