Chapter 98, Scene 12: A little paper figurine resembling Minglin...
“Puchi…Puchi…Puchi…”!
"Minglin!!!" The black figure hugged He Yuezhe tightly, shouting anxiously, "Minglin!! What are you doing?!"
“Puff…Puff…Puff…Puff…”!!
A hint of doubt appeared on He Yuezhe's face. She lowered her head with difficulty and looked at the dagger that pierced through the black figure and stabbed straight into her chest.
"Captain...? Why can't I touch you...?"
She felt a tickling sensation in her throat, followed by a choking feeling.
"Why, Captain? Why, why...why, is this happening...?"
The face of the black figure was blurred from beginning to end. It shook its head violently, increased the strength in its hands, and kept shouting "Minglin".
"Minglin, Minglin!!! No, no, I, you can't touch me!!!"
"If you keep going like this, will you die?!"
"What should I do, what should I do?! Minglin, I want to save you, I want to save you!! Please teach me, teach me, what should I do!?!!"
"Captain..." He Yuezhe's vision narrowed as darkness gradually engulfed her. "Don't save me..."
"Minglin!!!! Don't say such things!!!!"
"You are the first good friend I ever made. You can't die!!!"
As the black figure was speaking, its head suddenly began to bulge, as if something was trying to get out of it.
"Gululu... gulp... plop... gulp... gulp..."
Beneath the thin outer skin of the black figure, countless hard objects of different shapes kept bulging outward, just like... a solid swamp.
"Captain... take me to... see the [sun]... please..." He Yuezhe said with a twitch of his lips.
The dagger stirred up blood, flesh was turned out, and the wound was covered with burn marks from the fire.
White and grey tentacle-like smoke emerged from her body, but it inexplicably twisted when it touched the black figure.
“Okay, okay!!!!” The black figure twisted and carried He Yuezhe towards the middle of the up and down stairs. “Minglin, I’ll take you to see the Sun. I’ll take you to see the Sun!!!!”
The bloody tentacles reappeared, trying to block the two's way out.
"Get out of here! You disgusting creatures, get out of here!" the black figure roared, "Don't even think about taking my good friend away from me!!"
As the sound spread, the tentacles slowly dissolved into small holes.
Tens of thousands of small holes were densely packed together, and blood splashed onto the ground!
An extremely huge hole that could accommodate five people passing through side by side at the same time appeared in an instant!
He Yuezhe was held by a black figure. She turned her head to look at Tang Xiqin, who was walking for some reason behind them.
"Captain..." she said softly.
"What's wrong, Minglin?!" The black figure lowered its head, perhaps filled with the emotional energy of [sadness] and [anxiety], and asked, "You called me, what's wrong?! Is there something wrong?!"
Even as it spoke, the beam of the [Sun] had already shone in front of the two of them.
"Captain..." He Yuezhe raised his hand tremblingly, pointing in a certain direction, his voice suddenly becoming shrill, "Look carefully, who is that?"
"Minglin, are you already confused?! This is [outside the city], no one would run to someone else's doorstep—"
“——Minglin!?!!”
The energy within the black figure suddenly transformed into one of fear, and the trembling on its face became more obvious. He Yuezhe could almost see the entire shape of those things!
"Minglin, aren't you here with me?! Who is that person who looks exactly like you?!"
^
One hour and thirty minutes had passed since He Yuezhe and Tang Xiqin started their mission, shortly after they arrived at the door of the mission point.
"Hey, Qu Biexing, are you awake?" He Yuezhe gently took the doll that kept moving from his pocket. "Are you feeling unwell?"
"I, I...Sister Xiaoyu, my body is burning. Am I going to be burned to death?" Qu Biexing twisted and turned in her arms, and red sparks were faintly visible under its shell.
"Burned? Ah, it's okay. Qu Biexing, have you ever heard of a story called "Phoenix Nirvana"? " He Yuezhe asked, pressing his fingers against its flailing limbs.
"Phoenix...Nirvana?" Qu Biexing shook his head, puzzled and asked, "What does that mean?"
"It means that the phoenix burns in fire, but is reborn in the fire and then gains eternal life." He Yuezhe laughed, "Hey, Qu Biexing, do you want to gain eternal life?"
"How long are you going to talk?" Tang Xiqin walked over, tilted her head and asked with some dissatisfaction.
"You, you, you!! Who are you?!" Qu Biexing was so scared that he rolled to the ground.
"Me?" Tang Xiqin's eyes were filled with inquiry. "I'm quite curious. How did you, little thing, learn [Origami Magic]?"
"【Origami Magic】??!" What are you guys going to do? ! ! "
Qubiexing tried to cover its body with its short limbs, but it was obvious that it couldn't do it.
"Qu Biexing, I would like to ask you to make a paper figure of me that can be possessed, is that okay?" He Yuezhe squatted down and poked it while holding back his laughter.
