Screenwriter Mystery

"Mary Xiao, Mary Xiao, obey my call..."

The monotonous sound of conjuring prayers kept ringing in the abandoned wooden house.

In the dim wooden house, Jamie and his party held hands around the dining table, summoning Mary Shaw's ghost under the weak light of the candle.

At the dining table, the flickering flames of the candles formed shadows of light and dark on the puppets.

Under the reflection of the flickering firelight, the clockwork puppet's lifeless rough face also seemed to become a bit strange and inexplicable.

"..."

The whole soul summoning ceremony lasted for about five minutes, but nothing else happened in the whole wooden house except the crackling sound of the burning candles.

He kept repeating the prayer for the soul. Jamie's closed eyes opened slightly, and he glanced at the impatient crowd in front of him. He turned to look at the camera that was still shooting pictures. Jamie gritted his teeth and let go of his grip. With Sean's palm, he stretched out to the puppet sitting in the center of the candle.

However, Jamie, who made this move, didn't see it, the moment he let go.

On the rough face of the clockwork puppet, in the lifeless eye sockets, the wooden eyeballs turned slightly.

pat!

Push down the clockwork puppet on the dining table with your hands, making a crisp knocking sound in the empty wooden house.

The next second, Jamie exclaimed, as if she had no idea what was going on.

"Puppet, the toy puppet in the candle moved!"

Hearing Jamie's shout, Laura, who was already nervous because of fear, immediately screamed in horror.

Accompanied by Laura's scream, the people who were performing the soul-calling ceremony opened their eyes one after another. They looked at the puppet lying in the center of the candle, and looked up at its godless eyes, even if they always thought Mary Shaw's. The horror nursery rhyme is nothing but a lie Mark, and the expression on his dark face also turned a little bit blue.

On the side, the flashing red light of the DV camera captured everything that happened in the living room.

...

"You shouldn't have done this just now, Jamie!"

Back in the car, Sean looked at the frightened people, especially Laura, whose eyes were red and showed signs of crying, and couldn't help but say something to Jamie beside him.

During the soul-calling ceremony in the living room just now, although Jamie's movements were hidden, he obviously couldn't hide from Sean who shook hands with him.

"I know it's just a little surprise for this shoot."

Facing Sean's accusations, Jamie said nonchalantly while holding the rough clockwork puppet found in Mary Shaw's house in one hand.

"Otherwise, just based on the footage we shot during the spirit exploration process, there is no useful clip at all, what horror nursery rhyme, Mary Xiao's abandoned residence, maybe what Mark said is right, it's just a Lie, thanks to me, I still swore to believe all this, and ran over to shoot the video of the spirit!"

Thinking of this period of time, searching for information about Mary Xiao with all his might, the whole person seemed to be possessed.

As a result, what you get more is just the interior fragments of some abandoned wooden houses.

"However, you shouldn't deliberately push the puppet down when you are conjuring the soul."

Looking at the clockwork puppet in Jamie's hand, Sean's tone couldn't help but intensify.

"I said, it's all about filming."

Originally, Jamie didn't take everything that happened at the soul-calling ceremony too seriously, but Sean's repeated accusations undoubtedly made him a little more angry.

"What are you talking about, Sean..."

But, at this moment, Susan, who was listening to the quarrel between the two, reacted.

She looked at the clockwork puppet in Jamie's hand, and said coldly, "You knocked down the puppet at the spiritual ceremony just now? You are so disgusting, Jamie!"

"When my video goes viral on YouTube, I'll see if you still say that."

A soul-searching shoot broke up because of Jamie's selfish behavior.

However, Jamie himself did not care.

...

Late at night, at home in New York.

The clockwork puppets brought out from Mary Shaw's hut were randomly discarded on the bed.

The puppet turned his head, his lifeless eyes staring unblinkingly at Jamie, who was engrossed in front of the computer.

"There should be a little soundtrack here, and here..."

In front of the computer, Jamie was intensively editing the video footage captured by the DV camera, although he swore to the camera during the shooting that there would not be any editing.

However, this kind of remark is purely a lie used to deceive those naive viewers and earn clicks.

A terrifying sound effect was introduced to a scene of spirit detection in the video screen. Jamie frowned and cut out some scenes of Susan. Then he nodded with satisfaction, and pressed the play button of the video to watch this scene. Although there is no horror element in the small piece of spirit-exploring effect, it is inexplicably terrifying with the strange music.

Admiring the effect of his shooting, Jamie put a smile on his face in front of the computer, and then made a series of edits to the shooting material in the computer, and finally came to the most crucial part of the shooting scene. He took everyone to the living room to continue. Footage of the conjuration ceremony.

In the video, the blurry footage, the flickering candles, and the conjuring prayers of the crowd, if only this small clip was taken, even Jamie wouldn't be able to pick out too many faults.

When the shooting scene in the camera, it plays until there is a clip where he reaches out and pushes down the puppet.

Jamie then clicked the pause button on the editing software and said to himself.

"This shot must be cut."

After some familiar operation, I cut out the footage of my own hands, and modified the time at the top of the video.

Jamie clicked the play button and watched the clip several times to make sure that there would be no omissions or mistakes, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

Twisting his sore neck, his eyes inadvertently shifted to a strange place in this short video~www.wuxiaspot.com~Wait a minute, are the puppet's eyes pointing in this direction? "

Looking at the clockwork puppet's slightly upward eyes in the video, a trace of doubt flashed in Jamie's heart.

Reached out, clicked the mouse, and replayed this short video.

I saw that in the video shot, along with Laura's screams, the puppet's originally motionless and lifeless eyes moved up silently.

"How can this be?!"

Looking at the video footage, the puppets move their eyes.

In front of the computer, a bone-chilling coldness rushed over Jamie's forehead in an instant, making his scalp tingle.

crunch, crunch—

And at this time.

Behind Jamie, there was a sound of clockwork twisting, followed by a sound.