Like before, Shade also placed the puppet pistol on the oil painting. As expected, it melted in the painting and then appeared at the door of the model house.
The puppet associated with Shade walked to the pistol, but did not bend down to pick it up. Mr. Freeman's puppet also looked at the pistol, but did not pick it up.
"Certificate."
The priest thought for a while and suddenly said, Shade suddenly realized that the MI6 ID and the gun license were turned into puppets and sent into the oil painting. The puppet corresponding to Shade first picked up the ID, and then finally bent down to pick it up.
The toy pistol even made a very obvious movement of confirming the bullet with its fingers.
The puppet in the oil painting is not a replica or has any soul connection with the real person. It can only deflect damage. The puppet cannot use the ring warlock ability like Shad, but the puppet can at least shoot.
However, by transferring weapons in this way, the puppet made by Shade can only be used by himself, and cannot be used by Freeman.
But that was enough, leaving Mrs. Freeman and the boy in the hall while Shade and the priest went upstairs with the painting.
The gun-wielding puppet in the oil painting also moves towards the second floor of the model, and meets the bandage puppet in the living room on the second floor.
The oil painting made no sound, and the two people outside could only see the action of the puppet raising a gun in the painting.
But it is a pity that even with a weapon like a revolver, the gun puppet still cannot defeat the bandage puppet. The opponent is not only tall, but also has excellent evasion ability. When he is in the same room with the victim puppet, he can get inside the model.
Carry out short-distance spatial movement. Even if it is shot, it will not affect its own movement at all, and even gave Shade's puppet a knife.
So after the bullets in the pistol were empty, Shade, who was injured again, could only temporarily return to the foyer on the first floor to take shelter.
And because of the fight just now, the bandage puppet has already arrived on the stairs, and it will take about half an hour to enter the foyer.
The gun-wielding puppet threw the documents and the revolver out of the model house, and they immediately appeared from the surface of the oil painting. Shade refilled the pistol with bullets, but did not feed it into the oil painting again.
"The intelligence level of ordinary puppets is too low and cannot compare with the bandage puppet. I think your puppet needs other helpers."
The priest suddenly said.
"You mean Mr. Freeman and the little boy? Let them fight against my puppets?"
Shade pointed to the two puppets nestled together in the oil painting, shook his head and reminded:
"The boy is too weak, and Freeman's puppet, although of normal intelligence, has too little strength."
"I mean myself."
The priest said calmly:
"I know you can't turn me into a puppet, but I can take the initiative to touch the painting and make more puppets corresponding to me appear in the painting."
Shade immediately shook his head:
"Priest August, having more people may not be useful, but it will definitely put you in danger, let me think about it."
He looked at the pistol in his hand and then at the oil painting.
He covered the revolver again with a handkerchief, but the size of the wooden toy that appeared afterward was almost exactly the same as the original one, instead of being the size of a thumb.
Shade threw the one-to-one scale wooden toy towards the oil painting again. This time, the pistol did not appear in the house model, but appeared on the table next to the model. Moreover, the pistol in the picture actually returned to reality.
of a pistol. It was too big to fit into the house model.
A bold attempt allowed Shade to understand another rule: puppets that are large enough to enter the house will remain in puppet form and enter the house model. Puppetes that are too large to enter the house model will appear on the table and become real objects.
Shape.
"Can this gun still be taken out?"
Seeing this happening, Priest Augustus asked curiously.
Shade shook his head and said he didn't know. His eyes scanned the picture more carefully, and then he saw very light text on the curtains as the background of the oil painting.
The curtain itself is in the sun, and the color of this line of text is very similar to the curtain, so I didn't notice it at the first time:
【The inside and outside of oil painting, the inside and outside of the painter.】
When I read this line of text, I was thoughtful, hesitated for a moment, and read the text softly. Then, Shade's hand touched the oil painting, and the hand actually reached into the painting.
"oh?"
Priest August looked at this scene curiously, and Shade also frowned.
He first reached out to touch his pistol and then successfully took it back from the screen.
"Does this mean"
The priest whispered. Shade nodded and reached into the screen again, but was stopped by the priest:
"I'll do it this time."
He did not ask Shade how he understood those strange words. After all, Shade had shown the ability to know words because of [time and space] in the study meeting before.
Shade told Priest August the specific pronunciation of those ancient letters, and the priest succeeded in putting his hand into the picture after trying twice.
He reached out to the model of the house, and as expected he couldn't touch it, as if there was a glass cover outside the model blocking the priest's hand.
