In less than 5 minutes, Zhang Junyu completed the search and stood in front of the room where the paper figurines were stored. He found no trace of the missing woman, which made him increasingly uneasy.
The door of the room was ajar, and there was no light from the candle inside. Only a burst of cold moonlight poured in through the gap.
From Zhang Junyu's perspective, the moonlight just reflected on the side faces of a row of paper figures, making their faces even paler.
Taking a deep breath, Zhang Junyu slowly opened the door. The old door hinge made a strange creaking sound, which made his teeth ache.
The room was not as dark as expected, and was filled with a slightly pungent smell of paint. Zhang Junyu twitched his nose slightly, and under the cover of the smell of paint, he could smell a stale smell.
This made him instantly alert, because this smell... he was familiar with it.
It's the smell of freshly decomposed corpses.
But there are all paper figures here. Could it be... that there is a corpse hidden among these paper figures?
Zhang Junyu played the role of pathfinder in the entire tomb robber team. He was very vigilant, and his experience and psychological quality were incomparable. After a few breaths, he calmed down and began to squint his eyes to observe.
Behind a pillar at the entrance, there was a wooden ladder with a white lantern inserted in the middle. The lantern was in a conspicuous position, but it was extinguished.
If you look closely, there is a small bamboo tube-like thing standing under the ladder.
It might not be clear to others, but Zhang Junyu immediately recognized it as a piece of fire. There is Huo Zhezi here, and it seems that he wants them to light the lanterns here.
Zhang Junyu hesitated for a moment, but still didn't do it. Firstly, he could barely see clearly in the room, and secondly, he remembered what the watchman said - be careful with candles.
He moved slowly and walked inside.
He had been here before during the day, but the feeling was completely different from now. The paper figures around him looked at him. Against the dim background, the faces of the paper figures became more exaggerated and grotesque, as if they could come alive at any time.
"You can't choose the standing paper figures because you can't see the soles of your feet, so you can only choose the hanging ones." Before coming, Zhang Junyu and the other three had a discussion, and everyone agreed that the way out this time was hidden among the hanging paper figures. And it can only be a paper girl.
He had half an hour, that is, an hour. Counting the time on the way up and the delay just now, he still had at least more than half an hour.
This is enough time to find the paper man, then paint his nails and take him out.
The room was not very big, so most of Zhang Junyu's attention was focused on the top of his head. In a few minutes, he walked around from beginning to end. After walking around, he made new discoveries.
There are 44 hanging paper figures in total, and there are 17 female paper figures among them.
Among the 17 female paper figures, there were exactly 6 with clean soles and no mud on their feet.
At that moment, Zhang Junyu was determined. He knew that he had chosen the right direction this time. These female paper figures were the only way out. As for why there were six of them, he could probably guess.
Five of these six paper female figures are safe, which corresponds to the survival path of the five of them this time. As for the extra sixth one...it is undoubtedly a ghost!
If someone is unlucky and picks out a ghost, without even thinking about it, painting the ghost's nails red is basically like running to the Hall of Hell and clamoring to be reincarnated.
After having a general idea, Zhang Junyu quickly returned and carefully looked at the 6 female paper figures. The 6 female paper figures were of different sizes and shapes, but just looking at them with his eyes, he really couldn't tell what was wrong with them.
Zhang Junyu came a little closer and smelled with his nose, trying to identify which paper figurine the smell of rotting corpses came from. But what surprised him was that every one of them had the smell of corpses.
Just around the corner, there was a pot of scarlet paint. In this environment, it looked like blood.
Zhang Junyu knew he couldn't wait any longer, so he made up his mind, walked behind the door, picked up the fire stick, opened it and blew it gently, a weak flame rose, and then lit the candle in the lantern.
Holding a lantern, Zhang Junyu slowly approached these female paper figures. Weird shadows appeared on the wall one by one. The light and shadow intertwined as if a group of demons were dancing wildly. However, Zhang Junyu's hand was very steady until he walked into the corner...his pupils shrank sharply. .
By the light of the lantern, he finally discovered something unusual. There was no shadow behind a paper girl! A paper girl with clean soles.
This is it!
Zhang Junyu immediately put out the lantern, branding the paper girl as dangerous in his heart, and turned around to pick a normal paper girl who was quite far away.
After determining the target, he quickly moved the ladder and put it on a pillar nearby. He picked up the brush in the paint basin and climbed up the ladder. After calming down, he started painting the nails of the paper girl.
One, two... In fact, the workmanship of the paper girl's hands is relatively rough, each one is as thick as a mallet, but Zhang Junyu is very serious.
After finishing the painting, he waited for a few seconds and saw that the paper girl did not respond. Then he slowly lowered the paper girl from the rope, hugged the paper girl, and left the room.
It wasn't until he crossed the threshold that Zhang Junyu felt completely relieved.
The watchman said that everything was safe outside the door, as long as the paper man was taken out of the house, it would be considered a success.
It was naturally impossible to take the paper man back. To be honest, Zhang Junyu felt uncomfortable looking at the paper man with bright red nails. After thinking for a moment, he placed the paper man by the wall outside the house and stood leaning against the wall.
And he sat on the steps, waiting in the night wind.
Not long after, a familiar banging sound sounded. Zhang Junyu breathed a long sigh of relief, stood up, looked back, and walked towards the small courtyard along the way he came.
On the way, he met A Biao, who was coming over. The two had a brief conversation, and A Biao roughly understood the mystery of the paper man's house.
"How long will it take after deciding on the paper man, painting the nails, and moving the paper man out?" A Biao asked in broken Mandarin.
"If everything goes well, 10 minutes is enough." Zhang Junyu recalled.
"I understand." A fierce look flashed in A Biao's eyes. After saying that, he strode towards the papermaker's house.
Zhang Junyu stared at A Biao's back, and he was quite wary of this man in his heart. He was not a complete insider. It was said that he was a mercenary in the past, and he lived a life of licking blood with the tip of a knife. He only listened to Jia Jinliang's words in the team.
He had heard many rumors about this man. The most suspenseful theory was that this man killed more than a dozen mercenaries with guns with his bare hands. As for whether it was true or false, he didn't know and didn't dare to ask.
Yu Chengmu met him and said that this person was destined to be killed seven times and was extremely evil.
Yu Chengmu didn't understand how Jia Jinliang could recruit such a person. Seeing that the relationship between the two did not seem like a simple money transaction, there must be some great opportunity involved.
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