Chi Shen followed the paper man out the door.
The ghost face who was following Chi Shen immediately changed direction and ran in front of Chi Shen. He carefully poked a pair of eyes out from over his shoulder and looked around the lighted room.
The room looked a little old, but it was very ordinary. It was just a living room with a sofa and a coffee table, and even a fruit plate on the coffee table.
The ghost face first looked at the fruit plate, and then looked around the corner of the room. He couldn't see anything unusual, but he felt that his only ghost face began to feel cold. Every bit of ghost energy in his body was telling him not to go in, it was dangerous!
"Be careful, it's scary here." Ghost Face said in a very soft voice.
Chi Shen didn't answer, but just nodded in the dark.
The paper man's steps were very light and the lantern was shaking. Chi Shen was not in a hurry and slowly followed the paper man to the third floor.
There was also a lighted room on the third floor. The paper man stopped at the door and opened his mouth to spit out a line of blood-red words: [Please rest here for a while and wait for others to arrive.]
"Is the Yuan family next?" Chi Shen turned around and asked as he stepped into the door. "Then there's no need to wait. Let's go."
The paper figure stopped at the door for a moment. There seemed to be great doubt in its paper eyes. But after all, paper figures don't recognize people by their eyes, so even though it stopped for a moment, it still moved. It opened its mouth and bulged out a line of words: [Please ask the Yuan family representative to follow me.]
Soon they reached the fourth floor. This time, Chi Shen didn't even go in. He stood at the door and yawned. He rummaged in his pocket and took out the remaining tokens. "Let's finish it all at once. How many floors are left?"
The paper man’s head moved and “looked” at the string of tokens.
Chi Shen also looked at it, blinking innocently, signaling it to hurry up and not waste time.
This time, the paper figure did not stop at all, but turned around and walked upstairs. After turning around, it uttered a line of words: [Please ask the Zhong family representative to follow me.]
When they reached the fifth floor, the paper figurine skipped the part of asking him to go in and wait. It moved its mouth and spit out another note with a click: [Wang family representative, please follow me.]
Each person and each paper figure walked directly through the reception room on the fifth floor without any pause and started heading towards the sixth floor.
Gui Lian also came back to his senses at this time. He looked at the lighted door that was getting farther and farther away and couldn't help but sigh: "Ah, this...are we playing the climbing game here? Can't we skip this part and get straight to the point?"
Chi Shen was actually thinking about this as well. When Ghost Face brought it up, he replied, "I guess this should be a necessary process. It's just like playing a game. You have to go through every mission point to trigger the next main storyline. If you destroy the mission NPC here, then the mission may be stuck here forever."
Ghostface didn't play games, so he was confused: "Huh?"
Chi Shen gave a simpler explanation: "Don't alert the enemy."
Ghost Face was silent. After a while, he finally couldn't help but speak louder: "If you replace everyone, it doesn't count as alerting the enemy! Do you have any misunderstanding about this word?"
The paper figure leading the way suddenly stopped and turned its head. The eyes drawn on the paper seemed to be "looking" in the direction of Chi Shen's shoulder. The ghost face immediately shuddered, climbed down from Chi Shen's shoulder, and slipped into Chi Shen's pocket.
As the ghost face shut up, the paper man started moving again and continued to climb the stairs with Chi Shen.
While Chi Shen was leisurely climbing the stairs to exercise, every corner of the port city was in a tense atmosphere. Or, in other words, in the festive atmosphere of the streets, the people of the Special Security Bureau seemed particularly nervous.
During such major holidays, people in the port city have become accustomed to seeing police maintaining order everywhere on the streets, so although there are a bit more police this year, it does not affect the citizens' holiday celebrations.
There is a sign outside a large shopping mall saying it will be closed during the Spring Festival. The locals passing by still find it a bit strange. In the past, everyone would try every possible means to promote sales during the Spring Festival, but they didn't expect that there would be people who would voluntarily stop making money.
"I heard there was a problem with the fire department, so they didn't allow the door to be opened while they were fixing it."
"No way! I heard someone died!"
"Don't talk about this on New Year's Day."
"Pah, pah, pah."
People passing by talked about it for a while, but in the end it had nothing to do with them, so they quickly moved on to talk about other things.
There was a police car parked at the entrance of the mall. From a distance it really looked like a crime scene, but when you walked in, you saw a sign hanging on the police car: Spring Festival Convenience Mobile Service Center.
The police car was driven sideways, with a policeman in uniform sitting inside. There was also a parasol and a small table next to the car, and two people were sitting at the table. Both were wearing black clothes. Although they were casual clothes, the sight of them sitting there made people feel that they were most likely policemen as well.
Uncle Zhang and a young man were sitting here. As members of the Special Security Bureau, they were here naturally because there was some minor incident involving ghosts.
Just during the day, a cashier died in this mall. After investigation, they determined that this was one of the places where Bai Ximing released the evil ghost. However, this evil ghost was not very obedient and killed a person in advance before they were discovered. They quickly blocked the entire mall and prepared to exorcise the ghost. Now they are waiting for the right time, so they are watching outside the door.
