Chapter 12 Chapter 12

Price, dirty.

When these two words were put together, Xi Bai didn't have to think about it.

His desire to survive was instantly filled, so he turned around and ran.

But the wind was faster than him.

A bone-chilling cold wind blew past him. When Xi Bai raised his head, he saw that the road he came from was already covered with countless snow-white paper strips. The paper strips floated up and down with the cold wind, like countless out-of-control bone claws, craving for fresh flesh and blood here.

The white paper hanging high can replace the soul-calling flag, but calling souls for no reason must be a sorcery! *

Crack, crack, crack...

The rustling sound of the paper moved silently behind him, and when he could hear it clearly, it was already close to his ears.

Xibai smelled the smell of burning paper ashes again.

The temperature behind him rose rapidly, causing a stinging burning sensation, and the chilly cold wind made his hair stand on end.

Xibai turned around and quickly stepped back, and saw that the paper man who had just led the way was now burning violently, with his facial features deformed and distorted. The snow-white paper was ignited into a dazzling orange-red, and then quickly turned into a gray and white color, floating in the sticky air with the wind.

But this did not stop the paper man from stretching out his hand to grab Xibai's heart.

Instead, it became even more terrifying!

Xibai did not care about the paper banners that were strangely hanging and fluttering in the air.

It was important to escape!

The paper man was chasing him closely, and Xibai was running in front of him, but the distance between them was closing visibly.

Xibai soon discovered that when he ran forward and passed those paper banners, those seemingly soft paper strips would lightly brush against his body. Although they were not very powerful, they could slow down his steps without him noticing!

Soon, the paper man was burned to only half of his face, and it rushed in front of Xibai.

It looked just like the other shops he had just seen in the fog!

His foot was tripped hard, and Xibai stumbled, and at the same time, he saw a paper banner being retracted from the place he had just passed like a spirit snake.

But it was also this unexpected moment that completely reduced the distance between him and the paper man to within half an arm's length.

The white shadow raised a strong wind and grabbed towards Xi Bai's heart, approaching his chest in an instant with a cold light.

Xi Bai stood where he was.

He felt that his blood had already run cold at this moment.

But at the moment when the sharp nails made of white paper were about to pierce into his heart, they stopped abruptly.

At first, Xi Bai even thought that time had frozen, until the fingers hanging by his side moved slightly, he realized that everything had not stopped.

It was just that the paper man simply stopped.

A dazzling white light lit up from behind him, as if day had descended, easily wiping out the haze around him that was like the eternal night.

Steady and rhythmic footsteps sounded, and as the familiar cool fragrance of pine wood enveloped his body, Xibai couldn't help but have a thought in his mind.

Although this section of the bridge felt very rustic.

But now Gu Chi was really handsome in his eyes.

※

The surrounding scenery, objects, and people returned to normal.

Xibai felt as if his body had been electrified, and after a burst of hair standing on end, he slowly calmed down.

He looked down and found that he was still standing there, and not far behind him, the clerk was even waving at him with a smile.

The arm faintly conveyed a temperature that did not belong to him. When Xibai looked down, he saw a palm that was two sizes larger than his own, holding his wrist.

The already slender hands looked even thinner with this support. Gu Chi's thumb just rested on the protruding wrist bone. Xibai's senses were very sensitive. He could almost clearly feel the thin rope on Gu Chi's fingertips. With the inadvertent slight movement, it aroused a tingling sensation.

A shadow shrouded the body, and Xibai saw the boy in front of him turned around.

The wrist seemed to be grabbed a little tighter, and the palm pressed against the inside of the arm continued to transmit the burning temperature.

"Are you okay?"

Gu Chi's pleasant voice with obvious concern fell into Xibai's red ears.

"Xibai?"

Another soft call finally brought Xibai back to his senses.

The moment he raised his head, Xibai also learned the truth.

There seemed to be no other changes around him, but in Xibai's eyes, he could see a thick fog of black and scarlet floating in the air.

The fog was not empty, but wrapped around a curled up body.

It looked like a paper figure that had been burned, but upon closer inspection, it was not as thin and fragile as paper, and it was not hollow inside.

A terrifying thought flashed through Xibai's mind, but it seemed to be the only answer.

It was a soul that was burned to death.

Behind the burnt ghost, a dark chain of fog could be seen, and in the black fog of the chain, a faint golden light was vaguely mixed.

The other side of the chain of black-gold mist was tied to Gu Chi's hand.

After looking at each other for a while, Xibai saw that Gu Chi looked away with clear and blank eyes, and raised his head to look at the air, with the innocence of a large dog.

Xibai was sure now.

Gu Chi probably didn't know that his horoscope was extremely yang, and he didn't even know what had just happened.

Just like the time he bumped into him in the snack street before, today Gu Chi held his hand, and it should be the yang energy on his body that helped him dispel the evil spirits and resentment here.

Xibai rubbed his fingertips gently with the other hand hanging by his side.

He couldn't help but think: I am so lucky to find such a roommate!

