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: “!!!”

剛剛被追得亂跑虞荼都沒特別生氣，但這一刻，他感覺腦袋都要氣昏了，那四條灰線，代表的是活人和死人之間的親緣線，一旦線條消散，便意味着另一端的魂魄已經不在了！

在大槐樹底下爺爺奶奶們的閑聊中，他知道馮偉和他的妻子一共生育了四個女兒，四個全夭折了，現在想想估計就不是什麽夭折，而是重男輕女根本不想要女孩！

那四條親緣線可是全連到門檻下了！

門檻會被人反複踩踏，将殺死的女嬰埋在門檻下，就是要用活人的陽氣鎮住她們，讓他們不能怨氣化鬼，也讓其他要投胎的女孩害怕，從而不敢再投生到他們家！

這是什麽喪心病狂，禽獸不如的行徑啊！

他們家的四個女孩魂魄都已經消散三個了！

最可怕的是，虞荼看到他們身上還有一點點淡得幾乎看不見的、淺金色的光點。

他忽然想到塔形承重柱最頂上用木頭刻着的四個符文———鎮壓、詛咒、吸運、淨化。

他終于知道了這四個塔上符文真正的用意！

鎮壓女嬰的魂魄，詛咒她們不可化鬼，吸取她們的氣運，淨化她們的怨氣！

這棟舊樓從外表上看至少建成有近百餘年，誕生了近百餘年的鬼竟然懵懵懂懂，甚至連走路都不會，簡單純粹地像一張白紙。

如果不是人為的刻意幹擾，大量的嬰靈被囚困百年時間，怎麽可能誕生只夠激活E級任務的怨氣？

“你們不要女孩子就算了，還搞虐殺！”虞荼咬牙切齒，“以為她們稀罕投胎到你們家嗎！”

多荒唐啊！

他們能無病無災地活到現在，竟然還有一部分是靠吸取了他們慘死女兒的氣運！身體被燒成灰埋在門檻下，魂魄竟然還要用來保佑他們平安！

虞荼摸了摸肩膀上散發着陣陣寒意的黑團團，因為單個嬰靈的意識太弱了，所以每一個黑團團都是許多個嬰靈的意識合集。

“寶寶———”虞荼問，“你們平時是住在哪裏？”

黑團團中伸出許多只細細的小爪子，有的指門檻，有的指地磚，有的指塔形承重柱上的黑洞，也有的指那些半米高的臺階，虞荼之前還在心裏奇怪過，為什麽這些臺階修這麽窄，又修這麽高。

現在他知道了———每一個臺階裏，都砌着女嬰的骨骸或骨灰！

虞荼已經氣的頭腦發昏，但他還是盡力維持着溫柔的語氣：“寶寶，你們幫我個忙好不好？”

之前怕傷到了裏面的魂魄對安佳佳日後有影響，虞荼只是一個勁地躲，但現在，對着追上來的兩個紙紮人，虞荼十分不尊老，一人給了一腳，直接将兩個紙紮人當場踹翻。

黑團團們感覺到了他的不好的情緒，但不知道是為什麽，許多細細的小爪子扯扯他的頭發，戳戳他的臉，以自己的方式安慰他。

“那個柱子的最頂端，有四個圖畫。”不知道是不是因為安佳佳和嬰靈們産生了交集導致雙方都出現了隐形異變，虞荼感覺嬰靈們變得更聰明了，完全懵懂茫然的嬰靈是沒有辦法在感覺到不對的時候去找人求助，聽他描述物品外形就能想辦法帶過來，在安佳佳要失控的時候阻攔她的。

虞荼想讓嬰靈們試試将那刻着符文的板子取下來，鬼物無法破壞自己身上的[枷鎖]，但嬰靈們所處的空間比較特殊，他們的[枷鎖]是一整棟舊樓，符文只是[枷鎖]中的核心，只要核心不離開舊樓的範圍，就構不成破壞。

“那四個圖畫有一個長的很像小蝴蝶，一個很像花。”虞荼說，“寶寶把板子卸下來給我，好不好？”

“呀”黑色的團團發出疑惑的聲音，它們懵懵懂懂地生活了很久，還沒有誰想過要去拆卸自己的住所。

“我想要或者小蝴蝶的板子和刻着花的板子。”虞荼說，“送給我，好不好？”

