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Chapter 20: Disappearing portraits (4)

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Shen Yu left from the door.

Yue Ze asked, "How is it?"

Shen Yu sneered: "I'm deliberately fooling people! So it's better for me to leave, otherwise someone will worry that we will compete with him for food!"

Yue Ze patted him on the back reassuringly: "Just get used to it, you will often meet such people in the stories in the future."

Because Xie Junfei and his brother had been hiding in the room and could not come out, Shen Yu decided to look for clues in the villa first.

After much deliberation, the most suspicious thing was the wall in the living room on the first floor.

The three girls were frightened yesterday and have been crying today, saying that someone scratched the bed board they slept on last night, and it must have been done by a ghoul!

So, they didn't even dare to stay in the room anymore, and continued to hug each other and shiver on the first floor.

The moldy faces on the wall were still scary, the girls didn't dare to look at them, they huddled together with their eyes closed, and accidentally knocked all the decorations on the table in the living room to the ground.

These elegant ornaments fell all over the ground, and many fragile ceramic works were smashed directly.

Shen Yu sighed silently, without blaming the scared girls, he knelt down and picked up the decorations one by one.

When the girls saw that they had caused trouble, they were not ashamed, and began to help pick them up with shame on their faces.

The introverted Wang Tongtong suddenly said when picking up a music box, "Hey, this music box is so cute!"

Most of the overturned ornaments were exquisite in appearance and elegant in taste. Only the music box in her hand looked a little old, with rough workmanship and vulgar taste. It seemed to be bought randomly at a street stall, and it was incompatible with other decorations.

But the shape of this music box is a bit immature and cute, no wonder it attracts the attention of young girls.

Wang Tongtong turned the handle of the music box curiously, and a burst of out-of-key piano music came from inside.

Shen Yu heard that the music played was "To Alice".

But the music box has only one piece of music back and forth, which is too monotonous, and the sound has long been out of tune due to disrepair.

Wang Tongtong played with it for a while, then lost interest and put the music box back to its original place.

Shen Yu held the music box in his hand and continued to shake the handle.

When the song "Fur Elise" finished playing, the lid of the box opened with a "snap", and the two wooden figurines hidden in the box rose up driven by a simple mechanism, swinging in the music box, and kissing each other .

A piece of paper hidden in the music box also rose up and fell to the ground.

Shen Yu picked up the paper, opened it, and other people crowded around curiously.

A poem was written on the paper:

There are thousands of stars hidden in his eyes

in the depths of the invisible universe

Areas that cannot be explored even by monitoring satellites

the unseen tenderness

i've fallen into it

a kiss of redemption

destiny let us meet

Happiness is so unimaginable

Inescapable sweet bondage

ah! God thank you for letting me meet him

When the girls saw it, they couldn't help snickering at each other: "Haha, it's a love poem!"

"Who wrote it, and why is it hidden in the music box?"

"This love poem is so sour! It's worse than my writing, and the preface doesn't match the afterword."

Shen Yu looked directly at the signature at the end of the love poem.

[Emily, for dear Bud.]

This was a lover of Bud's youth? Or a mere admirer

What's the relationship between Emily and Alice

After an episode like the music box, the girls who had been terrified and uneasy relaxed again, and after returning the overturned decorations, they dispersed happily.

Only Shen Yu was still frowning at this greasy love poem.

If it's a love poem written by a girl and given to the man she likes, why hide it in a music box

He was silent for a long while, and suddenly a flash of inspiration came to his mind, and he raised his hand to cover most of the love poem, leaving only the first word at the beginning of each line.

[He is watching me, save me and run away]

This is an acrostic poem.

Shen Yu's pupils trembled slightly, then he put down his palms, turned his head and said, "I think we have to find the 'affectionate' Mr. Bard."

Yue Ze, who had been silent behind him, nodded in agreement.

This story is mainly for the training of Shen Yu, so since entering the novel, Yue Ze seldom speaks on his own initiative.

The two of them passed through the town again and came to the lakeside hut on the east side. The town was still quiet, and no one could be seen.

Mr. Bud was planting flowers by the lake, and the big black-haired dog was lying at his feet, still dying, as if he had died.

When they went, Bud was throwing a fit at a rose: "I want perfection, perfection! God—is there nothing perfect in this world? Even a flower looks so ugly!" "

The rose in front of him had accidentally grown crooked branches, insects were also on the leaves, and one of the flowers was wilted.

He grabbed the gardening scissors angrily: "Let me repair it for you and remove the imperfect parts."

He cut off the leaves that were yellow and infested, pulled off the wilted flower buds, and cut off the crooked branches... He even cut off the natural thorns of the rose itself.