Gu Chi looked at the dim sunlight shining through the glass dome into the mall, and the last glimmer of his eyes quietly glanced at Xi Bai, then quietly withdrew.

He raised his hand and gently touched the tip of his tall nose, thinking: It's just catching a little devil, there's no need to be so excited, right?

Even his eyes became sparkling.

So cute.

But since Xibai thought he was awesome, Gu Chi didn't want to deny it.

So, with the two people's brain circuits completely confused, the smile on Xibai's mouth gradually widened.

Gu Chi, who had been paying attention to the changes in his vision, suppressed the little pride in his heart and silently raised his head a little higher.

※

After observing the surrounding environment, Xibai saw the emergency stairs.

It was relatively remote there, and not many people came and went, so he could talk to the ghost.

But Xibai was worried that these monsters would scare Gu Chi, so he thought about it and found an excuse: "Can you look around? I'm going to the bathroom."

Gu Chi didn't say anything, just nodded lightly.

Xibai took advantage of his inattention and stretched out his hand to gently pinch Gu Chi's wrist.

He has an extremely yin element. Not only can he see ghosts with his naked eyes, but he can also directly touch and affect the yin energy.

So, the moment his slender white fingers touched the mist, the "mist line" below, along with the mist on top, was pulled away by Xi Bai like a balloon. Gu

Chi tilted his head.

Didn't he go to the bathroom?

Why did he take the paper ghost away?

Perhaps his gaze was too scorching, and it was hard for Xi Bai not to notice.

Worried that Gu Chi would catch up, he gave another warning and deliberately showed a big smile.

"I'll be back soon, you wait for me here, or you can look around in a few shops."

Gu Chi immediately forgot about the paper ghost, who in his eyes was no better than an ant.

He looked at Xi Bai who was waving and walking away, his eyes like black glass could no longer hold anything else.

Xi Bai looks so good when she smiles,

Gu Chi thought.

But when he came to his senses and looked at the back of Xi Bai who was leaving with the paper ghost, he couldn't help but think.

Why did he only take that guy but not himself?

Gu Chi suddenly felt abandoned.

Holding the paper ghost, Xi Bai pushed open the heavy escape door and turned into the emergency passage.

The emergency passage is always dark and deserted, so it is particularly chilly. Xi Bai didn't react much, at most he felt a little cool, but the paper ghost in the black mist had obviously recovered a lot of energy.

Just now, outside, the sun was refracted through the glass dome and penetrated. The strong sunlight was feared and avoided by all creatures in the underworld.

Xi Bai had just glanced at it when he heard a faint voice.

"Why don't you just erase me? It's clearly that kind of existence..."

"Could it be that these two... guys are also here to torture me?"

"Please, give me a quick death. I don't want to cycle through pain anymore."

The voice was filled with despair and pain, which spread through the soul and made people feel it more deeply.

"What's wrong with you?" Xi Bai asked tentatively, "What do you mean by cycle of pain?"

The paper ghost paused after hearing what Xi Bai said.

A shadow flashed, and the paper ghost rushed towards Xi Bai, but when its body hit the edge of the black mist, the dark golden light in the mist suddenly became stronger.

The paper ghost was bounced back by the golden light, and the scarlet evil spirit on its body immediately dimmed a lot, and there was a faint trend of dissipating.

But the paper ghost didn't care at all.

Its empty eye sockets stared straight at Xi Bai.

Xi Bai heard its "voice" again.

"Can you hear me?"

Xi Bai nodded: "Yes, I can hear it."

"You...I...Oh my God!!!"

The paper ghost uttered three meaningless exclamations.

Xi Bai looked at the suddenly excited paper ghost and moved closer to observe for a while.

From the beginning of their meeting, he felt that the facial features of the paper ghost were very strange, but he couldn't tell where exactly. At first, Xi Bai thought that the paper ghost's big empty eye sockets made people feel inconsistent and weird. It was not

until the paper ghost's surprised and happy voice just now that Xi Bai finally found the clue.

This paper ghost has no mouth on its face.

The "lips" he saw were drawn with cinnabar.

But the paper man itself has no "mouth". Cinnabar

can suppress evil spirits, and drawing lips with cinnabar is tantamount to adding a layer of seal on the mouth of the paper ghost.

No matter what kind of happiness, sadness, anger, pain it has... under the seal of this "lock", it can only swallow it back in its heart.

Year after year, resentment breeds, and naturally this paper ghost will develop in the direction of a fierce ghost.

"So what happened to you, and why are you here?"

Soon, Xibai learned a terrible secret about this furniture city from the "voice" of this paper ghost.

Gu Chi stood there, waiting for a while in boredom.

Occasionally, when he got impatient, he would recall Xibai's smile just now.

Until the person appeared in front of him again, Gu Chi was still thinking: How can I make Xibai smile at me again? Wherever his

eyes went, Gu Chi noticed that Xibai was holding a mobile phone, and it seemed that he had just hung up the phone.

Scanning the number on the screen, Gu Chi saw a combination of three numbers that he could not understand.

110?

What is this for?