The Grim Reaper Can't Be Tricked

In a long-abandoned small town somewhere in Europe, night falls, thick fog fills the air, the black asphalt road is dead, and the two birch forests look like a naked woman.

This reminds people of an urban legend about a birch dryad that spread in Europe.

Legend has it that a witch was burned to death in the birch forest. Her ashes were buried deep in the ground and absorbed by the roots of the birch tree. Mother, help yourself to eradicate disobedient heresy.

Five military trucks shuttled through the birch forest and galloped past. The soldiers observed the environment and saw a continuous line of poles and wires, spreading from here to the electric tower in the distance.

Looking at the electric towers and rows of electric poles in the distance from here, there is a sense of fear of giants standing still for no reason.

Colonel Josepha smoked a gun and looked at the desolate mountains in the distance. The palpitation caused by loneliness and fear of unknown things spread from the heart to the internal organs, and the kidneys convulsed due to tension.

The fingertips of his right hand are covered with thick calluses, which are the marks left by years of marching and using guns and knives.

The soldier next to him asked him: "Colonel, what is the emergency mission we have received this time? Let me know."

The other guards came over and expressed their curiosity. They all received the mission two hours ago suddenly, and got into the car in a hurry without knowing what to do. They don't know where the destination is at the moment.

Colonel Josepha pointed to the truck in the middle and said, "A picket team formed by exorcist priests of the Holy See."

The soldier was stunned for a moment: "You won't let us exorcise demons?"

The others roared with laughter, but seeing Colonel Josepha's indifferent expression, they gradually realized that he was not joking.

Colonel Josepha said that the destination of their trip was called Bajialing Town. Someone immediately exclaimed God’s sweet home, and then popularized this place to those who didn’t know, and finally said: “It is said that Bajaling Town will not open In half a year, accidents happened one after another, many people died, and the residents in the nearby town were forced to move. Soon, the entire town-sized theme park closed down.

Are those spooky events real? "

Colonel Josepha smoked a cigarette: "Really, it's recorded in the confidential file." He crushed the cigarette butt and said suddenly: "Here we are."

As soon as the words came out, everyone looked up and saw a bridge in front of them that could accommodate three large trucks in parallel, with a cliff in the middle, a forest on one side of the bridge, and a small town-sized paradise on the other. A sloping wooden sign in the middle bears the words 'Baja Ridge Township' written in scarlet paint.

The truck slowly drove into the town. Colonel Josepha led the soldiers to get out of the car in silence, watching a truck in the middle get off [-] exorcist priests wearing beak doctor masks.

The leading exorcist priest was at the level of a cardinal. He came to Colonel Joseph and said, "We need to find the owner of the dollhouse. He may be the author. He and the monsters he raises are dangerous. Our trip The purpose is to eradicate the five-level high-risk restricted area of ​​Bajialing Township."

Yes, restricted area.

Josepha thought of the warning signs that read "Forbidden Zone: No Entry" written all the way, and his heart shuddered. Based on the intuition cultivated by years of fighting experience in the battlefield, the birch forest included in the restricted area was very dangerous, and the Baja in the central area was very dangerous. Ridge town is more dangerous.

Cardinal: "Follow the precautions: 1. It is absolutely forbidden to make loud noises. 2. When encountering a monster, hide or run away immediately, because no one will provide rescue. 3. Put away your curiosity, put away your greed, absolutely It is forbidden to explore and steal property without permission."

He lowered his voice and said, "Because those things can see us all the time, they are sleeping, don't wake them up."

they?What kind of monster is it?

Colonel Josepha didn't know, but he tensed up and ordered his soldiers to obey the cardinal's words and take the lead to explore.

They entered a room that smelled of burning, and the firewood piled up in the fireplace was damp. The French windows of the dining room faced the courtyard, and there was a wooden beehive in the middle of the courtyard.

The guards were carefully preparing to open the door of the hive, but Colonel Josepha stopped him suddenly, pulled out his dagger and pried open a wooden board to check inside, his scalp felt numb and his soles felt cold.

But I saw that the inside was densely packed with killer bees flying randomly. There were millions or tens of millions of them. There was a huge beehive in the center of the house, which was about three meters in diameter. The dense holes on the surface were enough to make every dense phobia patient dizzy. fall.

