He moved his fingers almost subconsciously. Dozens of puppet threads rushed out like snakes and nailed to every door on the first floor.
squeak-
More than a dozen snarling door openings overlapped, and then slammed into the wall with a "bang".
Everyone was caught off guard and was shocked!
As cowardly as Sun Siqi and Xia Qiao, it was obvious to the naked eye that they trembled when the door opened.
All spaces on the first floor were forcibly opened.
The pitch-black doorway is like eyes, staring at everyone with a dusty atmosphere. The three boys shrank to Wen Shi's side at the same time, and looked back uneasily, always feeling that something would pop out of a certain door.
As a result, it was Wen Shi himself who sprang out.
Hearing the clanging sound of the metal chains, the black python that was enough to wrap the entire house appeared again.
This time, the distance was extremely close, and when passing by the crowd, the sparks splashed between the chains flew past the scalp. It wasn't a real fire, but everyone still protected their faces.
The black python flicked its tail, and before everyone could react, it had already patrolled all the rooms.
It moved too fast, and the instant it came back, a gust of wind blew up, causing everyone to stumble. If the puppet can reflect the puppet master's mood, then everyone present can feel that Wen Shi is in a bad mood at the moment... except Wen Shi himself.
All his reactions are inertial.
The black python squatted up with the letter, exuding a cold sense of chill. Dadong's bird fluttered from a distance for a long time before it dared to get closer.
Xia Qiao called out tentatively, "Brother?"
Wen Shi dragged his puppet line and raised his head, saw Zhou Xu and the others looking suspiciously and cautiously, and saw his frowning brows from the mirror in the corridor.
It wasn't until then that he realized later that he was really unhappy.
Not the defiant, pure discomfort, but an indescribable discomfort…
It's like walking down the stairs and suddenly missing out, or losing something.
Just because Xie asked disappeared.
This feeling is actually very strange. Because Wen Shi has been in the cage too many times, it is not uncommon for someone to go missing, and he and Xie Wen have not known each other for a long time.
Maybe because of the long, deep corridor before. He turned around suddenly, Xie Wen was standing in the right place.
Maybe they were caged three times together. Day and night in the cage are endless, and there is often parting with life and death, which will give people the illusion that they have known each other for a long time and have seen reincarnation several times.
Or... or something else.
When he smelled, he turned his eyes and saw Lao Mao's expressionless face.
"You were in such a hurry just now—" Dadong's eyes swept across Wen Shi's eyes, and he got stuck: "No, I mean to open so many doors, are you looking for someone?"
When smelling: "Hmm."
Dadong: "Did you find it?"
When smelling: "… "
This is just fucking bullshit.
"No." The unpleasant energy of the smell was put on his face again, "It's not on the bright side."
Puppets can track living people along the known breath. Not on the bright side means that there are no places where Xie Wen and Mice can be found in the cage.
Xia Qiao looked worried, "What should I do then?"
Dadong and the others were also a little disappointed, but compared to the others, Dadong had more experience. He glanced at Wen Shi embarrassingly, and comforted: "There is no need to sing badly so early, in fact, as long as the cage can be solved in the end, they can all come out."
It couldn't be more clear when I smelled it.
He used to be the calmest one in this situation before, but he never expected to be reminded by someone like Da Dong one day...
It shouldn't be when he smells it, and it shouldn't be. He can only stare at him silently.
However, Dadong was stared at by him, took a step back, and did not talk any more.
Only Sun Siqi didn't understand the situation the most: "Well, what if you can't figure it out?"
He didn't dare to talk much, he only dared to mumble in a low voice.
For the sake of being a good brother, Zhou Xu replied faintly, "Then stay here together until we die."
Sun Siqi was stunned, and never let out his anger again.
At this moment, the most undisturbed one among all people is Lao Mao. After all, Puppet's emotions are not as rich as people's. He is a snowman and a thousand-year-old puppet. It's normal to be calm.
He coughed in time and interjected: "Actually, I just said something, I don't know if you heard it."
"What?"
"It is said that as soon as everyone falls asleep, Mr. Li will come back. Since the boss corresponds to Mr. Li, then... this may be useful to him."
"Isn't it." Dadong said, "The mouse corresponds to Shen Manyi, and I haven't seen him stuffed in—"
"He really did what Shen Manyi did." Wen Shi interrupted, "He played the game of true and false brides."
And it was the first to play, in sync with Shen Manyi.
"Oh!" Zhou Xu dragged his tune and suddenly realized, "So after a long time, his identity at the time was not to be played, but to play with? Hiss—"
He didn't know what to think, and he was silent again halfway through.
Others didn't notice it, and were still in the stage of sudden realization and deep contemplation.
He only frowned when he heard it.
He also thought of a problem - now it seems that the mouse was the second "Miss Shen" at that time, so Shen Manyi wanted to play the real and fake brides, and he also wanted to play. It just so happened that the person selected in the first round was himself.
It is equivalent to him imitating himself as "Shen Manyi".
