horror confession

Seeing Sheng Shizhao's astonished expression, Lu Jinghong smiled faintly and explained: "I told you before that voice can be used as medicine, it can be used to pray for blessings and to ward off evil spirits, but it can also make people unconscious and destroy people. willpower."

"The person who put these clocks together is to let the people who enter the castle hear these bells, their consciousness will gradually become unconscious, and then reduce their own frequency and energy, so as to further control them."

"So that's the case." Sheng Shizhao nodded, and said thoughtfully, "No wonder suona can wake them up. Isn't that the same as hypnosis."

"Yes." Lu Jinghong nodded, and walked a few more steps with the flashlight in hand. The beam of light from the flashlight hit the white wall next to him, and he saw densely packed Hebrew words written on it with red pen. Some kind of ancient spell. "It must be that someone wants to use a living priest to perform some kind of ritual in the castle."

Sheng Shizhao stepped forward to take a closer look, remembering that these mantras were exactly the same as those drawn by Lilian on the wall at that time, and he had a measure in his mind, "At that time, the Toy King thought that Lilian was unknown, and thought that she had signed an agreement with Satan, but in fact it was Used by Barton of the Golden Dawn Society. Papock is dead now; you mean, there are still people here to play tricks?"

Lu Jinghong nodded, "Except for Lilian, the other people who died in the house all died by hanging themselves. They should all be bewitched by their minds."

At this moment, Chris, who was unconscious on the ground, woke up first. He staggered up and said with empty eyes: "This place is full of depression and despair. I'm going crazy. The urge to take it apart and fix it."

Chris's words reminded Sheng Shizhao.

Grandpa once said that if you suddenly feel uncomfortable after touching a certain relic, it is very likely that the soul of the deceased is near such a thing, or even lodged in this thing.

He glanced at Lu Jinghong and saw that Lu Jinghong nodded tacitly, so he took out the handkerchief prepared in advance from his trouser pocket and covered his eyes, and groped for each clock one by one in the dark.

When he touched the clock that appeared in the Ewha Hotel before, Sheng Shizhao's eyes suddenly lit up; in a moment, the hands of all the clocks began to rotate counterclockwise rapidly.

After spinning around for a while, he found that he was standing in front of the gate of Constantine Castle again, but there was prosperity outside the gate.

The originally deserted garden was full of blooming roses. Standing at the door was an old gentleman with a cane inlaid with gold rims. His graceful clothes looked like British nobles in the last century.

Standing beside him was a maid wearing a white apron. Her expression was tense, her eyes had an invisible sense of oppression when she looked at people, her hair was neatly styled, and she looked familiar. It was the maid who showed up on the day of the fraternity and was hanged.

Sheng Shizhao knew in his heart that he had developed a synesthesia with someone who had passed away, but he didn't know who it was. He lowered his eyes and looked at the black leather shoes with holes on his feet. The shoes were very small. , maybe only 35 yards, and looked at his arm again, only to realize that he was actually in the body of a child.

"Brother, don't be nervous. I heard that the Duke of Constantine is very good. He is the richest philanthropist here. In addition, we have adopted 22 orphans. He will treat us well." A person with the same height beside him The boy called his attention back.

The boy is blond and blue-eyed, with a sense of maturity beyond his age. He is wearing a well-washed black suit and has a brown patch on his elbow. He touches his right leg from time to time while talking, like Is suffering from leg problems.

They also looked familiar, but for a while, I couldn't remember where I saw them. After all, in Sheng Shizhao's eyes, these foreigners seemed to look the same.

"En." Sheng Shizhao heard himself answering sweetly, and then took his brother's hand and walked towards the old duke together. Careful Sheng Shizhao noticed that his brother did have some slopes when he walked, a bit like the sequelae of polio.

The old duke opened his arms and with a kind smile on his face, he embraced the two boys, one on the left and one on the right, and said with a gentle smile, "Which of you is the elder brother and who is the younger brother?"

The elder brother on the side introduced himself, "My name is Jenny, and he is my younger brother, Liszt."

The old duke admired: "You two look exactly alike. If it weren't for the clothes you're wearing, I really wouldn't be able to tell you apart."

The elder brother Jenny lowered his head and smiled, and shrank his unfit leg back, as if subconsciously trying to cover up his flaws.

After entering the castle, Sheng Shizhao found that the huge hall was full of boys of different ages. When they saw Jenny and the Liszt brothers, they stood up in unison and applauded together, even with the smiles on their faces. It all seems to have been practiced in advance, and politeness is not elegant.

