[Comprehensive British and American] I open a haunted house in the superhero world

doll.

It doesn't even need the child to explain a few more sentences, West already knows the meaning of this sentence.

After the Chaoying fell into the ground, they didn't know what happened.

After taking a closer look, West found that there were no injuries on their bodies, not even traces of fighting.

This proves that they were caught by the underground people before they even had time to resist.

The child over there was still saying: "The village chief said that living puppets are sinners sent to us by God. They committed the crime of angering God, so they were punished as living puppets."

West's eyes darkened slightly, he turned his head to look at the excitedly talking child beside him, his voice became softer, and then he asked the child: "Then what will these dolls... sinners do in the end?"

The child didn't notice the expression on his face, and said in an almost brisk tone: "Of course it's handed over to the village chief."

West already knew about handing it over to the village chief, and what he wanted to know more was what happened after handing it over to the village chief.

The kid obviously didn't know what was going to happen, and he just shook his head to show he didn't know.

Seeing that he didn't get any news from the child, West lowered his head slightly, and then quietly left the place while the other party didn't notice.

He avoided other people's sight and followed the float, and his eyes never left the few people on the float along the way.

After being turned into puppets, their whole bodies were stiff, and it was very difficult to even move their eyes, but they still tried to tell West something with their eyes.

Bruce stared at West for a moment, and after a while, West realized that they were not looking at himself, but at the puppet in his hand.

West looked down at the puppet in his hand.

Was Bruce implying that there was something wrong with his puppet?West thought.

Just now when the child gave someone else's doll, he felt something was wrong, so he changed the things in his hand.

And now Bruce's eyes are more obvious.

West realized something, but now there is a more important question, how can he quietly rescue the Superheroes from this situation?

This is a problem.

All eyes were on the puppet, whether they were excited or adored, which made him unable to find any chance to be quiet.

And West doesn't know how to get rid of Bruce's state.

If he didn't know how to get rid of this state, even if he saved Bruce and the others, it would be useless.

He thought for a moment, then remembered that someone must know—the village chief.

After figuring this out, he immediately hid behind the crowd and silently walked towards the village chief.

The village chief presided over the ceremony at the front of the village. Although there were some people around him, compared to the situation where all the members were watching the floats, there should be fewer people there.

So West easily approached the past without anyone noticing.

He waited for a while, and after observing the surrounding situation, he found that he had no other choice, so he silently walked behind the village chief and patted him on the shoulder.

The village chief was taken aback, and immediately turned his head. The moment he saw West, the expression on his face changed subtly.

But when his eyes shifted to the puppet in his hand, he breathed a sigh of relief again, and his expression became the usual aloofness.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

West didn't do anything right away, but said curiously, "I just watched your puppet parade and found it very interesting."

The village chief had a proud expression on his face: "Of course, the puppet parade is our gift to God."

"I'm curious, how did you get these... living puppets?" West continued to ask.

The village chief's face immediately became more vigilant, he raised his eyebrows, and looked at him defensively: "Why are you asking this?"

After he asked like this, his eyes immediately fell on the puppet in his hand, as if repeatedly confirming something.

West understood, so he said with a smile: "It's just curiosity, what are you afraid of, don't you see that I am already one of yours?"

As he spoke, he raised the puppet in his hand and showed it to the village chief.

The village chief looked at West, then at the puppet in his hand, and then said: "There are some things you don't need to know now."

"But I'm really curious." West continued to ask.

The village chief looked at him and asked, "Why must you be curious about this?"

West touched his chin and said helplessly: "I don't know if the people in the village can see it, but I can tell that these people are... living people. I'm a little scared, you put me Keeping it will not be waiting for the next festival, and then put me..."

He made a click gesture, as if he was afraid of being killed.

"Then you don't have to worry." The village chief waved his hand, "We never use our own people as sacrifices."

own people.

The word is very interesting.

After hearing this, West continued to ask questions.

His attractiveness meant nothing to a soulless person, but West was able to speak well, and after a while he finally hooked up with the village chief.

The village chief told him that every once in a while, their village would be opened to the outside world, and at that time, gods would throw sinners here.

