I'm an antique shop owner, so it's reasonable for me to know some magic

Chapter 3: Crime Scene, The Ghost on the Puppet

Su Fan raised his head and looked at Jamie.

The latter did not come with his wife this time.

He must have been murdered.

Even though he knew that the original plot was like this, Su Fan still sighed in his heart.

"I'm sorry... I know it's a bit strange to say this, but I hope you can accept my apology."

As soon as he entered the door, Jamie was busy apologizing.

"When I came here before, I treated you badly."

"fine."

Su Fan waved his hand and then pointed to the chair in front of him.

"You can have a cup of tea and talk slowly."

Jamie sat down and was about to speak, but he hesitated. After thinking for a moment, he spoke hesitantly.

"You know all that, don't you?"

Hearing this question, Su Fan nodded as a response, while observing the expression of the person opposite him.

The man looked tired, his hair was wet from the rain, and he had dark circles under his eyes and bloodshot on the whites of his eyes, proving that he had not had a good rest in the past few days.

Even so, when facing Su Fan, he was still able to ask questions with clear logic.

He can be considered a horror movie protagonist with strong mental qualities, courage and resourcefulness.

If the mastermind behind the scenes hadn't planned too deeply, there would be nothing we could do to him.

"When I got home, I received a package with a ventriloquist named Billy."

"I didn't take it seriously at first, but when I came back from a trip, I found my wife was dead."

"I now want to find out the cause of Lisa's death, and I need your help..."

After getting a positive answer, Jamie finally found an outlet for the words stuck in his chest.

"I know this may sound weird, but I suspect it has something to do with a nursery rhyme from my hometown."

In front of Su Fan, Jamie repeated a nursery rhyme that he had heard more than once when he was a child.

"In my hometown, ventriloquist dolls are considered an ominous symbol that will bring bad luck and death."

"Before this happened, Lisa mentioned this to me. I didn't take it seriously at first, but who would have thought..."

Jamie looked sad when he said this.

Su Fan seemed to be thinking, pondered for a moment, and nodded.

"Okay, I'll help you with this."

“But there is no such thing as a free lunch.”

"I understand. As long as you are willing to help me solve the mystery and find the mastermind, as long as I can do it, just ask."

After the two of them finished talking, Su Fan stood up immediately.

"Wait a minute, you are..."

"To your apartment."

……

Hollywood is quite a distance away from the apartment where Jamie lives.

The former is to drive here, which saves you from taking public transportation.

Hollywood is quite a distance away from where Jamie lives.

In the car, Jamie told Su Fan everything he saw and heard in detail.

After that, he also raised his own questions.

"Su, why do you have to get that doll?"

“Do you believe in Mary Shaw’s existence?”

Su Fan did not answer Jamie directly, but asked the latter in return.

Jamie nodded.

With so many strange things happening, he had no choice but to believe it.

“Since we’ve chosen a ghost, which seems to be an illusory existence, why not use nursery rhymes as clues as well.”

Su Fan explained casually.

"Combining your description with the content of the nursery rhyme, it is very likely that Mary Shaw's ghost can be attached to the ventriloquist doll."

"Use it to attack people."

Jamie nodded after hearing this.

Lisa was indeed killed shortly after she received the doll.

"If we find that thing, we can follow the clues and get some clues about Mary Shaw."

"Then how did you know that we were met with evil?"

Jamie couldn't suppress his curiosity.

"In China, some people can tell the general trajectory of a person's life through his or her face, and occasionally use it to predict what will happen in the near future."

"You and your wife have black spots on your foreheads. It's obvious that disaster is imminent."

Su Fan was talking nonsense in a serious tone. It was too troublesome for Tongyou to explain, so he might as well just say that he could read faces.

"It sounds like the prophet in the legend."

Jamie couldn't help but exclaim.

"A bystander sees more clearly. There are many details in your description that I haven't noticed."

"You said that when you pushed the door open, you heard Lisa's voice, calling you to go into the room."

"But in fact, Lisa should have been killed at that time, so who was the person who made the sound?"

Jamie was horrified when he heard this.

“It’s…it’s Mary Shaw!”

"Yes."

Su Fan sat in the back seat, closed his eyes and continued to speak.

"She wanted to use your wife's voice to make you let down your guard, and then use the sudden horror scene to stimulate you to scream."

"If you open your mouth, there will be two dead bodies in the apartment."

Hearing this, Jamie was filled with fear.

The feeling of brushing shoulders with death made cold sweat break out on his back in an instant.

"As long as that puppet is there, you must remain vigilant."

After concluding with a final sentence, Su Fan stopped talking.

In my mind, I recalled more information about Mary Shaw.

This thing can't be considered a ghost in the strict sense.

Although the original ending of Dead Silence was that she completed her plan and successfully killed all members of Jamie's family.

But in the process, the method of killing was very simple.

They all use other people's voices to lure victims into dark and scary places and erase the surrounding sounds.

They then threaten the victim to scream, pull out his tongue and kill him.

Of course, this could also be Mary Shaw's bad taste.

Su Fan paused to think and followed Jamie into the apartment that was cordoned off by police tape.

There was a reason why Jamie was released. He had sufficient alibi and there was no sign of any other people's activities at the scene.

Lisa's death became an unsolved case, and the police station did not have enough manpower to waste on maintaining the scene for such an unsolved case.

The two entered the apartment easily.

The bloodstains on the floor had dried up, but a strong smell of blood still lingered in the room.

In the corner of the room, a ventriloquist doll dressed as a gentleman sat there quietly.

The workmanship is exquisite and the details are in place. You can tell at a glance that the maker spent a lot of time on it.

But the more lifelike the dolls are, the more uncomfortable they make people feel.

Science calls this feeling of discomfort the uncanny valley effect.

And metaphysics also has its own explanation.

Things like dolls are most likely to attract unclean things to attach to them.

Therefore, the carpenters in ancient times also had some unusual skills to a certain extent.

"Su, the things have been obtained."

Jamie naturally picked up the puppet.

"what's next?"

"Is your gas stove usable? Just burn it with fire."

Su Fan downplayed it.

"what?"

Jamie was incredulous.

"What? No?"

"Oh, of course, but..."

While Jamie was still hesitating, Su Fan snatched the doll away.

When I touched this thing directly, a cold and evil aura directly wrapped around my arm.

Su Fan remained calm. He walked to the stove and turned on the natural gas.

At this moment, the eyes of the puppet in his hand suddenly turned to Su Fan!

And from beginning to end, Su Fan's hand never touched the rod that controlled the puppet!

"Su, Su..."

Jamie, who was keeping a close eye on the puppet, became anxious and called out to Su Fan, but suddenly discovered that his voice had become much louder.

But in fact, it was not Jamie's voice that was amplified.

Instead, the sounds around gradually became smaller!
The sound of rain, thunder, wind, and leaves swaying, as if a button had been pressed, gradually lowered in pitch until they disappeared!
She is coming!
Mary Shaw is coming!

The sound of his heartbeat passed through his body and was clearly transmitted to his eardrum. The deathly silence made Jamie's mind uncontrollably tense!
Su Fan seemed to be unaware of the evil that was coming. He walked straight to the kitchen and reached out to the stove...

(End of this chapter)