The Thomas family is a family of craftsmen in Eternal Sleeptown, and Jack is the seventy-second generation, and his best craft is carpentry, so people affectionately call him "Jack the Carpenter". Jack's carpentry is very exquisite, and the wooden furniture he carves is exquisite, and the decorative parts of the large furniture are the most breathtaking, no matter what he carves - flowers, birds, insects, fish, forest beasts, are all lifelike.

The younger generation began to enter the church of marriage, the merging of two hearts and the emergence of new life, and the number of children in the town gradually increased. So Jack started making gadgets for the kids to play with, cars, pistols, wooden horses, ...... The children liked him so much that they begged Jack to make more toys for them to play with. Jack made all the toys he could, and gradually he felt that it was no longer challenging, and he pondered for a moment, not knowing what to do next.

It was at this time that Jack's favorite wife, Martha, became pregnant. The couple is looking forward to this and the life they will be born, and they are new parents and have a lot to prepare. During these ten months, Jack made every piece of furniture for the child by hand, designing, sourcing, carving, and coloring every step of the way, and when the child was born, his room was completely furnished.

Lady Martha gave birth to a daughter, whom they named Snow because it was snowing heavily on the day she was born, and because they wanted their daughter to be a pure and kind child. Watching the little child lying in the crib, her outstretched little hand waving wildly in the air, Jack suddenly had an inspiration.

He can make puppets for children to play with.

So Jack started making puppets, and the puppets he made were so elaborate that the children loved them, and soon the puppets became Jack's signature. The children gave up the plastic dolls that were brought from outside and couldn't swing at will, and they all came to buy Jack's puppets, because they were not only beautiful, but they could also make them pose in different ways at will, and they looked like real people.

As Snow grew up, she inherited the beauty of her mother, Lady Martha, and was loved by the townspeople, and Snow learned the craft from her father, but she was not good at carpentry, but she was quite skilled in iron casting. Jack didn't stop Snow from thinking about it, and he was very supportive of Snow following his preferred path. When Snow was sixteen years old, she traveled alone to the Forest of Eternal Night to make a gift for Jack and never returned.

Jack and Lady Martha, who found Snow missing, were very anxious, and they searched the whole town without finding any trace of Snow, and at this time some people said that they seemed to see Snow go to the forest. It had been three days since Snow had disappeared, and Jack and Lady Martha, along with some of the town's enthusiastic residents, had gone into the forest to search for Snow, and all they could find was Snow's body.

Lady Martha was so grief-stricken that she fell into a coma on the spot, and then she became so depressed that she fell ill and died three months later. Jack was naturally grieved, and he became decadent, and he hadn't done carpentry for a long, long time.

The gears of time are still turning, and the years will not stop for anyone. The children who pestered Jack to make toys for them have grown up, they get married and have children, it's like a reincarnation, and a new batch of children has appeared. Their parents were raised with Jack's wooden crafts, and they knew that Jack was devastated by the death of his wife and daughter, so they wanted to help him.

Jack gradually got out of the pain, he picked up carpentry again, making puppets for children, more than ten years have passed, but Jack's carpentry has not regressed at all, but has become more sophisticated. The puppets he made were more exquisite, but they were a little different from before.

People didn't realize what was wrong at the time, and they were still attracted to Jack's puppets.

After another two or three years, a father and daughter moved into the town, the father was named Arthur and the daughter was named Alice. Arthur lived in the town for a while when he was a child, but he had to leave the town because of the great changes in his family, and now he has returned to live in the town because he fell in love with the tranquility of the town. Alice is a very beautiful girl, delicate like a doll.

The father and daughter moved next to Jack, the old carpenter.

Surprisingly, Arthur is also a craftsman, having lived in the world outside of Eternal Sleep for too long and learned many new techniques that the closed town of Eternal Sleep does not have, so his craft becomes intriguing.

The old carpenter Jack gradually fell into disinterest, but Arthur's house was very busy.

Arthur listened to his customers and began to make puppets, and when he made them, people compared what he made to Jack's.

In terms of craftsmanship, Jack is superior, after all, it is a family of craftsmen, and this dignity can still be retained. However, Arthur's puppets are even more popular with children because they are lifelike and vivid.

It turns out that the most lacking thing in Jack's puppet is the soul.

Flashy and unrealistic, it can't attract all the likes.

The children began to ask Arthur to make puppets for them, and Arthur said that he could make them custom puppets, and the children were even more excited about the idea.

The first puppet customized by Arthur was made, and it looked very similar to Lily, and everyone was very envious of Lily, who customized it, but at this time the news of Lily's disappearance came. Alex, who has the best relationship with Lily, also customizes a puppet that is the same as himself, which was custom-made with the first puppet, but unfortunately, Alex and Lily disappeared together.

It must be a coincidence, people thought.

But every time Arthur makes a custom puppet that looks like a child, the child disappears.

People looked at the row of lifelike puppets on the windowsill and began to get scared.

