Before walking out of the room, Chen Ang glanced at the doll's head hanging on Nick's waist and had to remind him, "Throw that thing away!"
"Why?" Nick was puzzled. "Didn't you call me here to let me see these things with my own eyes? I still want to bring it back to the police station! "
"Put this head back on the poor man!" Chen Ang sighed.
"We're here to investigate, not to demolish the house. If you do this, it'll be hard for me to explain to the two owners!"
Nick smiled. "But they're not the owners, right? They're just two bandits who took over this house and turned it into their devil's den, devouring the innocent people they've lured here one after another. "
Chen Ang snatched the head from Nick's hand and put it back on the plastic doll. He walked out of the room with a flashlight. The corridor was dark, and Chen Ang shone the flashlight around. They checked the rooms on the first floor one by one and found another room with traces of someone living in it. There was also a doll that was being tortured inside. It had been broken into pieces, and the various parts of its body were hidden in the corner of the room.
It was a Barbie doll. It was only about 40 centimeters tall, and it had already been torn to pieces.
Nick took out its head from under the bed. In Nick's hand, the big moving eyes blinked. Suddenly, there was a little girl's laughter in the quiet room.
It was the kind of voice that a six or seven-year-old child's voice had yet to change.
The sound came from the corridor. After hearing it, Chen Ang quickly opened the door. They saw a petite figure in a white dress flash past the corridor. She was wearing a golden age ladylike outfit. She quickly ran down the corridor and disappeared around the corner.
Nick asked very calmly, "What do you think that thing is?"
"Relax, Nick!" Chen Ang said calmly. "Maybe she's just playing hide-and-seek with us!"
There was nothing unusual in the next few rooms. When they reached the room at the end of the corridor, they circled back. This room was close to the stairs. When Nick and Chen Ang came in, they realized that this was a room that the couple often used, so they had tacitly left it for last.
Inside, there were some very ordinary things. If there was anything different, it would be that there was a little more life in it. There were many old photos on the cabinet next to the door, and some small ornaments — bronze peacocks, old alarm clocks, oil paintings hanging on the wall.
Chen Ang picked up the photo frame that contained the old photos. The black and white photos were quite old. They had already turned yellow, and the paper was starting to become brittle. In the photo were two young children dressed in the clothes of the last century, which some people call the Golden Age.
Nick immediately noticed the white dress the girl was wearing in the photo.
He opened his mouth. "Uh! Isn't this the child who was playing with us earlier? " Chen Ang opened the drawer at the bottom of the cabinet. There were many old things inside, but Chen Ang noticed a black leather book at first glance. He took out the small black leather book and sat down on the chair next to him to flip through it.
The beginning was very concise and clear.
"Quitting my job as a nurse and coming to Teribo parish as a caregiver was probably one of the craziest decisions of my life. My friends all say that I'm crazy. Teribo parish is notorious locally because of its religion, ignorance, and conservatism. But I can't stand the coldness of the hospital anymore. When we send away the patients, it looks like we're throwing away the garbage that we don't need at home.
"I've decided to do something more meaningful. After all, I'm only twenty-five. What's wrong with a change?"
Chen Ang continued to read. As he skimmed through some meaningless words, a familiar name suddenly appeared in the middle.
"Lawyer Luke is a little too passionate toward the mistress here. It's like they're having an affair!"
Reading this, Nick said in a low voice, "Twenty-five years old, and Lawyer Luke … We seem to have found her old diary. Twenty-five-year-old Caroline Ellis looks completely different from the Caroline Ellis we've met. Does time really polish people like that? "
Chen Ang continued to read. "My employers are Violette and Ben Devriaux. Ben is seriously ill. He's bedridden after a stroke, so Madam Violette hired me to take care of him at a high price. But Ben saw that I was in pain, and his eyes seemed to be saying something to me. "
After a long internal monologue, the diary said, "The previous owners of this house were a brother and sister, Martin and Grace. They were the children of a banker, and they inherited this mansion from their parents. But the two of them lived alone and never married. If you ask me, a man and a woman, even if they were biological siblings, living together for the rest of their lives wouldn't raise any good suspicions … "
"God forgive me! I shouldn't have thought so dirty. "
Nick picked up the old photo on the table. They should be Martin and Grace, but another photo fell out from behind the frame. Nick picked it up and saw that it was still a photo of Martin and Grace when they were young, but behind them stood a black couple. They stood behind the siblings like servants, and behind the photo were written — Father Justine and Mother Cercy.
