13 Mink Street

Karen looked at Ron, then at the copper coin in his hand;

so,

You stole the money that the old woman spent all day looking for?

I almost lost my life with Pu'er last night, is it because of your low hand?

But from another perspective,

The employees of one's own family stole other people's things at work, and it seemed reasonable for them to find themselves, the "little boss" of the family business.

But,

Here comes the problem,

Is that old woman bewitching strange demons?

If she was, why was she lying in the morgue as an unclaimed body?

If she is not, does it mean that the old woman's mutation is caused by this copper coin, that is to say, this copper coin can produce bewitching monsters in batches?

But look at Ron's "stupid paralysis" now,

It's really hard for Karen to compare him with the old woman who can use tricks and possess corpses last night;

Is it because Ron hasn't had enough contact with this copper coin? Or was the old woman not an ordinary person before she was alive? Therefore, the changes produced by the two of them after being affected by this copper coin are very different.

Right now, the only thing that is certain is that there is definitely something wrong with this copper coin.

Karen remembered that "Pu'er" said something called "Holy Artifact". Ordinary people need to go through the process of "purification" to become a servant of God, and "purification" requires the breath of "Holy Artifact".

Therefore, "holy artifact" is just a synonym, and it doesn't specifically refer to "sacred artifacts". Just like Pu'er said, strange demons and priests are actually the same in essence?

"My money...my money...my money..."

Ron was still drooling and muttering.

"Ron, what's wrong with you?" Paul seemed to sense something was wrong with Ron.

Karen raised his hand, and he planned to return the copper coin to Ron first, so that he could return to normal temporarily.

Ron is the family's buddy, and he won't slip away. Besides, he's almost home, and calling Diss as soon as he gets home is just to make Ron happy for a while with "copper coins".

but,

When Karen was about to hand over the copper coin,

Suddenly there was a strong reluctance in his heart,

It's hard to describe this feeling...

Like if you pick up a penny on the side of the road, it is easy to hand it over to the police uncle;

But if you pick up a gold brick on the side of the road, even if you finally hand it over to the police uncle, you must have gone through some struggles in your heart.

No matter how good the character is, no matter how good the conduct is, as long as he is still a human being, he will have the desire to be "greedy".

Karen took a breath, and put the copper coin back into Ron's hand.

Ron smiled immediately, his expression returned to normal, and he kissed the copper coin;

In Karen's heart, there was a burst of loss and emptiness.

I've only held it for a while, has this copper coin affected me so much?

The power of this copper coin is really amazing.

You know, it's just copper, it's worthless!

The hearse finally arrived at the door of the house. At this time, the last batch of condolence guests were walking out. Today's condolences are over.

"Whose funeral?" Karen asked Paul.

"Old Darcy's today," replied Paul.

"Old Darcy?" Karen was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Who paid for the funeral expenses of old Darcy?"

Old Darcy had a family, and relatives and friends, but obviously, no matter how much water was taken out of a cremator, his family would not be willing to hold a funeral for him at the Inmeles house.

In the eyes of the police, Mrs. Hughes, who said that she would hold a grand funeral for old Darcy, had already fled in fear of crime.

"Mrs. Hughes' property has been confiscated, the cremation agency is preparing to be auctioned off, and the rest of the property will be given priority to compensate the victims," ​​Paul replied.

Uncle Mason, who had just turned off the ignition, turned back and said, "We are considering whether to accept Hughes Cremation Agency."

"What about the price?" Karen asked.

"I don't know about this. In two days, I will go to the officials in charge of the auction to have a meal and ask them about the favor fee they want. Who will really go directly to the auction these days."

Together with Ron, Paul carried Karen out of the comfortable coffin and sent her to the stretcher;

"Karen?"

A familiar voice sounded, it was Piaget.

He was wearing a solemn dress today, apparently to attend the funeral of old Darcy.

"After all, old Darcy collected Linda's ashes for me, so I came to mourn for him. At the same time, I knew that you would be discharged from the hospital this afternoon, so I waited a little longer."

Piaget's smile was still so warm, and his speech was very gentle.

"one two three!"

Paul and Ron unloaded the stretcher from the hearse.

Ron accidentally dropped the copper coin in his hand and rolled to the ground.

For a moment, Ron wanted to let go and grab the copper coins.

Fortunately, Uncle Mason who was beside him hurriedly reached out to catch the stretcher, otherwise Karen would have rolled over at the door of the house, and if he accidentally ruptured the wound again, he would have to be sent to the hospital before the door even entered.

Piaget bent down and picked up the copper coin.

"Mine, mine, mine," Ron kept saying, walking towards Piaget.

Piaget handed the copper coin to Ron;

What surprised Karen was that when Piaget handed over the copper coins, his expression did not change at all, and he still maintained a warm smile.

But I only took it for a while before, but I was obviously disappointed.

so,

Is it because Piaget is too rich?

It doesn't make any difference to him whether he picks up a penny or a gold brick on the side of the road?

"My copper coin, my copper coin." Ron held the copper coin in his arms like a baby.

After Uncle Mason cooperated with Paul to put the stretcher on the ground, he came over and kicked Ron, kicking Ron to the ground, but even so, he still held on to the copper coin tightly.