After chatting for a while, Sheng Shizhao learned that these children, like Jenny and Liszt, were all adopted by the old Duke from orphanages in various places.The maid's name is Kelia, and Kelia will be responsible for the children's daily necessities of life.

The hall on the first floor is magnificently decorated, and there is a portrait of the old Duke in the center of the living room. There is something special that caught Sheng Shizhao's attention, that is the Huaguo engraving in the corner.

Immediately afterwards, the female puppet Kelia led Liszt and Jenny to the second floor, saying that she wanted to show them her bedroom, but what was unusual was that the entire second floor turned out to be a large flat floor that was opened up.

There are 24 beds neatly arranged on the floor, surrounded by those old clocks, the sheets are uniform white, and the quilts are folded like tofu blocks; it is not difficult to guess that the old Duke must have been very strict in the education of the children.

Ke Liya led them to a seat by the window, pointed to two empty beds, and said, "This will be your bed from now on."

The elder brother nodded obediently.Sheng Shizhao looked in the direction of Kelia's finger, and found that there was a brown nameplate nailed on the head of one of the beds, which seemed to be in Chinese characters, and his doubts became heavier, because he was on the first floor just now, Did not see the children of Huaguo.

However, when he saw the name on it, the blood all over his body rushed straight to his forehead, and there were three big characters "Sheng Yinhe" written on it!

At first he thought he had read it wrong, but after repeated confirmation, the word Sheng Yinhe was like a rope tied around his neck, which made him spin around and couldn't breathe.

Why does grandpa's name appear on it!

Could it be that he was also an orphan taken in by Duke Constantine?

impossible!

Grandpa never said he had been an orphan himself!

It's a pity that Sheng Shizhao couldn't speak through Liszt's mouth.

Perhaps the twins can really sense each other's inner activities. The sensible and precocious Jenny asked Kelia politely: "What is engraved on this sign? Where is he going now?"

Sheng Shizhao was afraid of missing a word, but Ke Liya just answered with a sullen face: "Here, you are not allowed to ask questions that should not be asked!"

Perhaps Kelia's appearance was too terrifying. Liszt trembled with fright, and gently held his brother's hand.

At this moment, Sheng Shizhao is like a bird in a cage. Although the thing he has longed for is close at hand, he has no ability to fly out. He can only flap his wings in the cage, anxious and helpless.

At this moment, the only thing he can do is to calm down and observe patiently.

As night fell, the two brothers lined up among 22 kids, waiting for their chance to go to the bathroom.During this process, Kelia stood aside and supervised like a demon with her hips akimbo, her eyes were cold and fierce.

After washing, the child consciously returned to his own bed. About half an hour later, Liszt walked to the bed with Sheng Yinhe's name engraved on it, and saw that the other children who had already gone to the bed were sleeping motionless in the quilt. He also obediently took off his clothes and shoes, and lay down under the quilt.

Suddenly, an older boy in the next bed stretched out his arm from the quilt, and secretly handed over a folded note in the dark.

Seeing that his brother hadn't come in yet, the timid Liszt glanced at Kelia who was standing in the darkness, but still chose to turn his back and pretend not to see.

The moonlight outside the window is white, and a row of black tree shadows are reflected on the glass, like a devil with teeth and claws.The rotating second hand in the ancient clock seemed to have a magical power, and Liszt fell asleep before he knew it.

Just at 6 o'clock the next day, Liszt was woken up by the ringing of the surrounding clocks.

Seeing that everyone started to dress and fold the quilt in an orderly manner, Liszt did not dare to be lazy, but he was too young to fold the quilt like tofu. In the end, it was his brother who came to help and was able to escape Kelia. punishment.

But the strange thing was that Sheng Shizhao found that the quilt of the boy in the next bed who handed the note last night had already been folded when Liszt woke up.The bed was empty, but no one was there.

After everyone washed up and came to the lobby on the first floor, they learned from the old prince that the boy had been sent to a boarding school early this morning.

The old Duke looked very excited when he said this, as if being sent to boarding school was something to be proud of.When the other children heard the news, they also applauded excitedly, but Sheng Shizhao found that his brother Jenny had a sad expression on his face, and his eyes were secretive.

Then, everyone sat around and had breakfast on the first floor.

Sheng Shizhao felt more and more weird. These children were all like robots without emotion. Not only did they not say a word when they ate, but they even ate in the same way. Everyone ate the food on the plate dry. clean.

While Kelia was clearing the dining table, brother Jenny suddenly handed over a note from under the table.The careful Sheng Shizhao realized at a glance that this note was actually the one handed over by the boy next to him last night.

Liszt secretly opened the note, and saw two lines written on it——

Plug ears with cotton wool.

Run!