After staring at the oil painting for a long time, Marquis Mel gradually came back to his senses from his thoughts. As for the old butler Domes, he still stood beside him without speaking. After a while, maybe he thought of something or made a decision.
The Marquis first stood up from his chair, and then ordered the old housekeeper in a solemn tone:
"Let's go to the third floor."
………
Da da da…
Walking among the stairs and corridors, Marquis Meyer was feeling quite heavy at the moment. He knew that this matter was very strange, and he was also puzzled by the fact that the voice heard in the wax figure room on the third floor was very similar to his father, although the church fathers had said that everyone
All have souls, but this is just a way of saying. After all, he is different from ordinary people. Like his deceased father, Marquis Meyer, who inherited his father's title, is also a soldier who has experienced war, and most soldiers are more
Believe in reality.
Otherwise, in this era where nobles are afraid of death, how could His Majesty the King use his Marquis just for a small-scale rebellion?
This is completely unavailable. Of course, the above is not the key point. The key point is that as a soldier, he essentially does not believe in the theory of Qishen.
Having said that, who would have thought... He who usually doesn't believe in God and even rarely goes to church would now experience a strange thing, something that can be called weird!
To this day, Marquis Meyer still clearly remembers everything he experienced in the wax room that day. Before leaving, he heard a faint voice, which sounded like his father. The voice that seemed like his father said two words:
Run away!
When he and the old housekeeper walked to the third floor, Marquis Mel's thoughts stopped. He stared at the door in front of him and the big brass lock that was opened inexplicably. At this moment, Marquis Mel's face was solemn, and he was talking to Domus.
Both looked at each other, and both of them could see the look of surprise in each other's eyes. It was obvious that even if
The old housekeeper who had been staying in the manor didn't know what was going on. After all, there was no one living on the third floor, and the other rooms on both sides of the corridor were all empty. Usually few people came, and not long ago the Marquis came.
A ban was issued, so the old butler never went to the third floor during the week when the Marquis left.
………
squeak.
Perhaps the doubts in his heart were too strong. Different from the panic when he heard the sound in the room, Count Mel, who was mentally prepared today, was much more courageous than last time. First he stretched out his hand to push open the door, and then let out a long breath.
In one breath, Marquis Mel walked into the room with his loyal old butler Domes, walked into this room that had been silent for a long time, and walked into this wax room that he had cared about for a long time.
There is no doubt that a marquis is a higher title than an earl. Although there are not many marquises in the country, as a high-level nobleman in the British Empire, the size of his mansion will naturally be larger than that of other nobles, not smaller. This is indeed the case. This palace
Halton Manor was personally given by the king after the old Marquis was canonized. It was an abandoned manor before, but its area is really not small. The three-story building in the center of the manor is one of the few tall buildings in this era. As you can imagine
, every room in the building has a lot of space.
Because the space in almost every room is not small, only one room was used to store all of my father's life collection.
Walking straight into this wax statue room that was covered in dust because it had not been cleaned for a long time, in front of it were wax statues of men and women that were the same as ordinary people in terms of body shape and height. Entering the room, Marquis Meyer couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. These things in front of him were all his father's.
What he left behind during his lifetime is, at least to the old Marquis, a treasure.
There are two rows of wax figures placed horizontally in the room. The wax figures are neatly arranged and the number is not small. There are 10 in each row, and the total number is exactly 20. Of course, this refers to 20 sitting side by side. In fact,
At the very back of these wax figures, there is a human wax figure that is not placed with other wax figures, and this wax figure is also the only wax figure in the entire room that is covered with a layer of dust-proof white cloth.
Why is this wax figure the only one that is covered with white cloth to prevent dust from falling? That’s because it is the wax figure of the Marquis de Mer’s mother, Lady Lina, and it was also the old Marquis’s favorite wax figure during his lifetime.
only……
The above scenes were just the impressions Marquis Mel and Domus had of the room in the past. In fact, today, when the two walked into the wax room again... the scene changed, and it even scared Marquis Mel and the old housekeeper.
They both collapsed on the ground!
because……
I don’t know when, at this moment, in addition to the original 21 wax figures, there were more than 40 more wax figures in the room!!!
For a time, the originally slightly empty room was occupied by a large number of wax figures.
fear!
Real fear made the two of them wide-eyed and shocked. If the inexplicable appearance of dozens of extra wax figures was enough to frighten the Marquis and the old housekeeper, then when they saw clearly, these extra wax figures were all familiar faces to them.
How did you feel afterwards?
