Restricted area grave keeper

Chapter 258 The Paper Man
Surrounded by layers of huts, Bai Mo and the one-eyed old man stood opposite each other, falling into a long silence.

The air was dead silent.

The old man was obviously not in high spirits, his already hunched body became even more rickety, he casually glanced at the coffin behind him, then walked outside the hut, thrust the bone stick into the ground, and stared coldly at the white ink in front of the door.

"For the sake of the past, I'll pretend I didn't see you this time, but I will definitely not help you. Before I change my mind, you'd better leave the coffin as soon as possible." said Dun.

Bai Mo looked at him fearlessly, without any intention of moving, he said with a half-smile: "You just trust your own judgment and think that I have lost strength, so you can give orders to me now?"

The tone is calm, but the words are full of contempt.

Of course he knew that these words wouldn't scare the one-eyed old man. You must know that this guy could easily spy on a person's abilities, let alone his state, but even so, he was still bluffing.

But in the eyes of the one-eyed old man, Bai Mo at this moment is a dead duck with a stubborn mouth.

"I've never said that before. This is just the last advice I gave you in my old relationship—on the contrary, you, by repeatedly emphasizing this kind of thing, just want to cover up your current embarrassment so much?"

The old man had a gloomy expression and said with disgust, "Arrogance, bravado, arbitrariness... I find that you are becoming more and more annoying."

"I never thought or expected that anyone would like me."

Bai Mo seemed to have never heard the old man's words, and said lightly, "You should know that such worthless things have no meaning in my eyes."

The old man had an unexpected look on his face, spat hard, and said, "I forgot to mention it just now, and this is also a very annoying point about you."

He showed disgust, but he didn't say which aspect of Bai Mo he hated.

Bai Mo was silent and stopped talking.

The old man seemed to have a feeling in his heart, his only remaining one eye turned slightly, and he looked around the gloomy and silent coffin, but he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Get out of here quickly, I don't want to talk nonsense with you anymore." After a long while, he said impatiently, "Remember, this will be the last time we two will coexist peacefully."

The face in front of him became more and more disgusting. If Bai Mo stayed any longer, he was afraid that he would really be unable to resist and kill him.

The old man calmly touched the cane stuck on the ground.

And long before that, Bai Mo had been quietly moving his position, and now he had quietly walked away from the wooden house door.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Speaking of 'peaceful coexistence'...do you remember what happened after we met last time?"

His tone was a little subtle, drifting far away with the night wind——

Half a year ago, when Bai Mo was still in Dongyang City, he was forced to be buried in a coffin, and met Lu Zhan and Xia Yuxi, and together they encountered the one-eyed old man.

I also met that guy named Gu Nian.

And before they left the burial ground through the door, Bai Mo and the one-eyed old man spent a period of time alone and confronted each other.

The one-eyed old man still remembers the scene of the group of corpses dancing, and his mood is extremely complicated.

Even if thousands of years have passed, even if those guys have long since fallen asleep and turned into corpses, they still retain their original obsession, bowing their heads to the guy in front of them——

They didn't know that the guy they had placed high hopes on had already betrayed them and abandoned the coffin.

While thinking, the one-eyed old man's thoughts suddenly froze for a moment. His expression remained unchanged, but his eyes gradually became gloomy. He suddenly raised his head to look at Bai Mo, with a little more madness in his eyes——

When recalling the experience after the two met, his brain went blank and he didn't remember anything.

something wrong……

"what did you do to me?"

He clenched the bone staff tightly, his voice was terribly cold.

"Huh? It seems you forgot?"

There was a slightly surprised expression on Bai Mo's face. He didn't know if it was real or just pretending. He shook his head and said, "But don't get me wrong, I just asked you because I couldn't remember what happened."

"Is that so...you mean you can't remember either?"

Bai Mo nodded slightly.

The one-eyed old man looked at his expression, as if he was trying to distinguish the truth of this sentence, and then he said with a sinister smile, "Interesting, if you didn't do this, then it's impossible for me to do it myself, right?"

"It's not impossible."

"absurd."

