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The Voodoo Queen's curse was attributed to all of this, and Manchak Swamp became a terrifying haunted place.
In the twilight, in a dimly lit swamp.
A cold wind howled through the branches of trees in the wilderness, like a low, mournful wail.
哑巴
Standing atop a dead tree in the swamp, the crow spread its wings, let out a mournful cry, raised its head, and looked at the strange things happening in the swamp with its dark eyes.
咕噜 咕噜
Just as the crows were watching, strange clicking sounds came from the Manchak swamp. Many floating corpses were moving slowly, as if being pulled by an invisible force. Among these rotting bird carcasses, there was even the carcass of a swamp deer with a swollen belly.
Glug glug glug glug glug glug
As the corpse disappeared, the strange rustling sound in the swamp became more pronounced, and large amounts of bubbles continued to emerge from the spot where the corpse had vanished.
Immediately afterward, under the watchful eyes of the crows, a dark figure emerged from the swamp.
哑巴
Upon seeing the suddenly appearing figure, the crow on the dead tree flapped its wings, trying to flee.
A figure reached out with its wet hand and grabbed it with its palm.
The next second, the crow on the dead tree flapped its wings and fell into the swamp as a dried-up corpse.
Wow
"The big wheel makes the wheel turn."
Take me home to see my family.
Songs about the South and songs about the South
I'm starting to miss Alabama again.
I think it's a sin, yes, I think it's a sin, yes.
Sweet Aabaa returns to Alabama
Where the sky is so blue
New Orleans, on a wide highway.
The car was playing "Sweet Ho Aabaa," a very southern rock song, and the person in the driver's seat was shaking their head and humming the tune.
As he was driving, he suddenly saw a figure walking along the road in the distance, shaped like a lake.
As the car approached, the man noticed a lone figure walking on the road—a woman with long, bushy black hair and dressed in a very exotic style.
"Hey, ma'am, do you need a ride?"
When he got out of the car and stopped next to the woman, the man rolled down the window and looked her up and down. His gaze lingered on her wheat-colored skin and the strange animal tooth decoration on her waist, and then he started to talk to her.
"Yes."
Upon receiving the man's invitation, the woman nodded in agreement without hesitation.
Seeing this, the man was delighted and quickly pressed the lock on the passenger side of the car.
With a "bang," the man started the car, but his gaze slid to the woman beside him. When he asked her a question, she was still casually looking at the surface facts and ignoring them.
"By the way, did I ask your name before?"
“Calypso-Solzley, you can call me Calypso.”
When answering the man's question, the woman, Calypso, simply stated her name.
Nodding and memorizing the name, the man adopted a cool and indifferent expression and asked, "So, Calypso, where are you planning to go?"
"New York.
Calypso reached out and ruffled his tangled black hair, replying with a smile.
"...It's a coincidence, I was also planning to go to New York."
When he heard Calypso mention the destination, the man's smile deepened, and he barely managed to suppress his excitement as he said, "It seems we have a magical connection."
As he spoke, the man reached out and gently stroked the back of Calypso's hand, who was lying to the side, and she allowed him to do so without any resistance.
"nailed it!"
Upon seeing this, the person's joy increased several notches.
"Perhaps when we get to New York, we can talk in more detail and get to know each other better."
As he took control of the steering wheel and drove onto the endless highway, he couldn't stop his mouth from flirting.
“There’s no need to go to New York. I think we can have a thorough discussion right now.”
In response to this man's invitation, Calypso became even more proactive (as Wang Zhao did), reaching out and grabbing his hand as she spoke.
"What?".
Seeing Calypso react so proactively, a flicker of anxiety crossed the man's face, followed by a feeling of dampness that made him instinctively turn his head to look at the woman in the passenger seat.
The car was instantly filled with the stench of decay, and the other person's hand had a strong suction force.
twitter!
The car came to a stop with a piercing screech, accompanied by a loud cry.
Immediately afterwards, the person sitting in the driver's seat withered away, as if all the life force in his body had been rapidly absorbed.
