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Louisiana, New Orleans, Manchak Swamp.

The trees here all grow extremely terrifying, tall and dense. Each tree grows wantonly in the swamp, and the sunlight is blocked by the lush branches and leaves, making the entire swamp look even more eerie.

According to legend, at the end of the 19th century, the evil voodoo organization appeared in Shadow Lake in Manchak Swamp. They captured people and animals for experiments and developed an evil drug that made people and animals become bloodthirsty. It was so brutal that the shores of Shadow Lake became a hell on earth strewn with corpses.

At that time, people who couldn't bear it spontaneously formed an anti-evil team and went straight to Ghost Lake, the lair of Voodoo.

In the end, 'good' defeated evil, and the anti-evil team wiped out all the voodoo cultists in Manchak Swamp.

But the Voodoo Queen refused to rest in peace and placed a curse on the swamp, and the evil spirit lingered in the Manchak Swamp area.

Since then, strange things have happened in Manchak Swamp.

First, three villagers disappeared mysteriously in the swamp. Soon after, a horrifying situation occurred. It is said that three small towns near the swamp mysteriously disappeared after a hurricane. Not only did no one survive, but even the ruins of the village were lost. All traces have been lost.

People blamed it all on the curse of the Voodoo Queen, and Manchak Swamp became a terrifying place of ghosts.

Dusk, in the dark swamp.

The cold wind blew the branches in the swamp and made a whining sound, which was as terrifying as a low ghost scream.

Dumb——dumb——

Standing on the dead wood in the swamp, the crow spread its wings and let out a shrill call. It tilted its head and stared at the weird things in the swamp with its dark eyes.

Gulu gulu——

As the crow watched, there was a strange noise in the Manchak Swamp. A large number of floating corpses seemed to be pulled by invisible forces and moved slowly. Among these decaying bird corpses, there was even the corpse of a swamp deer with a distended belly. , these rotting and stinking corpses were gathered in the center of the swamp, and then were swallowed one by one into the depths of the swamp.

Gulu gulu gulu——

As the body disappeared, the strange noises in the swamp became more obvious, and a large number of bubbles continued to emerge from the place where the body disappeared.

Then, under the crow's gaze, a dark figure emerged from the swamp.

Dumb——dumb——

Seeing the sudden appearance, the crow on the dead wood flapped its wings and tried to escape.

I saw the figure stretching out his wet arm and grabbing it casually.

The next second, he saw the crow waving its wings on the dead wood, turning into a shriveled corpse and falling into the swamp.

Crash--

…

“big wheels keep (the wheels keep turning)

carry me home to see my kin (take me home to see my relatives)

singing songs about the southland

i miss alabamy on (I miss alabama again)

and i think its a sin yes (I think it's a sin, yes)

…

sweet home alabama

where the skies are so blue (where the skies are so blue)

…”

New Orleans, on the endless highway.

"Sweet Home Alabama," a rock song with southern characteristics, sounded in the car, and the man in the driver's seat shook his head while humming the tune.

While driving, he suddenly saw a figure walking on the road in the distance.

As the car approached, the man immediately noticed the figure walking alone on the road. It was a woman with long black fluffy hair and exotic clothes.

"Hey ma'am, do you want me to give you a ride?"

Slowing down the speed of the car and stopping next to the woman, the man rolled down the window and looked up and down at the woman walking alone. His eyes paused for a moment on her wheat-colored skin and the weird beast-tooth-like decoration on her waist, and then he started to chat. .

"OK."

Facing the man's invitation, the woman nodded and agreed without hesitation.

Seeing this, the man was secretly happy and quickly pressed the passenger's car lock.

Peng——

With the sound of the door closing, the man started the car, but his eyes swept over the woman beside him without hesitation, and he still asked casually on the surface.

"By the way, why did I ask for your name?"

"Calypso Erzili, you can call me Calypso."

Facing the man's inquiry, the woman, or Calypso, simply reported her name.

Nodding, keeping the name in mind, the man immediately made a casual expression and began to ask: "So, Calypso, where do you plan to go?"

"New York."

Reaching out to stir his fluffy black hair, Calypso answered with a smile on his face.

"That's a coincidence. I also plan to go to New York."

Hearing the destination mentioned by Calypso, the smile on the man's face deepened. He barely suppressed the excitement in his heart and said: "It seems that we have a magical fate between each other."

As he spoke, the man reached out a hand and gently stroked the back of Calypso's hand, and the latter allowed him to stroke it without any resistance.

"It's done!"

Seeing this, the man's joy deepened a little.

"Maybe, when we get to New York, we can have a deeper exchange and get to know each other."

While he controlled the steering wheel and drove the car on the endless highway, he couldn't help but talk frivolously.

"We don't need to go to New York. I think we can have a deeper exchange now."

Faced with the man's invitation, Calypso was more proactive. She reached out and grabbed the man's palm while she spoke.

"What?!"

Seeing Calypso's proactive response, the man's face showed a bit of surprise, and then a wet feeling came over him, and he subconsciously turned his head to look at the woman in the passenger seat.

However, Calypso's beautiful face began to melt at a speed visible to the naked eye. A large amount of mud flowed out of her body, and the whole car was instantly filled with a foul smell. At the same time, a strong suction force was generated on her arm that was grabbed by her.

Squeak!

With a painful scream, the moving car stopped with a piercing sound.

Then, the man in the driver's seat was seen to have his body shrunken instantly, as if all the vitality in his body had been absorbed.

After a while, a shrunken body without any water was thrown out of the car and fell motionlessly on the road.

Calypso sat in the driver's seat and started the car and drove towards New York.

