Chapter 14 Chapter 12 Finding
"The night is silent, are you awake?"
When I woke up, a sweet voice came to my ears with ecstatic emotion.I shook my head vigorously, then opened my eyes.
The sunlight outside the window was very dazzling, and in the hazy white light, Huang Shiya looked at herself anxiously.I stared blankly at her, and after a long time I asked, "What did you call me just now?"
"Silence at night?" Huang Shiya said very bluntly.
"You called me Yebuyu? Didn't you call me Xiaoye? My God, I'm finally back!" I hugged her excitedly, almost dancing with joy.
Shiya's whole body collapsed suddenly, and her stiff body moved slightly in my arms, only then did I realize that I was overjoyed, and let her go hastily.Just this movement of more than ten seconds has already made her face red.She just sat there without groaning, looking at me with happy eyes, she didn't know whether she was angry or happy.
I blushed and coughed, and asked, "Where's that little girl Yaojia?"
Shiya was also blushing, she whispered: "She didn't show up what we were worried about at all, she was jumping around as soon as she woke up, I don't know how energetic she is."
"That's good!" I raised my head slightly and ordered, "Find Jame for me, I have something to discuss with you."
Ten minutes later, both Jame and Haruka came.
"How many days have I been in a coma?" I asked first.
"Today is the third day." Huang Shiya played with her fingers, lowered her head and dared not look at me: "The puppet disappeared suddenly after you passed out. Yao Jia also returned to normal. But we carried you home After that, you didn't wake up, and then we called an ambulance and took you to the hospital."
I looked at the bright and comfortable room, and then looked down at the feeding tube in my hand: "So this is a hospital. Yaojia..."
"I know what you're going to ask." The little girl quickly interrupted me: "I'm going to confess. After my sister had a car accident, I saw the puppet from her belongings. I just took one look and I was deeply moved. I was attracted by it. Although the face of the puppet was scratched and scarred, I somehow thought it was beautiful and wanted to keep it for myself. So I didn't let my parents see it, and secretly hid it. It turns out That thing is really not a good thing, no wonder I often feel sleepy after getting it."
"Then Jones and Davy...?"
"Cough! Cough!" Just as he was about to ask about the two people who died because of the puppet's curse, Jame immediately coughed loudly, and he shook his head at me suggestively.I immediately understood that Jame and the others didn't tell Yaojia that Jones and Davy were likely to be cursed and killed by the puppet manipulating her body.In fact, that's right, that little girl was a victim in the first place, so why make her suffer even more?
I tactfully changed the topic: "During the three days I was in a coma, do you know where I went?"
The people sitting next to me shook their heads in unison.
I smiled bitterly and said, "I went to the soul world of that puppet."
"The Puppet's Soul World" The three of them were almost speechless from ear to ear.Yaojia frowned and asked, "Puppets also have souls?"
"Of course." I replied: "A long time ago, people who studied spiritualism believed that as long as people invest enough emotions in a certain object. That is to say, whether you love it very much or hate it very much, as long as you pay enough for it When the emotion exceeds the critical value, that object will have its own soul. And spiritual scholars also believe that humanoid things, such as puppets, are especially easy to have a soul and their own consciousness."
"What does the puppet's soul world look like?" Jame, a psychic idiot, suddenly became interested.
"Its world is very strange. After thinking about it for a long time, I can only use the word magic to describe it. In short, in its world, my will is constantly being destroyed and almost collapsed. I am so glad that I still have a life to come out." I said Reminiscing with trepidation, she continued: "Its world is full of her views on human beings and her fetters. Finally, I finally understand what it is resenting for."
"Isn't it resentful because the rich man killed his master, and he wants revenge crazily?" Shi Ya asked softly.
I shook my head: "We have always taken this for granted, and I have been investigating around this idea. But in the end I found that I was wrong, very wrong. In fact, more than a hundred years ago, it cursed After killing the rich man, its resentment has disappeared. It has been replaced by an attachment to a wish."
Jame asked suspiciously: "Since it has no resentment, why did it kill Jone and Davy. And also curse the whole town who is related to that rich man?"
