Chapter 89 The Past of Paper Doll Village

In the dark cave, only a faint light emanated from the ceiling.

Two children with excessively pale faces stood amidst the skeletons, carrying white lanterns.

This contrasted sharply with the innocent and naive smiles on their faces.

If someone were even slightly timid, seeing this scene would probably make their legs go weak and they wouldn't be able to walk, but Jiang Liyue is clearly not an ordinary person.

With a doting smile on her face, she looked like a caring older sister: "What games do you two like to play here?"

"Of course, we'll build a house," Xiao Le and Xiao Yi said in unison.

Big Yellow didn't know what they were talking about, so it barked a few times behind them.

"I hate children," Feng Xuan whispered in Jiang Liyue's ear.

However, fearing that Jiang Liyue would be angry, he did not release his aura to bully the underage paper doll like he did yesterday.

Jiang Liyue patted her wrist reassuringly before continuing to talk to the two children: "Build a house?"

Xiao Le bent down and picked up the bones on the ground, smiling smugly, "This is what we use to build houses. There are the most bones here, so it's very convenient to build houses."

Good, good, good, it really is a paper figure. Even the children's toys are quite different.

They both warmly invited, "Sister Yueyue, would you like to join us in building this too?"

Jiang Liyue looked around and patted their little heads.

"How about you two have a house-building competition? After you finish, I'll be the judge and give you a score, okay?"

Upon hearing about the competition, the children's competitive spirit was ignited, and they eagerly began building houses.

Jiang Liyue, with her hands behind her back, began to wander around inside the cave.

Only Feng Xuan kept stroking Jiang Liyue's hand that had touched the child's head, trying to wipe away the scent that didn't belong to him.

So he said he hated children.

The same goes for paper figures!

The cave was unusually spacious, and there were many burned houses inside, as if it had survived a catastrophic fire.

The cave is a confined space with no stable water source, so if a fire breaks out, it is very difficult to escape.

Upon reaching the open space in the center of the cave, Jiang Liyue saw a burnt plaque with the words "Paper Doll Village" written on it.

Is this the original site of the Paper Doll Village?

"Was the village inside a cave before?" Jiang Liyue asked Feng Xuan.

Feng Xuan's voice rang in her ear: "No, I remember it was on the ground."

"It's normal that the structure and appearance of the village have changed over the past few hundred years. I was asleep most of the time and didn't notice."

It was only when he was facing Jiang Liyue that Feng Xuan could patiently explain so much to her.

He desperately wanted Jiang Liyue's attention to be on him forever.

Feng Xuan still regretted falling into a deep sleep, otherwise he would definitely have been able to tell her more information.

Jiang Liyue was unaware of his complicated little thoughts.

Having obtained the information she wanted, she acted like a discarded woman who used him and then threw him away, immediately ceasing all contact with him and heading back into the burned-out house.

Most of these houses had been destroyed by fire, and with the passage of time, even the walls had collapsed, leaving no clues.

However, Jiang Liyue discovered a blood-written message on the wall of the cave.

I will save everyone; none of you will die.

The bright red handwriting was small, but it looked very familiar. Jiang Liyue remembered seeing the notebook at the home of the blind old man Liu Laide.

The "I'm sorry" above is remarkably similar to this handwriting.

"What guilty thing did I do?" Jiang Liyue reached out and touched the stone wall, discovering a crack in it.

Without thinking, she kicked him.

Whatever, when in doubt, just kick it first!

With a loud crash, the stone wall collapsed, revealing a small space inside.

The space was only about two square meters, and there was a laptop and an incense burner inside.

The two paper figures beside her opened their eyes and stared straight at her the moment the stone wall was kicked open.

Without thinking, he pounced on her.

Jiang Liyue reacted even faster, kicking one person with one foot and grabbing another with her other hand.

Unlike the paper figures in the ancestral hall, these two paper figures do not know fear; they only attack instinctively, as if they are protecting something.

After Jiang Liyue realized this, she quickly tore the two pieces into pieces.

Only then did they obtain the notebook from the secret room, along with a small booklet underneath.

Jiang Liyue opened the notebook and found it contained a diary.

The above is a young man's journey through life. His village is known as the Paper Doll Village, famous for making paper dolls.

The boy was also very talented, creating lifelike paper figures. He could also come up with novel ideas to make the paper figures' joints move and even walk.

As a result, the boy became extremely proud and arrogant, and became even more obsessed with paper figures.

One day he heard a voice tell him that he could make paper figures that were exactly the same as real people.

He began studying evil magic, but unexpectedly attracted the remnants of demonic spirits, which caused a great fire that burned their village to the ground, killing everyone.

Only he was left alive.

I never imagined that my arrogant talent would lead to the deaths of everyone. The village temporarily moved underground to escape evil spirits, and everyone avoided them like the plague. Yet, I secretly researched them. I am a sinner. I will save everyone.

This is the last entry the boy left in his diary, and the boy's name is "Liu Laide".

After reading it, Jiang Liyue felt a sense of "I knew it."

The booklet below contains Liu Laide's record of an evil technique that allows paper figures to be possessed by wandering ghosts and then reborn through the blood and flesh of living people.

"In order to save the villagers, Liu Laide used evil magic to introduce the souls of the villagers into the bodies of paper figures, and through the bodies of outsiders, he reconstructed the dead villagers."

"On the day of the paper offering, living people will become sacrifices."

Jiang Liyue, drawing on her experience watching many horror movies and existing clues, easily pieced together the truth behind the paper memorial day.

[The truth behind the paper offering festival has been uncovered; mission complete.]

[The quest to escape the Paper Doll Village is incomplete. Do you want to exit the instance?]

A notification suddenly appeared in Jiang Liyue's mind: she only needed to complete one of the two tasks to exit the instance.

Before she could make a choice, an arm grabbed her waist with one hand.

Turning her head, Feng Xuan stared at her with bloodshot eyes, his gaze filled with obsession.

"Yueyue..."

He used to call her "wife," but now he started calling her "Yueyue."

"What's wrong?" Jiang Liyue blinked innocently.

Then I mentally chose "no".

"I don't know." Feng Xuan hugged her even tighter.

His eyes were fixed on her, as if he was afraid she would disappear if he blinked: "Just now, I felt like you were going to leave me."

She knew this death was coming!

Alarm bells rang in Jiang Liyue's mind.

She turned her head and sweetly wrapped her arms around his waist: "How could I possibly leave you?"

"You are my husband, we are the best of friends in the world, we will be together forever."