Chapter 13 Paper Man City 10

"Don't you find this test weird?"

"We should be tested, but everyone has managed to get by pretty well so far."

"A test center designed to test us, could it be so useless? Could it be completely harmless? Do you think it's possible?"

Before answering the question, Zhao Xiaoxuan's mind echoed with Jiang Yuelu's words.

The electronic female voice did not confirm Jiang Yuelu's choice, but began to read out the precautions for the second round of questions. Last time, it only took two sentences to finish, but this time, it took a long time just to explain the rules.

"This test involves the last two multiple-choice questions, and candidates will not be required to answer them immediately."

"Candidates will have one night to find the answer. The correct information is hidden outside in the dangerous night." The electronic female voice seemed to have changed her personality. Her tone fluctuated and she floated into the play, sounding vaguely above the heads of the candidates, as if she was a harsh god overlooking all living beings.

"Similar to the first time, this time there will be even more terrible obstacles waiting ahead."

"The night is quiet and life is at stake. May you all overcome the dangers and return safely." At the end, she was like a living person and let out a faint sigh.

"…An obstacle, or a mirror?"

Yu Xiong's anxious question echoed in the room, and the moonlight faintly brushed over the black coffin. The female voice that read out the rules laughed, "Mirrors have never been an obstacle, they are nothing at all. My foolish believers, you have to know one thing - the real danger has just begun."

"Look at you all, everyone is still standing here alive and kicking, what obstacles have you encountered?"

There was a faint rustling sound in the room. Leng Jing paused in shock, cold sweat broke out all over his body, and his face turned pale as he uttered two words: "Run...Run."

He looked too scary. Chen Chuan asked in surprise, "Hasn't the test started yet?"

Leng Jing was about to yell: "Run!"

"Okay, I got it!" Seven or eight people hurriedly fled out the door. The door was not blocked, and there was still hope. Leng Jing couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He turned around and saw that Chang Le, who always ran in the front, was still standing there. He couldn't help but yelled: "What are you doing? Hurry up--"

The hand that was about to reach Chang Le's shoulder was blocked.

Jiang Yuelu shook her head at him, "Don't come close, or you will die too."

Leng Jing was stunned. Chang Le turned around at this moment, his hands trembling violently, just like his extremely frightened voice at the moment: "I'm so cold..."

When he saw his face clearly, Leng Jing took a breath of cold air. Zhao Xiaoxuan, who was lying at the door and peeking, covered her mouth in shock, and tears of fear burst out of her eyes.

"My body is so cold." Half of Chang Le's body seemed to be cut by a sharp blade. Now only half of his body was talking to people. The other half of him had already been lying in front of the coffin. Half of his eyes turned towards everyone, his eyes full of confusion, "How... did I--"

He could no longer ask any more questions as a dense white shadow rose up and cut him into pieces in an instant.

Invisible and intangible, there was only a rustling sound nearby. The strangely silent enemy left Chang Le dead instantly, and the life-threatening sound swept like a hurricane, and soon rushed out of the door, heading towards the stunned Xuanduo.

Leng Jing yelled, "Get out of the way!"

It's too late, Jiang Yuelu thought.

Before Xuanyunduo could say a word, he was cut in half by four blows.

Just now he was still alive, but now he was torn into pieces by the door. Zhao Xiaoxuan and the others were already pale. They looked up at the sky above the black coffin with trembling eyes. The female voice smiled and said calmly, "Did you see that? This is a death threat. You will encounter similar obstacles tonight. You must pass it smoothly. Oh."

"Do you still want to choose?"

Jiang Yuelu looked at Leng Jing, who spoke in a straight tone. His face was terribly gloomy: "I asked you if you still want to choose?"

"What she just showed us was just the easy version. Two of us died just because of that. No one has ever seen the difficult mode, so do you still want to choose it?"

Jiang Yuelu nodded without hesitation.

Leng Jing exhaled slowly, stopped looking at him, and took the other paralyzed people away from here, leaving a sentence: "You are so reckless, I misjudged you."

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Jiang Yuelu walked in the alley, the cold white moon above her head heralded the long-awaited good weather, but this night was a brutal battle for survival for all of them as they were attacked from all sides.

Half a quarter of an hour ago, he chose the difficult mode and left Zhu's house.

