Before walking out of this room, Chen Ang glanced at the puppet head that Nick hung on his waist and had to remind him, "Throw that thing away!" ”

"Why?" Nick wondered, "Didn't you call me here so I could see these things with my own eyes?" I'd like to bring it back to the game! ”

"Let's put this back on to that poor man!" Chen Ang sighed.

"We're here to investigate, not to demolish the house, it's hard for me to explain to the two homeowners like this!"

Nick laughs, "But they're not homeowners, are they?" They are just two bandits who have taken over the dove's nest, parasitic in this house, turning it into their devil's cave, devouring one innocent after another they have lured in. ”

Chen Ang snatched the head from Nick's hand, put it back on the plastic doll, and walked out of the room with a flashlight, the corridor was dark, Chen Ang was searching everywhere with a flashlight, they checked the rooms on the first floor one by one, and found a room with traces of human habitation, and there was also a tortured doll in it, it had been torn apart, and all parts of the body were hidden in the hidden corners of the room.

It was a Barbie doll, only about 40 centimeters tall, and it had been dismantled.

Nick pulled its head out from under the bed, and in Nick's hand, the big moving eyes blinked, and a little girl's laughter suddenly came from the silent room.

It's the kind of child who is six or seven years old, and he hasn't changed his voice yet.

The voice came from the corridor, Chen Ang heard it and quickly opened the door, and they saw a petite figure in a white dress flashing from the outside of the corridor, she was wearing a lady's dress from the golden age, running quickly down the corridor and disappearing at the turn of the corridor.

Nick asked very calmly, "What do you think that thing is?" ”

"Relax, Nick!" Chen Ang said calmly: "She may just want to play hide and seek with us!" ”

The last few rooms were unusual, and when they got to the last room in the hallway, they went around again, this room was close to the stairs, and when Nick and Chen Ang came in, they found that this house was a room that the couple often used, so they tacitly agreed to save it until the end.

Inside, there are some very ordinary things, if anything, it is a little more life, there are a lot of old photos on the cabinet next to the door, and there are some small knick-knacks - bronze peacocks, old alarm clocks, oil paintings hanging on the wall.

Chen Ang picked up the frame containing the old photo, the black and white photos on it were a few years old, they had turned yellow, and the photo paper was starting to become brittle. The photo shows two young children, dressed in costumes from the last century – some call that era the Golden Age.

Nick immediately noticed the white dress the girl was wearing in the photo.

He opened his mouth: "Ugh! Isn't this the kid who just played a game with us? Chen Ang opened the drawer under the cabinet, and there were a lot of old miscellaneous items in it, but Chen Ang noticed a black book at a glance, he took out the small black book, sat on the chair next to him and flipped through it.

The beginning is very concise and clear: -

"Quitting my job as a nurse and working as a caregiver in the diocese of Terib was probably one of the craziest decisions of my life, and my friends said I was crazy. The diocese of Tereb is notorious locally for being religious, ignorant and conservative. But I can't stand the indifference of the hospital, and we send the patients away, as if we are throwing away the garbage that we don't use at home. ”

"I decided to do something more meaningful, after all, I'm only twenty-five years old, what's wrong with a change?"

Chen Ang continued to flip through some meaningless words, and their familiar names suddenly appeared in the middle.

"Lawyer Luke is a little too enthusiastic about the hostess here, like he has a leg!"

Seeing this, Nick whispered, "Twenty-five years old, and Lawyer Luke...... We seem to have turned to her old diary. Twenty-five-year-old Caroline Ellis looks very different from the Caroline Ellis we have seen. ”

"My employer is Violet and Ben Devriox, Ben is seriously ill and he has a stroke in bed, so Mrs. Violet asks me to take care of him at a high price. But Ben saw that I was in pain, and his eyes seemed to say something to me. ”

After a lengthy inner monologue, the diary reads: "The former owners of the house were a brother and sister, Martin and Grace, the children of a banker, who inherited the mansion from their parents. However, the two of them lived in isolation, and both remained unmarried for life, and if I were to say that two lonely men and widows, even if they were brothers and sisters, would cause any good conjectures......"

