The paper figure had now fallen into the garbage heap, and although its body had not become smaller than the old man's, its color was getting darker and darker, as if it was about to burn.

I suddenly remembered the gray soul worm that I had seen before when the paper puppet was burned, so could this guy be the same?

Thinking of this, I was scared, and at this moment, the paper man who had become pitch black spoke: "Two, come closer." ”

His voice was extremely low, that is, only people like me and Zhu Gui who practiced martial arts could hear it clearly, and we hurriedly ran to him, but we didn't dare to get too close, for fear that he would secretly poison him.

The paper man spoke: "Two, I'm going to die soon, as for everything here, I just said, it's better not to care, otherwise your lives will be difficult to protect, I hope you can leave as soon as possible, and I will leave the map to you in a while." ”

Seeing him like that, it seemed that he was really dying, and I hurriedly asked: "Don't die first, ask you something, we are here to find someone, have you ever seen a thin man coming?" ”

Nothing else matters, the key now is to find Hu San, if we can't find him, even if there is really a safe exit, we can't just leave.

The paper man was stunned for a moment and said, "So that's the case, you and that person are together?" Then the matter is in trouble, and he may have been killed by now. ”

"Huh?" I was so frightened that I almost fell over, "Old man, tell me quickly, what the hell is going on?" ”

The paper man moved his mouth, but he couldn't make a sound. I was sweating profusely, and I squatted down to help him up, but when my hand touched his body, it suddenly sank, which startled me and immediately let go of my hand.

At this time, Zhu Gui pushed me and said, "You let me go, I'll see if there is a way." With that, he took out a few yellow talismans from his arms, took out one of them and gently pasted it on the paper man's chest.

The paper man coughed twice, and then a whirring pant came out.

I looked at Zhu Gui in surprise: "What kind of trick are you?" ”

He ignored me and asked the paper man, "Old man, how do you feel?" ”

The paper man gasped for a while, opened his mouth with difficulty, and said, "I didn't think that you are still a member of the Taoist family, and you are unreasonable." ”

I said in my heart that this old guy is really talking, although Zhu Gui's trick relieved him, but it seems that he can't last long, so he hurriedly asked Hu San about it.

"Old man, tell me quickly, where is the person we are looking for now, why do you say that he may have been killed?" My anxious voice has changed.

The paper man coughed twice and said, "He may have been taken to the Experimental Bureau, and I am afraid that there will be less luck at this moment." ”

"Isn't this the Experimental Bureau?" I asked.

"It's okay here, but it's been abandoned for many years, and the current experimental bureau is on the basement level." The paper man's voice was getting lower and lower.

I hurriedly asked, "Where do you get there, and how do you deal with the insects outside?" ”

At this moment, he may lose his breath at any time, so he has no time to ask anything else, so he can only pick and choose the key questions.

Zhu Gui took out a few more charms and pasted them, but the effect didn't seem to be as obvious as before.

The paper man gasped slightly, and it took a long time before he spit out a few words: "Open the roof." After saying that, the missing half of his head tilted and never moved again.

I shook him gently, but when my hand touched him, it felt like it was burning, and I quickly withdrew my hand again. Seeing that the paper man's body had begun to shrink, and there was smoke, Zhu Gui and I suddenly jumped aside, presumably he also thought that the paper man might turn into a gray soul worm.

After observing from a distance for a while, the body of the paper man gradually turned into a pile of ashes, and I stared at the black paper ashes, and my heart beat the drum, hoping not to become a gray soul worm like those paper puppets.

After a long time, the pile of ash didn't seem to move, and it looked different from the shape of the gray soul worm, so we relaxed a little and waited for a while before slowly walking to the front.

Zhu Gui took out a folding shovel and said, "Didn't he say that he left us a map, where is it?" As he spoke, he pulled up the pile of ashes.

"It can't be in the ashes!"

As soon as I finished speaking, I saw Zhu Gui dig out a black thing from the ash heap. The object is about a foot square, rectangular, and has a pure black surface, like a piece of black paper.

Zhu Gui carefully moved to the front with a shovel and said in surprise: "What is this, is it a map?" Why can't I see anything? ”

I leaned over and looked closely, and indeed, it seemed to be all black, and I couldn't see anything at all.

Zhu Gui suddenly took a cool breath and muttered, "Could it be the legendary light and shadow map?" As he spoke, he carefully picked up the black paper, took out a flashlight and shone it on it, and clear white lines suddenly appeared on the pure black paper.

We were all excited, but after studying for a long time, we only understood part of it, and it seems that it will take some time to fully understand the content on the map. I asked Zhu Gui what the light and shadow diagram was, and he said that it was a high-level Taoist spell, and he had only heard of it, and he didn't know the principle at all.

After discussing it with Zhu Gui again, it is most important to find Hu San first.

The paper figure just now said that he was going to open the roof, which is a little strange, didn't he say that the experimental bureau is on the basement floor, and it should go down.

Although we were puzzled, we took a closer look at the roof of the house to see if there was an exit or something. The top of this place is not high, and you can almost reach it with your hand, so we found a chair that we could easily reach on.

While inspecting, I asked Zhu Gui: "I said fatty, how did you know that the shadow old man had a problem just now?" ”

Zhu Gui stared at the ceiling with a flashlight and said: "Actually, I wasn't very sure at the time, there was nothing abnormal about the old man, I just found that the pile of paper behind me was moving, so I thought he was trying to stabilize us, and then someone sneaked up on the back." ”

"Oh, I see. So what do you think is their relationship? Why are both dead? ”

When I asked, Zhu Gui suddenly sighed and said, "Alas, you really asked the right person about this, I have already guessed that there is no difference from ten." Didn't you listen to that paper man, they were originally the same person, and they became two people because of the separation of souls, so as long as one died, the other could not live.

I suspect that what the shadow said must be true, at least in part, that he may have somehow separated his soul when he came here, or maybe he was separated when he was hanged, and one of them was attached to the body of the paper man.

As for what he said about becoming an immortal after hanging, I really have heard of it, and he said that this is a way to cultivate ghosts and immortals, and there are several ways to cultivate this kind of immortal in folklore, and I don't know which one is true and reliable, anyway, I haven't heard of anyone refining it.