"It sounds like you two were once friends, so why did she work with Bai Ximing?" Zhong Yi suddenly asked.
Zhang Yao said: "Later, Fang Man was no longer satisfied with just making dolls. She originally wanted to make an obedient and beautiful doll, but she felt that the dolls she made would not look like real people even if they were infused with the souls of living people, so she started to use living people to make dolls. However, she did not succeed because the first person she fell in love with was Brother Shen."
Zhang Yao leaned against the back of the wheelchair, as if recalling something, before continuing, "She came out... two or three months ago. She found some... living people. Bai Ximing provided her with a place in a building that was about to be abandoned. She could do whatever she wanted there."
"Although she started to use living people to make some dolls, she still couldn't make a work that satisfied her. Moreover, the human soul is too fragile and easily collapses after being slightly frightened. Therefore, it is easy to fail in the production process. Even if she succeeds, the finished product will not satisfy her. She has begun to look for some souls that are not so easy to collapse in the Bai family. At this time, she knows where Brother Shen is."
Hearing this, Bai Wan said, "Does she think Brother Shen is the one who can allow her to complete the entire production process?"
Zhang Yao nodded: "Maybe so. I can only see how things develop and guess their thoughts based on their actions. I also guessed Fang Man's thoughts based on her conversation with the doll. I think this is also one of the reasons why she came to Chi Shen this time."
"Then why didn't she go to find Chi Shen before, and wait until now?" Zhong Yi asked.
"Because she has no advantage outside, but it's different inside her nest." Zhang Yao said, "That building is her nest, filled with puppets and ghosts she made."
Bai Wan was a little worried: "Will Brother Shen lose?"
"No." Zhang Yao smiled, "You have to believe Brother Shen. For him, it's just a little troublesome. It's no different from dealing with ordinary ghosts. Well... let's make an analogy. An ordinary ghost is a fly to him, and Fang Man is just a group of flies to him."
——
The thick darkness of the underground parking lot dissipated a little, and now I could see clearly that those dark corners where I thought the lights were broken were not completely unclear. It was just that there were things there that ordinary people could not understand, so the darkness became even darker.
From those dark corners, human-shaped objects kept emerging, including paper figures, dolls, and plastic toys, but they were all very exquisite.
Chi Shen raised his sword and swung it down. The Mo Dao brought with it black flowing clouds and the sound of wind. The black sword light burst out in a circle, and the puppets that approached immediately turned into ashes and disappeared.
But there was more than that. Above his head, there was the sound of nails scratching. There was something lying on the ceiling above his head.
Chi Shen swung his sword again, but this time the puppets did not turn into ashes immediately. Instead, they were torn apart, leaving debris all over the ground.
“Try harder,” the woman smiled, covering her mouth. “My babies haven’t seen such a strong ghost aura in a long time. Please try harder.”
With the third knife, the puppets were split in half where the knife flashed.
The woman's smile became even happier. She even forgot to cover her mouth to make herself look more elegant. She laughed loudly: "Go on, destroy them, and I will show you my favorite work!"
More and more puppets walked out, crawled out, and ran out from all the dark places. They were old and young, some as tall as humans, and some as big as a palm. The puppets that came out from the back were more exquisite, even lifelike, and their walking movements were not the slightest bit stiff and slow, just like a living person.
Chi Shen suddenly stopped, threw the Mo Dao in his hand, and it fell to the ground with a clang.
The woman's expression changed.
Chi Shen suddenly laughed and said, "I quit."
——
On the rooftop.
Bai Wan asked, "Is it because there are so many puppets that they look like a swarm of flies?"
"No," Zhang Yao said, "I said she can cause trouble to Brother Shen because she is difficult to kill."
Zhang Yao paused for a moment and continued, "Or rather, she has already died. In her constant research on how to give the doll a soul and how to transform herself, she is no longer a living person but a ghost. After all, only a ghost can withstand what she did to her own body."
"What did she do?" Zhong Yi asked.
Zhang Yao said: "In order to make her body more agile, she sewed the hands of the paper figurine-making ghost we met on her body. In order to make her eyes see more colors, she sewed the eyes of many kinds of animals. I won't list them all."
"Then doesn't that mean she has become a monster?" Bai Wan showed a surprised expression.
"Yes," Zhang Yao said, "In order to adapt to the body of a ghost, she turned herself into a ghost, and she also studied how to absorb Yin energy, and even applied this ability to the puppets she made. This absorption ability can not only absorb the relatively peaceful Yin energy, but even attacks on her can be converted into her own abilities."
