"Liar! I see your lips moving. ”

The child's slightly ostentatious voice stood out in the hall full of laughter.

Everyone followed the sound and looked at him.

It may be the first time to face so many eyes, and the child lowered his head embarrassedly, a little flustered, and faintly proud.

He is too young to know what it means to be difficult to dismantle people, nor do he know the truth of smashing people's jobs like picking up people's ancestral graves. He probably thought that everyone else had been deceived, and only he had seen through the truth, so he couldn't help but want to expose the deception and set things right.

In fact, no one is smarter than the other.

A lot of the time, others are just willing to cheer and have fun.

On stage, Marie. Xiao's expression had begun to stiffen, and the puppet Billy in his hand was no longer flexible.

"Who said that?" Marie. Xiao's sharp gaze swept over the talking child, and he turned to look at Belgium and smiled again, "What do you think, Billy?" Little Mike doesn't think you're a real person. ”

Billy was silent for a while, then suddenly raised his head and said with some arrogance, "How is it possible? I have such good lines and can speak, how can it be that you gave it to me? ”

"Don't worry about him, Billy, he's just a reckless child." Marie. Shaw leaned over Billy's ear, as if whispering reassurance.

Billy shook his head and said more and more excitedly, "That's not going to work, I'll have to fight him." Mom, don't say any more, call him on stage. ”

This improvisation was vivid, and the audience burst into applause.

Marie. Xiao and Billy bowed in thanks, then stared at the kid named Mike in unison and said coldly, "Now, who is the puppet?" ”

Although this little episode occurred at the performance that night, Mary. Xiao seems to have used all his strength to make the performance more brilliant and make the audience satisfied.

But a few weeks later, the boy named Mike disappeared.

Ravensfield is a small town, and it only takes an hour to walk from the east to the west, and the boy's family has searched for such a large place, but they have never found it. Only a few passers-by vaguely recalled, as if the day the boy was last seen was walking towards the Lost Lake.

Everyone remembered the conflict that took place during the performance that night, combined with Marie. Xiao usually lives in isolation, insisting on the strange life of staying with puppets in the theater, and everyone looks at her with suspicion.

The boy's family led the rest of the townspeople to take her in rough way, but no matter how much she asked, she insisted that she did not know the boy's whereabouts.

Everyone was furious, thinking that the boy must have been murdered, so poor Mary. Xiao was tortured and forced to scream incessantly, and finally had his tongue pulled out alive and bled to death.

Before she died, she put forward her will, hoping to make her body into a puppet and bury it with her one hundred and one puppet dolls.

There were always some people in the town who felt that it was too much to treat her like this without any evidence, but due to the power of the boy's family, they didn't dare to say much, and just silently dismissed Marie. Xiao Yun arrives at God's house and asks Henry's father to help her fulfill her last wish.

……

"So, Marie. Xiao was buried by you after your father's makeup? Edward was shocked by the lynching that had taken place in this extrajudicial place, and there was no record of it in the police department.

"Yes, my father was busy in the operation room for two days and didn't let me watch from the sidelines. But you know, kids are always curious, so I sneaked in at night to see how my father made a puppet out of a corpse. Henry said a little tiredly, and took a breath before adding, "I was too short to move a small bench and look into the coffin." Marie. Xiao was lying in a coffin dressed in black, with his hands folded on his abdomen, and he looked no different from when he was alive, except for ......"

"Except for what?" Jamie urged.

Except that her eyelids were glued completely to the top, causing her eyes to bulge and stare straight ahead. There is also the lower jaw, which has two scars cut along the corners of the mouth, and looks exactly like a puppet. I was so frightened that I instinctively wanted to step back, but I didn't step on it and tore the bench and the coffin to the ground. Marie. Xiao also fell to the ground, and lay on his side in front of me. ”

Henry's voice trembled, and his hand holding the brand-new coffin began to tremble.

"I saw Mary. Xiao's eyes rolled for a moment, and then she propped herself up and got up, her movements stiff. She stood in front of me, looking at me condescendingly, smiling like a puppet. I was so frightened that I crawled backwards and opened my mouth to scream, but she leaned down and covered my mouth with her cold hand. Then it was my father who came in and turned on the overhead light, and the coffin and Mary. Xiao Du lay motionless on the ground, just like before, it was my hallucination. ”

"We're going to Marie. Xiao and her puppets were all buried. ”

"Not long after, I participated in the torture and murder of Mary. Xiao's residents began to die tragically one by one, and even the old and weak women and children who were not present at the time did not let go...... All of them had their tongues removed, and after they died of blood loss, they were neatly placed in their homes, as if they were taking family photos. ”

Henry pointed to the photos that Edward took out, and said with trepidation: "The police have also investigated for a long time, but they have never been able to solve the case, but the bloody cases continue to happen one after another. I don't know when that nursery rhyme began to circulate in the town. ”

"But when I asked you what it had to do with Emily, you said it was because she married me, what did you mean?" Jamie's primary concern remains the cause of his wife's death.

Henry glanced at the young man and whispered, "You should go home and ask your father about this." ”

"As soon as I got back to town, I went home, my father had already suffered a stroke and was paralyzed, but he still talked to me as perfunctory as before, and he refused to tell the truth when asked anything. I even had a stepmother who was about my age, and I didn't want to go back to that home. Jamie looked irritated and said indignantly.

He had always had a bad relationship with his father, which is why he lived away from home for many years and almost never came home.

Henry hesitated for a moment, and instead of answering directly, he asked rhetorically, "I remember that since you were a child, your family was only your parents and you, right?" ”

"Yes, then my mother committed suicide and I left."

"But your house is big, it's the biggest in town."

"Yes, it's bigger."

"Actually, when I was a kid, it was still a bit crowded, and there used to be more than a dozen Arsen." Henry said with a wry smile, "And they're all dead." ”