Lin Qiye stood behind the door, his mental focus always on the situation outside.

The white paper man landed lightly on the gravel road in front of the house. On its pale face, a pair of asymmetrical eyes swept around, looked at the house where Lin Qiye was hiding for a moment, then turned around and continued searching forward.

Lin Qiye breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the paper man leave. In a place like this, if he was entangled by a paper man, Lin Qiye might not be able to get rid of it with his speed. By that time, there would be more and more paper men chasing him, and the scene outside the huge bronze gate would reappear sooner or later.

The methods of these paper figures are too strange. Lin Qiye doesn't want to have anything to do with them at all. He just wants to leave this place as soon as possible and reunite with his companions outside.

Lin Qiye stretched out his hand and tried to open the door, and was about to leave, but at this moment, he suddenly froze in place.

The door of the house, which used to be opened and closed easily, now did not move at all. No matter how hard he tried, he could not shake it at all!

Lin Qiye frowned slightly, and an ominous premonition emerged in his heart...

Bang——!

In the dead silence and darkness, a slight sound came from the house behind Lin Qiye!

Lin Qiye turned his head suddenly, and his right hand instantly rested on the hilt of the knife behind him. Every muscle in his body was tense, ready to attack at any time.

His eyes swept across the dark yard and house, full of confusion.

Before entering the room, he had used his mental power to scan everything in the house and confirmed that there was no one here at all. If that was the case, where did the sound just now come from?

Lin Qiye used his mental power to scan the surroundings inch by inch, comparing each object with its position before the sound was made. After a moment, he finally found the source of the sound.

I saw a paper broom lying on the ground in the northeast corner of the yard.

"Paper broom?" Lin Qiye frowned. He clearly remembered that the sound just now was very crisp. It should be the sound of something hard falling to the ground. Even if it was a broom, it should be a real broom. How could paper make such a sound?

Gah——

Boom——!

The door of the house in the center suddenly opened outwards, and then quickly closed. The door hit the old threshold, making a slight collision sound!

Lin Qiye turned his head suddenly and expanded his mental power to the extreme!

...nothing.

No one and nothing touched the door, but it opened and closed by itself... It was as if someone he couldn't see or sense was opening the door.

Lin Qiye frowned slightly, and he grasped the hilts behind his back with both hands. He slowly pulled the two straight knives out of the sheaths, held them tightly in his hands, and walked step by step towards the house where the sound came from.

The locked door, the paper broom that suddenly fell, and the door that opened and closed automatically.

All this seems to indicate that there is a mysterious power in this house... or a mysterious person.

But Lin Qiye couldn't see it.

Lin Qiye walked to the door of the house holding a knife and stopped. His mental power had already projected the entire scene inside the house into his mind. There was nothing else in the house except a pale paper bed, paper money, and paper tables and chairs.

Lin Qiye couldn't help but feel confused. What on earth were such thin and light paper beds and paper tables and chairs used for?

Any creature with a little weight on top of them would crush them, right?

Lin Qiye shook his head, threw away these complicated thoughts, concentrated his attention, and was ready to take action at any time.

Even though from the feedback of his mental power, there was nothing in the room, Lin Qiye did not relax at all, because he could vaguely guess that the things in it... he could not see or sense them.

A touch of night color permeated the door in front of Lin Qiye. Under the push of darkness, the door slowly opened...

Lin Qiye stood at the door holding a knife, a faint golden light appearing in his eyes.

puff--!!

As soon as the door opened a little, a large amount of paper money flew out from the crack and poured towards Lin Qiye!

Lin Qiye's pupils suddenly shrank, and the two swords in his hands swung quickly. The light blue blades outlined dense sword lights in front of Lin Qiye, and in an instant all the paper money was chopped into pieces, and not a single piece of it touched Lin Qiye's body!

But soon Lin Qiye discovered that his actions were unnecessary.

Because these paper money do not contain any attack potential, they are lightly scattered from the door and fly in the air... they are just paper money.

Just as Lin Qiye was stunned, the paper tables and chairs in the room suddenly fell to the ground, as if someone had bumped into them.

The paper tables and chairs fell to the ground, making the same hard collision sound, as if what fell on the ground was not paper, but real wooden furniture.

Lin Qiye frowned slightly and looked slowly around the room, but there was no sign of anyone there.

After hesitating for a moment, he simply spread out his palms and whispered:

"Wildfires cannot be extinguished; spring breezes will bring new life."

Song——!

A flame appeared in his hand, and he gently flipped his palm, ready to burn all these strange paper tables, chairs and paper money.

At this moment, a piece of paper money suddenly floated up from the ground!

The piece of paper money flew in front of Lin Qiye, trembling. When Lin Qiye saw this scene, he was stunned.

I saw a few big, crooked words written in black lines on the piece of paper.

——Master, please spare my life!

Master, please spare my life?

Lin Qiye looked at these words in astonishment, standing there blankly. After a moment, he asked tentatively: "You... are human?"

The piece of paper money fell back to the ground, and the black lines were outlined again out of thin air.

Soon, the second line of words appeared on the paper money.

——We are ghosts, ghosts living here.

Lin Qiye frowned.

The third line of words quickly appeared.

——Master, if you really want to kill me, just kill me! Spare my wife and daughter. My daughter was just frightened and accidentally knocked the broom off the corner and disturbed you. Please have mercy on me!

When Lin Qiye saw these words, the paper broom that had just fallen to the ground suddenly appeared in his mind, and the doubts in his heart became even stronger.

The one who knocked the paper broom down was also a ghost?

However, he still dispersed the flames in his hands. Judging from the current situation, these ghosts did not seem to pose a threat to him.

Lin Qiye said in a deep voice: "Whether you are a ghost or a human, I don't seem to have offended you. Why did you lock the door and not let me out?"

The fourth line of words was written quickly on the paper money, as if he was afraid that if he wrote too slowly, he would be beaten to death by Lin Qiye.

——Master, we didn't lock the door on purpose! All the doors here are like this, the dead can enter, but the living cannot leave. You are a living person, you can come in from the outside, but if you want to leave from the inside... it will be difficult!

"You guys here?" Lin Qiye asked doubtfully, "What...is this place?"

The ghost paused for a moment, and then wrote two big words on the paper money.

——Fengdu.

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