Long Horror Story (4)

Chapter 4: The Breathing Puppet Lin Mo reflexively took two steps back, his back hitting the cold wall hard, shaking off a few yellowed talismans. He stared intently at the puppet in the crib, suspecting he was hallucinating from being too nervous. However, with the puppet's chest rising and falling, an extremely faint sound, like a baby's wheezing, could even be heard in the room. The sound was incredibly clear in the small, enclosed space, and each exhale carried a suffocating stench. Lin Mo gritted his teeth, suppressing the urge to bolt, and raised his camera to capture the scene again. The moment the shutter clicked, the puppet, which had been still on the bed, suddenly rotated its head 180 degrees, its black glass bead eyes staring directly at Lin Mo. Immediately after, dense and chaotic scratching sounds came from within the walls of the old house from all directions, as if countless claws were frantically trying to tear through the wooden boards from the inside. Lin Mo could no longer maintain his composure. He turned and rushed out of the room, sprinting wildly down the dim corridor. However, when he reached the staircase, he was shocked to find that the wooden stairs leading to the first floor had vanished into thin air, replaced by a sealed, pitch-black brick wall. On the wall, someone had scrawled in blood, "Welcome home, little Mo." To be continued in the next episode……