Bai Mo shook his head and said: "If your judgment is only so superficial, then now it seems that it is really a wrong decision to ask you to guard the burial place."

"It's a pity that you have no room for repentance."

The old man didn't refute Bai Mo's words, but said calmly, "The burial place is a decaying place, and I have long been prepared to decay with it."

The rickety body, dry skin, thinning hair, and body riddled with holes, everything left by the years on this old man, seems to prove this point——

He's almost completely rotten.

The ravages of time can destroy too many things. This guy is already too old. If it weren't for the familiar aura on his body, perhaps when they met for the first time, Bai Mo might not be able to connect the old man in front of him with the handsome boy in his memory together.

"Is it rotten..." he muttered to himself.

Of course, Bai Mo knew the meaning of the so-called "decay", just like the growth of new trees often needs rotten fallen leaves as nourishment. As for whether this tree can really survive the threat of violent wind and rain, it is a completely unknown thing.

Looking up, the sky was dark and dim, all the strange creatures disappeared, and there was not a single living thing anywhere.

He didn't know if he, too, had long since decayed.

At this moment, the one-eyed old man's light words reached Bai Mo's ears: "For me, choosing to follow you was also a wrong decision."

Bai Mo withdrew his thoughts and smiled indifferently.

"is it?"

A cold wind blew, followed by a long silence.

There seemed to be a figure flashing past in the distance, but at a glance, there was nothing there, only Hui Wu floating in the distance.

The two did not continue to communicate.

During the conversation just now, Bai Mo had been quietly moving his steps. At this moment, he had completely left the opened door of the wooden house, completely exposing the coffin behind him.

The old man's one eye turned slightly, his gaze passed in front of him, and then he stared at the coffin in the room.

The coffin was motionless, and there seemed to be nothing unusual about it.

However, he clenched the bone staff tightly, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

Unknowingly, the atmosphere at the scene seemed to have changed quietly, and a cold breath locked on the coffin.

next second.

A crack as thin as a hair appeared from the position of the bone rod, and it split open with lightning speed, extending along the ground all the way to the position of the coffin.

Seen from a distance, it seems that the old man wielded an invisible sharp blade, crazily cutting everything on the road, somewhat similar to the abnormal movement caused by the scavenger moving at high speed before.

If this blow hits, the fragile coffin may be cut in half in an instant.

And that's exactly what happened, as the filiform crack passed by, the coffin was neatly divided into two sections, which slowly slid down towards the two sides.

The coffin was empty and there was nothing, which also made the old man's sudden attack seem somewhat incomprehensible.

However, his only remaining one eye suddenly flashed brightly, looking indifferently at the roof of the hut.

Bai Mo also narrowed his eyes.

It was pitch black there, but a thin white shadow that was slowly changing could be vaguely seen——

paper man!

Different from the paper figurine that was burned before, this paper figurine has a fuller body and richer expressions on its face, as if it were a living person.

Its face is also painted with exaggerated blush, with a weird smile, and its thin body is tightly attached to the wall. The color of the body changes, gradually matching the environment of the roof, and becoming invisible.

It seems to think it can continue to hide.

The one-eyed old man sneered silently, the dark hole on the crutch glowed dimly, and then tapped the ground twice leisurely.

Almost at the same time, a white flame suddenly ignited on the paper man's body.

This white flame seemed to have no temperature, nor would it cause any pain. When the paper man noticed the spread of the flame, one of his feet had been burned to death.

A look of vivid panic appeared on its face instantly, and it fell from the roof to the ground, clapping its hands frantically, trying to extinguish the flame.

—But this is undoubtedly in vain.

"Da da……"

The old man dragged his old body, walked unhurriedly to the paper figurine, and looked down at it.

"You hid in there for so long, did you enjoy hearing it?"

He stepped on the chest of the paper figurine fiercely, stomping out the white flames that spread up, while the latter's fragile body sank in an instant, his chest was almost shattered, and his expression was extremely painful.

It turns out that besides the scavenger, there is actually a paper doll hidden in the coffin in the hut, and it has different characteristics from the first paper doll. It seems to be quite proficient in concealment. Its body is similar to that of a chameleon, hiding in the coffin As if transparent.

