Chapter 21
"Don't mess around." Yu Tu took off the black ball with several small claws waving on the bride's head and put it on his shoulder, "Be good."
After a lot of twists and turns, the baby spirits successfully manipulated the paper-made people crawling all over the ground (?) to bring back the things that Yu Tu wanted, but the image of the paper-made people when they returned... was a little hard to describe.
After all, the spoon is stuck in the head, the towel is hanging on the spoon, there is a dent on the back where bottled water is put, there is detergent stuck under the bottled water, the left hind leg is folded up with a basin hanging on it, and a comb is stuck in front of the basin. This image is really hard to comment on.
When Yu Tu took the things off the paper man, he wondered vaguely, with two arms, two legs and a head, can the baby spirits use them smoothly?
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Yu Tu tied up the bride's hair, and then used detergent and water to remove her makeup. Although he didn't know if detergent could be used instead of facial cleanser to remove makeup from a corpse, but at this moment... well, he might as well use it.
After removing the ugly makeup, the bride actually had a very young face. Yu Tu compared the bride's face with the information of the five girls he received, and said after hesitating for a while: "...An Jiajia?"
The bride's bloodshot eyes suddenly looked over.
"My friend sent me the information of missing girls around Huailin Town, and your photo was among them." Yu Tu said, "The special task force has already rushed here, and those who harmed you will be brought to justice."
While waiting for the baby spirits to bring the things over, Yu Tu carefully told her a lot of things about the other world. In addition to soothing her emotions, Yu Tu wanted to tell her more that she still has a second brilliant life, and the future will be even better, so don't be afraid.
"I'm going to clean out the rice bran for you now." After removing An Jiajia's makeup, Yu Tu took a clean spoon and informed her in advance.
Covering her face with hair and stuffing her mouth with rice bran were one of the conditions that led to An Jiajia's resentment turning into a ghost, so she couldn't put her hair back by herself, nor could she clean the rice bran from her mouth. It was just like the red wedding dress that was artificially put on her. No matter how much she hated it, she couldn't take it off by herself. It was for the same reason.
After An Jiajia turned into a ghost, she sensed that there was a place in the town that was filled with ghostly aura, so she ran to the old building. However, baby spirits are also ghosts, and ghosts cannot escape the shackles of each other. The string that Yu Tu picked up under the threshold was hooked from her wedding dress.
Yu Tu used a spoon to clean the rice bran for her, frowning as she did so. She didn't know how much the person who stuffed the rice bran into her mouth hated her. He used so much force that the inner wall of her mouth was broken. The rice bran that was scraped off was mixed with blood and flesh residues.
Yu Tu didn't know whether she felt pain or not, he could only be as careful as possible to avoid causing more serious injuries.
After finally getting the last bit done, Yu Tu breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to get some water for her to rinse her mouth, he was suddenly pushed aside with great force, and the spoon in his hand fell to the ground with a clang.
Yu Tu, who was caught off guard and fell on his butt, climbed up with a grimace, stunned by the scene before him.
A red paper man was standing in his previous position. The two red dots on its crude head shone abnormally brightly, and its raised mouth was bloody red, as if it was smeared with human blood.
Yu Tu looked at An Jiajia with a confused look on his face. When he came in, he clearly saw that the paper-made man was following her orders. The current scene didn't look like he was going to be killed after helping An Jiajia get rid of the [shackles]?
And...Yu Tu felt a familiar malice from this paper man, just like the paper man who hugged him when he first entered the old building.
When Yu Tu's eyes were hot, he could see things that he couldn't see normally. He was now trying hard to recall that feeling and wanted to trigger it again to see what went wrong that led to this bizarre betrayal scene.
Yu Tu was reminiscing when the cold black ball on his shoulder stretched out its thin little claws to grab his hair, and at the same time, a new black ball entangled under his feet.
"Ah" it made a small sound, and then——
Yu Tu fell on his butt again.
Yu Tu: “……?”
He looked up with a confused look on his face. Hanging above his head was a red paper-studded arm. If Hei Tuan Tuan hadn't pulled Yu Tu down, the paper-studded arm would have hit his head.
Before he could recover from this inexplicable attack, the black ball above his head suddenly kicked him on the head and jumped in one direction. Yu Tu looked in the direction where the black ball jumped out, and saw a green paper man preparing to launch a sneak attack from behind.
Yu Tu: “???”
Over and over again! You paper-cutters are sick!!!
In anger, Yu Tu felt the familiar heat in his eyes. He blinked and opened his eyes again, and then... fell silent.
