While in Hollywood, I used Taoist magic to quell American terrorism.

The basement was not dark at all; on the contrary, it was extremely bright.

That bright light came from the lit candles.

The candles were stacked on top of each other, arranged neatly, forming a semi-circle, with only the entrance area left empty.

Looking from the entrance, the first thing you see is a stone platform.

At this moment, a young woman was lying unconscious on the stone platform.

If nothing unexpected happens, this person is Carlos's niece, Ambal.

Further ahead of the stone platform is a stone box bearing the marks of time.

The stone box is square, about the size of an old black and white television, and covered with ancient and mysterious patterns.

Just before Cao Kun came down, he saw that the lid directly in front of the stone box was open.

A pair of enormous, white-brown hands reached out from the box.

But seemingly sensing Cao Kun's presence, the hands withdrew and closed the cover again.

Now, the stone box is sealed.

Seeing the young woman on the stone platform, and then seeing the stone box, Cao Kun smiled.

He guessed correctly; this time, he encountered the very movie he had been thinking of, "The Haunted House."

The overall plot is extremely similar to what I am experiencing now.

The core of the entire story revolves around that stone box.

In the movie, this stone box was discovered by an archaeological team from the United States in the 50s in Mexico.

It is full of Aztec mysticism.

In the movie, the landlord brothers of this apartment building are descendants of the archaeological team leader.

This stone box thus came into their hands.

Inside this stone box lived a nearly 3-meter-tall, bloated, white-brown monster whose entire body was wrapped in some kind of skin.

If you offer it a living person as a sacrifice, it will crawl out of the stone box, bite off the person's head, and swallow it.

Afterwards, the injuries and illnesses of the person who offered the sacrifice would be healed.

In the movie, the landlord's brother suffers from a brain disease and often experiences unbearable headaches.

The pain can only be suppressed by relying on the monster's healing power.

But this requires constantly sacrificing living people.

The landlord then lowered the apartment's rental price and only rented it to women who were physically weaker.

Afterwards, those women would become the sacrifices they chose.

Cao Kun glanced at Anbar and the stone box on the stage.

In the movie, the female protagonist has a strong will and kills her mother, who has been misleading her, in her dream. She has a ruthless and violent side.

It was this aura that made the monster in the stone box give up attacking her and retreat back into the stone box.

The female protagonist took the opportunity to escape, and at the cost of breaking her ankle, she killed the bald, strong man and dragged the skinny landlord to be the sacrifice.

Just as the female protagonist was about to leave, the monster bit off the landlord's head.

She, as the sacrificer, received power from the monster.

Her broken ankle healed instantly, returning to its original state.

The female protagonist, who originally wanted to leave, became lost in this powerful and magical force, abandoned her idea of ​​leaving, and stayed instead.

They became that monster's slave.

The movie ends here.

Judging from the movie, the monster actually doesn't have much fighting power; in fact, it's rather weak.

If an ordinary person is ruthless enough, it won't dare to make a move.

It leans more towards being a functional monster.

Whoever provides it with offerings, it will return the power of healing to them.

At most, it still has some seductive qualities.

It can make people lose themselves in this power, turning them into slaves who constantly offer sacrifices to it.

However, this leans more towards humanity itself.

It is humanity's greed for power that is at play.

Cao Kun stepped to the stone platform and looked at the young woman on it.

She naturally doesn't look like the female lead in the movie, but she is indeed very young, looking to be in her early twenties, with obvious Mexican features.

In the movie, she is resolute and strong-willed, and she overcomes her predicament on her own.

But now, having lost the protagonist's halo, he can only continue to lie unconscious on stage.

If it weren't for Cao Kun's arrival, her head would have been bitten off by the monster.

Skipping over her, Cao Kun walked to the stone box.

Upon closer inspection, Cao Kun could see the mysterious patterns on the stone box even more clearly.

Cao Kun looked at it for a while but couldn't figure it out. He just felt that it was full of eeriness.

After looking at it for a while, I felt a little dizzy.

He quickly looked away and stopped staring.

In the movie, the stone box doesn't look very big, but it contains an incredibly long and secluded passage.

That monster, who is nearly 3 meters tall, still lives there.

This shows that the stone box is definitely not that simple.

At least in terms of space, it is quite unusual.

Cao Kun became more cautious and tried to open the lid of the stone box, but failed.

The stone box was as if it had been welded shut; no matter how hard he tried, it wouldn't budge.

He then stopped wasting time and tried to put the entire stone box into the system space.

"Ding! This item contains a spiritual life. If you store it in the system space, its spirituality will be destroyed. Do you wish to collect it?"

A system notification suddenly sounded in Cao Kun's mind.

I'd almost forgotten about that.

He knew that the system space could not collect living beings.

Just like the paperweight that Broken Flesh Face used to live in, he simply carried it with him and never put it into the system space.

Otherwise, the flesh-crushing face would be obliterated.

Since he couldn't put the stone box into the system space, Cao Kun flicked his wrist, and a talisman appeared in his hand.

Cao Kun affixed the talisman to the stone box: "Seal!"

In an instant, a mysterious force enveloped the entire stone box, sealing it off.

Only then did Cao Kun try to hug the stone box with both hands.

Although the stone box was a bit heavy, he managed to lift it up with a little effort.

Cao Kun was overjoyed; he was glad he could carry him.

Cao Kun ignored Anbar on the stone platform for the time being and carried the stone box out of the basement.

Seeing Cao Kun come up alone carrying a stone box, Carlos immediately went to greet him: "Master Cao, how is my niece Anbar?"

Cao Kun: "She's fine. You'll see her when you go down."

Carlos quickly thanked Cao Kun and hurried towards the basement.

Cao Kun, carrying the stone box, quickly left the apartment and put it in his car.

After locking the car, Cao Kun re-entered the apartment and saw that the landlord's brothers were still unconscious.

The lean landlord was subdued by Cao Kun's talisman, his soul suppressed and he fell into a coma.

The bald landlord, on the other hand, was knocked unconscious by the mangled face and is now bleeding profusely from his head, barely clinging to life.

Cao Kun looked up at the apartment building and called out, "Stop hiding, come out!"

No one responded.

Cao Kun didn't force him, but simply began to step forward and chant incantations:

"Heaven and earth are natural, and impurities disperse."

"The cave is mysterious and profound, and the vastness of the universe shines brightly."

……

"Qianluo Dana, Donggang Taixuan".

"Slay demons and bind evil spirits, deliver countless ghosts from suffering."

……

As the "Purifying Heaven and Earth Mantra" was recited, a mysterious and powerful force spread outwards.

Soon, figures appeared gracefully before Cao Kun.