Chapter 27 Paper Man City 24
After the man turned into bones, he became lighter and smaller. The paper man's skin, which was originally fitted to the body, expanded slightly. One, two, countless spores, like large spores dotted in the dark dust, floated slightly due to breathing.
On one side is a sea of bones, and on the other side is a sea of flesh and blood.
They used to be family members, but now it’s hard to recognize them.
Uncle Huang subconsciously stretched his hand forward, wanting to see more clearly, but he suddenly heard a sharp whistle, nailing him and all the people in Nanzhen to the spot. His clear eyes blurred after constant struggle, and this strange twin human being suddenly stopped in unison like a puppet that broke free from its string and was then strangled.
Countless paper figures emerged on the ground, weaving closely and making urgent rustling sounds.
Jiang Yuelu raised her head and said in a cold voice: "Long time no see, Madam!"
The faceless woman with long hair slowly descended from the sky. Her face kept changing during the process, gathering and dissipating like mist, and finally froze into a pretty face in the painting.
Once there are eyes, the face becomes lively and the figure looks several years younger.
She supported her head tenderly and lazily fell on the high table, lying down like a fox, holding a long jade pipe in her hand, looking at Jiang Yuelu puffing out smoke, her tone extremely ambiguous.
"Young man. I didn't expect you missed me so much that you came all the way here?"
Without waiting for an answer, she glanced at Zhao Xiaoxuan and Chen Chuan one by one with her wet eyes, "Let me take a look, it seems that quite a few people have made it through the previous question..."
"The female voice impersonating the system must be you."
Such a firm judgment made her slightly stunned, and the gap between her eyes widened.
"Also. What do you mean by having gotten through one question..."
“Don’t make it sound like surviving is as easy as crushing someone to death.” Jiang Yuelu said coldly.
The mist could not hide her sudden voluptuous smile: "Ah. I'll save these bold words for myself later!"
With his back to Jiang Xinhui's cold body, Zhao Xiaoxuan couldn't help but clench his fists.
Mrs. Zhu hummed, as if she smelled a strong hatred. She looked at Zhao Xiaoxuan and licked her lips, "Beautiful girl, you seem to want to kill me?"
"Ants want to shake elephants. The courage of the ignorant is worth encouraging."
"But it's hard to say whether you will continue to be lucky in the next question." After saying that, she laughed again, and the gauze dress on her shoulders shook and fell, revealing her white shoulders.
She didn't take those tiny ants seriously at all. Even if they answered the question correctly, even if they discovered the secret between the two towns, she would still sit on the altar leisurely and lazily.
"Um?"
As if she smelled something unpleasant, Mrs. Zhu stopped smiling and frowned.
Jiang Yuelu looked into the distance. A hunched shadow seemed to appear among the floating and breathing bones.
Mrs. Zhu was furious: "Who asked you to come here?"
The visitor shrank back, lowered his head and replied: "I saw that the ancestral hall was open..."
For ten years, he and she each guarded their own city and had never met each other... Thinking of this, he leaned out to take a look at her, but was frightened back by a violent roar.
In just this flash, Jiang Yuelu also saw his face clearly.
Zhu Xiuyuan, Lord Zhu.
"Why is it not your fault?!"
Madam Zhu yelled, "If you hadn't let these bastards in, how could my place be in such a mess!"
New hatreds piled up on old grudges, and the more she thought about it, the angrier she became. A string of obscene words burst out like bullets. It was really hard to associate her with the lazy woman just now.
Mrs. Zhu suddenly caught a glimpse of Zhao Xiaoxuan's dazed expression, and then she remembered to maintain her appearance and regain her composure and elegance. "...Humph, this is so infuriating. I'm so angry that I've lost my composure."
Lord Zhu said: "I can't do anything about it. These people wanted to come here on their own initiative."
"There's nothing I can do. You men always have all kinds of reasons to say there's nothing I can do, and then you put the blame on women."
Madam Zhu glared at him fiercely, "Not only are you incompetent, but you also ruined the master's ten-year plan! Why don't you quickly deal with these little bastards?"
"Why are you so vulgar now..." Lord Zhu didn't continue, "Okay, okay, I get it, I get it, okay."