This is also why the mouse in the walkie-talkie should be himself, but there is a strange feeling everywhere.
If this logic holds true, then the second round is weird.
In the second round, Shen Manyi selected Xie Wen, and it is reasonable to say that the mouse should be synchronized with her, and Xie Wen was also selected. The imitation seems to be different, anyway, under the circumstances at that time, Xie Wen should have three.
But in reality there are only two, and the mice are gone.
Why
Is it the mouse, as Shen Manyi's counterpart, who can only briefly synchronize with her once? Or... The person chosen by Shen Manyi, the rat can't move
When I smelled it, I suddenly remembered the person hanging on the hanger on the second floor.
When he saw the skin bag, he was actually a little puzzled. Because he thought the rat was fake, Dadong later confirmed that the birthmark was in the opposite position. But why does the fake mouse have the walkie-talkie in the hands of the real mouse
Besides, Shen Manyi was well-behaved and clever at that time, so why bother with a skin bag to scare people before leaving, isn't it superfluous
Now that I think about it, it might be another situation.
What if the mouse at that time wanted to borrow a mirror in the cage to imitate someone, but it failed
Wen Shi had seen something similar in a certain cage, but it was too long ago that he couldn't remember it. I only vaguely remember that someone tried to pretend to be someone else, but because the other party was too coercive, that person was unstable, and in the end it was self-defeating, and he lost his appearance.
If this is the case with the mouse, then... why can't he imitate Xie Wen
"So we have to try to sleep and see if we can get Mr. Li and Boss Xie out of bed?" Xia Qiao asked, "Is that what you mean, brother?"
Wen Shi recovered from his pondering, frowned and said, "Who is sleeping?"
Xia Qiao: "… Hmm."
What kind of shocking question is this
"Oh." Wen Shi realized what he said, and just realized what he said. He loosened his brows and walked to the nearest room, pinching his Adam's apple expressionlessly, and said vaguely: "Almost, let's see which rooms are."
Although the structure of the Shen family's house is strange, it is really big and there are really many rooms. Upstairs there are already so many bedrooms, study, cloakroom, storage room. There is still no shortage of these downstairs, but there is an additional kitchen.
"Mother Cai lives here." Shen Manyi suddenly pointed to the bedroom next to the kitchen and said.
"I feel the benefit of taking this eldest lady." Dadong said, "It saves us from rummaging through the boxes to identify the owner."
That being said, they walked over to the closet to make sure.
"This nurse's treatment is good. The room is bigger than the one I live in." Dadong was still habitually walking first, and opened the wardrobe door while speaking, but the next second, his hand shook.
There was only one set of clothes hanging in Mama Cai's huge wardrobe, bright red, silk texture, embroidered with festive bat patterns.
There was a quilt under the clothes. It was very thin, and it was neatly folded. The pattern that matched the clothes was placed on the top. It was also bright red and silk.
Sun Siqi rubbed his arms: "Is this a cheongsam? The color looks scary, is it a wedding dress?"
"Stupid?" Zhou Xu refuted unceremoniously, "What is the nurse doing here with Xifu?"
Xia Qiao murmured, "This is a shroud."
Sun Siqi was startled: "What clothes?"
"Shroud." Xia Qiao explained in a low voice, "The clothes worn by the dead were worn by my grandfather when he died. I have seen them in the store, and they are women's."
He pointed to the quilt again and said, "This is a quilt, and it is also used to wrap-"
Before the word "corpse" was spoken, Sun Siqi's face turned pale.
When he smelled it, he lifted the hanging bright red shroud, revealing the hat, pillow, and cotton socks behind it.
"There is one thing missing." Xia Qiao, who has always been timid, responded well to this matter, probably because he helped grandpa wear a whole set. His temperament at this time is a bit close to the ghost-like appearance when he was a child.
Xia Qiao probed into the cabinet to look for it, and muttered, "Eh? Where is it?"
"What are you looking for?" Dadong asked.
"Where are the shoes? There are no birthday shoes." Xia Qiao said.
"The shoes are over there." Wen Shi pointed to somewhere behind them.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, turned around following his gaze, and saw a pair of embroidered silk shoes of the same bright red placed beside the bed. The toes of the shoes were pointed in their direction, as if someone had been sitting in those shoes and watching them silently for a long time.
Xia Qiao, who had just calmed down for a few seconds, tasted it carefully, and his soul was scared away.
He was huddled together with Zhou Xu and Sun Siqi, like three quails in a nest, and they moved to the place closest to Wen Shi in a group, and only then did he feel a little bit more secure.
"Hang this to scare people, right?" Da Dongqiang calmed down.
Wen Shi turned to look at Shen Manyi and asked, "What do you say Mama Cai usually wears?"
Shen Manyi slowly raised her eyes, pointed to the shroud in the cabinet, and said softly, "This."
The room fell silent.
After thinking about it when I smelled it, I opened the other side of the wardrobe, and there were many skirts and trousers of little girls hanging neatly in it. It is completely different from Cai's mother's wardrobe.
