It is true that Jamie has had a bad relationship with his father for a long time, but after many years, when he saw his father whom he had not seen for a long time again, especially when he found out that the father turned out to be like this, the blond young man was really stunned. , eyes slightly opened, with a horrified look on his face, it seemed hard to understand that his father, who used to be healthy in the past, would one day become like this?
When the father and son met, they looked at each other without saying a word. As for Ella, who walked into the room immediately after him, she took the opportunity to get ready and walked to the wheelchair to take off the oxygen mask for Jamie's father. Then she stood behind the man and did not move. He is ordinary, his demeanor is calm and calm, and his intention is nothing more than to stay aside and take care of the man. However, if you look closely, you can actually still find a trace of details, a tiny detail that is extremely difficult to notice, and that is...
When the woman stood on the side of the wheelchair and behind the man, the woman's left hand was blocked by the man and the wheelchair, and her right hand inadvertently tapped the man's shoulder.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Pingdeng, who had already learned everything from the movie, couldn't help but shudder. His face changed slightly and his hair stood on end. He knew the reason why the woman stood behind the man. What was the reason? The reason is clearly manipulation! Only in this way can she cover up the man's back that has been hollowed out, cover up the wooden rotating shaft used to support the body, and then use that rotating shaft to control the corpse puppet in front of her!
That's right, a corpse, a dead person. In other words, what he and Jamie were facing at the moment was just a corpse. The old man had already died, and was already a miserable corpse that had been dead for a long time. But, the strange thing was that the man had obviously been dead for a long time. , but the corpse was resurrected by stepmother Ella's ventriloquism and secret control, and became as vivid as a real person, able to speak any voice, make various expressions and even various movements!
As the oxygen mask came away from his mouth, the man on the opposite side moved and slowly raised his head. Although he could not get up from the wheelchair, his facial expression was completely the same as that of an ordinary person. The man ignored Zhao Ping and just said to Jamie first: " I didn’t expect my son to come, what a surprise.”
The tone was low and the tone was still the same as eight years ago. At least in Jamie's opinion, it was definitely his father's voice.
Seeing his father's appearance, Jamie asked with confusion: "What's wrong with you? What happened?"
The old man responded with silence. Seeing this, in order to avoid embarrassment, he had no choice but to let the woman behind him answer the young man's question instead of her husband. Ella explained to Jamie opposite with a regretful tone: "Your father had a stroke two months ago."
Upon hearing that it was a stroke, Jamie looked slightly condensed and asked again: "Why didn't anyone tell me?"
After hearing this, the old man shook his head unconsciously, and after a long time he sighed with a bitter expression and replied: "In all these years, you have never called home and you have never returned my calls."
Jamie: "That's because I never knew what to say to you."
Father: "I used to not be the kind of person who got along easily with others, but I have changed."
Jamie: "Really?"
Father: "Yes, a stroke can change people, just like your attitude towards me changed drastically."
Seeing that Jamie was silent and not responding, it was only then that the old man turned his gaze to the side and looked at the strange man who came with his son. He looked at it for a moment, then changed the subject and said, "By the way, Jamie, next to you Who is this gentle-looking gentleman?"
"He is my friend in the city, Zhao Ping, a professional lawyer who is proficient in law."
………
Jamie casually introduced Zhao Ping to his father, and Zhao Ping suppressed his nervousness and nodded politely. Although he knew that the old man was just a corpse, he also knew that all the words the man uttered were imitated by women through ventriloquism. But how could he dare to reveal it when he was frightened by Ella's presence and feared that the other party would notice? So he can only act, trying his best to act as a confused and ignorant person like Jamie, pretending not to know the terrible truth, and thus treating the old man as a living person.
As for Jamie…
Through the conversation just now, the young man felt the sense of complaint from his father's expression and words. Unfortunately, he didn't care. He didn't care about the old man. His father's stroke was still not forgiven by Jamie. Xu Shi no longer planned to deal with unrelated matters such as his father's stroke and introducing friends. Wasting time, as soon as Zhao Ping was introduced, Jamie planned to get back to the topic. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but he was a little surprised. Before he could speak, his father got to the point before him: "Listen to me, I’m sorry about your wife, I heard you brought her back?”
"Yes."
"Don't worry, I'll call Henry Walker at the town funeral home to make the arrangements."
"No need, I can handle it myself."
Seeing that his son rejected his kindness, the old man couldn't help but show a complicated expression, sighed and continued: "Jamie, please, I am your father after all, I can at least do something for you."
Who would have thought that it would be okay for a man not to mention his father's identity? When he mentioned this, Jamie immediately became angry, and the long-suppressed dissatisfaction in his heart was fully released. Although he did not show his dissatisfaction on his face, he expressed it with a cold and full expression. He replied in a mocking tone: "You have done the least possible in my life, and now you are showing mercy? It's too late."
