This Actor Is Full Of Tricks

【Scene 4: You see a very stiff person in the exhibition hall. Their every move seems to be acting as a human. You realize something is wrong and want to find out what's hidden inside...】

Having descended the stairs, Lin Jue happened to see the woman from earlier walking out of the art gallery. He hurried after her, calling out to her at the entrance.

“Hey, Miss, wait a moment.”

The woman stopped and looked back at Lin Jue with a puzzled expression: “Are you calling me?”

“Yes, yes.” Lin Jue turned his head to look at the second floor. The window of the sculpture exhibition hall faced the entrance perfectly. He lowered his voice and said, “Miss, I have something I want to ask you. It's not convenient here. Could we perhaps chat somewhere else?”

The woman immediately became wary and took a few steps back: “What do you want? I don't know you, and I have nothing to talk to you about.”

“No, Miss, you've misunderstood.” Lin Jue appeared anxious, stammering as he spoke: “I want to… talk to you about your husband.”

“I said, I have nothing to talk to you about. If you keep bothering me, I'll call the police!” The woman's voice rose, and she even made a gesture to take out her phone.

Lin Jue hurriedly pressed down on her hand: “Miss, don't be anxious, hear me out. Have you noticed anything strange about your husband lately? For example, his speech or expressions are very stiff, and his body is cold and hard like touching a stone.”

He said a lot in one breath, and then gasped for air, as if saying those words had exhausted all his strength.

I knew I shouldn't have chosen Wang Tianshu, this character is too tiring to talk as.

Hearing his words, the woman was visibly stunned: “It has been a bit strange lately…”

Lin Jue turned his head to look at the second floor again. There were figures moving by the window. He quickly grabbed the woman's hand and dragged her to a hidden place: “Miss… believe me, I'm not a bad, bad person.”

This time, the woman didn't resist, and Lin Jue only stopped when they reached a spot that couldn't be seen from the second floor: “Miss, actually, I'm from the Surveillance and Investigation Department…”

“The script only says to make me fit the character's personality but doesn't limit my identity. Assuming the profession of the Surveillance and Investigation Department shouldn't deduct points, right?” He thought as he whispered, “I suspect your husband isn't human.”

The woman was still surprised that the dejected-looking man in front of her was actually from the Surveillance and Investigation Department. When she heard Lin Jue's last sentence, she reacted like a cat whose fur had been ruffled: “What nonsense are you talking about! If my husband isn't human, what else could he be? Could he be a paranormal being…”

As she spoke, her voice gradually weakened. As the person who shared a pillow with him every night, she would naturally notice the changes in her husband, but she hadn't thought about it in terms of the paranormal.

“Miss, you see… you actually have some doubts about your husband in your heart.” Lin Jue sighed softly: “Well, although it may be difficult for you to accept, but… your husband is indeed a paranormal being. Your real… husband has been replaced by a paranormal being…”

The color drained from the woman's face instantly, and she shook her head repeatedly: “Impossible, absolutely impossible. Don't talk nonsense here. I suspect you're not even from the Surveillance and Investigation Department!”

Lin Jue's words were too shocking, and no one could accept them. If the person she lived with day and night was a paranormal being, then her own situation would be very dangerous.

“Miss, think carefully about what I said before… Has your husband been acting very strange recently?” Lin Jue asked patiently, knowing that the woman's reaction was only natural.

A minute later, the woman's emotions gradually stabilized. After a long silence, she finally spoke: “Actually, sometimes, I feel like he's not my husband. I don't know if it's my imagination or if he's been too tired from work lately, but I always get a very strange feeling.”

“Can you be more specific? Well… it would help me make a judgment.” Lin Jue opened the notepad on his phone, looking like he was about to take notes.

“It was about four or five months ago, I can't remember the exact time. That day, he came home very late, saying that he had met a very talented child and went to be a model for that child.”

“I didn't suspect anything, after all, that's his job. Sculptors have used my husband as a model before.”

The student the woman mentioned must be Bi Zheng. Bi Zheng used her husband as a model to complete a realistic sculpture, but that sculpture is now only a photograph.

Lin Jue nodded slightly, signaling the woman to continue.

“At the time, it was just a small matter, and I didn't take it to heart. But from then on, his behavior became a bit strange.”

“Sometimes when I'm cooking in the kitchen, I often see him sitting alone and motionless on the sofa, not watching TV or playing on his phone, just sitting there.”

“And his appetite has also decreased. He used to be able to eat two bowls of rice every night, but now he has trouble eating even one bowl.”

For a paranormal being to eat the food of a living person is indeed a torment, like forcing a living person to swallow feces. This woman's husband really risked his life to act like a living person.

The woman's expression was not very good, and she continued: “And several times I woke up in the middle of the night, he wasn't in the room, but was sitting blankly in the living room, without turning on the lights, and would always scare me.”

Speaking of this, her eyes showed a little shyness, and she said coyly: “And we haven't had any marital relations for a long time. He used to have a great need for it.”

With so many strange things already, this woman didn't feel that there was any problem and still needed someone to remind her. She really has a big heart.

“Miss, has your husband brought back… brought back anything strange recently?” Lin Jue turned off his phone and stared at the woman's eyes: “For example… a sculpture.”

Hearing this, the woman's pupils shook: “How did you know? Just a week after he worked as a model, he brought back a sculpture.”

“That sculpture was the most perfect work I had ever seen. Whether it was the outline or the details, it was exactly the same as my husband. Many times when I looked at that sculpture, I felt like I was seeing another person who looked exactly like my husband.”

“My husband also liked that sculpture very much. He placed the sculpture next to the TV cabinet and would go to admire it for a while whenever he had nothing to do.”

“But then one day when I came home from work, the sculpture was gone, and my husband was standing blankly in the place where the sculpture used to be, and no matter how I called him, he wouldn't answer me.”

After listening, Lin Jue felt something and looked back, only to see a figure wearing a black shirt slowly walking out of the gate, heading towards them.

His expression was serious, and he said solemnly: “Miss, what I'm about to say may scare you…”

“I suspect… your husband has been replaced by the sculpture.”