I'm an antique shop owner, so it's reasonable for me to know some magic

Chapter 353: A strange call, a curse that breaks the rules
Seeing that Katie and Tom didn't quite understand what he said, Su Fan sighed.

"No one will throw away something they bought at a high price, even if it is junk. They will most likely keep it, even for psychological comfort, and who knows, they may use it."

Hearing this, Katie couldn't help but nodded.

Most people have this mentality, and it is even more so for someone like Aunt Angela who is very calculating.

"If she had placed the evil-repelling amulet next to the baby and carried it with her as Katie had said, the curse on the videotape would not have taken effect."

"In this case, the curse will begin to look for another replacement."

"alternatives?"

Katie and Tom were quite surprised.

In their eyes, curses and magic are almost the same thing. Once they are activated, they will end regardless of whether they are effective or not.

This is the first time I've heard of Su Fan's statement.

"Then let me put it in a way that you can understand. A curse can be considered a debt."

"The holder of the principal is the source of the curse, and they can spread it directly or through intermediaries."

"The simplest and most understandable example is the cult sacrifice ritual incident that Tom and I dealt with before."

"The cultists take the souls of others for the devil to gain power from the devil. But if the cultists fail and the ritual is interrupted, the devil will take the cultists' own souls."

"Under no circumstances will the creditor bear the risk of loss."

Tom understood immediately after hearing this.

"That is to say, if the talisman you gave Su Fan works, the curse will backfire on the caster, right?"

"That's it."

After getting a positive answer, Tom also felt relieved.

"Very good, we don't need to worry about this matter anymore. Evil will be punished, so let the person who cast the curse go to hell."

Katie on the side was thinking much more deeply than her simple-minded brother.

If the backlash really happened to Emma, ​​based on her style, she would never accept her fate.

Who knows? By then, he might become desperate and drag Aunt Angela and the others into the water.

By then, Angela will probably think that the evil-repelling talisman is useless and come to visit again...

wrong……

Thinking of this, she was suddenly stunned.

Su Fan had already grasped most of the information they had discussed earlier during the conversation.

In other words, in his prediction, Aunt Angela would come back again in the end no matter what.

It was not until this moment that Katie finally understood why she always felt like she was watching a show on the day of the meeting with Su Fan.

Developments that had seemed obscure previously now seem less complicated in retrospect.

Katie looked at Su Fan who was not far away, and suddenly felt that he was very far away from her.

Could it be that in the eyes of the other party, everything is already predicted and there is no change in the single route?

Was his intersection with himself and Tom a coincidence, or was it the result of him following the future he saw and going with the flow?
Katie felt as if her mind had sunk into a deep ocean, but at this moment, the slight pain of a hard object hitting her forehead brought her back to reality.

“Don’t drown in deep thought.”

Su Fan raised his hand, and the coin that had hit Katie's forehead returned to his palm. Then he picked up the teacup and spoke to Katie, who was grinning and rubbing her head.

"Are you wondering why Emma is so crazy?"

"No, I was just daydreaming..."

After experiencing the backstabbing incident at the hands of Amber, Katie had learned to be a little more ruthless.

If all of Su Fan's predictions came true, Emma would be an inherently evil sociopath who would never be able to reach a consensus with ordinary people.

She wasn't stupid enough to empathize with that kind of person.

After hearing Katie's answer, Su Fan nodded with great satisfaction, blew on the tea, took a sip, and swallowed it with difficulty.

"This tea... doesn't seem to suit your taste."

Tom felt a little embarrassed when he saw Su Fan's reaction.

"You are all people who have studied serious culture, why do you still drink Lipton tea bags?"

"...Due to limited conditions, the money I have is only enough to buy this."

"..."

The fact that the British love to drink tea has become a stereotype, and they would not give up afternoon tea even during war.

But unfortunately, the price of tea here is far less affordable than in some large Eastern countries. With the same consumption level, the quality of tea bought is completely different.

Especially the Lipton tea bags that Tom got, pure garbage.

"You should keep this to entertain Angela."

"What you said, Angela and her family have the talisman you gave them, they..."

Before Tom finished speaking, he suddenly heard the landline phone in the house ringing.

