Chapter 18 chapter eight

For the next three days, Lao Chen locked himself in the puppet making room to make a puppet, a life-sized male puppet.At this moment, the production has reached the final stage, and there are two hemispherical holes on the lifeless face of the puppet—he still lacks a pair of vivid eyeballs for decoration. 300 meters away from the puppet shop is a five-story residential building. In the room on the top floor, several nervous people are gathering in front of the window, carefully observing the ordinary puppet shop with the help of binoculars. One of the middle-aged men removed his bloodshot eyes from the binoculars, turned his head and stared at the man sitting on the sofa behind him with a blank expression, smoking one cigarette after another.

"Can you guarantee that it's him?" The man behind him lowered his glasses, strangled the cigarette butt in the ashtray, stood up and said, "I can assure you, it's him, I can't be wrong!" He was Zhang Yali who found Lao Chen three days ago and claimed to be the "director of the Town Puppet Troupe". The middle-aged man blinked his eyes twice, as if he was hesitating about something.In the end, his hand that was raised in the air suddenly fell down. "Since this is the case, there is no need to wait any longer. Anyway, the case has been dragged on until now, and there is no clue at all. The superiors are so aggressive, so let's act like a living horse doctor! Break into the house immediately and arrest it!...Xiao Wu , bring over that person’s information, and I’ll read it again.”

A young man with an immature face hurriedly handed over a file folder, which contained all the information of Lao Chen. The middle-aged man closed the folder and walked towards the door first, and everyone followed him out. In the puppet making room, Lao Chen was admiring the puppet that was about to be completed while washing his paint-covered hands with alcohol.For him, it was his last masterpiece.He squinted and looked at him with a weird smile in his eyes. "Everything is coming to an end. By then, a family of five will be truly reunited..." Suddenly, he seemed to hear some kind of noise coming from outside, and the smile in his eyes disappeared instantly.

"It came so fast? But...it's too late, hehe..." He chuckled a few times, walked quickly to the puppet, and raised his hands... With a "bang", the heavy door was slammed open, and the middle-aged man rushed in first: "Chen Dongming, you are suspected of four murders, uh..." The middle-aged man was choked, his eyes suddenly widened.Not only him, the eyes of everyone behind him were wide open, and the same bloody picture was printed in those terrified pupils. ——Old Chen's face, where the eyes should have been, now has two bloody black holes, and blood is gushing out and flowing down in large quantities.However, there was no pain at all on his face, instead there was a relief-like pleasure.And what he held in his hand was clearly a group of fresh eyeballs, groping to put them into the puppet's eye sockets...

In a corner of the production room, there are four puppets lying side by side on a special wooden bed, namely a little boy, a woman, an old man, and an old lady.Their eyes sparkle under the light. "You are late... everything is over... our family of five is finally reunited! Hehehe..." Then, everyone's eyes fell on his chest, where a knife was stuck. Life is disappearing in the world every minute. Wheat cut by a sickle.A ladybug poisoned by a strong poison. His disappearance was insignificant, no different from the strangled dog on the tree branch in the backyard of the Koryo restaurant.