Although this puppet was wearing the clothes of a real person and looked like a real person from a distance, it was impossible for Chen Chuan to regard it as a real person.
Director Lei said behind him: "Did you forget to take something? Come out first."
Chen Chuan turned around and said, "Yes." He turned around and walked out of the room. Director Lei looked inside again. His son was playing with building blocks obediently, but he couldn't put them together well. He gently pushed the door closed.
When the two of them returned downstairs, Director Lei looked at him and said, "Did you just see something? You can tell me, no matter what it is, I can accept it."
Chen Chuan glanced at
Director Lei was silent for a while and said truthfully: "Solitary, dull, not talkative, and has no friends, but this is not his fault. He was injured back then and has been entangled by unexplained abnormal substances. All of this has It's my fault, so I can accept not treating him as a normal child, as long as he can grow up safely, even if he no longer recognizes me as his father."
Chen Chuanchuan: "Then let me tell you what I saw."
Director Lei looked over, waiting for his answer.
Chen Chuan also looked at him and said slowly: "What I saw was not a child, but just a puppet."
Director Lei was stunned. He stood there for a long time, then suddenly raised his head, strode forward, and grabbed Chen Chuan's shoulders.
Chen Chuan stood there without dodge, Director Lei stared at him: "Really?"
Chen Chuan nodded.
Director Lei murmured: "That's it, that's it..." Then his eyes seemed to be a little red, and he shook Chen Chuan's shoulders hard, "Thank you, thank you, Classmate Chen!"
Chen Chuanchuan: "Did Director Lei think of something?"
Director Lei took a breath and said, "Yes, this is a question that has been bothering me for two years."
He seemed to have calmed down at this moment. He let go of his hand and took two steps back. He asked seriously: "Classmate Chen, are you sure that what you saw was a puppet and not something else?"
Chen Chuanchuan: "I'm sure."
Director Lei nodded and said, "Then please wait here for a while while I go make some calls."
Chen Chuanhuan said, "Director Lei, please." After saying that, he sat down on the sofa on the side.
Director Lei waited for him to sit down before leaving the room. Although he looked calm on the surface, Chen Chuan could tell from his slightly trembling back that he was very excited, which was suppressed by his strong self-control. Come down.
After waiting for about half an hour, Director Lei came back and sat down on the sofa opposite Chen Chuan. He didn't speak for a long time.
Chen Chuan didn't take the initiative to speak.
After a while, Director Lei took off his black-rimmed glasses and fumbled around for a while. He seemed to find nothing, so he wiped the fog from them with his sleeves. After putting them on again, he looked at Chen Chuan and said solemnly: " Classmate Chen, before today, I never thought that I could save my son's life in this way, thank you."
Chen Chuanhuan: "Director Lei..." Director Lei waved his hand and said, "I'm not crazy. I know what you said is right."
He looked at it and said, "Two years, two years later, who would have thought that all I have to face all day is a puppet?" He laughed at himself, "It's useless for me to claim to be an expert in esoteric rituals, but for The tantric rituals that were so close at hand could not be distinguished.”
Chen Chuanhua: "Director Lei, it seems you believe what I said."
"Reason and emotion, sometimes emotion always takes the upper hand, so I always don't want to think about it, but fortunately, when the truth appears in front of me, I can make a rational judgment and do not immediately choose to deny it."
Lei Ju said: "Without your reminder, it would be difficult for me to break through this point by myself." He sighed, "Care leads to chaos."
Chen Chuan thought for a while: "Maybe it's a bit presumptuous, but can I ask what is going on?"
"There's nothing bad to say about this," Director Lei took off his glasses again, rubbed his red eyes, and after putting them on again, he regained his composure.
"As the director of the Esoteric Cult Examination Bureau, I often confront those illegal sects. When I banned a certain esoteric sect, the place where I lived was leaked.
Then I learned that someone from that illegal sect had slipped through the net and entered my temporary residence and performed a ritual curse on my son. It’s not complicated to say, but the simple explanation is to connect my son with a certain strange story.
Afterwards, I tried many methods to solve it, but none of them worked as I wished.
This matter also attracted the attention of my ex-wife, who immediately sued me when she saw that I was imposing rituals on my children. However, she did not understand that if the curse ritual was not suppressed, it would have an impact on the people around her.
It is stipulated above that these things cannot be disclosed to ordinary people except law enforcement officers. It is not easy for me to tell her clearly. I just hinted that she needs to stay away from our son.
My marriage to her was arranged by our elders, and we have no feelings. In fact, we don’t understand each other. Even if I tell her the truth, she will probably just think that I am talking crazy and for the sake of
Take back the child and make up these things to scare her.
I kept trying to find ways to remedy the situation, but she avoided me everywhere until half a month later..."
He sighed deeply, "Actually, if I had discovered the problem earlier, I might have been able to prevent this tragedy from happening, but I was a little lucky in my heart that her death had nothing to do with the child. The two of them You don’t have to bear all this..."
