How to survive in a world full of weird talk [Comprehensive fear]

What does it mean?

Sidelle flipped through it quickly, and quickly extracted the key plot from the following diary.

Judging from the previous diary content, Trudy should have given birth to a pair of conjoined twins.The bodies of the elder brother and the younger brother were joined together, and the younger brother's face was glued to the back of the older brother's head.

The twins' father, Sinclair, is a doctor. In order to save the lives of conjoined twins, he performed an operation at home to separate the bodies of the older brother and younger brother.

According to the time recorded in the diary, all this happened more than forty years ago.

Decades ago, this remote town had a simple atmosphere, but it did not popularize scientific and educational knowledge, nor was it open.

After the father's operation, the brothers' bodies were separated.

From then on, the elder brother had an extra face on his head, while the younger brother lost one face.

A baby with a mutilated face must be very frightening. Back then, in a backward town, Trudy and Sinclair suffered a lot of criticism. They have been under pressure and tried their best to raise their two children.

until the children are of school age.

The scar on the elder brother's head is on the back of his head, separated by thick hair, but it does not affect his life.But his younger brother lost his face due to the split body operation, and his face was full of torn flesh and blood.

Such a terrifying deformed appearance is naturally not favored by children and townspeople.

Trudy, who loves the child, specially made a wax mask for his younger brother, because the wax figure is fragile and often needs to be replaced every other day.

But Trudy loves his son eagerly, has never been impatient, and has always wrapped his younger brother with tender love.Sinclair has also been silently supporting her, using actions to protect his wife and deformed children.

Although the people in the town temporarily accepted Trudy and the Sinclair couple because of their high reputation and trust, they thought it was an ominous freak.

But there is a limit to this tolerance.

The elder brother, who looked like ordinary people, was quickly accepted by the town, integrated into the town, and played with the children in the school.

But the younger brother, who wears a wax mask all year round, is far from being treated so well.

He was isolated and bullied at school, and even if he put on a mask, he would be torn off.The naughty child tore off his mask and cried out in horror at his horrible face, but never thought it was his fault.

Other children, teachers, and adults in the town also tended to side with the naughty boy, but they would not blame the younger brother because they considered him an ominous sign and would not want to have more contact with him.

Under such repeated acts of violence, Trudy soon realized that her youngest son was being bullied at school, but there were so many people in the town, she had no choice but to take her brother back and personally help him at home. Teach him to learn to read and write.

Also teach him to be a good person.

[Although the child is being bullied, I know he has tried his best to get along with those people.Looking at their hateful faces, I can only feel powerless sadness, but I can't let my children become that kind of person. 】

【Although he was born under the gutter, he also has the right to look up at the sun. 】

The mother wrote in her diary.

She has a tough heart and has received many years of high-quality education.After taking my younger brother home from the public school, I never scolded or condemned him, but sacrificed part of my wax sculpture time to teach my younger brother.

However, the seemingly happy and harmonious days were broken shortly after his younger brother was dropped out of school.

Strange things start to happen in the town.

In the first place, the cat died.

——The family of the child who took the lead in bullying his younger brother had a cat and a dog. One night, the mistress of the house got up at night and accidentally glanced at the yard through the window, and found that the yard was full of blood. The cat's belly was cut open, dragging half of its thin intestines, crawling around in the yard with difficulty.

Later, when the family checked the cat, they found that the tongue had been pulled out of the cat's mouth. The murderer first pulled out the cat's tongue, then tortured it inhumanely, and finally threw the half-dead cat back into the yard.

Before the cat was dying, it dragged its painful body and tried to crawl back to the owner's house.

This is the first strange thing.

Then, a child's ear was cut off.

According to the child, he was out to play with his friends, and when he was urinating by a small river, his eyes were suddenly blindfolded. He thought it was someone playing with him, so he didn't care.Unexpectedly, the next moment, a knife cut off one of his ears.

Of course, this child also has a grudge against his younger brother, or——

He was one of the children who unilaterally bullied his deformed brother.

This is the second oddity.

After this incident happened, people in the small town were panicked and could not sleep peacefully all day long.The town is so big, they quickly found something in common between the dead cat and the family whose ears had been cut off——

Their children have all bullied the deformed young Trudy son.

At this time, someone had already come to make trouble, trying to get Trudy and the others to give an explanation. They thought it was the "ominous" trouble of Trudy's family.

Trudy was very angry. She felt insulted. The accusation against her brother was to her a denial of her education.She argues that it is impossible for a child of eight or nine years old to do this, but those people just say——

"It would be nice if that child was burned."

Fortunately, most people are still awake.