There is an illusory face inside the shells of the red and green paper-made figures in front of me, and the red one looks particularly familiar - it is Feng Wei.
The green Yu Tu had been seen when burning incense in the Feng family mourning hall. She was Feng Wei's old wife. She had a hunched back all year round, her hair was gray, and she rarely looked people in the eye when she spoke.
Yu Tu's first reaction was not to be angry, but to feel that it was over.
The person is dead and An Jiajia must be executed. She has to pay for her life the second time!
Then Yu Tu saw that each of the two paper figures had a faint glowing white line that connected to the back of the tower-shaped load-bearing column. Although he had never seen such a strange light before, Yu Tu firmly believed that this was their lifeline, and as long as this line did not disappear, the people would not die.
He breathed a sigh of relief, but then he was filled with even deeper doubts. Why did they come to him if they didn't take the opportunity to escape or seek revenge on An Jiajia? Were they picking on the weak?
Yu Tu couldn't figure out their train of thought because he heard a sharp and miserable scream from An Jiajia's side. Yu Tu turned his head and saw two lines of tears flowing from the corners of An Jiajia's eyes. If this happened in a game, this would probably be a sign that the boss was about to go berserk.
In addition to the two paper-made people, one red and one green, on his side, three other paper-made people, two red and one green, also came out from behind the tower-shaped load-bearing columns. Even the paper-made people, which had been tossed back and forth several times by the baby spirits and were already in tatters, crawled up from the ground tremblingly.
Inside the shell of each paper man there is an illusory face, exactly the same as the person who has fainted on the ground.
The face in the most tattered paper-made figure also looked somewhat familiar to Yu Tu. He recalled for a moment and then remembered that this illusory face looked a bit like the groom who played "Mole" with him in front of his window last night. However, because the corpse's face was smashed to pieces by him, he couldn't remember it at once.
These people surrounded An Jiajia. Yu Tu saw that the eyes and the mouth of the paper-made man's head were becoming redder and redder. He had thought that these things were like they were painted with human blood, but now it seemed that his guess was true.
Those five people all had wounds on their foreheads. If their blood was smeared on the facial features of the paper-stitched people, it could be considered as a medium. Under certain conditions, the human soul could be transferred from the body to the carrier that established the medium.
Yu Tu was even more confused at this time. At first, the paper-made man was controlled by An Jiajia, so the dotting of the eyes must have been done by An Jiajia herself. Later, their blood was smeared on the mouth of the paper-made man, which must have been done by An Jiajia at her instruction.
Since An Jiajia dared to do this, she must have considered the consequences of transferring their souls to the paper-made figures. In such a situation where the power between the enemy and us is so disparate, their first reaction was not to escape, but to attack?
Yu Tu really didn't understand. Did they think that the phrase “strength in numbers” would still apply after they turned into ghosts?
An Jiajia is a tough guy born from a D-level mission!
Yu Tu was not worried at all that they would hurt An Jiajia. He was worried that An Jiajia would kill someone and be burdened with blood debt for no reason, which would delay her new life in the future!
"Calm down!" Yu Tu was temporarily trapped by two paper men and could only shout at the top of his lungs, "An Jiajia, calm down! Don't be impulsive, those scumbags are not worth it!!"
Several paper-made men glared at Yu Tu. After just one glance, Yu Tu felt the surge of malice coming towards him.
Suddenly there was a sound of wind behind his ear. After Yu Tu dodged it, he turned around and saw that it was Feng Wei who attacked him.
The special power of the eyes is still valid. Yu Tu saw the mouth shape of Feng Wei's soul trapped in the paper man -
[Catch him... Girls are all soft-hearted... Let me possess him...]
Because he was constantly moving around, Yu Tu couldn't see all of his lip movements, but he still had the following six points to say: ...
When your soul is trapped in a paper figure, your first reaction is either to threaten others with it or to possess the body and steal it?
What kind of tutor could produce such a villain?
"Are you sick?" Yu Tu turned around and started to curse, "Do you have any moral values? Do you have any integrity? Calling you a dog is an insult to a dog. You are too crazy and worse than a beast!"
"No wonder your grandson died and your whole family turned into paper dolls!" Yu Tu dodged and cursed, "God can't stand it anymore, this is retribution!"
Perhaps because he had cursed his most precious dead grandson, the red paper man became obviously furious, and the green paper man also became angry. Perhaps because the soul had been staying in the paper body for longer and longer, the degree of adaptation had become higher and higher, and the paper man's movements had become more and more flexible.