"Are you crazy just now, Ron!"

Ron was unmoved, just smirked at Mason.

Uncle Mason gritted his teeth, but didn't say anything more, and helped Paul push Karen home with a calm face.

Piaget took off his hat and said goodbye to Karen:

"I'll come to visit you again in a few days. You should rest well."

"Okay, Piaget."

The stretcher was pushed into the living room. It would be very convenient if it was pushed to the basement, just go down the ramp.

Fortunately, this time Paul and the others did not commit the occupational disease again.

The stretcher on which Karen was lying was carried to the third floor and pushed into Karen's room.

Lunt, Mina and Chris had to go to school today, because old Darcy's funeral standard was relatively low, so there was no shortage of manpower, so there was no need for the three of them to ask for leave today.

After Karen was put on the bed, Aunt Mary came in with snacks and water.

"My Karen, you are really suffering. You should rest well when you get home, and tell your aunt what you want to eat."

Because of Mrs. Hughes, Aunt Mary really felt guilty towards Karen from the bottom of her heart.

"Auntie, is grandpa home?"

"Yes, yes, in the study." At this point, the aunt smiled. She knew that Diss valued this grandson very much, but because of the face of the elders, she couldn't do anything to welcome the grandson home in person, " I'm going to call grandpa."

not long,

Diss' figure appeared at the door.

Karen didn't delay at all, not even exchanging greetings, and said directly:

"Grandpa Ron has a copper coin that was stolen from the corpse of an old woman in the hospital morgue last night. That bewitching demon must have been looking for this. I took that copper coin for a while and felt attracted to it. Now the copper coin is still in Ron. body!

hiss... hoo..."

Karen finished the matter without pausing;

He didn't want to waste time, and then when Diss went down, he found that Ron had already returned home from get off work, and then involved any messy developments and troubles.

Diss didn't delay, turned around and walked out.

After about two minutes,

Ron walked into Karen's room, and Diss walked in immediately, closing the door.

"Master, what do you want from me?" Ron was still a little confused, even if he wanted to talk to himself about work, he should be in the study, "I accidentally missed it just now, and I blame myself in my heart. Never again."

Ron can only guess that he missed when he was carrying the young master before and was sued.

"Ron, give me that copper coin."

"copper?"

Ron took the copper coin out of his pocket, but held it in his hand.

"Give it to me." Diess said.

The majesty of Diss is heavy;

Ron took a deep breath, and finally spread his palms slowly.

Diss reached out and took the copper coin.

Ron looked at the copper coins that had left his grasp, and his gaze gradually became dull again:

"My money...my money...my money..."

While muttering, he made a gesture to snatch the copper coins back from Diss.

Diss looked at the copper coin while grabbing Ron's neck with the other hand, and squeezed it hard. Ron knelt on the ground in pain. Under the pressure of Diss' hand, Ron lost the ability to resist. Ability, can only start dripping snot, like a drug addict.

"How could it be here?" Diss said with some doubts.

Karen asked curiously, "What is this?"

"The source of evil for the Lax Church."

"The source of evil?"

It seems that it is not impossible to call money the source of evil, although it is a bit one-sided.

Diss didn't intend to hide it from Karen. He said in the hospital that day that when Karen recovered from his injury, he would tell him everything Karen wanted to know.

"Lax Church has many believers in the Eastern Desert Continent. What they advocate is to use this life to endure suffering in order to pursue the liberation of the soul in the afterlife. They require believers to keep simple in the face of material conditions, and to maintain an indifferent heart to material things that exceed their own survival needs. .”

Hearing Diss' introduction, Karen was not surprised by the teachings of Lax Church, not even surprised.

Except for some extreme ones, the orthodox churches catered to the needs of the ruling class when they were first established, emphasizing the patience and obedience of the people at the bottom, so as to eliminate the uneasy factors under the social structure.

The Lax Church is a typical one, and it is the opposite path to the Berry Church.

Diss' thumb lightly stroked the copper coin:

"According to legend, the true god Lax deeply felt that his people were seduced by wealth and led to continuous wars, so when he died, he cast a bronze coffin inlaid with nine demon pythons;

He also ordered believers to collect the source of evil in this world, melted out 9 coins of the source of evil, and sealed them into the bronze coffin together with his body. "

While Diss was talking, Karen was also retrieving his own memory, to be precise, the memory of the last "Karen":

"Lax's treasure?"

"Yes." Diess nodded, "Many people imagine the location of Lax's tomb as a mountain of hidden treasures. This element also appears in the plots of many novels and movies."

In the memory of the last "Karen", there is an explorer's novel, which tells the story that the protagonist discovers Lax's tomb and finds the treasure, but triggers Lax's curse.

Diss sat down beside Karen's bed, and placed the copper coin in front of Karen:

"It's mainly because in the story of the Lax Church, the arrangement made by the true god Lax before his death is too much like collecting treasures for his own burial, but in fact, what Lax collected and sealed in the bronze coffin is human greed. Desire, greed turned into 9 coins, instead of a mountain of real wealth.