From his words, West heard a meaning, the village chief seemed to accept that he lived in a closed environment naturally.

This is something West didn't see in other people-other people don't seem to have the concept that they are sealed underground.

But the village chief knew that he not only knew but also accepted the fact that he was locked up.

Occasionally, when he talked about the outside world, there would still be an imperceptible disgust in his mouth, as if he hated the outside world very much.

Speaking of it, it was a coincidence that West and the others met this time by chance, and then fell into the village that just opened...

Just like fate.

"I also fell in from the outside, but you don't seem to think I'm a sinner," West said.

The village chief smiled: "Sinners who fall here will become puppets. They cannot pass the test set by God, but you have not turned into puppets, so you are not a sinner."

West probably understands what this process is. The so-called test is to grab their soil, and there is a substance in the soil that is probably inseparable from magic.Not long after Bruce and the others fell into the soil, they would be infected by some special substances in the soil, and then their whole body would become stiff, turning into a puppet-like existence.

As for why West was not infected, the reason... may be because of his eyes that can see the truth.

West also felt a powerful force after entering the soil, but his whole body has been protected by another force, so he was not infected, so that he ignored some of the strange things .

Now that I think about it, they probably have already been recruited as soon as they stepped into this land.

Hearing this explanation, West began to think about how he could save Bruce and the others, but at this time the village chief suddenly said: "Actually, I can see that you are a young man with great potential."

West blinked, and looked at the village chief in a puzzled manner.

The village chief continued: "I have been looking for an assistant. I know you are curious about some things in the village. If you become my assistant, I can tell you some things, but you must promise to your puppet." , you will follow him forever."

West raised his eyebrows, his expression seemed to be thinking, weighing whether it was worth it.

He made a gesture of hesitation: "If I promise, then I will..."

"Believe me, young man, nothing will happen to you," said the village chief. "The promise to God is just a guarantee that you will not leave the village, and it will have absolutely no impact on your life."

After thinking for a while, West showed a smile: "So you don't kill me, you just look at me because you want me? Let me guess, there must be some secrets hidden in the forest that other people in the village don't know Right? And you're in charge of keeping that secret. You need an heir, and you've got my eye on me because I have access to that forest, right?"

The village chief's expression gradually sank, and he didn't answer, so West looked at him with an innocent smile on his face. After a while, the village chief said: "Only those who are recognized by the puppet god can enter there. , so you will definitely become my heir, and it is your honor to be recognized by adults."

West laughed. From the perspective of the village chief, he thought that West felt happy because he became his heir. From West's point of view, that was—he thought too much.

"Then what can I get?"

He's like a slick young man, haggling ambitiously to see what he can get.

Those who have desires are not to be feared, but those who have no desires and desires are to be feared.

The village chief looked at his expression, but his face was relaxed.

"As long as you pray to God, God will grant your wish." The village chief said.

West snorted, "You know what? You can't convince me. I don't have any beliefs. Simply put, I don't believe in God, and I don't believe that God will protect me. Why don't you give me some advice?" Something more substantial."

"You have angered God by wandering around in the village these days, if not..." The village chief stopped abruptly, but West listened.

if not what?He began to find it more and more interesting here.

The funnyness comes from the sense of contradiction here - Lady Death tries to go into the forest, but the people of the village believe in Billy.

This is obviously a contradictory relationship.

"Of course you can't convince me, village chief." West raised his brows and said confidently, "Even if I am someone your god likes, you can't force me to do anything."

The village chief suddenly regained his composure, looked at West with a strange look in his eyes and said, "That's not necessarily the case."

West blinked his eyes, and naturally made a perfunctory belief: "Okay, okay, I also opened up and said, in fact, I have been walking around here these days, asking around, one is because I really I am curious about some things in the village, and the other is because I want to leave here, but... this seems to conflict with what you can give me."

After he finished speaking, he suddenly changed his tone before the village chief said anything: "However, I am very interested in what you just said. If I agree to you, will I have the same status as you? This Does the place belong to me completely?"

