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"Doctor Strange?!"

If Colin could recognize it here, the man in front of him who calls himself Doctor Strange is Stephen Strange.

In just a few months, the other party seemed to have undergone extremely drastic changes.

From the original high-spirited neurosurgeon, he turned into the Dr. Strange who was talking in front of Banner.

"So, you saved me?"

Recalling the last scene in his mind, Banner looked at Dr. Strange Stephen in front of him and asked.

"No, it's fate. Fate guides me to meet you."

Shaking his head, Doctor Strange or Stephen said meaningfully to Banner.

"destiny?"

Listening to Stephen's answer, Banner frowned and glanced at the man in front of him, always feeling that there seemed to be something hidden in the other man that he didn't know.

Without explaining much to him, Stephen glanced at Banner with a surprised expression and turned his attention to the work in his hands.

Under Banner's gaze, the man who called himself Stephen seemed to be looking for something among the dazzling array of statues and ritual items in the room.

"...Mephisto's parchment? No, not this. I don't want to become a fallen soul..."

"The feathers of Anubis are completely fake. God knows what kind of guy it will summon..."

"Let me see, Yama is not familiar with this...Satan, well, should not be under his control..."

Taking out a piece of completely dark parchment from the statue, Stephen opened the contents and read it carefully, then closed it again and put it back into the box in front of him.

Standing aside, Banner saw part of the content on the parchment through the angle of Stephen's arm. Just taking a glance at it made his brain tingle. It seemed that countless voices were whispering in his brain. It also became blurry, and a twisted, illusory world appeared in front of Banner while he was half asleep and half awake.

He saw a huge figure sitting high on a skeleton, surrounded by a large amount of flames and a sea of ​​blood. Miserable screams kept coming from the hands of the figure on the throne, in response to which it let out deafening laughter.

Then, the scene changed and Banner seemed to be back in the room again.

He stood behind Stephen and saw the originally calm words on the parchment begin to beat, twisting and breaking free from it, constantly making seductive sounds to him, as if he would gain unparalleled power as long as he grabbed the parchment. Amidst the murmur of parchment, the expression on Banner's face also changed, and he took steps towards Stephen.

snap——

However, before he could get closer, the other party had already locked back the appearance in front of him.

At the same time, the fantasy in front of Banner also disappeared.

Blinking his eyes and recovering from the temptation of the parchment, Banner lowered his head and glanced at his steps forward, with a look of astonishment flashing in his eyes.

At that moment, for some reason, he seemed to have completely lost his will and wanted to snatch the weird parchment from Doctor Strange's hand.

Here, Banner was feeling scared because of what had just happened.

Stephen on the other side didn't seem to care about what was happening behind him at all. He selected an ugly-looking puppy from the piles of various statues and summoning ritual items, and then picked up another one placed on the The head on the side nodded and said: "I found it, Legba..."

Holding the puppy statue in one hand, Stephen threw the skeleton in his hand to Banner behind him, who subconsciously reached out to catch it.

"This is?!"

When he saw clearly that what Doctor Strange threw to him was an ugly head that looked dry and curled up, he couldn't help but exclaimed and was about to throw it away.

"If I were you, I wouldn't do this..."

Just then, Stephen's hoarse voice sounded, causing Banner to stop the movement of his hands.

"This is a Voodoo dried human head. It is usually made from human heads chopped off by the victors in tribal wars, and has undergone a series of special treatments, such as removing the eyes and teeth, breaking and removing the skull bones, brain and Muscle tissue, leaving a complete human skin hood, then pouring hot stones into the skin to shrink it and let it dry, then sew the eyelids and mouth, fill the leather hood with stones or vegetation, tie up the remaining hair and hang it on the door It is placed on the neck of the victor as a trophy or military medal, symbolizing that "the soul of the defeated belongs to him" and has the function of warding off evil spirits and channeling spirits. "

"If you don't want what just happened to happen again, just hold it tight. This is a good thing I spent a lot of money to get from a gypsy."

Stephen's introduction made Banner feel a little more uncomfortable about the dried head in front of him. He looked down at the head in his arms, which was only the size of a fist, and the clearly visible suture marks on its eyelids and mouth. Banner tried hard to suppress the discomfort and resistance in his heart, holding it firmly in his hands.

The strangeness of the parchment had already left a deep impression on him.

God knows what dangerous situations will happen next in this room. For now, he can only believe in Stephen's words and the power of Feng Qian's head.

Although its appearance is a bit ugly and the manufacturing process is a bit appalling, I don't know if it's a psychological effect.

Banner always felt that as he caught it, the original gloomy atmosphere in the whole room seemed to dissipate a bit.

Throwing the dried head to Banner, Doctor Strange didn't say anything, grabbed the puppy statue in his hand and walked out.

Watching his leaving figure, Banner glanced left and right at the strange statues beside him. He didn't know if it was the influence of the previous parchment. At this moment, he always felt that every statue in the room was looking at him, showing greed. look.

Driven by inner uneasiness and fear, Banner followed Doctor Strange's footsteps without hesitation.

Just like that, when Banner walked out of the room, he realized that the room he had just been in was actually the most complete place in the whole house.

In the corridor, both sides of the dilapidated walkway were covered with traces of graffiti and blood marks, giving him the illusion of being in a horror movie scene.

Following the direction of the aisle, Banner saw Stephen's figure disappearing around the corner, and was about to catch up when the dried head in his hand suddenly began to shake.

"Where are you going?"

At the same time, Doctor Strange's voice came from behind him.