"It's so late... and you're still calling me? Really..."

The former didn't think much about it and went to answer the phone immediately.

But Su Fan, who was not far away, suddenly frowned.

"stop."

Tom's outstretched hand stopped in mid-air.

Katie and Tom looked at Su Fan, and when they saw his serious expression, they immediately became nervous.

Tom wisely tried to withdraw his hand, but suddenly found that his palm was motionless, as if it was fixed there!
The former subconsciously wanted to save himself, and his remaining hand, which was still able to move freely, quickly transformed into a sword finger, but the last step was extremely difficult!

Something is forcibly stopping him from casting spells!

Tom was shocked and felt a chill run down his spine!

Although the evil spirits and demons encountered before were terrifying, nothing like this had ever happened!

The method that he relied on to save his life and had never worked before suddenly lost its effect. Unprecedented panic swept through Tom's mind, and he didn't know what to do for a moment!

Katie, who was closest to Tom, saw that the situation was not good, so she jumped up from the sofa and rushed towards her brother, but her body seemed to have hit a transparent barrier and could not move forward at all.

Fear spread in the hearts of the brother and sister, and they lost their concentration, unable to make the hand seals that could ward off evil as Su Fan taught them!

Suddenly, the receiver of the landline phone floated up by itself and flew towards Tom's palm!

Just as the phone was about to fall into the latter's hands, another hand suddenly reached out and snatched the phone away.

At this moment, the force that bound Tom and Katie seemed to disappear out of thin air.

The tremendous weight that had been pressing on their bodies disappeared, and the two men seemed to have lost all their strength and almost collapsed.

The reason why he was still holding on was because he wanted to see clearly the current situation of the landline phone!

In the sight of the two people, the black-haired young man held the receiver in his hand and raised it to his ear.

"Seven days..."

The little girl's cold voice came from it, and even though it was a distance away, it still fell clearly into the ears of Katie and Tom!

The brother and sister shuddered all over.

If possible, they would wish they didn't have ears so that they wouldn't have to hear those cold and strange words.

After the girl's voice fell, they felt as if a pair of evil eyes opened and stared at them in the dark.

It was as if their lives were all in each other's hands.

Those who were listening were all silent and dared not speak.

Katie couldn't imagine what kind of pressure Su Fan would be under and what he would feel when facing the threat from the other party.

"Su…how do you feel now?"

She stood up with the help of the furniture next to her, checked Su Fan's face, and unconsciously touched his chest. Su Fan wanted to save Tom instead of becoming the other party's target. If something really happened, Katie would have a guilty conscience!

"The curse has begun to take effect."

There was not a trace of falsehood in Su Fan's answer, which immediately made Katie turn pale.

Her expression changed, and the guilt made her heart a mess.

He didn't notice at all that Su Fan opposite him had a calm expression and didn't look like he was about to die.

seven days?

Su Fan sneered in his heart.

You little bastard, I'll scatter you within three days and your ashes will be scattered into the English Channel.

Any changes in the body cannot be hidden from his perception. Now Su Fan can clearly lock onto the ghost hand mark left by the other party on his body.

Just to avoid alerting the enemy, he did not try to remove it.

According to the original plot, only those who have watched the strange video will receive a phone call at midnight announcing their death.

Something must have gone wrong somewhere, causing the other party to lock onto Tom directly.

If I hadn't been there, Tom would probably have been hit by now.

[As expected, if we do things based on empiricism without direct investigation, mistakes are bound to occur.]

Perhaps the source of the curse this time is not as simple as the female ghost in The Ring.

To break through the established transmission method and search for the enemy directly, either the power is greatly enhanced or it is integrated with other evil spirits.

Just as Su Fan was thinking this, he suddenly felt his cheek being wrapped by a soft and warm touch.

When he came to his senses, he saw Katie's cheek in front of Su Fan.

The other person held up his face with both hands and looked into his eyes seriously.

"If you need me and Tom's help this time, just ask. We can do anything to help you get rid of the curse."

It was the first time that Katie observed Su Fan's appearance from such a close distance.

The latter's facial lines are not considered hard in mainstream aesthetics, and are even quite feminine from a European and American perspective.