"Uncle Zhang, someone died here during the day, so Bai Ximing changed the meeting time in the evening. I think it's good for us. He must not be prepared for such a sudden situation." The young man drank hot tea and chatted with Uncle Zhang.
Uncle Zhang shook his head. "You can't look at it that way. Maybe this is a way to intimidate us. First, he told us that he really released a lot of ghosts in Hong Kong City, and then forced us to keep the appointment."
There are some things that only core members like them know, for example, Bai Ximing has changed the meeting time more than once, and what level the evil spirits here are.
The young man took another sip of tea. Although it didn't snow much in the winter in Hong Kong, the temperature was still cold. He continued, "Come to think of it, did Zhang Yao, the head of the Zhang family, go there in person? It seems that this incident is really serious. I have never heard of the head of the Zhang family leaving the capital. This is the first time."
Of course, the fact that Chi Shen was going to the place designated by Bai Ximing on their behalf was kept secret, and the subordinates didn't know about it either.
Uncle Zhang nodded. He suddenly remembered something and looked in one direction: "Xiao Fang went to the toilet. Does it take so long?"
"I'll call him." The young man also realized the problem and immediately took out his cell phone.
No one answered.
"I'll go find him!" The young man stood up with his cell phone in hand.
"Wait," Uncle Zhang stopped him, "I'll go with you."
The nearest toilet was the one at the side door of the mall. Because the mall was closed, the side door was pitch black at this time. Before they even reached the side door, they smelled a bloody and foul odor.
"Uncle Zhang!" The young man looked at the dark green emergency exit sign and asked incoherently, "What, what is that!"
A black, swollen figure was lying outside the emergency exit, gnawing on a bloody body. The stench and smell of blood came from there.
Uncle Zhang's face also changed. He was very sure that this ghost was not the one in the mall. He knew what the ghost in the mall looked like during his investigation during the day. This was a new ghost! And judging from the ghost aura it emitted, although it was not as powerful as the ghost in the mall, it was still difficult to deal with.
"Come back." Uncle Zhang shouted in a low voice.
But it was too late.
The evil ghost that was chewing the corpse raised its head. Only then did they see clearly that there were not just one head but two heads attached to the neck. One head raised its head to look at them, and the other head immediately buried itself in the body of the corpse and began to tear out the internal organs. The internal organs were still warm, and as it tore them, they emitted moisture in the cold winter night.
"Delicious, delicious, delicious food." The sound made by the raised head was like tearing. The next second, its swollen hands with sharp claws tore off the head that was still eating and threw it on the ground. Just when the two were confused by this sudden change, it suddenly rushed over.
"I..." Uncle Zhang stared at the scene in a daze, "I'm just a fortune teller with no fighting ability..."
In the old office building, Chi Shen finally finished presenting the representatives of each family. At this moment, he stood at the door of the last lighted room. The paper man barely paused and spit out another note: [If you don't want to be buried with the entire Hong Kong City, please follow me, Master Chi Shen. ]
At this time, Chi Shen patted the paper man's shoulder and said, "Wait."
The paper man's shoulder was hit and a dent was formed, from which many scraps of paper grew. The expression painted on the paper man's face also changed. The eyeballs in its eyes moved and turned blood red, and sharp teeth grew out of the paper man's mouth inch by inch.
Chi Shen ignored it and walked straight into the last room with the light on.
The layout here is the same as every previous room. Chi Shen looked around the room. There were a lot of dirty things in this room, but these auras were concealed by people with very clever techniques. If someone from a few major families came in, even if they didn't die, it would not be easy for them to get out alive.
Chi Shen walked to the sofa, but instead of sitting down, he reached out and lifted up the sofa leather, revealing a dried corpse covered with reptiles.
When it saw the light, the mummy suddenly moved. It raised its dry hands, dug out a bug that was flying in and out of its eye sockets, and tried to get up.
However, Chi Shen did not give him this opportunity. He took out a windproof lighter from somewhere, lit a piece of sofa leather and threw it in.
The sofa burned rapidly as if it was covered with gasoline, and the mummy turned into ashes without doing anything.
In the fierce burning fire, Chi Shen smiled and waved to the mummy: "Bye, you're welcome."
After saying that, he turned and walked out. After taking two steps, he found that the paper man didn't move, so he turned around and asked, "Aren't you going to lead the way?"
The paper figure quickly retracted its fangs, and its eyes turned back to black in an instant, as if they had never been broken. As for the collapsed shoulder, it tried hard to grow back. Then the lantern lit up a little brighter, and a line of words quickly uttered from its mouth: [This road is dark, Master Chi Shen, please be careful with your steps. ]
Chi Shen:?
The paper figurine smacked its lips and immediately changed its words: [I will lead the way immediately. Master Chi Shen has been waiting for a long time.]
After saying this, the paper figure moved and walked in front of Chi Shen. After taking two steps, the paper figure turned 180 degrees and spit out another line of words as it walked: [The master has prepared tea for you, so you don't have to worry.]
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