Just like every story just now is a fairy tale full of educational significance, "The Man in the Closet" was born out of the children's childhood fear of the closet at home, hoping to let readers understand that the only way to overcome fear is to face fear.
This theme is very interesting, because among all the furniture, the closet and the bottom of the bed are the few that have the possibility of hiding humanoid creatures, which is enough to arouse the imagination of timid and fantasy-loving children.
Appearing again in the distant town of Black, Jenkins stood under the eaves of a temporarily closed clothing store for renovation, looked up at the gloomy sky, and then noticed something unusual on the street.
He saw metal pillars and street lamps neatly arranged at intervals, he saw the densely packed metal pipes on the walls that looked like electrical circuits, and he saw buildings at least five stories high in the distance, which Nolan didn't even have. Scenes.
"Is this the town before the last civilization was broken? It's really spectacular. If the eighteenth century can end smoothly and the torch of steam industry civilization can continue to be passed on, then the city of the nineteenth century should also have such a scene."
Although the degree of industrialization of steam is very high, this is still that remote town. Regardless of the era, Blacktown has always been on the fringes of civilization.
The weather was gloomy like it was going to rain, Jenkins wanted to solve the matter here as soon as possible, he didn't want to get wet.
"The Man in the Closet" is a story from the perspective of children. Although it is not clear whether there is anyone in the closet at the end, and if there is, who is it, this does not prevent it from becoming the current reading of Jenkins. One of the weirdest stories ever told.
The location of this story is "an ordinary family in the town", but because I know the surname of the protagonist of the story, Jason Jr., it is not difficult to find the house.
The Jason family's house is not in the town, but in the forest outside the town. Although not far from the town, Jenkins could not understand their purpose in living in the forest.
The house is a complete masonry structure, surrounded by trees standing in a glade, surrounded by a simple wooden fence. Jenkins stood in front of the fence and looked hesitantly at the rather tall house in front of him, feeling that it was like a small castle.
Soon someone noticed his arrival. It was a little boy with yellow hair. After opening the door, he poked his head and looked at the people standing outside:
"Hi sir, are you the new teacher my mother has hired?"
The boy asked very politely. The time gap is too long, and the language used in this era is no longer recognized by Jenkins. He can only translate the meaning of those words under the influence of sympathy.
Jenkins was reluctant to lie because it was unnecessary, but he quickly noticed the aura in the boy and nodded silently.
If nothing else happened, the boy in front of him should be the protagonist in "The Man in the Closet". He invited Jenkins into the house without any precautions, and when he led him to the second floor, he also introduced that his parents were not at home today.
But the boy did not lead Jenkins to the study or the dining room with its spacious table, but to his own room.
"Teacher, wait here for a while, I'll get you some hot tea."
Saying that, leaving Jenkins at the door of the room, the boy Jason ran downstairs quickly, and soon he couldn't even hear the footsteps.
"Everything is wrong..."
Jenkins, who was standing at the door, did not push the door in immediately, but observed the whole house from this position.
There are no servants in such a large house, which has been confirmed when I went upstairs just now. More importantly, there were no lamps in the house, not to mention gas lamps, and Jenkins didn't even see a candle. Now the lighting of the room is completely dependent on the gloomy sky outside the window. Once it is night, I am afraid that it will really be invisible.
Combined with the strange aura he saw on the boy just now, he tried to understand the story he read in the opposite direction, so that most of the things made sense.
"Is this the so-called dark fairy tale?"
Pushing the door and walking into the house, Little Jason's room is unremarkable, in line with the appearance of a boy's bedroom in his teens. There was a thin booklet on the desk facing the bed. Jenkins stepped forward and opened it, and found that it was a picture book for boys to doodling, with crayons drawing distorted and terrifying pictures.
What these pictures have in common is that there is a grinning boy in the corner of each painting. Boys hide behind crooked bushes, or just poke their heads out from behind brightly colored houses.
Jenkins looked at it for a while, then put the picture album back to its original position, and then turned to look at the only wardrobe in the room.
In the story recorded in "Secrets of Black Town", this wardrobe is the source of little Jason's fear. Around the closet and this room, little Jason has experienced many horrible and incredible events. From the beginning to the end of the story, the closet has never been opened, but at the end it is implied that everything that happened was not an illusion, and there are really things in the closet.
"No aura..."
Jenkins thought about walking to the closet, putting his hand on the handle, taking a deep breath, and slamming the door open.
Inside are some hanging boys' clothes, and there is some damp smell on the face. I opened the clothes with my hands, but didn't find anything hidden behind them.
He thought for a while, and tapped on the wooden board behind the cabinet again, but he didn't hear anything wrong.
"That's what makes it interesting."
Thinking about it, he planned to restore everything to the original state, but at this moment, he glanced at the clothes from the corner of his eye, and found a shining thing at the bottom of the cabinet. After picking it up, he found that it was a scale, but he couldn't identify what kind of creature it belonged to.
The boy came back soon with a saucer. Compared to the saucer, little Jason didn't look that big. But he tiptoed seriously and put the saucer on the table, and then invited Jenkins to sit down and sip tea before starting the class.
"Teacher, did you just open my closet?"
Little Jason noticed this quickly.
"Yes, after I came in just now, I felt that someone was watching me in the closet, so I opened it and took a look. Sorry, I shouldn't mess with your things."
He didn't understand the language at this point in time, and he was sure that the other party also couldn't understand the common human language of the eighteenth century, so this sentence was spoken in Elvish.
The boy was not surprised by this, and he also used Elvish when answering, and spoke very naturally:
"For a while, I always felt that someone was watching me in the closet. At that time, I was really scared. When I went to bed at night, I only dared to hide under the quilt, because once my head was exposed, it was tantamount to facing the closet. But now Don't worry, there's nothing in there, is there?"
PS: I never wrote about chocolate being sealed, why did so many posts say that chocolate was sealed in the last chapter? I didn't even write about Blacktown sealing something, what the hell did you see (confused face).