The twin sisters in the photo are each holding a beautiful puppet and a shiny trophy for the performance competition, whether it is their faces, figures, dress, or movements in front of the camera, it is difficult for people to see the difference, but if you look closely, you will find that the look on the faces of the sisters is the biggest difference between them.

The little girl on the left has a sweet confidence in her eyes, and you can see at a glance that she is a lively and cheerful child, very suitable for the camera, applause and praise; Although the little girl on the right is also smiling, her eyes are shy and withdrawn, she seems to be trying her best to hide her true emotions, putting on a sweet smile to face the camera, but as everyone knows, her eyes have revealed everything.

These are two twin sisters with very different personalities, but both are frozen in standardized sweetness.

And the puppets and trophies in their hands show their excellent achievements and amazing talent in puppet performances.

"The twins in the painting... Could it be the owner of this room? Lu Zhi followed Qi Jiu's line of sight and observed the painting, and said thoughtfully.

The puppeteer's keywords matched the manor's theme, but because the puppeteer who sold candy men before covered his face, he couldn't make a sure judgment.

Qin Rang: "Eight or nine is not far from ten, who would put other people's photos in their own homes." ”

Gu Zhenzhen was worried: "If the owner of the house is a twin puppeteer, who is the puppeteer who sells candy and wears a mask?" ”

Qi Yan thought about it and wrote lightly: "There is also a possibility that the puppeteers who sell candy are two people. ”

Suppose that the puppeteer performing on stage is the twin sisters of the audience who can't tell who is who, can they share an identity?

Because of his own experience, it is easy for Qi Yan to think of this possibility.

"Two people? What do you mean..."

"They can share an identity through the advantages of twins."

Speaking of this, Qi Jiu's expression suddenly paused, and he naturally thought of someone with the same face as him, and a slightly imperceptible soft look flashed in his eyes, and the corners of his lips were slightly upturned.

Qi Yan thought endlessly, the sisters who were almost identical except for their demeanor, the secret of their shared identities that only belonged to the two of them when they became adults, maybe in the end, even they themselves couldn't distinguish each other......

If the twins are both puppeteers, which of the sisters is referring to in the main quest "Help the puppeteer fulfill his true wishes"?

It is very important to discover the information point of the twin sister puppeteer, after all, it is related to whether or not you will step on the pit of "false wishes".

No wonder the system emphasizes the "real" wishes with the player, sister and sister, who is real and who is fake?

"Ah——!h

A short scream is heard from the manor hallway, but the player who made the cry seems to immediately realize that they can't make a loud noise, and the scream stops.

Qi Zhen clearly saw that the puppet in the cupboard moved with it, but under his gaze, the puppet quickly stopped moving.

"It seems to be the direction of the laundry room." Lu Zhi said.

Gu Zhenzhen nodded: "Let's go, go and see what's going on." ”

The manor was very quiet, and this short scream was particularly abrupt, and the players scattered around the manor were quickly attracted by the sound and walked briskly towards the laundry room on tiptoe.

I saw a player with a face as white as paper covering his mouth and exiting the laundry room, he calmly pointed to the person in the corridor and pointed to the situation in the house: "... Just check it out and be prepared. ”

The players were stunned for a moment, and after exchanging glances with each other, they finally chose to push open the unlocked door of the laundry room.

Lu Zhi was the first to walk into the laundry room, and before he could get closer, a strong smell of blood came to his face.

Qin Rang, who was walking behind him, immediately pinched his nose, and he looked over Lu Zhi's shoulder towards the depths of the laundry room-

"Ah, this..."Facing the mountains of dirty clothes stained with blood, Qin Rang was dumbfounded.

If you look closer, you will find that these blood-stained clothes are the style and size worn by children, Qi Yan put on gloves and picked up a few pieces from the ground to check, and noticed that these dirty children's clothes were tattered, all of them were scratched by sharp weapons, and some of the clothes were also stained with human hair and skin tissue, which showed that the owner of the clothes had suffered inhuman torture and abuse before his death.

Later, two more players found bloodstained knives and human entrails frozen in the freezer in the kitchen not far from the laundry, and the other three players found various tools used to stuff the specimens in the basement, and it seems that the corpse puppets were made in the basement.

