1. Strange events
Mick and Pete were classmates at the same art academy, and they planned to travel together during the summer vacation. At Pete's suggestion, they came to a small town.
According to Pete, there is a famous wax museum in the town, which is a good place to learn sculpture. Seeing Mick's longing expression, Pete waved and the two got into a taxi. After seeing the destination of the people, he first stared at them in surprise for a few seconds, then shook his head and advised them not to go. According to the driver, it was a very strange wax museum. Every year, tourists would get The driver then listed several examples.
Pete was about to back out, but Mick said to Pete with a look of disdain: "I don't believe in ghosts and gods. If you are scared, go back to the hotel first!" Pete was irritated and signaled the driver to start the car immediately. The driver shook his head helplessly and started the car. The car. After a while, the two walked into the wax museum. Facing the lifelike wax figures, the two were stunned. Suddenly Mick stared at a wax figure and didn't move like a sculpture. Pete was scared. It was broken, and I hurriedly shook his arm hoping he would return to normal.
Mick woke up as if from a dream, and without saying anything, he took Pete away. After the two of them had walked a long way, Mick quietly told Pete that he had discovered a very strange phenomenon that had made him fall into deep thought: there was a wax figure His left hand was originally open, but after he turned around, it clenched into a fist.
Peter was stunned at first: "There are hundreds of wax figures in the wax museum. You must have been dazzled and remembered it wrongly." But Mick said firmly: "In order to deal with the details of the work most realistically on the canvas, I If you exercise your observation skills regularly, you will not be wrong. "
The two of them held their own opinions and returned to the guest room without realizing it. Pete was a little tired and fell asleep, but Mick was still immersed in his thoughts about the wax figure. He suddenly thought of what the driver said, and his first reaction was He went to check a password box that he had put in the locker in his room. There was no treasure in the password box, only dozens of drawings he had brought along the way. When he opened the password box, all the drawings were gone. He hurriedly woke up He went to Pete and told him about his misfortune.
Peter was also very anxious, and hurriedly accompanied Mick to find the hotel owner. The owner checked the surveillance in the corridor. The surveillance showed that no one had entered their room from the time the two left until they came back. Mick suddenly saw the window and I rushed to the window to check, and found that there were protective bars outside the windows, making it extremely difficult for thieves to enter through there.
Just when Mick was at a loss for words, he looked down suddenly and saw a man in a dark corner downstairs, lighting some paper with fire for unknown reasons. He opened his eyes wide and finally saw a man. He recognized the papers that were blown up by the wind and were actually his drawings. What surprised him even more was that the man downstairs looked exactly like the wax figure in the wax museum. He was extremely angry. He rushed downstairs desperately to catch the thief. When he got downstairs, the thief had already fled. In desperation, he had to report the case to the local police.
After receiving the report, Sheriff Robert took two police officers to the scene to investigate. Before the three of them left, another person rushed in to report the case. Surprisingly, the reporter turned out to be a The owner, Peak. According to Peak, his wax museum's daily exhibition time is no more than two hours. Today, after closing, the staff left without checking the exhibits due to negligence. When he came back to check the exhibits, Suddenly, he discovered that a wax figure was stolen. As he spoke, he handed a photo to Robert. Mick also curiously leaned over to look at the photo, and then he exclaimed: "It was this guy who destroyed my drawing. This guy."
Although Robert felt that something was a bit strange, he still took people to the wax museum to find out the truth. In the wax museum, he saw that there were no signs of prying on the doors and windows, and there were no clues left by thieves in the museum. The surveillance system in the museum has been Peake explained that he was busy with other things and delayed the matter. Then Robert led people to the hotel where Mick rented, but also found nothing.
Because there were no casualties, Robert happened to take on another murder case, so this case could only be shelved as an unsolved case. However, this incident had a very bad impact on society. Many night walkers said they had seen the wandering wax figure. The rumors spread more and more, until the whole city was shrouded in fear. The police chief could no longer sit still and ordered Robert to solve the case in the shortest possible time.