Then the priest reached for other objects on the table in the picture. He still couldn't touch the house model with these objects, but these objects could be taken out.
But whether it was a vase, a rotten apple, a statue that looked like an ancient god [Crack in the Distance] or a small pendant, these were all ordinary items. So the two guessed that this was the previous owner of the oil painting, and when they tried to fight against the house model
, a test object thrown into an oil painting.
It is currently unknown what the production conditions are for other puppets that can be thrown into the oil painting, except for Shade's [Toy Making]. In a certain sense, this painting actually has the function of turning the puppets into real existences.
"I can't touch the model with my hand, should we think of other ways?"
The priest fell into deep thought again, but Shade had already found a way, with a relaxed expression on his face:
"Priest, please go out again, go to my house and bring Mia."
Thinking of the cat at home, Shade added:
"Oh, it may not want to be held by you. You can tell it something happened to me like last time, and then use clothes to lure it to the carriage."
Shade handed over the key to his home and the blood-stained coat. Seeing that the priest was still confused, he reminded:
"Priest, although we can put our hands into the painting, strictly speaking, we are still outside the painting, so we cannot touch the house model inside the painting. And when we hold something in the painting, it is very likely that the thing
It is judged to be the same thing as our body.”
"Inside the oil painting? Outside the oil painting? Could it be possible for your cat?"
The old priest smiled, nodded clearly, and after telling Shade to be careful, he took the keys and Shade's coat and went out.
While Priest August left, Shade also told Mrs. Freeman, who was waiting on the side, not to tell anyone about the incident after it was over.
Of course Mrs. Freeman understood that it was not a good thing to have a supernatural incident in her family. Telling it might affect her children's future marriages. She immediately took her son and swore to God that she would not tell anyone about the whole incident.
.
But Shade still thought that if there was time, Dr. Schneider would come and let the psychiatrist use his ability to make the Freeman family forget all this.
The doctor can't completely erase the memory, which will cause permanent damage to the brain. But he can make the Freeman family's memory of the incident blurry until years later they suspect it was just a dream.
It would be best for ordinary people to forget their contact with the mysterious and the supernatural.
Including the carriage ride and seducing the timid and alert cat in Saint Teresa Square, the priest spent more than an hour going back and forth.
During this period, the bandage puppet in the model house had come up the stairs to the foyer. In order to avoid it, Shade used thaumaturgy to open the door of the landlord's house on the first floor and went inside to take shelter temporarily.
Although it is a bit bad to do this, the group will not mess with other people's things, so this is a last resort.
I don’t know if Shade’s action of reaching out and trying to touch the house model just now made the relic feel a greater crisis, and the bandage puppet’s movement speed accelerated again. Before the priest came back, he had blocked three puppets in the model.
In the large bedroom on the first floor.
Shade sent the pistol into the oil painting again, and the three puppets were forced to deal with the bandage puppet. The smaller puppet ran first, and the two larger puppets worked together to wrap around the bandage puppet, and then left the room one after another just like reality.
But even if three puppets fought with one puppet, the bandage puppet still had the upper hand. Although Shade was not injured this time, the puppet that housed Mr. Freeman's soul was seriously injured because it had been protecting him at all costs.
Marionette.
Fortunately, Mr. Freeman is already dead, and the puppet in the picture is only injured.
"Is father back?"
For safety reasons, Shade never allowed the little boy to touch or view the oil paintings. However, the child, who was held by his mother's hand, felt that Mr. Freeman was protecting him.
When the group of three people moved back to the second floor, the little boy was still looking around, as if expecting his father to suddenly walk out of the room with a smile. But it was impossible for the painter to come back. If he really came back, Shade would
More troubled.
In short, the oil painting seemed to sense that people outside the painting had a way to deal with it, so it gave the bandage puppet in the painting more power.
As the bandage puppet moves faster, Shade and the boy who are affected by the relic become more and more dangerous. The whispering element of the relic is already affecting the boy. Even if Shade is watching over him, if this matter does not
Solve it as soon as possible, and the boy turning into a madman is probably the best outcome.
Fortunately, Priest Augustus successfully brought Mia back.
As expected, the vigilant orange cat refused to let Priest August hold him, and instead jumped up the stairs behind the priest. Seeing Shade sitting in the living room, the cat immediately jumped up excitedly.
Shade, who had been nervous, finally laughed when he saw the familiar cat. Holding Mia in his arms, he kept stroking the cat's head. The orange cat meowed "Meow~", and with Shade's touch, its furry
The little head is also shaking, allowing him to touch it better.
