After the little boy returned to his seat suspiciously and uneasily, the performance officially began. Then, under the unbelievable gazes of many audience members, Mary Xiao, who was sitting on a high stool on the stage, started a series of interactions between her mother and the puppet Billy. It was an interesting conversation, with both parties greeting and teasing each other. It is worth mentioning that unlike other puppet masters who mostly flutter their mouths and change their voices during performances, whenever the puppet in her hand opens its mouth to speak, Mary Shaw, as a puppet master, never opens her mouth. .
No one knows the secret, only the wonderful performance comes into view.
Puppet Master: "Hey, Billy, why did you run away just now? Didn't I treat you badly?"
Billy vividly shook his head and rolled his eyes, pondered for a moment, and then responded with a man's voice: "ON, you treat me very well, you are the best mother I can think of, but there are ashes everywhere in that box, I think I want, want..."
Puppet Master: "What do you want?"
"Ah sneeze!"
At the end of the story, Billy suddenly tilted his head back and sneezed, and the puppeteer took a handkerchief with his other hand to wipe the puppet's nose. The scene was both real and interesting for a time, and the interesting conversations continued for a while. It made the audience laugh from time to time.
This is amazing! This is also the biggest reason why Mary Shaw is so famous. First of all, you must understand that the puppet is just an inanimate doll, and it is absolutely impossible to speak. In other words, under normal circumstances, if you want the doll to speak, you must rely on the puppet master to control it. In addition to your own In addition to speaking, she also has to change her voice and then talk to herself on behalf of the doll. Strictly speaking, it is amazing to be able to speak with multiple different accents. Unexpectedly, Mary Shaw actually achieved a further miracle. Not only did she make the half-human tall puppet in her hand The doll speaks in other voices, and she herself remains silent while the doll speaks.
Don't think that's it. What's more shocking is yet to come. As the conversation continues, the two sides gradually become more intense, and the conversation gradually develops into a quarrel. As the quarrel escalates, the subsequent dialogue is no longer about you saying one sentence and me saying another. Instead, it suddenly developed into two speaking at the same time! ! !
It is conceivable that when the two people are actually one person, they can not only speak for the puppet but also speak with two different voices at the same time without opening their mouths. This is a miracle, a complete miracle!
If the above descriptions are all true, then this performance is enough to break the rules of nature and subvert human cognition.
The dialogue and quarrel continued, and various magical performances were performed by Mary Xiao and the gentleman puppet. The audience burst into applause from time to time until...
Until a questioning voice inadvertently came from the audience:
"But, even so, that 'Billy' is still a lifeless doll, right?"
The performance ended suddenly and the scene suddenly became quiet.
In addition to the surrounding audience being attracted by this statement, the puppets Billy and Mary Xiao also shifted their vision, looking towards the audience and then towards the owner of the voice.
Looking for the voice, I saw that the speaker was still a little boy, but it was not the boy who delivered the doll in the first place. It was not Henry earlier, but someone else, a little boy in a gray suit sitting in the third row. , at this moment, looking at each other, for some reason, Mary Xiao looked at the boy with a flash of coldness in her eyes, and inadvertently revealed a hint of coldness.
No one can question me, this is my child, he is perfect, he is real, he is undoubtedly alive!
………
Suppressing the displeasure in her heart, the woman turned to look at the doll.
Puppet Master: "Billy, what do you think? That little Mike across from you doesn't believe you are a real person."
As mentioned above, when the boy in the suit raised a question, Mary Xiao didn't react indifferently, and then took over the conversation and asked the puppet next to her. No one cared how Mary Xiao learned the boy's name, and the audience just followed the woman's question. puppet, looking at the gentleman puppet named Billy.
Hearing the puppet master's question, the puppet Billy shook his eyes and asked, "Mom, what do you mean by that?"
Puppet Master: "What he means is that you are a fake and your voice was made by me."
Billy shook his head and was silent for a few seconds, then replied again: "This is impossible! It's impossible for you to say so many of my beautiful lines."
Puppet Master: "Okay then, forget about him, Billy, there are always people who don't believe it."
Unexpectedly, at this time, the puppet Biliqi, who had been having a good chat with the puppet master, suddenly became excited. Especially when he heard the puppet master advise him to forget, he turned his head, first glanced at the boy in the suit in the audience, and then said The puppeteer refused again: "I must not forget, mother, we should show the boy how real I am, that I am as real as he is!"
Puppet Master: "No, I'm afraid we should finish the show..."
Before the puppet master finished speaking, Puppet Billy continued to interrupt: "No! I am as real as you, and I want you to see it!"
The puppeteer advised: "Leave him alone, Billy!"
Puppet Billy: "ON, I still want him to see it!"
