Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 199 Doctor Strange
"Doctor Strange?!"

If Colin could recognize it here, the man in front of him who called himself Doctor Strange was Stephen Strange.

In just a few months, the other party seemed to have undergone extremely drastic changes.

From the original high-spirited neurosurgeon, he became the doctor strange who is now talking in front of Banner.

"So, you saved me?"

Recalling the last picture in his mind, Banner looked at Doctor Strange Stephen in front of him and asked.

"No, it's fate. Fate guides me to meet you."

Shaking his head, Doctor Strange or Stephen said meaningfully to Banner.

"destiny?"

Listening to Stephen's answer, Banner frowned and glanced at the man in front of him, always feeling that there seemed to be something hidden in the man he didn't know.

Without explaining too much to him, Stephen glanced at Banner with a surprised expression and focused on the work in his hands.

Under Banner's gaze, the man who called himself Stephen seemed to be looking for something among the assortment of statues and ritual objects in the room.

"...Mephisto's parchment? No, not this, I don't want to become a fallen soul..."

"The feathers of Anubis are completely fake, God knows what kind of guy will be summoned..."

"This, let me see, Yama is not very familiar...Satan, um, should not belong to him..."

Taking out a piece of completely black parchment from the statue, Stephen opened it up and took a closer look at the contents, then closed it again and put it back into the box in front of him.

Standing aside, Banner saw part of the content on the parchment through the angle of Stephen's arm, and his brain became tingling just by glancing at it, as if there were countless voices whispering in his brain, the field of vision It also became blurred, and a distorted, illusory world appeared in front of Banner in a half-dream and half-awake state.

He saw a huge figure sitting on top of a skeleton, surrounded by a sea of ​​flames and blood. The figure on the throne continued to cry out in pain, but it laughed deafeningly.

Immediately afterwards, the scene changed, and Banner seemed to be back in the room.

Standing behind Stephen, he saw that the originally calm words on the parchment began to dance, twisted and broke free from it, and kept making seductive voices to him, as if he would gain unparalleled power as long as he snatched the parchment.Amidst the murmuring of the parchment, the expression on Banner's face also changed, and he moved towards Stephen.

pat-

However, before he got close, the other party had locked back the appearance in front of him again.

At the same time, the fantasy in front of Banner also dissipated.

Blinking his eyes, recovering from the temptation of the parchment, Banner looked down at his own steps, a look of astonishment flashed in his eyes.

At that moment, for some reason, he seemed to have completely lost his will and wanted to snatch that weird parchment from Doctor Strange.

Here, Banner was feeling terrified of what had just happened.

Stephen on the other side didn't seem to care about what happened behind him at all. He selected a puppy that looked a little ugly from among the items piled up with various statues and summoning ceremonies, and picked up another one that was placed on the The head on the side nodded and said, "I found it, Regba..."

Holding the puppy statue in one hand, Stephen threw the skeleton in his hand to Banner behind him, who subconsciously reached out to catch it.

"This is?!"

When he saw clearly that what Doctor Strange threw to him was an ugly head that looked dry and curled up, he couldn't help but exclaimed and wanted to throw it out.

"If I were you, I wouldn't do this..."

Right at this moment, Stephen's hoarse voice sounded, causing Banner to abruptly stop his movements.

"This is a voodoo air-dried human head, usually made from the head that was beheaded by the victor in a tribal war, and it has undergone a series of special treatments, such as removing eyeballs and teeth, breaking and removing intracranial bones, brain and Muscle tissue, leave a complete human skin headgear, pour hot stones into the skin, make it shrink and dry, sew the eyelids and mouth, fill the leather sleeve with stones or grass, tie up the remaining hair and hang it on the door On the neck of the victor or as a trophy or a military medal, it symbolizes that "the soul of the defeated man belongs to him", and has the functions of warding off evil spirits and psychic.

"If you don't want what happened just now to happen again, just hold on to it. This is a good thing I bought from a gypsy after spending a lot of money."

Stephen's introduction made Banner's discomfort with the air-dried head in front of him a little deeper. He looked down at the fist-sized head in his arms, and the clearly visible stitches on its eyelids and mouth.Banner tried hard to suppress the discomfort and resistance in his heart, holding it firmly in his hands.

The abnormality of the parchment had already left a deep impression on him.

God knows what dangerous situation will happen next in this room. Right now, he can only believe in Stephen's words and the power of drying his head.

Although its appearance is a little ugly, and the manufacturing process is a little scary, but I don't know if it is a psychological effect.

Banner always felt that after he grabbed it, the original gloomy atmosphere in the room seemed to dissipate a bit.

Throwing the dry head to Banner, Doctor Strange didn't say anything, grabbed the puppy statue in his hand and walked out.

Seeing the back of him leaving, Banner glanced left and right at the weird statues beside him, wondering if it was the influence of the parchment before, at this moment he always felt that every statue in the room was watching him, showing greed look.

Prompted by inner anxiety and fear, Banner followed Doctor Strange without hesitation.

Just like that, after walking out of the room, Banner realized that the room he was in just now was actually the most complete place in the whole house.

In the corridor, both sides of the dilapidated corridor are full of graffiti and bloodstains, giving him the illusion of being in a horror movie scene.

Following the direction of the aisle, Banner saw Stephen disappearing around the corner, and was about to step up to catch up, when suddenly the dry head in his hand began to shake.

"Where are you going?"

At the same time, Doctor Strange's voice came from behind him.

"what?"

