[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

If Jack was a ghost...

"We have to verify whether he is human." Norman frowned.

Lei pondered for a while: "Blood."

"Well,? We are the best human flesh. If he is really a ghost, I am afraid it will be difficult for him not to eat us,? All he needs to arouse his appetite is the smell of blood." Norman said.

"But it's too dangerous." Lei sharply pointed out the loopholes in the plan,? "If he is a ghost,? He wants to eat you,? We have no ability to stop it at all, and it is very likely that he can control himself, otherwise the ghost will not Let him into the farm."

"Another clue is the food. We have to go to the back kitchen to see what he eats."

"And his climbing ability..."

"Wait!" Emma interrupted their conversation, "Why should we care whether Jack is a man or a ghost? As long as he tells the truth,? Helps us, even a ghost is a friend, right?"

Ray made a gesture: "I think Norman has already figured it out,? If Jack is human,? It means he is more controllable than ghosts."

"control?"

"Yes, control. Emma,? You once said that you want to escape with your mother,? But there may be something like a chip bomb on your mother,? It is impossible to dismantle it with our technology,? We do If not,? Let the ghost do it for us." Leon paused, "Jack can do this. He is distinguished,? He is mother's superior,? Can shake the entire farm,? As long as there is this,? We There is capital to negotiate with ghosts, even threaten them."

Emma was stunned for a moment: "You guys want to... kidnap Jack to intimidate the ghost?"

"That's right, this is the least dangerous method so far." Norman clasped his fingers together and pressed them against his chin.

They still don't know what it's like outside the wall, let alone whether they can survive in the world of ghosts. They have to face the risk of being chased and killed by ghosts when they flee. It is also possible to die in the wild due to infection, poisoning, attack by wild ghosts, etc., especially with children who cannot move. Although Norman is very reluctant to think about it, there is no doubt that they are a burden.Outside the fence, it may be very difficult for older children to protect themselves, let alone bring these delicate and expensive children who cannot fight.The idea of ​​everyone leaving safely together is nothing less than a fantasy.

In contrast, threatening ghosts with Jack's life, forcing them to stop the chips or bombs on Isabella, and then letting all edible children go to the human world is economical, less dangerous, and A way to save everyone.

But with a few children under the age of 12 and a woman, can they really control an adult man who is close to two meters tall?

Norman didn't know what to do. At this time, the problem of narrow vision appeared. No matter how smart he is, he is just a child who has not stepped out of the orphanage for 11 years. Since childhood, the only adult he has ever seen is Isabella. Mom, don't have a very specific concept of the strength of a grown male.

"The safest way is to carry out the two plans together, while preparing for the escape, while investigating Jack's racial issue. The two do not conflict." Ray interrupted his meditation.

in the afternoon.

Confirming that Jack was drawing in his room, Norman coughed a few times and knocked on the door.Jack's voice came from behind the door: "Come in."

Norman opened the door, which was unlocked.Jack in the room was rarely wearing his luxurious ducal gown, but a simple white silk shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbows, exposing his pale, straight wrists like birch bark, faintly glowing in the sun It is also bluish white like quenched jade.He held a paintbrush in one hand, a palette in the other, and a birch easel in front of him. He didn't pay much attention to Norman and the others, but said casually, "What's the matter?"

Ray told him, "The ball was kicked on the roof."

Jack opened the curtain and looked outside, and sure enough there was a football lying on the roof drain, some distance away from the open window, he glanced at Lei: "What do you want to exchange?"

Lei took out a palm-sized metal box from his pocket: "We have made something that can disable the transmitter. Just put it behind the ear and press it, and the transmitter will not work."

Jack shrugged irresistibly, "Oh, so what's the fun?"

Ray stared at him closely: "It's only enough for one person."

Jack paused, then laughed, God, he laughed like a devil.He said to Norman and the others: "Okay, little devils, don't try it out, you just want to know why I can appear in the room without taking the stairs."

He stepped on the ivory window sill, jumped into the air with his legs vigorously, his body folded and stretched like a cat, and the muscles on his waist bulged in the process of balancing and turning. At this moment, he was as vigorous as a Young cheetah.He grasped the raised stone brick decoration with his right hand, drew a semicircle with the other hand, hooked it seemingly lightly, and easily took the ball off and held it in his arms.Then he landed like a bird, stepping on the window sill. This series of movements was smooth and clean, as beautiful as a dancer, and Norman and the others were stunned.Jack threw the ball to them and waved his hand casually: "Okay, you have already seen it, let's all go."