"It's... Contrary to our speculation, the doll in the cupboard was indeed made from a human corpse..."

"So that kind-looking puppeteer lady is actually a pervert who abuses and kills children?"

"Is there any other possibility? These abused and murdered children are now being treated as works of art by her, waiting for the guests to 'visit' in the shop window! ”

The players lowered their voices and had a heated discussion.

"But the question is, is our main quest this time really to help a perverted murder puppeteer fulfill his wish...?" Qin Rang's face was embarrassed.

Gu Zhenzhen: "And now we know about the twin sisters... It is difficult to say whether the child abuse and murder was just one of them. ”

Lu Zhi nodded in agreement: "If it is the behavior of one of them, the other has to find out whether the other knows the truth or not." ”

Saying that, he subconsciously turned to Qi Jiu: "Brother Qi, what do you think?" ”

At this time, Qi Yan took out a stack of newspapers with years old from the cabinet in the morning room, and was engrossed in quickly checking the information on the newspaper, and after a while, he frowned and said, "Don't guess." ”

"What?" Gu Zhenzhen looked up at him suspiciously.

Qi Yan spread out the old newspaper in front of everyone, and pointed to one of the obituaries: "Catherine, the elder sister of the twin puppeteer sisters, died ten years ago, and now the puppeteer is the only one left. ”

In this way, the previous speculation that the sisters shared identities seems to be untenable...

"Huh?!"

Qin Rang immediately moved his gaze to the newspaper -

"It is with great sadness that we announce the tragic death of our young puppeteer, Miss Catherine.

Although she is very young, she has always been an extremely talented puppet artist as one of the key members of the Circus Puppet Theatre.

We are deeply saddened and saddened by her passing, and deeply feel the void and irreversible loss she left in the entire industry. Our hearts go out to her family and friends and pray that her twin sister will be strong enough to withstand this blow at this extremely difficult time and continue the artistic career of puppetry."

On the other side of the newspaper there was a news story describing the brutal murder of Catherine, the elder sister of the twin puppeteer sisters.

Qi Zhen turned out a thick stack of newspapers: "These newspapers were deliberately collected by the owner of the house, spanning more than two years, and each newspaper more or less describes the progress of the murder of the twin puppeteers, unfortunately, this murder has become an unsolved case, and the real murderer seems to have not been found so far." ”

Qin Rang quickly flipped through the contents of the newspaper, and the more he read it, the more he felt a chill down his spine, and he suddenly had a terrible guess: "You said that the death of my sister Catherine... Could it have something to do with her twin sister? ”

Suddenly, a thunderclap sounded, and the sudden huge thunder made Qin Rang, who was in a tense state, bounce in fright, he shivered suddenly, and the newspaper in his hand spilled on the ground.

The rain that had stopped was fierce again, and the devastating rain washed over the fields outside the window.

The lights in the morning room flickered continuously, and finally went out with a "zila".

Once again, the estate was plunged into unsettling darkness.

In the noisy rain, the originally quiet morning room gradually became lively-

Chapter 160: Highway Circus (54)

The squirming movement came from behind the glass door of the cabinet again, and darkness returned, and those mischievous "little guests" began to stir again.

There was a "bang", and the door of the morning room was blown shut by the wind.

The lightning that ran through the wilderness briefly illuminated the morning room, and the sound of hitting the glass door of the cabinet was extremely abrupt, and Qi Yan immediately took out the ghost fire bamboo lantern that had been idle for a long time to illuminate it.

The blue-blue ghost fire flickered in the wind, the darkness receded, and the commotion stopped.

Qi Zhen put the ghost fire lamp in his hand in front of the glass door, and under the reflection of the blue firelight, the puppets in the cabinet were all frozen in a strange posture, some with one foot hanging in the air, and some with their arms already pressed on the door lock of the cabinet.

"Aren't you tired?" Qi Zhen pursed his lips, lowered his voice and smiled at the little puppet in the cupboard, "After playing the wooden man game for so long, it's time to rest." ”

Under the light of the ghostly fire, the puppeteer's expression stiffened and he couldn't refute it.

Lu Zhi exchanged a spare lamp from the inventory and placed it in the room, proposing, "Let's go, we need to put a spare lamp in each room, it seems that this long night is easy to trip." ”

So the group of four left a spare lamp and left the morning room with a ghost fire lantern and walked towards the manor corridor.

