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The scene in the prison disappeared in the blink of an eye.

After the scene changed, I saw Rena's ghost fleeing in panic. He was still in prison, but he had already rushed to the prison wall, passed through it, and ran out of the prison.

He was panicking and turned around frequently, looking at the empty place. He doesn't even run that neatly. Because of panic, his movements were very uncoordinated and he would often stumble, fall down and get up again.

He was being chased by something, running, running.

The outline of the town in the distance is already visible.

It's Thyssen...

No, no, that's Morris!

I recognized the alien space that suddenly appeared.

Rena, who was as headless as a fly, ran into Morris Town without knowing it.

My heart beat faster, and I felt a little regretful.

I am now in Rena's memory. I can only see Rena's past and cannot affect that past.

As I speculated before, Rena killed Mrs. Winter and became mentally unstable after that. Anyone who sees the person he killed dazzling in front of his eyes like a normal person will become mentally disturbed.

He is not normal and neither is his wife. The entire Reina family was already in a state of mental stress due to financial difficulties. Mrs. Winter's ghost was the last straw for them. I have seen what happened after that many times.

I only learned about what happened after Rena was arrested.

Rena has entered Morristown. Morristown at this time was still Toy Town. People who have been dead for who knows how many years have turned into toy people, walking around the streets and pretending to be ordinary residents.

Rena, who was running for his life, finally realized something was wrong.

The town around him was unfamiliar to him, and the people around him were even more frightening to him.

Those people are not alive at all.

Rena quickly realized this.

"Ah, ah!" Rena shouted, his expression distorted, he spread his legs and started running wildly again.

He rushed all the way out of the town and into the forest, but as he ran, the town appeared in front of him again.

"Ahhh! Ah!" Rena shouted meaninglessly.

At the entrance of the town, something came over.

Rena had fallen to her knees, at a loss what to do.

The figure got closer and closer.

I squinted my eyes, saw the other person's appearance clearly, and couldn't help but open my eyes wide.

The small figure did not get bigger when it came closer. It's just that big. It's a rag doll.

It's Lina's rag doll.

What's in the rag doll's body right now should be the toy ghost king.

"Are you lost?" The doll made a voice whose gender was difficult to distinguish.

Rena trembled, raised his head blankly, and looked at the doll. He crawled back a few times in fright.

"Don't be afraid." There was an unchanging smile on the doll's face. Its expression is made that way and will never change.

It was impossible for Rena to calm down just because of such words. He was still shaking. There were no thoughts in my brain, only the emotion of fear.

"Don't be afraid. Do me a favor. Later, I can also do you a favor. This is an exchange. That's it." The doll stretched out its hand and put it on Rena's body.

Something immediately came to Rena's mind.

"Find that ghost and capture her." The doll's voice became cold, "Catch her in front of me."

My eyes widened just like Rena's, and I saw the image of a girl in my mind.

It's Lina!

this……

The town of Morris disappeared in an instant, and Rena knelt in the town of Tissent.

I saw Rena's ghost changing.

There are many threads connecting Rena's body, and the other end of the threads goes deep into the void without a trace.

I seem to have seen this phenomenon before.

Marionette… toy spirit…

what happened?

Hasn’t the toy spirit been wiped out? And it was erased by the changed past. How could something like this appear?

That toy spirit...could he have deduced it wrong? At that time, he was just a toy ghost king, not a spirit?

My mind was in chaos, and I just saw Rena's body standing up in an unnatural posture. His expression was numb, and the clothes on his body had changed, but the biggest change was his body.

I could feel Rena's internal organs changing, from flesh and blood to wood. He really became a puppet!

Rena was manipulated, wandering in the town of Tissante, looking for Lina.

Of course he found it.

As soon as I thought about it, I saw another memory.

Reina caught Lina's ghost, and the puppet's strings increased, like countless snakes, crawling onto Lina's body. Lina looked ferocious and struggled desperately, but she was tightly entangled. Those threads tightened, and Lina let out an unwilling cry, and was suddenly pulled into the void, and her figure was swallowed by the alien space.

The thread lift disappeared.

Rena's body collapsed to the ground.

He came to his senses and touched his body.

The body is still made of hard wood.

Where Lina disappeared, there was a distorted scene in the sky.

Terrified, Rena ran desperately. He wants to escape from here, leave this ghost place.

He succeeded.

until……

I opened my eyes and looked at the ghost I had caught.

The feeling under my palm was that of a ghost, not hard wood.

The ability used at that moment restored Rena's condition to that just after his death. He was still an ordinary ghost at this time.

Rena was panicking, as timid as I had seen in recent memories.

There is still a difference between the ghost I captured and the ghosts I encountered before. Although they are ordinary ghosts, this kind of ordinaryness is relative to the future world.

This is the ghost of a changed world.

I was at a loss for a moment.

Rena died around 10 years ago, right?

At that time, the world became like this?

Is this the past of the world being changed again, or is it the influence of the special geographical environment of the town of Thyssen?

"Isn't he the person we're looking for in the hide-and-seek game?" Wu Ling's question broke the deadlock.

Mrs. Winter has been killed and the ghost is gone. We just caught Rena with that.

The girl talking during the hide-and-seek game was obviously not Rena.

In Rena's memory, only what I just saw has something to do with Lina and this town. Next, Rena's years of wandering outside are really not interesting, nor do they contain any important clues.

Rena looked frightened and asked us what we were going to do.

I was still holding him, but instead of killing him directly, I looked at Han Yun.

Behind Han Yun, Jimny appeared.

I felt something in my heart and relaxed my strength in my hands.

Rena broke away instantly. He immediately wanted to run away, but his body seemed to be pinned in mid-air.

I saw his body fly upward, his neck stretched out, his face raised, and his whole expression became weird. His hands and feet were flailing, but it seemed like only a weak struggle.

Jimny appeared in front of him.

Rena's eyes widened and he made a strange sound in his throat.

At this time, a rope appeared around Rena's neck. The rope tightened, almost strangling Rena's neck into a thin line.

Rena couldn't even make that weird sound. His limbs lost their strength and hung at his sides. His eyes were still open, staring at Jimny, and his body slowly became transparent and disappeared.

I saw tears welling up in Jimny's eyes and sliding down his face. There was a blank, lonely look on his face.

Han Yun appeared in front of him, wiped away his tears, took his hand, and said with a smile: "Okay! Now you can happily play with us!"

As Han Yun finished speaking, Jimny changed from a young man to a child. The tears had disappeared and Jimny smiled brightly.

For some reason, I felt a chill in my heart when I saw this childish and innocent smile.