Chapter 223: Halloween 9
In the town of Sleepy Hollow, midwife Elizabeth Killian and her family of three are preparing to sleep.
Although she is a midwife by profession, Elizabeth is actually quite young, and her son is less than ten years old.
She had dinner with her husband and was about to put her son to sleep, when suddenly she felt the whole house shake.
The black-clad and black-armored Headless Horseman pushed the door open.
Next, there are the bloody scenes that are common in many horror movies.
Although Elizabeth's husband resisted hard, he was useless in the face of the headless horseman who was already strong in martial arts and could now be said to be immortal.
He was the first to have his head cut off.
Elizabeth, on the other hand, is hiding with her son, but this is equally useless in front of the Headless Horsemann, who can sense the breath of life
First Elizabeth, then her son, could not escape the stabbing of the head.
When Brom, a young man patrolling the town, arrives, Elizabeth's family is dead.
This irascible young man is one of Katrina's suitors, and has previously pretended to be a Headless Horseman and played tricks on Ikabukaran.
And now, in the face of the genuine Headless Horseman, Brom is very courageous.
He knocked the Headless Horseman off his horse with his spear, and then rushed up to fight him.
It's a pity that in the face of the headless horseman who is already strong in martial arts, infinitely powerful, and now immortal, he is not an opponent at all.
In the short time of the fight, Brom was restrained at every turn, and his life was on the verge of death.
At the critical moment, Iqabkaran finally arrived.
When he saw the Headless Horseman rushing towards the town, Iqab mounted his horse and chased after him. But limited to riding and horses, when he arrived, he was still a step too late.
In the face of the powerful Headless Horseman, Iqab had to resist with Brom, and for a while, they even briefly gained the upper hand.
However, in the end, they failed.
Ikab was stabbed by the Headless Horsemann and fell unconscious.
Brom, on the other hand, was cut in half.
"The Headless Horseman is terrifying!"
While boiling herbs for the injured Ikabukaran, Alexis who took the form of Katrina reminisced about the previous scene
The moment the Headless Horsemann burst out of the hollow in the tree, Alexis felt time freeze.
The feeling of death and destruction permeating his entire body was by no means comparable to that of Raven Phoenix, who had just become a Headless Horseman.
At that moment, Alexis was worried that the other party would rush over and give him a sword.
Fortunately, the other party still acted according to the original story of "Guillotine Valley", and did not care about Alexis, who was close at hand.
Or rather, Katrina.
However, after seeing the wounds on Iqab's body, Alexis finally realized that this painted world is far more real and terrifying than the movie "Guillotine Valley".
"Is this real sense of horror really a natural source in the minds of the audience?"
Alexis couldn't help but be a little suspicious, and
"Witchcraft here really seems to work!?"
After expertly cutting off a crow's foot and tossing it into the herb cauldron, Alexis could clearly feel the change in the pot's medicine.
Moreover, she could still feel that there seemed to be a strange flow of heat flowing through her body......
"So, is this Katrina really a witch?"
Looking at the big screen, Charlize Theron's character's skillful spell-casting process, Richard Manson frowned.
As a film critic, he didn't think there was anything wrong with the plot.
The Headless Horsemen are all there, and no amount of witches is nothing.
What's more, according to Ikabukaran's memories before, his mother seems to be a witch too.
In fact, this setting perfectly explains the mysterious temperament of Katrina.
Previously, although Richard felt that temperament made Charlize Theron's character look very beautiful, it was not very reasonable.
If Katrina is just an ordinary rich daughter, what is there to be mysterious about her?
Now, there is a reasonable explanation.
It's just that Richard Manson has a kind of worry
Charlize Theron, a good heroine, won't become a behind-the-scenes boss in the end because of the director's messy toss, right?
After all, according to the analysis in the movie, the person who stole the head of the Headless Horseman and secretly controlled him was probably also a person who knew witchcraft.
And now, the heroine Katrina has just exposed the fact that she really knows witchcraft.
For a while, Mr. Critic, who admired acting skills, was a little entangled.
In contrast, fellow film critic Kenneth Turan liked the possibility of such a reversal.
No way, in commercial movies, every more reversal means that the logical complexity of the story will be deepened.
Although there are too many reversals, there is a possibility that the plot will be too complex and confusing. But at the end of the day, Kenneth Turan, who appreciates commercial films, is still a film critic after all.
He prefers a complex and in-depth plot.
Of course, for most viewers, they are unaware of the problems that may arise from the change in Katrina's character setting.
They just admired the fact that after the crisis, the handsome men and women of Iqab and Katrina talked to each other in front of the sickbed.
Ikabu, in particular, finally told the story of his childhood buried deep in his memory
His mother was also a witch, but after being discovered by the priest, she was directly executed.
What's even more helpless is that the pastor who executed his mother was his father.
That's why Iqab didn't believe in magic or gods.
He had only logic left to believe.
However, in the place of Sleepy Valley, his logic was severely tested again.
Fortunately, although Iqab is not very bold, he does have an indomitable character.
After recovering from his injuries, he resolutely embarked on the road of investigating the case again and found important clues
A copy of Van Gaale's will and a marriage certificate.
His marriage certificate to Winship, a widow who has also been killed.
That is, the child in the womb of the widow Winship, should be that of old Van Gaale.
This discovery immediately perfected Ikab's logical chain.
In his opinion, this is already clearly a serial murder case created in order to steal the inheritance.
"Although the murder is a magical thing like the Headless Horseman, in essence, if it is regarded as a murder weapon, then the motive of the case is nothing more than to kill for money. ”
As an FBI agent, Kate came to the same conclusions as Iqab on the big screen
The priest officiates at the wedding, the doctor takes care of the pregnant woman, the sheriff provides legal protection, and the notary serves as proof.
After the death of Van Gaale's father and son, the widow Winship, and the child in her womb, as long as these four main witnesses were killed, the Van Gaale family, as the rich of the Sleeping Valley, would inevitably have their property divided among their relatives, not the relatives of the widow Winship.
Other words
The Fantasso, or Katrina's father, is currently the biggest suspect.