[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-eternal-nightmare-of-the-long-night":3,"chapter-eternal-nightmare-of-the-long-night-eternal-nightmare-of-the-long-night-chapter-22":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Eternal Nightmare Night",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2221367,4052,"Chapter 22: Eating Ghosts!","eternal-nightmare-of-the-long-night-chapter-22",22,"\u003Cp>The paper people are really afraid of fire!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Lin Heier, Su Xing, and Ya Made held torches to meet the paper people, Xu Shilan, as a weak woman, naturally couldn't, and Xu Rongyu was afraid of these weird things, so he didn't dare to go up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, with only three torches, these dozen paper people actually had a slight hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She is a Jianghu daughter, a Master in the martial arts world, and a leader of an organization. At this time, it is not a time for children's love. If she wants to be sad, she will wait until she survives!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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 burst out from the paper stick, suppressing the fire of the torch and making it weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Su Xing and Lin Heier saw with their own eyes that the fire was turning from orange to cyan-green in contact with the paper stick, and they were both sensitive. This cyan-green flame was not hot, but revealed a gloomy chill, starting to offset the heat of other flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, there was not much of this strange power on a paper person. After offsetting part of the flame, the remaining flame began to burn the paper stick. Although it burned extremely slowly, the paper stick did appear scorched, and then in an instant, a woman's scream came from the scorched place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eldest sister, eldest sister, don't burn me, don't burn me...\" The paper person began to retreat, the scorched paper stick still waving, but the outlined mouth contour actually made a woman's voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this voice, Lin Heier couldn't do it anymore. She just stood still in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, Su Xing roared, and the 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!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Heier shivered, and she opened her eyes again to look, and saw a scene that made her soul cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is not a paper person, this is the skin, muscles, bones, internal organs, etc. of a human being, torn and reorganized by some force into a terrifying image. All the flesh, bones, and internal organs were mixed together, then pulled into lines, and then these lines were woven into this so-called \"paper\". On this paper, the face, nose, ears, eyes were all abstracted and distorted, and muscles and internal organs were mixed with bones, hair, nails, and skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most terrifying thing is that this \"person\" is still alive. Skin, muscles, internal organs, bones, all are still trying to move. The face that was split and distorted and embedded in various places on the \"paper\", the eyeballs are moving, the mouth is screaming, the nose and ears are bleeding...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kill me, kill me, kill me, eldest sister, kill me...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The distorted and torn mouth made a sound. This sound was hysterical roaring, which was the last request of a life in extreme despair and pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But once this sound came out, it turned into threads at a distance of three feet from its mouth. These threads densely spread towards Lin Heier, and some had pierced into her skin. All the skin positions pierced by the threads began to distort and tear, and then tried to turn into \"paper\".\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This scene only existed for a moment. When Lin Heier came back to her senses, the horror in front of her turned into a weird paper person again. This paper person was still making a sound: \"Eldest sister, don't burn me, it hurts, don't burn me...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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, her blood and qi were lost severely. Although she didn't feel it without someone reminding her, the feeling of fear from the heart disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So evil... so terrible!\" Lin Heier's face was pale, but she didn't dare to look or think about it anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Su Xing had more insights into the spiritual sense attribute at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The higher the spiritual sense, 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 creates the \"truth\". For example, now, he felt that the distorted existence seemed to \"look\" at him, making his whole body goosebumps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Su Xing and Ya Made held torches and burned towards the paper person. The paper person began to be ignited, 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, but could not stop the burning of the flame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the next scene, including Su Xing, everyone was creepy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other dozen paper people did not help to pat out the flames 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 the intact parts that were split out. The mouth part that clearly only had black line contours opened, but had sharp teeth and a bloody mouth. The paper parts that were eaten actually made distorted screams, and some paper parts actually flew away from the flesh towards the surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, a paper person was eaten, and the remaining paper people didn't dare to enter the Yizhuang, but floated into the forest outside the Yizhuang, and gradually disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until this time, everyone came back to their senses, and then except for Su Xing and Ya Made, the other three vomited or dry-heaved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xing reached out and threw, extinguishing the torch, and Ya Made did the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The torch burns on oil. Although they bought almost all the oil in the post station, there was not much. It was only the second day, and there were more than a dozen paper people peeping outside, so naturally they saved as much as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, Lin Heier also recovered from the dry-heaving. 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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xing was silent for a while, then reached out and led her into the Yizhuang, saying at the same time: \"Please come in and talk, eldest sister.