Su Fan, immersed in thought, seemed to have a more melancholy temperament. Thinking about the curse he was suffering at this time, Katie was even more anxious.

Feeling the other party's evident concern, Su Fan did not immediately pull her hands away, but nodded slightly.

Katie felt a little better after seeing this, but she immediately realized that her action was a bit offensive, and she withdrew her hand as if she had been electrocuted.

As for Tom, his eyes moved between Katie and Su Fan.

"Jingle Bell……"

The sudden ringing of the bell once again broke the somewhat subtle atmosphere in the field.

Katie immediately pulled Su Fan to retreat, and Tom was facing a powerful enemy!
"It's okay, no problem this time."

Unlike the previous calls that aroused his excitement, this one was just an ordinary call.

After receiving the news from Su Fan, Tom carefully answered the phone.

"Hello, who is it?"

"I'm Angela, I have something urgent to tell Katie."

A woman's anxious voice came from the receiver. It was an obviously normal human voice, which made Tom, who was always tense, feel relieved.

But after knowing the identity of the caller, he became cold.

"Wait a minute, I'll let her answer the phone."

Katie was at the side and reached out to take the receiver.

"Aunt Angela, it's me, Katie. What's up so late?"

"Katie, you have to find a way to save us, wuwu..."

There was a sound of crying from the other end of the phone, and the whole story was presented to Katie along with her intermittent narration.

……

noon the next day.

The three people who had just finished lunch did not rest and immediately drove to Angela's family's address.

"I still can't figure it out. Didn't they always say they were atheists? Why did they want to move away?"

"She didn't go into detail during her conversation with me."

Katie shook her head.

During the phone call last night, the other party was crying the whole time and his language was illogical.

The version she told Tom and Su Fan was the one she had completed after sorting out the information.

"Su, how do you feel now?"

"good."

Su Fan sat in the back seat, his face looking normal, with no sign of being tortured by the curse.

"That's good."

Katie exhaled.

What she didn't know was that there was nothing unusual going on simply because Su Fan himself had an extraordinary physique.

If the negative energy carried by the mark appeared on an ordinary person, by now the person would have been tortured by all kinds of horrific hallucinations, becoming mentally weakened, or even starting to self-harm.

In fact, Su Fan is now having some hallucinations in front of his eyes.

For example, a dry well in the forest... a horse that died miserably... a woman with a strange face...

However, in Su Fan's view, these things are nothing but trifles.

Regardless of his own character, he has experienced so many exorcism incidents and has seen everything.

It's wishful thinking to think that these things alone can break his defenses.

"Their home is not far away... Strange, is there something wrong with the air conditioning in this car?"

At this point, Tom reached out to turn up the temperature of the air conditioner, but ended up getting hit on the forehead by his sister.

"I told you to read more books, but now you are embarrassing yourself here... This is clearly a sign of excessive accumulation of Yin energy."

The temperature inside the car was suitable before, but it changed when approaching Angela's family's residence. It was obviously the abnormal temperature caused by the accumulation of negative energy.

While Katie was talking to Tom, she took out a thermometer from the glove box in front of the passenger seat.

Sure enough, as the vehicle drove on, the temperature shown on the thermometer dropped slightly again.

"Take out the talisman I gave you earlier and use it."

At this moment, Su Fan in the back seat of the car spoke.

Katie did as she was told, took out a talisman from her purse and put it on, then folded another one and stuffed it into Tom's collar.

As the talisman was brought close to the body, the cold air around him that seemed to penetrate into the bones was swept away, as if there was an invisible barrier that isolated it from the outside.

Not long after, the vehicle stopped in front of a house.

From a distance, you can see Angela wrapped in a blanket and Robert sitting in a wheelchair waiting eagerly at the door.

However, Su Fan in the car did not let them get off immediately, but gave them some instructions.

"After you go in, check the infrastructure immediately and record it with a camera to keep evidence."

“Also pay attention to the movements of everyone inside the house and do not allow anyone to leave the house.”

Tom had no doubts about Sufan's request.

Outsiders don't know what they are doing. If someone controlled by the evil spirit rushes out and screams, it is very likely to cause unnecessary trouble.

(End of this chapter)