"This place belongs only to God." The village chief said seriously, and he did show a smile again after speaking, "But after that, it will belong to you."

"Have you seen all the believers here?" The village chief grinned, showing a strange smile, "They will belong to you completely."

West had always known about some nasty things going on in the Church.

This kind of filth exists in all religions. Those who are slightly hidden are called priests, and those who are not concealed are simply called gods. Prostitutes and the like.

Religion's control over people's hearts allows some overly fanatical followers to agree to any request that can be called excessive in the eyes of normal people——

And be proud of it.

People's ability to resist temptation is very low, and this obedience without resistance encourages the evil hearts of those who feel that they have all the power to dispose of another person.

Many people even think that this is one of the benefits of following God.

This exists in any religion, so the endless family is not a god.

They have no believers, no religion, and even no such person in the world.

Nobody believes in death, right?

West does not need faith, he even has a natural aversion to faith.

This kind of disgust comes from the complicated relationship between Lady Death and Horus—while Namonros owed Horus a life debt, the Lady Death who actually used the other party also owed a life debt invisibly.

It's just that this debt did not leave traces on their respective destiny trajectories, but left the deepest sum in their hearts.

Being believed by others is actually a very tiring thing, not suitable for the endless family that belongs to the world.

No matter what he thought in his heart, West nodded to the village chief's words with a satisfied look on his face.

Then he lowered his head and prayed to his doll as the village chief taught him.

When he was praying, he felt a force trying to get into his body, but this force was digested invisible by himself.

After he finished praying, the village chief showed a satisfied expression.

"Aren't you afraid that I lied to you and didn't actually pray?" West couldn't help asking.

The village chief smiled: "There is no way to deceive God here."

Unless possessed of power equal to his god.

Seeing that he had no doubts at all, West continued to ask the question just now.

The village chief finally told him the truth, and he told West that these puppets would eventually be sent to the forest after the tour.

They are the true offerings to God.

"Did you see those people hanging on it?" said the village chief. "Actually, our generations have had a very important mission, and that is to guard that forest for God..."

The forest imprisoned the enemies of the gods. These enemies belonged to another god, and they all helped and oppressed the god here.

So they must be punished.

So these people were imprisoned here and suffered countless tortures for generations.

But those who are tortured will have grievances, and if these grievances accumulate, they will destroy the village, so there must be a way to vent, so they use some live puppets every month to appease these people.

They would burn the dolls in the forest.

"Those who come from outside are God's love for us." The village chief firmly believed that those who fell in were because God loved them and feared that their village would be destroyed.

but……

This is undoubtedly a joke. If he really cared about the village, he wouldn't have planted such a big mine here.

And what kind of puppet suppresses resentment is simply a lie.

Those "living puppets" who were burned to death would only add more resentment, so there was only one possibility—the souls of those living puppets were used to strengthen the seal of the forest.

West found many scattered soul fragments in this land, and he once found information that Lady Death had come here.

Now it seems that those scattered soul fragments are most likely left by people who were treated as living puppets.

Something tore them apart.

Everyone in this village has no soul, so it is impossible for them to be living puppets. Such living puppets can only be outsiders who have entered by mistake.

"Have you looked outside?" West asked suddenly.

The village head was originally talking vigorously, but when he heard this question, he was taken aback: "Why do you want to look outside?"

He frowned, looked offended, and didn't seem to like the subject.

But West said persistently: "I mean, have you ever gone out here?"

"The outside world is a world of sinners." The village chief's face slowly faded, "No one in Levansfair can leave here, otherwise they will definitely die."

West nodded.

This person was right in one sentence, they were indeed given the mission to guard here.

At this time, the puppet parade was basically over. Seeing that West was interested, the village chief said to him, "In this case, come with me."

This was exactly what West wanted, so he followed the village chief and walked out together.

Disposing of live puppets is a secret job, involving only the village chief's cronies.

Then West saw the night watchman and the few people following him.

They were a little surprised when they saw West, but they quickly shut their mouths under the gaze of the village chief.

Well, the village chief is right in another sentence, he does have absolute authority here.

