Luen was startled and instinctively loosened his grip on the puppet.
The puppet fell to the ground.
"What's going on..."
Luen recalled the events of the day.
After the funeral, he and Jamie went to the hotel where Jamie was staying.
After picking up the puppet, the two took tools and headed to the cetery.
When they dug up the grave, they found it was filled with puppets.
Luen was initially dismissive, having always assud that so cultists were using Mary Shaw's na to do evil.
He expected to find at least so tokens of a demon buried in the grave.
But it turned out to be just a restless evil spirit harming people in the town?
Luen almost wanted to laugh.
Such things were low-level existences in exorcism; even a 1-year-old holy artifact could purify them.
But Luen also rembered his father's words: "Don't underestimate the enemy."
He curled his lip, put away the 1-year-old holy artifact, and took out a 3-year-old crucifix.
After that, he had Jamie open all the coffins.
Then, Luen perford a standard exorcism ritual in the cetery—chanting exorcism scriptures and suppressing the evil spirit with the crucifix.
As the ritual proceeded, all the puppets in the cetery spontaneously caught fire, and a woman's scream could be faintly heard.
Jamie watched from the side, stunned; he had never seen such a scene before.
Half an hour later, Luen completed the ritual.
He kept the puppet nad Billy, intending to bring it back to the Diocese as a souvenir.
With everything done, Luen and Jamie left the cetery.
But after they left, the cetery was suddenly shrouded in a black mist.
Following that, the flas on the puppets gradually extinguished.
Instead, the crucifix Luen left behind burst into flas.
At the sa ti, in the dense forest next to the cetery, there was a charred corpse.
Judging by the clothes, it was Mary Shaw.
At the mont the crucifix burned, Mary Shaw opened her eyes again.
...
Back to the present.
Seeing this scene, William knew Luen had screwed up.
He didn't hesitate. He imdiately took out the amulet Olivia gave him.
Then he picked up the puppet Billy and stuffed the amulet into its mouth.
Billy was about to say sothing, but only muffled sounds ca out.
His neck imdiately twisted 90 degrees, staring diagonally behind him in a very bizarre manner, wanting to see who had interrupted him.
But in the next mont, a cloth covered his head.
This cloth was sothing William grabbed from the shoe rack; Henry had just used it to polish his shoes before dinner.
"How dare you!"
With a roar, all the light bulbs in the room shattered, plunging the house into darkness.
At the sa ti, many "figures" suddenly appeared outside the window.
Everyone looked and saw that they were puppets.
At this mont, they were actually floating in the air.
"How is this possible! I clearly burned them all," Luen said with a look of shock.
William narrowed his eyes. The puppets in Mary Shaw's mory didn't seem this strong.
Using [Night Vision], he saw that each puppet was connected by a spiritual thread.
Following those threads, William found Mary Shaw hiding in the dense forest.
But there seed to be a huge shadow behind her.
Combined with the diary he saw in the church during the day.
"Could it be..."
Olivia was calr. She imdiately took out her scripture and crucifix, reaching the window in two steps.
"In the na of the Lord, I summon holiness to surround and banish the darkness of this world..."
She chanted the exorcism mantra, pointing the crucifix out the window.
But as she chanted, Olivia realized sothing was wrong.
The puppets outside were actually repeating her words.
They even had mocking expressions when repeating the word "Mary Shaw."
How was this possible!
A trace of panic rose in Olivia's heart.
During exorcism training, the teacher had said that due to their own dark nature, evil spirits found it difficult to exist in the human world.
Therefore, exorcism mantras had a natural suppressive effect on them.
Moreover, what she was holding wasn't a fake, but a 5-year-old holy artifact from the Vatican.
How could an evil spirit resist it?
Was there a more evil existence outside the window?
While Olivia's thoughts were in chaos.
The puppets were getting closer and closer, about to enter from the outside.
Everyone's hearts were in their throats.
"Please spare us." Henry looked helpless, hugging his wife tightly.
Marion had just recovered during the day, and he had planned to take her on a trip after the funeral.
Luen was sweating profusely. Although he had also undergone orthodox exorcism training.
Theory was different from practice.
Moreover, with his father's protection, he had never encountered real danger.
Coupled with the failure of the previous exorcism, Luen was a bit confused at this mont and stood frozen on the spot.
Jamie managed to stay calm; he ran around the room, trying to find a way out.
But the puppets had surrounded the place.
Ren clung tightly to William's arm, his legs shaking: "I'm done for."
At this ti, the puppets spoke again.
"Fear, pain, despair."
"What you did to ."
"I will return it all to you now."
"Let hear your... SCREAM!"
At first, the puppets' tone was just a bit agitated.
But they almost roared the last word.
Then they rushed towards the house together.
But in the next mont.
Bang!
All the puppets hit an invisible barrier.
A rare look of surprise appeared in their eyes.
In the dense forest, Mary Shaw couldn't hide her shock either.
Right now, her power had been enhanced.
If that priest ca to the cetery again during the day, Mary Shaw could tear him to pieces instantly.
So, she controlled the puppets to change direction, planning to break in from underground.
But the puppets had only traveled a few ters underground when they ran into an extrely pure force, leaving them nowhere to hide.
Mary Shaw behind them was also affected, almost losing connection with the puppets.
Inside the room.
Everyone also noticed the anomaly outside.
"Ms. Olivia, your exorcism seems to be working!"
William spoke first, guiding everyone's thoughts.
At the sa ti, he handed the diary from the day to Olivia.
"Please try this na."
She picked it up and saw "Ciies" written on it.
Olivia realized sothing, nodded imdiately, and chanted the exorcism scripture again.
William also took out the crucifix Luen gave him and called on the latter to join the fight.
While everyone was unprepared, he took out the crucifix he made himself, hidden in a secret pocket in his sleeve.
So the three fought side by side.
And Olivia also found that the power of the exorcism mantra this ti was unexpectedly strong, even comparable to her teacher!
A few minutes later.
The puppets groaned in pain and retreated into the dense forest.
And Mary Shaw was also severely injured, disappearing into the black mist behind her.
At the sa ti.
The oppression shrouding the house vanished.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Father William, thank you!"
Olivia ca over and handed back the diary.
"If not for your reminder at the critical mont, we would have been in danger."
After this commission, she realized how naive she had been before.
Real exorcism was complex and changeable. Evil spirits wouldn't be expelled by a set process like in books.
If not for this priest's adaptability, they might all have been in danger.
Beside her, Luen's face felt a bit hot.
He thought he had completed the exorcism, but unexpectedly almost hard himself and others.
William looked like he was drenched in sweat.
"I was just lucky. If you two weren't here, I'm afraid we wouldn't have lasted until now."
He glanced at a corner of the room.
"It seems the two escape plans I prepared won't be needed."
Hearing this, Olivia also felt more favorably toward this priest.
But everyone knew this wasn't over.
"We must burn all those puppets!"
So, the next day.
The group ca to the cetery again, but the puppets inside had disappeared.
"Could it be that Mary Shaw didn't co back last night?"
"Impossible. For an evil spirit to exist in the human world, it must attach itself to a place with a strong connection to it," Olivia explained.
"Items from when they were alive, relatives, or graves. Otherwise, they will soon dissipate in the world."
Hearing this, Henry suddenly spoke: "The theater by the lake."
So the group imdiately changed direction.
But William said, "I'll stay here."
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