"God forgive me! I shouldn't have thought so badly. ”

Nick picked up the old photo on the table, they should be Martin and Grace, but another photo fell out of the frame, Nick picked it up, and found that it was still a photo of Martin and Grace when they were children, but there was a black couple standing behind them, they were standing behind the brother and sister like servants, and the back of the photo said - Justifa Dad and Sersi Mom.

Nick chuckled, "Black servant again, you know?" Many wealthy white people in America were raised under the care of black servants, who called them Dad, Mom, Uncle, and Auntie, but they were not merciless when it came to selling them. It's like Uncle Tom......"

"Have you read Gone with the Wind? It sings about the faithful black servants who write them as if they were part of the family, and yet they turn their heads and cruelly abuse their 'family'! ”

"I bet ...... Justifa Papa and Selcsi's Mama definitely didn't end well in the end! ”

Chen Ang smiled slightly: "That's not necessarily...... Sometimes, the identities of the abuser and the abused are transformative. ”

"It depends on which side is more evil!"

The diary tells a story at the back - a story that may have something to do with the strangeness of the mansion, and Caroline gradually senses the strangeness of the old mansion while taking care of Ben, where strange things often seem to happen, and the two old people who live here are also very strange.

Ben often rejects his wife from approaching, and even tries to escape through the window on a rainy night, but ends up falling in the yard, he is a stroke patient! Caroline found him writing in clay on the sheets - help! So Caroline had a terrible guess that Lady Violet might have poisoned Ben and caused him to have a stroke.

Mrs. Violet and Attorney Luke had an ambiguous relationship, having had a stroke in the attic, but Violet claimed that there was a door in the attic that they had never opened - and it was the attic again!

Finally, Caroline recounts a story told to him by Madame de Violet:

"The mansion was originally built by a wealthy banker who had two daughters, Martin and Grace, and was cared for by a black couple. Needless to ask, it's Papa Justifa and Mama Sersi. Their children trusted their 'Justifa Papa and Selcie Mama' very much, but one day, after the adults went out to the feast, they did not see the two children when they returned. ”

So they began to look around, and finally found in the attic two children who were performing witchcraft rituals and their black servants. Although the two children claimed that they wanted to learn witchcraft to teach them the black servants, the adults did not give the two black servants a chance to speak. ”

"They angrily dragged the two black men downstairs, and a group of white elites hung them on trees and burned them to death! But then, perhaps in retribution, the banker suddenly killed his wife and then committed suicide, leaving all his fortune to his two children. ”

This may be the origin of all this strange phenomenon!

Nick sneered, "Looks like you've lost!" I knew that the Ku Klux Klan was not going to do any good! ”

"That's not necessarily ......," Chen Ang said, "The Lady Violet in this diary is full of suspicions, how credible is the story she tells?" ”

Nick said calmly: "We'll find out the truth eventually, and what's our bet on?" ”

"There doesn't seem to be anything suspicious about Caroline in the diary, but rather that the former owners of the house, Violet and Ben Devriox, are like a woman who murdered her husband and a poor, tortured victim. Ben, who had suffered a stroke, even asked Caroline for help, but the handwriting on the bed sheet mysteriously disappeared after Caroline found Luke's lawyer to file a complaint! Nick analyzed: "Maybe Caroline herself has a mental illness, everything is delusional to her."

"Later Lawyer Luke found out about this, took control of her, murdered two old men, and seized their property?"

Later in the diary, Caroline becomes a believer in witchcraft, and she begins to write cryptic rumors about the local gods, as if as Nick had guessed that her mental state was deteriorating.

Both Caroline and Mrs. Violet are normal in the diary, at least they seem to be, and the Caroline they saw was simply a reserve murderer, her mental state was basically close to that of a madman, and the whole person was gloomy and terrifying......

Finally Caroline was in a bad state of mind, and she began to dare not write more clearly in her diary, but vaguely mentioned some strange concepts, and she copied many materials and rituals with her pen - among them sulfur, lime and blood, hair, as if preparing a strange witchcraft ritual.

She also mentions a local witchcraft legend that there is a witchcraft that grants immortality, and that a living person can be sacrificed to obtain all of his remaining life.

Seeing this, Nick's heart trembled, he seemed to connect all this, and the keen sense of smell of the King of Agents made him instantly connect all the clues.