"Ouch." The young soldier retched from nausea.

Colonel Josepha raised his hand to signal everyone to exit the courtyard immediately. This huge hive was no less lethal than a new type of bomb, and it was the kind that could move.

"Stand back, evacuate immediately."

They evacuated cautiously, but a young soldier kicked the flower pot dizzily, making a sound like water dripping from a boiling oil pan, and the whole beehive fell silent for an instant.

Colonel Josepha's pupils shrank sharply, he grabbed the soldier's collar and rushed to the restaurant: "Run!"

The next moment, the wooden door of the beehive was knocked open, and a large group of killer bees rushed towards the crowd like a tornado. Colonel Josepha dragged his soldiers into the restaurant, and two soldiers quickly raised their flamethrowers and sprayed them at the killer bees , A large number of bee carcasses fell to the ground.

Josepha quickly closed the door tightly. A group of people watched with lingering fear as the killer bees slammed into the glass door, densely covering layer after layer. From their angle, they could still see the wooden door being knocked open. In the beehive, the killer bee flew out, and there was a corpse covered in pustules that had been stung.

Killer bees built their nests on this corpse to lay their eggs, and their appearance was so horrifying that goosebumps would appear all over their bodies just by looking at it.

At this time, an exorcist priest came out and scolded: "Didn't I tell you to be careful?! Why did you provoke this swarm of killer bees?"

Josepha explained the ins and outs clearly, showing that they didn't mean it, and everything was for work to find clues.

The exorcist priest said coldly: "It's useless to explain to me. I told you that you'd better proceed carefully and kill all curiosity. Once monsters are provoked, they will follow you endlessly until they kill you."

Josepha was also a little annoyed at the priest's inhumanity at this time: "I just accidentally offended a group of killer bees, and the flamethrower can kill them. At worst, a grenade can blow up the entire beehive."

He still doesn't believe that a swarm of bees can kill everyone.

The exorcist priest sneered: "Do you think it's just a swarm of killer bees?"

Joseph: "Why not?"

The exorcist priest had a deep meaning: "You haven't read the "Honey Garden" series of books. The scary thing is not the killer bee, but Tom the Candyman."

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"Tom's House?" Saul thumped his palms, and suddenly realized: "Tom the Candyman in Honey Garden Series 1, I think the structure of Tom's House seems to be very similar to this house, with a fireplace that never goes out, and is good at voodoo. There is only a divorced mistress and withdrawn Tom.

The chef in the kitchen always likes to cook vegetable soup, spy on the maid and the gardener, and occasionally sneak into the hostess' room at night and leave at dawn.

All this was seen by Tom.

There is a beehive in the back garden, a gift from his father to Tom.Tom is often bullied by the opposite twin children, so he would rather hide in the hive and observe the bees every day.

The townspeople said he was mischievous because his hands, legs, and back were covered with bramble scars and scars from flame burns.The townspeople said he must have liked to play with fire, and saw him throwing rubbish out the door with bags of cats burned alive.

The school tactfully dissuaded Tom from beating his classmates, and the hostess begged the principal to be lenient. People saw her crying very sad that day.

So the next day the whole town was sympathetic to the mistress, she was so pitiful, her husband abandoned her, and her son was so naive.

Lonely Tom, gloomy Tom, lonely Tom, died in the morning when the roses bloomed.

The hostess held a funeral for him, and people came to the church to express their condolences, seeing ugly Tom, terrible Tom, and deformed Tom.

The bees flew over and used his body as a nest, and people seemed to smell the sweet and greasy smell of Tom.

Their tongues were full of sweet venom, and when they saw the hostess crying and lying in the arms of a strange man, they understood and sympathized.

Oh, poor Tom, he's not that bad after all. "

Hei Yang rubbed his arms and his teeth chattered: "Although it's not the first time I've heard this story, I still feel chills."

David guessed: "Tom in the story was abused by his mother, and his personality became gloomy, but people thought he was naughty and abused small animals. Not only did he not help in time, but he was pushed into the fire pit. Think of the urban legend of Candyman, or Tom He strayed into the hive, covered himself with honey, and was stung by the bees. Or his mother covered him with honey and killed him."

