Exorcist's Self-Cultivation

10:50.

When Mrs. Mina mentioned that she had dreamt about herself,

Du Wei put down his pencil, ceasing his writing on the paper.

Sitting across from him, Mrs. Mina's complexion turned exceptionally ghastly, her eyes glazed and limbs shaking uncontrollably, as if afflicted by some sort of illness.

Du Wei knew this was a natural reaction when faced with a terrifying fragment of experience.

Thus, he spoke calmly, "Please stay calm, Mrs. Mina, otherwise our conversation may not proceed normally, and besides, you wouldn't want to frighten your child, would you?"

As his words reached the air, Du Wei glanced at the blonde little girl who kept her head down, silent. For some reason, he always felt that this little girl was eerily calm.

Unnaturally so, for a child of her age.

After a moment's thought, Du Wei entered into the state of Spirit Vision.

Before his eyes,

wisps of ethereal black spider silk-like things still clung around Mrs. Mina; of course, they were illusory.

And her daughter, she was the source...

Du Wei saw that when the blonde little girl kept her head down, her body harbored a kind of profound malice.

"Please continue," he prompted.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Du Wei absent-mindedly rubbed the pencil in his hand and suddenly smiled.

At the same time, he exited the Spirit Vision state, his body largely unaffected as long as he didn't enter the Third Phase.

Moreover, in his own home, even with the presence of an Evil Spirit, he didn't need to worry about his own safety.

At this moment, Mrs. Mina across from him wasn't swayed by Du Wei's words back to rationality; instead, she teetered on the edge of collapse, struggling to stay calm, yet completely unable to suppress that innate fear.

"I... I... Mr. Exorcist, I'm feeling very..."

"Frightened?"

"Yes, very afraid, very scared..."

"Then let's keep it brief. Did you dream that you died?"

"...Yes, I died three days later."

"Why three days later?"

"Because I saw the calendar."

"So... in the dream, did your image give you any hints? Like how your brother pointed at the door, or your husband trying to convey a message to you?"

"Don't speak..."

"Hmm? What do you mean?"

"In my dream, my image gestured to me to be quiet, not to speak."

Du Wei frowned, pondering, yet found it difficult to comprehend the hint of silence.

The hint Luke Conan Doyle left for Mrs. Mina before his death was a door, which, although not easy to explain, becomes quite understandable when considering he died at the hands of an Evil Spirit in his own home.

Hearing, seeing, and certain actions like opening and closing doors, even inviting it into one's home, all these can be mediums that trigger an Evil Spirit to kill.

As for Mrs. Mina's husband, he should be related to the last Evil Spirit Du Wei encountered on the bus.

The same Golden Brooch, and for some unknown reason, he might have become one of the Evil Spirits he had witnessed; the message he wanted to convey could be related to the Golden Brooch.

Is it the letters on it?

...

Retracting his thoughts.

Du Wei looked at Mrs. Mina and said with as gentle a tone as possible, "I've basically gathered the specifics of your situation, Mrs. Mina. I must say, your dream is extraordinary. From what you've described, I can confirm that both your brother and husband died at the hands of an Evil Spirit."

Mrs. Mina became somewhat agitated, "Thank you, Mr. Exorcist. The church has always disbelieved my dreams, they even refuse to deal with this matter."

Du Wei spoke indifferently, "I will communicate your situation to the church. However, the problem now is, you might die, and I temporarily don't know what exactly the Evil Spirit around you is."

As he said this, he glanced at Mrs. Mina's daughter without leaving a trace, but the other party kept her head down and showed no abnormal reaction.

She seemed to be fearing something...

Mrs. Mina paused for a moment, then asked, "I've heard from Father Tony that an Exorcism Ritual should be able to solve the problem I have, right?"

Du Wei shook his head: "In theory, yes, but first we have to confirm the presence of the Evil Spirit, locate it, and then we can eliminate it, whether it's through an Exorcism Ritual or some other method. This is what I hope you understand."

"It has to do with the person who you always feel is following you, the one you cannot see."

As he said this, Du Wei's gaze was on the daughter of Mrs. Mina.

Disappointingly,

she had no reaction, still like a child with autism.

Mrs. Mina, not noticing Du Wei's action, furrowed her brows and said, "But after entering your house, I couldn't feel its presence anymore, as if it had never appeared."

Honestly, Mrs. Mina felt that if the Exorcist didn't mind, she could pay rent for a room; it didn't need to be large, just big enough for her and her daughter to live in.

The sense of safety in Du Wei's home was something she hadn't felt for a long time.

Du Wei, however, just nodded noncommittally and then fell silent.

He was very clear in his mind, if there really was an Evil Spirit around Mrs. Mina, it was likely behaving extremely docilely...

In a place occupied by two exceptionally terrifying Evil Spirits, plus a strange Antique Clock and himself, the hunter...

The safety was imaginable.

Of course, this only referred to the daytime, not the night.

Seeing Du Wei silent, Mrs. Mina didn't dare to make a sound and disturb Mr. Exorcist; she could only wait anxiously.

After a good while,

Du Wei finally spoke, "Please come out with me, there's something I want to discuss with you."

"Uh... okay."

Mrs. Mina stood up following Du Wei, and called to her daughter, "Kelly, come..."

"No, no, no."

Du Wei waved his hand and said, "Mrs. Mina, what I meant was just you and me, as for your daughter, let's leave her here; she'll be fine."

Mrs. Mina was a bit troubled, but didn't say much more: "I understand."

She soothed Kelly.

"Just wait a little while, Kelly, mommy will be back soon, okay?"

The blonde little girl, Kelly, bowed her head, her voice as faint as a mosquito's: "Mommy, I'm a little scared."

"Don't be afraid, Kelly, Uncle Exorcist's home is very safe."

...

Outside the psychological counseling clinic.

Du Wei closed the door and said to Mrs. Mina who looked somewhat bewildered, "What I'm about to tell you might be hard to accept, but please try to stay calm, can you do that?"

"Please go ahead."

Du Wei hummed affirmatively, then said calmly, "If I'm not mistaken, your child Kelly... well, there's something not quite right with her."

"What?"

Mrs. Mina's face darkened: "Mr. Exorcist, Mina has been traumatized recently, she's become quite shy, but she is very normal."

However, Du Wei replied calmly, "So, Mrs. Mina, can you still feel that invisible person now?"

"This..."

Mrs. Mina's face turned very ugly in an instant, and she stepped back, shaking her head, "I don't believe it, Kelly is fine, she couldn't possibly be the Evil Spirit."

In a flat tone, Du Wei said to her, "I think you've misunderstood; I'm not questioning her existence, I just believe that your daughter has been possessed by the Evil Spirit."