The female voice announced the remaining precautions. From her narration, we can know that the Iron Town will be blocked as an examination venue tonight. The candidates cannot go beyond the city wall or leave from the back mountain. Ten people are thrown into the square town. Leng Jing, who has chosen the simple mode, will be attacked by "invisible ghosts" in the town. They prefer to call it "the life-threatening rustling sound."

Jiang Yuelu will face a difficult mode that no one has ever faced before.

From the joyful tone of the electronic female voice, one could predict that the enemy he would face would be more terrifying than the ruthless rustling voice.

He hid in the shadows outside the shop and looked at the student card in his hand again.

I remember that this student card changed its appearance twice. The first time was from a registration form to a thin card, and the second time was the change of the information on the card. That time, my ID photo and name and other information appeared, which was no different from an ordinary student card.

But just after the exam questions were announced, his photo and information disappeared quietly, and only the contents of the two exam questions appeared. The female voice of the system said that this was a humane consideration of the exam room to prevent someone from forgetting the contents of the exam questions during the overnight search.

He chuckled, full of contempt: "Humanity."

There are now two questions on the card.

Multiple choice question 4. The murderer who killed Liu Shitou is ( )

A. Zhu Xiuyuan B. Xu Pingting C. Zhang Hu D. None of the above is correct

The fourth question continues the style of multiple-choice questions, but the following question is a bit surprising.

Question 5. The weapon that killed Liu Shitou ()

A.█ B.█ C.█ D.█

Strange black squares appeared in the question stem and options, and the entire question was smeared out. We could only guess that the question was asking what the murder weapon was.

However, Jiang Yuelu was looking back at the original nature of this question. If the rules of the first four questions were followed, then the first word that was covered by the square should be a choice. The square after the murder weapon was a little difficult to guess, and "have, is, in..." seemed to be able to fill in.

Jiang Yuelu felt a bit of a headache, so he put this question aside and turned to the previous one.

Who killed Liu Shitou?

Zhu Xiuyuan is Mr. Zhu, Xu Pingting and Zhang Hu are Granny Xu and Zhang the Butcher who have appeared before. They are all townspeople who have lived with Liu Shitou day and night for ten years, and they also do their best to arrange Liu Shitou's funeral during the day.

There was no evidence to prove their innocence, but they could not be convicted of murder either. This was the difficulty.

All they have to do is find as much evidence as possible in the limited time of one night to determine their guilt or innocence.

In addition to the dangers set in the examination room, they also had to face another more dangerous challenge that night. In order to find the information about the murder weapon, they had to get closer to the murderer step by step.

The cold-blooded killer who killed with one blow!

Maybe he should go to Zuixianlou first, he thought.

"boom--!!!"

A loud noise interrupted his thoughts, and thick smoke billowed out from the end of the street, covering the bright moonlight. Jiang Yuelu thought to himself that the "rustling sound" that belonged to him had finally arrived.

He looked at the damaged roof from a distance, but he seemed to see flames and a flock of crows flapping their wings in flight, and a harsh phantom voice screamed in his ears again: "Brother... I'm scared."

Jiang Yuelu blinked, and the auditory hallucination disappeared without a trace.

"It's better to imitate them well. My brother and sister are very well behaved." He muttered to himself, "They won't disturb me when I'm doing my work like this."

"boom--!!!"

There was another noise, and the house opposite slowly collapsed.

In all directions, both near and far, there were booms a hundred times louder than firecrackers. It was as if a fireworks festival was being staged before my eyes. However, what exploded were not fireworks, but dark shadows that staggered out of the broken door. Their white bodies were pale in the moonlight, their dark eyes became even darker, and the colors on their bodies looked childish and evil.

A group of paper figures resurrected from a paper-making shop are walking on the street.

Looking at such a lively scene, Jiang Yuelu thought that he had finally solved one of his puzzles.

It turns out that this is the reason why there are so many paper-making shops in the town.

"Where is it, where is it?" The burly strongman looked around, his eyes rolling up and down.

The tall-haired woman who was covering her thin red lips with her hands chuckled, and pointed to the corner where Jiang Yuelu was, "My dear brother, he's over there."

"Delicious, delicious! It looks delicious!"

Jiang Yuelu felt a weight on her legs and looked down. She saw four or five paper dolls clinging to her legs. She could feel the biting cold even through the thick wizard robe.

"I want his right arm."

"I want his left ear."

"I want his eyes."

The group of babies seemed to be singing a strange nursery rhyme. Jiang Yuelu watched them slowly open their mouths. They looked like small cherry lips, but they could open as wide as a blood basin. He shook his head, "Children who eat without restraint will be punished in our family."