West followed them into the car for transporting live puppets. During the whole transport process, he didn't even look at the puppets on the car. He kept communicating with the village chief, and invisibly revealed the news he knew to Super. Englishmen.

Those who follow the village chief should know the inside story, so it doesn't seem too abrupt for West to say it.

On the way, the village chief also told him that the monthly ceremonies must end at noon, and the sacrifice of living puppets must also be before this.

West nodded while listening, looking eager to learn.

In this way, they came all the way to the outskirts of the forest.

The cold wind sounded more urgently after they arrived, and the resistance of the spirits in the forest to their arrival was already evident without any words.

The village chief directed the few people around him to move the Chaoyings, but before they could move, West suddenly said: "Village chief, can you tell me what kind of enemy of your god is buried here?"

The village chief didn't expect him to ask this question and was stunned for a second.

Then West continued: "Are they Horus?"

He narrowed his eyes slightly, and a clearer call came into his ears than before.

【Eyes, eyes—】

It should have occurred to him that the man who calls out to Lord Death and asks us if we have fulfilled our mission must have something to do with Horus.

Horus dedicated his eyes to Lady Death and every future clansman guarded Namonos, but no one returned to the land of death after death.

It turned out that their souls and their bodies were hung in this underground that never saw the light of day.

The Lady Death had come, she must have come to set these men free, but this place belonged to Billy, to Namonroth.

West didn't know why Horus' people came here, but he could feel their pain.

It was they who had called West from the ground, and told him to come to this place—to do what the Lady of Death had failed to do.

The village chief looked confused. He really didn't know what West would say.

And West turned back to Chaoying's direction, and then said very calmly: "I'm sorry, I don't think I can continue to be loyal to your god..."

After he finished speaking, he suddenly pushed a few people out of the carriage, turned over and sat at the front of the carriage.

"Impossible..." The village chief who fell to the ground shouted loudly, "You can't betray God! You have sworn to the puppet."

"It's really impossible." West said honestly, but he raised the doll in his hand, "But my doll is not of the same type as you, and I only pray to myself. Puppet Billy? He is not qualified."

After he finished speaking, he swung his whip and rushed into the forest with the carriage.

Several others followed him, but the cries of dead bodies stopped them.

The moment West stepped into the forest, the corpses on both sides showed their original appearance.

They faced West's direction, as if welcoming him here.

With such a welcome, West went all the way to the depths of the forest.

Facing the Chaoying who were turned into puppets, he didn't hesitate, and simply dropped the Dionysian factor alone.

The Dionysus factor turned out to be the blood of Namonros, and the life force contained in it could restore anyone's body under West's control.

In the blink of an eye, all Chaoying had returned to normal, each moving their own bodies.

West opened his mouth and was about to say something when Bruce suddenly walked up to him and said, "There is a problem."

"What's wrong?" West said.

"According to what you said, the souls of the ordinary people who were put here were torn into pieces. What would tear the souls into pieces?" Bruce, who had recovered his body, quickly integrated all the information in his mind, and then he Said, "What do Namonros and Billy rely on to guard all the souls here? Don't you think that their behavior of putting souls here once a month is like feeding something?"

West blinked, then sank slowly.

At this time, the sun overhead just hit the middle of the sky.

It was noon.

The festival is officially over.

A huge roar sounded, shaking the mountains in an instant.

A large piece of land was cracked, exposing the red soil underground.

Dead bodies, lots of dead bodies.

West actually saw some familiar faces from these corpses—the residents he had seen in the village.

These corpses were buried under the ground, turned out by an invisible force, and then——

were gathered together.

The flesh and blood were disassembled, the bones were reassembled, and in the blink of an eye, these corpses were piled up to form a brand new huge——

puppet.

The corpses buried in the earth were crying, and the corpses in the trees were crying too.

They are crying out of sight.

Those villagers who are still walking...

Never alive!

Their real sex has long been buried under this land, why do they have no souls?Because their souls have long been fed to the monster in front of them.

West saw at a glance what the composition of the terrifying giant in front of him was.

This is a monster fed on resentment, within him are countless pieces of souls that have been chewed up and swallowed, howling.

