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

Mary Shaw.

A ventriloquist in the village of Rawansfell, who made a living as a puppet show, was accused of murdering a child in the village. Mary Shaw had her tongue cut off by angry villagers and burned with her puppet. .

Later, Mary Shaw's puppet kept appearing in every corner of the village. Wherever he appeared, there would be a corpse with its tongue cut off.

Over time, there was a rumor in the village that if you see Mary Xiao and her puppet, don't scream, otherwise you will have your tongue cut off and then be killed by her.

"You don't need to look in the mirror." Tony leaned on the door with his arms folded and laughed at West, "You don't know if your tongue fell out?"

West turned his head to stare at him, and Clark just in time sent a new mirror for him to continue to look at.

The owner of the haunted house's attention was attracted by the mirror, he opened his mouth cherishingly, and repeatedly made sure that his tongue was still in his mouth honestly, so that he could feel at ease.

"Mary Xiao is also your childhood shadow?" Tony continued to ask mockingly.

Not long after they received the puppet, Tony found information about Mary Xiao's puppet from the Internet, and thus knew that when Mary Xiao screamed, his tongue would be pulled out.

After the "it" incident, Tony certainly wouldn't take it seriously, but he still couldn't help laughing at West's appearance.

Among several haunted house insiders, Tony is the only one who can talk to West like this.

Because to a certain extent, he is the real boss of the whole haunted house - the evil rich man.

West looked in the mirror for a while, and he was relieved to make sure that his tongue was still in his mouth obediently.

Then he said to Tony with contempt: "Mary Shaw is not my childhood shadow, but who made me respond to her?"

Screaming is like a response to Mary Shaw, you respond to her, she takes your tongue.

West's memory of Mary Shaw comes entirely from a movie he watched, "Dead Silence".

Although this classic horror film will not become a shadow of his childhood, he still has a deep memory of the person whose tongue was cut off in the story.

Especially after he found out that he also responded to Mary Xiao, the victim in his head automatically became himself.

"I'm here." Tony said speechlessly, "Superman is here too, even if you're a waste, you have to trust us, right?"

"You can say this when Mary Shaw comes to pull out my tongue, Superman's magic resistance is zero, can I count on him?" West said with a sad face, "Why do I feel pain before I pull out my tongue? "

"That's your psychological effect!" Tony rolled his eyes, and then took out the puppet, "Tell me little boss, what are you going to do with this puppet?"

The huge puppet swayed twice in Tony's hands, but the eyes seemed to be alive, always sticking to West's body.

Tony fiddled with the puppet twice, relying on the fact that he was not a living person anyway, he was not afraid at all.

He had nothing to fear even from the cold eyes of the puppet.

"Speaking of which, you are not from that town, and you have nothing to do with Mary Shaw? Why did she come to you?" After playing for a while, nothing unusual happened.

"God knows." Seeing Tony still playing with the puppet, West, who had a headache when he saw the puppet, waved his hands and covered his head and said, "Take it away, take it away, I have a headache and don't want to see him."

"How about I destroy him?" Clark suggested.

Just as West was about to nod, who knew that Hall's paw hit him in the face.

"You're stupid." Hall jumped on his shoulder, swung his tail and gave him a few slaps, "Aren't you paying attention to things like opening a haunted house? You want that big man to die?"

He knew that Clark was Superman, but for Hall, a newborn magical creature, whether it was Superman or West, they were just humanoid creatures, and there was not much difference.

It has sucked enough fear, although it can feel Clark's strength, but as a member of the magic, Clark is an existence in front of him that will never be easy even if he is not dead.

The kitten cleared its throat, and the ghost-like magical creature explained to several people: "Centuries ago, when science was not so advanced, the status of gods was far higher than it is now. Many artisans today were formerly gods." Servants, ventriloquists evolved from psychics."

"A psychic is a person who can directly talk to the gods. It is said that the puppet in the hands of the ventriloquist can become the body of the god, so for a long time, every village will enshrine the ventriloquist, hoping to talk to the god. It was only later that the belief in gods gradually declined, and people like ventriloquists turned into jugglers, and no one knew their past abilities." Hall paused, saw that Tony was about to look up the information, shook his head, "At that time, there were no computers. These legends were passed down from mouth to mouth or recorded in books, but most of them have disappeared, and no one knows at all."

If it weren't for the creatures of the "fear" race, each generation would inherit the memory of the previous generation, Hall would not have known about it.

After seeing their surprised expressions, as a living being with the longest memory here, Hall felt obliged to educate these ignorant people: "The people in that village killed Mary Xiao, and were cursed by Mary Xiao. If Mary Xiao is just an ordinary person, how much power does her soul have? Resentment? Oh, thousands of people die every day in this world. Everyone has resentment, but it doesn’t mean that everyone has become a ghost, right? To put it cruelly, the resentment of ordinary people is meaningless, even if there is resentment, it is impossible to become a ghost, so those who try to curse others with their own death, might as well think about how to live to revenge the other party, because his death can only would be meaningless, unless he has magical powers of his own."

"And that village will be retaliated not only because they killed the ventriloquist, but also because they destroyed the god's host. In the eyes of their god, this is equivalent to their betrayal of the god." Hall said coldly Said, "With the power of Xinyang lost, the gods will fall, and the evil gods will kill people to absorb the energy inside the human body in order to continue to exist."

West looked at him incredulously, and after a while turned his head incredulously to look at the puppet Billy in Tony's hand.

Tony raised the puppet in his hand: "You mean...the thing in my hand...is a god? Just him? So...ugly? So which god is he?"

West immediately looked at Tony with approving eyes, and nodded like a pounding garlic.