"It's very simple, because waiting for more than a hundred years has made it restless and even crazy." There was a trace of sympathy in my eyes: "God knows what the puppet's heart is thinking. Maybe it kills to arouse someone It may also just want to calm the restlessness in its heart. But the longer it waits and the more people it kills, the more impatient it becomes, and even the resentment towards the rich man more than a hundred years ago gradually rekindled. So it Continue to kill, want to vent all the pain in my heart."
"Then what is it obsessed with? What does it want?" Shiya frowned.
"Actually, its fetters are very simple and basic for human beings. But for it, it is a big luxury."
"What exactly is the fetter?"
I paused, then suddenly raised my head to look into the eyes of the three: "It wants to be the wife of that puppet minister."
"What!" Huang Shiya, Jame and Yao Jia exclaimed in disbelief.At this moment, the door of the ward was slammed open, and Mark ran in panting.
"Twenty minutes ago, all the people in the town suddenly fell into a coma, and they couldn't wake up no matter how much they screamed. The symptoms were like Xiao Ye." He saw me sitting on the bed, and his tense face froze.
"You said that the whole town fainted? Is it like the plague a few days ago?" Jame grabbed Mark's arm nervously.
Mark grabbed the water glass next to the bed and drank it down: "No, this time it's really all the people in the town. But it's strange that the people in the Seattle High School Spirit Club are basically fine. Now the DCP people are rushing to the town to deal with this thing."
I snorted and jumped off the bed: "That thing really has some tricks, it actually took the whole town as its own hostage."
"What did you mean by that?" Jamie turned his head and asked in confusion.
"Hurry up and get out of this hospital, maybe the people from DCUI will catch us and isolate us." I took the clothes and put them on casually, and said, "That puppet gave us three days. If we can’t help it fulfill its wish by then, I’m afraid the whole town will go to heaven with us.”
I sighed, looked at the cloudless blue sky outside the window, and said indifferently: "I just don't know if the god here will accept me, an annoying atheist and bastard."
The car was struggling to crawl forward in the dense forest.Yao Jia, who was sitting next to me, turned over the map and complained to me: "Xiao Ye, are you sure there is what we need here?" "I don't know." I replied irresponsibly. "You don't know?" Yaojia screamed, "You caused us to get lost in the forest, and you caused me to almost throw up my stomach in this bumpy place, and finally you told me that I didn't know!" "What can I do? According to the information left by Jones, the puppet minister does live in this area. I'm not a god, how could I know that he actually has a hobby of living in the forest! After all, it has been baptized for more than a hundred years. , Under natural disasters and man-made disasters, there will be a question mark whether the house is still there." I said angrily. "If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have come to suffer this." Yaojia said self-pityingly, and then squeezed me hard: "I said you are stupid enough, that thing asks you to help it realize its wish, so just be obedient Go help it. Don't you ever think of rebelling?" "Resistance?" I snorted, "Even the Sacred Exorcist Array can't deal with it, sorry for my ignorance and shallow knowledge, I really can't think of any other way to deal with it!" Yao Jia was taken aback, and could no longer speak. Jame drove the car without a sound, the word 'worried' was prominently written on his face.I patted him on the shoulder carefully and comforted me: "Don't worry, we still have two days to live or die. As the saying goes, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. I don't believe that people like us with great fortune and destiny will do this." It's as simple as dying!" Huang Shiya, who was concentrating on finding the way, suddenly shouted: "There is really a way there!" There is indeed a small path in a very inconspicuous corner not far to the left, but both sides are covered with thick vines, if you don't look carefully, you can't see it. "It should be that path. My god, why does that puppet minister live in such a remote place?" Yaojia became irritable again.I glanced forward and said slowly: "Actually, this place used to be a small town more than a hundred years ago. Finally, some experts said that the frequency of earthquakes in this place was too high. Everyone has moved out. Now all that remains is the ruins of that town." "This is what the so-called vicissitudes of life mean." Shi Ya sighed with some understanding. The