Nick chuckled. "Black servants again. Did you know? Many rich white Americans grew up under the care of black servants. They called them father, mother, uncle, aunt, but they didn't hesitate to sell them. Just like Uncle Tom … "
"Have you read Gone with the Wind? In that book, there are those loyal black servants. They are written as if they are part of the family, but when they turn around, they can cruelly abuse their 'family'! "
"I bet … Justine's father and Cercy's mother didn't have a good ending!"
Chen Ang smiled. "That's not necessarily true … Sometimes, the identity of the torturer and the victim can be switched."
"It depends on which side is more evil!"
The diary told a story at the end — a story that might have something to do with the strangeness of the mansion. While Caroline was taking care of Ben, she gradually felt that the old house was strange. Strange things often happened here, and the two old people who lived here were also very strange.
Ben often rejected his wife's approach. One rainy night, he tried to escape by jumping out the window, but he fell in the yard. He was a stroke victim! Caroline found that he had written in mud on the bedsheet — Help! So Caroline had a terrible guess. Maybe Madame Violet had poisoned Ben and caused him to have a stroke.
Madame Violet and Luke, the lawyer, had an ambiguous relationship. Ben had a stroke in the attic, but Violet claimed that there was a door in the attic that they had never opened — the attic again!
Finally, Caroline retold a story that Madame Violet had told her:
"The mansion was originally built by a rich banker. He had two daughters, Martin and Grace, and they were taken care of by a black couple. Needless to say, they were Justine's father and Cercy's mother. Their children trusted their 'Justine's father and Cercy's mother very much. But one day, after the adults went out to a banquet, they came back without seeing the two children. "
"So they began to look around, and finally found the two children and their black servant in the attic, who were performing a witchcraft ritual. Although the two children claimed that they wanted to learn witchcraft, the adults did not give the two black servants a chance to speak. "
"They angrily dragged the two black servants downstairs, and a group of white elites hung them on a tree and burned them to death! But later, perhaps because of retribution, the banker suddenly killed his wife and committed suicide, leaving his property to the two children. "
This might be the origin of all the strange phenomena!
Nick sneered, "Looks like you lost! I knew that 3K gang couldn't do anything good! "
"That's not necessarily true …" Chen Ang said, "The Madame Violet in this diary is full of suspicion. How credible is the story she told?"
Nick said calmly, "We will find out the truth eventually. Also, what are our stakes?"
"There doesn't seem to be anything suspicious about Caroline in the diary. Instead, the previous owners of this house, Violet and Ben Devriox, are like a woman who murdered her husband and a poor, tortured victim. Ben, who had a stroke, even asked Caroline for help, but the words on the bedsheet mysteriously disappeared after Caroline complained to Luke's lawyer! " Nick analyzed, "Maybe Caroline herself had a mental illness, and everything was just her delusion."
"Then Luke's lawyer found out about this, controlled her, murdered the two old people, and seized their property?"
Later in the diary, Caroline gradually believed in witchcraft. She began to write some local mysterious rumors, and just as Nick had guessed, her mental state was deteriorating.
Both Caroline and Madame Violet were normal in the diary, or at least that was how they looked. But the Caroline that Chen Ang and the rest saw was a reserve killer. Her mental state was close to that of a lunatic, and her whole person was gloomy and scary …
In the end, Caroline's mental state was very bad. She did not dare to write more clearly in the diary, but vaguely mentioned some strange concepts. She used a pen to copy many materials and rituals — among them were sulfur, lime, blood, hair, and seemed to be preparing a strange witchcraft ritual.
She also mentioned a local legend about witchcraft — there was a kind of witchcraft that could grant immortality. As long as a living person was sacrificed, they could obtain the rest of their life.
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