Yu Tu dodged in circles in the old building, and when he passed near the threshold, he suddenly found four faint gray lines extending from the two red and green paper figures chasing him. The four gray lines first connected to the bottom of the threshold, and then three of the gray lines completely disappeared, and the other one turned a corner and connected to the black ball on his shoulder.
Yu Tu: “……?”
Yu Tu: “!!!”
Yu Tu was not particularly angry even when he was being chased just now, but at this moment, he felt like he was going to faint from anger. The four gray lines represented the kinship lines between the living and the dead. Once the lines disappeared, it meant that the soul on the other end was no longer there!
From the casual chat among the grandparents under the big locust tree, he learned that Feng Wei and his wife had four daughters in total, and all four died in infancy. Now that he thought about it, it was probably not so much about death in infancy, but rather that they preferred sons to daughters and did not want girls at all!
Those four lines of kinship all connect to the threshold!
The threshold would be trampled upon repeatedly, and the murdered baby girls would be buried under it. This was to use the yang energy of the living to calm them so that they would not become ghosts out of resentment. It was also to scare other girls who were about to be reincarnated so that they would not dare to be reborn into their family!
What kind of insane and beastly behavior is this?
The souls of three of the four girls in their family have dissipated!
The most terrifying thing was that Yu Tu saw a little bit of light on their bodies, so faint that it was almost invisible, light golden.
He suddenly thought of the four runes carved in wood on the top of the tower-shaped support column - suppression, curse, luck absorption, and purification.
He finally understood the true meaning of the runes on the four towers!
Suppress the souls of baby girls, curse them to never become ghosts, absorb their luck, and purify their resentment!
This old building looks to be at least a hundred years old. Yet, a ghost that has been born for nearly a hundred years is still ignorant and cannot even walk. It is as simple and pure as a blank sheet of paper.
If it weren't for deliberate human interference, how could a large number of infant spirits being trapped for a hundred years give rise to enough resentment to activate only an E-level mission?
"Not only do you not want girls, you also torture and kill them!" Yu Tu gritted his teeth, "Do you think they want to be reborn into your family?"
How ridiculous!
The fact that they have lived to this day without any disease or disaster is partly due to the luck they have absorbed from their tragically dead daughter! Her body was burned to ashes and buried under the threshold, but her soul is still used to bless them with safety!
Yu Tu touched the black ball on his shoulder that was emitting bursts of chills. Because the consciousness of a single infant spirit was too weak, each black ball was the collection of the consciousness of many infant spirits.
"Baby——" Yu Tu asked, "Where do you usually live?"
Many tiny claws stretched out from the black mass, some pointing to the doorstep, some to the floor tiles, some to the black holes on the tower-shaped load-bearing columns, and some to the half-meter-high steps. Yu Tu had wondered in his heart before, why these steps were so narrow and yet so high.
Now he knew—every step was filled with the bones or ashes of baby girls!
Yu Tu was so angry that his head was dizzy, but he still tried his best to maintain a gentle tone: "Baby, can you do me a favor?"
Before, fearing that hurting the soul inside would have an impact on An Jiajia's future, Yu Tu just tried to hide. But now, facing the two paper-stitched people who were chasing him, Yu Tu was very disrespectful and kicked each of them, knocking them over on the spot.
The black balls sensed his bad mood, but they didn't know why, so many of them pulled his hair with their tiny little claws and poked his face, trying to comfort him in their own way.
"There are four pictures at the top of the pillar." Not sure if it was because An Jiajia and the baby spirits had an intersection that caused both sides to undergo invisible changes, Yu Tu felt that the baby spirits had become smarter. The completely ignorant baby spirits had no way of asking for help when they felt something was wrong, but after listening to his description of the appearance of the objects, they could think of ways to bring them over and stop An Jiajia when she was about to lose control.
Yu Tu wanted the baby spirits to try to take down the board engraved with runes. Ghosts could not destroy the [shackles] on their bodies, but the space where the baby spirits were located was rather special. Their [shackles] were an entire old building, and the runes were only the core of the [shackles]. As long as the core did not leave the range of the old building, it would not constitute damage.
"One of the four pictures looks like a butterfly, and the other looks like a flower." Yu Tu said, "Baby, take the board off and give it to me, okay?"
"Ah" the black group made a puzzled sound. They had lived in confusion for a long time, and no one had ever thought of dismantling their own home.
"I want the butterfly plate and the flower plate." Yu Tu said, "Give them to me, okay?"
"Ah" "Wow" Although the baby spirits didn't understand why Yu Tu wanted those two patterns that made them uncomfortable when they were approached, since Yu Tu wanted them, they flowed down his body like water and went to take them from him.
