"Detective, the door won't open? I'll open it. George! George! What are you doing? For the love of your father, open the door."
Mrs. Freeman tried to find the key to the room, but with a click, Shad had already opened the door.
Let the ignorant little girl follow Mrs. Freeman, Father Augustus and Shad into the boy's bedroom.
The room was not very big, and the 13-year-old boy with blond hair was lying on his side on the bed, with his back to the door. Even the sound of a stranger breaking into the room did not make him move.
Shade hurried over, but the fake immortality spell was ineffective and the boy was not seriously injured. Father Augustus also walked over and turned the boy over beside the bed, only to find that he was just asleep.
"Child, wake up, wake up!"
The priest shouted in a hurried voice and even patted the boy's face a few times, and the boy finally woke up.
But in his opened eyes, there was a look of extreme fear, and he was not even surprised that a stranger entered his room:
"There's something in the house! Mommy, I want Mommy!"
He was shouting incoherently, and no matter how the priest tried to comfort him, it was useless. It was not difficult to hear from his words that the boy had just had a strange dream, so strange that he could not distinguish between the dream and reality after waking up.
"Here I am! Oh, my poor little George! What's the matter with you?"
The middle-aged woman also walked into the room holding her little daughter's hand. Priest Augustus continued to comfort the boy, trying to get him to tell about his dream. Shad walked back to the bedroom door and looked at the empty living room outside.
The warm home seems a little scary.
"You really can't feel anything?"
The whispering element is very slight, so slight that even ordinary people would not be affected unless they had lived here for a year. The element appeared after you used the spell to open the door.
She answered softly in his ear, and the whispering sound always made Xia De want to turn his head to see if there was someone lying behind him.
"The appearance of the whispering element means that this is indeed a relic, but the question is where the relic is..."
The boy gradually calmed down under the comfort of his mother and the old priest, but he could not give a detailed account of what happened in the dream. After he woke up, he almost completely forgot the content of the dream, but vaguely remembered that a strange bandaged man appeared in the house and that the strange man tried to kill him.
"Have you seen the missing painting? It is a relic of you and your wife."
Seeing that he could not get much information from her, Father Augustus took the portfolio from Mrs. Freeman and turned to the blank page for the boy to identify. But the boy shook his head in confusion, indicating that he had not touched his father's belongings.
"Brother, when we were looking for toys together the day we moved in, didn't you look through this?"
The girl who was held by Mrs. Freeman's hand suddenly said, the girl was about five or six years old, her eyes were bright, and she would bite the end of her voice when she spoke. She looked at her brother curiously, but the blond boy shook his head in confusion:
"Is this true?"
When he spoke to his sister, his tone was no longer so fragile.
"Yes, I remember you pulled out a picture, and then... then what happened?"
The little girl tilted her head and thought for a long time but couldn't give an answer.
"Child, where would you hide your favorite treasure?"
Father Augustus asked again. His kind expression made the boy, who was reluctant to answer, look away subconsciously. But when he saw his mother and sister looking at him with concern, he gritted his teeth and said:
"There's a big cardboard box under the bed."
"Priest, I am here."
Xia De came over and pulled out a cardboard box from under the boy's bed. After opening it, the five people saw the rolled-up painting at a glance.
After touching it, Shade immediately confirmed that this was the relic. He unfolded the painting and found no creases on it. The painting was exactly as Mrs. Freeman had said. The background was curtains fluttering in the sun, and the painting was a tabletop and the sundries on it.
"Look at this!"
Father Augustus narrowed his eyes and spoke in a terrifying tone. He pointed to the wooden model of a three-story building on the table in the center of the painting.
This is a high-end toy that is scaled down to the size of a real building.
The side facing out of the picture is a cross section of the house, where you can see the exquisite movable furniture, decorations and puppets inside the model. At this time, there are two puppets, one large and one small, on the second floor of the house model in the oil painting. Moreover, the layout of the model building looks like this three-story rental apartment. The location and layout of the room where the two puppets are located also look like the room where everyone is.
Looking at the two exquisite puppets in the painting, Xia De showed a puzzled expression, and then suddenly widened his eyes:
"Priest, look at the two puppets in the painting. Do they look like me and this boy?"
"Yes! He really does look like my brother!"
The little girl was the first to raise her hand and speak.
