Chapter 16 Paper Man City 13
Such a beautiful lady, but without a face.
Her face had lost all the facial features, no eyes, no nose or lips, just like a blank piece of paper. Jiang Yuelu didn't know how she saw herself.
For no apparent reason, a strong heart palpitation came over him. He tilted his head and whispered, "Run!"
Zhao Xiaoxuan and Chen Chuan had already sensed something was wrong. They supported each other to stand up, carried the still unconscious Leng Jing on their backs and ran away.
"then!"
A golden bag rolled to his feet, and the cold moonlight coming through the window illuminated it clearly. It was a bag of magical instruments that Leng Jing regarded as treasures. It was said that taking out one of them could make low-level ghosts bow their heads and beg for mercy.
But now, this "madam" didn't even look at it.
She ignored the three people running away right under her nose, and just stood by the window, "watching" them for a long time without moving. Suddenly she smiled and said politely, "Excuse me, have you seen my child?"
child?
There are no children in that painting.
After Mrs. Zhu died, Mr. Zhu has lived alone until today.
This is indeed the case, and the story that has been passed down here is also recorded in this way.
But there was a line of small words on the test paper, saying that Mrs. Zhu lost her baby in three months of pregnancy due to worry. She was sure that it was a lovely daughter, and she sewed many small clothes for her before she was born. If you think about it carefully, Mrs. Zhu's abdomen in the painting is indeed slightly bulging than that of ordinary women.
"Is it a girl?"
Jiang Yuelu remained calm, but cold sweat broke out on her back: "She went east."
"You have seen her? That's great." Mrs. Zhu breathed a sigh of relief. But the next second, she suddenly leaned into the window, her hair full of pearl hairpins trembled, and her faceless face had the deterrent power of interrogation: "You can't lie to me. You men are the best at lying. What does my child look like? Tell me."
Jiang Yuelu thought for a moment and said, "She looks a lot like her mother, but not like her father."
Mrs. Zhu sighed.
She took out a white comb from somewhere and slowly combed her black hair. She said faintly, "You even know this. It seems that you have really seen my son. He is different from the man who lied to me."
Jiang Yuelu frowned and asked, "The man who lied to you?"
Mrs. Zhu covered her mouth and said, "Don't you know my rules? If anyone cheats me, I will charge a small price."
No.
That's not lying to you at all.
There are very few people who can answer the question you ask.
If you hadn't seen the test paper beforehand and happened to remember that line of small words, no one would know that she had a child. She set a question that no one could answer, just because she wanted to kill someone!
Jiang Yuelu looked at the small white comb in her hand. One end was tangled in her hair, and the other end was shaved very thin, perfect for beheading.
The blood light reflected by the bright surface seemed to merge with the remaining blood on Liu Shitou's neck.
Jiang Yuelu touched her sleeve and asked without leaving any trace: "Besides me, have you seen anyone else today?"
"I have seen him before, but you are the only particularly good-looking man—"
The talisman paper flew out of her hand and hit her face, sealing the word "了" in "Only you" back into her mouth. She fell silent, allowing the talisman paper to burn black holes on her white face. She did not cry out in pain, nor did she get angry.
The black hole burned faintly, contrasting with the pale face, was so deep that it seemed to suck people into another world.
It was unknown how much time had passed before she spoke again.
"I never like killing people at every turn."
"If I want to hurt others, I have ten thousand ways to do it." With every word she spoke, a cluster of pure flames appeared on her face. Soon, her snow-white face was burned all over with holes, but there was no pain in her voice.
It even sounds a bit regretful.
"Liu Shitou. Right?"
She burst into laughter.
"He loves those shadow puppets so much. When he was rehearsing, I was watching from behind... I looked at him, and he looked at the puppets. We each had our own obsession and love, isn't that great?"
"Alas. But he turned around and saw me."
"Then he looked terrified and begged for mercy. Why did he do that? I really wanted to communicate with him."
"I thought he loved those puppets, but I didn't expect that he didn't love them anymore. He got on the ground, knelt down in front of me and kowtowed a hundred times, saying, 'Take them all, take them all,' and begged me to spare his life!"
"...What kind of love is this?"
