Chapter 15: Yin Fate (IX)
However, even after searching the entire village, there was still no sign of the Shamatte.
Su Yan swallowed silently and whispered, "Could he have already..."
Although she hadn't finished her words, Qiao Yuan already understood what she meant -
The Shamatte are probably in great danger.
Considering the inexplicable disappearance of the corpse in the coffin, Qiao Yuan felt that the Shamatte must have been taken away by the other party.
Others actually had the same idea.
Lan Lan said dissatisfiedly: "You are also responsible. If the ghost had not disguised himself as you, how could the Shamatte be tricked out?"
"Fortunately, our Li Lei is fine and was not deceived by that ghost."
The more she thought about it, the more beautiful it seemed. After all, Su Yan was younger and prettier than her, but Li Lei could withstand the temptation of being alone with her. Isn't this love?
Hearing Lan Lan's words, Li Lei laughed awkwardly. He did have some thoughts at the time, but Zhou Lian had already designated the killer, so he was too embarrassed to say anything. Unexpectedly, it saved his life by chance.
Su Yan didn't know if it was because she had experienced too many emotional fluctuations with Qiao Yuan, but she felt that her threshold had increased. If it were in the past, she would definitely be so angry that she couldn't speak, and then silently shed tears in her heart. Now she just thought Lan Lan's words were ridiculous, and arguing with her was like sharing her wisdom.
Seeing that the sky was getting darker, the few of them finally returned to the ancestral hall and finally ran into Song Yanchi at the door.
I don’t know if it was Zhou Lian’s illusion, but he always felt that as soon as he walked over, Song Yanchi looked at him, and his eyes were very strange.
If Song Yanchi's previous look at him was filled with contempt and arrogance as if he could see through him, this time the other party's gaze was very complicated, and he even saw a bit of sympathy in it.
Sympathize with him?
Zhou Lian didn't know whether he was hallucinating because of the direct contact , or whether Song Yanchi was crazy, otherwise how could he read such a strange emotion from the other's eyes.
Brother Chen was running around the front and back yards looking for someone. When he saw Qiao Yuan and the others coming back, he was naturally furious. He didn't expect that he had just found a place to take a nap, and when he woke up, he found that the people who were supposed to be working in the ancestral hall had disappeared, so he believed that they had gone there to slack off.
"Our mission is already tight, and you are still slacking off. Wait, why is there one person missing? Where is the guy with colorful hair?" Brother Chen said puzzledly.
After all, the Shamatte hair color left a deep impression on Brother Chen.
"He was not feeling well, so we helped him find a car to leave." Zhou Lian had already thought of an excuse.
According to him, on the bright side, Brother Chen believed in ghosts, but he just wanted to make money instead of losing his life. If he heard that there were ghosts in the village, he would definitely run away faster than anyone else. They also needed Brother Chen's experience to guide the wedding, so this important NPC could not leave.
The bad side of the situation is that Brother Chen doesn't think there is something fishy going on, but instead thinks they are sick, and might even refuse to let them continue to participate in the task of arranging the wedding.
From the complex look in Zhou Lian's eyes when he mentioned the two hypotheses, Qiao Yuan felt that he seemed to have experienced both situations.
However, what the other party said made sense, so everyone chose to hide this matter from Brother Chen.
Brother Chen looked at Zhou Lian as if he was looking at his future right-hand man, so he naturally had no doubts. He just sighed and said, "I didn't expect it to be like this. This kid..."
"Then I'll have to trouble everyone from now on."
It was getting late, so Brother Chen prepared to take everyone back for dinner.
Before leaving, Lan Lan found that she had accidentally lost something. After finding that it was not on the route she had taken before, she thought she had lost it in the place where the wedding supplies were kept.
Because the room was separated from the place where the bodies were kept by only a wall, Lanlan, feeling frightened, insisted that everyone go in with her.
Brother Chen was too lazy to go, so he just waited for them at the door.
As soon as they entered the room, except for Li Lei and Lan Lan, everyone else looked towards the room where the corpse was placed with their own thoughts.
