Chapter 22: Eating Ghosts!

The paper person is really afraid of fire!

When Lin Heier, Su Xing, and Yi Ya held torches to meet the paper people, Xu Shilan as a weak woman naturally couldn't, and Xu Rongyu was terrified of these weird things, so he didn't dare to go up.

However, with only three torches, these dozen paper people actually had a little hesitation.

Everyone was overjoyed. Su Xing and Lin Heier rushed to the front. Seeing Su Xing holding a torch and about to burn the paper person, Lin Heier hesitated for a moment, but followed up and handed the torch over.

She is a daughter of the rivers and lakes, a Master in the martial arts world, and a leader of an organization. At this time, it is not the time for children's love. If she wants to be sad, she will wait until she is alive!

Seeing the torch approaching, the paper person also waved the paper stick in his hand to resist. When the torch collided with the paper stick, the paper did not ignite immediately. An unknown force erupted from the paper stick, actually suppressing the fire of the torch and starting to weaken.

Even Su Xing and Lin Heier saw with their own eyes that the fire was turning from orange to blue-green at the contact position with the paper stick, and the fire was not hot, but revealed a gloomy coldness, starting to offset the heat of other flames.

Fortunately, there was not much of this weird power on a paper person, and after offsetting part of the flame, the remaining flames began to burn the paper stick. Although it burned abnormally slowly, the paper stick did appear scorched, and then in an instant, a woman's scream came from the scorched place.

"Ju'er!" Lin Heier called out in a low voice, her eyes full of sadness, but the torch in her hand only paused slightly, and continued to hand it over to the paper person.

"Eldest sister, eldest sister, don't burn me, don't burn me..." The paper person began to retreat, the scorched paper stick was still waving, but the outlined mouth actually made a woman's voice.

Hearing this voice, Lin Heier couldn't do it anymore. She stood still with tears in her eyes.

Just then, Su Xing roared, and the one point of spiritual consciousness that did not sleep in his countless distracting thoughts and demonic thoughts seemed to extend to the material world in this roar. After the roar, Su Xing roared: "Lin Heier, look again!"

Lin Heier shivered, and she opened her eyes to look again, and she saw a scene that made her soul cold.

This is not a paper person at all. This is the skin, muscles, bones, internal organs, and everything of a human body, torn and reorganized by some force into a terrifying image. All the skin, flesh, bones, and internal organs were mixed together, then pulled into strips, and then these strips were woven into this so-called "paper". On this paper, the face, nose, ears, and eyes were all abstracted and distorted, and muscles and internal organs were mixed with bones, hair, nails, and skin.

The most terrifying thing is that this "person" is still alive. Skin, muscles, internal organs, bones, all are trying to move. The face, eyeballs, and mouth that were separated, distorted, and embedded in various places on the "paper" are moving, the mouth is screaming, and the nose and ears are bleeding...

"Kill me, kill me, kill me, eldest sister, kill me..."

The distorted and torn mouth made a sound. This sound was screaming hysterically. This was the last request of a life in extreme despair and pain.

But once this sound came out, it turned into silk threads at a distance of three feet from its mouth. These silk threads spread toward Lin Heier densely. Some had already pierced into her skin. All the skin positions pierced by the silk threads began to distort and tear, and then tried to turn into "paper".

This scene only existed for an instant. When Lin Heier came back to her senses, the terror in front of her turned into a weird and weird paper person again. This paper person was still making a sound: "Eldest sister, don't burn me, it hurts, don't burn me..."

Lin Heier retreated violently, and at the same time took a deep breath, and she felt pain in several parts of her body, and at the same time, Qi and blood were lost severely. But the terror from the heart disappeared.

"So evil... so terrible!" Lin Heier's face was pale, but she didn't dare to look or think about it anymore.

And Su Xing had more insights into the inspiration attribute at this moment.

The higher the inspiration, the more you can see the "truth", but at the same time, seeing the "truth" will be affected by it, and will also be perceived by the existence that causes the "truth". For example, now, he felt that the vague and distorted existence seemed to "look" at him, making his whole body goosebumps.

At the same time, Su Xing and Yi Ya held torches and kept burning toward the paper person. The paper person began to ignite, and its voice began to become shrill and distorted, as if a real person was being burned. It began to flee in panic, began to pat its body with its arms, but couldn't stop the burning of the fire.

Then the next scene, including Su Xing, everyone was creepy.

The other dozen paper people didn't help to extinguish the fire on its body. They held the paper weapons in their hands and launched an attack on this burning paper person, and then couldn't wait to start eating its intact parts that were separated. The mouth part that was clearly just outlined with black lines actually had sharp teeth and a bloody mouth when opened. The paper part that was eaten actually made a distorted scream, and some paper actually flew away from the flesh toward the surroundings.

In an instant, a paper person was eaten up, and the remaining paper people didn't dare to enter the Corpse House, just floating into the forest outside the Corpse House, and gradually disappeared.

Until this time, everyone came back to their senses, and then except for Su Xing and Yi Ya with ugly faces, the other three directly vomited or retched.

Su Xing threw it, extinguished the torch, and Yi Ya did the same.

The torch burns by oil. Although they bought almost all the oil of that post station, there was not much. It was only the second day, and there were still more than a dozen paper people peeping outside. Naturally, they saved as much as they could.

At this time, Lin Heier also recovered from the retching. Her face was pale, but she still made a fist gesture and said: "Thank you, Master, for saving my life. Lin Heier will remember it."

