Ventriloquists have long been believed to be ghosts who can speak through the bellies of living people. Mary Shaw is a puppet artist, using ventriloquism to perform with puppets.
Mary Xiao has never been married and naturally has no children. She regards the puppets as her own children and herself as their mother. At that time, the puppet theater was still very brilliant. People in the town liked to go there to watch the performances of Mary Shaw and the puppets. Little Henry also went there with his parents.
On that occasion, during Mary Shaw's performance, a boy loudly pointed out that the puppet could not speak because he saw Mary Shaw's mouth moving slightly. While all audience members are aware of this, having it pointed out mid-performance is a serious stage mishap.
This is as annoying as someone loudly revealing the magician's operation during a magic show. This is a very disrespectful thing, so everyone's eyes turned to the boy.
The boy was panicked and confused. He was obviously telling the truth, but why did everyone look so serious and weird?
Fortunately, Mary Shaw calmed the crisis with her superb performance and received applause from the audience.
But Mary Xiao's cold eyes at that time made the boy and Henry feel scared, like a cold poisonous snake staring at her prey, making the boy shrink back.
"Soon after, the child disappeared, and everyone suspected that he was killed by Mary Shaw." Old Henry said.
"Has the boy's body been found?" Rowling asked.
"No, Mary Shaw was killed not long after. She was sent to this funeral home, and it was my father who carried out the burial. In Mary Shaw's last words, she hoped that she would be made into a puppet and her 101 puppets after her death. The children were buried together.”
At this point, Henry Sr. couldn't help but recall the horror he experienced on the night his father buried Mary Shaw.
That night, while his father was away, he secretly stood on the coffin and peeked at Mary Xiao inside. She was made into a puppet, so strange and ferocious that he fell to the ground in fright. By then, she had turned into a wraith.
Perhaps it was because her father helped her fulfill her last wish that Mary Xiao let them go.
"Who killed Mary Shaw?" Jamie asked.
"I don't know," said old Henry.
But everyone knows that it was the angry townspeople who killed her. That's why Mary Xiao turned into a demon to take revenge.
"Was that boy really killed by Mary Shaw?" Lisa asked. If there is no definite evidence that the boy was killed by Mary Shaw, then wasn't Mary Shaw wrongly accused?
Old Henry still shook his head.
There was a bit of silence in the atmosphere. Old Henry hesitated and brought a stack of photos over. Lisa glanced at them and turned away in horror with her heart beating wildly: "Oh, my God."
In each photo, each corpse has its dark mouth wide open and a look of fear on its face, and all of their tongues have been pulled out without exception. This reminded Lisa of her own nightmare.
Jamie only glanced at it and quickly looked away, questioning why old Henry would take such a photo.
Compared to Mr. and Mrs. Eisen, the war-experienced Warrens were much calmer. They frowned and took the stack of photos and looked through them, their expressions becoming more and more solemn.
"These are...victims," Henry Sr. said. "They haven't been seen for years."
"Why did Mary Shaw pull out people's tongues?" Winnie asked.
"Because her tongue was cut out when she was killed." Old Henry said, "People in the town suspected that Mary Shaw had a grudge against the boy because she pointed out that Mary Shaw's puppet was not alive, so she was cut off that day. tongue. And...the puppet has no tongue."
"Then where is Mary Xiao buried?" Winnie asked again.
"In the cemetery."
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The rain was so heavy that Mr. Warren checked the weather forecast and decided to go to Ravensfield Cemetery tomorrow.
They drove back to the only hotel in the town of Ravensfield, and rented three rooms in total. Two couples shared one room, and Winnie, who was single, had a room by herself.
Lisa stopped Winnie when she was going back to her room: "If you are scared, come and live with us. Jamie can sleep on the sofa."
She was not afraid of nature and there was no need to squeeze in with the young couple. Winnie smiled and refused: "It's okay, we live next door. I will call someone if anything happens."
Lisa thought for a while and nodded. As far as they knew so far, as long as she didn't scream when she encountered Mary Xiao, her life would not be in danger. When Winnie went back, Lisa looked in the direction of the window and said, "If the sign is broken, we won't repair it. The red light is too weird."
The signboard light outside the hotel is red, and it looks extremely strange when it flickers on the window.
Jamie took the clothes from the travel bag, rummaged through Lisa's clothes and said, "Go take a shower first, and don't close the door to prevent accidents."