"What?"

Upon hearing the question, Banner's face showed surprise.

He turned to look at Doctor Strange behind him, then looked back at the corner of the corridor in the distance, and said in a tone of horror mixed with confusion: "I just saw you appear in the corridor, and you ran so suddenly... …”

"Don't trust your eyes, especially in this place."

After hearing Banner's explanation, Stephen raised his head and glanced at the corner of the corridor, and introduced in a hoarse voice: "This house was once used by a Native American shaman as a place to seal demons, and then it became a place where demons were sealed." It has become a mass grave and a place for cult killings. The entire building is filled with a lot of cult magic, and it is also extremely easy to attract wandering souls. What you just saw should be one of the souls living here. "

Doctor Strange's explanation made Banner's hair stand on end.

He grabbed the dried human head in his hand, swallowed his saliva and asked Stephen in front of him: "In that case, why don't you drive them away or seal them?"

"Why should I do this?"

Facing Banner's doubts, Stephen raised his head and glanced at him, and said calmly: "Compared to these souls, I am a latecomer. There is no reason for latecomers to drive away the original residents."

With that said, Doctor Strange pointed to the head in Banner's hand and said 'comfort' to him.

"In addition, with the protection of the human head, ordinary souls cannot get close to you at all. As long as you are not confused by them, there will be no problem."

After hearing Doctor Strange's 'comfort', Banner subconsciously grasped the head in his hand a little tighter.

In this way, led by Doctor Strange, the two of them followed the stairs of the house and arrived at a seemingly spacious basement.

"Captain America?!"

Immediately afterwards, Banner saw Captain America's motionless body in the middle of the basement.

"Destiny not only guided me to meet you, but also guided me to bring him here."

Under Banner's gaze, Doctor Strange answered calmly.

Obviously, in the previous accident on Hydera, he not only saved Banner but also brought Captain America out of the laboratory.

With that said, Stephen placed the puppy statue in his hand in front of Captain America.

At the same time, Banner discovered that various items had been placed around Captain America, many of which were very similar to what he had seen in the room before. This seemed to be a ritual scene that had been arranged long ago.

"Hoo~"

While Banner was thinking, Dr. Strange Stephen on the other side took out a box of unknown white paint from his arms and painted his face with weird white patterns, and then hung the things that had been prepared on the table on his body. Then he grabbed a black toad from the clay pot in front of him and stuffed it into his mouth under Banner's horrified gaze.

Putting a live toad in your mouth is obviously an extremely disgusting feeling.

Even Doctor Strange had to force himself several times to suppress the disgusted expression on his face.

While holding the beating toad in his mouth, Stephen came to the motionless altar, took a deep breath, and then moved his hands and feet and began to dance a weird dance.

Poof, poof——

As Doctor Strange dances, the brazier in the basement begins to ignite with blazing flames, and the dancing firelight surrounds Captain America in the center of the altar.

At the same time, Doctor Strange, surrounding the flames, muttered strange spells. .

There was obviously a toad in his mouth, but the spell in Doctor Strange's mouth was extremely clear.

"Come on, come on, Captain America, I hereby pray for your eyes, the great Father Legba, the guide who lives at the crossroads, please guide us in the direction, guide the soul of Captain America..."

"...Dad Legba, I offer a sacrifice and pray for your guidance..."

In the basement, Doctor Strange danced strangely around the brazier. There were all kinds of accessories hanging on his body, most of which were bones.

As Dr. Strange prayed, the puppy in front of him gradually began to change. A large amount of blood flowed from the eyes of the statue. The blood was extremely dark and exuded an inexplicable stench. Then the statue began to change. It was charred black, as if some unknown existence was sucking the life force from the statue. In just a few seconds, it turned into white powder and dissipated.

Witnessing the statue turning into white powder and dissipating, Banner's fingers holding the dried head tightened a little.

In just a few hours, the scene he experienced was even more shocking than the past few decades.

Banner never thought that as a physicist, he would witness a real soul-calling ceremony one day.

And the appearance of Doctor Strange in front of him was obviously planning to do something with Captain America's body.

And as Banner watched, with the disappearance of the puppy statue, the ceremony in front of him seemed to enter another stage.

"Ah!"

The dried head in his hand struggled fiercely. In a shrill scream, a vague black figure wearing tattered clothes and leaning on a cane appeared in the basement in front of Banner.

This is Father Legba, a god in Haitian Voodoo, a medium connecting humans with the great god of Voodoo, Loa. This god is worshipped at the beginning and end of the Voodoo ceremony.

The dog is His symbolic animal.

"Papa Legba."

Looking at Papa Legba who appeared in front of him, Doctor Strange opened his mouth and spit out the toad in his mouth. The toad that was originally alive and kicking now only had a thin layer of skin left.

As a religion that relies on fear to rule faith, the gods they believe in are not too kind. For example, Papa Legba, the ruler of portals, streets and fate, the god of the crossroads, teaches people oracles at the crossroads, but he is also capricious and often leads people into despair.

"Tell me your purpose."

Leaning on a cane, he walked in front of Doctor Strange.

The tattered shoes on Papa Legba's feet can vaguely see the holes on the shoes, which seems to be very different from the legendary gods.

However, Doctor Strange knows that the other party's dress is indeed the manifestation of the gods in the legend of Voodoo in the world.

"Soul, I need Captain America's soul."

Dealing with gods, even if the other party is just a voodoo god, Doctor Strange dare not be careless. He glanced at Captain America's motionless body in the center of the altar and then answered.

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