Black Sheep: "It's roughly true. The core of Tom Candyman is child abuse. Each book in the series has core issues of current concern, such as child abuse and equality between men and women. What he just said is just the beginning of the terrible incident. , the follow-up candy man's dark revenge is the main text."

Cen Jin: "How to retaliate? Simply state, don't waste your time."

"..." The black sheep thought for a while, and he really stated it in two or three sentences: "After Tom died, the body was used as a bee nest, crawled out of the grave, returned to the hive, and within two or three days it became a bee nest." A giant beehive.

The hostess and her lover tried to burn the honeycomb to death, but they fell into the honey bucket and were stung to death by ants and bees.

Afterwards, whenever someone abuses a child in a small town, and calls out to the bees repeatedly: Candyman, Tom can hear and kill the adults. "

Cen Jin: "What's the ending?"

Saul: "The ending is that the hive is destroyed, and the candy man disappears. But it's not a permanent disappearance, it's just that the medium through which he appeared is destroyed, and he can't get out temporarily."

Cen Jin: "A honeycomb or a bee is the medium of the candy man?"

Saul: "Over 9% of book fans believe that the honeycomb is the body of Candyman and the medium through which he connects with the living world."

Cen Jin: "Understood."

David glanced at Cen Jin, pursed his lips and didn't say anything, he just changed the topic: "Let's solve the story of this doll's house first. The kitchen and dining room have been solved, there is one doll in the living room, and there are only two dolls in the four bedrooms. "

He said that he went into the bedroom to search just now, and now he can tell the whole story, but he has a question: "Since you have all read the original work, you can solve the story of the doll's house without searching."

Saul and Heiyang nodded at the same time: "We can indeed."

Black Sheep: "But look at me, I became a staff member here, which means that it is not feasible to solve the dollhouse alone, and the owner must be found. The author said that the clue of who the owner is is hidden in every series of stories. In , the dollhouse is connected to each series story, so we still have to scout each doll carefully."

David took out three ID cards from his pocket: "For the doll, the bedroom is for the couple, and the living room is for the grandmother. The grandmother is old and dizzy, and has a huge inheritance. The couple planned the accidental death of the grandmother and then seized the inheritance. Nothing special."

The black sheep nodded: "This is the story of the neighbors in Tom's house. They have twins and often bully Tom."

David played with the ID card and said: "The 'Tom's House' in the dollhouse corresponds to Tom the Candyman in Series 1. Although it says 'Tom's House', it is actually the story of the neighbor's house, and all the dolls in this house are There is a corresponding identity, but there is no owner 'Tom'."

Saul: "Yes! Book fans speculate that the dollhouse is a mirror world, which corresponds to the desire in Tom's heart. He actually longs to be a neighbor's child, and is very jealous of the two children who bully him.

So in the dollhouse, two children were killed by a black maid, the chef had an affair with someone, and the whole house was burned down, corresponding to the longing and jealousy deep in Tom's heart. "

David counted the time: "Black Sheep, give me the points quickly."

The black sheep immediately gave him two points, and David hurried towards the door: "The two minutes are almost over."

Cen Jin asked Black Sheep: "Will Tom's House be closed after being explored? Can I come in again next time?"

The black sheep ran hurriedly: "Of course you can come in again, but there are no points. The time for telling stories and leaving the doll's story will be cut in half. It's very urgent. Generally, no one will come back."

Cen Jin understood.

A group of five people stepped out of the door, and the dolls in the living room and bedroom rushed over with roars, and the black sheep hurriedly closed the door, hearing the horrific movement inside, its legs became weak with fright.

"Fuck, fuck, scared to death!" Hei Yang patted his chest, still in shock.

Thankfully no one was injured.

They returned to the living room, and other people gathered together. There were originally 23 people + a Ding Yiqing who appeared suddenly, but after entering the doll's house and coming out, there were only 19 people and Ding Yiqing left.

A girl lost her mind: "We were four together. I was in the living room and three companions were in the bedroom. They guessed what happened to the doll. They didn't leave in time. They laughed, laughed and kicked at the doll. The staff stopped it It didn't work. And then, suddenly the dolls in there came to life! They came to life!"

She suddenly screamed emotionally: "My companions are all dead inside!"

