Chapter 20: Paper Figures (Rewritten)
In addition to bear meat in the postal album, whether it is Zhou Shun, Wang Xiaochang, or Fan Jian, who had his tongue pulled out by himself in the cornfield, the corpses are actually gone.
Three corpses, all gone?
"How could it be gone!"
At this time, Zhao Ke suddenly thought of something, turned his head suddenly, and stared at the cup of coffee on the table, as well as Wang Na's business card.
In an instant, Zhao Ke's whole body was cold, like a stream of cold water spilling down the top of his head, the cold penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and even his teeth were trembling.
"You're back?"
Zhao Ke stared at the surroundings with cold eyes, and his voice seemed to be squeezed out of his teeth, cold and piercing.
The dead silence of the room, the silence was terrifying, and nothing could be heard except for Zhao Ke's breathing.
"Damn it!"
Zhao Ke cursed, turned around and rushed to the attic, opened the door, walked to the dresser, stared at himself in the mirror, and whispered: "Don't come back, or ......"
Zhao Ke said halfway, stunned, staring at the dresser, a very familiar and unfamiliar box, I don't know when, appeared on the dresser.
If you look closely, there is a stamp on the black box.
The dark red trim, the background is a headless merry-go-round, and a rag doll stands on top of the wooden horse, which makes people feel more and more panicked the more they look at it.
Although the stamps are different, the strange style is exactly the same as the previous package.
"Package!"
Seeing the package in front of him, Zhao Ke was stunned, isn't there still three days left? How did this package end up here.
"Is it ......?"
Zhao Ke's heart froze, and then he looked at the date of the clock on the wall, and suddenly understood that three days, the time when he came to his senses, three full days had passed.
Just when Zhao Ke's heart was upset, there was a faint sound of "buzzing ......", which made Zhao Ke turn around sharply and find that the source of the sound seemed to be a sound coming from the coffin.
"What's that?"
Zhao Ke had a cold face, stood on tiptoe, walked carefully to the coffin, and pushed it gently, and nothing could be seen inside the coffin.
"Did you hear it wrong?" Just when Zhao Ke suspected that he was suspicious.
"It's time to hit the road!" With a sharp sneer, he saw a rotten palm suddenly stretched out from the coffin, Zhao Ke's pupils shrank, and he subconsciously wanted to hide, but at this time he realized that his body couldn't move.
I saw that the rotten hand grabbed Zhao Ke's throat, and then an unshakable huge force dragged Zhao Ke and pulled him into the coffin.
"Poof!"
The icy river water instantly made Zhao Ke recover consciousness from the sleepiness, and before he opened his eyes, he opened his mouth and drank a few mouthfuls of river water, and hurriedly raised his head up and emerged from the water.
After seeing the surroundings clearly, Zhao Ke came back to his senses, and there was an ancient town in front of him, with a few old ancient buildings hanging on both sides of the river, hanging a few red lanterns, reflecting a red on the river surface, and at first glance it looked a little bit of the taste of a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.
And he was lying in the middle of the river, and from time to time there were boats sliding past Zhao Ke, but he only saw a boat, but he didn't see anyone on board.
Seeing a boat slowly rowing in front of him, Zhao Ke simply reached out and grabbed the hull of the boat, supported it with both hands, and jumped on the boat.
"Unlucky, how is it in the water!"
I didn't know how much water I drank, but fortunately, I was not too watery to panic, I didn't panic because of the sudden fall into the water, climbed into the boat, and Zhao Ke's eyes swept into the boat shed.
Through a layer of bamboo curtains, I could faintly see that there seemed to be two figures sitting in the boatshed, seeing this, Zhao Ke couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and said in a low voice: "Is there anyone?" ”
asked if there was anyone, but the two figures inside did not respond, seeing this, Zhao Ke couldn't help but be vigilant.
He summoned the dagger out and held it in his hand, looked at the two figures in front of him, and said in a low voice: "Both, why don't you speak?" ”
After asking again, seeing that the two of them were still silent, Zhao Ke raised his eyebrows, and simply walked in to take a closer look, only to see a man and a woman sitting in the boatshed.
It's just that the faces of the two of them are very pale, a little white and a little crazy, on both sides of the face, there are two large patches of red blush, black eyes, but they are lifeless.
"Paper man?"
Zhao Ke approached and took a closer look, no wonder he didn't respond, it turned out that the people sitting in front of him were actually a pair of paper figures.
Seeing this, Zhao Ke secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, took out a new set of clothes from the mail book, and regardless of whether the two behind him were watching or not, he took off the clothes on his body and threw them aside with his pants.
After changing into dry clothes, Zhao Ke sat on the boat, thinking about what would happen in the three days when he lost consciousness, and why the body in the stamp book was missing.
"Isn't it useful to sleep in a coffin?"
