For the first time in their lives, these two children encountered such a terrible thing. One Sunday in early spring, Shimada-kun and Kinoshita-kun, who were in sixth grade, went to play at their teacher's house. They listened to many interesting stories told by the teacher, and they didn't leave until evening.It happened on the way home. "Huh? Strange. I've never been here before." Shimada-kun looked around with a puzzled look on his face. "Yeah, I haven't been here either. It's really deserted." Kinoshita-kun also felt strange, and looked around.There was not a soul on the broad street.

At dusk, a completely unfamiliar neighborhood unfolds in front of my eyes.Fruit shops, pastry shops, beef hotpot restaurants... There are row upon row of shops, but there are no people—it seems that all the people have disappeared from this world, leaving only the shops. The two felt strange, and while walking and watching, a magnificent antique shop came into view.I saw a lot of antiques displayed in the huge window, such as ancient Buddha statues, pottery with beautiful patterns and so on.The two couldn't help but stop. "My dad likes Buddha statues. Every time I go out with him, he won't leave when he sees an antique shop, and it's been a long time since he saw it. I don't like these old antiques, they are quite scary." Shimada-kun said.Kinoshita-kun agreed. He said, "Well, it's quite scary. Those Buddha statues in the museum are like living ones. I went there once, and the more I looked at them, the more scared I became. But those Buddha statues are all national treasures."

"Look at the dark Buddha statue in the middle, does it look like an Indian?" "Don't all Buddha statues look like Indians? Buddhism originated in India." Because some Buddha statues can only be seen clearly from the side, the two walked towards the side of the window, and suddenly found a gentleman in a suit and leather shoes standing where they were just now.Look at him, the low brim of the hat almost covers the eyes, the turned up collar covers the chin, he is facing the window, staring at a Buddha statue in the middle.It was a metal Buddha statue, dark in color, only about fifteen centimeters high, but it was solemnly placed on a pedestal in the center.

Kinoshita-kun sized up the gentleman for a while, and suddenly elbowed Shimada-kun.Shocked, Shimada looked up at Kinoshita, only to see his friend's eyes were wide open, staring straight at the gentleman.Shimada also looked at the gentleman.guess what?Now even Shimada's eyes widened, almost popping out. What surprised them both so much?It was the gentleman's face.That face is not a human face. At first they both suspected that the gentleman was wearing a mask.However, upon observation, no thin thread was found to fix the mask.Second, there is no trace of connection between the mask and the human face.Could it be that this is a special mask that covers the entire head?

The gentleman's face was almost identical to the mannequins displayed in the windows of suit shops.Those models were not made of wax, but the face of the gentleman in front of him, as shiny and smooth as wax, white with a sense of transparency, what is this not a wax figure?Look at the rosy skin, high nose bridge, beautiful beard, a handsome foreigner's face—but not a living person's face.Eyebrows, eyes, mouth, all motionless.And "he" doesn't seem to have eyeballs, there are only two black holes where the eyes are!What a ostentatious wax figure, now standing in front of the window of an antique shop.

The gentleman stared at the small Buddha statue in the window, completely oblivious to the two children beside him.Shimada and Kinoshita wanted to escape a long time ago, but their legs and feet were weak and they couldn't move.They were afraid that if they made the slightest movement, the gentleman would pounce on him. Time seemed to pass very slowly (in fact, it hadn't been five minutes), and the wax figure gentleman finally left the window, leaning on a cane with many bamboo knots, and walked "click, click", like a robot. The two teenagers looked at each other.Should he just run away, or follow him to the end and see through the true face of "him"?Eventually curiosity overcame fear and the pair decided to follow up.The two men bent down, walked along the eaves, and followed behind.