According to Anne Block, the curse began from the moment of the sharing of food thousands of years ago.
He looked directly at Anne with an unbelievable look and couldn't help but ask:
"Then who is in this body of yours now?"
Joey even had some doubts. Inside Annie's young body was a thousand-year-old monster.
Catching Joey's strange eyes, Annie's face suddenly turned cold, and she snorted coldly: "What are you thinking about?"
"I am Anne Bullock, I am 23 years old"
Women are indeed the most sensitive animals to age. Joey sneered and shrank his neck, not daring to interrupt.
The curse is hereditary and cannot be broken, and it is also time-sensitive.
Every once in a while, a new host will be found, and the cursed person will unconsciously search for his body to be eaten.
The strong aggregation theorem will cause 8 cursed people to gather together without knowing it.
This is consistent with the law of aggregation of extraordinary properties.
"This unconscious aggregation will induce the cursed person to go to the ghost island. The longer he stays on the island, the deeper the curse will be eroded."
Joey hesitated to bring things to light.
He only cares about one thing, why is the person who died ten years ago still standing in front of him?
However, after thinking about it for a while, he still felt it was inappropriate. He couldn't explain how he got the information.
Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of it, the expression on his face changed, his eyes rolled, and he said:
"How did Professor Remo die?" He expressed his opinion without hesitation: "That corpse must have been dead for at least several years."
He deliberately kept the time and years vague. When speaking, he always paid attention to the changes in the expression on Anne's face.
Unexpectedly, the expression on Annie's face was the same suspicion.
She shook her head gently: "I don't know the cause of the professor's death. At that time, my memory was restored under the pool."
"Restore memory?"
"It can't be regarded as memory recovery." She tilted her head and thought for a while: "How should I put it, it means that a memory that does not belong to me suddenly appeared in my mind."
Joey quickly thought of a possibility. This seemed to be the case for him and the original owner of this body.
The difference may be that he replaced the original owner, and Anne seemed to have only inherited some memory fragments.
"Those memories come from one of the eight people who were originally cursed"
"Are they not dead yet?"
"No!" Annie shook her head: "She must have used some special method to retain the memory before she died. The way to trigger this memory is to set foot on the ghost island."
Annie's words successfully aroused Joey's interest. Even if he dies, he must keep his memory for hundreds of years, and there must be deep secrets hidden in it.
And there was the most crucial point, which he still couldn't figure out.
What role does teacher Freya Polly play in this curse in Dreamland?
Thinking of Freya, he subconsciously rubbed his left eye.
There is the contact information the teacher left for him.
"Can you tell me what memory you acquired?"
As he finished speaking, the room fell into a brief silence.
It wasn't until about ten seconds later that Annie sighed softly and stared at Joey with a complicated expression.
"Why do you have to get involved?"
He shrugged and said helplessly: "Many times, we don't have a choice."
"Yeah! No choice"
The two looked at each other and smiled.
She nodded: "Maybe you are right."
"So, is it time to tell me everything?"
"If you hadn't come into contact with Benny Hoyland, I could tell you all these things." She looked at Joey and shook her head with a complicated expression: "I'm telling you now, it's very dangerous."
In this regard, Joey did not expect that he would be self-defeating.
After thinking about it, Anne was right. After all, no one knew which path this senior investigator belonged to, and his abilities were all unknown.
He refused to comment, thought for a moment, and said:
"You are wrong. Only by sharing intelligence can we maximize the benefits. As an outsider, maybe from my perspective, I can see some things that you have not taken into account."
"Besides, are you looking down on me too much?" After saying this, he raised his head proudly: "Even a demigod can't kill me."
It was not like he had never seen the strength of demigods before, and through some details, Joey discovered that the extraordinary beings outside were not at the same level as the extraordinary beings in Senegal.
Perhaps because of the difficult conditions in Senagal and the years of fighting, the spiritual factors of the extraordinary are many times stronger than those of the outside world.
"Tch!" Annie rolled her eyes angrily: "Compared to bragging, you are really strong."