However, this superficial trick obviously couldn't hide the perception of the one-eyed old man, let alone the one-eyed old man, even Bai Mo had just noticed something was wrong.

It was a very uncomfortable breath.

That's why there was a scene where the two remained calm, but Bai Mo quietly moved away to make room for the old man to attack.

They have been waiting, even deliberately giving the paper figurine a chance, just to see what the other party plans to do, but unfortunately, the paper figurine has remained motionless and is quite tolerant.

This is a complete tacit understanding, but at this moment it is undoubtedly full of strangeness.

The old man cast a cold glance at Bai Mo, then looked at the paper figurine under his feet, as if trying to vent something, he stomped hard on it twice, causing it to sink deep into the ground.

The reason why he left this paper man was to see what it was going to do, but he lost his patience at the moment and asked directly: "Tell me, who are you and how did you come to this place?"

The paper figurine looked painful and extremely humane, clutching its chest and saying nothing.

The old man narrowed his eyes: "It seems that you are not a simple paper doll, but it seems that there is a living soul lodged in it, or that you have been manipulated by some kind of deep connection... But the fact is not important, The important thing is... I need you to answer my questions."

After the old man finished speaking, he stopped talking, quietly waiting for the answer from the paper figurine.

However, the paper figurine still didn't intend to answer.

"Boom!"

The old man stepped out hard, and stomped the paper figurine's head into the ground. The paper figurine's head collapsed in an instant, and the blush on his face melted away, making it all over his face, as if his head was bleeding.

He stroked the cane indifferently, and the white flame ignited from the paper figurine again, starting from the waist, and devouring its body bit by bit.

The moment the flames spread to the chest, the panic on the paper figurine's face reached its peak, shaking its head frantically, as if begging for mercy.

...It seems that this is really a living paper man.

The old man thought to himself, but he didn't intend to stop. He didn't care whether the paper figurine lived or died, and just stared at him indifferently.

"Answer my question, and I can let you live."

The paper figurine shook its head frantically, but still didn't say a word, it could only watch helplessly as the flames burned from its chest to its neck, and finally devoured its entire head.

"I like hard-talking people."

The old man quietly looked at the ashes blown away by the wind, held the bone staff in his hand, and said in a cold tone.

Bai Mo not far away shook his head and said, "This paper figurine may be useful, but you don't intend to keep it alive?"

In his opinion, this paper man was obviously hidden in the coffin for some ulterior purpose. Whether it was the bald man before or the paper man at the beginning, they were all cannon fodder, just to cover up its existence.

And if you think about it this way, the invasion of the paper figurines is obviously premeditated, and the other party probably knows the rules of the burial place very well, so they can make this kind of prepared invasion.

"Since this guy refuses to speak, then there is no value in existence at all. Since it is worthless, is there any need to stay?"

After the indifferent answer, the old man paused, and asked in a cold voice, "Also...why haven't you left yet?"

Bai Mo thought for a moment, then hesitated, "Is there a possibility...the reason why this paper figurine doesn't speak is because it can't speak at all?"

The old man's face froze, and he fell silent suddenly.

"Seeing how frightened that guy is, you can use another method to make him tell you the information you want..."

The old man continued to be silent, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.

"As long as you make good use of it..."

"enough!"

The old man interrupted Bai Mo's words, took a deep breath, and finally choked out only one sentence.

"Why don't you go away?"

……

It turns out that the one-eyed old man is not a no-brainer.

The reason why he dared to kill the paper figurine without hesitation was because he knew very well that there was more than one alive.

There was something wrong with the departing scavenger, he'd seen it early on, and had just let it go.

This is the fish he cares about the most, and it is also the ultimate backup under the cover of all those paper figures.

But at this moment, he was following the trail where the scavenger had left, with a stiff expression on his face.

"Do you really think I won't kill you?"

Behind him is Bai Mo who has been sternly refusing to leave.

　Two good friends got together yesterday, it was very late, I made an indelible contribution, so I didn’t update it, sorry

　　
　
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