Chapter 488: The Ghost Child Legion
, Ravens Town, United States.
The sky was gloomy, the air was humid, and it was drizzling. The whole world seemed to be shrouded in a gray-blue filter. A second-hand, dilapidated Ford car was driving on the road. A man and a woman were sitting in the front seat, and there were also "a man and a woman" sitting in the back seat: a male doll and a female puppet.
"Slurp..."
The wet asphalt road caused the tires to slip a bit. The car quickly turned around the highway exit, headed towards the country road, and soon disappeared into the dark forest.
Ravenstown, a sparsely populated and desolate town, used to be home to some wealthy families and some old-school white people, and it was once very prosperous. Many wealthy people in the United States like to live in the countryside - they can avoid the criminals and vagrants of certain ethnic groups that are everywhere in the city.
Now it is almost deserted.
There are only a few families.
Because there was a tragedy here:
Legend has it that in 1940, a child was killed in the town of Ravens, and the villagers suspected that the murderer was a local woman who made a living by performing ventriloquism with a string puppet - Mary Shaw. Because the boy had interrupted Mary Shaw's performance before he disappeared, causing the performance to almost fail. The townspeople searched for the boy for a long time but couldn't find him, so they finally arrested Mary Shaw and cut off her tongue.
Mary Shaw committed suicide soon after losing her tongue. She was a middle-aged woman living alone with no family. She left a will asking people to bury her and her puppet together, and people did so. However, since then, the missing puppet has appeared in the town from time to time. Every time it appears, someone is killed, and the dead people have their tongues cut off for unknown reasons. So a rumor began to spread in the town:
When you see Mary Shaw's puppet Billy...
Don't ever scream.
"Mary Shaw is different from Anna Bell. Anna Bell is a demon. She is full of malice. She enjoys torturing and torturing humans. She doesn't need a reason to kill. Mary Shaw is a vengeful spirit. She mainly kills the townspeople who killed her and their descendants. However, if someone runs into her gun, she won't mind killing him."
Zhang Yuning introduced.
"But fortunately, the movie 'Dead Silence' clearly gives the time and location information, so we can find this place without careful reasoning. The bad thing is that if we can find it, others can find it too. So if some ignorant outsiders come to interfere, you two will be responsible for solving it."
Zhang Yuning made some division of labor arrangements.
Zhang Yuning is responsible for dealing with Mary Shaw.
Others are responsible for dealing with the reincarnations.
"OK."
"OK."
Ron and Upton readily agreed. They were used to it. When Qingshan was around, they listened to Qingshan, and when Qingshan was not around, they listened to Zhang. Anyway, neither of them was good at making plans, so they just followed orders.
Although "Dead Silence" is also directed by James Wan, "Dead Silence" does not belong to the Conjuring universe, so it can only be a small copy world in the reincarnation world, and it is not enough to constitute a complete reincarnation world.
The old car drove smoothly along the forest path.
"Zhang, Mary Xiao is for me too?"
Upton asked curiously.
"Don't you have Anna Belle?"
Zhang Yuning took a look through the rearview mirror.
Anna Bell sat quietly and lifelessly in her seat, still with that weird smile on her face.
"You can never have too many wives."
Upton said carelessly.
After saying this, he hugged Anna Belle next to him. The scene was like a child playing house with a doll.
"Humph, that's how you men are."
Zhang Yuning snorted coldly and looked away.
"It's different. I'm just a plastic doll. Plastic dolls don't know anything. How can a plastic doll have any bad intentions?"
The ghost doll defended shamelessly.
"Anna Belle is a demon. She can use Anna Belle's image when she was alive to appear. But you have to think carefully. Mary Shaw was a middle-aged woman with white hair when she was alive. She was quite old. Are you sure you like this one?"
Zhang Yuning asked lazily, looking ahead.
"Oh, I'll have to think about that."
The ghost doll hesitated immediately.
"Humph, you men are really like this."
Zhang Yuning snorted with disdain again.
While driving, Ron turned his head and glanced at Zhang Yuning, feeling that she seemed to have a grudge. Since Qingshan was busy conquering the world and expanding the territory, they hadn't seen each other for a long time, and it was normal for Zhang to have some emotions - anyway, just don't vent it on me!
Ron thought to himself.
Be careful with your words during this period so as not to offend Zhang.
Women are scary when they get angry.
Especially when the other party is the Queen of Wraiths.
…
At this time, in the town of Ravens, at the entrance of an abandoned theater, several players have arrived here in advance and are making preparations. Anyone who has seen the movie knows that this abandoned theater is the theater where Mary Shaw performed puppet shows, and Mary Shaw's ghost is hidden in this theater.
"Remember, keep the following two points in mind, and we will be able to pass through this dungeon world safely!"
A reincarnation who was obviously the leader was seriously emphasizing to his teammates:
"First of all, you must not open your mouth to scream when you see any supernatural phenomena - you can't even open your mouth! Once your mouth opens, Mary Shaw will immediately grab your tongue and pull it out along with the pharyngeal wall behind the tongue. This ability is so fast that it is almost a rule. You won't have time to close your mouth."
The young man took out a roll of yellow tape:
"We all sealed our mouths with tape. Remember not to speak after entering the theater. We use sign language to communicate. The hero in the movie relied on covering his mouth until he was killed in the end. Don't be too nervous. Mary Shaw is not invincible. As long as we burn all her puppets, she will be killed, or bury all her puppets in a grave and she can be sealed."
The young man raised the flamethrower in his hand.
"I haven't mastered sign language very well yet. Can I use nasal humming to express my meaning, like "hmmmm"?"
A tall man looked at the yellow tape in his hand with an embarrassed look on his face and said that he had not yet learned sign language.
"no."
