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Shiyan twice in a row has proven that this box can indeed help people fulfill some simple wishes, or it can also be understood in another way, because I think of another thing very similar to this box - Aladdin's magic lamp.
The god of lights will grant Aladdin's wishes, any wish, because the god of lights has great mana.
There must also be some connection to something in this lotus box, and I believe that kind of thing should be a living puppet. These puppets don't have much magical power, so most of their wishes are errands, helpers, and maybe help kill people and goods.
Li wanted to make a wish to the box to get the puppet workshop, but now the management of the workshop is in my hands, so the puppet wants to let Li want to get the workshop by killing me.
I was the real target of the puppets last night, and the death of Chen Jiawen and the other residents on that floor was only because the puppets didn't want to involve Li Xiang. They were supposed to be my burial objects, but they were the only ones who died, and my target was still alive.
But how did the puppets find us?
"Damn! I know! I suddenly thought of something, and then hurriedly said to Qiao Wei: "There must be a live puppet hidden in the group of puppets in the workshop, it has been there to listen to us, and maybe it has followed us." Remember that blood-stained puppet? Maybe that's it!! ”
After speaking, I also turned to Li Xiang and asked, "Did your master make puppets before he died, and did he use puppets to mass-produce puppets?" ”
Li Xiang was stunned for a moment, and then quickly shook his head and said: "No, he didn't do anything during that time, he just laughed every day, I thought there was something good, so he wanted to give himself a vacation or something." ”
"That's right! That's right! I said: "Mao Xiansheng sent his baby puppet to Chen Jiawen before committing suicide, that puppet is not an ordinary thing, it is a living puppet, it has been making cattle and horses for Mao Xiansheng, and has been working for him to realize his wishes." Under what circumstances would Mao Xiansheng send that puppet to Chen Jiawen? ”
"He doesn't need that puppet to help him?" Qiao Wei guessed.
"I don't think so, if there is such a helper who works hard for you, you would be willing to throw it away?" I asked rhetorically.
Qiao Wei thought for a moment, then pouted and shook his head, "I don't think I will." ”
"That Mao will not be born in an instant, I think it should have another purpose for sending that puppet to Chen Jiawen, he should have made some other wish, and that puppet is to fulfill that wish." I analyzed.
"What is Mao's instantaneous wish?" Qiao Wei asked.
"I think it might have something to do with the blood on the puppet. Maybe Mao instantly wanted someone to die, and the blood on the puppet was that person! Mao Xiansheng died, and he stained Chen Jiawen's puppet with blood again, so we all thought that the puppet was Mao Xiansheng's doppelganger, but in fact, it was not like that at all! I said.
"Then I'll go to the workshop to find a puppet, and you can recuperate here." Qiao Wei said as he pushed the door and walked out.
"Do you think this hotel is absolutely safe? If another puppet killer comes running, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to even run with an injured leg, so don't even think about leaving me here. After saying that, I also quickly limped out of the hotel room after Qiao Wei.
After more than forty minutes, Qiao Wei and I returned to Mao Xiansheng's puppet workshop, and Li Xiang also came with the two of us.
The puppets were piled up in the yard after the summoning last night, and we didn't clean them up at all, and now they're all piled up there like yesterday, which saves us a lot of trouble.
After entering the courtyard, the three of us immediately began to look for the blood-stained puppet that Chen Jiawen had brought in the puppet pile, but after finding it for more than an hour, we found nothing. The puppets were all stacked here, but there was no simple blood-stained puppet inside.
"The puppet ran away on its own?" Qiao Wei asked as he continued to rummage through the puppet pile.
"Or maybe someone took it." I said.
"Who could it be?"
"I don't know, it's not difficult to enter this courtyard, this wall can be climbed by anyone." Qiao Wei said.
Qiao Wei and I were rummaging through the puppet pile and discussing, when suddenly Li Xiang hurriedly ran out of the house and shouted, "You two come to the house and have a look!" ”
"What did you find?" I hurriedly asked.
Li Xiang swallowed his saliva quickly, and then said, "You two will know when you two come and see!" ”
Qiao Wei and I also hurriedly put down the search for work at hand and followed Li Xiang into the studio. When we first returned to the workshop an hour ago, Qiao Wei and I first checked the entire workshop to make sure that the blood-stained puppets had run into the house or were hiding in some other corner. At the time, I didn't notice anything wrong with the studio, and now that I'm coming in with Li again, I don't see anything like a major discovery.
Li Xiang led us to a scrap pile, and then he pointed to the scrap piled up into a small mound and said, "The upper layer of these scraps is just piled up, and the smell is very fresh. And this, come and see. ”
As he spoke, Li Xiang ran to what looked like a puppet machine, touched the side of the circular saw with his fingers, and then extended his fingers to me, which were obviously stained with tiny wood chips.
"I cleaned all the machines before my master committed suicide, and if they hadn't started, it would have been impossible for them to get wood chips on them, and someone had used the machines here to make puppets!" Li Xiang said.
"Or rather, something has made puppets here." I corrected.
The blood-stained puppets were left in the puppet workshop, and now the blood puppets are gone, the machines in the studio have worked, and a new batch of puppets has been made. There is no doubt that the puppet that killed yesterday in the hotel came from this puppet workshop, from this studio.
Suddenly, my phone rang, and it always startled me when I was engrossed in my thoughts.
The call was made by Mao Xiankang.
I breathed a sigh of relief, and then connected the phone, but the voice that came out of the phone was not Mao Xiankang, but a woman's voice: "Hello, are you thunder?" ”
"I am, who are you?" I said.
"I'm Mao Xiankang's wife, and we met yesterday."
"Oh, sister-in-law, what's wrong? Something? I asked.
"I wanted to ask if my husband was with you, he went out in a panic this afternoon and hasn't come back yet, I'm worried about him, so I wanted to call and ask."
"Didn't he take his phone with him when he left in the afternoon? He didn't tell you where he went? I asked.
"He said he was going out to do something and left, and he didn't have his phone with him." Mao Xiankang's wife replied.