car drove onto the path, and soon drove out from the other side smoothly.For a moment, I just felt suddenly enlightened, and the surroundings brightened up. Jame suddenly screamed and slammed on the brakes desperately.When we looked out, we were suddenly frightened into a cold sweat. The end of the forest turned out to be a towering hillside, and the car parked dangerously on the edge of the hillside, only half a tire away from the car would fall into the cliff, killing four dead.I put my head out of the window and looked down, and immediately saw a large number of houses dotted with stars and clouds on the hillside. Shi Ya and others followed my line of sight, only took one look, and Yao Jia immediately shouted: "Are there any mistakes, is it really just a small town? According to the size of cities in the United States a hundred years ago According to the definition, it should be regarded as a small town!" "Don't worry about it so much, whether it's a city or a small town, it's not the same after changing the ruins. The important thing is that we finish what we should do and leave." Shiya looked at the town without blinking, You said to yourself. Jamie and I looked at each other, and finally shook our heads and smiled wryly. "I'm afraid it matters to us whether this place is a big town or a small town." Jame sighed resignedly. "What do you mean?" The two ladies in the car glared at him.I looked out of the window and couldn't help but sighed, and explained: "Jone's research information doesn't have the specific address of the puppet minister at all, it only mentions that he lived in this town before his death. Jame and I went to the town's reference room to check. There are a lot of records about the puppet exhibition at that time, but the exact address of the puppet minister has never been found. At that time, we thought, since he lived in a small town, we should look for it one by one, and we should be able to find it soon Found it. But I didn't expect this town to be so big!" "What?!" The two beautiful ladies, Shi Ya and Yao Jia, immediately opened their mouths indecently, with resentful expressions on their faces, as if they wanted to roast me and eat me in one bite. "Forget it, it's no use complaining about yourself here, Jame should drive the car into the town first." Shi Ya gave me a hard look and said, "Ye Silence, don't you always have a lot of evil ideas?" Yaojia was not far behind and gave me a twist: "This town doesn't look like a place that can be searched from house to house in two days. Xiao Ye, don't blame me for being ugly. If you don't want to come up with a place that can be opened at sunset tomorrow The way to find that puppet minister's house before, I, a lady, will strangle you first, and then go home and wait to die with my parents!" "You don't need to be so miserable." I muttered in a low voice, my brain thinking quickly.But after thinking about it, I can't find any way.As far as the current society is concerned, if you want to know where a family lives, you only need to go to the city or town government to check. The United States should not be much different more than a hundred years ago.Then all you need to know is the name of that puppet minister. I cheered up and took out the information left by Jones to look it up.It didn't take long for me to find it. "Rajeev. Edik!" I read softly, then raised my head and shouted at Jame: "The first stop, let's visit the town hall." The government of that town is easier to find than the name of the puppet minister. After the car drove into the ruins of the town, a towering dome building stood in the center of the town from a distance.According to the information, the first person to build this town was a Dutchman, and I have always been dubious about this.But when I saw that building, I immediately believed it.The town government and the town police station next to it are all typical Dutch style. After the five of us got out of the car, I gesticulated and instructed the work as we walked: "Now our goal is to go to the government's reference room to find the residences of all the people named Rajeev Edik." "Rajeev?" Jame suddenly became happy: "This name is really rare in the United States, so the scope of our search can be much smaller!" I nodded: "The name Rajeev is one of the thirteen most unpopular names known in the United States. The chance of appearing in the same place should be very rare!" "But you all seem to have forgotten something." Suddenly thought of something, Yaojia said triumphantly: "Why didn't the town take all the things in the house when it was relocated? Maybe we can't find anything!" "Absolutely not." Since I was in a good mood, I explained with rare patience: "The government's