Chapter 28 Paper Man City 25

"Bandits raid——"

The sentries on the city wall were shot dead on the wall before they could even beat the drums.

The hungry wolves ran quickly on the deserted streets.

The first half of the night was filled with screams of pain, but the second half was completely silent. The entire city was soaked in blood.

No one expected that a young man who appeared here half a year ago killed all the evil bandits in a blink of an eye. The revenge for the murder of his wife and the great revenge happened one after another. The survivors had their heads soaked in wet blood, and they were unable to think as if they were soaked in acid water.

Hearing the young man introduce himself in a tired tone, his name is Qin Xue, from Xue Village, and he came here to spread the belief of their wizard clan - "the law of symbiosis".

"A way to bring the dead back to life." He said briefly.

The head soaked in blood slowly rose up.

After a while, the first person stood up.

"I am willing to do it, Wizard Qin Xue. I am willing to try the Gongshi method you mentioned."

Xu Pingting even called the wrong name. She had no idea what this method was, but when she heard that it could bring people back to life, there was only one voice left in her mind.

In the silent sea of corpses and blood, her fanatical voice shouted again and again.

"If only he could survive—"

"I'll do anything. I'll do anything!"

Hearing her voice, the others who were kneeling or sitting on the ground couldn't help but look at their dead friends and relatives - strangely, after knowing that they could come back to life, they didn't feel so painful anymore.

The big hole in my heart, which had been hollowed out just now, no longer leaked air.

Everyone felt relieved - the despair that had previously weighed heavy on them was gone.

"I do, too. I do!"

"Let my father come back to life!"

"Please, Wizard Qin, Wizard Qin!"

Wizard Qin, who was being called by everyone, nodded.

Still very sleepily, he said, "Their bodies are already dead, and we need to borrow them from you. Is that okay?"

"...No! I object!"

Wang Ermaizi crawled out from the pile of corpses, "You want my body for that ugly dead bastard? I survived with great difficulty! I don't want it!"

Xu Pingting whispered, "Then just get out."

“…Yes, yes, get out!”

Some people disliked him, but more people were afraid that Qin Xue would not agree to help because of his refusal.

Those who were unwilling followed Wang Ermaizi and left.

Looking at the remaining people, Qin Xue asked, "Are you willing?"

This time no one objected.

Qin Xue looked up into the air and smiled with relief: "Very good. They will definitely be very touched."

The remaining wind swept away the scenery, and Jiang Yuelu was left standing alone in the small dark room. The second prompt was over.

"The third hint will be given in ten seconds, ten..."

"Wait a minute." Jiang Yuelu interrupted the electronic female voice.

"What questions do the examinees have?"

He looked at the edge of the black room. There was one thing that had been bothering him since a while ago.

"Is this place airtight? I mean, could anyone see me from outside?"

"The exams at the academy are similar to the exams in your human society. The venue only allows the examinees to stay, as well as the invigilators and the system that allows the exams to run smoothly."

"As for the outside observation you mentioned, this is forbidden in the academy."

"Any other questions?"

Jiang Yuelu retracted her gaze from afar, "No more."

The countdown continued. After it reached "zero", Jiang Yuelu was no longer there.

A green fire appeared and burned the entire small dark room.

Outside the black house, the ancestral hall in the ghost town was revealed behind the flames. The boy sitting on the branch of the giant tree was very different from when Jiang Yuelu first met him. There were red marks spreading from deep inside his neck, as if he had been burned once.

He saw the entire process of Jiang Yuelu staying in the small dark room.

Jiang Yuelu looked in his direction several times, then looked away blankly, and he saw it all.

Now that the figure had disappeared, the young man muttered to himself, "The test that old man came up with... seemed like a fairy tale, but it could become a reality."

No one answered him. But he seemed to be very good at talking to himself.

Under the silent ghost tree, his voice was heard again: "Is it only the third one? It's been a while, Jiang Yuelu."

"In order to avoid making me wait here too long, you'd better hurry up..."

The ghost lights flickered in the night wind, and the paper doll danced slowly on his shoulders.

-【Third Tip】

Jiang Yuelu is now in an extremely confused situation.

He was in a room. A woman's room.

This room is simple and cramped, and it is hard to believe that something major will happen. But if nothing happens, it can't be a clue to the key to answering the question.

This room belongs to Granny Xu. She just woke up, boiled water, washed, cleaned the house, and sewed clothes... It looked like a normal day for a widow. But gradually, Jiang Yuelu found that she was a little neurotic.

She was very frightened since she woke up, and kept muttering something and walking around the room.

It is logical to explain that she went insane after her husband died.

In the previous hint, Qin Xue agreed to resurrect Huang Yusheng, but now Xu Pingting is the only one in the room, and all daily necessities are for single use. The old man Huang that Nanzhen met did not appear here.

But when he looked around, Xu Pingting's current state was not disappointment at all - it was pure fear.

She kept walking around the room, searching every corner like she had an obsessive-compulsive disorder, looking in rat holes and picking up upside-down gauze covers. As she found nothing, her face became more and more terrifying, and finally she trembled from bottom to top like a dead person: "Here it comes again... Here it comes again!"

"Wizard Qin...Wizard Qin...Wizard Qin!"

She kept calling Qin Xue, as if this name replaced the four-word motto that could protect her safety.

The door creaked open. "What's wrong?"

This is the voice of Buddha who can save people from suffering!