2. Bizarre murders
Although Robert tried his best to solve the case, the evil ghost seemed to have guessed his thoughts and never appeared again. One day, Robert was sitting in his office thinking hard about how to solve the case when someone came to report a crime. It is said that old Jack, who lived alone in a residential area, died mysteriously.
Robert drove to the scene. At the scene, Robert saw old Jack lying on his back on the bed, his face distorted and horrible. On the bedside table next to him was an ashtray with some cigarette butts in it. Next to the ashtray was a A small unburned candle.
To find out the truth, Robert retrieved the surveillance video near Old Jack's house. The video showed that around 2 a.m., a man appeared stealthily. From the blurry image, it seemed that this man was the missing wax figure in the museum. The wax man walked to the vicinity of Old Jack's house, made some strange gestures towards Old Jack's residence, and then left.
After watching the surveillance video, Robert visited Jack's neighbors. According to the neighbors, Jack was a very kind old man who never put down his cigarette. His only hobby was buying lottery tickets, and his luck was surprisingly good. A few years ago, After winning the lottery, he became a millionaire. Jack had a son who lived in the city. Whenever he had time, his son would visit Jack. Robert also learned from his neighbors that Jack had a good friend named Weber. Robert visited Weber again. Weber was very sad when he heard about Jack's death. He told Robert that Jack was his best friend. They met because of the lottery. Later, Jack won the jackpot. Seeing that he could not get any important clues from Weber, Robert stood up and said goodbye.
After Robert returned to the police station, the medical examiner sent him the autopsy report. The report showed that Jack died of inhaling excessive amounts of toxic gas. Robert thought for a moment and drove to Jack's house alone without taking a rest. He carefully He checked every corner of Old Jack's room, but found no device that released poison gas. He suddenly noticed the half-burnt candle, so he boldly speculated that there might be something wrong with the candle. But what puzzled him was that there was something wrong with Old Jack's room. Why did the candles appear? Was there a power outage last night? But after learning about it, he found out that there was no power outage last night. He called Jack's son and asked if Jack had any special beliefs. The answer he got was also disappointing. , Old Jack's only belief is to win the lottery. Based on the above two facts, Robert believes that it is impossible for Old Jack to buy the candle and light it in the house. According to the video footage, the only person who could have put the candle in the house was the wax figure. He also thought about the mysterious theft of Mick's paintings, and was more convinced that it was the wax figure with super powers who did it. After much thought, he still felt that only by bringing the wax man to justice could the truth be revealed.
3. The Terror Continues
When Robert was at a deadlock in his investigation, he suddenly received another strange case related to wax figures. He knew both of the two people who came to report the case, Mick and Pete. To his surprise, Mick had a wax figure on his right hand. Pete was bandaged and limping. When Mick saw him, he roared out the whole story.
Because the police had been unable to catch the man who destroyed Mick's drawings, Mick stayed in the town and waited for news. At about four o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mick and Pete were bored and went to a hill outside the town. The two were a little tired after playing, so Pete suggested taking a break. They were sitting on a boulder with their backs to each other to rest, when suddenly a strange cry, one more uglier than the other, came from the dense forest not far away. Driven by the temptation, the two men looked towards the forest at the same time, and from afar they saw the hateful wax man appearing and disappearing in the forest.
Mick, who was in a bad temper, picked up a stone from the ground and rushed into the forest. He had only run a few steps when he heard Pete shouting for a headache. He hurriedly turned back to take care of Pete. In front of Pete, his head suddenly started to hurt, and then he felt dizzy and had no idea what happened afterwards.