Mrs. Zhu said with regret: "It is better to die early than to live hypocritically."
Jiang Yuelu asked: "So you killed him?"
"How can that be considered killing?" Mrs. Zhu was surprised and said, "It's just making him pay a small price."
cost.
Jiang Yuelu sneered: "Then we have nothing to say."
He swept all three talismans in his sleeves towards Mrs. Zhu outside the window. At the same time, he grabbed the paper doll on his shoulder and patted it, whispering, "Go away." The doll had just abandoned him upstairs, but for some reason, it was not afraid of Mrs. Zhu at this moment, and sat calmly on his shoulder to watch the fight.
After being slapped away by him, it fell to the ground not far away, but still did not leave.
Jiang Yuelu was too busy to care about her. His yellow talisman burned a flame on Mrs. Zhu's face, but she didn't feel any pain at all. She sighed and said, "I said I hate fighting and killing. Why do you have to force me?"
She raised her hand.
“Rustle…rustle…”
In the middle of summer, white snow overflowed from the window and fell on the ground bit by bit, like a group of white locusts moving at a very fast speed crawling towards Jiang Yuelu.
A ghost that cannot be seen or touched.
It turned out to be a group of tiny paper people. When people walked in the streets and houses of the outer town, they hid on the ground and marched. The people looked around in panic, constantly searching for enemies, but they never imagined that their enemies were quietly walking on the ground.
This is what is called the invisible evil spirit!
"You resent your husband, but you drag innocent people into this. Your hatred isn't that pure." Jiang Yuelu said sarcastically, "You're still mocking other people's love?"
"Hate my husband?"
Mrs. Zhu seemed to have heard some shocking joke. She was stunned and showed an unprecedented crazy smile. A narrow crack appeared on her face: "Who is he! I don't hate him."
"Isn't all this you did just to get back at him for disappointing you and making you die of depression after your marriage?"
"Of course not!"
Mrs. Zhu was puzzled: "This is what I want to do. What does it have to do with him? We have been strangers since we had different intentions."
Wow, I thought you were a love-brained ghost, but I didn’t expect you to be an independent ghost of the new age.
Jiang Yuelu inexplicably felt a little admiration for her, but when she thought about the fact that this woman killed Liu Shitou for inexplicable reasons, that admiration disappeared and quickly turned into disgust.
Mrs. Zhu said warily, "You keep nagging and talking about irrelevant things. Are you stalling?"
"I'm not dragging my feet." Jiang Yuelu whispered, "I'm just gambling."
Madam Zhu was too lazy to listen to the dead man's words. She waved her hand, and the army of paper people crawling on the ground instantly formed sharp triangular darts and pounced on Jiang Yuelu one after another.
She had stayed here too long tonight.
If she didn't go back, she would definitely be punished by her master... She had to go back quickly.
But as soon as she turned around, her body suddenly shook, as if she was defeated from the inside by some external force.
Her body was made of divine paper, which was invulnerable to all poisons, swords and guns. Nothing could kill her. The reason why she felt pain at this moment was because she was using her power to control the thousands of paper figures - those white weapons that formed the triangular darts, which were one with her. If she was injured, they would die.
And if they died, she would be hurt.
Turning back in disbelief, Mrs. Zhu saw a horrifying scene from the window.
Her paper figurines cried out in pain for their mothers in the middle of the sudden flames, and gradually turned into ashes and drifted away. She showed her two narrow eyes in horror, looking like a white fox with drooping eyes, and asked coldly: "Impossible, no one can burn my paper figurines with fire!"
This statement is true.
Jiang Yuelu had also confirmed that the paper man-skins worn by the townspeople were not afraid of fire, and his intuition told him that they were all the same kind of thing.
But just at the moment when he was about to be killed, a not-so-scalding green flame indeed ignited with a crackling sound, and in less than a moment, all the paper figures that stood in his way were burned to ashes.
Green flames spread across the ground, and at the end stood a young man in red.
Looking at him, Jiang Yuelu knew that she had won the bet.
He didn't run with Zhao Xiaoxuan and the others just now. On the one hand, he was too close and might not be able to escape; on the other hand, he was still thinking about the answer to the last multiple-choice question. The murderer who killed Liu Shitou might be right in front of him, and he must know what the murder weapon was. It would be a pity if he left.