“呀”“哇”嬰靈們雖然不明白為什麽虞荼想要那兩個一接近就很不舒服的圖案，但既然虞荼想要，它們就從虞荼身上像流水一樣流下去，蹭蹭蹭去給他取了。

剛剛被虞荼踹翻的兩個紙紮人現在已經爬了起來，因為虞荼剛剛的反擊，他們有點驚疑不定，攻擊的動作和速度反而沒有之前頻繁。

虞荼抽空瞄了一眼安佳佳那邊，兩紅一綠連帶一個破爛紙紮人已經被安佳佳拆得七零八落，現在正缺胳膊少腿地到處亂竄，看着很狼狽。

只是，虞荼看着被踢飛到角落、已經裂成兩半的塑料盆，碎成幾截、死無全屍的梳子，被扔到牆縫裏卡着的勺子，潑了滿地的桶裝水，看不出原本顏色的毛巾，還有一個不知被誰一腳踹到他腳下、正在打轉的洗潔精，緩緩握緊了拳頭。

本就不富裕的小金庫再度雪上加霜。

虞荼彎腰去撿九塊九的特價洗潔精，紅色的紙紮人突然沖過來去抓他的腦袋———馮偉還是沒有放棄附身的念頭。

變成紙紮人後他才意識到這個世界上真的有鬼，如果可以得到一具年輕的新身體，為什麽不去試試呢？

他的惡念在下一秒徹底破滅，因為一瓶洗潔精“哐當”一聲砸在了他的腦袋上，已經遭受過數次重擊的洗潔精瓶子終于不堪重負地裂開，洗潔精從紙人頭頂流下來，散發出一股濃濃的水蜜桃味道。

虞荼：“……”

很好，最後一樣東西也報銷了。

“叽咕叽咕”的聲音忽然在他腳邊響起，虞荼低頭，看到黑團團們拖着兩塊長得像切塊披薩似的木板送到他腳下。

像小蝴蝶的是吸運符文，像花兒的是淨化符文。

虞荼先從黑團團們手裏拿走了那塊刻着吸運符文的“披薩板”，微笑着抓住披薩板弧形的兩側，将尖銳的一角對準了兩個紙紮人，然後将他們倆身上覆蓋着的紙戳了個稀巴爛。

攻守形式異轉，這次輪到虞荼跟在兩個紙紮人身後将他們追得滿地亂竄了。

安佳佳那邊已經把四個紙紮人拆成了滿地碎紙與碎竹架，她有點殺紅了眼，腦海裏屬于理智的那根弦正在逐漸崩斷，在她眼中，除了早已死掉的馮聰，其他人的魂魄已經因為載體的損毀而回到了身體裏，呼吸開始從時有時無變得規律。

鬼物本來就容易失控，更別說安佳佳正在逐漸接近頭七，她眼中又淌下血淚，手開始不受控制地抓向地上躺着的、離她最近的中年女人的心髒。

在要碰到她心口的時候，一塊木板恰到好處地擠進來，擋在了中年女人的胸膛和安佳佳的手之間。

安佳佳看着那長得像分塊披薩的木板，愣了一瞬，下一秒，另一塊木板從天而降，狠狠地拍在了她的臉。

她聽到虞荼的聲音：“安佳佳！你冷靜一點！”

安佳佳：“……”

她把木板從臉上拿下來，那塊木板上刻畫着一個漂亮的圖形，宛如一朵盛開的花，此時正在幽幽的綠色燭光下發着微光。

不知道是什麽原因，她現在心情平和多了。她确實很想将面前這幾個人以最殘忍的方式折磨至死，甚至在虞荼沒出現前，安佳佳是打算殺了這幾個人，然後将他們的魂魄拘到紙紮人中給她陪葬的，所以她才給紙人點了睛，她甚至還給死去的馮聰準備了一個同樣的載體。

只是現在，安佳佳忽然不想這麽做了，并不是因為她不恨，相反，她恨得咬牙切齒，恨不得将他們剝皮抽骨來消減自己的恨意，但比起殺人，她有更重要的事情要做。

她想要活下來，只有活着才有無限的可能。虞荼給她講了很多，包括那個她從來沒有接觸過的、神秘莫測的裏世界。

他說裏世界裏也有鬼，可以修煉，也許很多年後安佳佳會和常人無異，但這一切的前提是，她手上不能有血債。

活人犯下的錯自有人世間的法度去懲治，生者有生者要走的路，死者有死者要走的道，兩者相輔相成卻又泾渭分明，越過線，觸犯了規則，就要去承擔相應的後果。

安佳佳不想就這樣結束自己的一生，所以她一定要活過最容易失控的頭七，然後和特異組接洽，進入那個能給她帶來新生的裏世界。

安佳佳捏着那塊刻着花的木板，一遍遍在心裏給自己說，她要活。

等她做完了心理建設後擡頭，發現虞荼手裏拎着一塊和她手裏類似的、只是花紋變成了蝴蝶的“披薩板”，面無表情地将一個将紅色紙紮人的腦袋錘扁在了石磚上。

安佳佳：“……？”

你再說一遍，誰需要冷靜？