…

“Peggy Carter…”

“A U.S. government agent who had fought alongside Captain America during World War II. With the defeat of the Raiders and the death of Captain America, Peggy Carter briefly served as Captain America, but with the defeat of World War II, Peggy Carter was eventually forced to give up her identity as Captain America and died in the subsequent protests in Hell’s Kitchen.”

A superhero who once represented Captain America eventually died in the government’s guns. From a certain perspective, this is obviously a great irony.

“Of course, the federal government has never acknowledged all this. Their statement to the outside world is that Peggy Carter disappeared after she took off her identity as Captain America.”

In New York, Bleecker Street, Doctor Strange’s base.

Banner flipped through history books and found records about Peggy Carter.

According to the content of the books, Peggy Carter did briefly replace the deceased Steve Rogers as Captain America.

"So, it was a mistake?"

This may be why, in the end, they awakened Peggy Carter instead of Steve Rogers.

"No."

Shaking his head, Doctor Strange obviously did not believe in the absurd result of getting the wrong soul.

"This was a trick played by Baron Samedi at the beginning. She deliberately confused the concept of Captain America."

As a god, Baron Saturday certainly could not fail to recognize that what Doctor Strange summoned was the soul of Steve Rogers, after all, the other party's body was lying in the center of the altar.

Not to mention, in the incarnation of Voodoo, Baron Saturday was not only the god of death representing the cemetery, but also the god of the "leader of the resurrected corpses". How could such an existence easily mistake the soul object that Stephen needed?

So it is obvious that all this was done intentionally by the other party.

Doctor Strange did not intend to offer his soul from the beginning, and Baron Saturday also used a trick in the sacrifice ceremony to deliberately confuse the object of the soul.

In this way, she can collect her own sacrifices without having to pay too much soul. After all, she did give Captain America's soul according to the requirements of the ritual. As for which Captain America it is, it depends on her mood.

As a voodoo god, Baron Saturday is not a good god in the traditional sense. In fact, in Haiti, in order to prevent the other party from taking the soul, many fine needles and cotton yarn balls, along with thousands of sesame seeds, are scattered around the cemetery.

In this way, the soul of the deceased will be busy threading and applying sesame seeds, and will not be able to hear the call of Baron Saturday from hell.

Sometimes, in order to protect themselves, relatives will also put a knife in the hand of the deceased before burial, and accompany it to the ground.

However, Baron Saturday obviously did not expect it.

Doctor Strange is even more shameless than herself. She at least gave Captain America's soul, but the other party did not even intend to abide by the ritual, directly tore up the descent ceremony, and forcibly drove her back to the [spiritual world].

"..."

In the base, facing Doctor Strange's answer, Banner opened his mouth and didn't know how to respond for a while.

As a witness to the entire process of the séance ceremony, he knew very well that Doctor Strange's methods in the process were not very bright, so it didn't seem too surprising to have such a result.

After all, no matter what, they did successfully summon a Captain America.

Although, it was not the one they thought.

Dr. Strange obviously knew this, especially in the previous ceremony in the basement, he had completely offended the voodoo Baron Saturday, and it was obviously a luxury to want to summon the soul of Captain America Steve Rogers through him again.

As for other rituals, they are either too risky or not well understood.

After all, as a ‘self-taught’ magician, Doctor Strange was able to become a black magician proficient in rituals in just a few months, which can be regarded as a gifted existence. Even though these voodoo techniques or Solomon’s demon spells are easier to master than ordinary magic, Stephen also paid a huge price to obtain these powers.

And the conduct of a ritual is not something that can be done simply by wanting to do it.

Just for the previous voodoo séance ritual in the basement, Doctor Strange spent nearly a week preparing. It was not easy to select voodoo, a relatively low-cost ritual, from various black magics to summon Captain America’s soul.

And from the results, he did do this.

It’s just that this result is a little different from what Doctor Strange originally expected.

“How is she?”

Take a deep breath, gather the thoughts in your mind, and turn to Banner and ask.

"Still accepting it all."

Banner shook his head and replied, holding the dried head in one hand.

Compared to Doctor Strange or Banner and the others, Peggy Carter, who was the object of the summoning, was the one who found it the hardest to accept it all.

Not only because she was resurrected fifty or sixty years after her death, but also because her resurrected body happened to be the body of Captain America.

From the records, Peggy Carter and Captain America Steve Rogers had a very close relationship, otherwise she would not have succeeded each other as the new Captain America. You know, it was World War II at that time, and the obstacles a woman encountered in wanting to become Captain America were obviously not something that could be explained in a few words.

And now, it was obviously not a simple matter for Carter to accept all this in a short time.

After hearing Banner's answer, Doctor Strange nodded and scanned the dried head in his hand.

"Although the head has the function of warding off evil spirits, if you hold it in your hand for a long time, aren't you afraid that it will come back to you?"

In addition to the ability to ward off evil spirits, the dried head of Voodoo also has some psychic abilities.

In voodoo, many voodoo sorcerers often use the soul in the head as a medium to communicate with hell or perform voodoo.

Hearing Doctor Strange's reminder, Banner's expression suddenly became a little stunned. He looked down at the fist-sized head in his hand. He didn't know whether it was because of the other party's reminder or because there was something weird about the head itself. Banner felt that the corner of the other party's mouth seemed to tremble.

Seeing this scene, Banner subconsciously put down the dried head in his hand, but thinking of the wandering ghosts in this house, he hesitated again.

Without paying attention to Banner who was in a dilemma holding the dried head, Doctor Strange walked out of the room and soon saw the back of Captain America, or Peggy Carter, on the balcony of the corridor of the house.

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