screenwriter mystery

Chapter 151 Games
"What exactly do you want to do?"

Under the gaze of everyone's empty eyes, Amanda took a deep breath.

Biting his lip, looking sideways at Spike who seemed to be indifferent, he couldn't help asking in a low voice.

"To confirm a guess."

Facing Amanda's questioning, Spike's smile remained unchanged. He exchanged a glance with Jamie on the stage with his slightly drooping eyes, and then replied to Amanda with a smile.

"If you want to catch a big enough fish, you can't be stingy with the bait in your hand."

Amanda: "So, I'm your bait?"

Spike: "To be precise, it's the two of us."

Amanda: "It's not fishing, Spike, and we could all die from it."

Compared with Spike's calm attitude, Amanda obviously couldn't do this.

"Of course I know that."

"However, I need some evidence to support the speculation. Believe me, I have no intention of sacrificing now. After all, there are more important things waiting for me to do."

Looking up, and looking into Spike's blue eyes, Amanda felt a bit of firmness in his eyes.

Seeing this, Amanda's eyes flickered slightly before she gritted her teeth.

"I only trust you this time, Spike."

"Don't worry, I won't disappoint you."

Amanda's words were not so much a warning as an expression of trust.

Turning his head and scanning the empty-eyed people around him, Spike raised his eyebrows and replied.

"Be prepared to shoot at any time."

Watching the backs of Amanda and Spike, Detective Zhou took out his pistol and reminded Detective Phil beside him with a blank expression.

He had a hunch, the result of the next two actions.

Successful or not, banquets will never be as 'safe' as they are now.

Hearing Agent Zhou's reminder, the expression on Agent Phil's face immediately became a little more serious.

……

"Since there are new guests joining the banquet game..."

Turning his stiff neck and making a creaking sound, Jamie looked at Amanda and Spike on stage, opening and closing his mouth in welcome.

However, the expression on his face didn't change at all, it was still empty without any vitality.

The clockwork on Jamie's back began to spin. He moved his steps and raised his stiff arms to select a few participants of the 'game' from the crowd at the banquet.

"It's an FBI agent!"

Among the participants, Amanda recognized one of them, the missing FBI agent.

The missing persons participating in the 'game' stood stiffly in their respective positions under Jamie's arrangement.

Glanced at these participants, Jamie's head on his neck suddenly turned to a 180-degree position, looked at Amanda behind him, opened and closed his mouth and asked, "So, guests, what songs do you like?"

"Song?"

Startled by Jamie's horrifying appearance of suddenly turning his head, Amanda subconsciously averted her eyes, not looking at the horrifying appearance of the other party.

"Actually, we don't know much about the content of the 'game' yet, so I wonder if you can demonstrate it first."

Facing Jamie's question, Spike calmly looked at the 180-degree-rotated head, and gave the reason with a smile.

"..."

Turning the wooden eyeballs in the eye sockets, using the black holes representing pupils and Spike's blue eyes to look at each other for a few seconds.

Only then did Jamie turn his stiff neck little by little, agreeing to Spike's request.

"Okay, now let's demonstrate to the guests how to play the 'game'."

As Jamie's words fell, the missing persons on the stage raised their palms one after another, and clapped their hands with stiff movements.

"Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
It's fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down
And broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after..."

At the same time, in conjunction with the clapping movement, everyone on the stage opened and closed their mouths, and began to sing a nursery rhyme in a monotonous voice without any ups and downs.

“And Jill came tumbling after…”

Listening to the expressionless nursery rhyme singing of several people on the stage, Agent Phil in the audience subconsciously hummed a few words.

"This is?"

"Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill?"

After singing, he reacted belatedly, and read out the name of this nursery rhyme under the surprised gaze of Detective Zhou beside him.

"Haven't you heard the nursery rhyme?"

"Why, is she famous?"

Facing Agent Phil's rhetorical question, Agent Zhou said expressionlessly.

"It's not just famous, it's a household name."

Although Jack and Jill is now, after continuous evolution and development, it has become a general term for boys and girls in English.

But if we pursue its original meaning, what the ballad actually refers to is probably the 18th-century King Louis XVI and his queen Mary. During the French Revolution, the king and queen were sent to the guillotine. That's why the words 'Jack slipped and fell on his crown (head) and Jill rolled down the hill' were in the nursery rhymes.

The meaning behind the nursery rhymes may not be the focus of Detective Phil and the others right now.

It's just that the 'game' played by the people on the stage was just singing nursery rhymes.

Not to mention Detective Phil, even Amanda, who had already stepped onto the stage and was determined to take the risk, subconsciously showed a surprised expression on her face.

On the stage, the sound of the ballad continued to sound, and the stiff movements of the missing person seemed strange and inexplicable.

And yet, watch the FBI agents clap their hands and sing nursery rhymes.

Amanda always felt that there was an inexplicable sense of humor in it.

"Jack fell down and broke his crown (Jack slipped and fell and fell to his crown (head))..."

It's just that the expression on Amanda's face has not yet completely relaxed.

As the nursery rhyme song continues to repeat, when it is sung again.

Suddenly, the clockwork on the back of a missing person who was clapping and singing nursery rhymes paused, and the rhythm in his hands stopped for a while. In the next second, the whole person fell on the stage without warning, and at the same time, his neck His head also fell off, rolling and stopping at Amanda's feet.

Looking down at the head that rolled down at her feet, Amanda looked at the head that continued to sing nursery rhymes with its mouth open and closed even though it lost its body.

Looking up at the position of the opponent's body, there was no sign of blood at the joint of the neck, there was only one obvious sign of broken wood. It was obvious that this missing person, like Jamie, had been completely puppetized.

However, this weird scene without any blood flow gave Amanda a greater feeling than any murder scene.

(End of this chapter)