"Okay." Lisa exchanged a kiss with her husband and went to the bathroom with her pajamas.
On the other side, Mr. and Mrs. Warren were also preparing to wash up and rest. The box containing the puppet Billy was quietly placed on the chair. Because Mary Shaw could possess the puppet, the Warrens never discussed related topics when the puppet was around to prevent leaks.
They communicated by typing on their mobile phones and finalized plans for tomorrow. Mr. Warren is going to get up early to buy some shovels. He will need to dig graves in the cemetery tomorrow. Generally, to deal with evil spirits, you only need to burn the bones of the evil spirits to make them fly away, and you have to buy another barrel of gasoline.
The night is slowly getting deeper, but the heavy rain has not stopped yet.
The weather was too hot, and this small hotel did not have air conditioning, so they kicked the quilt aside, and their foreheads were soon wet with sweat.
After an unknown amount of time, the temperature in the hotel suddenly dropped, making her body chilly. Lisa closed her eyes and looked for the quilt that had been kicked aside on the bed. At this moment, a dark ghostly figure walked behind the house and finally stopped in front of their window.
In the next room, Winnie slowly opened her eyes.
This weird temperature change was obviously unusual, not to mention that a ghost had just walked past her window.
With no emotion in her eyes, she slowly stood up from the bed and stood quietly by the window, looking out through the gap in the curtains.
In the dark night, Winnie could vaguely see a thin and tall woman standing there quietly. She was holding something in one hand, but her sight was blocked. Winnie couldn't see clearly. She raised her other hand and pushed Ai away a little. Mr. and Mrs. Mori’s window.
These days, the Essens have become accustomed to locking the doors and windows, but it was too hot and stuffy inside, so they left a small crack for ventilation. Unexpectedly, a ghost came looking for them that night.
The dark figure who was about to put the things in his hands into Mr. and Mrs. Eisen's room paused. The wooden eyes in his dry eye sockets suddenly turned to the side, and he was caught off guard and looked at the girl who was quietly observing here in the dark.
The black shadow turned its body and slowly walked towards the girl's window. Before the girl could retreat, an extremely terrifying face suddenly appeared on the window glass!
Mary Xiao's fierce expression suddenly came into view!
Winnie took a step back in shock.
At that moment, everyone was so frightened that they screamed. As long as she screams, Mary Xiao's murderous intention can be triggered.
She was targeted by Mary Xiao.
But she was worried about how to kill the other party quietly.
Winnie hooked her fingers, and a chain extended from her hand, and the other end disappeared into the dark corner of the room.
"Crack", the other end of the chain moved.
The temperature in the air dropped sharply, the rain splashing on the glass windows immediately froze into frost flowers, and the breath exhaled from the nose turned into white mist.
Something more terrifying than Mary Shaw has appeared.
Mary Xiao's dull eyes stared at the room behind the window. The iron chains turned into black mist and disappeared. A pair of pale hands appeared on the floor in the darkness. Its owner groaned in pain and twisted his body from Crawling through the bloody suitcase.
The thing that was no longer human seemed to have had all its bones broken, and was stuffed into a small space. It could only moan in pain when it opened its mouth wide. Black liquid kept flowing from the dark eye sockets, leaving two tear stains on the pale face.
"Uh-huh……"
Like a person's painful groan/moan before death, it is also the last sound he leaves in the world.
Luo Lin, who was in the next room, was suddenly awakened by a chill. When she woke up, she realized how low the temperature in the room had dropped.
The exorcist, who has been dealing with evil spirits for many years, immediately understood what was happening. She turned over and turned on the desk lamp and made a silent gesture towards Ed, who was also awakened.
The couple approached the door in tacit agreement and slowly opened it.
The evil ghost crawling slowly on the floor suddenly accelerated and rushed towards Mary Xiao outside the window. Although Mary Xiao did not understand where the evil ghost came from and why it attacked her, she made a decisive decision and disappeared from the window before discovering his intention. The thing in her hand fell to the ground with a clatter.
Sensing someone approaching, Winnie retreated into the darkness. The twisted body on the floor turned into a black mist and disappeared, and she lay back on the bed quietly.
It's just a little bit worse, which is a pity.
Winnie closed her eyes, and the Warrens walked past her door, heading to the Eisens' room where the noise came from.
The Essens, who were awakened by the sound of the landing, stared at the fully open, dark window and shuddered suddenly.