Puppet Master: "Listen to me, that's enough! Stop making trouble!"
Bang bang bang bang bang!
Just when the argument between the puppet master and the puppets was at its most intense, a burst of warm applause erupted from the audience. There is no doubt that the applause was praise, a high praise for the puppet master and the puppet performers. Although everyone knew that the scene of the quarrel between the two parties was actually It was a puppet master performing alone, but it was so real. It was as real as two people having a fierce argument on the stage. The puppets were alive and two different voices were arguing at the same time. All the phenomena were an incredible and magical performance. For superb art, the audience certainly applauded.
The applause was endless and lasted for half a minute. It was not until the theater hall became quiet again that Mary Xiao, who had not shown any emotions on the stage, slowly turned her head and looked at the person who had just said that the puppets were fake. The little boy then questioned him in a seemingly expressionless but slightly angry tone:
"So, who's the fake?"
Sensing the gaze of the puppet master, the boy in the suit was speechless when Mary Xiao stared at him and questioned him. He was no longer talking or questioning, and there was an inexplicable chill in his heart.
Soon, the performance ended and the theater ended. The audience left the theater with the feeling that their trip was worthwhile, and the little boy in a suit named Mike also returned home with his parents, back to Ravenel not far from the theater. Town, however, things are not over here, far from over...
That's because, a few weeks later, the little boy Mike disappeared. Mike disappeared during the school holidays, leaving no clues. No one knew where he went. Faced with such a result, his parents were extremely anxious. Because Mike's parents were the richest and richest people in Ravenel Town, they were eager to find him. After getting no information from the police about the child's whereabouts, the two paid people in the town to search for him.
As a result, there was still no progress. The townspeople searched every corner of the town but could not find the missing Mike. The boy seemed to have disappeared from the world.
Just when everyone was at a loss what to do, the parents who had watched the puppet show with their son in a nearby theater focused their suspicion on Mary Shaw. The reason was simple, because their son had questioned the other party in the theater!
The power of the rich has always been immense. Mike's family owns a luxurious manor in the town. Not only is he the richest and richest man in the town, his father also has personal relationships with many officials in the town and even the city. As the saying goes, suspicion is a star. The seeds that cannot be eliminated will inevitably lead to catastrophic consequences once they take root and sprout. Although the police found no clues, Mike's parents, who increasingly suspected that Mary Shaw was related to their son's disappearance, decided to file a private court. Soon after, on a dark night, the two The man led a large group of townspeople to the Lost Lake located next to the town.
The crowd broke into the Island Theater in the Lake through the wooden bridge, and then caught Mary Shaw in a puppet making room in the theater. They tore and pushed, and the wooden table in the room was overturned, and the black book was also dropped in the chaos. When they landed, they forced Mary Xiao to hand over their son, but they never found Mike in the theater. Seeing this, Mike's parents and other people began to lynching. They beat Mary Xiao crazily, and they used torture to extract confessions from Mary Xiao. Ways to seek justice, but Mary Xiao remained silent and refused to answer. Next...
This group of irrational people cut off Mary Shaw's tongue and finally killed her.
Shrouded in blood, Mary Xiao's entire death process was watched by the puppet Billy, who she regarded as her son. In other words, Mary Xiao lost her life just like this under the gaze of the puppet Billy and nearly a hundred puppets on the scene, and was angered. Mike's parents, together with other townspeople, were killed.
Mary Xiao, who had lost her tongue, was lying in a pool of blood. She died. When she died, no one noticed that the woman's unblinking eyes were staring at a book, a black book that fell on the ground in front of her:
Make the perfect puppet.
The missing Mike was not found in the end, but Mary Shaw's death was tampered with. With Mike's parents spending a lot of money, Mary Shaw was defined as suicide by the police who took the benefits. However, even so, it was always believed that her son's disappearance was related to Mary. Mike's father, who is related to Xiao, still viciously forged a will for Mary Xiao. The will stated that he would be buried with all the puppets she made after his death, and hoped that his body could also be made into puppets. There is no doubt that this is revenge, a kind of revenge that is unwilling to let the other person's body rest in peace even if the other person dies.
There are people in this world who want their bodies to be made into adult dolls after death?
This man must be crazy!
Mary Shaw had always been alone. She had no family, no husband, and no children. So Mary Shaw was considered by the world to be a madman, and her body was sent to the funeral parlor and the only place in the town of Ravenel. A funeral parlor, then the corpse was made into a puppet by the funeral parlor owner as per his will.
Coincidentally, the son of the funeral home owner had met Mary Shaw before, and it was none other than Henry, the little boy who had handed the doll back to Mary Shaw at the theater.
………
Boom, boom!