Father Augustus also leaned forward:
"If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed. It really looks like... Wait, what is this?"
Due to the perspective of the oil painting, they can only see a part of the model. In the model in the oil painting, outside the door of the room where the two puppets are, there seems to be something lying behind the door panel. But the painter did not focus on that area, so only a pair of eyes can be vaguely seen.
Shade and Priest Augustus turned their heads at the same time to look outside the door of the real room, but the door of the real room was completely open and there was nothing outside.
"Oh, look! The picture has changed!"
Mrs. Freeman suddenly spoke in a shrill voice, and Shad looked at the painting in his hand again. Sure enough, a tall puppet wrapped in bandages had come from outside the model room door into the room at some point in time.
None of the five people saw this process.
And the puppets of Shad and the boy combined were not as tall as the puppet wrapped in bandages and holding a knife.
Under the gaze of five pairs of eyes, the puppet wrapped in bandages and wearing a black hat actually moved on the screen. This horrific scene made the girl scream, and the boy George was also trembling with fear, holding on to his mother's arm and not letting go.
The bandaged puppet approached the other two puppets in the painting model, then raised the knife and stabbed them. The two puppets, one big and one small, also moved to dodge. The small puppet was unable to dodge and was almost stabbed. The larger puppet rushed to help him, but was unfortunately stabbed in the shoulder.
"oh!"
Xia De screamed, then quickly covered his arm. He struggled to take off his coat with his other hand, and the white shirt on his left shoulder was stained red. Although the injury was not as exaggerated as the puppet in the painting, he was really injured:
"I'm fine."
There was no time to treat it, and the eyes were fixed on the oil painting in his hand. After being stabbed, the two puppets, one big and one small, still could not escape from the state of being attacked. Because they only moved around in one room of the model, and did not intend to move to other places through the door:
"Come on, let's go to the other room."
Father Augustus saw the clue and hurriedly helped Shad out. Mrs. Freeman followed with her two children, who were also worried. They walked from the boy's room to the living room, then left the second floor and ran down the stairs to the first floor.
During this time, Shad turned his back to the Freeman family and used the "satiating food" to heal the inexplicable wounds on his body. In the oil painting in his hand, the two puppets finally escaped from the room when the people in reality left the room, and moved to the stairs of the model house in the oil painting like them.
The puppet wrapped in bandages, wearing a black hat and holding a sharp knife moves very fast when it is in the same room as the little Pinocchio, but when they are not in the same room, it moves very slowly. As long as the two little Pinocchio puppets don't go upstairs, they will be safe for the time being.
"Get out of this house!"
Shade said, and walked quickly to the first floor lobby with the priest. They thought they couldn't get out at all, but unexpectedly the door opened normally, and outside the door was the street scene of Tobesk on Thursday afternoon.
The priest and Shad walked out at the same time, but the painting in Shad's hand suddenly disappeared from his hand the moment he left the house, and fell to the floor in front of the door.
Mrs. Freeman and the children then came out of the house smoothly, and when Shad looked at the painting inside the door again, he actually saw the puppets representing him and the boy walking back into the model house from the door of the model house.
"Mrs. Freeman, have you ever touched this painting?"
Xia De suddenly asked the middle-aged woman next to him. She was holding her children's hands and standing at the door at a loss:
"I think I touched it when I was moving... But I was wearing gloves at the time! Yes, I always wear gloves when I pack these paintings!"
This woman who had no opinion of her own suddenly understood what Xia De meant at this moment.
"Only those who touch the painting directly with their hands will have puppets corresponding to them appear in the picture. This thing should not be very powerful, otherwise it would not allow only one person to touch it at a time in a vague memory."
Father Augustus concluded, and when Shad saw the two puppets in the painting wanted to go upstairs, he immediately walked into the room again. The puppet that belonged to him turned around and went down the stairs, and both he and the real Shad stood in the hallway.
"Child, you go in too."
Priest Augustus said to the boy, but the boy pulled his mother with a look of horror.
The middle-aged woman, who was obviously also afraid, looked down at her children, gritted her teeth, and actually let go of her daughter's hand, and pulled the boy back into the house. When she entered the door, she was also trembling, but she still remembered to say to the old man outside the door:
"Priest, please help me take care of little Leah first."
"No problem, but Mrs. Freeman, the danger is not over yet."