What can I do? Okay, I know. Okay, okay. Different men, same old story.
Zhao Xiaoxuan whispered, "How annoying you are sometimes... Do you know now?"
Chen Chuan nodded, "Shame on you for being such a scumbag!"
The two of them shared a common hatred for the enemy, and the two people who hated each other formed a short-lived alliance. Madam Zhu suppressed her nausea and joined forces with him, intending to manipulate the system to kill people like before: "We must not let them get through! Do you hear me?"
"knew……"
The beautiful female ghost and the middle-aged dog official stared at them from the left and right.
Their voices overlapped strangely, and they read out the "system" test questions in harmony: "Essay question 2, Iron Town in the past ten years..."
Just after the first sentence, the female voice stopped abruptly. Lord Zhu looked over in surprise and saw his wife's face change. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly froze as if he had been stabbed, bent over and gasped.
Chen Chuan and the other man, who wanted to cry but had no tears, said "Huh", "What happened to them?"
"It backfired." Jiang Yuelu said.
He had been watching from the sidelines since just now, as if he had expected this moment to come, and he mocked Mrs. Zhu.
"Your so-called master didn't seem to tell you that if you go beyond the system for too long, you will be retaliated against, right?"
"I was a little suspicious last time when you didn't dare to kill anyone again."
"You are still afraid of the system. As long as you are afraid, it means there are still some rules here that you have to abide by."
"Don't forget, this is first and foremost an examination room, and secondly, the City of Fairyland where you two can enjoy your glory. I've already bypassed the system and forcibly changed the questions once before, so why are you coming here again?"
He had that "you're so stupid" written all over his face.
"So what if there's a backlash? This little injury won't hurt us..." Mrs. Zhu wanted to straighten up, but she bent down again in pain. Her limbs seemed to be pulled in all directions by a twisting force, preventing her from taking any further action.
"You're wrong." Jiang Yuelu smiled, "There is more than one way to restore everything that is out of balance to normal."
“In addition to weakening the strong party, it can also strengthen the weak party.”
He pointed at a curtain of rune light that fell from the sky. It was the same black cube he had seen when answering the question for the first time. It fell silently and separated them.
Imprisonment is also like a protective posture.
"Ah...are we going to answer the questions separately again?" Zhao Xiaoxuan said, "No, no."
"It's not an answer, it's a hint."
Jiang Yuelu said: "It's a hint to give us more opportunities."
"Remember to use the cheat stone." Jiang Yuelu only had time to say this before the two people disappeared.
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"Candidate information scanning completed, identification completed."
"The candidates' scores have been confirmed, and they are currently ranked first in total score."
The female voice of the system, which made an exception and announced the rankings on the field, spoke in a gentle tone, as if trying to comfort the frightened students.
This reminded Jiang Yuelu that the original entrance exam was only C- in difficulty. Just like the college entrance exam, the Witchcraft Academy exam was also released to candidates after multiple tests. The C sequence was neither too difficult nor too easy, and was the most suitable exam for the initial screening of the entrance exam.
However, because of the sudden appearance of the Lord of Ghost City, the vicious big ghost made the difficulty soar to the terrifying level of S level.
Of course, this is something Jiang Yuelu will only know later.
At the moment, he was still listening carefully to the announcement of the female voice of the system.
"After checking, it was found that there were multiple deviations in the test questions in this copy. After reversing the deviation with the second-level authority, there is still a risk of deviation again. We cannot rule out human cheating or other situations."
"To ensure the fairness of this exam, we are now mobilizing the first-level authority to adjust the examination room. Because the number of candidates alive now is less than before, we have determined that the difficulty of this exam has actually increased. We have added relevant prompts for the candidates. Please read them separately before answering the essay questions."
"warn--"
The gentle female voice suddenly became stern. "If there are any more deviations in the test questions, the supervision authority for this "Paper Man City" will be handed over to the Witchcraft Academy for handling."
Does that mean someone is being sent over?
"The first prompt is as follows. Please read it, candidate Jiang Yuelu."
Slowly the picture scroll unfolded before him.
The first time he answered the questions and the fake hints given by Zuixianlou later, the "movie-watching experience" opened up to him was too fast. This time he had more time to observe.