Until the third strange thing happened.

In the town, a corpse disappeared out of thin air.

This corpse was the dead father who taught his younger brother, the teacher who favored mischievous children. He was supposed to be buried three days later, but unexpectedly disappeared before the funeral.

The empty coffin was placed in the middle of the road, and the teacher came with the coffin and cried.

No one knows where the body went, but people know that the three strange things that happened in a row have something to do with the Trudy family.

People finally got angry, and they asked Trudy to punish the ominous "kid in the wax mask".

Everyone agreed that these things were caused by my younger brother who cursed those people out of revenge.

Although Trudy couldn't understand this idea at all, but under the pressure of the public, she promised to live in the basement with her children.

"I won't let him appear in front of you."

This angry and pitiful woman had no choice but to promise those people.

Sidelle saw her confusion, grievance and dissatisfaction in the notes.

[I told the child that I was moving into the basement and asked him if he could accompany me.I said that my mother was looking for inspiration for carving, and he was very well-behaved and agreed to me.How could such a cute child be so ominous in their mouths?Even if no one believed it, I would always stand behind him, and so would his father, his brothers. 】

[Since no one likes him, I give him all my time except for carving.Hope to accompany him to grow up healthy. 】

After living in the basement, Trudy's husband, Sinclair, moved in with his brother, seemingly to support his wife.

The only difference is that Trudy, Sinclair and the older brother are free to come and go in and out of town, while the younger brother cannot.

However, it was only three months.

In the notebook, until the third month of living in the basement, Sidelle saw Trudy's terrified handwriting.

She was so flustered that she even forgot to remember the date, but hurriedly wrote such a line in the notebook.

[Perhaps, everything is wrong. 】

[I seem to... gave birth to a monster. 】

The notes after this are no longer a diary with a relaxed tone and daily records.

This notebook has completely changed its style, from a warm and harmonious family complaint to a horror novel written by a deranged patient.

Trudy no longer writes dates, no longer writes names, she doesn't seem to be in the right state, and she no longer concentrates on engraving, just observing the child.

[Today, I dug out a few rotten bird heads from the dirt in the backyard...]

【I'm getting more and more scared. Since that night, I will never forget that scene. 】

【Sinclair knew about these things, but he didn't care too much, comforted me and told me not to be too nervous.So I'm the only one who's scared, isn't it? 】

[Is the way he looks at me more and more strange?I know, he is my child, and I love him very much, but I cannot accept him doing this kind of thing...he is only eight years old! 】

[I woke up in the middle of the night and found him standing beside me, I don't know how long I watched him. 】

……

Sidelle found that Trudy did not write down the reasons for her sudden change of mind in her notes.But she mentioned a key word "that night", that is to say, on a certain night, she discovered something or a scene, which caused her to start to panic, restless day and night, and even afraid of her own children.

Thinking about it a little bit, judging from the fact that these two children will also follow their mother to make wax figures, it is probably——

"He" stole the teacher's father's body, took it home, secretly made a wax figure, hid it in the wax figure group, and was discovered by Trudy a few months later.

Trudy, who once firmly believed that her child was not a demon, was very frightened. After the fright, she tried to observe the child, but found that the more she observed, the more frightened she became.

She came to a terrible conclusion that this child is simply a cold-blooded and ruthless freak!

After this, notes are still being taken.

[He went berserk, he hurt himself, Sinclair called a psychiatrist. 】

[The doctor said that he suffers from impulsive personality disorder. 】

[It turned out that my child was just sick... I started to feel guilty, but there were enough things in life, and Sinclair seemed a little tired. 】

【He said he didn't want to go to the hospital. In order to avoid hurting others, we had to tie him up and make him drink medicine on time. 】

【I love him... But I think I need a little time to accept it. 】

【Can I train him to be a good boy?I can do it, right? 】

……

【A very bad thing happened, I got sick. 】

Seeing this line of writing, Sidelle instantly remembered the story about this abandoned town told by Kom in the van.

Sinclair also died of depression shortly after Trudy died of illness.

She didn't look at the next content carefully, and quickly flipped through it, and saw such a line written at the end of the note.

[I'm about to die, but my child hasn't grown up yet. 】

Thousands of words can only be combined into this sentence.

【Vincent, I left a CD with what I want to say to you.After I'm gone, remember to watch it with your brother, so that he won't be too sad. 】

In the notebook, for the first time, a name other than Sinclair appears.

Vincent.

Is this person an older brother or a younger brother?

After flipping through the notebook, Sidelle took the remote control and started to scroll through the progress of the video, and also skipped directly to the last few minutes.