Having said this, he picked up the water glass next to him, raised his head and drank the water in one gulp, and then placed it heavily on the table aside.
He looked up at Chen Chuan, "You know, to successfully perform this ritual, my child must be alive, so they should still be controlling my child somewhere."
Chen Chuanchuan: "Director Lei, do you need help?"
Director Lei said: "Thank you for this ceremony... I almost know where they will hide the children. I have arranged for people to go there. Just wait here." After a while, he spoke again, "But..." He Taking a breath, "This ritual must be broken first."
Chen Chuan looked at his expression: "Is it difficult?"
Director Lei's lips trembled slightly, and he slowly closed his fingers. After trying several times, he finally clenched his fist tightly, "I only need to kill what I see with my own hands, and then this ritual can be broken. "
Chen Chuan's eyes narrowed and he looked at Director Lei sitting there, understanding the pain he was suffering at the moment.
No wonder that as the director of the Esoteric Cult Audit Bureau, he has never thought about it in this direction, because as a father, he will do everything possible to avoid the idea of harming his own children, and this ritual is really too destructive. .
He said: "Can't it be done in another way?"
Director Lei shook his head, "The original intention of this ceremony is to destroy the love between family members in the most cruel way. If we don't use this method, even if it is broken, it will happen again in the future." He breathed hard, "As a father, I I failed to fulfill my responsibilities and brought misfortune to him, so I should bear the consequences."
He stood up and said to Chen Chuanchuan: "Classmate Chen, please help me one more time. I need you to watch from behind, so that you can remind me that it is indeed a puppet, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to do it."
Chen Chuan also stood up and said solemnly: "Director Lei, I am willing to help you, but..." He said: "Director Lei, aren't you afraid that I will make a mistake?"
Director Lei looked into his eyes and said: "It's true that you are a student of Director Cheng, but as far as I know, you have personally dealt with many monster stories. It was you who eradicated the flying-headed monsters in the barbarian mountains. And I noticed The intervals between clearing up ghost stories are short, but you are not affected in any way.
Maybe you don’t know it yourself, but you have extremely special talents and can resist the invasion of some strange substances. What you say is more credible than what others say. "
Chen Chuan understood that Director Lei should have not only arranged to rescue the child, but also checked his background at the same time. He understood this. After all, his son's life was involved, so there was nothing wrong with being cautious. .
And he also roughly understood that maybe it wasn't just Director Lei who felt like a living person when he saw his son, maybe other people felt the same way. And all the attacks on him by strange stories were ignored.
"wait a second."
Director Lei said hello and left. After a while, he came back with a hammer.
"Let's go."
Chen Chuan followed him up and reached the third floor again.
After opening the door, Director Lei looked over with questioning eyes. Chen Chuan looked inside and saw that the puppet was still huddled quietly in the corner, so he nodded towards him.
Director Lei clenched the hammer in his hand and walked in. In his eyes, sitting there was still his well-behaved son. However, he should have known something was wrong, because his son was still the same as he was two years ago.
Nothing has changed.
He instinctively wanted to close his eyes, but the breaking of the ritual did not allow him to do so. He stepped forward with his feet as if they were filled with lead. He tried hard to lift the hammer. From his perspective, the child suddenly raised his head and looked at him with innocent eyes. Looking at him, "Dad, why did you hit me?"
Director Lei said with tears in his eyes: "Xiao Ying, I'm sorry." He picked up the hammer and hit it hard again and again.
In Chen Chuan's eyes, the puppet was gradually cracked and damaged under the hammer blows. At this moment,
With Director Lei's final hammer blow, there was a click and the sound of wooden objects cracking, and a glass bead serving as an eyeball fell to the ground.
Director Lei was panting there, and what he saw in his eyes at this time was just a broken puppet. With a clang, the hammer in his hand also fell to the ground.
He took two steps back and held onto the wall.
Chen Chuan looks towards
Director Lei calmed down for a while, regained some energy, his eyes regained their brilliance, and said to Chen Chuanchuan: "Thank you, let's go down."
Chen Chuan nodded, took another look at the puppet, and followed him.
When he got downstairs, Director Lei was waiting there silently. He was waiting for a result that he could accept.
Chen Chuan didn't speak either. For a moment, the only sound in the living room was the clock ticking every second.
After waiting for about ten minutes.
"Jingle Bell……"
The phone in the living room suddenly rang.
Director Lei quickly reached out and grabbed it, but after putting his hand on it, he paused for a while, then slowly picked it up, put it to his ear, and tried to keep his voice as steady as possible, "Hello, I'm Lei Guangcheng. "
In the empty living room, a clear and exciting voice came from the phone, and even Chen Chuan heard it, "Director Lei, we found it, the child was found, your son was found!"
Director Lei's eyes suddenly became wet.
"It's just that he's a little weak now. Those guys only give him simple water and food every day, but it's nothing serious. We'll send him to you now."
Director Lei suppressed his intense emotions and said, "Thank you, Lao Gao! Thank you, thank you for your hard work."