It was more like a process of transforming from a completely dark viewing room into a full-color holographic image.
When one thing turns into another, even if they overlap, they will leave traces. If they don't, it may be because the speed is beyond the ability of the human eye to capture.
Jiang Yuelu believed that if there was a camera recording the moment and then slowing it down later, he would be able to see the faint stream of light emerging at the moment of change, as if a stream of light formed by runes had formed the huge space where he was now in the blink of an eye.
The power of the ancient talisman and the sci-fi technology of the future seemed quite contradictory, but it was really presented before him.
The system brought him back to the Flatiron Town more than ten years ago.
The disaster should not have happened yet, the town was peaceful, and occasionally I would run into a few familiar faces, like Lin Wan and Zhang the Butcher. They didn't seem to know each other yet, and passed by each other in the crowd.
Lin Wan walked past him carrying a basket of vegetables, and none of these people could see him.
After waiting for a long time, a person I had never seen before finally appeared on the street.
The man was in his early twenties, with his hair loose, and a reserved and depressed look. He walked slowly to the giant tree in front of the ancestral hall with his head lowered. Without saying a word, he took out a piece of yellow cloth from his bag, spread it at his feet, and then sat there in deathly silence.
There was no sense of vitality coming from him, and his spine was curled up as if someone had hit him with a heavy fist.
I occasionally spoke, but I was very sleepy.
"Boy, you have been coming here every day and sitting under this tree. Has it been half a month?"
He hummed.
"Do you want to see the trees, the sky, or the birds?" The man smiled vulgarly and deliberately thrust his lower body. Ignoring his obscene words, the young man explained, "I am here to spread a magic."
"Spell?"
Some people misheard it and thought it was horse riding, so they gathered around to watch the novelty.
Everyone wanted to see what tricks such a pale young man could play. Layer upon layer of people covered the sun in the sky, and no one noticed that the young man who was gradually obscured by the shadows exhaled a breath.
"'The Art of Symbiosis'." He said, "The magic I teach is called this."
"The law of symbiosis? What is that?"
"Have you heard of it?"
"No……"
"Oh, oh, oh!" It was the same ruffian as before, who said loudly, "Symbiosis! I know. It means putting my ugly face with that of a fairy together, and then I will have a wife who is like a fairy in heaven!"
"Wang Ermazi, stop dreaming!"
This caused a lot of laughter, but made him even more proud. The ruffian stepped hard on the yellow cloth in front of the young man and said, "Hey, tell me if I'm right!"
“Nothing is right.”
He said wearily, "Not a word you said is right. It's just your foolish dream. You should be thankful that you can get a wife in this life."
The words that originally sounded sarcastic became more lethal when he stated them in a tired tone.
Wang Er felt extremely humiliated. He couldn't bear the shame and pretended to kick him, but he cried out "ouch" and fell over, as if someone was holding his feet and teasing him, but there was no one in sight. Wang Er was so scared that he said "Just wait!" and ran away.
A chuckle of success filled the air.
The young man looked into the air and sighed helplessly. Then, without saying a word, he picked up a piece of green grass on the yellow cloth and cut a piece from the root.
"The grass cut at the roots will die soon if planted elsewhere, but it will survive if planted under this tree. One grass becomes two, and the two live together." He muttered with his head down, more like talking to himself. The onlookers left disappointed, only Lin Wan silently watched him plant the half-cut roots under the giant tree, and finally even Lin Wan left.
He was still looking at the green sprout through his hair that blocked his eyes.
"People pray to gods and Buddhas everywhere, but how could they know that the tree god is the mother of the earth..."
"bite--"
The voice rang out, and the remaining wind gradually wiped out everything around. The Taoist town residents and streets all disappeared, turning into the blackness of the previous answer room.
"First prompt closed."
"The next prompt is now open. Candidate Jiang Yuelu, are you ready?"
Jiang Yuelu probably knew what happened, but he changed his mind and realized that the system had been speaking softly since just now, as if he was a delicate flower that could not be touched. Later he realized that this was the system's humanitarian concern because these students were so miserable.
At least you should show that you want to see it more, right?
"I really want to see it, please, thank you!"
System: “…” No need to do that.
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