"However, you are right. Perhaps intelligence sharing will have unexpected results."
When Annie spoke, a faint smile subconsciously appeared at the corner of her mouth: "After all, you are the mascot."
Joey: Ha~~Thank you!
In Anne's amber pupils, he seemed to be able to see himself turning into a lucky cat waving his arms.
As she spoke, her expression gradually became serious.
Memories of curses.
The first eight people obtained powerful abilities that were not their own from the summoned objects.
There was no sequence level at that time. Judging from the current level, that power was roughly equivalent to Sequence 5.
The eight Sequence 5 Extraordinaries were undoubtedly a powerful force in the chaotic early days of the Third Age, and the Extraordinaries at that time had not yet discovered a way to neutralize Extraordinary Characteristics through potions.
You can only rely on your own willpower to fight against divinity. The probability of losing control is very high, and the rewards after success are also great.
This power allowed the eight of them to rapidly expand their power, accumulate a large amount of wealth, and spend a period of time smoothly.
It was not until later that the eight people discovered that they would have the idea of devouring each other, and this idea became stronger as time went by, until one day, a civil war broke out among them.
This battle once again curbed the development of Poseidon Church.
Because of the law of aggregation of extraordinary characteristics, eight people finally gathered on an island, and only one person survived. He swallowed up the extraordinary characteristics of the rest.
"Who's recovered?" Joey asked.
Anne looked at her like an idiot and said, "If you recover, what will happen next?"
"That's right." He smiled dryly and scratched his head.
In fact, it's not Joey's fault, after all, he has seen real high-ranking people.
In front of those 'people', let alone resistance, they are not even qualified to look at them.
As expected, the being summoned belongs to a high-ranking person.
Being eaten is just because of the new life.
If we really have to wait for Him to come, what can ordinary extraordinary beings do to compete with Him?
Anne said:
"The last person who survived forcibly separated the extraordinary characteristics in his body, and used special means to send the characteristics away from the Black Sea, preventing recovery, and leaving a warning at the same time."
"He knows that even if the characteristics are temporarily separated, they will eventually converge. The remaining warning is to destroy the heart so that it cannot be revived."
Joey interjected curiously: "How did the last one resist the temptation?"
"I couldn't resist, so he died. The extraordinary characteristics that were divided and swallowed depended on his dying thoughts."
"Human nature is very weak in front of divinity." He could not imagine what kind of thoughts could compete with the divinity that was about to revive.
"At that time, the families behind the eight people had grown to an extremely large level. If that person really revived, the only fate for these people would be death."
Joey nodded in realization. It turns out that your own death is not terrible. What is terrible is that it may affect your family after your death.
Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something, and asked with a surprised look:
"The heart has not been destroyed for hundreds of years, and the curse has lasted for so long?"
Annie smiled helplessly: "Only the cursed people can find the ghost island. Every once in a while, cursed people appear in the blood of the descendants of 8 people, and they will unconsciously approach the target."
"And the 8 items with extraordinary characteristics will eventually return to the hands of the descendants of those 8 people."
While speaking, Annie raised her wrist, with a red bracelet tied on it.
"This is His hair"
"Hmm!" This was something he didn't expect. He originally thought that the 'Red Spider Silk' was a simple extraordinary item, but he didn't expect it to be quite big.
Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and then asked:
"Under the pool is the heart."
Annie nodded slightly, and after receiving her confirmation, Joey's eyes became more solemn, and some pictures appeared inexplicably in his mind.
No. 3 Levitt Street, the crystal ball in the middle of the ritual magic of the old church, and the moon in the dreamland, could they be His eyes.
And the broken blade that killed Gur Friedman looked very much like a human spine.
Hair, eyes, spine, heart, if the guess is true, 4 extraordinary items have appeared.
He told all his guesses and then asked Anne: "Where are the other four things?"
Anne knew for the first time what happened in the old church, and her face was full of surprise.
"It turns out that my eyes have always been in Port Leah"
As she spoke, she stood up suddenly.
"Where are you going?" Joey asked.
