Chapter 388 Sealed Artifact

"Who is Mrs. Christie?" Sifa looked at Meili in astonishment.

Mei Li didn't answer, but stared at Calvin: "Aren't you a neurosurgeon? How did you know the existence of 'Mrs. Christie'?"

Calvin immediately looked at Xifa, who could only say: "Ms. Mei Li, now is not the time to pay attention to this issue, the focus is on Josh."

Mei Li nodded in agreement, without getting too entangled in this issue, and answered Xifa's question just now: "'Mrs. Christie' is an oil painting, it is an oil painting collected by my grandfather. Bought it."

"My father knows the specific things better."

"I can only say that it is a painting with a tinge of horror, and my father told me all kinds of weird stories about this painting."

"In those stories, Mrs. Christie will appear in various paintings and photographs, and she will become an inconspicuous character in those things."

"She would observe her targets in paintings and photographs, and wait for the right moment to capture them."

After hearing her story, Xifa immediately decided: "Let's go, let's talk to Hardy."

When returning to the ward, Sifa saw that Rovelli and his wife also came.

So he asked Meili to call the old man out. In the corridor, Xifa asked directly: "Mr. Hardy, please tell us about the painting 'Mrs. Christie'."

Hardy was obviously taken aback, looked at his daughter in astonishment, and then at Xifa: "How do you know this painting?"

"I told you." Mei Li held her father's hand and said, "Dad, what is going on with that painting?"

"Are the ghost stories you told me just ghost stories?"

"Josh is falling asleep now, and it may have something to do with that painting, so if you know anything, please tell us quickly."

Hardy looked at his daughter in surprise: “You said Josh was because of that painting? Impossible, it was hidden by Rovelli, unless”

"Go get Rovelli out!"

Meili nodded and walked into the ward, before Hardy held his forehead and said, "'Mrs. Christie' is a painting that my father bought from Intis when he was a crew member."

"The painting looks ordinary, but it has a rather scary story. Mrs. Christie in the painting lives in an old castle. Every once in a while, she will go to a nearby village to take away a child."

"Those children were hidden in the castle by her, and they were often tortured to death. In the end, Mrs. Christie's crimes were revealed, and the angry villagers burned her to death on the fire pillar."

"But since then, Mrs. Christie's ghost will always appear in the oil paintings and photos of people's homes, and at some point, they will take away the children of that family."

Footsteps sounded, Rovelli followed his sister and came out, looking at his father: "Dad, are you looking for me?"

Hardy stood up: "Let me ask you, have you hidden that painting? It's the 'Mrs. Christie'."

Rovelli froze for a moment, then nodded vigorously and said, "When you were sorting out your grandfather's belongings, you told me to hide this painting. I obeyed your instructions and hid it in the wall of the attic .”

"Why bring it up?"

Mei Li said in a deep voice: "We suspect that Josh's lethargy has something to do with that painting. Such a dangerous thing should be donated to the church in the first place."

Hardy smiled bitterly, "But those are left by your grandfather, one of the few items."

Rovelli looked at them in surprise: "Are you crazy? That's just a ghost story to scare children. How could a painting make Josh what he is now, not to mention that it was well hidden by me."

After speaking, his eyes flickered, as if he was hiding something.

"Sometimes, stories are more than just stories." Xifa said with a glance at the man.

At this time, a guilty voice came over: "The oil painting you are talking about, is it a woman standing on the castle platform and wearing a court dress?"

Everyone turned their heads in unison and looked at Maggie, Rovelli's wife, who had just walked out of the ward.

She said hesitantly: "When I was packing things in the attic last month, I saw a hole in the wall. I asked a craftsman to repair it, and he found an iron box in the wall."

Rovelli whispered, "Did you open the box?"

"Yeah, I was curious about what was inside, but when the box was opened, it turned out that there was mercury inside."

Maggie gestured and said: "I thought it was too dangerous to store mercury at home, so I asked the craftsman to take it away, but he found me again, saying that he found an oil painting in that box, which was stored in a metal box. in the box, soaked in that quicksilver."

"God."

"That painting can't be taken out, it used to be."

"Where is it? We have to hide it!" Rovelli asked angrily.

Maggie seemed to be frightened, and took two steps back: "I originally wanted to hang it up, but I couldn't find a suitable place, so I temporarily put it in Josh's room, right above his wardrobe."

"Rovelli, what happened to that painting?"

Obviously, Rovelli is not in the mood to say this right now.

And through their conversation, Xifa guessed that something should have happened to the oil painting before, so the Hardy family hid it.

Moreover, he had never heard of the way of collecting oil paintings soaked in mercury. This way is more like dealing with some sealed items.

If this 'Mrs. Christie' really possesses the strange ability that Hardy and the others mentioned, then this oil painting can be regarded as a sealed item.

In this way, a problem arises: How did Hardy's father, a crew member, come into contact with and collect a sealed item?

But now, there is no time to discuss these.

Maggie and Meili stayed behind to take care of Josh, while Sifa and the others took a carriage to Fania Street.

Coming to Rovelli’s house, they went straight to the second floor and rushed into Josh’s room.

Rovelli moved a chair, and sure enough, on top of his son's wardrobe, he found an oil painting simply wrapped in newspaper.

When Rovelli opened the newspaper, Xifa found that the color of the oil painting was still so bright.

In the oil painting, the theme is obviously a black castle with a large wheat field in front of it.

Behind the wheat field, you can see a meandering clear river, and there are trees planted beside the river, with lush leaves.

In the distance, some houses with red slopes can be seen, which looks like a village.

"It's gone!"

Both Hardy and Rovelli exclaimed at the same time.

Xifa looked at them: "What's missing?"

Rovelli pointed to a terrace on the castle and said, "There should be a woman in court attire here, and that is Mrs. Christie, right, Dad."

Hardy nodded, and said softly, "That's right, it's the same as back then, she ran out of the painting again."

At this moment, Calvin whispered, pointing to a window in the castle: "Look here!"

Sifer looked in the direction of his finger, and saw, in that window, a boy standing.

It seems that the eyebrows are 70% similar to Josh!