First of all, Mrs. Brown could not suppress her illness.
She can still pretend to be decent in front of outsiders and is reluctantly kind to her children, but once she is alone with her husband, she will show an abnormal desire to control.
Mr. Brown was a painter and was required to paint only her and the children. Angel and Alex didn't like Mrs. Brown doing this, so only Susan and herself were the most frequently painted on the canvas.
After that, Angel also started to get sick.
She has always been very restrained, not wanting to become a monster and lose her humanity. During that time, she was in great pain and struggled with herself every day. Alex encouraged her and made dolls with Angel to concentrate.
Later, it happened that Mr. Brown could not stand the control of his wife and accidentally killed her, but was frightened crazy by her ghost.
That day, everyone in the villa found that they could not get out of the villa.
Mrs. Brown's ghost could barely reach the gate, while the others were trapped in the villa and couldn't even go to the garden.
Regardless of their character and stance, being imprisoned and Mrs. Brown returning after her death gave them all a heavy blow. They cried, were hysterical, and despaired, and finally returned to peace.
…
When Alex said this, his eyes looked a little sad.
"So it's not that you don't want to go out, it's that you can't get out..." Martha lamented. If her family grounded her at home and cut off the Internet, she would cry, make a fuss, hang herself, and then escape through the window at night.
But the Brown family didn't even have a chance to escape.
Yu Xing felt tired. He had been tired all morning and just wanted to find a place to sit, so he sat down on the desk and asked: "I guess what happened next has something to do with the wizard who came to your house as a guest?
"
Alex nodded and pursed his lips, as if recalling the wizard.
"At that time, after we accepted the fate of being imprisoned, my mother began to think of ways to attract people to come home and kill them. She believed that if she killed enough people, the imprisonment would be lifted. At that time, several people had been killed by my mother's control of the oil painting.
"
"Then one midnight, a man knocked on the door..."
The man didn't say his name, he just called himself a wizard.
The rain that day was about the same as today. The man passed by the town of Orilan and chose to stay overnight in this increasingly famous villa.
During the chat, he said that he knew witchcraft, and he immediately pointed out the anomalies of the Brown family. Mrs. Brown failed to kill him, and not only did he not harm the Brown family, he also provided help in a suspenseful manner.
At that time, Susan asked the wizard: "Are you an exorcist? The one who wants to drive away your mother."
Everyone in the villa is afraid of Mrs. Brown. They think it is Mrs. Brown's existence that causes them to be imprisoned in the villa and cannot leave.
Whether it's Angel and Alex, Susan, or the crazy Mr. Brown, they all have someone who can come and eliminate Mrs. Brown's ghost, but due to Mrs. Brown's absolute control over the family, no one dares to show it.
The arrival of the wizard is a good opportunity.
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Since this memory is described from Alex's perspective, he doesn't know some details at all, so he can only tell them carefully.
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Angel is beautiful, kind, and tolerant. Under her harmless appearance, there are dangerous jagged teeth engraved in her genes. She is like a black lily dipped in poison, full of flaws and yet perfect.
The wizard fell in love with Angel, there was no doubt about it.
He stayed at Brown's house for ten days.
One day during the day, Alex was making puppets with his sister in Angel's room. The wizard knocked on the door and came in, telling them that he had a way to help them escape from Mrs. Brown's control, but there was a condition.
Being away from Mrs. Brown was what the siblings dreamed of. Although they hesitated, one day later, Angel went to the wizard and expressed his willingness to try.
Angel knew that the wizard liked her, and she thought that the wizard's condition was her body, so she did not tell Alex about her choice.
The wizard taught Angel an ancient witchcraft, giving Angel the ability to use dolls to absorb other people's souls. This kind of doll restrained Mrs. Brown's soul. Sure enough, Mrs. Brown no longer dared to threaten or force Angel, and she had a particularly good relationship with Angel.
Alex.
But Angel was in pain because she felt like an evil madman and she had killed people, many people!
After those dolls absorbed other people's souls, they would sing every night. She was afraid of the singing, just like the dead singing in hell, trying to drag her down with them.
She's going crazy.
In order to punish herself, she moved into the attic and never saw others again. Before going up, Angel called Alex and told him everything.
The condition the wizard gave her was that she must absorb the souls of ninety-nine people, otherwise the wizard would kill Alex.
She loves her brother, who has been her only companion who has supported each other since she was a child and has been steadfast in her journey.
So she left her brother a doll and hid two dolls in the guest room. Then she went to the attic and punished herself while making new dolls.
Whenever a guest comes, she and Mrs. Brown will compete for the guest's life. Whoever completes the goal first wins!
Mrs. Brown was afraid of Angel's dolls. She was very careful. When she encountered a doll called mother, she would let Susan destroy it. When she encountered a doll called sister, she would destroy it herself. Angel had never been able to kill them directly.
Alex has been waiting for an opportunity.
Ten days later, the wizard left.
Alex saw the wizard giving Susan a music box before he left. He didn't understand why the wizard did this. Who was he trying to help?
However, he did not find a chance to ask. On the day the wizard left, many black and white flowers bloomed in the garden, as if they appeared overnight.
The wizard stood under the attic and said gently to Angel: "These flowers are for you."
Alex only knows the flower language of black rose, love and curse.
He was afraid that the wizard was no less perverted than Mrs. Brown. He loved Angel, but he wanted to curse Angel and pull Angel into the abyss.
The wizard said that when Angel achieves his goal, he will come back again.
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Yu Xing felt that the story was quite ups and downs, so he almost took the popcorn, shook his legs on the ground and asked: "How many are there now?"
Alex smiled: "Perhaps it is destiny that you are the one to end this. If you add Susan and mother, plus the three of you, there will be 43."
Martha wondered: "Does that mean you're still in the safety line?"
York knocked on the little Loli's head: "Of course not. Don't forget, there is a crazy Mr. Brown in the villa."
Including Mr. Brown, there are exactly forty-four.