After an unknown amount of time, Mick finally woke up. He felt a sharp pain in his hand. He looked down and saw that the thumb on his right hand had been cut off. If it weren't for the shoe tied to his arm, He looked back and saw that Peter's right leg was also tightly wrapped with the sleeve of his shirt. Judging from the red-stained shirt, Peter was also seriously injured. It took Mick a while to shake Pete out of his coma. As soon as Pete woke up, he told Mick that he had just woken up and had just treated the wounds of the two people when he could no longer hold on and fainted again. The two did not bother to talk in detail and began to look for Mick's severed thumb, but they could not find it after searching for a long time. Seeing that it was getting dark, Mick had to endure the great pain and support Pete to the hospital. Pete The wound was not deep and he would be able to recover as usual after a period of recuperation; but Mick was very unfortunate. Having lost his thumb, he might never be able to pick up a paintbrush again.
4. The Secret of Candles
The series of strange cases that could not be solved made Robert addicted to cigarettes. His wife advised him to smoke less, but he couldn't help himself and thought of finding a way to smoke without being discovered online. He found it on the Internet. One way is that it is said that the carbon black component generated by burning candles is activated carbon . Placing lit candles indoors can remove smoke.
Robert verified the claims on the Internet through experiments. He suddenly had an idea and found a breakthrough in the murder of old Jack. Old Jack was a heavy smoker, and his son would always persuade him to smoke less when he visited him at home. It can be inferred that Jack bought the candle himself to remove smoke. Of course, it is also possible that someone else bought it for Jack. If someone else bought it, then the person who bought the candle for Jack should be the murderer. During a recent visit to old Jack's neighbors, it was found that the only person who often interacted with old Jack was Weber, and he was the most suspicious.
In order to find out the truth, Robert sent someone to secretly follow Weber and recorded Weber's every word and action with a camera. He repeatedly compared these videos with the wax figure that appeared late at night and found that some details of the two were surprisingly similar. Robert thought it was time to close the net, so he led people to search Weber's home. To his excitement, he found clothes exactly the same as those worn by the "wax man" and some wigs in Weber's home.
Although some evidence was found, the cunning Weber denied it, saying that he used to be a makeup artist who made up movie actors. He was just interested in the missing wax figure, so he pretended to be a wax figure when he had nothing to do. It's completely ridiculous that he was the murderer of old Jack. How could he kill his best friend?
Robert asked Weber if he had left the house on the night Jack was killed. Weber stammered that he had been sleeping in the house that night, and his wife could testify. Robert played a recording of a conversation between Robert and Weber's wife. Conversation In the film, Weber's wife complained about Weber, saying that he did not sleep at midnight one night and said that he was going to observe the stars. Robert deliberately asked if he remembered which night it was. Weber's wife accurately told the time and said that it was the day when she was a child. It’s my son’s birthday, so I remember it very clearly.
Weber was speechless and had to admit that he was the murderer of Old Jack. According to him, he was very jealous of Old Jack since he won the lottery. Old Jack became a millionaire by buying lottery tickets, but he became A poor man with a lot of debts. Every time he saw Old Jack spending lavishly on luxury goods, his hatred for Old Jack increased. As time went by, he had the idea of murdering Old Jack. He used to be a makeup artist, so he wanted to pretend to be a wax figure to kill Old Jack. Old Jack was a smoker, so he thought of candles that could remove smoke. After his persuasion, Old Jack really smoked for three consecutive nights. Seeing that the time was right, he gave Old Jack a homemade candle containing toxic substances, and said that this candle was a new invention of scientists, which could not only remove smoke when lit at night, but also As for him pretending to be a wax figure and being caught on camera, it was just to confuse the police.
5. The Whole Truth
Robert was relieved that he had finally solved a major case . Next, he began to investigate the murder of Mick. It was certain that this case had nothing to do with Weber. What puzzled him was why the mysterious wax man had committed crimes against Mick twice in a row, which made people feel as if the wax man and Mick had a grudge against each other. The person sent back said that Mick was known as a genius among his classmates, that he performed very well in school, and that he was a good student with both good character and good academic performance.
