There is only one funeral parlor in this town, and Winnie and the others will go there. Just before setting off, the Warrens stopped a nervous Jamie.
"What's wrong?" Jamie asked confused.
He had just confirmed that Mary Xiao really existed, and now his mind was filled with all kinds of speculations. Thinking that there are fewer and fewer people in the town, I wonder if these people died outside because of Mary Xiao's curse. Thinking of this, he felt a little panicked. Fortunately, he was not alone in his investigation. He had his wife, friends, and exorcism experts around him to help him.
"We discovered something, and we thought it would be best to tell you that we were prepared." Mr. Warren took out his cell phone and called up the surveillance video sent by Jamie in the chat history.
Jamie looked at the video and Lisa looked at each other and gave Mr. Warren a questioning look.
"The back of this woman looks very much like your stepmother." Mr. Warren said his guess directly without any nonsense.
Jamie and Lisa were shocked when they heard this. After watching the video, they couldn't help but compare it with their stepmother's figure in their minds. Fortunately, the comparison made it more and more similar. Thinking of how stepmother tried hard to keep them living together not long ago, I couldn't help but feel chills running down my back.
"Why did she do this?" Lisa asked with a pale face.
If those nightmares hadn't made her very wary of puppets, she might have died under Mary Shaw's curse.
Winnie spoke at the right time: "If it is really her, taking the puppet out of Ravensfield without any incident can only mean that she and Mary Xiao colluded, otherwise it is unclear why Mary Xiao did not She took action."
There was a car accident on the day the Warrens left with their puppets. Some ghosts kill people without a reason or even triggering an opportunity to kill. As long as they come into contact with it, they will take their lives.
Jamie's face looked very ugly. He never expected that the person who gave their family the deadly puppet was actually his stepmother.
Then he thought of another question: "Isn't my father very dangerous?"
Even though he had a bad relationship with his father, Jamie never thought about wanting him to die. If the stepmother was possessed by Mary Shaw, what about the father? Thinking of his father's sudden stroke and paralysis, Jamie had to suspect that it was his stepmother who did it to lure them back and kill them on Mary Shaw's territory.
After thinking about it, he was angry and scared. He didn't know what would happen if he agreed to stay in the old house today. Without defense, a glass of water might knock them all down.
"Don't panic. What's important now is to find out the truth. As long as we investigate the origin of Mary Xiao's curse, we may be able to find a way to restrain her. The reason I tell you this is to make you wary of your stepmother. She has been With your father, if you wanted to do something, you would have done it long ago." Rowling comforted her.
Rowling made sense, Jamie calmed down and nodded, "Okay, let's go to Walker Funeral Home now."
No matter what, they have to investigate the truth. Now the biggest threat is not the stepmother but the evil spirit behind her, Mary Xiao. The five people drive again to the only funeral parlor in the town of Ravensfield. As if to foreshadow the difficulty of their trip, the sky suddenly darkened, and soon it started to rain.
Jamie looked ahead with a sullen face, and the wipers swung on the windshield in front of the car, smearing away the rain that hit the glass. Lisa also became silent along the way. She kept her hands on her belly and looked at the scenery outside the window in trance. Winnie sat quietly in the back seat of the car. She only knew part of the truth, but she couldn't reveal it to them. The only thing she could do was to save people in critical moments.
If possible, get rid of Mary Xiao quietly.
The owner of the funeral parlor is an old man. This funeral parlor was inherited from his father's generation, and he is currently the only one left to support it. There are fewer and fewer people in the town now, and those who leave will only come back here when their relatives die. Maybe the town will be deserted when all the old people who stayed here pass away.
Two cars stopped in front of the funeral home one after another. The doorbell rang twice and the door was opened from the inside. An old man with gray hair looked at them with a puzzled expression: "Jamie?"
Usually people who come to the funeral home are people who have died in the family and come to buy a coffin and sort out the remains. After seeing Jamie and Lisa behind him, Old Henry suspected for a moment that Edward Eisen had passed away.
Jamie: "Hello Henry, I have something to ask you." This time he did not ask Mary Xiao directly for fear of being locked out again.
Old Henry slowly gave up his position: "Okay, please come in."
In the living room, a white-haired old woman was sitting on the sofa, holding a crow doll in her hand and muttering something unknown. She seemed to be mentally disturbed. Even if a group of strangers and old women came into the house, they didn't react at all. They didn't even raise their heads. They were completely immersed in their own world.
Old Henry greeted: "Sit down."
Jamie was really not in the mood to reminisce about the past. He faced Old Henry and asked, "Do you know Mary Shaw?"
As soon as Mary Xiao's name was spoken, the old woman muttered and looked up at them for the first time. Obviously the name Mary Shaw has a special meaning to the people of this town, even if the old woman is mentally unstable, she still reacts to it.
Old Henry, who was originally relaxed, had a stiff expression: "Why do you ask this?"
"I received a puppet not long ago." Jamie said as Mr. Warren, who was sitting on the other side, opened his phone and pulled up a photo of the puppet Billy.
After seeing the puppet, old Henry leaned back as if he was frightened. His eyes fixed on the puppet and then immediately moved away as if he was electrocuted. He was a little restless, as if he wanted to stand up but restrained himself from sitting on the sofa.
The old woman who was sitting there and stopped talking stood up nervously and muttered: "It's her, she's back." She quickly left the sofa area and went to the back room with her crow doll in hand. , still muttering in his mouth: "I should hide, hide somewhere where she can't find her."
"Who's back?" Winnie asked.
Old Henry opened his mouth, and his eyes rolled with fear on his face: "It shouldn't be, you shouldn't have this puppet, it should be buried next to her grave."
"Where is Mary Shaw buried?" Jamie asked: "How did she die? Why is there that nursery rhyme?"
"Shh!" Old Henry was stimulated by the name and sat up from the sofa. He just raised his butt and sat back down, trying to hide his panic: "We usually don't call her by her name." He said in a low voice.
The last person whose name must not be mentioned was Voldemort, Winnie thought to herself.
"Please Henry!" Jamie begged: "Lisa is pregnant and she's been having nightmares about having her tongue pulled out by a puppet."
Winnie noticed that old Henry's exposed arms immediately had goosebumps, which showed the fear in his heart.
He took a breath to calm down, and slowly talked about the past of the small town puppet theater under the gaze of five people.
