I stared at the woman, and the woman stared at me.

Suddenly, I heard a thud around me.

I turned my head and saw that Jin Shengshui had fallen to the ground.

He was stunned.

I kicked him, and he slowly opened his eyes, gave me a confused look, and then looked at the woman in the room in horror.

I said to Jin Shengshui, "Don't be ashamed. Steady. ”

Jin Shengshui got up from the ground and said to me, "Big brother, this woman is very weird. ”

I hummed, "Let's go in and have a look." ”

Jin Shengshui answered, and then rubbed beside me, refusing to go in.

I tentatively walked into the room, but the woman didn't respond, still lying on the ground, her mouth opening and closing in a daze.

I reached out and patted her on the shoulder.

The familiar feel made me frown.

I said to Jin Shengshui, who was squatting at the door, "Come in, she's a paper person." ”

Jin Shengshui was startled and said, "Paper people? Can paper figures move? ”

I said, "The two of us are in the fake Jizo Temple, aren't we also paper figures?" ”

In a word, Jin Shengshui fell into deep thought.

I stood up and looked at the children sitting at the dining table.

He is also a paper man.

Jin Shengshui said: "It's strange, why are there two paper figures here?" Do they also have souls in their bodies? ”

I said, "These two paper figures are so sluggish, there should be no soul in them." ”

"Even if you have a soul, it is estimated that it will be consumed."

At this time, I saw that behind the woman and the child, there was a soul gathering talisman.

The Soul Gathering Talisman was clumsy to draw, but it worked.

If such a charm is drawn on the paper figure, then if a wisp of soul is poured into it, it will last for a long time.

The soul will be like a living person, swallowing the yin and yang qi of the world to maintain its own survival, and basically will not dissipate.

I checked the walls around me again, the furniture in the room, and saw that these things were real.

Only these two paper figures are fake.

"Big brother, big brother, there's a discovery." Jin Shengshui screamed.

I walked over quickly and saw Jin Shengshui pointing at the back of the paper man's neck and said, "Big brother, look, the paper man." ”

I saw a small red mark there, which was the three characters of the paper man.

I snorted: "It seems that the paper man Zhang has made his wife and children into paper figures." ”

Jin Shengshui looked sluggish and said, "Have you become a paper figure?" Why did he do that? ”

"What about the bodies of his wife and children? These two paper figures, who have lived here for so long, have no one found out? ”

I stepped out of the yard, looked around, and said, "Did you find it, this village is actually deserted." ”

Around Lingzhou City, there are many such deserted villages.

In the beginning, the young people of the village went out to work, leaving only the old people and children.

Later, the young people, who had managed to gain a foothold in the city, took out the old people and the children.

The remaining lonely old people barely managed to keep the village running.

It is said to be maintained, but in fact, the village was already in a semi-deserted state at that time.

The range of activities of these elderly people is very small, some only walk around the village, some only walk around the door of the house, and some cannot even go out.

After a while, no one knows when they died and who did the funeral.

Later, the village was completely deserted, and no one was active anymore.

In such a deserted village, there are two paper figures, and they eat over and over again every night, and no one notices that it should be normal.

After listening to my analysis, Jin Shengshui nodded and said, "Makes sense." ”

"But there's one thing I still don't quite understand."

I asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Jin Shengshui said: "When were these paper figures made? ”

"Even if no one bother, this paper won't last long, right?"

"They move around all day, and it won't take more than a month for them to break down, right?"

I nodded and said, "You mean to say that someone is helping to maintain these two paper figures?" ”

Jin Shengshui snorted: "I feel that this person is a paper man." ”

I stared at the two paper figures for a while and said, "So, every once in a while, the paper figures come here to mend the paper figures?" ”

"If that's the case, then there should be patches on the paper figures."

The two of us took a closer look and found that the paper figure actually had patches on it.

Those white papers have been pasted layer by layer, and there have been dozens of visual inspections.

Jin Shengshui said: "Big brother, if we prick a hole in this paper man, can we lure the paper man out?" ”

I lowered my head and pondered for a while, and said, "It depends on whether the paper figure can sense it if there is a problem." ”

"It stands to reason that paper figures are such a fragile thing. It will definitely be damaged from time to time. ”

"If the paper figure is not repaired in time, the soul inside runs out, and the paper figure is finished."

"So, he should have left some kind of arrangement here, and if the paper figure is damaged, he can come immediately."

Jin Shengshui nodded again and again and said, "That's what I meant." ”

I looked around to find the arrangement of the paper figures.

I didn't see anything, though.

Forget it, none of this matters, let's draw the paper figure out first.

At least our logic is fine.

Jin Shengshui and I first found a place to hide, and then I took out a needle and pricked a few needles on the two paper figures.

Soon, I felt a soul leaking out.

And at the moment when the soul leaked, the lights in this room became more and more dim and dim.

The whole courtyard is ghostly.

I frowned, thinking: Is this ghost too strong? Something is wrong.