Fortunately, they are not alone, and other players are aware of this, and there are already several pairs of players who have turned on their flashlights and placed spare lights in unlocked rooms one by one, trying to keep the manor light up when the power is out.

Soon, the manor, which had been plunged into darkness, was gradually illuminated by lights.

"The door to the electric switch room was locked by the old butler, and now there is no way to enter and pull the electric switch." Lu Zhi looked at the back road.

Considering that some rooms are inaccessible to players, it is safer to restore the power supply as soon as possible.

Qi Yan nodded: "Then we can only trouble the old housekeeper, I hope he sleeps without locking the door." ”

The four of them were about to come down from the second floor, at this time, Qi Zhen walked in the front, Gu Zhenzhen walked in the middle, and Lu Zhi and Qin Rang broke off.

As he turned the spiral staircase, Qin Rang's footsteps paused slightly, he held his breath and cautiously glanced at the shadow on the right side of the staircase, and his heart stopped for a while.

Lu Zhi sensed the abnormality of his companion, and the hand that was originally going to pat him on the shoulder paused in mid-air, he was worried that if he slapped it with one hand, Qin Rang, who was in a nervous state, would jump up in fright.

"What's wrong?" Lu Zhi followed Qin Rang's line of sight and looked at the shadow on the right side of the stairs.

Qin Rang raised his hand stiffly, his voice trembling: "That, do you see, there seems to be a figure there..."

As he spoke, he subconsciously took a step back, but the figure hidden in the darkness became clearer and clearer.

If a suspicious figure appears at this moment, it is unlikely that the player is playing a prank, and the remaining possibilities are either puppeteers or NPCs......

"Really...?" Lu Zhi raised his flashlight and shone it at Qin Rang's point, and the pale beam of light hit the other party's face, illuminating the puppeteer's lifeless face.

Qin Rang was silent for a moment, and then said slowly: "... Grass. ”

"Looks like one accidentally ran out." Knowing that light could limit the puppeteer's movements, Lu Zhi did not appear flustered, and he calmly turned on the light of the flashlight, shining a stronger light on the puppeteer's face.

But in the next second, a stiff and grotesque smile suddenly appeared on the puppeteer's face.

The puppeteer under the beam of the flashlight even tilted his head and cracked his teeth that had been sharpened into sharp jagged teeth: "Giggles, gurgles, brothers and sisters, let's play with me, the wooden man game is so boring, let's change to an exciting game, cluck..."

Qin Rang's cold hair suddenly exploded: "Hastily, won't the puppeteer be fixed by the light?" How can it laugh and talk..."

Before he could finish his sentence, the seemingly stiff puppeteers rushed towards them at a rapid speed, and the mechanical sound of the puppet's joints writhing completely shattered the silence of the manor.

Although Qin Rang's psychological quality is not very good, but after a few copies of the experience, his combat quality is still very good, he quickly retreated while complaining, and cooperated with Lu Zhi to dodge to both sides, and then inserted a knife into the puppeteer's ribs from behind.

The puppet figure who was pierced by two long knives paused: "Hey, my brothers are so fierce." ”

A more violent "creaking" sound came from the puppeteer's joints, and he twisted his neck in a pierced posture until his neck was twisted one hundred and eighty degrees, and the pierced puppeteer cracked his mouth and smiled stiffly and strangely at the two of them again.

In the next second, the puppeteer's head bit down on Lu Zhi's neck like a spring.

"Be careful—"

"Bang!"

The muffler-mounted gun in Qi Yan's hand made a dull sound, not enough to alarm the other puppets.

His hand was very steady, aiming at the puppeteer's head as fast as possible, and the bullets that flew out accurately penetrated the puppeteer's seal, and the impact of the bullet made the head that was biting towards Lu Zhi's neck instantly "yaw" and fell towards Lu Zhi's feet.

Of course, Lu Zhi did not forget the principle of mending the knife, he pulled out a long knife again, and slashed his head on the ground.

But what was even more unexpected was that the puppeteer, who had lost his head, directly pulled out the long knife that was stuck in the ribs and launched a new round of attack on the four people on the stairs.

"Damn! How invulnerable this thing is! ”

"Over there! Here are two more fresh ones! ”