Miss Red Shoes had a malicious smile on her face: "I have already said, follow the precautions, why don't you follow them?"

The girl glared at her angrily: "You are the chief culprit, you are all accomplices!" She couldn't help but pounce on her: "I'm going to kill you!"

Miss Red Shoes kicked the girl down, grabbed her by the neck and lifted her up: "One more note, harming staff without reason is considered a malicious attack and has the right to remove it."

Cen Jin and David attacked Miss Red Shoes at the same time, and the latter hurriedly backed away, throwing the girl to the ground.

"You are a player trapped here just like us, and you have no right to make rules." Cen Jin said.

Miss Red Shoes stared at Huang Mao, and suddenly showed a sweet smile: "You are right, I have no right to make rules, but I can kill people. You, please don't be alone."

Everyone was terrified, and even the staff stayed away from Miss Red Shoes in fear.

Blonde Lenny said: "Half an hour to rest, continue after that, please don't stay in the hall, there will be dolls coming out to breathe."

This sentence directly blocked the minds of some people who planned to wait in the hall for the rain to stop.

Ding Yiqing has been by his side, Cen Jin finds him very strange, but he does not reject him.He was resting in the corner, noticing the eyes of Miss Red Shoes and blond Lenny falling on him from time to time, and David's appraising eyes.

Cen Jin patted Ding Yiqing's big black umbrella with the back of his hand, signaling him to squat down.

Ding Yiqing looked down at him, indifferently refusing to squat, which would damage his image.

"..." Huang Mao muttered: "Death is fastidious, old-fashioned."

He had no choice but to stand up, tiptoe and whisper in Ding Yiqing's ear, "I don't think this place is real."

Ding Yiqing's ears were a little itchy, he stared at Cen Jin: "Is there any more?"

Huangmao: "I think I should be very powerful."

Ding Yiqing: "Then?"

Huangmao: "I want to kill that staff member with red shoes and blonde hair."

Ding Yiqing: "Good ambition."

Huangmao narrowed his eyes: "The doll house and the town of Bakaling are interesting. I seem to have heard of the town of Bakaling somewhere. I always feel that there is a giant sleeping here. We are standing on the calm sea. Unpredictable and dangerous."

Ding Yiqing: "Through."

"..." Huang Mao turned his head to look at him: "You are flattering me."

Ding Yiqing put his arm around Huang Mao's shoulder and said softly, "I agree with your point of view and every word you say, so when will you remember that your surname is not Huang?"

Huang Mao was silent for a moment: "I just said that this name is very strange." He played with the work card, and squinted at Ding Qingqing: "What is your relationship with me?"

Ding Yiqing's face remained unchanged: "Couples."

"Shit." Huang Mao didn't believe it.

Ding Yiqing inserted five fingers into Huangmao's hair, and rubbed it vigorously, thinking that Cen Jin was always on guard when he shouldn't be.

At this time, Saul walked towards them and said, "Can I still be in your group later?"

Ding Yiqing: "I'll listen to him."

Huangmao: "Whatever."

Saul breathed a sigh of relief and his heart settled down.

After the crowd exchanged information, they quickly recruited people who had read the original book into their team. Half an hour later, a young girl joined Cen Jin's team instead of David, and the staff was replaced by Black Sheep. Miss Red Shoes.

Miss Red Shoes Chong Cen Jin showed a bright and innocent smile: "I will guide you to visit the doll's house. I think you all know the precautions. I won't repeat them. Then please follow the precautions."

This time she led Cen Jin and others to the second floor, stepped on the stairs, the wooden boards creaked, and stood on the highest step, Miss Red Shoes turned her head: "Also, don't place an order."

The girl in the same team was named Laura. Hearing this, she quickly hid beside Saul and whispered how scary Miss Red Shoes was, she was very scared.

Saul comforted her, and Cen Jin looked at the girl more, thinking that her words might offend the narrow-minded Miss Red Shoes, but when she looked up, she glanced at Laura sullenly.

Laura's expression was stiff. For some reason, she regretted what she said to offend Miss Red Shoes just now, and she didn't know if this woman could really kill people.

Miss Red Shoes stopped in front of a door and said, "Welcome to the doll's house in room 666." She opened the door suddenly, and a faint smell came over her face.

