Endless Debt.

Chapter 147 The Evil Spirit
Wandering Fork Road·Spider Web Bar.

The colorful lights are projected from above with the violent music, reflecting the dim interior into all sorts of strange appearances. With the flushed and blurred faces of the guests after drunkenness, this place is like a lost dream.

Some people indulged in alcohol and singing and dancing, some whispered and conspired in the dark, people's figures were distorted by the lights into hideous shapes, projected on the wall, reflecting the bright and weird graffiti on the wall.

There is a strong smell of alcohol lingering in the air, and there are other indistinguishable smells, like engine oil full of impurities, sour flesh and blood, and a little fresh blood...

Vika stood behind the bar, quietly wiping the wine glass in his hand. He had long been accustomed to this psychedelic scene, and performed his work expressionlessly. Among the carnival crowd, he seemed to be the only sober The presence.

The two men pushed through the crowd, sat in front of the bar, and raised their hands to signal to Vika. Vika nodded and served two glasses of wine for the two of them.

"Vika, I recently found a good thing."

After drinking the wine in the glass, the man's face was a little reddish, and he said to Vika mysteriously.

"Jello, what a good thing."

Vika doesn't like these drunk guys, but chatting with customers is part of the job.

"A mammon coin, a new, never-before-seen mammon coin."

Jie Luo carefully took out a handkerchief from his pocket, spread the handkerchief on the table, and then opened it, revealing golden shimmers little by little.

I saw a Mammon coin placed in the dirty handkerchief. It was spotless, not even scratched, as if it had just been taken out of the mint.

The most surprising thing is that the pattern on this mammon coin is different from all previous patterns.

There is often such a thing in the Wandering Fork Road. Whenever there is an urban legend that is sung by people, there will be a mammon coin that represents it, and the appearance of this coin right now undoubtedly represents one thing.

A new legend emerged.

"I know you are a professional, Vika," Gero said with a smile, "Can you see anything from this coin?"

Vika is not only the bartender of the Spider Web Bar, but also the actual controller here. Coupled with the absolute peace in the Spider Web Bar, Vika has great prestige in the Wandering Fork Road.

Everyone wants to please Vika in exchange for the convenience in the Wandering Fork Road, and the best way to please Vika is undoubtedly to collect Mammon Coins for him, but to be precise, it is to collect different Mammon Coins.

For Vika, collecting different Mammon coins is like collecting stamps. For some rare and rare Mammon coins, Vika doesn't mind paying a lot of money.

"I think, I should be the first person to find this coin, and now I may not be able to find a second one in the whole wandering fork."

Jie Luo giggled, there is also a distinction between Mammon Coins, some Mammon Coins are very common, and some Mammon Coins are very rare, this Mammon Coin that even Jie Luo can't recognize is undoubtedly the rarest one kind.

Some people speculate that the scarcity of Mammon Coins is linked to the popularity of urban legends. The more people know a legend, the more Mammon Coins represent the legend, and vice versa.

Vika picked up the coin in the handkerchief, stared at the pattern on it, and then asked.

"Where did you get the coins? Tell the truth."

"Well...it's a bit of a coincidence."

Gero thought about it, and seeing Vika's sharp eyes, he realized that he still wanted to hang out here, and it was best to tell the truth.

"I found it in a public telephone booth, and it was stuck in the currency return slot. It seems that someone forgot it."

Vika didn't respond, his eyes were pensive.

"By the way, is this some kind of church symbol?" Gero continued to mumble, "This symbol looks like a cane."

Vika stroked the surface of the coin, as Jello said, it does look like a church symbol, and it looks like a stick.

The lower section of the pattern is a cross symbol, on top of the cross there is a circular symbol, and the top of the circular symbol is connected with a semicircular symbol.

The symbols were connected together and turned into this strange and incomprehensible appearance.

"Mercury..." Vika whispered.

"What?" Gero heard what Vika was saying, and his face was filled with joy, "I knew you would recognize it."

"This is not a church symbol, nor is it a cane. This is an alchemy symbol. It represents one of the seven metals in alchemy, mercury, or mercury."

Vika became interested in the coin, he repeatedly looked at the details of the coin, and continued to explain to Gero.

"The alchemists believed that mercury was a very strange metal, beyond solid and liquid, beyond earth and heaven, beyond life and death."

"It's like something... that can't be killed.",

The other man said that he had come with Jello, but had been drinking beside him, and he hadn't spoken until now, his voice was low, as if he was telling some old story.

"Some kind of indestructible, strange metal." Vika nodded at the man, confirming his guess.

"Alchemists also regard it as a symbol of poisonous snakes. The specific origin is unclear, but we can know from the myths of the church that people first lived in a paradise on earth, but they were lured by poisonous snakes and ate the fruit of wisdom. So I was exiled..."

As Vika said, another pattern appeared in his mind, a poisonous snake entangled with the fruit of wisdom.

"Thus, in the eyes of some alchemists, they regard poisonous snakes as cunning, greedy, and pursuers of truth, and everything is to swallow the fruit of that wisdom."