relocation order was issued very suddenly. Take all the important things away? I see that the meals that are put on the table in many people's homes may still be placed on the table!" "But has there really been an earthquake here?" Shiya looked around: "The nearby buildings are basically intact, and they don't look like they have been baptized by an earthquake." I shrugged my shoulders and said with a smile: "Sometimes the earth also plays some small jokes on humans. The experts hired by the government must have predicted many omens before earthquakes, and then forcibly relocated the people. As a result, more than a hundred years have passed, and this place He didn’t even let a fart go, let alone an earthquake.” "Okay, time is limited, let's work together." Jame walked into the town hall first. Five hours later, we couldn't be happier. "Don't call it Rajeev in this town. There is no one named Edik, not even anyone with the surname Edik!" Yaojia angrily threw a thick stack of materials on the ground. I frowned and thought for a while, and finally shouted angrily: "It must be that poor puppet minister who scares people to death!" "What's the matter with being poor?" Huang Shiya glared at me angrily.I smiled wryly: "Think about it, more than a hundred years ago in this town, you only need to pay a small amount of money to have a house of your own. He can't even afford this money. How poor do you think he is? "I scratched my head vigorously: "Since he doesn't have his own house, he must be living in a rented house. Oh my God, how can I find this?" The five of us sat hopelessly on the dusty floor. "Forget it, I give up!" Yao Jia whispered decadently: "If you die, you can die, everything is my fault. The seance wanted to summon my sister's soul, but in the end, that puppet killed everyone in the town. People make you want to die or live. Hey, Shiya, what is your greatest wish in this life?" Huang Shiya forced a smile and shook her head, but did not answer her. Yao Jia continued to speak in that half-dead tone: "Actually, my biggest wish in this life is similar to that puppet's. I want to marry someone. It's just that I want to marry into a wealthy family. My husband is handsome and considerate, so I can cling to him." Live a lifetime without any worries. You say, this wish is very naive, isn’t it?” She stared blankly at the ceiling of the reference room, and suddenly burst into tears. "Yaojia, have you had enough trouble, it's so annoying!" I got angry and took a newspaper and threw it at her.Suddenly, I froze. "Puppet competition! That puppet competition! Why didn't I think of it?" I grabbed Shiya's hand suddenly, my voice trembling with excitement: "Generally, if you want to know the specific situation of a certain information, which one will you choose?" way?" Huang Shiya was stunned for a moment. Although she didn't know what I wanted to ascertain, but she knew me well as a human being and she immediately replied: "Television and reading newspapers, of course, you can also learn something from other people's mouths." "Of course there was no such thing as television more than a hundred years ago. Moreover, artists like the Puppet Lord are generally very lonely people. They are not used to communicating with others. So the Puppet Lord must have got the news of the puppet competition from the newspaper. That means that person has a fixed newspaper!" I said loudly. "What does that mean?" Jamie asked suspiciously. "This is decisive information!" I stood up: "You should be very clear that there was already a profession called newspaper delivery in the United States more than a hundred years ago. Generally, newspaper offices hired people to deliver newspapers to subscribed newspapers. Since the puppet minister has ordered newspapers, we can definitely find his detailed address in the reference room of the newspaper office!" Huang Shiya and the others finally understood, and they also trembled as excitedly as I did.Suddenly Yaojia sighed melancholy: "Xiao Ye, after finding the thing that the puppet minister once used, can he really summon his soul back?" "Absolutely." I nodded without hesitation, then glanced at Jame. Jame said with certainty: "Just find the thing that the puppet minister used to use, and then go to the ruined church and activate the Abucolus exorcism circle." "But didn't Ye Buyu say that the exorcism array should not be used in places where people have died?" Huang Shiya asked. "It doesn't matter, the undead in that place have been completely sucked by the puppets." I stretched vigorously and said, "Okay, everything is on the right track. Let's get it done smoothly!" At noon the next day, we left the huge ruins with the puppet minister's things.