"Jamie, you..."
The subsequent dialogues between the two parties were almost the same as the original plot. The ups and downs of the process were emotional, and the years of conflict between the father and son were vividly displayed. When it came to other people's housework, Zhao Ping did not interrupt or interfere, and just played the role of a bystander honestly. , of course, although I was just watching, but as time passed, the conversation quickly reached a key point in the plot...
After talking for a long time, his persuasion was fruitless. Seeing that his son still hated him, the old man was forced to give up. Then he had no choice but to change the subject and asked again: "So, do you have nothing else to do here besides being busy with your wife's funeral?" ?”
As expected, Jamie's expression changed when he heard his father talk about the main point. The main purpose of returning to his hometown was to find out the truth about his wife's death. The other party's words trailed off. The young man immediately shook his head to deny it, and then opened his mouth to reply in a solemn tone: " Not only that, there is another thing that is very important to me.”
Looking at his father's dazed face, he calmed down and recounted the past directly: "Do you still remember the poem that my mother read to me when I was a child? The content should be like this..."
"Mary Xiao stares at people with both eyes, and the puppet is always in the arms of the child. You, the younger generation, must remember that you should not scream when you see her in your dreams."
After reciting the poem, Jamie remained silent. Then he stood still and stared ahead, staring at his father with doubtful eyes for a long time. He used his wife's tragic death and his own sadness to force the old man, trying to Get the truth from the other person’s mouth and get the answers you want.
Unexpectedly, when Jamie tried to test and even force his father with silence, his stepmother Ella, who had been standing behind the man, chose to break the deadlock, shaking her head and interjecting: "Jamie, that poem is meaningless. , that’s just a legend, just used by the adults in the town to scare children into obedience.”
Seeing that his stepmother didn't care about the nursery rhymes, Jamie, who had always suspected that his wife's tragic death was related to the town legend, immediately retorted emotionally: "No, that is not a legend, and it is definitely not just a simple story. After all, I am in Ravenna Growing up in El, it became clear to me that even many adults in the town believed that this had really happened!”
Yes, as described above, Jamie is desperately denying, desperately confirming, and trying his best to prove the authenticity of the incident to his father and stepmother. The purpose is nothing more than to learn the entire process of the weird legend from his father's mouth. He was unwilling to accept all the details. He was unwilling to accept Lisa's inexplicable death. He was still worried about the death of his wife. Although the body had been transported to the small town funeral parlor and would be buried in the small town cemetery soon, Jamie still couldn't bear it. He hoped that his wife's death would be unclear. He planned to find out the truth, and this truth was undoubtedly related to the legendary Mary Shaw. However, unfortunately...
In the following time, no matter how he argued or explained, his father and stepmother always shook their heads, both denying the authenticity of the legend.
"Why? Why don't you believe me? Mary Shaw is real, and that legend is also real!"
Shaking his head in the face of his father and stepmother's denial, the blond young man was unwilling and helpless. He didn't understand why this couple would open their eyes and tell lies. As the saying goes, there is no smoke without fire. That story has been circulating in the town for so many years. If it is false , then how can it continue to this day?
The reasons are sufficient and logical, but unfortunately no one has confirmed it, at least my father and stepmother are unwilling to confirm it.
Of course, the above is only in Jamie's personal eyes. For Zhao Ping, who has been silent for a long time, it seems that the truth is nothing more than deliberate concealment. In order to let the young man step into the trap step by step, Ella, who controls the corpse, can tell him the truth. Strange, even so, the endless questioning and rebuttal was still a kind of cruel torture for Zhao Ping. In other words, every time he stayed in the manor for another minute, his uneasiness continued to increase and doubled. Maybe it was because the atmosphere was tense and suppressed. Staying in the house for a long time, or perhaps staying in the manor all the time, made it more difficult for him. He looked calm on the surface, and glanced furtively at the opposite side. When he found out that his stepmother was pestering Jamie frequently and inadvertently showed the slightest evil look, his heart skipped a beat. , the man with glasses is becoming more and more afraid, lest the young man anger the woman, and if the woman is provoked and changes her plan, he will attack her on the spot. By then...
"Okay Jamie! Stop talking, calm down, calm down first, I have no doubt in your words, but your parents may not have thought of it before denying your point of view. After all, the legend has been maintained for half a century, and the specific details are unknown. Who can explain it clearly? How about this, let your father think about it carefully, and let both parties calm down for a while first?"