The woman on the hospital bed looked old and haggard, but her smile was full of gentle tolerance.

She propped up her bony body, smiled at the camera, and spoke slowly, word by word, somewhat awkwardly, but very steadily.

[I have been obsessed with sculpture these years, and have neglected you a lot. After I die, my art will be buried with my body.But, I will always love you guys.I hope that you can all become people with good intentions, and then, happiness will be good. 】

Sidelle stared at the frozen black and white picture on the TV, raised her hand and turned it off.

In the last moments of his life, Trudy still thought about his twin children and hoped that they would become people of integrity.

But things backfired.

Not only did the twins not grow up according to her wishes, but they went to another extreme.

——They slaughtered the entire town and made them into wax figures.

——They are still staying in the small town, continuing to hunt innocent travelers passing by.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The sudden sound of footsteps vibrated in a dark basement through a thin layer of floorboards.

Sidelle pursed her lips and reacted immediately, quickly put the notebook in her hand into the drawer in front of her, closed the drawer, held the flashlight in one hand, and quietly touched the gun at the back waist with her right hand.

At this time, Sidelle was not in the panic of being discovered, but rather relaxed.

——Someone found this place, no matter if this person is an older brother or a younger brother, as long as he appears in front of her, she can use him to quickly find Belch's location.

Sidelle thought for a while, and tried to shake the flashlight. While the beam fluctuated, she slowly retreated to the corner of the basement, changing her position.

The sound of heavy footsteps suddenly increased.

"Boom boom boom——"

The man approached, apparently, he found the light source here.

"boom."

The man didn't climb the ladder, but jumped straight down!However, it seemed that because he was too hasty, when he jumped down, he didn't stand firmly, and stepped on a piece of slippery wax, shaking his body.

But the burly man with a wax mask on his face reacted very quickly. He grabbed the wooden ladder beside him, stabilized his figure within a few seconds, looked up at the blond girl holding a small flashlight in the basement, and pulled it out with a "swoosh". Two sharp knives stuck in his waist.

Sidelle saw at a glance that there seemed to be no other weapons on his body. She looked at the wax mask on the man's face, her eyes moved slightly, her fingers were still pressed on the weapon on the back waist, but she slightly stopped thinking about firing the gun.

There were only three bullets in the gun.

She now needs to find Belch first.

"Your brother lied to you!"

Before the man in the wax mask pounced, she looked straight at the killer and raised her voice.

The movement of the man in the wax mask paused for a few seconds, but the next moment he continued to chase after Sidelle with two knives raised.

But in just a few seconds, Sidel had already confirmed her guess.

In the dark and lightless basement, only a slender girl in the corner stood in the bright beams of light. The dust rolled in the light around her when she moved. There was a strange smile on her pale face, and her movements gently raised her eyes. A strand of blond hair around the ear, pinned behind the ear.

Sidelle inserted the flashlight into the belt behind her waist with her backhand, and the beam of light pointed straight at the ceiling.She put her hands away from her waist, posing in a harmless pose, and raised her hands innocently, but the expression on her face became more and more strange.

"Do you remember this?"

She quickly backed away, and started a race with the man in the wax mask around the iron table, while exposing the thing in her palm to the light beam.

A gilt jadeite earring hooked lightly on her fingertips.

"This is Ms. Trudy's legacy... I have always admired her, she is a beautiful woman with a strong heart, and I am very attracted to her passion for art."

"I admire her very much, so I came all the way to the town where she lived and found this basement. I can see ghosts, so just now——I borrowed her relics and held a psychic ceremony, Try to meet her."

While talking nonsense, Sidelle stared closely at the man in the wax mask, her blue eyes full of sincerity.

"She told me something."

"Your brother Vincent, he lied to you."

When Sidelle raised the earring, the man in the wax mask stared straight at her fingertips, obviously recognizing it.

After she compliments Trudy, the masked man visibly slows down the chase.

He raised his face, and a smooth wax figure covered the face of this tall and strong man, only two dark holes were found in the eye sockets.

It looked horrific.

Seeing him slow down, he still held the two sharp blades with both hands, like a ferocious beast ready to go, bent slightly, and approached the slender and weak girl step by step.

Sidelle's eyes moved slightly, but she smiled again.

The girl put her hand down casually, with a relaxed posture, as if she was walking slowly, she calmly distanced herself from the man in the wax mask, her blue eyes stared directly at the two dark holes on the mask man's face, "Trudy The lady told me she always wanted you to be a good person...but your brother doesn't seem to think so, does he?"

Her tone was soft, as if she had put on some kind of strange accent unconsciously, while keeping a distance from the masked man around the iron table, her fingers swayed rhythmically around her body like water plants.