"Finally..." The moment the monster came out, West heard a voice saying, "...I'm finally back."

Mary Shaw appeared on the shoulder of the monster holding Billy.

For Billy's sudden appearance, West didn't feel any strangeness.

"Long time no see, owner of the haunted house." Billy greeted West, "I knew that one day you would definitely start this place, thank you, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to come back here... in the name of death Those two gentlemen and ladies did steal Levansfell from me."

Returning to his own land made Billy almost ecstatic.

He said something sarcastically to West, only to let him know that it was Lady Death and his brother who had snatched Revancefell from Billy.

This had always been Billy's base, but the two dead had broken in here with an almost outrageous attitude.

In general, the law is not to intervene in reality.

But they seemed to ignore it, even though they broke the rules, they defeated Billy and drove them out of Revansfair.

Afterwards, although Ms. Death failed to enter the forest, she managed to hide it, making Billy unable to find it for a long time.

"These corpses..."

"It's the villagers of Levansfell." Billy said as a matter of course, "It's the villagers who abandoned me. As for the people in those villages...they are all my new puppets."

Billy's attitude is almost pleasant, especially when it comes to puppets.

He looked very proud that he had turned these villagers into this - into the monster in front of him who was fed on resentment.

That's right, he hated those villagers so much, all the time.

"The ones outside are all real ones." West narrowed his eyes.

This is what surprised him the most. He has seen those people outside. Although they have no soul, their bodies are real bodies.

"Of course, Lord Namonros helped me accomplish the greatest technology in the world—to make real sex." Billy said, "Those people just need to be my puppets."

"You have no right to do that," West said.

Do those people outside know that they are not real people?They were just puppets made out of the villagers in Billy's memory.

And the real them have long been the flesh and blood monsters in front of West.

"That's the same sentence, the owner of the haunted house, I respect anyone who has anything to do with death, even if Ms. Death once took my land from me, it's because I'm not as good as him." Billy raised his voice and said, "But This is mine it's always the same, Ravansfell was mine from beginning to end, I used to protect them, I was their god, every inch of this place, every person is mine, so You have no right to tell me."

With a flick of his hand, the monster carrying him dropped him off his shoulders.

Mary Shaw hugged him, even though there were so many Chaoying and all kinds of people present, Billy's eyes were always on West.

Behind him stands the huge monster, so he is not afraid of the young law in front of him.

"People abandoned me," Billy said. "They banished me from the land, and I never would have become what I am if it hadn't been for Lord Nameros."

Seeing the disapproving look on West's face, he sneered.

"You don't believe what I said, right? Yes, the endless family does not need belief, so you will never understand how important human beings are to me and gods like us. And being abandoned by people makes me I don't know anything. At that time, Mary and I were forced to leave our hometown. She was the last believer of me. We walked all the way and met Namonos. A god who lost faith lost his power. But Namonos is different , he is not a god like you, no matter how long he is imprisoned, as long as there are living people in this world, he will not lose his power." Billy said, "He recognized me and told me that faith can actually obtained by other means."

"Yes, as long as the human beings are imprisoned, and then they can only see me, then I am their only belief." Billy said, "He is right, so I am grateful to him."

Billy didn't do anything immediately after returning to Levansfell. At that time, his strength was not enough to support him to complete his plan.

He and Mary Shaw became puppeteer jugglers, incognito in Ravansfair, waiting for their chance.

Really, some things are fate, Billy waits for Mary Shaw to goug the little boy's eyes, and the killing of Mary Shaw by the villagers of Ravansfell speeds up everything.

Together, they kill everyone in Rawansfell after Mary Shaw turns into a Wraith.

Then these killed villagers were imprisoned here forever by Billy and turned into puppets, so Billy became the puppet god here.

"Are you saying that all of this is fate?" Billy laughed, "Ms. Death took my home from me, and the only eye that can lead here is in your hand, and only You can wake up my pet after entering here and show me the way back here."

West didn't answer his words, but asked, "Why is there Horus here?"

When he asked, Billy was so pleased with himself that he actually answered his question.