After he trimmed the bouquet of roses into the "perfect" shape in his heart as if venting, Bud put down the scissors out of breath, and tidied up his appearance with satisfaction.

He turned back into the handsome old artist again.

At this time, Shen Yu stepped forward cautiously: "Mr. Bard, please excuse me."

"Oh, it's you!" Bud looked over kindly, "Mr. Detective, have you found the portrait of Alice?"

Shen Yu took out the paper: "I'm sorry Mr. Bard, although we haven't found the portrait yet, we have found Emily's love poem."

"Do you know Emily?"

"God! It's my lovely and kind Emily. She wrote me this poem. I thought I had lost it long ago. I didn't expect you to send it back to me!"

Bud said with emotion, took the paper with the love poem on it, carefully folded the fragile piece of paper, and solemnly placed it on his chest, his eyes were moist with excitement.

Shen Yu observed his expression: "I thought your lover was called Alice?"

"Alice, of course it is Alice! There is only one perfect love in my heart." He explained, "But before I found my true love, Alice, I had a few relationships, but in the end those girls all left. I will go."

Shen Yu: "..."

When you were young and old, you were still a lover!

Perhaps it was a love poem of lost and found, which brought back fond memories of Bud when he was young. He said with nostalgia: "Emily is so kind, she is the first girlfriend in my life."

"She is always so optimistic, she is a devout believer, she goes to church once a week, and she is always kind to help others..."

"It's a pity that since the appearance of the ghoul, she has been under more and more pressure, and her spirit has become worse and worse."

"I tried my best to stop her, but it was useless. She finally bit off her wrist and freed herself, leaving me alone in this world, unable to go to heaven to meet her."

Recalling this, Bud couldn't help but burst into tears and became depressed: "Sorry, Mr. Detective, I need to be alone."

He dragged his old dog, which could barely move, back to the cabin by the lake again.

Shen Yu shouted behind him: "Mr. Bard, I have one last question."

"When good Emily dies, where is she buried?"

Bud's voice came from far away in the wooden house: "It's in the cemetery next to my house, where all my love is buried!"

After asking the question, the other party stopped answering, so Shen Yu and Yue Ze set off to return.

But instead of returning to the villa, they went straight to the cemetery.

There are many trees planted in the cemetery. Under the cover of the branches and leaves of these trees, even in the daytime, the light in the cemetery is very weak, adding a bit of dark atmosphere for no reason.

Most of the dead townspeople are buried here, and the land is filled with cross tombstones, both famous and unknown.

In a corner of the cemetery, closest to his house, stands a heavy cross tombstone with words engraved on it.

[All Bud's love and dreams are buried here.]

There is no name of the deceased on the tombstone, nor the date of death of the deceased.

Shen Yu suspected that there was even more than one dead person buried in this tomb.

As Bud said before, the kind and beautiful Emily was a devout believer, and finally committed suicide due to excessive mental stress.

But looking at the crosses in the cemetery, Emily is obviously a Christian.

According to Christianity, those who commit suicide cannot go to heaven.

So, why did Emily, a devout Christian, choose to commit suicide in the end? Or is it an extremely painful way to die by biting off one's own wrist

Did she really break down and commit suicide, or... had to commit suicide

They stood in the tomb for a long time, until the sky gradually darkened, Yue Ze reminded: "It's time to go back to the room."

The two returned to the villa in silence. Yue Ze, who has always been cautious and careful in his work, was uncharacteristically reckless after entering the room. He stumbled when he walked, and even accidentally knocked his elbow off the wall when he took off his coat. portrait.

Not only did he not pick up the portrait again, but he threw the coat he had taken off casually, just on top of the fallen portrait, covering the portrait's eyes.

"I have to look for Alice every day, it's really annoying!" He said loudly, as if he was telling someone, but he pulled Shen Yu to his side with his hands.

He spread out his book and wrote in it:

The portrait watches us, through the girl's eyes.

Shen Yu was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly remembered that love poem.

He's spying on me, help, run away

This is good Emily, leaving a final warning to others.

He also wrote in the book: In addition to the monitors, did Bud also install bugs in the room

Koshizawa wrote: Yes, the mini-monitor is installed in the portrait's eyes, and the bug is installed in the portrait's ears.

He works in relevant departments, and has many years of experience and keen senses for machinery such as surveillance and wiretapping.

Since the first day he moved into the villa, he instinctively disliked the portraits hanging on the walls, and even less liked the eyes of the portraits. He always felt that he was being stared at by living people.

It wasn't until today that he found Emily's love poem that Yue Ze was really sure that after they entered the villa, their every move was monitored by Bud.

