Seeing that it was dawn, Zhan Jingyi, who had not slept all night, stretched out and looked at Xiaoying who was also listless beside the bed, and his mood suddenly improved a lot.
Last night, the group of paper figures seemed to be just passing by and did not approach the courtyard. It made him nervous in vain as he was preparing for a fight. Because he was worried about what would happen again at night, he spent the whole night teasing Xiaoying.
He originally thought that those paper figures were coming for him, which made him nervous all night. Although he was not afraid of these paper figures, it was the first time he encountered such a strange situation. To be honest, he still didn't know how to deal with it.
At this time, he suddenly missed Ai Li, Xiao Le, and Zhu Long. If it weren't for the absence of the satellite phone, contacting them last night might have solved the problem.
At the very least, it would be nice to have someone to discuss it with. Look at Xiaoying Daozi next to him. He is a foodie and can't do anything.
I fed the little eagle some meat strips that I brought with me and let it fly outside the window so that it could learn to live independently.
After all, I am not its parent, so I can't let it develop a bad habit of eating and being lazy.
"Dong dong dong"...
There was a knock on the door.
Zhan Jingyi stood up and opened the door. There were two young people standing outside the door, a man and a woman. The man was in his twenties, with a crew cut, short stature, and a strong build. He had a good physique and looked powerful. Wearing a pair of flat cloth shoes and a white sportswear, he had a flattering smile on his face.
The woman was about the same age as the man, with delicate features and straight black hair. She was wearing slim-leg black jeans, a white waist-revealing T-shirt, a pair of boots, fair skin, and a pair of bright black eyes. She looked particularly energetic.
The young man in front of him should be the young man who pulled him in last night. Although it was a little dark at the time, his feeling should not be wrong.
Although both of them were smiling, Zhan Jingyi always felt that there seemed to be a trace of worry and panic hidden behind their smiles.
Looking at the young man's appearance, Zhan Jingyi felt that the young man seemed a little afraid of him, and he looked familiar, as if he had seen him before somewhere, but he really couldn't remember.
Seeing Zhan Jingyi's slightly frowned brows, a filtered cigarette was handed to Zhan Jingyi's eyes. He looked up in confusion. Why did this scene look familiar? He didn't pick up the cigarette immediately, but looked at it with doubtful eyes. young people.
After a while, Zhan Jingyi took the cigarette and turned back to the room.
"Pop", he had just sat down on a chair next to the round table when a lighter was stretched out in front of him. He put the cigarette over, slowly lit it, took a deep breath of the cigarette, and slowly exhaled the smoke.
During this period of time in the mountains, I haven't smoked cigarettes. It's really comfortable to smoke a cigarette.
"ah!"
Zhan Jingyi suddenly remembered who this young man was. He was the young man who offered him cigarettes outside Qingcheng Yiqun Shopping Mall. He remembered that there was an old man beside the young man at that time.
Hearing Zhan Jingyi say "ah" and then looking at him with a hint of understanding, the young man knew that Zhan Jingyi must have remembered him.
"Great...Master..."
"Um?"
Hearing this title, Zhan Jingyi was shocked. What kind of title is this?
…
Suddenly, Zhan Jingyi's heart moved. How could this young man recognize him?
When he saved them, he was wearing a facial mask, so it was impossible for this young man to see his face.
But now that he obviously doesn't wear the same mask and his clothes are different, how can he recognize himself?
"you know me?"
Zhan Jingyi pointed to his nose and asked tentatively.
"Master, don't you recognize me? I am the person you rescued at Qingcheng Yiqun Shopping Mall."
I really recognized myself, but how is this possible?
He looked at the young man with a puzzled look and asked: "How can you recognize me?"
"I……"
The young man looked a little embarrassed, as if he was embarrassed to say something, and he began to hesitate.
This moment made Zhan Jingyi a little confused. Is it so difficult to answer his question?
"Master, don't misunderstand Xiao Li. He was born with a dog nose. As long as he sees anyone once, he will remember that person's scent and will never admit his mistake."
"Last night, we didn't want to risk going out to rescue you. Xiao Li originally just wanted to take a look at the door, but he smelled your scent through the door and it felt very familiar, so he took the risk to open the door and rescue you."
"After rescuing the master, Xiao Li didn't recognize him. After all, the master was wearing a mask at the time, so he was very offended by his words last night. But Xiao Li always felt that you were very familiar to him, and it wasn't until this morning that he suddenly recalled you, master. who is it."