Yes, not only have the number of wax figures increased, but the dozens of inexplicably extra wax figures are all people familiar to Marquis Meyer and the old butler Domus:
As far as the eye can see, there are 20 wax figures in the front row. The guards are wearing military uniforms. Although these people have different shapes and shapes, their faces are exactly the same as the 20 guards in this manor.
!
The second row is also a group of familiar faces, including 10 wax figures of men and women wearing servants' clothes. Their appearance is the same as that of the maids and male servants in the manor.
As for the last row, there are still 4 more wax figures next to the wax figure of his mother, Mrs. Lina. Four wax figures of characters that made Marquis Mel further shudder. They are his wife, daughter and old housekeeper Domes. His vision continues to shift.
, when he glanced at the last wax statue on the right, in addition to the sweat on his forehead, the corners of Marquis Meyer's mouth began to twitch...
That's...
Himself!!!
It is a wax figure of a character wearing a noble attire. Not only the clothes, but also the figure and even the appearance are no different from myself!
There are 34 more wax figures in the room, and these 34 extra wax figures are all people of Halton Manor, including the owner's family, butler, guards, and male and female servants. All the wax figures are gathered here.
Why?
What is going on? Why are these extra wax figures all people in the manor? Where did these wax figures come from? Or is it that someone specially made wax figures for everyone in the manor that are indistinguishable from real people?
If so, what is the purpose of the guy who made these wax figures? What is the purpose? And how did that guy perfectly restore the appearance of everyone in the manor? You must know that there were no cameras in medieval Europe. Strictly speaking, if there was a wax figure
The artist planned to make a real person wax figure, so he had to have a real person in front of him before he could make it. But what happened? In fact, dozens of wax figures appeared inexplicably in the room, including wax figures of everyone in the manor.
Is this something that ordinary wax figures can do? Even a group of top wax figures... probably don't have the ability to create so many wax figures with almost 100% restoration from memory alone without the presence of real people as templates, right?
What's more, the above speculation itself is unfounded. The manor guards and servants may not know it. At least in Marquis Meyer's own impression, he does not remember that he had asked someone to make a wax figure for him. In the same way, his wife, daughter and butler Dom
Si has never had this experience.
If that's the case, then what's going on with the wax figures popping up suddenly in the room?
"This, this...this is..."
Back to business, looking at the room full of wax figures, he stood blankly for a long time, slightly lost in thought. Marquis Meyer raised his trembling right hand and pointed at the wax figures of himself and other acquaintances. At this moment, the man's face kept twitching. He wanted to say
What, but driven by confusion and fear, he couldn't finish a sentence anyway. Similarly, the old butler Domes next to him was similar to him at the moment, just staring at the wax figure with his body trembling.
in a daze.
brush!
But there is a saying that goes well, when there is no danger, time will smooth everything out, and the passage of time will make the slowest people react. Finally, after about four or five minutes, Marquis Meyer finally calmed down and did not bother to erase everything.
There was cold sweat on my forehead, and I pulled out my right hand from my waist with a brushing sound.
With a sword, it is obvious that although there are wax figures in front of him, which are a pile of lifeless dead objects, because these wax figures are too familiar and appear too strange, based on a soldier's intuition of danger, when he comes back to his senses,
, the Marquis still instinctively drew his sword and made a warning posture.
It is a pity that even with the weapon in hand, the sword in his hand still did not reduce the fear in Marquis Mel's heart. At the same time, when Marquis Mel drew his sword and was on guard, the old butler Domes, who had come to his senses, seemed to have discovered something new.
The thing's face suddenly changed like that, it touched the owner's body with its hand, and raised its hand to point to the right side of the room.
There is a corner, which is the corner of the room that usually attracts the least attention.
"Your Majesty the Marquis, look, there is..."
Domes hesitated to speak, but from the suspicious tone in the other party's words, Marquis Meyer could still tell that the old butler was very confused. Seeing the other party reminding him, he instinctively looked in the direction pointed by the old butler.
But after looking at it...the next second, Marquis Mel also showed the same suspicious expression as the old butler.
At this moment, in this wax figure room full of familiar people, there are actually a few more wax figures in the right corner of the room, but this time it is a little different. The newly discovered wax figures in the corner are not familiar to Marquis Meyer, and they look like
They are also very strange. He has no impression of these figures made of wax. The reason is very simple. That is because...
The wax figures in the corner are not to mention familiar, even their appearance is completely different from their European counterparts.
Because these people, no, I should say these wax figures...all have oriental faces!