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"A few months ago?" Wu Ling interrupted Mrs. Winter's memories for the first time.

Mrs. Winter nodded, "It should have happened in May, or maybe June. It was around that time that Jackson's child started to get sick. It was so serious that he needed bed rest. The doctor doesn't know what the disease was."

In May and June, we were still busy with demolition work, and the world had not deteriorated to the level it has now. But according to Mrs. Winter, the toy plague started in Tissint at that time.

"In addition to the Jackson family, there are other children suffering from this disease. The Central Hospital contacted people from the Ministry of Health for further diagnosis. Before receiving a reply, those children seemed to have recovered. Not fully recovered, but already No need to rest in bed." Mrs. Winter was a little hurt. "But at that time, I noticed that the child who recovered was different from usual. He became silent and inactive. He was very similar to Charlie Jackson. He is a cheerful person with an outgoing personality. As a child, he was more active and liked outdoor sports. He often played with big dogs. The dog also became ill and recovered earlier than the child, but after recovery, he was also the same and unlovable. He moves, and often sits in one place, motionless, as if...as if he were dead..."

It must be a toy plague.

"After something like this happened, the residents in the community were very uneasy. It wasn't just one or two children, but all the children got sick. Later, the adults also got sick. I realized something was wrong, and I felt...this Things are weird. Those who are recovering are very strange. They are very strange..." Mrs. Winter could only describe what happened in this way. She didn't know what happened.

"In a blink of an eye, everyone in the whole town was sick. The only survivors were Jimny and I. Just the two of us... Jimny understood what happened faster than me. After that, I haven't seen that The child was born. No one came in or out of Rena's house. I originally thought that the people living there were given away by Jimny... Later, everyone in the whole town stopped going out, and things became scary. I thought for a long time and decided to go take a look. I knocked on the door next door. No one opened the door, but I heard the laughter of children and the barking of dogs. I walked around the house. I saw the scene inside the room from the window..."

Mrs. Winter smiled bitterly, "That child was playing with the dog. But, they are already ghosts."

We looked at each other.

"There are no girls in their family?" Wu Ling asked.

Mrs. Winter shook her head.

"Have you ever seen a girl's ghost?" Wu Ling asked again.

The toy plague that broke out in May and June was probably caused by the toy ghost king. However, we are not entirely sure of this.

The Toy Ghost King is dead, and there is no point in investigating who caused this disaster. We just need to deal with Lina now.

Mrs. Winter looked at us doubtfully, "Aren't you from the town?"

"No. It's a ghost from long ago named Lina." Wu Ling explained, "She should be the source of the problem now. As long as she is solved... at least there will be no more victims."

Mrs. Winter suddenly understood. She shook her head, "No, I haven't seen such a girl. The girl that Mrs. Jackson led before was the daughter of the Evans family over there. She seemed to be named Elena..."

Not Lina.

I'm a little disappointed.

"I haven't seen the ghosts you mentioned. After the whole town changed, only Rena's family still had voices, and it was Jimny who made them. He released their souls and made them look like ordinary people. They live like this. But they can't live like this for long. Just in the past two days, everyone in this town started to act like they did before. Only the Reina family changed. It's different... it's like the Reina house - I mean, it's like it was before the Jacksons moved in. The house was shabby, but Jackson's kids and big dogs were running around inside. There are teddy bears hanging on the trees in the yard. I don’t know where those bears came from. I also saw Jackson’s wife, but they looked strange, like they were controlled by Jimny. People are controlled by other things.”

Mrs. Winter blamed herself: "I really don't know what happened, and there is no way to stop what is happening. I can only be a bystander. Then you guys showed up. The Reina family's house also became weirder. I I don’t know what Jimny is doing... The town has become weird. When I found you, things seemed to go back to ten years ago. I tried to call the police just like ten years ago. Tom should have changed his career. That's right. He came in a police car and took you away, just like he came to catch the young people who broke into Reina's house ten years ago after I called the police."

Mrs. Winter looked out the window, "It's like a dream. I hope those bad things are just nightmares. But you, Jackson's wife, the two children, and the dog are all telling me, It's not a dream. I recognize the reality, Jimny... is still weaving a beautiful dream..."

There was an echo in Mrs. Winter's words. She hesitated. I guess she didn't know what to do next.

If Jimny could maintain this dream, she probably wouldn't mind it continuing.

But the Jimny can't do that.

There is also Lina here.

Lina failed to brainwash Jimny Rena, nor could she control Mrs. Winter; on the other hand, Jimny did not control Mrs. Winter, and it was equally impossible for him to control Lina.

This is a close tug-of-war.

The few of us are the unstable factors in this tug of war.

I looked at Wu Ling and suddenly realized that Han Yun was missing.

I scanned around, but there was no sign of Han Yun in the room, and I didn't feel Han Yun's yin energy.

Wu Ling asked Mrs. Winter carefully about the details of her past affairs. Mrs. Winter answered patiently, telling everything she knew. But she was already very old when she died, and then turned into a ghost, living as she did before her death, and her memory did not improve. She remembered some key big things, but the details were blurry. She tried very hard to remember and wanted to help us. She didn't seem curious about our identities.

During the inquiry process here, we heard screaming coming from the direction of Reina's house. Listening to the voice, it was Mrs. Jackson.

We rushed out of the house and looked in the direction of Reina's house, and saw many workers escaping from there.

Jackson also ran out of the house in panic. His wife was standing next to the car on the roadside, frightened and fell to the ground. Of the two children in the car, the girl was shivering like her mother, while the boy stuck his head out of the car and looked at the house in surprise.

I followed the line of sight and saw Jimny's figure disappearing by the window on the second floor.

"There's a ghost! There's a ghost! The person on the second floor...who committed suicide...is the son of the Reina family who committed suicide!" Mrs. Jackson raised her hand, pointed at the house and shouted loudly.

There were many people on the street, including construction workers and nearby neighbors. They whispered and talked about the past events of the Reina family, unscrupulously, and seemed to be deliberately spreading panic.

I saw the awkward expressions of toy people on them.

Good night everyone~