infinite danger

Chapter 164 The Visible Danger Is Not Scary

"Don't be dazed, hurry up and eat breakfast, and you will have the strength to work after eating more." Zhi Zhayan walked to his work area with the broken paper figurine in his arms: "The breakfast is all on the table, you can do it yourself." .”

The novice girl barely stood up, wiped away her tears, and whispered, "I can't eat."

The novice girl lived in the same room as the deceased, and felt a little deeper than others.

"I don't have any appetite, it's too disgusting." Zhou Qi echoed: "I think I won't be able to eat for two days."

Having just witnessed the crime scene, the pungent smell of blood still seems to linger in the tip of the nose, and everyone has no appetite.

"Forget it as a novice, haven't you seen such a scene." Yanyue glanced at the veterans indifferently, turned and left.

Today's breakfast should have been brought over by the village chief. It was very rich. Apart from a large bowl of steamed stuffed buns with thin skins, there were also pumpkin porridge and various snacks.

Yanyue served herself a bowl of porridge, and ate it with buns.

"Sit down and eat." Sheng Shu said, "Cheer up, this is the second day."

Smelling the aroma of the food, Zhou Qi felt that his stomach, which had been regurgitating all the time, was better. He picked a big bun and took a big bite: "This bun is really delicious."

Yanyue squinted at him: "Didn't you say you won't be able to eat for two days?"

Zhou Qi: "I'm sorry, I underestimated my ability to bear."

Yanyue twitched the corners of her lips, turned her gaze, and looked at Ji Siwei who was eating slowly: "Rookie, you seem very calm, aren't you afraid?"

"It's okay." Ji Siwei responded casually, not intending to continue the chat.

After finishing a bowl of porridge, Sheng Shu said, "Now there is a problem. We don't know how that woman died, so there is no way to avoid the factors that led to her death."

Yanyue stared at the novice girl: "Novice, please recall, has she done any strange things or said any strange words since last night?"

The novice girl frowned, tried hard to remember, and said to herself: "I was very scared last night, I went to bed after taking a shower, I fell asleep quickly, and then... by the way, in the middle of the night I seemed to be I heard that sister talking in her sleep, but I was too sleepy to wake up."

Hearing the word "dream talk", Ji Siwei put down his spoon: "Did you check the room before going to bed?"

Novice girl: "No."

Sheng Shu turned to Ji Siwei: "Huya, did you think of something?"

Ji Siwei briefly said: "Last night, in the middle of the night, Zhou Qi dreamed that a woman crawled out from under the bed and asked him to move the paper dolls under the bed, and talked in his sleep. After I woke him up, I found a paper bridesmaid under his bed .”

Sheng Shu looked at Zhi Zhayan cautiously, and said in a low voice, "Didn't Zhi Zhayan move those paper figurines away?!"

Ji Siwei nodded: "That sister may have had a similar dream and touched the paper man hidden in the room."

Bai Yi raised his head and said softly, "I didn't dream last night."

"Me neither." Yanyue said: "But my intuition tells me that his guess is right, because Zhi Zhayan specifically mentioned yesterday, don't touch the finished paper figurines in the house."

"If this is the case, then the first cause of death is touching the finished paper man." Sheng Shu rubbed his face: "Go back to check the room after breakfast."

Yanyue was almost done eating, and found that Zhizha Yan was sitting busy in the work area, and raised her voice to ask, "Uncle Yan, what are you doing?"

Zhi Zhayan turned around, picked up the paper figurine on the ground and said, "I'll mend this broken paper figurine and save it for the sacrifice."

It turned out that he was mending the "corpse".

Yanyue suppressed her nausea and forced a smile: "Uncle Yan, what are you going to do after breakfast?"

Zhi Zhayan looked into her eyes: "Go to the bamboo forest and chop some bamboo and come back."

Sheng Shu raised his thick eyebrows: "Cut bamboo?"

"The process of making paper tying is complicated. After tying the frame, it's all delicate work. You don't know anything, so you can't help." Zhizha Yan said: "It happens that there is not enough bamboo, so you can cut some back."

Ji Siwei asked, "How much do you want to cut?"

"Around twenty." Zhi Zhayan tore off the tattered clothes of the paper figurine and said without raising his head, "Remember, I only want the bamboo that grows on the side of the grave."

