The car crawled forward in the dense forest. Haruka, who was sitting next to me, complained at me while flipping through the map, "Xiaoya, are you sure we have what we need here?" ”

"I don't know." I replied irresponsibly.

"You don't know?" Yaojia screamed: "You caused us to get lost in the forest, and you caused me to almost vomit my stomach in this bumpy ghost place, and in the end you actually told me that I didn't know!" ”

"What can I do, according to the information left by Jone, the puppeteer does live in this area. I'm not a fairy, how could I know that he actually has a penchant for living in the forest! And after all, after more than 100 years of baptism, under natural disasters and man-made disasters, there is a question mark over whether the house is still there. I said angrily.

"If I had known, I would not have come to suffer this sin." Yaojia said with self-pity, and then pinched me hard: "I said you are stupid enough, that thing tells you to help it fulfill its wish, so you will obediently help it." Didn't you think about resisting in the slightest? ”

"Resistance?" I snorted, "Even the Thackreid Exorcism Array can't help it, and I can't think of any other way to deal with it!" ”

Yaojia was stunned for a moment, unable to speak anymore.

Jame drove without a snort, the word 'worried' prominently written on his face. I carefully patted him on the shoulder and comforted, "Don't worry, we still have two days to live." As the saying goes, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. I don't believe that people like us who are blessed with great fortune and destiny can die so easily! ”

Huang Shiya, who was concentrating on finding the way, suddenly shouted: "There is really a road there!" ”

Not far to the left, there is a path in a very inconspicuous corner, but both sides are overgrown with thick vines, and you will never be able to see it if you don't look closely.

"It's supposed to be that trail. Oh my god, why does that puppeteer live in such a remote place? Haruka became irritable again. I glanced forward and said slowly: "Actually, more than 100 years ago, this was a very small town, and finally some experts said that the frequency of earthquakes in this place was too high or something, in short, the government relocated the order, and all the people in the town moved out. Now only the ruins of that town remain. ”

"That's what it means by the vicissitudes of life." Shiya sighed thoughtfully.

The car drove up the trail and soon drove out from the other side. For a while, I only felt a sudden enlightenment, and all around me became brighter. Jame suddenly screamed and slammed on the brakes. We looked out and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

At the end of the forest was a towering hillside, and the car was dangerously parked on the edge of the hillside, and only half a tire away from it would fall off the cliff and die. I put my head out of the window and looked down, and immediately I saw a large number of houses scattered under the hillside.

Shiya and the others followed my line of sight, only glanced at it, and Haruka immediately shouted: "Is there any mistake, is it really just a small town?" According to the definition of city size in the United States a hundred years ago, it should be considered a small city! ”

"It doesn't matter so much, whether it's a city or a small town, it's not all the same when it turns into ruins. The important thing is that we finish what we have to do and leave. Shiya looked at the town without blinking, and said to herself.

Jame and I looked at each other, then shook our heads and smiled bitterly. "I'm afraid it's important to us if this place is a big town or a very small town." Jame sighed helplessly.

"What do you mean?" The two ladies in the car glared at him. I looked out the window and sighed, explaining, "Jone's investigation doesn't have the specific address of the puppeteer at all, only that he lived in this town before his death. Jame and I went to the town's library to check many records of the puppet show at the time, but we couldn't find the exact address of the puppeteer. At that time, we thought, since the place where he lives is a very small town, then we will look for it one by one, and we should find it soon. But I didn't expect this town to be so big! ”

"What?!" The two beautiful ladies, Shiya and Haruka, immediately opened their mouths indecently, and the resentful expressions on their faces were exactly as if they wanted to roast me and eat them in one bite.

"Forget it, it's useless to feel sorry for yourself here, Jame let's drive the car into town first." Shiya glared at me angrily and said, "Ye Bu Si, haven't you always had a lot of ghost ideas?" ”

Not to be outdone, Yaojia twisted me: "This town doesn't look like a place that can be searched from house to house in two days. Xiaoye, don't blame me for saying ugly things ahead, if you don't want to come up with a way to find that puppeteer's home before sunset tomorrow, I, a lady, will definitely strangle you first, and then go home and wait for death with my parents! ”

"Don't be so miserable." I muttered under my breath, my brain racing. But I can't find any way to do it. As far as the current society is concerned, it is generally necessary to go to the city or town government to find out which family lives where, and the United States should not be much different more than 100 years ago. Then all you need to know is the name of the puppeteer.

I pulled myself together and pulled out the information Jone had left behind to look it up. I didn't expect to be found by me not long after. "Rajev Edik!" I said softly, then looked up at Jame and shouted, "First stop, let's go to the town hall first." ”

The town's government was easier to find than the puppeteer's name, and as the car drove into the ruins, a towering domed building stood in the middle of the town. According to the information, it was a Dutch man who first built the town, and I have always been skeptical of this. But when I saw the building, I immediately believed it. The town hall and the town police station next to it are all in typical Dutch style.

