Chapter 64: Chapter 64: The Actress and the Silver Wine Jug
“Bang~”
Like the sound of artillery fire, everyone saw in a dark corner of Ryan Street a fleeting flash of light, followed by the appearance of the woman pushed away by Chris, her seemingly frail body being shot.
An incredibly, astonishing image.
There was a loud “boom” and the woman seed to have been struck forcefully. She flew backwards, and while her body was still mid-air she burst into flas as if hit by an incendiary round, with a tinge of golden flas swiftly enveloping her whole body.
Screams and wails were incessant.
Evidently, Stanna chose the Molten Furnace Bullet, and that resentful spirit had the misfortune of triggering both the Burning and Evil-breaking properties.
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Tang Qi’s figure, even before Stanna fired her gun, had already charged forward like a cheetah.
Of course, he wasn’t rushing to save Chris, at least that wasn’t his primary objective.
As he was running, a special interface popped up at the bottom of his eye regarding that woman.
[Extraordinary Creatures: resentful spirit.]
[State: Dying.]
[Information Fragnt One: What’s more regrettable than a beauty whose ti has passed is a beauty who is out of her ti. Her looks would have been sought after in a certain era, but in this age, she couldn’t find the place she desired, and after her dreams were shattered, it wasn’t so difficult to give up her soul.]
[Information Fragnt Two: Her obsession was to find a perfect partner to navigate the entertainnt industry with her, but unfortunately, just like the perfect lover, that is nonexistence.]
…
“Huh”
“Snap~ Snap”
As the beautiful resentful spirit disappeared amidst wailing, a fair hand reached out, catching two things that fell from the sky.
A card.
A silver lady’s flask.
Tang Qi first glanced at the card and to his surprise, it was an actor’s guild card.
It had a na, a photo, and so brief introductions.
Her na was Tita Scodia, an actress who was also willing to accept invitations for codic drama performances, even striptease acts, or invitations from adult-thed magazines, but what she hoped for most was an audition for a classical movie.
Just from the actor’s guild card alone, it was clear that this actress didn’t get what she wanted.
Because, she was dead.
This photo was indeed of the resentful spirit that had just dispersed.
She had a sowhat broad face with curved eyebrows, black wavy curls, fair skin, deep eyeshadow, and seductive red lips—almost every feature perfectly matched the aesthetic of the confusing era.
In Tang Qi’s mind, a poster image of the Love of Dionysus he had previously seen flashed past, where apart from Robert Gable, there was also an actress playing the role of a mad wife.
If he rembered correctly, that actress eventually earned accolades that were no less than Robert Gable’s, and even made achievents in other domains. Most crucially, the two would often collaborate and were the most famous golden pairing of the confusing era.
Understanding a bit now, Tang Qi thought.
This was probably a story of being out of her ti and failing to achieve what she sought. This actress nad Tina had a face from the confusing era and the potential to captivate the Federation, but now was obviously not the confusing era, so her dreams of navigating the entertainnt industry were undoubtedly crushed.
Returning to her hotown, she chose suicide.
And then, under the enchantnt of an Extraordinary Artifact, she beca a resentful spirit.
As for why it was the movie Love of Dionysus, it was probably because it was her favorite movie, and she also collected original props from the film.
“Buzz”
Amidst flickering thoughts, Tang Qi’s gaze fell upon the second item.
An exquisite lady’s flask!
Although well-preserved, it was clearly an object from several decades ago. However, these were not what Tang Qi cared about. What truly caught his attention was the faint glow emanating from the flask. A unique radiance belonging to an Extraordinary Artifact.
A hint of excitent surfaced in Tang Qi’s eyes.
Simultaneously, that familiar interface appeared.
[Curios: Eternal Wine.]
[State: Intact.]
[Information Fragnt One: It was once an original prop from the movie ‘Love of Dionysus’, which swept across the Federation. While the other flasks were destroyed, it was fortunate enough to survive and over ti, under unknown influences, it developed transcendent powers.]
[Information Fragnt Two: Every seven days, it produces a drop of liquor, which can be used to create Alcohol Corpse, serve as a component in certain secret dicine recipes, or have other mysterious effects.]
[Information Fragnt Three: Each ti a soul is added, a drop of liquor can imdiately be created.]
“An… indescribable spoils.”
Tang Qi murmured to himself, holding the flask.
The apparent functions of this Curios left Tang Qi not knowing how to deal with it.
A drop of liquor every seven days could create an Alcohol Corpse or beco an ingredient in secret dicine.
Tang Qi couldn’t yet see a use for an Alcohol Corpse, and as for the ingredients, after searching through his knowledge of secret dicine, he regretfully found no relevant recipes.
This wasn’t surprising; the field of Secret dicine is an incredibly complex and vast domain. There are nurous schools, and even if all schools combined their knowledge, they would not be able to exhaustively deduce all secret dicine recipes. New formulas will continue to appear as long as the Mysterious Side exists.
“Am I to deduce the formula myself?”
Tang Qi muttered to himself, then proceeded to help Chris, who had collapsed on the ground from excessive fear, to his feet.
When Chris rose, a white handkerchief from his jacket pocket fell to the ground, and the last trace of a peculiar fragrance slowly dissipated. The handkerchief and its fragrance were actually the secret to Chris’s tily escape from the resentful spirit and his ability to rebuff her.
The handkerchief was dabbed with a soybean-sized portion of… Human Skin Ointnt.
One of its properties is to gain brief control over creatures with a weak will within the area of the scent.
As it happened, Tita Scodia, the actress turned resentful spirit, was deed to have a weak will.
Although the effect was short-lived, Chris’s rebuff was enough to save his own life.
In fact, that was exactly what Tang Qi had whispered to him before: if sothing felt off, no matter what it was, just tell it to scram.
Once the two stood firm, the rest arrived in haste.
Chris imdiately felt the care from the forensic girl, as well as inquiries from Nathan, Havier, and even Gideon—very detailed ones, like whether the embrace of the female resentful spirit felt warm or cold?… and so on.
And Stanna, received an actor’s certificate handed to her by Tang Qi.
And this guy, in a rather malicious fashion, revealed the answer without explaining his reasoning process.
“The resentful spirit is her, Tita Scodia. With a face that bewitched an era, she yearned for recognition like Eva Gardner, yet, unfortunately, chose to end her life in unfulfilled longing. After turning into a resentful spirit, her excessive obsession with that movie led her to seek out her Robert Gable—those seven unfortunate individuals were killed because of this.”
“According to the address on this actor’s certificate, we should be able to find her suicide site. The condition will probably be similar to those seven.”
“Alright, everything’s resolved, we’re done here.”
Having said that, Tang Qi stuffed the actor’s certificate into Stanna’s hand, turned, and casually walked toward the church, where the police car was still parked.
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