Shen Yu wrote again: Do you want to destroy the monitoring in the portrait

Yue Ze: Not for the time being, if the monitoring is destroyed, it will startle the snake, and Bud must be aware of it.

There must be something wrong with Bud now, but if they easily reveal their hole cards, the other party will probably become angry from embarrassment, and finally the trouble will be broken.

Just when Shen Yu and the two discovered the surveillance, Xie Junfei and his brother were also not idle.

In order to occupy the room and keep the secret from being discovered by others, the two of them have not left the door for a whole day, even eating food in the room.

The two stared closely at the small, redundant window.

"Is the method you said really feasible?" Zhang Keke asked worriedly, "Is this the portrait of Alice that Bud wants?"

Xie Junfei responded, "Of course, we searched the entire room, only this portrait is hidden, it must be the missing portrait!"

Zhang Keke was persuaded and continued to stare at the small window.

When the light outside the window gradually dimmed and the night gradually enveloped the earth, the hearts of the two almost reached their throats.

see!

Sure enough, there was a gloomy and terrifying woman, with blood dripping from her face and wrists, coming from the direction of the cemetery, and floated silently to the second floor, with her hands clasped on the window frame wearing a gemstone ring, her cloudy eyes staring at the cemetery. people in the house.

With a tense expression, Xie Junfei took out a few props and talismans from his book, and then cautiously approached the woman outside the window, with Zhang Keke covering him behind him.

But the woman outside the window was indeed motionless.

Xie Junfei's courage gradually grew, and he stretched out his hand to lightly touch the window frame.

With a "plop", the window frame turned into a picture frame and fell off the wall.

The woman lying on her stomach outside the window turned into a painting after night fell.

"I knew it, this is definitely the hidden portrait!" Xie Junfei was overjoyed, and picked up the portrait, "Let's take the portrait to a business while everyone else is still asleep."

Zhang Keke, who had been carrying his heart all the time, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that no one noticed that the expression of the terrifying woman in the portrait changed slightly, and her cloudy eyes were full of regret, as if she was about to ooze tears.

Taking advantage of the cover of darkness, the two of them slipped out of the villa quietly.

The small town in the dark night is still quiet, not even a single person can be seen, not even a street light, it is pitch black.

But Xie Junfei felt for no reason that there were countless pairs of eyes quietly staring at them.

The two shuddered a little, hurriedly quickened their pace, and by the hazy moonlight came to the lakeside hut on the east side of the town.

To their surprise, Bud didn't sleep at this time.

The big black-haired dog that terrified everyone was lying limp on the ground, motionless, while Bud squatted beside the big dog, moving his hands.

After the two approached, they realized that he was actually peeling off the dirty fur of the big dog bit by bit.

Seeing the two people holding the painting, Bud paused his movements, and said slowly, "Unfortunately, Alice fell ill, and her body was too weak, so she finally left me."

"I've had him for a long time and it's time to say goodbye."

Having said that, there was absolutely no trace of grief in his tone.

Zhang Keke noticed that the old man in front of them was in a strange state today, and felt a little uneasy in his heart, so he couldn't help taking two steps back.

But Xie Junfei couldn't bear the weird atmosphere at this moment, and wanted to leave even more urgently, and immediately handed over the portrait in his arms.

"This is the portrait you want, and we've done it."

Bud wiped off the blood on his hands unhurriedly, and looked at the woman in the portrait with a smile.

"No, it's not Alice."

"Emily, long time no see, you are still so kind...and stupid! You want to warn these idiot detectives?" He greeted the portrait happily.

Surprisingly, the woman in the portrait actually moved.

Emily, with blood oozing from her wrists and cheeks, lowered her head in pain and covered her eyes with her hands.

"What the hell?"

Seeing that the person in the painting actually moved, Xie Junfei was startled, and immediately threw the portrait in his hand far away.

But Bud in front of them became more and more excited: "You call them Alice? What kind of Alice are they? They are too short, with stubby fingers, ugly hair, and spots on their faces... none of them are perfect!"

"Alice, my love Alice! She is the most perfect woman in this world!!"

He shouted loudly, his face was flushed red, his expression became more and more crazy, and his thin figure faintly twitched.

Zhang Keke saw that something was going wrong, and immediately pulled Xie Junfei: "What are you doing standing there, run!"

"Sister, both of us have skills and props, even if the characters in the book go crazy, we can still fight..."

"Idiot! Shut up! Run—"

Zhang Ke kicked the other party's ass in disgust, turned around and ran away in a panic.

She had a premonition, an ominous premonition.

She heard the screams of her companions behind her, and a sharp...

dog barks.