Norman and the others left holding the football in a daze. When they walked not far away, Emma said, "He's human."

Norman turned to look at Lei, the two exchanged glances, and reached a consensus: Jack was playing tricks again, and he didn't make it clear at all that his unusual skills had something to do with his escape from surveillance that day.

Sure enough, he would hint, conceal part of the truth, and deliberately guide others' opinions, but he would not lie.

"Let the younger siblings see what Jack ate at night." Norman lowered his voice, "It's still some time before dusk, are Gilda and Dong ready?"

While he was speaking, a dark-skinned boy and a girl with round glasses came out from the corner, it was Dong and Gilda, they nodded to him and said, "Yes!"

"Just as planned," Norman said to them all in the slanting afternoon sun. "Extramural investigation today!"

Gilda was on duty in the laundry room today, and it was also Mama Isabella's bath day.The laundry room and the bathroom are very close, only separated by a narrow corridor. Isabella will take off all her clothes when taking a shower, and the pocket watch transmitter will only leave her body for a short time at this time.

Gilda's task is to steal and hide the pocket watch, so that Isabella can't use the pocket watch to locate everyone, so that she finds a child near the high wall.Isabella must know that someone stole the pocket watch, but she doesn't know who it is. What Gilda needs to do is to hide the pocket watch in the corner of the bathroom, and then immediately leave the laundry room and rush into the crowd, pretending to be away when the crime happened The appearance of the scene.Gilda is not good at running, so Dong will meet her.

The investigation outside the wall was carried out by Norman and Emma, ​​and Ray organized his younger brothers and sisters to play hide-and-seek near the high wall. Even if Isabella got back the pocket watch easily, under the cover of the signal of the large transmitter, I am afraid she would not know what the wall was. Who is the child on the road.

Time, Emma they will need time.

Gilda quietly walked into the clothes basket outside the washroom, she squatted down silently, her little white hands groped in the clothes for a while, and picked up a round foreign object, which turned out to be a pocket watch.She did not open the cover of the pocket watch, but put it in her bosom, when suddenly, with a slight sweep of her hand, she touched another soft, rectangular object, hidden in the pocket of Isabella's apron, and she After hesitating for a moment, he still took it out. It was a folded file, with Norman's photo pasted in the corner of the file. The snow-white boy was looking straight ahead, with blue eyes as clean as a pool of water.

Gilda glanced at the text on the file, and suddenly trembled all over, as if a criminal saw the gavel dropped by the judge.She stood up tremblingly, stood there for a while, patted her face, and forced herself to calm down from the shock.

The news... the news...

They must be notified to Norman as soon as possible!

Gilda strode out of the bathroom and plunged into the forest. She was out of breath and her face was covered with sweat. She bit her lip tightly, and her front teeth left a deep white mark on her lower lip. She came to meet her. Her Dong was taken aback by her terrifying expression, and asked cautiously, "What's wrong with you, Gilda?"

"Shipping..." Gilda panted heavily. She ran too fast and passed out of breath. She took a long time to catch her breath, and said to Dong, "I saw my mother's file...the notice on it has come down. To be shipped...Norman is going to be shipped!"

"What...Norman is going to be shipped?! How could it be so fast, he hasn't reached his 12th birthday yet!"

Gilda didn't answer. She was still holding the mechanical pocket watch in her hand. She was so emotional just now that she failed to hide the pocket watch as planned, but took it out directly with her body.She pressed the side of the pocket watch, and the cover popped open, but what was under the cover was not the signal from the transmitter, but the most common clock—the hour, minute and second hands were all there, and the numbers were printed clearly.Gilda is not as smart as Norman and the others. Her first reaction was that there was something mysterious on the seemingly ordinary surface, but she quickly realized: no, there is nothing, this is just the most ordinary pocket watch, and the only information it can provide is accurate. The time is now 4:33 pm.

what happened?Is there no transmitter at all, Norman and the others are lying?

An ominous premonition climbed into Gilda's heart, like a black snake climbing up the spine.

No, Norman and the others won't make such jokes. If this is really just an ordinary pocket watch, then...

Gilda suddenly recalled the bathroom a few minutes ago, where a warm yellow light streamed from behind the closed single door.In the silence, a thought popped into her mind: Was Isabella in the bathroom?

If... If this is really just an ordinary pocket watch, then the pocket watch that can track the whereabouts of all the children is still in Isabella's hands!Isabella wasn't in the bathroom at all, she had seen through what the kids were up to.

Gilda murmured, "We fell into her trap, Norman, Ray and Emma, ​​everyone will be exposed..."

"Mother……"