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Chapter 228 Communication with the Spirit World

"Houdini?"

"The legendary magician?"

In the United States, Houdini is also famous.

So after hearing Spike say his name, the expressions on the faces of everyone in BSI immediately became surprised.

Agent Phil looked down at the candle in the wooden box, and couldn't help asking: "So, what can this candle do, or is it some kind of magic prop?"

As the most famous magician in the world, the general impression of Harry Houdini lies in his magical magic.

"Unfortunately, it didn't have that effect."

Faced with Agent Phil's curiosity, Spike shook his head slightly, and at the same time reached out to take out the candle in the wooden box and put it on the coffee table.

"Then what can it do?"

Raising her eyebrows and sweeping over the candles on the table, Amanda couldn't help asking.

"Psychic."

In this regard, Spike twitched the corner of his mouth.

"Psychic!"

Hearing Spike's answer, Detective Zhou couldn't help looking at the candle in his hand, and said with a cold face: "If I remember correctly, Harry Houdini hated the psychic the most during his lifetime, Even now there are rumors that Houdini's death was due to poisoning by the psychic world."

Harry Houdini had trouble with psychics during his lifetime, and his professional training allowed him to expose deceptions that even scientists and scholars could not see through.At the same time, Houdini himself was a member of the Council of Scientific Americans, which offered cash prizes to psychics who successfully demonstrated supernatural abilities, however, because of Houdini's contributions, the prize was never claimed.

Houdini devoted himself to fighting psychics, and he even, accompanied by reporters and police, disguised himself as a psychic in a psychic rite revealed at a seance.

These actions made Houdini a well-known psychic nemesis at the time, but at the same time he lost his friendship with mystery novelist Conan Doyle.

The creator of "The Detective Cases of Sherlock Holmes", the author who created the immortal classics of the "Golden Age" in the history of detective novels, is a person who firmly believes in spiritualism.

The two became open opponents because of their attitudes on the matter of psychics, and Houdini's biography even mentions that Conan Doyle wrote a letter in November 1924, declaring that Houdini "will get what he deserves, and soon will be punished."

And just two years after receiving this letter, Harry Houdini died before his 53rd birthday.

"The reason why history is called history is because it always exists in other people's mouths."

"Houdini himself may have questioned the power of psychics throughout his life, but this does not mean that what he left behind cannot be used as psychic items."

"For example, the current candle, in order to prove the falseness of psychics, Houdini made an agreement with his wife Beth Houdini before his death that if possible, he would contact her from another world and convey a message. The secret words communicated before as proof. For the next ten years, every year on Halloween, Beth would hold a seance to test this agreement, until finally her wife gave up this seemingly futile agreement. "

"And this one is the candle that has been placed next to Houdini's photo for ten years and has been burning since his death. Under the blessing of continuous psychic rituals, this candle has been stained with powerful Anyone who lights a candle can communicate with the spirit world through it.”

"A magician who didn't believe in the power of psychics until his death, but the candles left behind after his death have powerful psychic powers."

Hearing Spike's introduction to candles, Angela couldn't help but mutter.

"So, what is the use of this candle?"

On the other hand, after hearing the history behind the candle, Agent Phil asked impatiently.

"It's very simple, just light it up."

Compared with the complicated past of the candle that Spike mentioned before, its method of use is extremely simple.

Reaching out his hand to take out a box of matches from his pocket, he lit a candle on the coffee table with his hand, and with the faint flame of the beating heart of the candle, Spike immediately began to call softly: "Lanquist Merlin, Lanki Steer Merlin, please answer my call..."

Poof, poof—

Washington, BSI headquarters.

Accompanied by Spike's call, an inexplicable feeling of oppression shrouded everyone's hearts.

Under the watchful eyes of Amanda and others, the original dim yellow flame of the candle core began to gradually change towards the faint blue light.

Immediately afterwards, under the light of the fire.

A vague blue figure flashed before their eyes.

At first, the figure was blurry, but gradually with the beating of the candle flame, the figure became clearer and clearer, and finally appeared in the office of BSI as an old priest.

"Oh my God!"

Looking at the figure that appeared under Spike's call, Agent Phil couldn't help but exclaim.

On the other side, Amanda and Detective Zhou couldn't help but look at each other, looking at the shock in each other's eyes.

Compared to Agent Phil and Angela, two agents who just joined the team.

The two who had experienced the Freddy incident on Elm Street were naturally even more shocked by the reappearance of the priest in front of them.

In the beating of the candle flame, the figure of the priest flashed faintly.

It slowly opened its eyes, looked at the people in the office, especially stopped on Amanda and Agent Zhou, and finally landed on Spike on the sofa, with a faint smile on its somewhat illusory face. Shallow smile.

"See you again, Spike."

"Yes, Father."

Hearing this familiar voice, Spike raised his head and looked at the faint blue figure of the priest in front of him, with a complicated expression in the corner of his slightly drooping eyes, and said jokingly.

"It's just that I didn't expect that when we meet again, it will be like this."

"There's no need to feel sad for me, Spike, maybe it's all planned."

Faced with the sadness in Spike's tone, the priest himself remained calm. He lowered his head and drew a cross on his chest before replying.

"It doesn't make any difference to me whether I return to the embrace of the Lord sooner or later, compared to these..."

While talking, the priest looked back at Amanda and the others, and asked with concern, "I don't know if the people in Chunmu Town were attacked by it after my death?"

Although the priest didn't explain it, Amanda also understood that what it said was worth killing it.

He quickly shook his head.

"No, in fact, the other party left Springwood Town after killing you, so you were the only victim in the attack."

　Thanks to Fenji Tiansha for the 500 starting point reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)