Chapter 51 Urban Supernatural 3 Are you a paper man?
During the few seconds that Chen Qi was silent, a sound was heard outside again.
"Is Chen Qi at home? Is Chen Qi at home—"
The fourth ancestor hasn't left yet, it seems that there is something really urgent.
They were all from the same village, and were elders who had watched him grow up, so Chen Qi was not on guard at first.
He wanted to open the door, but then he thought of the ghost car he encountered on his way back, his grandfather's situation, and... Wu Yue's abnormality.
All signs indicate that the world may not be as peaceful as he imagined. Materialism is also unreliable.
Chen Qi withdrew his hand and asked loudly, "Fourth Grandmother, it's so late. What's the matter with you coming to see me?"
"When people get old and sick, they feel pain all over their body. I want to contact my son, but I don't know how to use my mobile phone, so I can't make a call." The fourth grandmother said in an old tone.
"You young people use cell phones. Ah Qi, can you help me? My phone won't make calls. It was working fine a few days ago, but it won't work today."
The elderly in the village live in seclusion and have been left behind because they cannot keep up with the development of the times. It is normal that they do not know how to use electronic products.
Every time Chen Qi comes back, he helps many elderly people with their cell phones.
This statement is also correct and there is no room for doubt.
Moreover, if the Fourth Grandmother really fell ill and something happened because of his suspicion, Chen Qi would feel guilty for the rest of his life.
Chen Qi still opened the door.
There are many insects chirping in the countryside at night. Behind the door is the disabled grandmother, holding a crutch in her hand.
She was very old, with hair cut just above her chin, which was already gray. Her skin was wrinkled like a dead tree, and she was skinny. Her eyelids drooped, making her eyes look small and sunken.
This is an old man in his twilight years, exuding a dead air and without a trace of life.
Chen Qi looked at her secretly, and the old man was also looking at him with a smile on his face and a loving look.
At the same time, Chen Qi's eyes drooped for a moment. When the moonlight shone, there was a shadow on the ground, which meant that the Fourth Ancestor was still a human.
Chen Qi raised a polite smile and said, "Grandma Si, give me your phone and I'll help you call."
"Okay." The fourth ancestor responded.
She moved slowly, leaning her crutch against the wall, groping at her clothes with her hands, then took out a red plastic bag from her pocket and opened it. Inside was scattered change, mostly one dollar, five dollar, ten dollar, and a few dimes.
The old people who survived that era liked to wrap money in this way.
The fourth grandmother rubbed the money with her skinny fingers, then tremblingly handed a five-dollar bill to Chen Qi.
Of course Chen Qi didn't want it, and raised his voice, "Fourth Grandmother, I don't want money! I mean, give me your phone, and I'll see what's wrong with it!"
The old man is very old, nearly ninety years old, has severe hearing loss and Alzheimer's disease, and often forgets things.
The fourth grandmother exclaimed in confusion, not hearing clearly, and handed the money to Chen Qi, muttering that she would call her son.
“···” Chen Qi was helpless.
He moved closer and stepped over the threshold, "Grandma Si, I mean, where's your cell phone?"
"Cellphone, cellphone..." The fourth ancestor finally seemed to react, "Oh, where's my cellphone? Oh, I just can't remember things when I'm old."
"Aqi, I left my cell phone at home. Please wait, I'll go back and get it." She walked tremblingly with the help of a cane.
At the rate she was moving, it would take until twelve o'clock to go back and forth.
Chen Qi said, "Fourth Grandmother, wait a minute, I will go back with you."
The fourth ancestor smiled and stood there waiting, "Okay."
Soon, Chen Qi found the flashlight.
The bathroom was in the backyard, so he specifically went to tell Wu Yue that he was going out, but he would be back soon.
After hearing Wu Yue's lazy "hmm" in response, Chen Qi went out.
A beam of light from the flashlight pushed back the darkness, forming a circle of light.
On a rainy and foggy day, the moon was covered by dark clouds and the surroundings were dark except for the light from the flashlight.
The ground was slippery. Seeing that the fourth ancestor was leaning on a cane and was about to fall several times, Chen Qi went to support her arm.
At this moment, he felt a little weird, but he didn't think too much about it.
The fourth grandmother's house was on the other side, and it took about ten minutes to walk there. However, the old lady walked slowly, so it took her more than twenty minutes.
A house without people will become desolate, even if there are elderly people living in it. From a distance, it looks like a haunted house.
Moreover, the place was facing away from the moonlight, and the only bright color was a lamp hanging under the eaves. The light flickered in the wind, and it was eerie.
Chen Qi felt uneasy.
But since he was already there, he had already sent the fourth ancestor to her doorstep.
The fourth grandmother took out the key and opened the lock with trembling fingers.
With a creak, the old door was pushed open.
She turned around and looked at Chen Qi, smiling, "Ah Qi, come in. Fourth Grandmother's house is shabby, and yours is clean if you don't go there. Don't despise it."
Chen Qi followed her and asked, "Why would you dislike it?"
After he stepped over the threshold and went in, the old door creaked shut again.
Chen Qi froze in place.
He turned around and suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned his head and saw the Fourth Grandmother holding a lit red candle in her hand, and her face was enlarged in front of him.
It was an old face with a strange smile. Under the candlelight, the eyes were cloudy and looked fake, without any brightness. Only the skin was moving.
Chen Qi was so frightened that he almost lost his breath.
His heartbeat was so loud that it seemed like it was about to burst out of his chest.
The fourth grandmother was still smiling. "Ah Qi, what are you doing? Come in quickly. I remember you loved eating candy when you were a child. Come, the fourth grandmother has some candy for you."
