Kuna did not take long to prepare. It took her less than a quarter of an hour. When she came down from the second floor, she had changed her clothes, and she finally looked like a shaman. Other than that, she was holding a small bowl in her hand.
Kuna carefully sprinkled the contents of the bowl around the sofa. After that, she motioned for Alesia to move her recliner over. She then placed Satchus, whose hands and feet were tied up, on the recliner and took out the towel stuffed in his mouth.
Satchus looked at the old shaman standing in front of him, his eyes filled with madness.
Kuna looked at him and asked, "Does he have our blood in his body?"
"Yes, his father is Inuit, and he learned his hunting skills from his father's tribe," Alesia said.
"I can feel an evil aura on his body. His mind has already been controlled by that evil spirit."
"Can his mind return to normal?" Song Jia could not help but ask.
"It's difficult. It depends on how much his mind has been affected," Kuna said. "I heard that he has been haunted by the evil spirit for a long time?"
"Eighteen years. Since he participated in the scientific expedition eighteen years ago, he has been having nightmares ever since," Alesia said.
"It's amazing that he can hold on until now before going crazy. His mind is considered very strong among ordinary people," Kuna said truthfully. After that, she said to Alesia, "Feed him a sleeping pill and let him sleep."
"Yes, teacher."
In the end, Alicia ran into trouble at the first step. Satchus was unwilling to take the sleeping pill and kept his mouth tightly shut. Even with Ole's help, who forced his mouth open and stuffed the pill in, he spat it out again before he could be given any water. The two of them were busy for a long time and were sweating profusely. However, Satchus was still full of energy and was very lively.
Zhang Heng could not stand it anymore. "Let me do it?"
Upon hearing that, Alicia handed the pills and a glass of water to Zhang Heng. He then walked in front of Satchus, reached out, and dislocated the latter's chin. After that, he tossed the sleeping pills into his mouth and poured water into it. This time, Satchus was exceptionally obedient. He took the pills and did not cause any more trouble.
However, after waiting for half an hour, even Ole, who had been running around for half a day, felt a little tired. Yet, he still didn't feel sleepy, and was still mumbling something.
Alicia slapped her forehead. "I forgot. He has been suffering from nightmares and insomnia for a long time. He must have been taking sleeping pills for a long time. I think he has developed some drug resistance. I'm afraid we have to increase the dosage."
As she spoke, she stood up to get the medicine, but she heard Kuna say, "There's no need to go through so much trouble. Leave it to me."
The old shaman sat down on the sofa opposite Satchus and looked him in the eye. Then, he began to hum a ballad softly. The melody was not complicated. There were only a few simple notes that kept repeating. However, as Kunayoshi continued to hum, everyone in the room felt their spirits relax.
Song Jia could not help but yawn. Kuna gestured to her, asking her to go upstairs and wait.
After a while, Alicia could not take it anymore, and she staggered up the stairs. On the other hand, Ole was still holding on, but his eyelids had become a little heavy. At the same time, Satchus, who was lying on the recliner, gradually quieted down as he listened to the magical ballad. He even stopped talking nonsense.
Ole wanted to wait for Satchus to fall asleep first, but after another five minutes, he was too sleepy. He leaned against the wooden wall behind him and slowly fell down. Not long after he fell, Satchus finally closed his eyes.
Kuna sang a few more lines, and her voice gradually became softer until she stopped singing. She then picked up the cup on the side and took a sip of the remaining coffee to moisten her throat. After that, she looked at Zhang Heng sitting at the wooden table in surprise.
Zhang Heng's eyes were still clear as if he was not affected by her singing. However, Kuna also knew that now was not the time to study Zhang Heng. She pointed at Ole on the ground and then upstairs.
Zhang Heng knew what she meant, so he got up, walked over, and carried the fallen Ole upstairs. In the bedroom on the second floor, Song Jia had already fallen asleep on the bed. As for Alesia, Zhang Heng did not see her in the bedroom. When he put Ole on the ground and went downstairs, he saw Alesia walking in from the door.
Judging from her appearance, she seemed to have jumped into the snow from the window, washed her face with ice and snow to refresh herself, and came back.
The old shaman nodded at his student. After that, Alicia checked and closed all the doors and windows. After that, she stepped aside, leaving Kuna and Satchus, who had fallen asleep, in the watering range.
Kuna noticed that even in his sleep, Satchus's face had a touch of ferocity and joy. It was as if he was running and killing freely in the dream. Coupled with Zhang Heng's previous warning, the old shamans knew that their trip into the dream would not be easy.
So she took out a tambourine made of seal skin from under the sofa, and as she beat it, she changed the tune. This time, her style was very cheerful, and it was filled with happiness. If an ordinary person listened to it, the corners of their mouth would rise involuntarily. Of course, Zhang Heng still did not have any reaction to it.
But at this time, Kuna could not care less about him. She used this happy tune to summon her guardian spirits. These little things were like children, running around when they had nothing to do, and they were very sensitive to all kinds of emotions. When they saw something happy, they would get close to it, and when they felt sadness, they would run away.
Kuna still remembered when she lost her sister in an accident when she was twenty years old. After that, she locked herself up, refusing to communicate with others, feeling depressed all day long. The little elves who liked to surround her in the past were nowhere to be seen, hiding somewhere. It was not until she walked out of her sadness that they came back.
When the expedition team was in the wilderness, it was not a surprise that the little elves found Zhang Heng's mother. That was because the little elves were born to like this kind of pure, optimistic, and cheerful person. At their age, they had probably never seen a person as carefree as Xiao Xia. Like bears that saw honey, they swarmed toward her. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that they were afraid of someone in the expedition team, they would have held hands and danced around Xiao Xia day and night.
On the contrary, it was not so easy for Kuna to ask the little elves to help her enter Satchus's dream. Satchus exuded an aura that they did not like, and they could smell it from afar.
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