Zhong Yi looked somewhat surprised, yet not surprised, and said with a sigh: "Although I had suspected it a long time ago, it turns out to be true..."
"Brother Shen is not dead, you don't have to speculate like that." Zhang Yao seemed to know what he was thinking and said, "He is still alive, but he has learned the attack methods of ghosts."
Bai Wan also frowned: "In this case, Brother Shen can't win at all, right?"
Zhang Yao smiled and tilted her head: "You should trust Brother Shen."
——
Chi Shen seemed to have really given up resistance, and let the puppet that arrived first approach him. The puppet's arm stretched out little by little. The woman's expression seemed to be worried, but more of it was excitement: "Have you finally figured it out? Are you finally willing to be my puppet!"
“Of course…” Chi Shen didn’t look at the woman, but at the top of her head, “No!”
Just when the puppet was about to touch the corner of his clothes, Chi Shen suddenly moved, leaping over the woman's head at a speed that ordinary people could hardly see, and stretched out his hand to grasp in the air -
The woman's excited expression suddenly stopped as if the pause button was pressed, leaving only a blank face. Chi Shen stretched out his hand and pulled. It seemed that he was pulling something in his hand and making the woman fly. The woman was pulled into the air like those ordinary puppets, knocking over the cardboard box containing the doll, and then fell softly to the ground.
"Found you." Chi Shen showed a ferocious smile. He held an invisible thread in his hand. He pulled it suddenly and opened the ventilation duct of the underground parking lot along the thread.
In the ventilation duct, there was a strange black humanoid figure with several hands and many eyes.
The human-shaped figure made a shrill sound. Unlike the woman's voice just now, this voice was sharp and piercing, and sounded like a scream.
"This is the first time you found my true form, hahaha, but so what?"
The humanoid figure, or Fang Man, raised one of her hands. She was holding a wooden frame. As she moved, another cute girl in a princess dress appeared in the parking lot. The girl's voice was clear and pleasant, and she spoke at the same time as the sharp voice: "Can you kill me?"
"You seem to have misunderstood me. It's not that I couldn't find your body before, I was just too lazy to look for it. After all, you are still useful." Chi Shen landed lightly on the ground and patted the non-existent dust on his hands. "And it's also very easy to kill you."
As Chi Shen spoke, he stretched out his hand towards his Mo Dao, and the Mo Dao instantly disintegrated and turned into black gas that penetrated into the girl's body.
"You——" The girl's pleasant voice made an unbelievable sound, "This is——"
Bang!
The girl doll that absorbed too much Yin energy swelled up and suddenly exploded. The Yin energy that the girl's body could not bear scattered in the air, and after a moment it condensed into the shape of a Mo Dao again.
"You don't understand me either." Chi Shen was still smiling, "I just need to kill all these dolls of yours. Who do you think will die of exhaustion first, me or you?"
The eyes of Fang Manyu's two remaining humans suddenly widened. She thought for a moment, and a hand holding a pair of scissors suddenly stretched out and attacked Chi Shen fiercely.
Another beautiful little girl walked out from the shadows, shouting in a tender voice: "But I won't give up. You will be my greatest creation. Even if I die of starvation, I will get you!"
Chi Shen took a step back lightly, letting the scissors miss. He shook his head and said, "I will show you. I want to tell you that even as a ghost, I have a way to kill you. It just takes a little time. But there is more than one way to kill you. Maybe you don't know that outside, in this real world, there are more direct and beautiful things that can erase our existence."
At the end of his speech, Chi Shen's expression became weird and crazy. He seemed to be laughing, but half of his face began to melt. His skin turned into black gas flowing in the air, revealing the dark white bones inside.
Not only his face, but half of his body was also disintegrating. The scattered ghost energy enveloped him completely. At this moment, he looked like a ghost.
Fang Man suddenly had a bad premonition. She looked hurriedly at the places where she had stored the dolls. She waved her hands and all the dolls swarmed out, rushing towards the pool like locusts!
Chi Shen stretched out his still intact hand, put his two fingers together, and used them to make a sword: "The dryness descends the essence of the Kun, and the spirit of the sun and the moon——"
The wind suddenly blew in the underground parking lot.
No one knew where the wind came from, but it brought with it a sharp warmth that seemed to be able to burn away all the filth in the world.
"The Three Realms' Fate——"
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