To be honest, Billy the Puppet is really ugly... It can't be said to be particularly ugly, but it fits the aesthetics of horror movies.

If you want to say that he is an evil spirit, West still believes it, but if you want to say that he is a god...

Clark and Tony probably have the same idea. They are well-informed and have many gods around them, but none of them are as... downcast.

There is only one puppet left to live in, and he has to rely on himself to kill and take revenge... Which god is so miserable.

"Little gods are also gods!" Hall roared. He was very angry at their suspicious eyes. "Not all gods have names! Some gods are just a collection of local beliefs! When people no longer believe in him, He will lose his power!"

After he finished speaking, he calmed down slowly: "Just like the sojourning god in Mary Shaw's puppet, he may be just a god born of the hope of the local villagers at first. When people forget about him, he loses the power of faith, and slowly If you slow down, you will lose your strength. There are only two kinds of fate for such a god, one is to lose faith and disappear, and the other is to absorb the energy to survive because of hatred for human beings by killing."

West finally understood. It turned out that the god he was talking about was, to put it bluntly, a group of beliefs.

After becoming the owner of the haunted house, West has made up a lot of ghost stories, so he still has an idea about this.

He has seen in novels that faith will give birth to gods, and these gods will use their power to repay the local residents who believe in him.

This can be regarded as a mutual benefit.

But later, with the decline of faith and the rise of science, many people no longer believe in gods, or believe in and only believe in those famous gods.As a result, those existences that could only be regarded as small gods lost their power bit by bit.

Either die or be evil.

"So you plan to destroy a god's host, and then be retaliated by him?" Hall squinted at West and said, "Believe me, a god that has survived since the fall of faith is definitely not a good thing .”

"It doesn't matter if he's a god or something." Although he understood Hall's words, it was still a bit difficult for West to accept that a puppet was actually a god, "At least we have to think about how to deal with that puppet first, right? If it really has a god in it."

Hall shook his head again: "I don't think there is a god in the body of this puppet now, it is just one of the hosts, as long as the god wishes, he can descend in his body at any time."

"What should I do now?" West had a bitter face, but he couldn't destroy it, and he couldn't put it away. Could it be that he enshrined him like in the movie?

Think of the woman at the beginning of the Dead Silent movie, who left the puppet like a child and turned into a corpse herself.

West did not want such a result.

But if it's like Hall said, once he destroys the puppet, he is likely to be cursed.

He didn't understand why he was so unlucky that things like this always happened to him.

Last time it was "it" and this time it was Mary Shaw again.

And according to the system, she still came uninvited.

Hall still had mission rewards that time, but this time the system didn't say anything except a reminder.

She didn't even tell him what Mary Xiao wanted to do to him.

Not only was Tony curious about why Mary Shaw came to him, but West himself was also curious about why such a thing happened.

He sighed for a long time, suddenly felt that his future was bleak

"It's okay, you're not dead now, according to the way other people die, at least there is still a process of your death." Tony said, "Starting today, 24 hours, I, Superman, Peter, will take turns to follow you, prevent you from dying."

West nodded.

The only good thing now is that Tony has a set of armor that can be used in the soul state, at least they are not defenseless now.

How about hiring Stephen Strange again?

Before West could figure out what to do, Tony suddenly said, "Boss, I think there is more than one trouble now."

He raised his head: "Since Mary Shaw appeared, I have been paying attention to whether there are people who have cut their tongues and died recently. Then just now, I intercepted a case received by S.H.I.E.L.D. - a corpse was found in Brooklyn, The male died after his tongue was cut off, and a puppet was left at the scene. A note was stuffed into the puppet's hand, and a note was written on it—”

"w (west)."

"Why is a homicide reported to S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Nick Fury looked up at Hill and said, "S.H.I.E.L.D.'s not responsible for the work of the New York police, right?"

"Actually, the New York police think this case is more like what superpowers did." Hill said calmly, "The third case in a short period of time, there are puppets at the scene, and there are no signs of being broken into the doors and windows." , There are traces of being bound and resisting in the victim, ordinary people can't do it, only super criminals can do it."

"Another super criminal." Nick sneered.

Said two people walked into the murder scene.

The murder scene was as reported by Hill, except for the bloodstains everywhere on the ground, there was almost no trace of mess.

The scene was well preserved, and when Nick walked in, the corpse was in a death posture, sitting upright on the sofa, with the mouth wide open, and the tongue inside had disappeared.

Such a corpse was terrifying, but the first thing Nick saw when he entered was not the corpse—it was a puppet not far from the corpse, almost face to face with the corpse.

The puppet doll is wearing a beautiful black lace skirt, and a pair of beautiful eyes like real people are vividly staring at the people who come in.

Nick came from behind the body, and the first time he looked up he caught sight of the doll and met her eyes.

This puppet feels very scary, especially for a person like Nick who has been in the field for a long time, he is more keenly aware of the bloody smell on the puppet.

He stepped forward in two steps and picked up the puppet.

The piece of paper in the puppet's hand slipped to the ground, and he immediately picked it up.

"s?"

"There were also puppets beside the last two dead people, and there was also a slip of paper with letters in their hands." Hill reported in a timely manner, "One is w, and the other is e."

"sew? wes? esw?" Nick said in his mouth, "maybe not enough..."

After he finished speaking, he raised his head: "Contact the Avengers, I'm looking for the Scarlet Witch or Doctor Strange, I suspect that this puppet may have something to do with magic, remember to bring back the puppets from the other crime scenes, let's let them They check."

The puppet turned over and over in his hand to look at it.

"Curse the doll?"

He suddenly felt that the puppet in his hand looked at him with a smile.