He did it as he thought. Driven by worries in his heart and seeing Jamie getting more and more excited as he spoke, Zhao Ping could no longer bear it and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him. He grabbed the young man's arm and tried to persuade him, using a reasonable excuse to act as the peacemaker for both parties. On the surface, it looks like dissuasion, but in fact it contains hints. Through the above remarks, the man with glasses hinted a message to Jamie, that is, stop doing it in vain. The other party made it clear that he did not want to answer. Since he did not want to say more, then we will continue to stay here. what? Let's go now!
Not to mention, after being stopped like this by Zhao Ping, Jamie calmed down a little. He no longer asked questions or got excited. He then frowned and observed the scene, passing back and forth between his father, stepmother and the man with glasses, until there was someone I noticed that there was a hint of hint in Zhao Ping's slightly flashing eyes.
Let’s not mention what Jamie noticed in his friend’s eyes. He didn’t agree with what he said. In addition, he realized that it would be difficult to get results if he continued to ask questions in such an atmosphere. After calming down a little, Jamie finally gave up and turned around and left without saying a word. He glanced at his father and stepmother for the last time with dissatisfied eyes, then raised his feet and left with annoyance.
Seeing this, Zhao Ping, who had long wanted to leave as soon as possible, was overjoyed. He immediately nodded politely to the couple opposite and hurriedly followed Jamie to the door, but...
Da da da.
Just as Jamie and Zhao Ping arrived at the door, there was a noise in the corridor and a series of footsteps.
Looking for the sound, I saw someone approaching from the opposite side of the corridor. As the footsteps got closer and closer, the matching figure gradually became clearer. Not long after, a young woman wearing servant clothes arrived at the scene and came to the door with a plate of tea. They happened to meet Jamie at the door.
"Eh? Are you leaving now? Madam asked me to deliver tea to Master Jamie."
The maid recognized Jamie at the first sight, and timidly explained the purpose of coming here. Yes, the son she hadn’t seen for many years was coming home. Even if she was just a stepmother, Ella would still have to care about her and treat her with tea. , and the woman in front of him was undoubtedly the domestic maid who usually served tea and water. Jamie did not know this person, but subconsciously regarded her as a migrant worker recently recruited by the manor.
Jamie didn't take it seriously, but Zhao Ping, who was following behind him, had a huge reaction. He was stunned for a moment. When he heard the maid's voice, his pupils suddenly shrank and became dull. He was there without even taking a closer look at the maid's appearance. While observing, I was stunned by the sudden sound alone.
There are two reasons. First, in my impression, there seems to be no servants in the Orr Manor, and the maid is never seen in the movie from beginning to end. As for the second point, it comes from the fact that the maid's voice is too familiar, so familiar that it leaves an impression, and it is so profound. Hard to forget.
(Why does the voice sound so familiar? Is it difficult? Is it possible...)
Plop, plop, plop!
Thinking of this, the bespectacled man's heart began to beat wildly, uncontrollably and violently. At the same time, his face that had been calm earlier began to twitch involuntarily. Then, with intense thoughts in mind, he held his breath and concentrated, slowly turning his head and looking across. Jamie, look straight at the woman...
A beautiful face, long silky hair, and a perfectly graceful figure.
Qian Xueling! ! !
(It's her, it's her! Why? Why is this happening? Damn it! Curse you damn beast! You, you actually arranged this identity for her!)
Yes, as Zhao Ping saw in his eyes, at this moment, the tea maid at the door was clearly Qian Xueling, with that familiar oval face, the familiar black hair, the familiar affectionate eyes, and the woman The body is trembling slightly due to the oppression of fear!
There is no doubt that with just one glance, Zhao Ping instantly understood why Qian Xueling was here. The reason? The reason is precisely the rules!
Rules, rules set by a curse, a mandatory rule that dies for anyone who violates it. Like herself, the maid is also cursed with the identity assigned to Qian Xueling. To be honest, the executor doesn't care about the identity, as long as she can To ensure personal safety, no one will care even if she is a manure digger. However, the problem is that the so-called maid identity now happens to belong to the Orr Manor. Qian Xueling has thus become a must-stay worker. The maid who cannot leave the manor.
Where is this place? This is Orr Manor, one of the three most dangerous locations in the entire movie. Thinking about it from another perspective, even Zhao Ping himself is afraid of this place and does not dare to stay for a long time. So, who has to stay for a long time because of his identity as a maid? What should Qian Xueling be afraid of? In other words, how high will the risk factor for women be?
That woman...
The woman with the same appearance as her deceased girlfriend was cursed and placed in the most dangerous place in "Dead Silence"!
So, the moment he discovered Qian Xueling, indescribable anger and uneasiness swept through Zhao Ping's body!
………
The curse made a joke with some of the executors, a malicious joke that could lead to death at any time.