A doll with a double-ring hairstyle raised her head and opened her mouth innocently and romantically, "What's the punishment?"

"Punish her with this." Before he finished speaking, Jiang Yuelu quickly stuffed a yellow talisman into her mouth and quickly stepped back.

The paper doll quickly swallowed the yellow talisman and seemed very satisfied with the taste: "It's delicious, so delicious."

Madam Gao Bin looked at her with disdain, "Don't eat anything unclean!"

The paper doll ignored her and looked back at Jiang Yuelu. Its eyes made of black paper could actually show longing. "Anything else? Anything else?"

Jiang Yuelu was still safe after swallowing the yellow talisman. He couldn't help but wonder if Leng Jing had taught him the correct way to draw the rune. Last night, Leng Jing had stayed up late to cram the rune course for the entire group. He didn't think he would remember the rune wrong. The rune he had just stuffed into the little paper doll's mouth was indeed the exorcism talisman.

Even if he is a very weak beginner in wizardry, he shouldn't be completely useless.

And...what does delicious mean?

He noticed that the high-haired lady, the strong man and other paper dolls kept their distance from the little paper doll with double rings in their hair. He changed his mind and took out a few yellow talismans from his sleeves and waved them, saying, "Poor kid. Are you hungry? I have plenty here."

The paper doll's eyes lit up and it ran towards him on its short legs.

The tall lady and the strong man stood in front of her and cursed, "Dirty thing! You have forgotten the rules after not seeing anyone for so many years. It's not your turn to eat first!"

The paper doll only had eyes for the yellow talisman fluttering in Jiang Yuelu's hand, and murmured, "But... I'm so hungry, it tastes so good..." She had never eaten anything so delicious before. The paper tasted bad, but there was a good... smell on the paper.

"Um?"

Jiang Yuelu glanced down and suddenly saw that the yellow talisman floating in his hand was stained with blood.

After thinking about it, he happened to be called to serve Young Master Xia when he was drawing the talisman. He was probably stabbed while helping him peel fruit, and left blood on the talisman paper after he came back.

Is it because the talisman paper is unclean that it is useless?

Then wouldn't it be all useless?

Although he thought so in his heart, his face remained calm. Jiang Yuelu slowly stepped back, saying as he stepped back: "Kid, has anyone ever taught you dining etiquette?"

"Dining etiquette?"

"It means don't talk while eating. You can't talk while eating." Jiang Yuelu gestured for her to look at the other paper figures. "It must be very uncomfortable to be hungry, right? It's very rude to be interrupted while eating."

"Impolite?"

"Yes." Jiang Yuelu nodded seriously, not even looking at the other paper figures who were so angry that smoke was coming out of their heads: "So if anyone blocks your meal, just kill them."

"Kill it?" The paper doll tilted its head and thought for a while, "Well! Then kill it!"

The rebel paper doll showed no mercy to her companions and bit them with her snow-white teeth.

Even Madam Gao Bin was bitten on the buttocks. She was so angry that her face turned pale: "You are just a mere mortal, talking nonsense!"

It’s no wonder that paper dolls are easily deceived. It’s because these paper dolls haven’t appeared for a long time.

No one has chosen the difficult mode in the past ten years. This is the first time they have been awakened. Think about it, it's like a group of workers who have been unemployed for ten years are suddenly called back to work by their boss. No one can quickly get into the state.

By the time his muscles and murderous intent became active, Jiang Yuelu had already run far away.

“What should I do?!”

The strong man looked at Jiang Yuelu running towards the outer city and the paper doll following behind him like a rolling egg, and said with a serious face: "Don't panic, just look at where he is going."

"oh……"

Wisps of white smoke drifted away, revealing the bizarre outline of the outer city, with the restaurant looming in it.

The furious Lady Gao Bin calmed down and said, "I remember now."

She looked at the restaurant covered by white fog with fear. Even though she had been asleep for ten years, she still remembered the pain those people brought. The massacre ten years ago not only brought the bandits that everyone feared, but also brought the monsters that made them tremble with fear!

The bright moonlight illuminated the outer city, and the sound of rustling could be heard everywhere.

Two paper figures stood quietly at the end of the street, as if they had already seen the end of Jiang Yuelu's death.

"Go to Zuixianlou... and you will see 'Madam'."

"After that, he will be dead for sure."