This is such a vast world, so full of wonders that there are still people with such superpowers.
This is really a talent. It's no wonder that he recognized him easily. It's good to have someone who knows him in such a strange environment.
"Plop!", "Boom".
"Master, I kowtow to you, you must save my master."
Seeing the way Zhan Jingyi looked at him, from the initial confusion to the sudden realization, the young man suddenly knelt down in front of Zhan Jingyi and kowtowed to him obediently.
He kowtowed so hard that his forehead turned red. Just this moment showed that this young man was really serious.
But this incident shocked Zhan Jingyi. What happened? What is the custom here?
When you meet someone, you call him "Master" and when you disagree, you kowtow.
…
"If you have something to say, don't kneel down. A man has gold at his knees."
Zhan Jingyi raised his right hand, and a spiritual force gently lifted the young man up. The young man only felt a force lifting him up. Although this force was gentle, he could not resist.
This move made the young man and girl look happy, and it seemed that the trace of worry on their faces had faded a lot.
"Tell me, what's going on?"
The young man hesitated for a moment, glanced at the girl, and seemed to get a hint of confirmation from the girl's eyes. The young man said: "Master, the thing is like this, my name is Liu Li, and the person who was with me last time was my master Wang. Hai, after something like that happened to Qingcheng last time, the master said that Qingcheng couldn't stay any longer, so we came back here. We originally wanted to take my master's daughter, Wang Bingyan, with us to join relatives in other places."
At this point, the young man pointed at the girl. Zhan Jingyi nodded to indicate that he understood. The young man continued: "I didn't expect that when I came here, I heard from my senior sister that a lot has happened in the small town of Misty Ridge where she is located in the past six months. The strange thing is that just the morning before yesterday, her boss, the owner of this inn, went out for business and never came back."
"In the evening of that day, my master and I happened to come here and heard about this matter. Because the innkeeper usually takes great care of my senior sister, and my master and I are also considered to be somewhat skilled people, we went out to look for her with some people in the town that night."
"result……"
Speaking of this, the young man showed a look of horror on his face, as if what he encountered that day frightened him.
"We didn't even leave the town that day, but we met a lot of strange people, as if..."
"They look like paper figures, but they have flesh and blood..."
"After meeting us, those paper figures seemed to be possessed by demons, and they became hideous and terrifying in an instant..."
"At that time, there were ten of us, two were killed and six were captured. If my master hadn't tried his best to cover me, I would have never had a chance to run back."
At this point, Liu Li squatted on the ground and held his head, tears streaming down his cheeks.
"Master, in fact, in the past six months, the streets of the town have become very unsafe at night. There are often some strange creatures roaming the streets. In the middle of the night, some people even saw a team of paper figures. They beat gongs and drums and carried Wearing a black sedan chair."
"The strangest thing is that when I first saw these paper figures, they were obviously paper figures, but each paper figure was made lifelike, as if they were real people."
"At the beginning, some people saw this weird paper man team. They were afraid that if they made a noise and alerted the paper man, the paper man would kill the person who alerted it. But as long as you hide honestly, the paper man will not It will hurt others.”
"After a period of time, people in our town have become accustomed to it. As soon as it gets dark, every household locks its doors and windows and is determined not to go out. If something happens, they will go out in groups."
"But something even stranger still happened. A month after the first appearance of this paper man team, someone saw this team again. The strange thing is that these paper men are becoming more and more humane. Even flesh and blood appeared on his body.”
"Up to now, they have completely transformed into human-like appearance. If they were not the original residents of the town, others would think that these are real people and would not be able to tell that they are just paper figures."
As the girl Wang Bingyan spoke, the look of fear on her face became more and more intense. Even Zhan Jingyi could feel the girl's fear.
"That night, my father and others were not supposed to be asked to go find the boss, but my father insisted that people are not afraid of slanting shadows and are afraid that the boss will be in danger, so he mobilized some townspeople to go out of town to find the boss."
"result……"
After Zhan Jingyi heard the whole story, he couldn't help but fell into deep thought. It seemed that the team he saw last night was the paper man team that the two of them talked about.
Can he transform from a paper man into a real person with flesh and blood?
How can this be? Are they evolving?
But judging from the girl's expression and the logic of her words, it seems that this is what really happened.
So what factors led to the evolution of these paper figures?