They all say it's witchcraft, and that Arthur killed the children and made them into puppets.

[Special Missions 1-3 Completed]

[Special Quest 1-4: Integrate the story "Witchcraft Puppet", but I didn't expect these rumors to be related to Arthur. Please investigate the truth of the story! Head to Arthur's house at midnight and discover the clues. This quest can only be completed today, and it will enter a permanent lock state if it expires]

"I didn't expect this clue to be integrated and it turned out to be related to Arthur!" Yin Weiyu sighed in surprise, Jun Yao shook his head, "This is also something that can be guessed, isn't it?" After all, Arthur was mentioned in our main quest, and he is also a boss related to the main story, if you extrapolate it like this, maybe he is the boss behind the scenes. ”

"It's a time-limited mission that can only be completed tonight. Luckily, we've discovered the existence of the Midnight Sleep Charm and how to contact it, otherwise we'd be stuck in this questline. Ai Yu said with some rejoicing, she took out her task prop [Shennong Baicao], "Speaking of which, I haven't released the two of you yet, so now?" ”

Jun Yao and Lin Mo glanced at each other, and they both stood in front of Ai Yu, and a piece of grass appeared in Ai Yu's hand and clicked it twice on them, even if the removal effect was completed.

"Thank you." Jun Yao smiled at Ai Yu and said thank you, Lin Mo was not so polite, but the two were familiar with each other after all, and Jun Yao was naturally incomparable.

"By the way, Yin Weiyu, did you find anything at the Yongxing Grand Theater?" Xu Qingran remembered Yin Weiyu and his party who were acting alone at this time, so he asked.

As soon as he mentioned the Yongxing Grand Theater, Yin Weiyu couldn't stop sighing, this look is like nothing to gain. She shrugged her shoulders and waved her hand, "If you don't go into the Yongxing Grand Theater to see what is going on, you won't be able to find any clues." ”

"Didn't you find anything out there?" Lin Mo asked.

"We circled around the Yongxing Grand Theater several times, and we really didn't see anything unusual." Zhao Xiao replied.

"It's really necessary for us to go to the Yongxing Grand Theater once." Yin Weiyu repeated this sentence again, "I paid special attention to the second floor of the theater, after all, you said that you saw Adam's diary mentioned that he saw a certain room on the second floor with red light and red eyes. When I was looking around the theater, I also took a few extra glances at the rooms on the second floor. ”

"There was nothing unusual on the first lap, but when I went around the main entrance of the theater for the second time, probably the fifth room from right to left, I saw a red light flickering. At the time, I thought it was an illusion, but after a few more glances at it, I realized that the room was really shining red. I stopped, trying to take a closer look at the room. ”

"At that moment, I felt a strong sense of oppression, which seemed to come from the direction of the room that was glowing red. I tried to look up, and I saw a figure standing by the window, and she seemed to be looking at me. It was supposed to be a woman, similar in silhouette, with long hair and what appeared to be blonde. I couldn't tell if I was wrong about the blonde hair, after all, the light in the room was red, and I caught a glimpse of the corner of the curtain that the wind blew in the moment. ”

"The feeling of oppression kept coming at me, I couldn't hold it anymore and sat on my knees, and the moment I came into contact with the ground, everything was gone. It felt like it had never existed, and I looked at the room again, the windows were closed, the curtains were drawn, and I couldn't see anything inside. ”

Yin Weiyu told her experience, Xu Qingran thought silently for a while, and then made up her mind. "Taking advantage of this opportunity, let's go to the Yongxing Grand Theater now to see the situation."

"Now? But it was almost twelve o'clock. Chen Yang seemed to be a little hungry, so he suddenly asked such a question, Xu Qingran glanced at him, and then at Zhao Xiao next to him, "That's right, it's too obvious that a group of us went to the Yongxing Grand Theater together, since the two of you are also hungry, let's go back to the hotel to eat first." ”

"Brother Xu, I didn't mean that, let's go with you......" Chen Yang thought that Xu Qingran was angry, but who knew that Xu Qingran smiled, and there was no meaning of anger in it, "Don't think about it, the Yongxing Grand Theater does hide some secrets, and we can't go in alone." After all, although we were asking the parents of the three children at the Yongxing Grand Theater this morning, the mayor of the town and Linda, the assistant, were also guarding the side, and Lin Mo was uncomfortable at that time and wanted to go to the bathroom, wasn't Linda also accompanied? They are afraid that we will be strange when we operate in the Yongxing Grand Theater. You go back to the hotel for dinner first, and you can also help us cover up. We asked about the puppets today, and they must have tried to hide the news, so I guess they'll come to see us again today. ”

"If they go to the hotel and look for us and find out that we are not there, it will not be good for us. You stay in the inn, ready to deal with their arrival, and buy us a little time. This is a very important task, and it must be done well. ”

Chen Yang and Zhao Xiao nodded firmly when they heard Xu Qingran say this, "Okay." ”