Xu Pingting grasped the main point: "Wizard Qin, he is here again, the evil ghost is here again..." While speaking, she was still glancing around. Seeing her so panicked, it seemed that she had been scared for many days in a row.

Qin Xue sounded very calm, "Speak slowly."

She also slowly calmed down, stopped trembling, and swept towards the broom leaning against the door, "…This broom was not placed here last night."

"Are you remembering correctly?"

Xu Pingting pointed in a direction with certainty, "I have always kept it here. Only...only my dead Ah Sheng would hang the broom next to the cabinet."

“And this dress!”

Xu Pingting grabbed the coarse cloth coat on the bed and threw it away as if she had been bitten by a snake: "I put this coat away in the closet! But this morning, it was placed next to my pillow, next to my pillow!!!"

"There are also cups, buckets, kitchen knives..."

She was out of breath, her eyes wide open, as if in a spasm: "The position has completely changed, after one night, everything has changed... because of the evil spirit - the evil spirit used it!"

The last few words flowed out along with the scream, and her eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets.

With her confused words and chaotic emotions, it's easy to believe that she is crazy.

What time is it now? Jiang Yuelu wondered.

How long had it been since that day on the cliff? How could she be so different?

"Yes. That is the breath of the evil spirit."

Qin Xue shattered her last hope, "He didn't leave, he's still pestering you."

Xu Pingting was stunned and stood motionless for a while.

"What on earth is he trying to do? He has killed my husband. Why is he doing this to me? I can't stand it... Wizard Qin, I don't want to wake up every day and see different things..."

That's not right here either.

Jiang Yuelu seemed to be making comments. Xu Pingting's words sounded like she had completely forgotten about the "Law of Symbiosis". She assumed that her husband was dead.

Is there no resurrection?

No, South Town is full of resurrected people.

Does that mean Qin Xue erased this memory?

Xu Pingting sat there in a daze.

She seemed to see it again.

The evil ghost slipped in from the door. The evil ghost walked around the room. The evil ghost was drinking water. The evil ghost walked to the bedside and looked at her. The face was covered with thick ink, and the ghost eyes flashed with teasing and blood, staring at her with interest, savoring her fear and anger... watching her increasingly crazy but helpless struggle.

Wizard Qin Xue will definitely find a way.

She had seen it, she had seen how he killed the bandits and saved them, he would definitely find a way!

"Sorry. The town is full of evil spirits now." Qin Xue's sleepy face was most suitable for talking about such things that had nothing to do with him. It was hard to imagine why he would kill the bandits to save people.

"Besides protecting you every night, there's nothing else I can do."

Lie, Jiang Yuelu thought.

Just like the way he deceived people later, he was lying. There is no evil spirit at all.

Xu Pingting was in despair. She sat there helplessly. A month of terror had turned her into a useless person who couldn't even bear resentment. Maybe she wouldn't be afraid if she was stabbed or confronted a ghost face to face.

She had been corrupted by the fear she endured day after day.

If only there weren't these evil spirits...

She thought unconsciously, but the words came out.

"If I hadn't killed them then..."

Hearing her unconscious mumbling, Qin Xue turned around and asked sternly, "What did you say?"

Xu Pingting woke up with a start, realizing what she had just said, and she broke out in a cold sweat. Guilt, shame, and hatred attacked her inwardly, twisting her intestines and tearing her apart from the inside out.

"You want to say that it's okay if you didn't kill them?"

Qin Xue said righteously, "You actually said such a thing. If your dead husband knew about it, wouldn't he cry in grievance in the underworld?"

"They are the murderers who massacred your town. You didn't kill them and only wanted to keep you safe. What's the difference between you and those people?"

"You are no different from the man who killed your husband!"

Every time Qin Xue said something, Xu Pingting lowered her head even lower.

After she finished speaking, she was too ashamed to face anyone. "I'm crazy, Wizard Qin. I'm crazy to say such damnable things. I deserve to die, I deserve to die!"

"You're too scared. When people are scared they say things they don't mean."

"I don't mean what I say..."

"Have you forgotten how they chopped off your husband's head and proudly brought it to you?"

I didn't forget!

She screamed in her heart.

"Have you forgotten how I made you remember his face after I killed them?"

I haven't forgotten it! The first time a dead man's face touched her eyes, I will never forget it in my life!

"Have you forgotten all about this blood feud?"

Qin Xue sneered: "Just because you didn't sleep well for a few days."

"I haven't forgotten, I haven't forgotten!" She repeated this sentence neurotically.

"As long as you haven't forgotten."

Qin Xue glanced at her, as if considering something: "I recently thought of a way."

"Thanks to your town's great blessings, there is also a precious tree... Well, you take a rest first, come to the ancestral hall tomorrow, and I will take care of everything."

After Qin Xue left, the day passed quickly.

It was late at night. Xu Pingting tossed and turned for a long time before finally falling asleep. There was only an oil lamp lit in the room, which was burning with a crackling sound. Soon, even the wick burned out. After a crackling sound, there was no light in the room.

Jiang Yuelu sat at the table; he was a little tired from standing.

Suddenly entering darkness, it took a long time for his eyes to adjust. When the surrounding objects emerged from the shadows again, Jiang Yuelu suddenly saw a person sitting opposite him.

The door didn't ring, proving the man didn't come in from outside.

Who else is in the room besides me?