He raised his foot and walked towards the door again, and Shen Manyi followed step by step. The three quails and Dadong followed closely behind, leaving Lao Mao at the back.
"Where do your brother and nanny son live?" Wen Shi asked Shen Manyi again.
Shen Manyi flinched, as if it was not good to hear the word brother. She hesitated for a while, then pointed to the ceiling.
"I said downstairs." Wen Shi said.
Shen Manyi shook her head, pointed to two more rooms and said, "It might be over there."
When he smelled it, he suddenly remembered that the young master of the Shen family originally slept upstairs, but moved downstairs because Shen Manyi disappeared. At least that's what the story says.
Shen Manyi was already dead at that time, of course I don't know which room they lived in.
Wen Shi paused as he walked to the two rooms, and Shen Sheng said to Shen Manyi who was following him, "I'm sorry."
The little girl was stunned for a moment, and it took a long time to realize that she was talking to her. She raised her face and followed Wen Shi's footsteps while staring at him in a daze.
There was nothing wrong with the room Shen Manyi pointed to, and there were people living in those two rooms.
They also opened the closet, and in one of the rooms they saw Svenwen's long blouse, two suits with a little Western style, and a few Chinese-style silk bunts.
There are also a few books on the bedside table. Not surprisingly, it is where the housekeeper and Mr. Li live.
In another room hangs the clothes of young boys, mostly Western-style suits and vests of different sizes. It should be where the young master and the nanny and son live.
"So..." Zhou Xu murmured, "Everyone is in normal clothes, only the nurse is a shroud, what do you mean? She's already dead?"
When smelling: "Almost."
"But it's not right. Shen Manyi's words are all about Cai's mother. It sounds like she is alive. The young master's diary also mentioned Cai's mother, changing the carpet or something..."
As Xia Qiao spoke, his voice became smaller.
"...Even if it's just an imaginary, there's also the background of the story. It's the first time that the person living in this house has a nurse, and just now, it was said that the two young ladies of the Shen family moved downstairs to live with the nurse."
Wen Shi: "Is there a problem with this introduction?"
Seems like... that's fine.
I can't think about this, the more I think about it, the more panic I get.
"Could it be that the cage owner is Cai's mother?" Dadong's voice was hollow, "I'm not willing to die early, so I pretended to live with them?"
He frowned and thought about it when he smelled it, but he felt it was wrong.
He shook his head: "Let's divide the room first, let's talk about this."
"Do you have to split the room? Can't we all get together?" Xia Qiao said.
Sun Siqi's thinking remained in the normal state, and said, "If it is a secret room, since it is said that several people sleep in one room, they must follow the instructions. Otherwise, a new plot cannot be opened."
After he finished speaking, he wanted to slap himself, because he nodded at the smell, thinking he was right.
So they trembled and divided into three rooms.
Dadong held onto Cai's mother's door and collapsed, "Why the hell am I in this room?"
When smelling it, he said bluntly: "Because you correspond to the nurse."
Dadong: "She's dead!"
When smelling: "But she's here."
These words are even more terrifying, and Dadong is about to go crazy: "What about the two Shen family ladies who are sleeping with me? Hurry up and come over."
Zhou Xu, Xia Qiao, and Sun Siqi took a step back.
Sun Siqi said, "There is a real Miss Shen, do you want it?"
Dadong's face turned blue as he looked at Shen Manyi. As a result, Shen Manyi also took a step back.
"It's over, I really despise you." Zhou Xu said.
Wen Shi lost his patience and said: "To be on the safe side, you are good at puppetry, so pick two that are completely incompetent. Xia Qiao can live elsewhere."
After all, Xiaoqiao is not a human being.
Lao Mao thought this idea was reliable, and just wanted to say that he would take Xia Qiao to live in the room between the young master of the Shen family and the nurse's son, when he heard Da Dong pointing at him and saying, "Not at all? Then Xiao Sun and Lao Mao. "Xiao Sun is just a student, an old Mao clerk."
Lao Mao: "… "
He couldn't refute yet, he was a dignified golden-winged Dapeng, and he had to pretend to be weak in front of the cottage.
So the three of them shared a room, and Zhou Xu and Xia Qiao shared a room.
Wen Shi took Shen Manyi, who no one dared to take, into the butler's and Mr. Li's bedroom.
There are two beds in the bedroom, Mr. Li's is the one by the window, and the one on the inside is for the housekeeper. Wen Shi had already sat down on the housekeeper's bed, but after thinking about it, he changed it.
Let Shen Manyi sleep on the housekeeper's bed and lie down on Mr. Li's bed with clothes on.
After all, according to the story, Mr. Li, and maybe Xie Wen, will come back after everyone falls asleep. Who knows what form they will come back in. It would be too animal to let a little girl sleep alone in this bed.
Wen Shi was just lying down when he suddenly heard the grandfather clock in the Shen family living room beating "dangdang", and it struck 12 times in succession.
When the bell ended, everyone in the three rooms fell asleep.