The young man shook his head decisively:
"That's my second point. Mary Shaw can make a space completely silent, and all sounds disappear. If we encounter that situation, nasal humming will be useless. We must use sign language to communicate. Be careful with those puppets. They are afraid of fire. We just need to burn them all."
"Look, someone is coming."
At this time, a woman pointed at the intersection and said.
A shabby old Ford car drove up.
The car wobbled to a stop in front of the theater. The door opened and a man and a woman got out, a thin young man with freckles and a beautiful woman with black hair. They turned their heads to glance at the people around them, said nothing, and walked straight towards the theater.
"Hey, this is where we first..."
The tall man stepped forward and tried to stop it.
The thin freckled young man turned his head, and his face was suddenly covered with a layer of dark blue gelatin, turning into a huge head with sharp teeth, a bloody mouth and white hook-shaped markings. The head roared at the tall man who stood out:
"Get out of here!"
Then he immediately shrank back.
"ah..."
Everyone was shocked.
The tall man took three steps back in fear.
"Is that... venom?"
A woman asked in a low voice.
"It's a symbiote."
The young man quickly stepped forward to stop his companion:
"Leave them alone, just let them in."
The young man looked at the two men's backs and said meaningfully:
"These two are too arrogant. They don't understand the plot at all. Even with the symbiote, they still can't defeat Mary Shaw. As long as he dares to speak, even if it's a symbiote, Mary Shaw can pull his tongue off! Humph, wait and see. We will go in after they are dead."
Surprisingly, the young man with the symbiote did not enter the theater, but walked to the theater door, turned around and stood with his hands crossed, facing the theater, facing the crowd, firmly guarding the theater door, like a bodyguard. The beautiful and indifferent black-haired woman walked straight into the abandoned theater with spider webs, dust, and collapsed tables and chairs everywhere with a blank expression, and her back quickly disappeared into the dark shadows.
After a while, there were ghostly screams and howls in the theater. The violent movement caused the entire wooden building to tremble, dust fell, and wooden boards fell off.
Everyone turned to look at the young man in the lead, their eyes seemed to ask: Where is the dead silence you promised? Why is there such a loud noise? Shouldn't the whole space be completely quiet?
The young man was speechless for a moment.
Then the woman came out.
Everyone was stunned for a moment.
The woman still looked cold and beautiful. There was not even a speck of dust or cobweb on her black clothes, which were still as neat and tidy as new. There was no fluctuation in the expression on her face, as if she had just gone for afternoon tea. She was like a cold, swaying and elegant black poppy.
Under the gaze of everyone, the woman walked down the steps to the shabby Ford car. The freckled young man hurriedly followed her like a pug, and helped the woman open the passenger door before sitting in the driver's seat himself.
Then, something even more shocking happened.
Everyone watched in stunned silence as a group of little people walked out of the abandoned theater. They were all puppets of different sizes, with exquisite workmanship and strange expressions. They came in all shapes and sizes, male and female. They lined up in a row and marched in neat steps, like Boy Scouts on an outing, and jumped onto the trunk one after another.
A total of 101 puppets filled the trunk, the back seats, and finally hung on the rearview mirrors, door handles, and roof racks. They were all packed up and taken away. The shabby car turned around and sped away, raising a cloud of dust behind it, leaving behind a group of reincarnations eating dust in the dust.
…
What happened afterwards was unremarkable. The society had become very skilled in executing this plan. Before, Fu Qinghai was the one who supported Zhang Yuning, but after Zhang Yuning became stronger, the symbiote host Ron and the ghost doll killer Upton took over.
In fact, Zhang Yuning could handle Mary Shaw by herself, and she brought the other two along just in case to prevent other players from interfering and causing trouble - after all, different players have different interests and there are too many uncertain factors.
Fortunately, there were no accidents this time.
Zhang Yuning is familiar with the plot of the movie: in "Dead Silence", the protagonist's stepmother is actually a "chaos believer" who secretly serves Mary Shaw. Unable to bear the domestic violence from the protagonist's biological father, she secretly dug out the puppet from the grave, causing Mary Shaw's ghost to wreak havoc on the world again. The protagonist's biological father had long been made into a flesh and blood puppet, and had been secretly controlled by the protagonist's stepmother.
If you know these plots in advance and there are no outsiders to cause trouble, this copy world will become very simple.
Mary Shaw was eventually sealed inside Zhang Yuning's body.
At this point, the number of demons and ghosts in her body has officially reached eight, barely maintaining a delicate and fragile balance. In addition to the basic general abilities of ghosts such as possession, illusion, and invisibility, the eight ghosts also have different special skills. Among them, Mary Shaw's special ability is that she can cause complete silence in a space, which is the origin of the title "Dead Silence". At the same time, Mary Shaw can also control puppets. Unlike Chucky and Anna Belle, who only possess one puppet, Mary Shaw has a full 101 puppets, which is completely a puppet army.
Mary Shaw is both an earthbound spirit and a non-earthbound spirit. She also needs to rely on a haunted house to exert her power, but at the same time she can also possess her own puppets to kill people. Wherever her puppets go, her power can also extend.
Zhang Yuning sat quietly in the passenger seat.
Look forward.
The eight demons have gathered.
So what's next...
Zhang Yuning pulled out a thin steel needle from her arms, and kept playing with it with her fingers, her thoughts gradually drifting away.
Will it be the Hellraiser series?
Or the IT series?
It all depends on that damned man.
"snort."
Zhang Yuning snorted again for unknown reasons.
Ron glanced sideways cautiously.
I noticed that the woman had a smile on her face.
A beautiful woman with a dead face who always had a gloomy face or a blank expression suddenly smiled. Even if it was just a slight smile, it could make people intoxicated and obsessed with it.
...
(End of this chapter)