"Your elder brother Vincent has always been very kind to you! Since you were a child, you looked terrible, and he didn't dislike you; when you were bullied, he killed their cats, cut off their ears, and even stole the corpses of the dead as a gift." revenge……"

"But, have you ever thought that everything is fake?"

"Did he tell you that your mother's last wish was to complete a great work of art?"

The girl's voice was smiling, and she kept talking unhurriedly, but it wasn't until these words were uttered that the man in the wax mask suddenly tightened his muscles visibly, and even the air around him seemed to have a bit of cold killing intent. .

Sidelle's smile remained unchanged, and the corners of her mouth even tended to widen. She still smiled elegantly, tilted her head slightly and brushed her hair, with a cool look in her eyes.

she thought happily.

Look, you guessed it.

In Trudy's diary, it seems to record the story of the disfigured and deformed child who gradually became psychopathic after she gave birth to a pair of conjoined twins.

However, the person who is really psychopathic and mentally ill is not the younger brother with a congenital facial disability, but...

The brother who seems to be a normal person.

The "he" used when describing the younger brother and the "he" used when recording the elder brother, because there is no name written, it seems to record the abnormal growth history of a deformed child.

But in fact, the two "he" do not refer to the same child.

The monster that people in the town thought was the deformed younger brother.And the monster that mother Trudy fears in the notes is the seemingly ordinary child, Vincent.

Sidelle noticed the abnormality when she read the notes, but she didn't confirm her guess until the moment the man in the wax mask jumped down.

In that notebook, Trudy went back and forth too quickly.One moment, she was still gently caressing her younger brother, but the next day, because she saw a terrible scene, she was terrified of her younger brother, and even observed him like a monster.

The seemingly normal turning point, but because of the detailed records in the notes, made this turning point contradictory.

The biggest contradiction is that when describing the two "hes" before and after, Trudy obviously devoted too much effort and attention to her younger brother. It is impossible for her to know his brother's situation from being well-informed to being incomprehensible because of one night's experience. great detail.

Unless, the "he" before and after is not a person.

The "he" in the front is the younger brother, and the "he" in the back is the elder brother.The physically disabled is the younger brother, and the mentally ill is the older brother.

Later, when the man in the wax mask jumped into the hole and almost slipped, Sidel was really sure of her guess.

Although it was blocked by clothes, it was impossible to see whether there was a scar on his wrist.However, this basement is often cleaned. If you are a frequent visitor, it is impossible to know where the condensed wax is located under the ladder and in the basement.

It stands to reason that the man in the wax mask has lived in the basement for more than ten years, so he should have been very clear about the layout here, but when he jumped off, he acted as if he hadn't come back for many years.

why?

Either, he doesn't want to recall the memory of living here, but according to the current clues, it's unlikely; or, someone deliberately deceived him, making him think that this place is no longer accessible, most likely, he doesn't even Know mother's notes, CDs and other relics.

That's why when Sidelle said those words, even if she tried her best to conceal it, she could still see his shocked body language.

The only person who can deceive him is his mentally ill elder brother.

Sidelle is not yet clear about the origin of her brother Vincent's actions of killing cats, wounding people, and stealing corpses, etc. It may be that he is sincerely avenging his brother, or it may be...just a pure psychopath.

After all, he can do such things as trick his own brother into a small town, kill people with him, and make a wax statue of a human corpse, so he is not a good person.

Hearing these words about his mother's last wish, the man in the wax mask slowly stopped his heavy footsteps. He slowly straightened up his burly body, looking faintly in the direction of Sidelle through the dark hole.

Obviously, he had already listened to it, and wanted to know the next sentence—or, in Sydel's words, what was his mother Trudy's last wish.

Sidel, who seemed easy-going and relaxed, but was actually tense all the time, was relieved in her heart, and her wrist, which was ready to go and was ready to take out the pistol when the masked man rushed over at any time, also relaxed slightly.

Although the man in the wax mask can be killed, killing him is not the best choice in the current situation where people need to be saved.

What's more, the girl seems calm and calm, but only she knows her physical condition.

His whole body was like a sponge picked up from cold water, limp and weak.Without a gun, Sydel wasn't sure she'd be able to get out by hand-to-hand combat.

It is not a wise thing to compete in strength with a man who weighs hundreds of pounds.

Getting rid of Leatherface because of his arrogance, the freak wave was a life gamble, and now—

Sidel, who had to hold the gun as steady as possible so as not to tremble, thought to herself that it wouldn't be a bad thing to be a magic stick for a while.