Since sleeping in the coffin, his illness has been significantly alleviated, and he has not even relapsed in the past two years, I thought I had been cured, but I didn't expect it to suddenly recur again.
And this time it was more serious than any previous ones, when the symptoms broke out in the past, it took a few minutes for a long time, and it was only a few seconds for a short time.
But this time, it lasted for three days.
What's worse is that in the past three days, God knows, these guys have controlled their bodies and what they have done.
Thinking of the disappeared corpses in the stamp book, and the diners who came by appointment every night, I don't know what they did, thinking of this Zhao Ke felt irritated in his heart.
"I hope it doesn't come out like that violent maniac."
Zhao Ke could only plan for the worst in his heart, but still held a glimmer of hope, stroked the silver cross in his arms with his palm, and prayed silently in his heart, just begging these guys not to cause any trouble for themselves.
After all, now, Rayco has left his job, and there is no way to cover for himself.
However, Zhao Ke also knows that it is useless to think about these things now, it is better to figure out what tasks will be in this terrifying space first, complete and leave as soon as possible, and then clean up those messes when you go back.
After sorting out his thoughts in his mind, Zhao Ke poked his head out to take a look.
I saw that there was more than one boat on the river, as if someone had deliberately prepared, one after another, and so many boats swam forward along the river.
"Strange, where are these ships going? Why no one?? ”
Looking at the boats on the river, Zhao Ke was puzzled.
The big red lanterns hanging on both sides of the river illuminate the river into a strange red.
Zhao Ke didn't feel anything at first, but after a long time, he felt chest tightness and nausea.
He immediately retracted into the cabin and drank a few large sips of hot herbal tea before he was relieved.
"Gollum ......"
At this time, Zhao Ke's stomach couldn't help but growl, and he hadn't eaten a mouthful of food since he woke up.
I drank a few sips of water, and it was very physically draining to be in the water before, and now my stomach began to growl.
Seeing this, Zhao Ke opened the mail album and took out the roasted half-cooked bear meat from it.
The reason why it is baked half-cooked is not that you are lazy, but that there are many ways to make bear meat, and it is more convenient to cook it by yourself.
However, the current situation is not as optimistic as Zhao Ke thought, because he found that the small gas stove he put in the stamp album was gone!
"Bastard!"
I don't have to think about it, I also know that I must have been in a coma for the past three days, and my own mail album was turned upside down by them, and I didn't know how to get a lot of things by the way.
Zhao Ke had a cold face, looking at the bear meat in his hand for half his life, he wanted to eat it, but he couldn't eat it, and his eyes lit up when he saw the male paper man in front of him.
"I'm sorry, I'm borrowing you."
Zhao Ke said, picked up the dagger and directly chopped the paper figure in front of him, sat in the boat shed, lit a small fire, and began to roast the half-raw bear meat on it.
Don't look at it as a paper figure, but the paper skin on the outside is actually pasted with six or seven layers of paper, which is a centimeter thick, hard and heavy, and burns up, just like burning wood, far more resistant to burning than imagined.
The paper skin is like this, not to mention that there is a skeleton inside the paper figure, which is quite similar to a human skeleton, but it is not so complicated.
"No wonder these paper figures look vivid, they really put a lot of effort, the main reason is that the cosmetics are too poor, if you put it in reality, put on a set of cosmetics, the effect is definitely not worse than those inflatable dolls."
While roasting bear meat, Zhao Ke looked at the other female paper figure beside him, and couldn't help but feel a little sorry in his heart, in reality, such craftsmanship can no longer be seen.
"Jingle Bell ......"
At this time, Zhao Ke's ears moved, and he faintly heard a very crisp bell sound, and listened carefully, the sound was getting closer and closer, and it seemed to be coming towards him.
"Someone!"
Zhao Ke's eyes lit up, and he quickly kicked out the bonfire on the boat, and by the way, threw the remaining paper figures that had been dismantled into the water, crawled in the boat shed, stretched out the opening on the bamboo curtain with his hand, and looked outside with his face.
"Jingle bell...... Jingle bell ......"
The bell in his ears became louder and louder, and a cold wind suddenly blew over, blowing out all the lanterns on both sides of the riverbank...... Sedan chair.
What shocked Zhao Ke was that the sedan chair was actually floating in the air.
That's right, although it was very dark outside, Zhao Ke still looked carefully, four people, carrying a black sedan chair, stepped on the water, didn't move, and floated to this side.
"Boom!"
The sound of the bell is getting closer and closer, accompanied by the sound of a gong, and behind the black sedan chair, there is actually a group of people, beating gongs and drums.
The two flower girls opened the way in front, which looked like a wedding pomp, but the flower girls did not sprinkle flowers, but palm-sized paper money.
Seeing this, a breath of cold air was inhaled between Zhao Ke's teeth, his heart sank, and he exclaimed: "It's a ghost!" ”