This request was very strange, Yanyue's eyes twitched, and she hurriedly asked, "Why?"

Zhizhayan smiled inexplicably: "Don't ask so many why, just do it. If you see bamboo shoots, dig some back."

Sheng Shu didn't understand: "Why dig bamboo shoots?"

Zhizhayan: "Make stewed meat with bamboo shoots, it's delicious."

Sheng Shu: "..." Is this really a horror escape dungeon? Why do NPCs care so much about food?

After breakfast, everyone went back to their rooms to search for the paper figurines.

Five minutes later, they assembled in the living room.

Yanyue was the first to say: "The paper figurine is hidden under my bed."

"There's one in the closet, and one under the bed." Sheng Shu said as he wiped his face, "I almost touched the old man in the closet just now, but luckily I kept my hands back."

When it was the novice girl's turn to speak, she almost cried again. She rubbed her fingers nervously and stammered, "The matchmaker...is under my sister's bed, and...and..."

"And what, why did you suddenly stutter." Yanyue was a little anxious when she heard it: "Speak more simply."

"The matchmaker smiled at me!" The novice girl raised her head, tears streaming down her face without a sound: "I heard her laugh, she laughed very... very strangely."

Zhou Qi still didn't connect these things with the haunting, and comforted the novice girl softly: "You should relax, it must be a mistake, and the paper doll has no vocal cords, how can you laugh."

Yanyue did not mock the novice girl, and said awkwardly: "If you are afraid, come to my room to sleep tonight."

"Why don't you ask Zhi Zhayan?" Bai Yi whispered, "Didn't he agree to move the paper figurines away? Why did he hide them? It's clear that he wants to harm us."

Ji Siwei said casually: "There's no need to ask, the visible danger is not scary."

Bai Yi tilted his head: "What do you mean?"

"Just avoid touching the paper figurines in the room." Ji Siwei explained: "After asking Zhi Zhayan, the paper figurines may appear in even weirder ways."

Bai Yi suddenly realized.

After taking the tools, a group of people set out towards the bamboo forest behind the house.

The environment of this village is very primitive. There are few people here, and there is only one path stepped on by people. They walked up the path, and no one spoke.

The breeze blew through the dense bamboo forest, rustling, and the dew on the bamboo leaves fell, wet their hair.

Ji Siwei walked at the end of the line, holding a black fruit knife in his hand, making marks on the bamboo from time to time.

Cutting bamboo is not difficult, no skill is required, and the quantity required for paper piercing is not too much, so it is logically said that this is a very simple task.

But they walked for a long time, but did not find a grave.

Tired from walking, Bai Yi leaned on a thick bamboo and panted, "Is there really a grave on this mountain?"

Sheng Shu looked at the sky and suggested, "How about looking separately?"

Yanyue disagreed and said: "There is no signal here, if you get lost, how can you find someone in the vast bamboo forest?"

When Ji Siwei looked back, he could no longer see Zhizha Yan's family, and there was only a winding path behind him.

"Then let's act together." Sheng Shu said, "Let's go."

After walking for about half an hour, they finally found a grave. There was no grass on the grave, and two pieces of red paper were pressed on it. The candles in front of the grave were still red, and the tombstone was new.

A small clump of bamboo grows beside the grave, only as tall as a person.

Bai Yi pointed to the few bamboos that were no thicker than his arm, feeling a little disappointed: "Is it useful to cut back such thin bamboos?"

"I found it with great difficulty, don't care if it's useful or not, let's talk about it after cutting it." Sheng Shu said, raised the knife and chopped the bamboo.

Bamboo is thin and brittle, and it can be cut off with a single stroke.

The moment the bamboo broke, Sheng Shu clearly heard a scream.

This scream made him suddenly startled, he accidentally cut his finger, and cried out in pain: "Hiss...my hand!"

Yanyue stood up straight and asked him, "What's going on?"

Sheng Shu dropped the knife, covered his bloody hand, and grinned in pain: "I don't know, I heard a scream when I was chopping bamboo, and I cut my hand in a blink of an eye."

The blood dripped on the bamboo and disappeared in an instant.

Ji Siwei caught this detail and felt bad.