Hearing the inquiry, Banner's face immediately showed astonishment.

He turned his head to look at Doctor Strange behind him, then looked back at the corner of the corridor in the distance, and said in a tone of horror mixed with doubts: "I just saw you appearing in the corridor, so suddenly you ran to... ..."

"Don't trust your eyes, especially in this place."

Hearing Banner's explanation, Stephen looked up and glanced at the corner of the corridor, and introduced in a hoarse voice: "This house was once used by a Native American shaman as a place to seal demons, and then it became Mass graves and places where cults kill people, the whole building is filled with a lot of cult magic, and it is also very easy to attract some wandering souls, what you just saw should be one of the souls living here."

Doctor Strange's explanation made Banner's hair stand on end.

He grabbed the dried heads in his hand, swallowed and asked Stephen in front of him, "In this case, why didn't you drive them away or seal them?"

"Why would I do this?"

Facing Banner's doubts, Stephen looked up at him, and said calmly: "Compared with these souls, I am the latecomer. There is no reason for the latecomers to drive out the original residents."

With that said, Doctor Strange pointed to the head in Banner's hand again, and said 'comfort' to him.

"In addition, with the protection of human heads, ordinary spirits can't get close to you at all. As long as you are not confused by them, there will be no problems."

Hearing Doctor Strange's 'comfort', Banner subconsciously grasped the head a little tighter in his hand.

In this way, under the leadership of Doctor Strange, the two walked down the stairs of the house to a seemingly spacious basement.

"Captain America?!"

Immediately afterwards, Banner saw Captain America's motionless body in the middle of the basement.

"Fate not only guides me to meet you, but also guides me to bring him here."

Under Banner's gaze, Doctor Strange answered calmly.

Obviously, in the previous Hydera accident, he not only saved Banner but also brought Captain America out of the laboratory.

With that said, Stephen put the puppy statue in his hand in front of Captain America.

At the same time, Banner found that various items had already been placed around Captain America, many of which were very similar to what he had seen in the room before. This seemed to be a ceremony scene that had been arranged long ago.

"Whoo~"

While Banner was thinking, Doctor Strange Stephen took out a box of unknown white paint from his arms to paint his face with weird white patterns, and hung the things he had prepared on the table on his body. Immediately afterwards, he grabbed a black toad from the pot in front of him and stuffed it into his mouth under Banner's horrified eyes.

Putting a live toad in your mouth is obviously disgusting.

Even Doctor Strange had to force himself several times before suppressing the disgusted expression on his face.

While holding the jumping toad in his mouth, Stephen came to the motionless altar, took a deep breath, then swayed his hands and feet, and began to dance weirdly.

Poof, poof—

With the dancing of Doctor Strange, the brazier in the basement began to ignite a raging flame, and the beating fire surrounded Captain America in the center of the altar.

At the same time, Doctor Strange, who was surrounded by the flames, uttered strange spells in his mouth. .

Even though there was a toad in his mouth, the sound of incantations in Doctor Strange's mouth was unusually clear.

"Come on, come on, Captain America, I'm here to pray for your gaze, the great old Regba, the guide who lives at the crossroads, please guide us, guide the soul of Captain America..."

"... Father Regba, I offer a sacrifice and pray for your guidance..."

In the basement, Doctor Strange danced strangely around the brazier, with all kinds of ornaments hanging on his body, most of which were bone bones.

As Dr. Strange prayed, the puppy in front of him began to gradually change. A large amount of blood flowed from the eyes of the statue. The blood was extremely black and exuded an inexplicable stench, and then the statue began to change. It was scorched black, as if some unknown existence was absorbing the life force from the statue, and within a few seconds, it dissipated into white powder.

Witnessing the scene where the statue turned into white dust and dissipated, Banner's fingers gripping the dried head became a little tighter.

In just a few hours, the scene he experienced was even more shocking than he had experienced in the past few decades.

When Banner came out, he never thought that as a physicist, he would witness a real soul-calling ceremony one day.

The appearance of Doctor Strange in front of him is obviously planning to do something with Captain America's body.

And under Banner's gaze, with the disappearance of the puppy statue, the ceremony in front of him seemed to have entered another stage.

"what!"

The air-dried portrait in his hand struggled fiercely, and amidst a shrill scream, a blurry black figure in tattered clothes and on crutches appeared in the basement before Banner's eyes.

This is Papa Regba, the god of Haitian Voodoo, the medium connecting humans and the great god of Voodoo, Loa, who is worshiped at the beginning and end of Voodoo rituals.

The dog is His symbolic animal.

"Papa Regba."

Looking at Papa Regba who appeared in his eyes, Doctor Strange opened his mouth and spit out the toad in his mouth. The toad, which was still alive and kicking, now only had a thin layer of skin left.

Voodoo is a religion that relies on fear to rule its beliefs. The gods they believe in are not too kind. Teaching oracles to people at the crossroads, but being capricious in itself, often leads people into despair.

"State your purpose."

Leaning on crutches, he walked up to Doctor Strange.

The dilapidated shoes on Papa Regba's feet could vaguely see the holes in the shoes, which seemed to be very different from the rumored gods.

However, Doctor Strange knew that the other party's attire was indeed the manifestation of the gods in the voodoo rumors in the human world.

"Soul, I need Captain America's soul."

Dealing with gods, even if the other party is only a voodoo god, Doctor Strange dare not be careless in the slightest. His eyes swept across the motionless corpse of Captain America in the center of the altar, and then he answered.

(End of this chapter)