A few days later, one night, there was thunder and lightning, cool winds gusting, and lightning streaked across the sky outside the window. From time to time, the pale world was reflected in the room, mixed with the rolling roar, and countless heavy raindrops were scattered to the earth.
At this moment, in a morgue of a funeral home, the boss was busy, holding various tools and standing next to the coffin holding Mary Shaw's body, and he was tinkering with it. Soon, the work was over, and the middle-aged man with an ugly face pushed out the door. Leave the morgue.
No one knows what he just did to the corpse, and no one knows why the man looked ugly and frightened when he left. This is unreasonable. After all, for a funeral professional like him who has to face all kinds of corpses all day long, it should not be possible. This is the right reaction. It is true. But what is the reality? In fact, the middle-aged man does feel a little uneasy, as if he has long been unwilling to face the corpse in the coffin and almost wants to run away.
As mentioned above, looking at the pouring rain outside the window and the fact that it was getting late, the man hurriedly finished his work, put down his gloves and tools, pushed the door open and left.
Bang dong.
With the sound of the door closing, due to his uneasy thoughts, he forgot to lock the door when he left. Instead of locking the morgue door as usual, he just opened the door and walked straight through the living room to the second floor. , go back to the bedroom upstairs to sleep and rest.
The man forgot to lock the door, and this scene happened to be witnessed by Henry who had just come out of the toilet opposite.
Thus, Henry, who had been paying close attention to the coffin since it was delivered to the funeral home a few days ago, got the chance...
The little boy Henry was very curious. He knew who the person lying in the coffin was, and he knew that the person was the female puppet master who had frightened him. He did not deny that he knew the identity of the body, but the problem was that he still wanted to take a look at it again, which was unique to children. It has been brewing for a long time under the strong curiosity. If it was hindered by his father's order at first, then at this moment, when he found that his father forgot to lock the door when he left, Henry, who was wearing pajamas, thought that the opportunity had come, and then he was driven by curiosity and tiptoed through the living room to the opposite side. , walking towards the morgue.
squeak.
He quietly opened the door, and after a moment, Henry successfully entered the room. Just as Mary Xiao said in her will, in addition to a coffin in the center, there were a large number of additional dolls placed on the ground around the morgue, and the one that had been in Mary Xiao's The Billy doll that looked like a living person in Xiao's hand was also listed. Unfortunately, with the death of the puppet master, the Billy doll lost its movements and stopped making sounds. It could not be as vivid as when it was controlled by Mary Xiao. Now it is just It's just a puppet, a lifeless puppet, placed randomly along with other puppets, randomly placed in the corners. Indeed, once it leaves the puppet master, the puppet will completely lose its meaning.
Of course, although there are many dolls, these are not what Henry is really concerned about at the moment. What really makes him curious and concerned is the coffin. It is the black coffin placed on the central iron bed. After hearing about Mary Shaw's weird will, , so he wanted to take a look and see the scene inside the coffin.
Concerned about the dark environment and not wanting to be discovered by his father, Henry did not turn on the light. Fortunately, there were candles in the room. In this case, the development of the situation can be expected.
After lighting the table candle with a match, Henry moved and slowly walked towards the central coffin with the help of dim candlelight.
Boom, boom!
Da da da.
The thunder suddenly appeared, and another bright lightning illuminated the room through the window. Perhaps due to the influence of the environment, Henry was a little scared. The boy was frightened and followed suit. It is true that the fear gradually increased, but curiosity finally defeated the fear. Curiosity With prompting, the boy reached the finish line and came to the iron bed where the coffin was placed.
The only regret was that because the little boy was short, even though he had walked to the coffin, he could not see what was inside. Even if he put his toes up, his field of vision could barely reach the level of the coffin. In desperation, Henry With a large movement, he stretched out his hands to grab the edge of the coffin, and stepped directly on a horizontal bar of the iron bed with his feet. It was obvious that the boy wanted to increase his height by climbing so that he could observe the inside of the coffin.
The method was undoubtedly effective. By climbing, the height increased rapidly. As the height increased, his eyes were about to see the situation inside the coffin. However, Henry ignored one thing, that is, the iron bed was not large in size, and the coffin located above it It was already in a state of balance. At this moment, due to the sudden increase of the weight of a person on one side, the balance was broken. The iron bed began to shake, and the coffin became more and more tilted, slowly tilting in the direction of Henry's climbing. Once the tilt occurred, it would This means that the unbalanced rollover is not far away. Sure enough, just when Henry finally climbed to the top, just when he was about to lower his head and look into the coffin...
Wow, wow wow.