The two paper men who had just been kicked over by Yu Tu had now climbed up. Because of Yu Tu's counterattack, they were a little confused, and their attacks were less frequent and faster than before.
Yu Tu took the time to glance over at An Jiajia's side. The two reds, one green and a tattered paper man had been torn into pieces by An Jiajia. Now they were wandering around with missing limbs, looking very ugly.
However, Yu Tu looked at the plastic basin that was kicked into the corner and broken into two pieces, the comb that was broken into several pieces and incomplete, the spoon that was thrown into the crack of the wall and stuck, the bottle of water that was spilled all over the floor, the towel whose original color could not be seen, and the detergent that was kicked under his feet by someone and was spinning, and he slowly clenched his fists.
The already tight treasury was hit even harder.
Yu Tu bent down to pick up the detergent at a special price of 9.9 yuan, and the red paper man suddenly rushed over and grabbed his head - Feng Wei still hadn't given up the idea of possession.
After he turned into a paper man, he realized that there really are ghosts in this world. If he could get a new, younger body, why not give it a try?
His evil thoughts were completely shattered in the next second, because a bottle of detergent hit his head with a "clang". The detergent bottle, which had suffered several heavy blows, finally broke under the heavy burden. The detergent flowed down from the top of the paper man's head, emitting a strong peach scent.
Yu Tu: “…”
Great, the last thing is reimbursed.
A "jigujigu" sound suddenly rang out at his feet. Yu Tu lowered his head and saw the black groups dragging two wooden boards that looked like slices of pizza to his feet.
The ones that look like little butterflies are luck-attracting runes, and the ones that look like flowers are purification runes.
Yu Tu first took the "pizza board" engraved with the luck-absorbing rune from the black groups, smiled, grabbed the curved sides of the pizza board, pointed the sharp corner at the two paper men, and then poked the paper covering them into pieces.
The offensive and defensive situation changed, and this time it was Yu Tu's turn to follow the two paper-made men and chase them all over the place.
An Jiajia had already torn the four paper figures into pieces of paper and bamboo. She was so furious that the rationality in her mind was gradually breaking. In her eyes, except for Feng Cong who had died long ago, the souls of the others had returned to their bodies due to the damage of their carriers, and their breathing had started to become regular from intermittent.
Ghosts are prone to getting out of control, not to mention that An Jiajia is approaching the seventh day of her death. Tears of blood flowed from her eyes again, and her hands began to uncontrollably grab at the heart of the middle-aged woman lying on the ground, who was closest to her.
Just as it was about to touch her chest, a piece of wood squeezed in just right, blocking the middle-aged woman's chest and An Jiajia's hand.
An Jiajia looked at the wooden board that looked like slices of pizza and was stunned for a moment. The next second, another piece of wood fell from the sky and hit her hard in the face.
She heard Yu Tu's voice: "An Jiajia! Calm down!"
An Jiajia: “…”
She took the board off her face. On it was a beautiful pattern, like a blooming flower, which was now glowing in the dim green candlelight.
For some reason, she was in a much calmer mood now. She really wanted to torture these people to death in the most cruel way. Even before Yu Tu showed up, An Jiajia was planning to kill these people and then trap their souls in paper figures to be buried with her, so she added eyes to the paper figures. She even prepared a similar carrier for the dead Feng Cong.
But now, An Jiajia suddenly didn't want to do so. It was not because she didn't hate them. On the contrary, she hated them so much that she gnashed her teeth and wanted to skin them alive to eliminate her hatred. But compared to killing people, she had more important things to do.
She wanted to survive, because only by living could she have unlimited possibilities. Yu Tu told her a lot, including the mysterious inner world that she had never been exposed to.
He said that there were ghosts in the other world, and that they could be cultivated. Perhaps many years later, An Jiajia would be no different from ordinary people, but the premise of all this was that she must not have blood debt on her hands.
Mistakes made by the living will be punished by the laws of the world. The living have their own path to take, and the dead have their own path to take. The two complement each other but are also clearly distinguished. If you cross the line and violate the rules, you must bear the corresponding consequences.
An Jiajia doesn't want to end her life like this, so she must survive the first seven days when she is most likely to get out of control, and then contact the special team to enter the inner world that can bring her new life.
An Jiajia held the wooden board with flowers carved on it, and told herself over and over again in her heart that she wanted to live.
After she had prepared herself mentally, she looked up and found that Yu Tu was holding a "pizza board" similar to the one in her hand, but with a butterfly pattern on it. He expressionlessly hammered a head pierced with red paper onto the brick.
An Jiajia: “……?”
Say it again, who needs to calm down?
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