"This… this is too fast, isn it?"
Diana looked puzzled and asked Mueller, who was outside, "Mueller, did you see the delivery man?"
"No…" Mueller shrugged, equally bewildered.
"Wow~" Maria, upon seeing the gift box, didn't have her mother's concerns and quickly hugged the doll.
"Maria, wait a moment." Diana's voice was a little uneasy, and she took the doll gift box from her daughter's arms.
"Beep! Beep!"
Just then, the sound of a car horn came from the video.
The camera view shifted to the front of the house.
A black car was driving along the forest path in front of the house, then stopped in front of the garage door on the right.
It turned off the engine.
Jack, dressed in a suit and carrying a cake in his left hand, got out of the car.
He smiled and said, "Honey, kids! How did you know Daddy was coming home early today?"
Since Jack had just returned home, he was completely unaware of the strange incident caused by the doll, so he had a very happy expression.
Perhaps due to Jack's return, Diana placed the camera on the shoe cabinet next to the front door, showing only the living room view.
Afterward, this happy family of four celebrated the birthday together, and the forgotten camera recorded everything.
The file fast-forwarded.
When the children had all washed up and were ready to go upstairs to bed, and only the couple remained in the living room, the playback speed of the file returned to normal.
The couple sat at the dining table.
"Honey, Maria's doll is a bit too strange. I just ordered it from Amazon, and it was delivered to our doorstep. This…" Diana said worriedly.
"Hmm, indeed."
At this moment, Jack no longer had the happy expression he had when he first returned home. Instead, he frowned and said,
"Didn't you say the screen flashed? This might be a prank by some clever guy, using some unknown methods.
How about this, tomorrow I'll take a day off from work and go see ■■, report our situation to him, and then ask Amazon customer service.
What do you think?"
"Oh… that's all we can do," Diana said, still somewhat worried:
"After Maria falls asleep, take that doll away from her and throw it outside first. I always feel that thing is creepy."
"Okay, I'll listen to you. After all, you're the head of our family," Jack said with a smile.
"You, you always say such nice things…
(Unintentionally glanced at the shoe cabinet by the door) Oh, I almost forgot about it."
Diana discovered the camera still working.
The screen disappeared.
Video File ① playback ended.
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Video File ②.
The file came from Agent ■■'s personal button camera, hidden in Nashville.
Time: August 12, 2010, 22:14.
The file began playing.
Due to the camera's position on the agent's police uniform collar, the video footage was from Agent ■■'s first-person perspective.
From the footage, it was clear that ■■ was driving a police car, performing a night patrol.
Outside the car window, the streets of Nashville were already empty.
"Buzz—! Buzz—!" Suddenly, a phone vibration alert sounded.
Noticing the movement, ■■ gripped the steering wheel with his left hand and pulled out his phone with his right.
The caller ID showed Jack Jonathan.
■■ didn't think much of it and touched the green call button, then put the phone to his right ear and said with a smile,
"Jack, I can't go to the bar with you to watch the game today, I'm on duty."
"■■! Something's wrong! Hurry! Call an ambulance! My daughter's doll came to life! You have to believe me!" Jack's loud cry for help came through the phone.
And a low-pitched creature saying unknown words: "!,!"
Upon hearing the various situations from the phone, Agent ■■'s tone was no longer playful like a friend's. Instead, he immediately became serious and replied,
"Okay, I'll be there right away."
"Please… Maria! Hold on! Toot—!" The busy signal came through the phone.
■■ threw the phone aside and pulled out some kind of earpiece from the passenger-side storage box.
He put it on.
And immediately reported, "This is Agent Um-0336-8. An anomaly has been discovered in my town, and there may be casualties involving a 9-year-old child."
Selina's voice quickly came through the earpiece, "Received, invading surveillance footage of the incident location…
Agent, please proceed to the incident location as soon as possible to confirm the presence of a tangible anomaly. The lives of ordinary citizens are threatened.
Hell Jumpers and Mobile Task Force support will arrive shortly."
"En route," ■■ replied calmly.
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Judging from the archive video footage, Agent ■■ drove his police car at an extremely high speed towards the incident location—
The Jonathan family's house.
Within minutes.
Agent ■■ arrived at the forest path leading to the Jonathan family's house.
In the light of the headlights, he also saw Diana, dressed in pajamas, holding Maria, who was covered in blood, missing her left arm, and unconscious.
Following the mother and daughter was a frantic Mueller.
■■ immediately slammed on the brakes and got out of the car.
The mother and two children also happened to run to the front of the police car.
"Help, help!" Diana cried in a panic.
■■ simply checked Maria in Diana's arms, and without a word, ran to the rear of the police car and opened the trunk.
From the equipment box marked with a red and white umbrella, he took out a medical kit with a red cross symbol and returned to the three panicked individuals.
■■ took out biological foam from the medical kit, treating Maria's profusely bleeding wound, while reminding Diana,
"Later, take the children and hide in the car. Don't come out no matter what noise you hear, understood?"
"Okay…"
After stopping Maria's bleeding, Agent ■■ didn't ask any more questions. He took a rifle from the trunk and walked towards the nearby incident site.
Upon arrival.
He found the Jonathan family's house engulfed in raging flames.
The anomaly was successfully recorded in the footage.
At the front door of the house was a creature with a female upper body, but with a spider-like torso and limbs for its lower half.
Its head resembled the project's state when it was a doll.
But its eyes were open, with no eyeballs, only two pitch-black 'eye sockets.' "!"
While speaking some unknown language, the anomaly also used the 'spider silk' sprayed from its tail to wrap around the unconscious Jack beneath it.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Seeing this, Agent ■■ immediately used his rifle to attack.
"Ah—!" The anomaly let out a female scream, abandoned Jack beneath it, and prepared to run towards the dense forest.
This proved that ammunition could effectively cause damage to it.
Agent ■■ pursued relentlessly.
When the video footage showed a drop pod cutting a flash across the dark night sky, the file stopped playing.
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The anomaly, codenamed 'The Cursed Doll,' was successfully subdued and contained by Agent ■■, Hell Jumpers, and Gamma Task Force.
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