Su Xing was silent for a while, then reached out to the Corpse House and said: "Please come in and talk."

Lin Heier immediately said: "Don't dare to be, Master calls me Lin Heier, and..."

Lin Heier smiled bitterly. She looked at the forest outside the Corpse House and said: "I don't dare to leave this Corpse House easily now, and there are many things I want to ask the Master."

At this time, everyone returned to the Corpse House. Su Xing moved the stone round table to the center of the courtyard, where he could see all directions. At this time, each sat down, and Lin Heier couldn't wait to say what she saw and what she knew.

"The Unborn Venerable Mother?" Su Xing was very surprised.

Yi Ya and Xu Shilan naturally didn'

The original source of the Unborn Venerable Mother can no longer be verified, but her veneration originated from the White Lotus Society.

The White Lotus Society was first formally established during the Southern Song Dynasty. From the very beginning of its founding, it embarked on a career of rebellion. It persisted through the Southern Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, and even existed into the Qing Dynasty. The Red Lantern Society actually carried the shadow of the White Lotus Society, and it was even present within the Boxers.

Part of the White Lotus Society's doctrine was derived from the Pure Land school of Buddhism, while the Unborn Venerable Mother served as the creator goddess within the White Lotus doctrine, claiming infinite authority and power, known as the Bright God, the Boundless, Pure, Void, Supreme, Holy, True Bearer of All Spirits in the Ten Directions of the Three Realms.

When Wu Pifu was still in the 21st century, he had specifically looked up various information regarding the Unborn Venerable Mother in order to argue with people.

Many people firmly believed that this great deity, the Unborn Venerable Mother, truly existed. This was because the White Lotus Society had been destroyed several times—the kind where even the core members were thoroughly annihilated and suppressed—yet it kept being reborn, persisting for hundreds of years without dying out. Such a thing was inherently miraculous; there must have been higher-dimensional forces continuously projecting doctrines and information, otherwise, the White Lotus Society could not have possessed such powerful vitality.

Even setting everything else aside, based on fame alone, this Unborn Venerable Mother could be called a great deity.

"Impossible!"

Wu Pifu immediately shook his head and said, "This is merely a 0.9 baseline reality world. How could such a great deity exist here, and even become a Nightmare? Let alone 0.9, I'm afraid even 0.5 couldn't do it. To make such a great deity a Nightmare, it would at least have to be a world below 0.3 baseline reality!"

Lin Heier and Xu Rongyu naturally did not understand these words, but Amida and Xu Shilan did.

Xu Shilan frowned and said, "I also roughly saw the changes in mid-air just now. Could it be that the Unborn Venerable Mother cannot enter this world, that she is isolated by this world and can only project those silk threads? In other words, perhaps this world is connected to a lower-level baseline reality?"

Wu Pifu thought for a moment and said, "It is very possible. I have indeed heard seniors mention that some Dream Worlds possess hidden connection structures... Then we are truly unlucky. We just happened to penetrate a world and encountered such a terrifying existence."

Amida said indifferently, "We have already encountered it; there is no other way. What we should be thinking about is how to resist, rather than scaring ourselves here."

This remark also gained Wu Pifu's approval. He looked at Lin Heier and said, "Master Lin, you might as well rest well. We purchased enough food in advance; you can eat your fill to circulate and restore your Qi and blood. The coming battle will be bitter, and we will need Master Lin's assistance."

Lin Heier immediately said, "I dare not accept such praise. These paper figures originally came from the evil gods and evil Buddhas I worshipped. I am grateful enough that you saved me, Master. Now, I must trouble you and all the brothers to protect me for a day or two."

Lin Heier immediately found a room to begin regulating her breathing and circulating her Qi and blood, while the remaining people began to inspect the mortuary building, the windows, and the prepared oil, firewood, and other items.

Nothing happened that day. After dinner, everyone gathered in the main hall to keep watch for one another. Because they feared the paper figures would sneak in, a torch was kept lit at all times.

The time was around nine o'clock in the evening. Except for Xu Rongyu, who was on the first watch, everyone else was resting with their eyes closed or asleep. Suddenly, Xu Rongyu ran to Wu Pifu's side and reached out to shake him awake, but before he could touch him, Wu Pifu's eyes snapped open.

Xu Rongyu's teeth were chattering, and he said with a trembling voice, "Master Wu, Master Wu, listen, there is the sound of ghosts crying, and it is so miserable!"

Wu Pifu shook his head slightly, got up, and went to the window to listen outside. Sure enough, he heard the miserable wailing and crying of men, women, the old, and the young. The sound was bone-chilling; just listening for a few seconds made him feel a bone-deep cold throughout his entire body.

He dared not continue sleeping. Instead, he woke everyone up. After some discussion, he and Lin Heier each took a torch to go out and investigate, while the others stood guard at the main gate, ready to set fire to the entire house if absolutely necessary.

Both were An Jin martial artists. Although Lin Heier had lost Qi and blood, her movements and speed were still far beyond others. The two of them, each holding a torch, followed the sound. When they reached the edge of the mortuary, they saw a scene that made their souls turn cold.

Dozens of translucent human souls, all with terrifying appearances—either rotting or missing limbs—ghosts and spirits that could scare ordinary people to death, were at this very moment...

Being grabbed by paper figures, one by one, and then shoved into their bloody maws!!

(End of Chapter)