It turned out that Namonros continued to help Billy at the beginning, so Billy owed him a debt.

In return for his help, Billy did something for Namonos.

"These are the descendants of Horus." West listened to him and said, "I helped Namonroth find all the corpses of the descendants of Horus that could be dug up, and then dug out their eyes. Buried While underground, Namonroth was looking for his eye, the Eye of Horus that he had lost."

After Namonros failed, the Eye of Horus was taken away by the Lady of Death, but he didn't know that the Lady of Death took those eyes to shape the West Brothers, and thought that the eyes returned to Horus's back on people.

So he poached the eyes of the descendants of Horus one by one, but couldn't find them.

In desperation, in order to retaliate, he trapped the corpses and souls of the descendants of Horus in Revansfell, and the people who used to be Ravansfell became guards under Billy's instruction.

West felt pain in his heart, he didn't know where the pain came from, but he really felt the pain for Horus.

Namonroth already owed Horus a life debt, but let others harm the descendants of Horus.

In order to retaliate and even make these souls never have peace.

Seeing West's painful face, Billy almost smiled happily.

"Okay, now that things have come to this, then you admit defeat." Billy said proudly, "I won't kill you now, I will bring you to Namonos - he always wanted you The power that belongs to death."

"You think you've won, Billy?"

"Of course." Billy said proudly, "This is my land, and everyone on this land must obey me, and... I have no flaws."

Billy is indeed flawless, this is his territory.

He spent so long and took so many souls to raise the monsters that belonged here.

This is his.

And his only weakness is the boy he killed at the beginning, but the descendant of that boy is not here now.

West...he is not as powerful as Lady Death.

but……

"No." West looked up and said, "Not yet."

He turned his head to look at Chaoying, his eyes were staggered, and Batman suddenly shot.

The bat dart flew towards the flesh giant, and almost in the blink of an eye, all the superheroes entered a fighting state.

They got entangled with the flesh giant. This giant was huge in size. Since it was composed of different corpses, no matter how they beat him, he could recover quickly.

Instead, they suffered more and more injuries during the fight with him.

"It's useless." Billy noticed that West was running towards him. He sat on Mary Shaw's shoulder and said almost disdainfully, "It's useless even if you catch me."

He thought that West was going to catch him, after all, he was the master of this giant of flesh and blood.

If so, the young man may have made the wrong idea.

But who knew that West just ran in his direction—it was dark under the lights, and this was the only direction where the flesh and blood giant would not attack.

Then he passed Billy.

Billy looked at him for a moment in astonishment.

Then he smiled. "Are you trying to run away? Let your superhero friends drag a way for you, and then you run away?"

West ignored him at all and just moved on.

Billy laughed, and the creaking sound of wood rubbing against each other sounded eerie and terrifying.

West ran out of the forest all the way, and the village chief was no longer outside.

He didn't stay for a second, but returned to the village again.

I don't know if it was because of Billy's arrival that the village was as quiet as dead.

But West didn't stop a step, he rushed into the house of the child who took him in on his own.

I saw the child nestling in the corner, shivering, as if frightened by the strange scene in the village.

"I have been thinking about why people in this village have a good relationship with each other, but you are the only one who has been bullied." West walked up to the child, squatted down, and said slowly, "Later I found out, because He hates you."

During the period of dealing with the villagers, West has always felt that the people in this village are easy to deceive, simple, and enthusiastic, and they don't seem to reject anyone.

Only when it comes to this kid and his family do the villagers seem so mean.

Now he knew, because Billy hated him, so much that he couldn't let go even if he had turned into a mindless puppet.

The child raised his head in a daze, and looked at West with a puzzled expression.

"Billy owes you a pair of eyes." West opened his mouth, "He owes you a pair of eyes, and now I will give you those eyes."

He placed his hands in front of the child, and in his hands reappeared the eye that saw reality.

Mary Shaw plucked the eye out of a child for Billy, and Billy owed that child his life ever since.

Yes, the child in front of him was the one who exposed Mary Xiao and had his eyes gouged out by Mary Xiao.

West now has a body without a soul in front of him, and he has a soul in his hand.