"Oh... that sounds really disturbing."

Jie Luo froze for a moment, but then a smile appeared on his face again. He rubbed his hands and pointed at Vika with his eyes.

"Your accounts are settled."

Vika understood what Gero meant, put away the coin directly, and put it in his pocket.

Gero almost burst into laughter, but then his joy was replaced by curiosity, and he asked Vika tentatively.

"Now that the coin has appeared, which legend does it represent?"

"I do not know."

Vika shook his head bluntly. He spent most of his time in bars, and the disturbances from the outside world had nothing to do with him.

"I know a strange thing that happened recently," the man on the side said again, "Have you heard the story of the evil spirit?"

"Evil spirit?" Zero looked puzzled, "What are you talking about? Will, what is evil spirit?"

"Haven't you heard? This is a legend that has emerged since the previous stormy night. Many gangs were wiped out that night. The newspapers said that they were caused by fighting with each other... Is this possible? They have lived peacefully for so long, and suddenly In an instant, everyone was dead, and there was not even a single winner."

Will drank calmly, trying to numb his nerves, recalling these stories now is like a bloody nightmare.

"Fortunately, there was one unlucky ghost who survived, a child named White, and I learned these stories from him.

The actual situation that night was that a monster called an evil spirit came in. White and the others tried to fight back, swung their knives at it, and fired at it. The firepower was enough to kill a person thousands of times, but Strangely enough, the spirit bleeds, but it doesn't die. "

Will imitated White's tone, with panic and despair.

"Only seeing the flickering gunfire and the wailing echoing in the darkness, White could only see the hideous figure clearly through the short-lived fireworks, and then, amidst the heavy breathing, his teammates came one by one. To die, to be pierced by a blade, to be crushed by a hammer..."

Will put down his wine glass and looked directly at Gero with cloudy eyes.

"Think about it, Jelo, think about that scene, without any warning, the nightmare just fell so suddenly, you don't know the purpose of the other party, and you can't see the appearance of the other party, the only thing that is clear is that people follow each other One by one, you try to fight, but in vain, as if when it comes, all you can do is pray and repent."

"Is it fake?" Gerald was stunned by Will's words, and he firmly doubted, "If the evil spirit is really so terrifying, how did White survive?"

"This is the interesting thing about the evil spirit," said Will, smiling, showing his scorched teeth. "It's a selective evil spirit, not an indiscriminate bloodthirsty beast."

"White said that the reason why he survived was because the evil spirit told him 'he is not on the list', so... what list is it?"

"The Wicked List."

Suddenly, Vika, who was listening to the conversation, said, he lowered his head and continued to wipe the wine glass in his hand, thinking about what he saw and heard in Noam's clinic in his mind.

A vague figure gradually became clear in his mind, and Vika remembered what he said when he first came to the Spiderweb Bar.

become a legend.

"Yes, the list of villains." Will raised his glass to Vika, and then looked at Gero, whose expression was gradually pale, "The reason why White didn't die was because he was a child, he just joined the gang for a few days, and he didn't even have a gun. He didn't even open it, his hands were not stained with blood, if he had, White would have died that night."

"No, no, Will, this is impossible. How can you know such details? The so-called White is just a story you made up!" Gero's voice rose, trying to veto his words.

"Because White is my nephew, I have to thank the evil spirit. It brought a great mental shock to White. After seeing the corpse and blood, the child became a lot more honest, and he never mentioned anything about joining. It's about the gang."

Will's eyes were fixed on Gero, he deliberately lowered his voice, and asked.

"This can be a fact or a story, but why did you react so violently, Jie Luo? Could it be that you did something wrong and are afraid that evil spirits will stare at you?"

"This has nothing to do with you." Gero stood up directly, and he gave Will a hard look, "See you tomorrow, Will."

"I also hope to see you tomorrow! Zero! Be careful, is the evil spirit staring at you?"

Jie Luo quickened the pace of leaving, trying to put Will's laughter out of his mind, walking on the wet and dark street, the street scene of wandering fork roads is always so twisted and weird.

The cold invaded his body, and winter was coming. While wrapping his clothes tightly, he picked up a cigarette and lit it.

"Damn story," Zero muttered, "Damn coin collection."

The composition of Wandering Fork Road is complicated. Many people don’t live here. Most of them live in Qiushang Town, which is more livable, and around the Great Rift. For this reason, these people don’t believe in tyrants, let alone the Mammon coin. Legend has it.

One of those unbelievers is Jello, who collects these coins only to use them as currency for this damned wandering fork.

"There are no evil spirits, just the crazy words of these people."

Zero whispered repeatedly, and walked towards the end of the road, but he didn't notice at all that a vague figure had been crouching there for a long time on the strangely distorted building behind him.

The man was wearing a pitch-black overcoat, with a strange mask on his face, his blue eyes reflecting Gero's back, he slowly opened his overcoat, and took out a mottled claw hammer from his pocket.

(End of this chapter)