It seems that it is difficult to find a breakthrough by starting with Mick's interpersonal relationships. Robert suddenly remembered that the earliest statement about the strange events in the wax museum came from the driver who took Mick and Pete to the wax museum. He had lived in the small town for half his life, but he had never heard of the strange incidents in the wax museum. He thought the taxi driver was suspicious, so he met with Mick alone to find out the truth. Mick did not disappoint him. With his amazing memory, he quickly provided the driver's general appearance and facial features.
Soon, Robert found a taxi driver named Bill. In order not to alert the enemy, he secretly began to monitor Bill. After a period of monitoring, he was shocked to find that Bill and Pete knew each other. Finally one day, He obtained evidence of the two's crimes by cleverly installing eavesdropping devices around them. Next, he sent someone to take them to the police station.
Faced with overwhelming evidence, the two had no choice but to confess their crimes. Bill and the wax museum owner Peak were elementary school classmates, but because of their different backgrounds, their fates were also different. Peak inherited his father's business and lived on the income from the wax museum. Bill had a very respectable life. At a class reunion, a drunk Peak made rude remarks that hurt Bill's already inferiority complex. Bill vowed to make Peak pay the price. When he was free, Bill's only hobby was chatting online. By chance, he met Pete on the Internet. The more they talked, the more they got along. From Pete, Bill learned that although Pete was very hardworking, he was not very talented, and for this reason, Pete was often laughed at by his classmates. He became jealous when he saw Mick, who was not as hardworking as himself, achieving outstanding results time and time again.
After a long time of observation, Bill knew that Peak had a big secret that was unknown to others. One of Peak's wax figures was accidentally taken away by a worker. The wax figure was damaged, and although Peak had tried to find someone to recreate the same wax figure, the results were not satisfactory. Because this wax figure was made by a master and was the treasure of the museum, Peak, who was smart, didn't know where to find it. A person who looks exactly like the wax figure was made up and dressed up as the wax figure and exhibited in the museum.
After making a plan, the two began to act. Pete first tricked Mick into coming to the town, and according to the plan, he stole the painting that Mick regarded as his life in advance. Pete stole Mick's password through a miniature camera. On the eve of their trip to the wax museum, Pete secretly stole the drawing while Mick was in the bathroom, opened the window and threw it to Bill who was waiting downstairs. After they went out, Pete deliberately got into Bill's taxi. When they arrived at the wax museum, just as Pete expected, Mick actually saw the flaws of the wax figure.
When Mick returned to the hotel, he was frightened and began to check the password box, and finally found the "wax thief" downstairs. In fact, the so-called "wax thief" was Bill, who was wearing a silicone human skin mask customized from the Internet. When Mick and Pete went to report the case, Bill was busy calling Peak. Bill told Peak, as a tourist, that he would find the media to expose Peak's use of real people as wax figures. Peak fell into the trap. In order to destroy the evidence, he first sent away the man dressed as a wax figure and then ran to the police station to report the case.
After achieving his goal of revenge on his enemy, Bill spread rumors everywhere and dressed up as a wax figure to scare people at night. He did not stop until the whole city was in panic. But Pete was not as comfortable as him. Since Mick lost his painting, He cursed the person who stole his painting all day long. Finally one day, Pete was completely enraged and decided to take the most vicious revenge on Mick. He told Bill about his idea, and Bill had to Promise to play the wax figure again.
After Pete tricked Mick into going to the mountain, Bill, who was hiding in the forest, showed up. Seeing that Mick had fallen into the trap and chased the "wax man", Pete secretly put a colorless and odorless gas that could cause coma into the water. Seeing Mick fall down from the poison, Pete injected an anesthetic into Mick and then cruelly chopped off Mick's thumb and buried it somewhere. Hands…
The truth finally came to light, and all the criminals received the punishment they deserved. But Robert was not happy at all, for he did not understand why these things that should not have happened happened so strangely.