The man in the wax mask may not have noticed, but he did relax his vigilance towards Sidelle a little bit, and even listened to her words.

Because, from the moment he jumped into the hole——

Sidelle was already acting.

In the dark, the girl quietly and little by little changed her look, posture, subtle expressions, the arc of her smile, her habitual small movements, and even her tone, speed, and timbre all changed slowly.

She is imitating the woman in the video, from every angle.Slowly transforming himself from a stranger to the mother of the murderer in front of him, let him feel the kindness of a mother after many years in this familiar place.

Then he relaxed his vigilance a little bit, and was brought in by her words.

"Actually." Seeing that the plan was half-successful, Sidelle kept her fake smile and rolled her eyes. Instead of continuing to talk about Trudy's last wish, she said softly, "I also have a younger brother."

She seemed to be lost in memory, her eyes dim, and she said slowly: "His name is Belch, and he is mentally handicapped."

Sidelle was about to tell a tragic story to the man in the wax mask in front of her, so she thought for a few seconds before using this sentence as her opening remark.

Sure enough, one sentence stunned the masked man.

Sidelle nodded with satisfaction from the bottom of her heart, and by the way thought of Belch who didn't know where she was—

Sister is not scolding you, it's just to save you faster!

However, with his style of acting... To Sidelle, it's not much different from being mentally handicapped.

Therefore, she made up the story very smoothly, and she was not guilty.

Belch, the protagonist of the story, was lying on a seat, staring blankly at the ceiling.

The poor, thin boy was tied up on an iron chair with plastic straps all over his body, and his lips were glued together with super glue.

Just now, the man who suddenly attacked and kidnapped him from the dark woods brought him to this room. He moved very skillfully, stuck his lips together, tied him to an iron chair...

Everything is done in one go, like flowing clouds and flowing water.

At first glance, he was a mature perverted killer.

After Belch was tied up by the burly man, he was already quite desperately prepared to be killed, and by the way, he thought of Sidelle who didn't know where she was——

Sister woo woo woo woo woo...

Fortunately, before the burly man made the next move, he seemed to have seen something from the window behind him, with a gloomy face, walked out the door with a gun in hand, ignoring the tied Belch.

Probably in his opinion, this thin boy has become a chopping board fish, so there is no need to worry about it.

However, after he left.

Belch's originally desperate heart revived almost instantly.

He was like a fish thrown ashore, struggling weakly and hard. After struggling for more than ten seconds, of course he couldn't break free, but Belch suddenly realized something.

His waist was pressed against something cold.

Belch instantly remembered that this was the weapon Sidelle gave him for self-defense before entering the hotel.

In the previous battles, those people were either holding guns, or they were extremely dangerous battles such as super-large chainsaws and rear-end rear-end collisions. Belch couldn't get in at all, and he didn't want to get in.

But now-

The man who had kidnapped him seemed to take him lightly, thinking that Belch was just a skinny chick who didn't even search him.

He was overjoyed, and twisted his body with all his strength, trying to wring out the scissors pinned in his waist pocket.

Belch tried his best to move his body, and finally, after more than ten seconds, half of the scissors were exposed. He stretched his fingers as long as he could, and touched the cold scissors little by little.

Strange to say, before touching the scissors, Belch only had fear in his heart, but after touching the weapon, he suddenly found a faint anger welling up in his heart.

This damned bad weather, these damned travelers, this damned hotel, this damned murderer, and this pervert who kidnapped him...

Belch cursed in his heart, emboldened himself, and carefully hooked the scissors to cut the plastic belt tied around his body.

"Yes, he suffers from congenital mental retardation." Sidelle sighed softly with a gloomy face, "So, in school, he has been bullied all the time, and he never knew how to fight back..."

"He is kind by nature, he doesn't swear at others, and he doesn't cause trouble. Every day, facing the ridicule of others, he accepts it... His life is very miserable, and he is often covered with bruises."

Belch had already cut off the plastic belt on his body with scissors. He stood up cursing in his heart, feeling a pain in his body, couldn't help turning over his sleeves, and found bruises and scars on the places where he had been bound.

Belch: "..." Because he couldn't speak, he could only yell at the damn kidnapper in his heart.

While cursing, he quickly searched for something from the table next to him—he wanted to find a large weapon, at least something that could give the kidnapper a mallet.

His sister said, don't panic when things happen!Be calm!

Belch felt that he was very calm now, he was very satisfied with his state, and even started to praise himself.

"He has a timid personality, is afraid of rats and insects, and will tremble when he hears louder noises..."

Belch found a curved baseball bat on the desk cabinet, he held it in his palm and patted it with satisfaction, and quickly ran out of the door.