After the five of us got out of the car, I pointed to the work as we walked: "Now our purpose is to go to the government office to find the residence of all the people named Rajev Edik. ”

"Rajev?" Jame suddenly became happy: "This name is really rare in the United States, so the scope of our search can be much smaller!" ”

I nodded: "Rajev is one of the thirteen most unlikable names in the United States. The chances of appearing in the same place should be very small! ”

"But you all seem to have forgotten a little." Suddenly thinking of something, Yao Jia said proudly: "How could this town not take all the things in the house with them when they moved?" Maybe we won't find anything! ”

"Absolutely not." As I was in a good mood, I had the patience to explain: "The government's relocation order was issued very suddenly, and the people of this town fled with the mood of fleeing, so how could they take all those inconsequential things with them?" I see that many of the food that is on the table at home may still be on the table by now! ”

"But has there really been an earthquake here?" Shiya looked around: "The nearby buildings are intact at all, and they don't look like they have been baptized by an earthquake." ”

I shrugged my shoulders and smiled, "Sometimes the earth plays little jokes on humans. The experts hired by the government must have predicted many of the pre-earthquake warnings and then forcibly relocated the people. As a result, more than a hundred years have passed, and this place has not even let out a fart, let alone an earthquake. ”

"Okay, time is limited, let's divide and cooperate." Jame walked into the town hall first.

Five hours later, we couldn't be happier. "Don't talk about people in this town called Rajev Edik, not even people with the surname Edik!" Haruka angrily threw a thick stack of materials on the ground.

I frowned and thought for a moment, and finally shouted in exasperation, "It must be that puppeteer who is poor and scared to death!" ”

"What's the matter with the poor?" Huang Shiya glared at me angrily. I smiled bitterly: "Think about it, more than a hundred years ago, as long as you pay a small amount of money in this town, you could have a house of your own, and he couldn't even afford this money, how poor do you say he is?" I scratched my head vigorously: "Since he doesn't have a house of his own, he must be renting a house." Oh my God, how could this be found? ”

The five of us sat in despair on the dusty floor.

"Forget it, I'm giving up!" Yaojia said in a decadent whisper: "Die, die, everything is to blame on me." The séance wanted to summon his sister's spirit, and it ended up that the puppet had killed the entire town. Alas, Shiya, what is your greatest wish in this life? ”

Huang Shiyaqiang smiled and shook her head, but did not answer her.

Haruka continued to say in that half-dead tone: "Actually, my biggest wish in this life is similar to that puppet, I want to get married. It's just that I want to marry into a wealthy family, and my husband is handsome and considerate, so I can live a carefree life with him. You say, this wish is naïve, isn't it? She stared blankly at the ceiling of the reference room and suddenly burst into tears.

"Yaojia, have you made enough trouble, it's annoying to death!" I was so angry that I grabbed a newspaper and threw it at her. Suddenly, I froze.

"Puppet Match! That puppet contest! Why didn't I think of it earlier? I grabbed Shiya's hand suddenly, and my voice trembled with excitement: "Generally speaking, if you want to know the specific situation of a certain information, what kind of channels will people choose?" ”

Huang Shiya was stunned, although she didn't know what I wanted to be sure, but she knew me well and immediately replied: "TV and reading newspapers, of course, you can also know something from other people's mouths." ”

"More than 100 years ago, of course, there was no such thing as television. And artists like puppeteers are generally very withdrawn people, and they are not used to communicating with others. So the puppeteer must have gotten the news of the puppet competition from the newspaper. In other words, that person has a fixed newspaper! I shouted.

"What does that mean?" Jame asked, confused.

"This is a decisive message!" I stood up: "You should be well aware that more than 100 years ago in the United States there was already a profession called newspaper delivery. Usually the newspaper hires someone to deliver the newspaper to the home of the person who subscribed to it. Since the puppeteer has a newspaper, we can find his detailed address in the newspaper office's reference room! ”

Huang Shiya and the others finally understood, and their whole bodies trembled with excitement like me. Suddenly, Haruka sighed melancholy: "Xiaoya, if you find something that puppeteer used to use, can you really summon his soul back?" ”

"Absolutely." I nodded without hesitation, then glanced at Jame. Jame was sure, "Just find what the puppeteer used to use, and then go to the ruined church and start the Abcorus exorcism." ”

"But Ye Silent didn't say that the exorcism array was very taboo to use in places where people have died?" Huang Shiya asked.

"It doesn't matter, the undead in that place have been sucked away by the puppets. I stretched hard and said, "Okay, everything is on track." Let's go get it done! ”

At noon the next day, we left the sprawling ruins with the puppeteers' belongings.