Cen Jin frowned and was about to enter the room, but Saul asked in a trembling voice, "Can I change the room?"

Miss Red Shoes turned her head slowly: "No."

Saul backed away, his face pale and full of horror, and Laura realized that the room was dangerous, so she dared not enter it.

Miss Red Shoes stared at them coldly: "If you want to stay in the corridor against the precautions, feel free." After saying that, she was about to close the door.

The room is dangerous, and the corridor is equally dangerous. In comparison, there may be a chance of survival in the room.

Saul rushed in before the door was about to close, and Laura had no choice but to follow.

This room is not as complicated as the house of Tom's Doll's House. Open the door and enter the living room.A bookshelf in the middle separates the bedroom, the entrance is on the left, and the open kitchen and dining room are also on the left.The bathroom is to the right of the living room, and the balcony is to the right of the bedroom.

The structure is clear at a glance, and the furniture decoration is simple and modern.

The room was clean, spotless, with unobstructed views.

Laura asked nervously, "What's wrong with this room?"

Cen Jin: "Isn't the problem obvious?"

"What?" Laura was a little dissatisfied with Huangmao's nonsense and scary words. She knew that this person hadn't read the original book.

Cen Jin: "There are no dolls."

Laura froze: "Isn't it a good thing?"

Saul shook his head: "Room 666 is very evil. 6 is a symbol of the devil, and three 3s mean that the devil crawled from hell to the world. If other rooms are haunted by ghosts and ghosts, this room is the residence of the devil."

Cen Jin: "The subject of the previous room was 'Tom', and the subject of this room is 'Room 666', which can also be understood as the devil's room, right?"

"That's right."

Laura was deeply terrified: "Then what should we do? How can we find out the story of the doll without the doll?"

Saul: "There's a doll in the room, but we need to find it. I remember a note in the room, right on the fridge door—"

"Is this this one?" Cen Jin tore off the note on the refrigerator door, and read out after getting Saul's affirmative reply: "A man died, a worthless man. Don't bother to bury him in the grave, his head rolled off Under the bed, with limbs strewn about the room."

Laura: "What do you mean?"

Saul shook his head and said that he didn't know either. When the book "A Doll's House" was written in 'Room 666', there was no post-it note written.

Cen Jin subconsciously looked at Ding Yiqing, Ding Yiqing took the sticky note in his hand and said, "A nursery rhyme in "Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes", literally."

"A man died in the room, and no one buried him, leaving his head and limbs to rot in the room?" Laura analyzed curiously: "So there is a man who plays idol nursery rhymes, and we need to get it all together." hands, feet and head?"

"No, there are two or more people in nursery rhymes." Cen Jin said: "Literally, how can a man who dies normally or accidentally die with an incomplete body? Unless he is dismembered. Here's 'too lazy to bury him', Who is lazy? How can a dead person be lazy?"

Laura said in a low voice, "This is a murder."

Cen Jin turned to look at Saul: "Which series of books does room 666 correspond to?"

Saul took a deep breath: "The flower in the cage." He walked around the room restlessly, sometimes lifted the tablecloth, and sometimes lay down under the sofa to check. , it is said in the book that no one can find the devil in room 666."

"Whether you can find it or not is not up to the author."

"That's the author's setting."

"I think the writing is broken."

Saul felt that Huangmao was too confident and did not match his dejected appearance.

Huang Mao: "It's you book fans who have repeatedly emphasized that you can't find the owner of the doll's house. There are owners in every story, throughout "Doll's House", but all of you can't find it. Isn't it because the writing collapsed? Is he talking nonsense to fool you?"

After a pause, Huang Mao's eyes flickered, thinking: "...It's not impossible."

As a book fan, Saul was dissatisfied with Huangmao's assumption that the author wrote collapse: "What do you mean?"

Huang Mao: "It's nothing, take back what I just said. Sorry, please tell me the story of 'The Flower in the Cage' first."

Saul still had to rely on Cen Jin, and he didn't dare to lose his temper, and the other party apologized, so he said with relief: "'The Flower of the Cage' tells the whole process of a woman being imprisoned and murdered, and the story of Bluebeard. The story is kind of like that."

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The author has something to say:

"A Man Died": Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose.