Chapter 76: Serial Killing Gang Suffers Serial Killings (11) He...
At that time, the "girl" targeted by Barnaby had been running around in the suburbs for the entire afternoon.
She had never been like this before. After listing her as a target, Barnaby had followed her several times in order to find out her whereabouts.
Every Sunday, as long as it didn't rain, she would go to church first, then go to the countryside, find a place she liked, take out her sketchpad and sketch. If she felt hungry, she would take out the food she had prepared in her backpack and have a simple meal.
There has never been a half-day rampage like this.
This struck Barnaby as a bit odd, but he never imagined that the target had been replaced by a paper figure by the evil spirit, so he ignored this detail.
Si Ling also felt that it was a bit strange to run around like this for the whole afternoon. She noticed the drawing board on the girl and considered whether to let the paper man stop painting, but she was afraid that this arrangement would further reveal the differences in the details, so she finally gave up.
Barnaby chose to act when the girl entered another forest.
He left the forest path and turned into the woods, quickening his pace to intercept the girl. The werewolves, also hiding in the woods, were frantically dodging here and there. Si Ling watched with amusement and cast a spell to help them disappear.
Just as the girl was halfway down the path, Barnaby suddenly appeared. His movements were so skillful that the "girl" only saw him flash before her eyes, and the next second, a damp handkerchief was covering her mouth and nose. Si Ling guessed it must be a drug, and it immediately made the paper figurine faint. The "girl" closed her eyes and collapsed limply.
Barnaby supported the girl with an uncontrollable smile of excitement on his lips. He immediately dragged the girl into the woods. Then, instead of taking the girl home immediately as the ghosts thought, he returned to his previous position and kept fiddling with the dead branches and fallen leaves in the woods with his feet, meticulously covering up the traces made by dragging the girl.
About a minute later, Barnaby carried the unconscious girl out of the woods. A jeep was parked not far away. He put the girl in the trunk, bound her hands and feet tightly with black tape, sealed her mouth, and checked her repeatedly to make sure she was safe enough before getting in the driver's seat.
...But what he didn't know was that the seemingly empty backseat of the car was actually very crowded, and the three sturdy werewolves were squeezed in very uncomfortably. The reason no one sat in the passenger seat was because they were very gentlemanly and left that seat for Si Ling.
Alice still maintained her "ghost behind the scenes" state, clinging to the back of Barnaby's chair, with her chin resting on the back, staring at Barnaby quietly.
Barnaby couldn't wait to get back to finish his next "job," so he quickly started the car and headed towards the city. Si Ling had no intention of disrupting Alice's revenge experience, but thinking of the lives Barnaby had taken, she felt a little angry. After a moment of hesitation, she turned her head and looked at Alice: "Can I scare him first?"
Alice's resentful eyes brightened a little when she turned to Si Ling: "Of course."
Si Ling nodded, and his spirit floated through the seat back to the center of the back seat, saying to the three werewolves, "Please make some room for me."
"...Oh." The three werewolves obediently moved to the sides. In order to make themselves "narrower", Fenric and Orric, who were sitting on both sides, raised their hands and grabbed the armrests above the car door. Ulric, who was in the middle, simply sat on Orric, and finally made room for Si Ling in the middle of the seat.
Si Ling sat down calmly and transformed herself into a pure white long dress, the kind most commonly seen on female ghosts in horror movies. It was made of cotton and had no particular pattern. It looked like a white sheet draped over it.
...Si Ling actually never quite understood why this became a classic image in horror movies, because she had never seen a female ghost in the underworld wearing a white sheet.
But since it can scare people, she can wear it.
Then Si Ling turned pale in front of the rearview mirror. After several adjustments, she reached a satisfactory state. She loosened her ponytailed hair, let most of it fall in front of her, and scratched it with her hands to make it look frizzy.
Barnaby couldn't see her at this time, but the three werewolf brothers witnessed the whole thing.
When Si Ling completed the whole look, Fenric took a breath and Oric turned his head to look out the window.
Because Ulric was sitting on Orric's lap, his position was closer to Si Ling, so he didn't see what Si Ling was doing at first. It was the sound of his elder brother taking a breath that attracted his attention.
When he turned around curiously, Si Ling was just rolling his eyeballs up until only the whites were visible. He then silently chanted a spell, causing the whites of his eyeballs to become bloodshot.
“…” Ulric turned his head stiffly and looked out the window.
The car drove into the city and stopped at a traffic light. Metal music was playing on the stereo, and Barnaby idly tapped the steering wheel to keep the beat. His eyes casually glanced at the rearview mirror, and the ghost's terrifying face gave him a shudder as if he had received an electric shock!
He immediately looked in the rearview mirror again, but it was gone. The rearview mirror reflected the back seat, which was empty.
Alice was close enough to him to clearly feel the chill seeping from his body and goose bumps on her neck. She wanted to laugh—she lowered her eyes and thought about it, then she actually laughed.
"whee."
Barnaby was just trying to convince himself that he must have seen it wrong when a laugh suddenly hit his ears, and the goosebumps that had just subsided instantly surged again. He pricked up his ears to listen to the movement in the car. After just two seconds, the laughter rang out again, just as he had expected. "Hehe."
The laughter was so close that Barnaby felt as if it was right next to his ear.
He suddenly turned towards the passenger seat, and Si Ling seized the opportunity and chanted the spell in succession: "Break the barrier and reveal yourself, and conceal yourself with the phantom mist!"
Barnaby saw the shadow of a little girl flash by over his shoulder.
SAN value -10%.
He was so frightened that his hair stood on end, but then he realized that it was a familiar face.
Barnaby wasn't sure if he was frightened by his own imagination, so he began to recall the fleeting scene uncontrollably.
"Beep beep--" The car behind him honked impatiently. Barnaby then realized that the car in front had already driven quite a distance. He quickly calmed himself down, stepped on the accelerator, and drove without distraction.
In the second half of the journey, Si Ling and Alice did not make any more scary moves, and the three werewolves were as well-behaved as three big wolfhounds. However, this did not prevent Barnaby from repeatedly looking at the back seat through the rearview mirror. A feeling of uncertainty accompanied him all the way.
But when he got home, excitement took over again. He drove the jeep into the yard, parked it in front of the garage, opened the automatic garage door, carried the still unconscious girl from the trunk into the garage, placed her on the metal workbench in the middle of the garage, bound her limbs and head with straps, and then turned to close the garage door.
——Automatic door, the so-called closing of the door actually only requires him to pick up the remote control and press the button on the door.
It only took a few seconds, but when Barnaby looked at the console again...
The girl disappeared into thin air.
"What?!" Barnaby took a step back in shock, and in the blink of an eye, he saw the girl lying there quietly again.
Are you too nervous...
He murmured in his heart, frowned, and walked towards the shelf against the wall.
There are two shelves there, one for his various "souvenirs", such as the high heels from the Latin dancers, the ballet shoes from the ballet girls, and the bows from the violin girls. Barnaby likes these girls who study art, he thinks they are noble and profound.
But unfortunately, they always look down on him.
After tonight, there would be one more item on the shelf: the girl's sketchpad. Barnaby was excited because this was his first art piece, and he had already reserved a spot for it—in the center of the third shelf, practically the most prominent spot on the shelf.
But now was not the time to rush to arrange the collection. He lifted the curtain in front of another shelf next to it, which contained various "essential" potions and tools.
He took out an injection, walked to the operating table, and performed intravenous operation skillfully.
Si Ling was stunned and quickly asked Alice: "What is this for?"
Alice floated behind Barnaby, looking down at him with a condescending expression. "To make the victim wake up and stay awake." Her voice was so soft that it was almost inaudible. "Barnaby likes to make his victims endure all the torture while they are fully awake."
Si Ling and the werewolves all gasped for a moment. They looked at Alice, then at the girl on the operating table—her limbs were tightly bound to the table, her forehead was also tightly bound with a bandage, and her mouth was sealed with black tape. This meant that she could hardly move or shout during Barnaby's crime...
Si Ling gritted his teeth, not daring to think about what Alice had experienced. He could only be thankful that they had successfully replaced the real thing with the fake one today.
It would take a while for the potion to take effect. Alice knew that after Barnaby finished the injection, he would go to the trash can in the corner to throw away the syringe. She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'm going to start."
The next second, Barnaby turned around - at that moment, the girl in Barnaby's peripheral vision seemed to have changed. He looked at her again like a frightened bird, but it seemed that he had seen it wrong again.
He stared at the girl closely. After a long while, when she still showed no signs of abnormality, he turned around and walked towards the trash can.
When he turned back, the girl woke up. She didn't realize where she was yet, but she felt uncomfortable and frowned.
Barnaby walked up to her with a smile and said in a clear voice: "Wee."
The girl froze suddenly, and Banabi wanted to see her staring at him, fear rising rapidly in her eyes.
This was one of the scenes he enjoyed the most.
But this time his enjoyment was destined not to last - he just blinked, and the girl in front of him changed.
The young girl who was originally eighteen or nineteen years old became a child of eight or nine years old, and her casual sportswear turned into a white ballet training suit.
Barnaby was startled. "Crack!" The incandescent lamp in the garage made a slight sound, accompanied by a burning smell, and the surroundings suddenly fell into darkness.
Then it lit up again... but it turned into a dim green light.
Those green lights have no source and float irregularly in the air, like ghosts peeping into the human world.
The operating table in front of him was also empty. Cold sweat was dripping down Barnaby's forehead. His whole body was frozen, with only his eyeballs moving.
As his eyes turned... he saw from the standing mirror in front of him a ghost in a white ballet costume clinging to his shoulders.
She noticed that he was looking in the mirror, so she looked in the mirror too, with a strange smile on her face.
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