Although this puppet was wearing the clothes of a real person and looked like a real person from a distance, it was impossible for Chen Chuan to regard it as a real person.

Director Lei said behind him: "Did you forget to take something? Come out first."

Chen Chuan turned around and said, "Yes." He turned around and walked out of the room. Director Lei looked inside again, where his son was playing with building blocks obediently, but he couldn't put them together well. He gently

Push the door shut.

When the two of them returned downstairs, Director Lei looked at him and said, "Did you just see something? You can tell me, no matter what it is, I can accept it."

Chen Chuan glanced at the second me. There was a faint sign of blurring in the room just after I entered the room. It is still continuing up to now. He considered his words before saying: "In Director Lei's eyes, what is the state of his child?

"

Director Lei was silent for a while, and said truthfully: "Solitary, dull, not talkative, and has no friends, but this is not his fault. He was injured back then and has been entangled by unexplained abnormal substances. All of this has

It's my fault, so I can accept not treating him as a normal child, as long as he can grow up safely, even if he no longer recognizes me as his father."

Chen Chuanchuan: "Then let me tell you what I saw."

Director Lei looked over, waiting for his answer.

Chen Chuan also looked at him and said slowly: "What I saw was not a child, but just a puppet."

Director Lei was stunned for a moment. He stood there for a long time, then suddenly raised his head, strode forward, and grabbed Chen Chuan's shoulders.

Chen Chuan stood there without dodge, Director Lei stared at him: "Really?"

Chen Chuan nodded.

Director Lei murmured: "That's it, that's it..." Then his eyes seemed to be a little red, and he shook Chen Chuan's shoulders hard, "Thank you, thank you, Classmate Chen!"

Chen Chuanchuan: "Did Director Lei think of something?"

Director Lei took a breath and said, "Yes, this is a question that has been bothering me for two years."

He seemed to have calmed down at this moment. He released his hand and took two steps back. He asked seriously: "Classmate Chen, are you sure that what you saw was a puppet and not something else?"

Chen Chuanchuan: "I'm sure."

Director Lei nodded and said, "Then please wait here for a while while I go make some calls."

Chen Chuanhuan: "Director Lei, please." After saying that, he sat down on the sofa on the side.

Director Lei waited for him to sit down before leaving the room. Although he looked calm on the surface, Chen Chuan could tell from his slightly trembling back that he was very excited, which was suppressed by his strong self-control.

Come down.

After waiting for about half an hour, Director Lei came back and sat down on the sofa opposite Chen Chuan. He didn't speak for a long time.

Chen Chuan didn't take the initiative to speak either.

After a while, Director Lei took off his black-rimmed glasses, groped around for a while, and seemed to find nothing, so he wiped the fog from them with his cuffs, put them on again, looked at Chen Chuan, and said solemnly: "

Classmate Chen, before today, I never thought that I could save my son's life in this way, thank you."

Chen Chuanhua: "Director Lei..." Director Lei waved his hand and said: "I'm not crazy, I know what you said is right."

He looked at it, "Two years, two years, who would have thought that all I have to face all day is a puppet?" He laughed at himself, "It's useless for me to claim to be an expert in esoteric rituals, but for

The tantric rituals were so close at hand but I couldn't distinguish them."

Chen Chuanchuan: "Director Lei, it seems you believe what I said."

"Reason and emotion, sometimes emotion always takes the upper hand, so I always don't want to think about it, but fortunately, when the truth appears in front of me, I can make a rational judgment instead of immediately choosing to deny it."

Lei Ju said: "Without your reminder, it would be difficult for me to break through this point on my own." He sighed, "Care will lead to chaos."

Chen Chuan thought for a while: "Maybe it's a bit presumptuous, but can I ask what is going on?"

"There's nothing bad to say about this," Director Lei took off his glasses again, rubbed his red eyes, put them on again, and regained his composure.

"As the director of the Esoteric Cult Examination Bureau, I often confront those illegal sects. When I banned a certain esoteric sect, the place where I lived was leaked.

Then I learned that someone from that illegal sect had slipped into my temporary residence and performed a ritual curse on my son. It’s not complicated to say, but the simple explanation is to connect my son with a certain strange story.

Afterwards, I tried many methods to solve it, but none of them worked as expected.

This matter also attracted the attention of my ex-wife, who immediately sued me when she saw that I was imposing rituals on my children. However, she did not understand that if the curse ritual was not suppressed, it would have an impact on the people around her.

It is stipulated above that these matters cannot be disclosed to ordinary people except law enforcement officers. It is not easy for me to tell her clearly. I just hinted that she needs to stay away from our son.

My marriage to her was arranged by our elders, and we have no feelings. In fact, we don't know each other well. Even if I tell her the truth, she will probably just think that I am talking crazy and for the sake of revenge.