On this day, a shriveled, dehydrated body was thrown from a vehicle and lay motionless on the road.
Calypso got into the driver's seat, started the car, and drove toward New York City.
Peggy Carter.
Chapter 7 cannot deny
"Peggy Carter was a US government agent who fought alongside Captain America during World War II. Following the defeat of the Invaders and the death of Captain America, Peggy Carter briefly took on the role of Captain America, but ultimately abandoned the Captain America role after the defeat of World War II and died in Hell's Kitchen during a later protest."
The fact that the superhero who once represented the beautiful nation's captain ultimately died from government weapons is, in a way, a huge irony.
"Of course, the federal government has never acknowledged such a thing. They told the public that Peggy Carter disappeared after resigning as captain of the Pretty Nation."
New York, Brick Street, inside Doctor Strange's Fortress.
Banner opened the history book and found a record of Peggy Carter.
According to the book, Peggy Carter once played the role of Captain America, replacing the late Steve Rogers.
"So there was an error?"
Perhaps that's why Peggy Carter, not Steve Rogers, was the one who woke up last.
"No."
167 shook his head; Dr. Strange clearly did not believe the absurd result of obtaining the wrong soul.
"This started as a gimmick by Baron Samidi, who deliberately confused the concept of Captain America."
As a deity, Baron Saturday cannot deny that Doctor Strange summoned the soul of Steve Rogers; after all, another man's body lay in the middle of the altar.
Not to mention that the Baron of the Sabbath is a deity in his Voodoo incarnation, representing death in the cemetery and leading the return of corpses. So how could such a being easily obtain the wrong soul items to satisfy Stephen's needs?
So it's quite clear that, on the other hand, all of this was done intentionally.
Dr. Strange never intended to offer his soul from the beginning; the Baron of the Sabbath used underhanded tactics during the sacrificial ceremony to deliberately confuse the recipients of the souls.
In this way, she could accept the offerings without revealing too much of her soul. After all, according to the requirements of the ritual, she had already handed over her soul to the beautiful captain, and it was up to her to decide which beautiful captain it was.
As a Voodoo deity, the Baron of the Sabbath is not a benevolent god in the traditional sense; in fact, in Haiti, people scatter many fine needles and cotton balls, as well as thousands of sesame seeds, around the cemetery to prevent the deities from interacting with each other.
Therefore, the souls of the dead are too busy threading needles and weeding sesame seeds to hear the Baron of the Sabbath's call from hell.
Sometimes, to protect themselves, relatives would place a knife in the deceased's hand before burial and escort him to the ground.
However, Baron Saturday clearly did not expect this.
Dr. Strange was even more shameless than her; at least she sent Captain America's soul out, while the other party had no intention of following the ritual's requirements, directly disrupting the Ouija board and forcibly driving her back to the center of the spiritual world.
Inside the fortress, Banner opened his mouth slightly in response to Dr. Strange's rebuttal.
As someone who had observed the entire process of the divination board, he knew very well that Dr. Strange's methods in this process were not particularly sophisticated, so the result seemed not too surprising.
In the end, they successfully summoned the beautiful captain.
Although it wasn't the person they were thinking of.
Dr. Strange clearly knew this, especially since he had thoroughly offended Saturday's Voodoo Baron during the previous ritual in the basement, and he obviously had no hope of summoning the spirit of Captain Steve Rogers from the underworld again.
Other rituals are either too risky or not well understood.
After all, as a self-taught magician, Dr. Strange's ability to become a skilled dark sorcerer in just a few months was already considered exceptionally gifted. Although these Voodoo spells or Solomon's demonic magic were easier to master than ordinary magic, Stephen paid a heavy price to acquire these abilities.
Coming-of-age ceremonies are not something you can simply do whenever you want.
Dr. Strange spent nearly a week preparing the Voodoo in the basement alone. He used a great deal of effort to select a ritual from various dark magic spells that was less expensive than Voodoo to summon the soul of Captain Pretty.
And judging from the results, that's exactly what he did.
However, the result was somewhat different from what Doctor Strange had initially hoped for.