"Hey," Tang Xiqin reminded, "Didn't I just tell you? Paper figurines are really unlucky! We don't have to use paper figurines to investigate! Not to mention you're going to possess your soul in them!"
"Paper, paper man?" Qu Biexing slowly moved his hands away and opened his eyes in disbelief. "But I can't even break an apple now!"
"Besides, making origami figures is definitely not auspicious. They're usually used for..."
"Why are you hesitating?" Tang Xiqin asked.
"Well, paper figurines are usually used... for sacrifices and spells, but they also have other uses, but..."
Qu Biexing's hands were entwined, his face wrinkled, and he spoke haltingly: "It's just that the other techniques have long been lost. If you ask me to fold a paper figure, I'm afraid the effect will only be the first two."
"It's just [Sacrifice] and [Curse]..."
"Hey, did you hear that? Even in this situation, you still want to use paper figures?" Tang Xiqin pulled He Yuezhe up, their eyes meeting. She asked, "We can definitely solve this problem by just going in directly."
"But it's safer this way." He Yuezhe smiled as he felt the pressure on his arm.
"And Captain, doesn't the Academy's Rules state that 'all Magicians are protected by the Rules'? Is that correct?"
"If anything were to happen, I would have stayed in the Academy."
"...That's up to you. I just don't trust you and this nut." Tang Xiqin seemed to realize that she was using too much strength, so she let go of her hand and took a few steps back.
"If you don't complete this mission, you two will be scolded."
"I understand." He Yuezhe nodded, picked up Qu Biexing, and said, "Then Qu Biexing, let's get started. We don't have much time, okay?"
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So just like that, a small paper figure that looked like Minglin was folded out, and then quickly enlarged by magic.
"Hey, but I have a question," Tang Xiqin asked after zooming in. "Your paper figurine...it doesn't look like it can move?"
"This, this... I don't know why, but sometimes the things I fold will move!" Qu Biexing scratched its little head, also very confused.
"Qu Biexing, try to hold this paper figure."
He Yuezhe marked the paper figure for possession and placed it back next to Qu Biexing, saying, "Then, try to get your stomach as close to it as possible."
"The closer the better."
Qu Biexing nodded vaguely, then gently picked up the paper figure and held it tightly against her belly.
"Stomach?" Tang Xiqin's voice came from behind. "Could it be that you fed it the [Deformed Species] before just for this?"
He Yue turned around and smiled at her, then replied, "It's just a test. The most important thing is that I want to get those two daggers."
"you mean--?"
"Yes, I want to use the paper man's body to control them."
He Yuezhe opened his eyes and his voice began to return to normal from being stiff.
She watched Minglin's body fall limply into Tang Xiqin's arms, then reached out to the forehead of the body to stop Minglin from appearing.
"It seems that this strategy is very successful."
"Aren't you afraid of something happening?!" Tang Xiqin seemed a little angry. She rushed forward and grabbed the arm of the paper figure that He Yuezhe was possessing, demanding, "Escape [rules], possess [magic] [products], manipulate [rules] [props]..."
"Minglin, are you really still awake?!"
"I'm fine, Captain!" He Yuezhe blinked, walked over and opened the castle gate, "You must believe me!"
^
"Captain... you don't believe... me?" He Yuezhe turned his head away with a hint of grievance and asked, "She must be fake... You must not be soft-hearted... ah...?"
"Minglin, I do believe you! It's just that—"
The black figure's tone was filled with anxiety, and the hand holding He Yuezhe unconsciously tightened even more, so tight that He Yuezhe was almost suffocating.
"——It's just that I... won't kill anyone...!!!"
"Minglin!!!?" A young girl's surprised voice appeared not far away. "Is it you?!"
Accompanied by the sound of footsteps, she came in front of He Yuezhe and the black figure.
"Huh...?" He Yuezhe grabbed the black figure's arm, his eyes a little unfocused. "Two... captains?"
"No, no, how could this happen?! Minglin, Minglin! Look at me, I am the real captain!! Look, I have fulfilled your wish!!! Look, I have saved your life!!!!" The black figure holding her shouted hurriedly.
"Minglin... I've been waiting for you here for so long, don't be fooled by this monster!!" The girl also shouted, "Time is running out, we can't be delayed by these things anymore!!!"
"Should I... choose one...?"
The paper man's body and vitality were so fragile that He Yuezhe was strangled a few more times by the black figure and his original pretending to be sick turned into real illness.
She narrowed her eyes, shook her head, and said to the two of them, "I'm sorry...but..."
He Yuezhe quickly pulled out the dagger from her chest and used the force to cut through the skin of the black figure!
Balls of flesh, of unknown origin, rolled down at a high speed from the gaps in the black figure's skin!
"But, with so many captains, I don't know...how to choose?"
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