Take the child back and make up these things to scare her.

I kept trying to find ways to remedy the situation, but she avoided me everywhere until half a month later..."

He sighed deeply, "Actually, if I had discovered the problem earlier, I might have been able to prevent this tragedy from happening, but I was a little lucky in my heart that her death had nothing to do with the child. The two of them

You don’t have to bear all this..."

Having said this, he picked up the water glass next to him, raised his head and drank the water in one gulp, and then placed it heavily on the table aside.

He looked up at Chen Chuan, "You know, to successfully perform this ritual, my child must be alive, so they should still be controlling my child somewhere."

Chen Chuanchuan: "Director Lei, do you need help?"

Director Lei said: "Thank you for this ceremony... I almost know where they will hide the children. I have arranged for people to go there. Just wait here." After a while, he spoke again, "But..." He

Taking a breath, "This ritual must be broken first."

Chen Chuan looked at his expression: "It's difficult?"

Director Lei's lips trembled slightly, and he slowly closed his fingers. After several attempts, he finally clenched his fists tightly, "I only need to kill the things I saw with my own hands, and then this ritual can be broken.

"

Chen Chuan's eyes narrowed and he looked at Director Lei sitting there, understanding the pain he was suffering at the moment.

No wonder that as the director of the Esoteric Cult Audit Bureau, he has never thought about it in this direction, because as a father, he will do everything possible to avoid the idea of ​​harming his own children, and this ritual is really too destructive.

.

He said: "Can't there be another way?"

Director Lei shook his head, "The original intention of this ceremony is to destroy the love between family members in the most cruel way. If we don't use this method, even if it is broken, it will happen again in the future." He breathed hard, "As a father, I

I failed to fulfill my responsibilities and brought misfortune to him, so I should bear the consequences."

He stood up and said to Chen Chuanchuan: "Classmate Chen, please help me one more time. I need you to watch from behind, so that you can remind me that it is indeed a puppet, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to do it."

Chen Chuan also stood up and said solemnly: "Director Lei, I am willing to help you, but..." He said: "Director Lei, aren't you afraid that I will make a mistake?"

Director Lei looked into his eyes and said: "It's true that you are a student of Director Cheng, but as far as I know, you have personally dealt with many monsters. It was you who eradicated the flying-headed monsters in the wild mountains. And I noticed

The intervals between clearing up ghost stories are short, but you are not affected in any way.

Maybe you don’t know it yourself, but you have an extremely special talent and can resist the invasion of some strange substances, so what you say is more credible than what others say.”

Chen Chuan understood that Director Lei should have not only arranged to rescue the child, but also checked his background. He understood this. After all, his son's life was involved, so there was nothing wrong with being cautious.

.

And he roughly understood that it was not just Director Lei who felt like a living person when he saw his son, but maybe other people too. And the invasion of ghost stories on him was all endured by his second self, so he didn't

Being influenced is what Director Lei calls talent.

"Wait for me a moment."

Director Lei said hello and left. After a while, he came back holding a hammer.

"Let's go."

Chen Chuan followed him up and reached the third floor again.

After opening the door, Director Lei looked over with questioning eyes. Chen Chuan looked inside and saw that the puppet was still huddled quietly in the corner, so he nodded towards him.

Director Lei clenched the hammer in his hand and walked in. In his eyes, sitting there was still his well-behaved son. However, he should have known something was wrong, because his son was still the same as he was two years ago.

Nothing has changed at all.

He instinctively wanted to close his eyes, but the ritual was broken and he didn't allow it. He stepped forward with his feet like lead, and tried hard to lift the hammer. From his perspective, the child suddenly raised his head and looked at him with innocent eyes.

Looking at him, "Dad, why did you hit me?"

Director Lei said with tears in his eyes: "Xiao Ying, I'm sorry." He picked up the hammer and hit it hard again and again.

In Chen Chuan's eyes, the puppet gradually cracked and was damaged under the hammer blows. At this moment, the signs of the second self's virtualization suddenly became more serious.

With Director Lei's final hammer blow, there was a click and the sound of wooden objects cracking, and a glass bead serving as an eyeball fell to the ground.

Director Lei was panting there, and what he saw in his eyes at this time was just a broken puppet. With a clang, the hammer in his hand also fell to the ground.

He took two steps back and held onto the wall.

Chen Chuan looked at his second self, and the signs of blurring on it gradually disappeared at this moment.

Director Lei calmed down for a while, regained some energy, his eyes regained their luster, and said to Chen Chuanchuan: "Thank you, let's go down."

Chen Chuan nodded, took another look at the puppet, and followed him.

When he got downstairs, Director Lei was waiting there silently. He was waiting for a result that he could accept. Chen Chuan did not speak. For a moment, the only sound in the living room was the clock ticking every second.

After waiting for about ten minutes.
To be continued...