But now it seems that the vision of the true god Lax is still too beautiful and simple. Even if he really collected and sealed up all the greed in the area where his believers are located, greed will continue to breed, and it will grow so much Still very fast. "

"Then this copper coin is the source of Lax's evil, one of the nine?" Karen asked.

Diss shook his head: "No, if it's one of those nine coins, it won't just affect the person holding it. Wherever it appears, it can even attract people from the whole city to snap it up together. It, to cannibalism.

This should be the behavior of a high-level priest of the Lax Church who sacrificed the simulation god Lax to collect the coins refined by greed and prepared to be buried with him before his death.

The functions are similar, but the effect and influence cannot be compared with the handwriting of the true god Lax.

I guess, the tomb of the priest should have been stolen, which led to the circulation of this copper coin, and the date should also be untestable.

Of course, for ordinary people, it still has an extremely powerful deceptive power. After all, few ordinary people have a spiritual dam that can withstand the impact of huge wealth.

Moreover, even if you can keep your ego at the beginning, if you keep it with you for a long time, it is easy to be slowly infiltrated, and then influence each other, or even integrate into each other.

It is a 'holy artifact', and if it belongs to the Order of God, its ranking will not be low. "

"How is grandpa going to solve it?"

"I will hand it in. It is not safe to seal it at home. After handing it in, it will be properly settled."

Hearing that it was going to be handed in, Karen felt inexplicably distressed.

This is not the kind of distressed money, but this kind of "props" with special effects, or "holy artifacts", I always feel that it is better to keep them around, like a little squirrel hiding a pine cone, regardless of whether it is useful or not If I use it, I will hoard it, and I will be happy.

But what grandpa said is indeed correct, if something happens to the house, one day when he comes home, he may:

Uncles, aunts, aunts and a group of cousins ​​all sat there and shouted over and over again:

"My money...my money..."

This picture, just thinking about it, makes people shudder.

"Then why was the bewitching monster last night so powerful?"

Ron still looks silly now, and Karen doesn't think that if Ron wears this copper coin for another ten days and a half a month, Ron will have the terrifying ability of the old woman last night.

"It was a fortuneteller. I checked her body in the morgue and found some tattoos on her body. It should be a wandering fortuneteller from Chase."

The last "Karen" remembered the "Chasai people". In Karen's view, this group is very similar to the Gypsies. They are a wandering group. There are three main occupations for making a living:

Divination, stealing, and prostitution.

There are also small settlements of Chase people in Luojia City,

In the memory of "Karen", there is also a scene two years ago. When a Chase husband was riding a motorcycle and driving his wife beside "Karen" who was walking alone after school, the husband was kind. asked "Karen" if he wanted to experience his wife's technology;

"Karen" was frightened and ran home as if fleeing, and his autism condition further aggravated.

"So, it's not just the priests of the church who have special abilities?" Karen asked.

"Who told you this?" Diess asked.

This already involves a "system" problem.

"Alfred told me."

"The priests of the church are the mainstream." Diess explained, "The mainstream sometimes doesn't even refer to the majority, but because they can stand in the sun calmly. In fact, many of them do not belong to the church but have their own unique Groups and even individuals who inherit means, they can also have what you said... special abilities."

After finishing speaking, Diss looked at Ron on the ground:

"Order... clear!"

Karen, who was lying on the bed, saw a white ray of light on Dees's index finger, and then his fingertips touched the center of Ron's eyebrows.

Ron's body began to twitch violently, and at the same time, wisps of black mist began to rise from his mouth and nose.

Diess said: "Excessive spiritual dependence is also a disruption of order."

Seeing this scene, Karen really wanted to ask Diss, whether this "spell" can also be used to quit nicotine?

Ron stopped his convulsions and snored;

But being slapped on the face by Diss,

"Crack! Crack!"

Poor Ron, woke up with pain.

"Master, this is me..." Ron obviously forgot something, or, in the previous him, his memory had long been attracted by copper coins, and his whole body was in a daze like a dream, or like he was drunk fragments.

"Go home and go to sleep. Don't doze off when you go to work next time."

"Yes, yes, I was wrong sir, not next time, not next time." Ron got up immediately and left the room.

The job at the Inmeles family paid a lot of money, and it was easier than working in a factory, so he was really reluctant to give it up.

After Ron left, Diss threw the copper coin into the water glass that Aunt Mary had poured for Karen earlier, and the copper coin made a crisp sound when it entered the water.

"When you said about Ron just now, you spoke really fast and in a hurry." Diss pointed to his ear, and seemed to be pointing at his own head, "If it wasn't for me being immature, Maybe I really don’t understand.”

Karen smiled and said:

"I just think that when there is an urgent and necessary matter, I should finish it as quickly as possible without any delay to prevent any accidents, otherwise if there is an accident, I will feel... pretty stupid.

Oh no, grandpa, I'm not talking about you. "

Diss nodded, pulled out the chair beside the desk, faced Karen, and sat down.

"Then I won't delay, and I will tell you about you now.

Which way do you like?

I say you listen, or you ask me to answer. "

"Grandpa, tell me first, and I'll ask after you finish."

"good."

"Your parents were killed by me..."