Li Tianheng got into bad luck and was cursed and thrown into the Orr Manor together with the self-righteous Chen Shuihong. He was a gardener, a desperate profession that could not leave the manor. As for Qian Xueling, they were similar to Li Tianheng who was cursed and arranged to be the manor's gardener. The beautiful royal sister was also cursed and arranged to enter the manor as a maid. The reason why Zhao Ping believed that being in the manor was extremely dangerous was not because the manor itself was dangerous, but because Ella, a perfect puppet who was almost like a creature, was also here. After all, the blonde woman is not a corpse or a doll in the ordinary sense. She belongs to some kind of unexplainable half-human, half-hybrid existence. She is a cruel puppet with self-awareness. It was Ella who killed all the living people in the manor after Mary Shaw. She was responsible for the finishing work, and it was she who turned all the corpses into puppets. What is even more frightening is that at the end of the movie, it was also the protagonist Jamie who was killed by this woman! ! !
Ella can kill people and has the ability to easily kill humans. After Jamie's death, the entire Orr family was wiped out. At this point, Mary Shaw's revenge was successful.
Since Ella is so scary, there is no doubt that there is a huge risk for the executor to stay in the manor for a long time in the eyes of the discerning person. Especially the status of a maid like Qian Xueling is even worse, even worse than the two outside Li Tianheng. A maid is different from a gardener. , this kind of identity must stay inside the villa at all times. In this way, Qian Xueling will have to stay in the villa with Ella for a long time. Jamie's father has died long ago, and Ella herself is half human and half wolf. Doesn't that mean that the whole house is really full of people? Qian Xueling is the only living person left! ?
It is true that Li Tianheng and Chen Shuihong were also unlucky to become manor gardeners, but so what? In Zhao Ping's eyes, whether the two guys were alive or dead had nothing to do with him. Just like when he passed by the gate of the manor not long ago, he watched the two people look frightened. The man with glasses ignored him and showed no emotion at all. He thought he could maintain his indifference for a long time, but in the end, he made a mistake. If the man with glasses had been unmoved and even vaguely gloating when he found Li and Chen at the gate of the manor, then when he saw Qian Xuexue in the villa, After a while, the man's face changed, and his complexion changed drastically in an instant. The heart of this sinister man who had never worried about anyone suddenly jumped up!
It felt very sudden and unexpected. It may be that Qian Xueling rarely encountered danger in previous missions or she did not know when she encountered danger. As a result, Zhao Ping never cared about the safety of women. He had never thought about it in the first place. , but, when he personally witnessed and confirmed that the woman was in an extremely dangerous environment, the man with glasses finally discovered...
I actually care about this woman so much!
There is no reason, no reason, just a subconscious thought in his brain after seeing Qian Xueling's current situation. Once upon a time, he always thought that after the death of his girlfriend, there was no one in the world who was qualified to protect him sincerely. Therefore, he gradually became indifferent and gradually He has become selfish. Even if he enters the cursed space, he is still like this. He has only lived for himself from beginning to end. This is not his fault. The love of his life has long since disappeared. There is no one in the world who can make him care about him, and he has always been like this personally. I believed it until one day, a woman named Qian Xueling appeared in front of me.
Perhaps he was instinctively surprised when he saw Qian Xueling for the first time, and he even wondered if it was his girlfriend who had come back to life. Unfortunately, his hope was dashed. After a little probing, he got the real answer, and the answer was no. , the other party is not his girlfriend, he just has a similar face. Appearance is always just appearance. Similar appearance means nothing. In the final analysis, he is just another person. He knows how to recognize the reality and returns to the past after confirming this. Calmly, he no longer ignored and treated the woman named Qian Xueling indifferently. He was as indifferent as usual. Unexpectedly, the woman became obsessed with him after being rescued by him once. From then on, she frequently appeared in the man's field of vision for a long time. , forced to persevere in those thrilling supernatural missions.
Zhao Ping didn't care about this, but regarded the other party's survival as a blessing, and remained indifferent to women.
Can……
Gradually, as time passed, Zhao Ping discovered something unusual. He found that although the other party was as timid as ordinary women, she was not weak. She was a woman he could not hate. She had good qualities in her bones that most women did not have. Qualities, such as never holding back teammates, never talking about pain and hardship, being gentle and unselfish, and knowing how to consider others. So, slowly, the team accepted women and recognized this considerate and strong woman. Of course, the above The description is only the opinions of others, and the opinions of others will never hinder you. It is also not the point. The point is...
At this moment, after discovering that the other party was in danger, he became worried for him inexplicably. His heart was beating wildly uncontrollably, and his whole body was completely panicked!