Qiao Yuan felt that all criminals like to return to the crime scene, while Su Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief after discovering that the coffin lid was closed, wondering whether it was a human or a ghost who closed the coffin lid.
Zhou Lian and A Dao looked at the coffin vigilantly, and were relieved when they found that the coffin had been restored to its original state and they could no longer see the female corpse.
Song Yanchi subconsciously looked at Zhou Lian and A Dao again.
However, everyone soon noticed something new next to the coffin.
"That, that's a Shamatte?!" Su Yan was the first to exclaim, attracting the attention of Li Lei and Lan Lan as well.
The Shamatte they had been looking for was now standing among a group of paper people, looking up at them.
Lan Lan was about to snort and ask why the Shamatte didn't say anything after seeing them. Was he trying to scare them? But then she realized that there was something wrong with the Shamatte in front of her -
At this moment, the Shamatte's movements and expressions were exactly the same as the paper man next to him.
If you look closely, his eyes don't have any luster, but instead have the texture of paper. And the smile of Shamatte at this time is different from the shy smile he occasionally showed before. The corners of his lips are raised to an exaggerated arc, as if they were torn apart and forcibly fixed.
This is a paper figure that looks like a Shamatte.
Or maybe he is just a Shamatte.
After all, Shamatte had just disappeared, and a paper man who looked like him appeared. It was such a coincidence no matter how you thought about it .
If it were any other time, Zhou Lian, who didn't want to miss any clues, would definitely rush to confirm it first. However, because of the incident with the female corpse, he still had some trauma about the coffin and didn't want to step into the room.
The one who finally stood up was Song Yanchi. He walked into the room expressionlessly and then directly tore the clothes off the Shamatte's arms.
Along with the crisp sound of tearing paper, a large piece of flesh was peeled off along with the cloth.
Shamatte is dead.
The skin turned into paper, wrapping the flesh.
Lanlan and Su Yan were forced to witness this scene before they could even close their eyes.
Su Yan's heart sank. Although she had known for a long time that Shamatte was probably dead, it was another matter to witness it with her own eyes. After all, the other party was her teammate for a short time. Seeing the other party's body become like this, it was inevitable that she would feel sad for the other party.
Qiao Yuan looked at the other paper figures, hoping that Song Yanchi could confirm them as well.
Fortunately, Song Yanchi thought the same as she did in this regard, and quickly selected a few more paper figures. Those paper figures were in the same situation as the Shamatte, with flesh and blood under the paper shell just like ordinary people.
Thinking of the villagers he saw during the day who looked like these paper figures, Qiao Yuan already understood.
I'm afraid the paper figures are the relatives of those villagers. They turned into paper figures after they disappeared. I just don't know if the villagers know about this.
After discovering this, the seven people quickly left the room.
In order to avoid arousing Brother Chen's suspicion, everyone had to pretend that nothing had happened and follow him back to the village chief's house.
While eating, Zhou Lian took the lead in asking about the paper figurine of the village chief, and the information he got was similar to what Qiao Yuan had guessed.
According to the village chief, the paper figures were indeed made to look like the missing villagers, because their relatives thought that since they couldn't find , they might have died somewhere. The village chief thought that the paper figures were very familiar to his son and daughter-in-law, so it would be better to bury them together so that they could be taken care of in the underworld.
The village chief is lying.
Joe was willing to judge in his heart.
However, before she could ask more questions, the village chief seemed to have been touched by something sad. He told everyone to go to bed early and then left in a hurry.
After dinner, several people prepared to go back to their rooms to rest.
Qiao Yuan noticed that A Dao carefully checked the threshold of his room before entering the room, and then glanced at the threshold of their room, as if to confirm something. Zhou Lian told Qiao Yuan and others not to be afraid at night. If they found a ghost like last night, they could escape through the window and then come and knock on their door.
Qiao Yuan nodded seriously, and then laughed in his heart.
I don’t know who I’m going to be afraid of tonight.