Suddenly, there was a noise and friction. As the coffin was unbalanced and tilted to the right, Henry's body also leaned back very quickly. It was said to be so, and it was also true. Then, the dolls around him watched. Next, the black coffin turned sideways!
Bang! Wow! ! !
Listening to the loud impact and lightning in the night sky, the coffin on top of the iron bed just fell to the ground and turned sideways on the spot. Because the coffin had never been covered, the body in the coffin rolled out and fell to the ground together with Henry.
Boom!
The thunder happened to ring again, and lightning completely illuminated the entire morgue through the window. After regaining consciousness in a panic, Henry hurriedly opened his eyes. Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened his eyes, with the help of the lightning light, the first thing that caught his eye was a picture. The human face, the human face was displayed in Henry's newly opened field of vision under the light of lightning!
This is a bloodless and pale woman's face, and it is Mary Shaw's face. It may not be surprising if the skin is pale after death, but what is really hair-raising is that Mary Shaw has been made into a doll at this moment. Not to mention the various body joints hidden under the dress, the face that completely filled Henry's field of vision was enough to prove that the woman changed after death. The image was completely different from that in life. The eyes of the corpse were removed, and the chin was removed. After some processing, it was reinstalled and sewn together, and the most horrifying thing was the mouth of the corpse...
The corpse's mouth was wide open, and there was no tongue in the black mouth. Combined with its pale face, it was ten thousand times more terrifying than Shura Liqi.
At this moment, this terrifying dead face was so close, face to face with Henry who also fell to the ground!
Witnessing such a horrific scene, Henry's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately opened his mouth and wanted to scream. This was not his fault. After all, he was just a minor. How could he remain calm when he was suddenly exposed to a terrifying scene? However, for some reason, maybe he felt something in his heart or maybe a thought came up in his mind. After all, it didn't happen. After all, he didn't scream. He was about to scream out loud due to fear, but he actually raised his hand to cover his mouth. While covering his mouth tightly, he rolled and crawled to the corner.
Although he was extremely frightened now, he still forced himself not to make a sound, covering his mouth tightly!
Next, an incredible scene happened:
The lightning flashed outside the window and the room fell into darkness. Unfortunately, the silence and darkness were extremely short-lived. In just two seconds, several bolts of lightning passed through the window again and illuminated the room. However, as the light returned and the view became clearer, something strange happened. Just now Mary Xiao's body, which was still lying on its side on the ground, disappeared inexplicably and was no longer in its previous position.
Seeing this, Henry was very confused. His eyes instinctively shifted and scanned until he accidentally glanced at the window string on the right. With the help of lightning, his eyes suddenly widened!
the reason is……
Mary Xiao changed her position and stood up from the ground at some point. Now she is standing upright in front of the opposite window!
Mary Xiao is alive. At this moment, she is standing there with her back to the window. As before, she still wears the black skirt and the same weird look. The woman who has been resurrected from the dead is now staring ahead with a weird smile on her face. Henry in the corner!
Henry's heart jumped to his throat. He was extremely frightened. He was trembling to the extreme. His body was shaking violently. He was so frightened by this horrifying scene that he closed his eyes on his own initiative. He didn't know what his fate would be next. , only his hands were covering his mouth tightly from beginning to end.
Time passed by seconds, and thunder continued.
until……
Click, click.
The footsteps outside the door came from far away, and the look hurriedly opened the door and entered, turning on the light switch. At this point, the room was enveloped in light.
The father who was awakened from his sleep by the noise downstairs quickly arrived at the scene, opened the door and turned on the light. Looking closely, he saw Mary Xiao's body lying next to the overturned coffin, and his son Henry was curled up in the corner shivering. Seeing this, as the owner of the funeral home, , the father understood instantly, understood the past and the past, and guessed what happened, but he did not reprimand his son, but instead walked to Henry and comforted him softly.
………
The next day, which was also the fifth day after Mary Shaw's death, in accordance with his will, the puppet master's body and all the puppets were sent to the town cemetery for burial. Of course, this included the last work of his lifetime:
Billy the puppet.
On the surface, the matter ended like this, and the residents of the town continued to live as usual.
Unfortunately, this is not the case.
Things are not over, far from over...
A month later, great changes occurred in the town of Ravenel. Residents in the town lost their lives frequently, often inexplicably. Many people died during this period. Many families even died overnight, and without exception, they died in strange ways. Their tongues had been removed before, and their bodies were deliberately arranged to look like a family portrait after death.
I don’t know how long it took, but a poem gradually spread in the town. No one knew who wrote the poem, and no one knew who spread the poem. However, many people kept the content of the poem in their minds:
Mary Xiao stares at people with both eyes, and the puppet is often embraced by Zi.
You, junior, must remember not to scream when you see her in your dream.