"Take me to that old church." Her face was full of urgency: "Things cannot fall into the hands of those people."
“Can’t get in”
He briefly told the whole story, of course, hiding some unnecessary information. He only said that Nomu used the summons of the Supreme Mother Goddess to destroy the arrival of the one.
"Everything should be annihilated," he said.
"Mother Goddess!" Annie thought for a while, then sat back down: "Perhaps only that kind of existence can restrain and compete with each other."
"The other four things you mentioned were probably swallowed by the heart." She was silent for a while and said in an uncertain tone: "Professor Remo's death may have been swallowed up."
Joey carefully recalled the circumstances of Professor Remo's death.
The wrinkles in the skin may not be due to the long time since death, but because the blood in the body has been sucked dry.
"Actually, all eight of us should have died on that island."
As she spoke, her eyes stared at Joey unblinkingly.
The burning eyes made him feel hairy all over: "Why are you staring at me?"
As he spoke, he folded his arms and looked like he was about to cry angrily: "Old cow, please don't ruin this young grass of mine."
"23, 23, I'm 23 years old" Annie glared at Joey fiercely.
"Just kidding" he sneered.
"This joke is not funny at all"
As a young lady from the upper class, He Cheng had seen someone as slippery as Joey.
The people he usually comes into contact with are either noble gentlemen or eldest ladies, with dignified etiquette.
"From the moment they were first contaminated by the curse, all the cursed people who landed on the island were, without exception, devoured to death."
"Wait!" He waved his hand and interrupted: "If I remember correctly, you said before that your grandfather not only landed on the island, but also captured a lot of wealth and left."
"You have a pretty good memory." She nodded and then said:
"If you would have died if you landed on the island, we don't know how many people would have died in hundreds of years, and the legend of the ghost island would not have been spread."
Joey thought so too.
If the witnesses were dead, there would still be information circulating.
"Due to the passage of time, gathering 8 extraordinary characteristics can no longer revive him. Instead, a large amount of fresh blood is needed. The best sacrifices are the descendants of the first 8."
Joey pondered for two seconds. He thought of something and his face became extremely ugly.
"Those abducted girls were sacrifices?"
"Don't worry, they are safe now." She shook her head with a half-smile: "Have you forgotten, that heart is in my hands?"
He made a mistake while busy and forgot about this. After reacting, he asked in shock:
"Shouldn't you destroy it?"
Wouldn't removing the source of the curse destroy the heart?
Anne's originally calm face turned very ugly at this moment, and she squeezed out a sentence from between her teeth:
"I'm going to make those guys behind me pay the price."
"Mermaid Forest?"
"Yes, it's them, those rats hiding in the sewers"
Anne told a secret with a gloomy face.
The Mermaid Forest organization has been secretly buying and selling people, and these people were sent to the Ghost Island to be sacrificed as sacrifices.
If calculated based on hundreds of years, these people are an extremely terrifying number.
"Didn't the Holy Church notice? Didn't they intervene?" As he said that, he shook his head repeatedly: "No, it seems that the Church didn't even understand the dream state?"
This is very strange. Logically speaking, even if the Seven Gods don't get along, there are constant frictions overtly and covertly, and the major churches are incompatible with each other, but there is one thing they are unanimous about externally.
That is to face pagans. There are only 7 orthodox churches on this planet, and other than that they can only be pagans.
Anyone who dares to show his head will be killed.
"The Orthodox Church!" Anne curled her lips disdainfully and sneered: "They are just a group of hypocrites."
"You mean, the church is also involved?"
Anne shook her head: "This cannot be confirmed." She paused and moved her gaze to the window, pointing to the sun outside: "There will always be places where the sun cannot shine."
"I don't know if the church is involved, but there is definitely a traitor among the top leaders of the Church of Light, and he is acting as a shield."
Look in the direction of her finger.
There, in the distant sailing sky, a red sun looks like a shy girl, only half of her face is exposed, and the other face is hidden behind the mountain.
"Yes, where there is light, there are shadows and darkness."