Chen Qi swallowed and looked around, "Grandma Si, why don't you turn on the lights at home? It's too dark. You can't see clearly when you walk and it's easy to fall."
"I'm old, so I go to bed when it gets dark and don't go anywhere. Turning on the lights wastes electricity and money." The fourth grandmother turned her back, bent her waist, and slowly placed the candle on the table.
She tilted the candle and dripped some wax, then put the candle on it so it would stick.
The only light in the room was a circle around the candle.
Chen Qi sat down, and then the fourth ancestor said, "I'll go get some candy for you."
Seeing her busy figure, Chen Qi reminded her, "Fourth Grandmother, you should bring your phone over first. I'll adjust it for you."
"No rush, no rush"
"Have you eaten, Qi? It's been raining these days, so some delicious frogs have jumped out. We still have some left at home, you can have some too."
The fourth grandmother bent over and fiddled with it for a while. When she turned around, she was still holding a plate in her hand.
Chen Qi stood up and wanted to take it, but his hands froze in mid-air, his expression dazed.
Quack——
The "dinner" on the plate was still chirping. It was a plate of frogs. They were not big, and there were about seven or eight of them if you counted carefully.
The fourth grandmother was still smiling. She picked up the leg of a live frog and put it in her mouth to chew. It made a crunching sound and she felt very satisfied.
"This is good stuff. Come, Ah Qi, have some too." She put the plate on the table and asked Chen Qi to eat quickly.
Chen Qi stepped back silently, clenching the flashlight in his hand.
His whole body was alert, his muscles bulging, staring at her and asking, "Fourth Grandmother, are you a human or a ghost?"
"Look at you, kid. You're a scholar, but you still can't speak at such an old age. You're just like your grandfather."
"Of course I am a human. Why are you so eager for the Fourth Grandmother to leave soon?"
The fourth grandmother walked towards Chen Qi step by step, leaning on a cane and with a strange smile on her face.
"Fuck! You bastard!"
Chen Qi knew something was wrong with her and turned around to run.
But just as he turned around and took two steps, the 'Fourth Ancestor' appeared and blocked his way, with a strange and familiar look on her face.
There is a kind of... When he was a child, he saw the paper figures made by his grandfather.
It would have been fine if he hadn't thought about it, but as soon as he thought about it, Chen Qi's hair stood on end. Could it be that the paper figurine really came to life?
The fourth grandmother still smiled lovingly, "Seven, I haven't seen you for a long time. Why are you leaving in such a hurry?"
Chen Qi thought he would be very panicked, but at this moment, surprisingly, he was able to calmly ask, "What do you want to do? Is my grandfather's death related to you?"
However, his words angered the Fourth Patriarch.
Her face immediately became long, like a demon who wanted to eat people, and her crutch hit the ground with a thudding sound.
"Master Chen deserves to die!"
"He's just a paper-folding artist. I begged him so much but he refused to help me with the eyes. He even trapped me here. He deserves to die!"
The Fourth Grandmother was angry at first, then she raised her hands and cane, laughing wildly, "Hahahaha, now he's dead, you never thought that the grandson he had been protecting would come back! Twenty-two years, twenty-two years! After all these years, I've finally waited for this day!"
Chen Qi frowned, not understanding what this meant.
But he had a vague guess that his grandfather's death might be related to the "ghost"'s promise to protect him.
At this moment, Chen Qi's heart was heavy, Grandpa...
The Fourth Grandmother's face turned deathly pale, and her facial features became flat, as if drawn on a blank piece of paper. Her hollow eyes stared at Chen Qi and said sinisterly, "Qi, you are a sensible and good child. Just be obedient and let the Fourth Grandmother take your blood to open your eyes. Don't be afraid, you will die quickly and won't feel any pain."
Once Master Chen dies, all those dirty people who have been eyeing Chen Qi will immediately come rushing in. She needs to get it first tonight, otherwise it won't be easy to snatch it.
Chen Qi figured out the key. He was shocked, but not surprised. "So, you are not a human. You are really just a paper man?"
"Yes, I am a paper doll, made by your grandfather himself. Unfortunately, he is too heartless. No matter how much I begged, he would not open my eyes and let me truly come back to life."
"But it doesn't matter. Now, I can take your skin. Old Craftsman Chen, oh Old Craftsman Chen, you have been scheming for half your life, but you are still making wedding clothes for me. Ah Qi, you have been very obedient since you were a child. You don't want the fourth ancestor to die, right..."
She was very excited, grinning widely, and her wrinkled skin looked distorted.
"What a fool is talking in his sleep!"
The moment she pounced on him, Chen Qi dodged immediately. As an athlete, his hands and feet were agile and his reaction was quick. He then grabbed the candle on the table and threw it over.
Paper figures must be afraid of fire.
He thought so, but he didn't expect that the fire was actually from a candle and ignited on the body of the Fourth Grandmother. However, she was not affected at all and was very content.
Chen Qi was surprised that this was possible!
"Silly child, I am a paper man."
"If you burn the paper figurines in the underworld, how can you be afraid of fire?"
The Fourth Grandmother's limbs were twisted as she walked, like a piece of thin paper being twisted by the wind, and her voice drifted away in an eerie voice.
"Twenty-two years! After all these years of waiting, I finally succeeded! Old Master Chen is really old and confused. He was smart all his life, but he was confused for a moment!"
"Change your fate, hahaha, change your fate! He is so wishful thinking. He can change it temporarily, but not forever! Now that Master Chen is dead, I wonder who can protect you anymore!"
Her flat facial features were moving, and she pounced towards Chen Qi with her fangs and claws bared. Chen Qi wanted to dodge again, but found that he could not move.
He looked down and saw that his feet were tightly held by two paper figures that emerged from the ground.
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