There were only fifteen of the first paper figures in the alleyway, and judging by their shoddy facial features and distorted body outlines, these paper figures were gendered like humans, and each paper figure was unique in appearance, not a mass-produced product of a wreath shop...... In a way, they resemble humans.

But in Chen Xian's view, it is not so much that they are similar to humans, but that they are all some kind of strange and unknown giant cells.

Like a real cell, it can divide itself and then create new individuals.

One to two, two to four, four to eight......

The "newborn" born after the division of the main body has a very low degree of resemblance to the main body, and is very different from the main body in terms of gender and appearance, so it can be said that it is another creature independent of the main body.

For example, a young and emaciated paper figure will split into an old and bloated paper figure, or a male paper figure will split into a female paper figure.......

Each paper figure split into a new individual, and the main body quickly recovered from its injuries, so the overall number of them gradually increased from fifteen to thirty.

"I can't kill anymore...... At least you can't attack them at random on a physical level......" Chen Xian muttered to himself, his eyes full of astonishment and puzzlement, because he couldn't imagine what was going on with the body structure of these paper figures.

Judging from the physical details that can be observed by the naked eye, these paper figures are almost a copy of some kind of human mutation, although there are no organs in the body, it can be seen that they have a complete network of blood vessels and nervous tissues, and these tissues should also transport and circulate liquid yin particles.

Compared to those intricately structured anomalous beings, the structure of these paper figurines is slightly crude, and it can be said that it is completely shoddy, but they can have such abilities that Chen Xian has never seen before......

"How many paper figures first appeared in this area?" Chen Xian suddenly asked, as if he had thought of something, and glanced back at Lu Yisheng, "Does the Investigation Department have an exact record?" ”

"Not sure." Lu Yisheng replied meticulously, although he usually looks very unreliable, but in this kind of major event, he will not drop the chain casually, and remember all the information that should be recorded in his mind, "But as far as the paper people they met, there are only four of them, and it is impossible to have so many now." ”

"That's not right." Chen Xian suddenly smiled, as if he had discovered Columbus in the New World, his eyes flashed with rare excitement, "After the people from the Investigation Section withdrew from the housing area, the head of the Armed Forces Section brought people in, and they saw more than four paper figures. ”

"Could it be that these paper figures are hiding? I didn't happen to meet anyone from the Investigation Division? Lu Yisheng cautiously assumed.

"I can't say exactly, but I feel like they're aggressive. Hopefully strong. Chen Xian shook his head and said, "When we stepped into the area before, I felt that something nearby was following us, and they should be very sensitive to outsiders. It's unlikely that they're hiding, but why didn't the investigators see them...... I don't know. ”

Before Chen Xian and the others entered the housing area, Tu Sen had provided them with a lot of information.

According to Tu Sen, after the Armed Forces Section entered the housing area, there were no incidents until they stepped into the garden square in the center of the housing area....... It was densely packed with paper figures.

No matter what weapon they use, they will quickly get back to their feet after knocking them down, and seem to have the self-healing power to be immune to most weapons.

The more paper figurines were destroyed, the more paper figurines crowded into the garden square, until in the end, they could not resist the siege of so many paper figurines, so they could only escape in embarrassment.

From these basic information, Chen Xian can summarize the following key points.

First, there are hundreds of paper figures in the house, and there are definitely not only four of them seen by the Investigation Section.

Second, after the Armed Forces Section entered the housing area and conducted a large-scale survey, the number of paper figurines they encountered was closer to the real number, because there was an important point in this -

Judging from the current situation, the paper figures have an almost perfect splitting ability, and the "newborns" they split out can grow into the size of common paper figures in a very short period of time, in other words, they can see the wind for a long time, and they can cross the newborn period and enter the maturity period in just a few tens of seconds.

But the basis of all this has to be built on the case of the paper man being killed, at least Chen Xian speculates that only when the body of the paper man is split by an external force, will they passively show the ability to split and reborn, and if they are not affected by an external force, their body should not actively split.

That's easy to say.

The members of the Investigation Section are not combat members, and there is such a rule within the Secret Bureau, if a member of the Investigation Department (Section) encounters an anomalous life in the work of a reconnaissance detective, then the characteristics of the anomalous life and some clues should be recorded at the first time, but if there is no opportunity to record this information, and the situation is extremely dangerous, then they should choose to flee the scene.

