American Exorcism Male God
Chapter 95 The Birth of the Alien Soul (2/5)

Xu Yi suddenly woke with a start, his breathing slightly rapid and his body covered in cold sweat. The noisy honking of cars outside brought him a sense of immense relief.

"It was just a dream!"

He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, still feeling incredibly weak, but managing to barely move.

The setting sun outside the window was casting its golden afterglow through the gaps in the curtain into the room.

He turned his head to glance at the wall clock; it was already past five in the afternoon. He had slept from last night all the way to now.

His stomach growled loudly, and he felt so hungry that his front seemed to stick to his back, as if he could eat an entire cow at the moment.

The wound on his palm had already scabbed over. Xu Yi paid it no mind and walked straight to the phone by the door to order some food from the front desk.

After he hung up the phone, he instinctively looked towards the dining table, where the disassembled lighter parts were still scattered.

His hand suddenly trembled, and the phone crashed to the floor.

The Annabelle doll was sitting upright at the dining table.

He clearly remembered that when he bound the contract, the doll had been lying on the table.

Could it be that there was a gap in his memory, that he had propped up the doll at the end but forgot about it?

Just then, the Annabelle doll suddenly turned its head and stared straight at Xu Yi. He wasn't sure if it was his imagination, but he felt the doll's gaze was especially similar to that of the little girl in his dream.

His body tensed, and he warily watched the Annabelle doll.

Could it be that the Church of the Ram was making a comeback? Or had the doll been possessed by some other evil spirit?

But he was certain that the contract had been successfully established and that Annabelle had become his puppet.

He stared for a moment and realized that the Annabelle doll had no intention of attacking him.

The doll sat quietly on the dining table, only occasionally turning its head to look at Xu Yi and around the room, like a well-behaved little girl in a strange place inspecting her surroundings with curiosity.

Xu Yi slightly relaxed. He suddenly remembered if the contract binding was successful, the system should have given a prompt.

Upon accessing the system, Xu Yi saw the information on the panel and his eyes widened in shock.

[Annabelle (Other Soul): Loyalty Value 100 (Permanently Fixed)]

Other Soul, what was that?

Why would there be an Other Soul in the Annabelle doll?

And most shockingly, why was the Other Soul's Loyalty Value at a perfect 100 and permanently fixed?

Xu Yi suddenly realized that while he was unconscious, something must have happened that he was unaware of.

He communicated with the system, trying to understand what had occurred through it, and surprisingly, the system responded, sending a stream of information into his mind.

"What kind of dumb luck is this!" Xu Yi exclaimed after receiving the information.

The Annabelle doll had been successively possessed by a demon, the evil spirit Janice, and an evil god, turning it into a breeding ground for souls.

If Annabelle's soul's birth process were likened to planting, the doll would be the fertile soil while Xu Yi's blood acted as the sunlight and rain.

But even with fertile land and ample sunlight and rain, one cannot grow fruits and vegetables without the most crucial element... the seeds, which in this case were fragments of Xu Yi's soul.

Normally, a person's soul is very stable, but as a Psychic, Xu Yi's soul was much more active than that of a common person.

During the activation of his Spirit Communication Ability, his soul could even leave his body.

That's a prerequisite, but still not sufficient.

"That night with the Contract Puppet, I was already exhausted, then I lost a lot of blood, and finally, I used extrinsic blood essence. The accumulation of these extreme conditions caused my soul to become highly unstable."

Xu Yi pieced together the events of the previous night.

"Because at that time, when the contract with the puppet was being established, the conduit was like an underwater vortex, and his unstable soul was pulled and torn, resulting in part of his soul entering the Annabelle doll, thus creating the foreign soul!"

Everything had become clear.

What he had seen before was not a dream, but the soul deep within the doll. The little girl he saw was the foreign soul.

No wonder the Loyalty Value remained fixed at 100, no wonder the foreign soul, Annabelle, claimed to be him... Essentially, Annabelle was a fragment of his own soul.

Xu Yi rubbed his swollen temples. This situation had its pros and cons.

The advantage was obvious. Since it was a split-off part of his soul, he could manipulate the puppet as easily as moving his own arm.

The most important thing was that as the foreign soul continued to grow, its level of intelligence would become higher and higher, even matching that of humans.

At that time, it wouldn't be a "remote-controlled robot" but rather a "smart chip terminator."

Of course, there were disadvantages too. Since it was a soul split from Xu Yi, it was akin to his companion soul.

If Annabelle endured severe damage or even death, he would suffer backlash as well.

[Puppetry Technique +4, current progress 21/100]

Xu Yi rubbed his eyes, almost thinking he had a hallucination. He had done nothing, so why did he suddenly gain experience in Puppetry Technique?

And wasn't the progress of the Puppetry Technique entries at zero? When had it surpassed twenty percent?

[Puppetry Technique +3, current progress 24/100]

It wasn't an illusion. The experience for Puppetry Technique was indeed rising. This information wasn't just one or two entries; roughly every ten minutes, a new one would pop up.

Xu Yi looked at the Annabelle doll on his desk and suddenly understood the situation.

"The Church of the Ram really are good people!" Xu Yi exclaimed.

The doll was the "fertile ground" for the soul, and now that the soul was sprouting, it naturally absorbed the "nutrients" remaining in the ground.

Whether it was demons, evil spirits, or evil gods, they all were direct contributors to the nutrients, all of which couldn't have happened without the "support" of the Church of the Ram.

The experience in Puppetry Technique was skyrocketing, and the foreign soul, Annabelle, was growing. Everything was moving in a good direction, and Xu Yi could finally take a sigh of relief.

At this moment, a knock on the door sounded. Xu Yi opened it to replace the hotel's meal service had arrived.

Cradling the meal tray, Xu Yi muttered under his breath, "Do I look that scary? Why run off so fast?"

The delivery person had looked at him as if seeing a ghost, trembling as he handed over the items before running off like a shot.

As he passed through the living room, there happened to be a small mirror on the liquor cabinet. Xu Yi suddenly froze, staring dumbfounded at the reflection.

The person in the mirror had a pale complexion, deep dark circles, and a withered face, resembling a dried corpse that hadn't been long out of the wind.

If it weren't for those bright black eyes, he would have never believed the person in the mirror was him.

"Is this the side effect of splitting my soul?"

Xu Yi looked at the no longer handsome reflection in the mirror, feeling quite sad... then turned that sadness into appetite, gnawing down two more pig's trotters.

Right after finishing his meal, he received a call from Judy; he had given her the hotel's number earlier.

"To visit Mr. Warren at the hospital?"

Xu Yi glanced at himself in the mirror and, after hesitating for a moment, nodded. His current appearance could potentially lead to additional gains when meeting Ed.

He washed up, changed into fresh clothes, and as he was about to leave, he turned back into the room and found a pair of sunglasses to wear.

Xu Yi strode out of the hotel's gates, and in a corner he did not notice, two people exchanged glances, spotting the humor in each other's eyes.

With the target leaving, and without the suitcase, this was definitively good news for them.