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Heier immediately said: \"I dare not, Master, just call me Lin Heier, and...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Heier smiled bitterly, she looked at the forest outside the Yizhuang and said: \"I don't dare to leave this Yizhuang easily now, and there are many things I need to ask the Master.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone returned to the Yizhuang, and Su Xing moved the stone round table to the center of the courtyard, where he could see all directions. Everyone sat down, and Lin Heier immediately couldn't wait to say what she saw and what she knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unborn Mother?\" Su Xing was surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ya Made and Xu Shilan naturally didn't know the information about the Unborn Mother, but Su Xing knew it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The source of the Unborn Mother has long been untraceable, and her worship comes from the White Lotus Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The White Lotus Sect was officially founded in the Southern Song Dynasty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Part of the White Lotus Sect’s doctrine was derived from the Pure Land school of Buddhism, while the Unborn Venerable Mother was the creator goddess in their doctrine, claimed to possess infinite authority and power, the Supreme and Holy True Bearer of all spirits in the three realms and ten directions, the Immeasurable and Pure Void of the Manifest God.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back when Wu Pifu was still in the twenty-first century, he had specifically looked up various information about the Unborn Venerable Mother in order to argue with people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many people firmly believed that the Unborn Venerable Mother was a true, great deity, because the White Lotus Sect had been destroyed several times—the kind where even the core members were completely wiped out and suppressed—yet it kept being reborn, persisting for hundreds of years without ever being extinguished. Such a thing was inherently miraculous; there must have been higher-dimensional forces constantly projecting doctrines and information, otherwise the White Lotus Sect could not have possessed such powerful vitality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even setting everything else aside, based on fame alone, this Unborn Venerable Mother could be called a great deity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Impossible!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Pifu immediately shook his head and said, \"This is only a baseline reality 0.9 world; how could such a great deity exist here, and even become a nightmare? Never mind 0.9, I’m afraid even 0.5 couldn't manage it. To let such a great deity become a nightmare, it would have to be at least a world below baseline reality 0.3!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Heier and Xu Rongyu naturally did not understand these words, but Amada and Xu Shilan did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Shilan frowned and said, \"I also roughly saw the changes in the sky just now. Could it be that the Unborn Venerable Mother cannot enter this world, that it is isolated by this world and can only project those threads in? In other words, perhaps this world is connected to a lower level of baseline reality?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Pifu thought for a moment and said, \"It is very possible. I have indeed heard seniors mention that some dream worlds possess hidden connective structures... Then we are truly unlucky; we just happened to pierce through to a world and encountered such a terrifying existence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amada said indifferently, \"We have already encountered it; there is no way around it. What we should be thinking about is how to resist, not scaring ourselves here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This remark also won Wu Pifu's approval. He looked at Lin Heier and said, \"Master Lin, you might as well get some good rest. We purchased enough food in advance; you can eat your fill to circulate and restore your blood and qi. The next part will be a bitter battle, and we will need Master Lin's assistance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Heier immediately said, \"I dare not accept such praise. These paper figures were originally from the... evil gods and evil Buddhas I worshipped. I am already grateful enough that you saved me, Master. Now I must trouble you and all the brothers to protect me for a day or two.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Heier then found a room to begin regulating her breathing and circulating her blood and qi, while the rest of the group began to inspect the mortuary building, the windows, and the prepared oil, torches, and other items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing happened that day. After dinner in the evening, everyone gathered in the main hall to keep watch over one another. Because they feared a sneak attack by the paper figures, a torch was kept lit at all times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time reached about 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 even touch him, Wu Pifu's eyes snapped open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Rongyu's upper and lower teeth chattered incessantly. He said in a trembling voice, \"Master Wu, Master Wu, listen, there is the sound of ghosts crying, and it is so miserable!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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 hair-raising; just listening for a few seconds made him feel bone-chilling cold throughout his entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dared not continue sleeping. He woke everyone up, and after a brief discussion, he and Lin Heier each took a torch to go out and take a look, while the others stood guard at the gate, ready to set the entire house on fire if absolutely necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both were dark-energy martial artists. Although Lin Heier’s blood and qi were depleted, her movements and speed were still far beyond those of 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 very souls turn cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of semi-transparent human souls, all with terrifying appearances—either rotting or missing limbs—ghosts and spirits that could scare an ordinary person to death, were at this very moment...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being grabbed by one paper figure after another and then shoved into their bloody maws!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2195,"2026-06-17T18:04:39.529Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","9c9ad5d44372ee84f04f5b1893bb702303a15657f4da1944ba0905e0269d06d3","eternal-nightmare-of-the-long-night-chapter-23","eternal-nightmare-of-the-long-night-chapter-21",602,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feternal-nightmare-night-cover.jpg"]