Father loves wax figures, this hobby does not know when it first began, anyway, since Marquis Mel was just a teenager, his father has always loved wax figures, if the war that lasted for more than ten years made his father, who was only interested in fighting, still neglect this art, then when the war ended, his father, who had been canonized as a marquis and had nothing to do, regained his purpose, and once again devoted his energy to his long-lost personal hobby.

In the old marquis's own words:

People will gradually grow old with the passage of time until they die, but the wax figure with the same appearance as a real person will not, the wax figure is lifelike, the wax figure will not age, let alone die, and the beauty and time will always stay on the wax figure, which is an art that only a few people can appreciate.

Yes, in the following days, with the gradual aging and the death of his wife, the old marquis who lost his lover also became more and more addicted to it, over the years the old marquis not only collected many wax figures at home, but also hired many wax figures from the town to come to the manor to make wax figures according to his requirements, the first and first wax figure was the wax figure of his deceased wife Mrs. Lina, he ordered the wax figure to perfectly restore the most beautiful and young appearance of Mrs. Lina on the wax figure, Then he placed the wax figure of his wife in an empty room on the third floor of the manor, and whenever night came, the old marquis would look sad and go into the room alone, and then silently accompany his wife's wax figure.

It can be seen that the father really loved his deceased mother, and every time the father would stay in that room for a long time.

A few years later, the old marquis died of illness, as his only son, the Marquis of Merle inherited his father's title, although the Marquis of Merle was indifferent to the art of wax figures and did dismiss those wax figures after the death of the old marquis, however, out of respect for his father, the Marquis of Mel did not clean up his father's collection, but put all the wax figures that the old marquis made or collected during his lifetime were almost the same as real people in a room on the third floor of the manor, and that room was also where the mother's wax figure was. Later, the Marquis de Merle gradually put these wax figures behind him, until he ...... It wasn't until a year later, on the first anniversary of his father's death, that Count Mel, who had paid his respects to his father, suddenly remembered the wax figures on the third floor.

That happened about 10 days ago, escorted by the guards, Marquis Mel, who returned from the cemetery, returned to the manor out of nostalgia for his father, he separated his wife and daughter Lisa, and then came to the room on the third floor alone, staring at the wax figures that were almost life-like all over the room, recalling all kinds of pasts, sighing, Marquis Mel planned to leave, but ......

As soon as he reached the door and was about to push it open, a faint voice could still be heard in the silence of the room...... It just came straight to my ears.

Although the voice was so faint that it was impossible to hear it without careful listening, the Marquis of Mel still heard it, and not only heard it, but even sensed a sense of familiarity from the voice that he had not heard for a long time, that, that voice...... It seemed to be my father's voice!

Unfortunately, the content of the voice was too faint to be heard, and he could barely hear a few words in the words, including:

"Quick...... Escape ......"

There is no doubt that the Marquis of Mel, who heard his father's voice, was frightened on the spot! At that time, where did he dare to dwell on the content of the sound, and he was so frightened that his legs were weak, and he just ran away from the room.

When he escaped from the room, he was afraid of frightening his family, so he did not tell his wife and daughter about it, but only told his old butler Domus, whom he had always trusted, about it.

Of course, the Marquis of Mel also suspected that the sound he heard in the wax room on the 3rd floor that day might be a personal delusion, or it may be an auditory hallucination caused by his missing father too much, for the sake of caution and at the suggestion of the old butler, the Marquis of Mel sent a servant to the town church to invite a cardinal with a high status, it is obvious that Europe in this era is at the end of the Middle Ages, and religion is quite popular with both commoners and nobles, sure enough, Although the cardinal had a very high status in the church, when he heard that the marquis had sent someone to invite him, he did not dare to slack off, and immediately followed the servant to the manor in a carriage.

Then something incomprehensible happened...... At the moment when the servant in the car led the cardinal into the gate of the manor, somehow, the clergyman, who had been calm and relaxed, not only did not take the carriage into the manor as if he had noticed something extremely terrible in front of him, but jumped out of the carriage before the carriage drove into the gate of the manor, and the Bible and the cross fell to the ground, not to mention, and then he didn't even have time to pick up the things that fell on the ground, so he turned around and fled, looking panicked.

This scene was so abrupt that the two guards guarding the door and the servant in the car were stunned.

It's no wonder that the servants and guards were dumbfounded, after all, no one in this era has ever seen a high-ranking clergyman behave in such an embarrassing manner, which inevitably made several people wonder if the cardinal was mentally ill, otherwise how could he make such a move that was obviously inconsistent with his identity?

After listening to the servant's report, the Marquis of Mel couldn't help but be suspicious, and was about to send someone to the town to find the cardinal again, but unexpectedly received a notice from His Majesty the King, as the saying goes, the monarch's order cannot be violated, and he did not dare to slack off when he was appointed by the king to lead troops to a certain place on the border to suppress the rebellion, and he had no choice but to temporarily lock the room on the third floor, and specially ordered his family not to enter when he left.

It was only to this day that he finally returned to the manor after quickly suppressing the rebellion, but to his great surprise......

As soon as I came back, I first saw my panicked daughter Lisa and her daughter actually hearing the voice in the wax room on the 3rd floor!

If only it were that, but ......

The door had been locked by his own hand before leaving, and the only key was still on him, but why was Lisa still able to enter the room? And who opened the copper lock?

………

After staring at the oil painting for a long time, the Marquis of Mel gradually came back to his senses, and as for the old butler Domus still standing beside him without speaking, after a while, perhaps thinking of something and perhaps making a certain decision, the Marquis Mel first got up from the chair, and then commanded the old butler in a solemn tone:

"Let's go, go to the 3rd floor."