Chapter 3 Crime scene, the undead on the puppet
Su Fan raised his head and looked at Jamie.
The latter did not come with his wife this time.
Presumably he was killed.
Even though he knew that the original plot was like this, Su Fan still sighed in his heart.
"I'm sorry...I know it's a bit inexplicable to say this, but I hope you can accept my apology."
As soon as he entered the door, Jamie was busy apologizing.
"When I came here before, I had a bad attitude towards you."
"It's okay."
Su Fan waved his hand, and then motioned to the chair in front of him.
"You can have a cup of tea and speak slowly."
Jamie sat down and was about to speak, but he hesitated. After thinking for a moment, he said with some hesitation.
“You know everything, right?”
Hearing this question, Su Fan nodded as an answer, while observing the expression of the person opposite.
The man looked tired, his hair was wet from the rain, and the dark circles under his eyes and the bloodshot eyes in the whites proved that he had not had a good rest in the past few days.
Rao was able to ask questions logically and clearly when facing Su Fan.
He can be considered a psychologically strong, courageous and resourceful protagonist of a horror film.
If the man behind the scenes hadn't planned too deeply, there would really be nothing he could do.
“After I got home, I received a package containing a ventriloquist doll named Billy.”
“I didn’t take it seriously at first, but when I went out After returning from the trip, I found that my wife was dead.”
"I now hope to find out the cause of Lisa's death. I need your help..."
After getting the affirmative answer, Jamie finally found an outlet for the words that were stuck in his chest.
"I know this sounds weird, but I suspect that this matter is related to a nursery rhyme in my hometown."
In front of Su Fan, Jamie recited a story about his childhood. A nursery rhyme I’ve heard more than once.
“In my hometown, ventriloquist dolls are regarded as an ominous symbol, bringing bad luck and death.”
“Before this happened, Lisa mentioned this to me, I didn't take it to heart at first, but who would have thought..."
Speaking of this, Jamie looked sad.
Su Fan looked thoughtful, pondered for a moment, and nodded.
“Okay, I will do you this favor.”
“But there is no free lunch in the world.”
"I understand, as long as you are willing to help me solve the mystery and find the mastermind behind it, if I can do it, just ask."
After the two of them finished speaking, Su Fan stood up directly.
"Wait a minute, you are..."
"Go to your apartment."
...
Hollywood is about 10 miles from where Jamie lives. The apartment is still quite some distance away.
The former is driven here, which saves the need to take public transportation.
Hollywood is quite some time away from where Jamie lives.
In the car, Jamie told Su Fan everything he saw and heard.
After this, I also raised my own questions.
"Su, why do you have to get that doll?"
"Do you believe in the existence of Mary Shaw?"
Su Fan did not answer Jamie directly, but asked the latter instead.
Jamie nodded.
There were so many strange things happening that he couldn't help but not believe them.
“Since we have chosen ghosts as a seemingly ethereal existence, we might as well use nursery rhymes as clues.”
Su Fan explained casually.
“Based on your description and the content of the nursery rhyme, it is very likely that Mary Shaw’s ghost can be attached to the ventriloquist doll.”
“Use it to attack people.”< br>
Jamie nodded after hearing this.
The time when Lisa was killed was indeed shortly after receiving the doll.
"If you find that thing, you can follow the clues and get clues about Mary Shaw."
"Then how do you know that we have encountered evil?"
< br>Jamie couldn't suppress the curiosity in his heart.
“In China, some people can see the rough trajectory of a person’s life through his face, and occasionally they can use this to predict what will happen in the near future.”
“You and Your wife has a blackened face, and you can tell she's in trouble at the first glance."
Su Fan said nonsense seriously. It would be too troublesome for Tongyou to explain, so he might as well just say that he can read fortune tellers.
“It sounds like the legendary prophet.”
Jamie couldn’t help but exclaim.
"Bystanders know that there are many details in your description that I didn't notice."
"You said that when you pushed the door open and entered, you heard Lisa's voice, calling you to go into the room. "
"But in fact, Lisa should have been killed at that time, so who was the person who made the sound? "
Hearing this, Jamie was horrified.
"Yes...it's Mary Xiao!"
"That's right."
Su Fan sat in the back seat, closing his eyes and concentrating while continuing to speak.
“She wants to use your wife’s voice to make you lower your guard, and then use the sudden horrific scene to stimulate you to scream.”
“If you open your mouth, there will be two people in the apartment. There is a corpse.”
Hearing this, Jamie was filled with fear.
The feeling of brushing against death caused a cold sweat to break out on his back.
"As long as the doll is there, you must stay vigilant."
After summarizing the last sentence, Su Fan kept silent.
In my mind, I recalled more information about Mary Xiao.
This thing is not a ghost in the strict sense.
Although Dead Silence's original ending was that she completed her plan and successfully drove out everyone in the Jamie family.
But in the process, the method of killing was very simple.
They all use other people’s voices to trick the victim into a dark and scary place and erase the surrounding sounds.
Then he threatens the victim, making him scream, pull out his tongue, and kill the victim.
Of course, this may also be Mary Xiao’s bad taste.
Su Fan paused to think and followed Jamie into the apartment that was cordoned off.
Jamie was released not without reason. He had sufficient alibi and there were no traces of anyone else's activities at the scene.
Lisa's death has become an unsolved case. For such unsolved cases, the police department does not have so many police resources to waste on maintaining the scene.
The two entered the apartment easily.
The blood stains on the floor have dried up, but the strong smell of blood still lingers in the room.
In the corner of the room, a ventriloquist doll dressed as a gentleman sat quietly there.
The workmanship is exquisite and the details are in place. You can tell at a glance that the maker put a lot of thought into it.
But the more lifelike a doll is, the more uncomfortable it is.
Science calls this discomfort the uncanny valley effect.
Metaphysics also has its own explanation.
Things like dolls are most likely to attract unclean things to them.
So ancient carpenters also had more or less strange methods.
"Sue, we've got the stuff."
Jamie picked up the puppet naturally.
"What's next?"
"Can your gas stove be used? Just set it on fire."
Su Fan made an understatement.
“Huh?”
Jamie was a little unbelievable.
“What? No?”
"Ah, of course, but..."
Jamie was still hesitating, so Su Fan snatched the doll.
Contacting this thing directly, a cold and evil aura wrapped directly up his arm.
Su Fan calmly walked to the stove and turned on the natural gas.
At this moment, the eyes of the puppet in his hand suddenly turned to Su Fan!
From the beginning to the end, Su Fan’s hand never touched the rod that controlled the puppet!
"Su, Su..."
Jamie, who was paying close attention to the doll, was anxious and called Su Fan, but suddenly found that his voice had become much louder.
But in fact, it was not Jamie’s voice that was amplified.
But the surrounding sounds gradually became quieter!
The sound of rain, thunder, wind, and leaves swaying, as if a button has been pressed, gradually decreases in tone until it disappears!
Here she comes!
Mary Shaw is coming!
The sound of the heartbeat passes through the body and is clearly transmitted to the eardrum. The deathly silence makes Jamie's spirit uncontrollably tense!
Su Fan seemed not to feel the evil coming, and walked straight to the kitchen, reaching out to the stove...
(End of Chapter)