Others may not need to take risks, but he has no choice.
Since you have decided to take the more dangerous path, you must show the determination to conquer them one by one.
Jiang Yuelu decided to go gamble.
He guessed that Young Master Xia was waiting for someone, and after seeing his amazing abilities, he decided to use him to make a big bet - he bet that the person Young Master Xia was waiting for was Madam Zhu, and there would definitely be a fierce fight between the two of them, and he could take advantage of the chaos to retreat.
Now it has been confirmed that his guess was indeed correct.
He made the right bet.
But why didn't he take the next step?
Why didn't you turn around?
Didn't abandon him?
The green flames reflected in his pale eyes overlapped with another fire that was indelible in his memory. The figure standing in the flames also seemed to overlap with the other three children.
"Impossible. Impossible!"
Mrs. Zhu's exclamation woke him up.
She changed from her previous calmness and composure, becoming more and more out of control and excited, with more and more cracks appearing on her skin. At this moment, she seemed to be roaring in anger with more than a hundred mouths.
"Impossible! No one can kill my child - it was given to me by the Master!"
Young Master Xia snorted and laughed: "Has no one told you that this is not an ordinary flame?"
Seeing her dull face, he seemed to have discovered something and said maliciously: "You don't know. It seems that your so-called master has already decided to abandon you."
Mrs. Zhu woke up in shock.
She seemed to have found something from distant memories.
...Don't get close to the "Splashing Cyan Fire".
"The blue flame is extremely pure and can burn all evil spirits to ashes, leaving no soul behind." The master stroked her head, "When you encounter this kind of flame, remember one word."
"What?" She looked up in confusion.
"run."
As the memories faded away, Madam Zhu began to tremble. Through the more than a hundred cracks on her body, she could see green fire splashing inside and outside the window. The flames could even splash high into the sky, and the low crackling sound was like a cluster of fireworks.
Light. The light that evil spirits hate the most!
Fear wrapped around her tightly, but even so, with a final attempt, she reached out and lightly touched the green flame in front of her.
The green light was like a small meteorite swallowed by an icy lake and quickly disappeared into her snow-white hands.
"Ha ha……"
Isn't this safe and sound?
However, her smile quickly froze. In less than a moment, she opened her mouth wide and began to tremble silently. A terrible scream almost tore Jiang Yuelu's eardrums.
“Ahhhhhh!”
The screams echoed around the stone walls, and the whole room was filled with the miserable screams of the female ghost: "It hurts! It hurts! It hurts so much!!!"
She screamed madly and crawled on the ground, as if she was being gnawed and bitten by some monster that flew into her body... She raised her head in extreme horror and looked at the young man in red who had caused her so much pain without even moving a step.
"run!"
This thought popped into her mind.
"If you don't run, you will definitely die!"
Then, I will never see my master again...
A sharp and urgent whistle sounded, and a silver-white light appeared on the roof not far away, like a snowstorm that appeared out of nowhere. Soon, snowflakes from nowhere fell all over the town. Looking from Zuixian Tower, the eaves of the surrounding houses were covered in white.
The whole world was covered with ice and snow, but it didn't feel cold.
As a strange sound came out of her throat again, Jiang Yuelu watched with her own eyes the white snow move. It rushed over the roof, crossed the air, and pounced on her trapped and suffering mother without hesitation. It hung in the air in front of the night moon for a moment, and it was still a white blanket as wide as the sea and boundless.
“Stop him!”
After summoning the huge paper descendants, Madam Zhu landed lightly on the ground and floated far away in an instant.
"Want to run?"
Young Master Xia snorted and laughed. Compared with the enemy's escape, his pursuit seemed too leisurely. As he climbed to the window, he seemed to remember something and turned his head to glance at Jiang Yuelu.
He seemed to be wondering why Jiang Yuelu was still here.
Jiang Yuelu was also wondering why he hadn't left yet.
A moment of confusion appeared in the eyes of the two people as they looked at each other, but quickly disappeared. They quickly stood up, one on the left and one on the right, and ran in opposite directions.
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