The car was struggling to crawl forward in the dense forest.Yao Jia, who was sitting next to me, turned over the map and complained to me: "Xiao Ye, are you sure there is what we need here?" "I don't know." I replied irresponsibly. "You don't know?" Yaojia screamed, "You caused us to get lost in the forest, and you caused me to almost throw up my stomach in this bumpy place, and finally you told me that I didn't know!" "What can I do? According to the information left by Jones, the puppet minister does live in this area. I'm not a god, how could I know that he actually has a hobby of living in the forest! After all, it has been baptized for more than a hundred years. , Under natural disasters and man-made disasters, there will be a question mark whether the house is still there." I said angrily. "If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have come to suffer this." Yaojia said self-pityingly, and then squeezed me hard: "I said you are stupid enough, that thing asks you to help it realize its wish, so just be obedient Go help it. Don't you ever think of rebelling?" "Resistance?" I snorted, "Even the Sacred Exorcist Array can't deal with it, sorry for my ignorance and shallow knowledge, I really can't think of any other way to deal with it!" Yao Jia was taken aback, and could no longer speak. Jame drove the car without a sound, the word 'worried' was prominently written on his face.I patted him on the shoulder carefully and comforted me: "Don't worry, we still have two days to live or die. As the saying goes, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. I don't believe that people like us with great fortune and destiny will do this." It's as simple as dying!" Huang Shiya, who was concentrating on finding the way, suddenly shouted: "There is really a way there!" There is indeed a small path in a very inconspicuous corner not far to the left, but both sides are covered with thick vines, if you don't look carefully, you can't see it. "It should be that path. My god, why does that puppet minister live in such a remote place?" Yaojia became irritable again.I glanced forward and said slowly: "Actually, this place used to be a small town more than a hundred years ago. Finally, some experts said that the frequency of earthquakes in this place was too high. Everyone has moved out. Now all that remains is the ruins of that town." "This is what the so-called vicissitudes of life mean." Shi Ya sighed with some understanding. The car drove onto the path, and soon drove out from the other side smoothly.For a moment, I just felt suddenly enlightened, and the surroundings brightened up. Jame suddenly screamed and slammed on the brakes desperately.When we looked out, we were suddenly frightened into a cold sweat. The end of the forest turned out to be a towering hillside, and the car parked dangerously on the edge of the hillside, only half a tire away from the car would fall into the cliff, killing four dead.I put my head out of the window and looked down, and immediately saw a large number of houses dotted with stars and clouds on the hillside. Shi Ya and others followed my line of sight, only took one look, and Yao Jia immediately shouted: "Are there any mistakes, is it really just a small town? According to the size of cities in the United States a hundred years ago According to the definition, it should be regarded as a small town!" "Don't worry about it so much, whether it's a city or a small town, it's not the same after changing the ruins. The important thing is that we finish what we should do and leave." Shiya looked at the town without blinking, You said to yourself. Jamie and I looked at each other, and finally shook our heads and smiled wryly. "I'm afraid it matters to us whether this place is a big town or a small town." Jame sighed resignedly. "What do you mean?" The two ladies in the car glared at him.I looked out of the window and couldn't help but sighed, and explained: "Jone's research information doesn't have the specific address of the puppet minister at all, it only mentions that he lived in this town before his death. Jame and I went to the town's reference room to check. There are a lot of records about the puppet exhibition at that time, but the exact address of the puppet minister has never been found. At that time, we thought, since he lived in a small town, we should look for it one by one, and we should be able to find it soon Found it. But I didn't expect this town to be so big!" "What?!" The two beautiful ladies, Shi Ya and Yao Jia, immediately opened their mouths indecently, with resentful expressions on their faces, as if they wanted to roast me and eat me in one bite. "Forget it, it's no use complaining about yourself here, Jame should drive the car into the town first." Shi Ya gave me a hard look and said, "Ye Silence, don't you always have a lot of evil ideas?" Yaojia was not far behind and gave me a twist: "This town doesn't look like a place that can be searched from house to house in two days. Xiao Ye, don't blame me for being ugly. If you don't want to come up with a place that can be opened at sunset tomorrow The way to find that puppet minister's house before, I, a lady, will strangle you first, and then go home and wait to die with my parents!" "You don't need to be so miserable." I muttered in a low voice, my brain thinking quickly.But after thinking about it, I can't find any way.As far as the current society is concerned, if you want to know where a family lives, you only need to go to the city or town government to check. The United States should not be much different more than a hundred years ago.Then all you need to know is the name of that puppet minister. I cheered up and took out the information left by Jones to look it up.It didn't take long for me to find it. "Rajeev. Edik!" I read softly, then raised my head and shouted at Jame: "The first stop, let's visit the town hall." The government of that town is easier to find