Most of the investigators are ordinary people, so they don't have too strong combat power, and what they are good at is only investigation and exploration, and the task of fighting anomalous life is not their responsibility.

Because of this kind, Chen Xian can conclude that ...... After the investigators entered the housing area before, there should have been no fight between them and the paper man, and even if there was, it was only a small friction, and the possibility of killing the paper man was almost negligible.

In this way, when the Armed Forces Section entered the housing area, even if the Investigation Section had fought the front station before, there was no large-scale split of the paper figures in this housing area, which means that when the Investigation Section surveyed the scene, at least nearly a thousand paper figures were hiding in this housing area.

"Boss...... What should we do now......." Lu Yisheng's voice trembled a little, because he found that the paper figures that had been split out had already stood firm, and they were walking in the alley in the same form as the main body, "Why don't we withdraw first...... I don't think I can kill all of these things......"

"I want to try." Chen Xian clenched the meat saw knife in his hand, his eyes became more and more strange silently, like a beast that had been hungry for a long time but suddenly saw food, the kind of hunger that hit him without warning made him want to pounce on it now, "You stand back, I'm afraid of hurting you by mistake." ”

"Boss...... You have to be careful...... I don't think there's something quite right......"

Not quite right?

Chen Xian had already felt that something was not quite right, because all these phenomena were too obvious, after those paper figures completed the step of splitting and gave birth to newborns, their ontology and the derivatives of the split had changed slightly.

The most noticeable change is both their eyes.

Originally, the eyes of these paper figures were all a layer of "skin", and there was no clear eyeball tissue in the eye sockets, only a layer of translucent plastic film, which blocked the holes of the two eyes.

But at this moment, the greasy film is covered in a black liquid.

The liquid seems to have flowed out of the paper figure's body, and instead of flowing down the corners of the eyes, it gathers on the "eyeballs" and keeps creeping. Moving, like some unknown liquid parasite, the black liquid creeping. At the same time, many tentacles of fingernail length stretched out, like eyeballs parasitized by maggots, which made people look straight up goosebumps.

"Paper man disease seems to be infected by them...... Lu Yisheng's voice became smaller and smaller, as if he was afraid that his voice would be loud to attract the attention of those paper people, "Boss...... If not, we'll withdraw ...... Those paper figures hurt you, and you're ......."

"Don't worry, I'm sure." Chen Xian smiled, "Maybe I'll take you away again, it'll be fine." ”

As soon as Chen Xian's words fell, the two paper figures closest to him had already pounced, as if they had been stimulants, their movements were far faster than before, and the speed of the flow and circulation of yin qi particles in their bodies had also accelerated several times, as if their body functions had improved after splitting...... And that's not all!

Chen Xian didn't dodge.

Of course, he couldn't dodge in this narrow alleyway, so he could only run forward, but he didn't use a meat saw's completely unfolded form to chop them like before......

In an instant without warning, Chen Xian pressed the side-mounted metal button of the meat saw, folded the blade of the knife against the handle with lightning speed, and then slid his palm forward half an inch, pressing his arm against the handle.

In this way, the long axe also turned into an arm knife. Activity has been greatly enhanced.

Without waiting for Lu Yisheng to watch his movements clearly, with a muffled sound of blades cutting through flesh and blood, the two abnormal beings who were supposed to be in the state of paper figures actually spewed out fishy "blood" at the moment when their bodies were broken, and their wounds were like fountains, and those translucent yellow oily liquids splashed out of them, emitting an extremely pungent smell......

Anyone who smells this stench in the air can't help but spit it out, but Chen Xian is not an ordinary person, and in this case, he only feels that his appetite is great.

Before the other paper figures could rush forward, Chen Xian had already bent down to pick up the wreckage that had been split by himself, opened his mouth wide and bit the wreckage's neck without hesitation.

With an unsettling chewing sound, Chen Xian unhurriedly chewed the paper man's cervical vertebrae, and began to gnaw on its head with a calm face.

Perhaps at this moment, Chen Xian is more frightening than those paper figures, because in the eyes of most people-

He is a human being who is more demon-like than a demon.