than the name of the puppet minister. After the car drove into the ruins of the town, a towering dome building stood in the center of the town from a distance.According to the information, the first person to build this town was a Dutchman, and I have always been dubious about this.But when I saw that building, I immediately believed it.The town government and the town police station next to it are all typical Dutch style. After the five of us got out of the car, I gesticulated and instructed the work as we walked: "Now our goal is to go to the government's reference room to find the residences of all the people named Rajeev Edik." "Rajeev?" Jame suddenly became happy: "This name is really rare in the United States, so the scope of our search can be much smaller!" I nodded: "The name Rajeev is one of the thirteen most unpopular names known in the United States. The chance of appearing in the same place should be very rare!" "But you all seem to have forgotten something." Suddenly thought of something, Yaojia said triumphantly: "Why didn't the town take all the things in the house when it was relocated? Maybe we can't find anything!" "Absolutely not." Since I was in a good mood, I explained with rare patience: "The government's relocation order was issued very suddenly. Take all the important things away? I see that the meals that are put on the table in many people's homes may still be placed on the table!" "But has there really been an earthquake here?" Shiya looked around: "The nearby buildings are basically intact, and they don't look like they have been baptized by an earthquake." I shrugged my shoulders and said with a smile: "Sometimes the earth also plays some small jokes on humans. The experts hired by the government must have predicted many omens before earthquakes, and then forcibly relocated the people. As a result, more than a hundred years have passed, and this place He didn’t even let a fart go, let alone an earthquake.” "Okay, time is limited, let's work together." Jame walked into the town hall first. Five hours later, we couldn't be happier. "Don't call it Rajeev in this town. There is no one named Edik, not even anyone with the surname Edik!" Yaojia angrily threw a thick stack of materials on the ground. I frowned and thought for a while, and finally shouted angrily: "It must be that poor puppet minister who scares people to death!" "What's the matter with being poor?" Huang Shiya glared at me angrily.I smiled wryly: "Think about it, more than a hundred years ago in this town, you only need to pay a small amount of money to have a house of your own. He can't even afford this money. How poor do you think he is? "I scratched my head vigorously: "Since he doesn't have his own house, he must be living in a rented house. Oh my God, how can I find this?" The five of us sat hopelessly on the dusty floor. "Forget it, I give up!" Yao Jia whispered decadently: "If you die, you can die, everything is my fault. The seance wanted to summon my sister's soul, but in the end, that puppet killed everyone in the town. People make you want to die or live. Hey, Shiya, what is your greatest wish in this life?" Huang Shiya forced a smile and shook her head, but did not answer her. Yao Jia continued to speak in that half-dead tone: "Actually, my biggest wish in this life is similar to that puppet's. I want to marry someone. It's just that I want to marry into a wealthy family. My husband is handsome and considerate, so I can cling to him." Live a lifetime without any worries. You say, this wish is very naive, isn’t it?” She stared blankly at the ceiling of the reference room, and suddenly burst into tears. "Yaojia, have you had enough trouble, it's so annoying!" I got angry and took a newspaper and threw it at her.Suddenly, I froze. "Puppet competition! That puppet competition! Why didn't I think of it?" I grabbed Shiya's hand suddenly, my voice trembling with excitement: "Generally, if you want to know the specific situation of a certain information, which one will you choose?" way?" Huang Shiya was stunned for a moment. Although she didn't know what I wanted to ascertain, but she knew me well as a human being and she immediately replied: "Television and reading newspapers, of course, you can also learn something from other people's mouths." "Of course there was no such thing as television more than a hundred years ago. Moreover, artists like the Puppet Lord are generally very lonely people. They are not used to communicating with others. So the Puppet Lord must have got the news of the puppet competition from the newspaper. That means that person has a fixed newspaper!" I said loudly. "What does that mean?" Jamie asked suspiciously. "This is decisive information!" I stood up: "You should be very clear that there was already a profession called newspaper delivery in the United States more than a hundred years ago. Generally, newspaper offices hired people to deliver newspapers to subscribed newspapers. Since the puppet minister has ordered newspapers, we can definitely find his detailed address in the reference room of the newspaper office!" Huang Shiya and the others finally understood, and they also trembled as excitedly as I did.Suddenly Yaojia sighed melancholy: "Xiao Ye, after finding the thing that the puppet minister once used, can he really summon his soul back?" "Absolutely." I nodded without hesitation, then glanced at Jame. Jame said with certainty: "Just find the thing that the puppet minister used to use, and then go to the ruined church and activate the Abucolus exorcism circle." "But didn't Ye Buyu say that the exorcism array should not be used in places where people have died?" Huang Shiya asked. "It doesn't matter, the undead in that place have been completely sucked by the puppets." I stretched vigorously and said, "Okay, everything is on the right track. Let's get it done smoothly!" At noon the next day, we left the huge ruins with the puppet minister's things.