Chapter 0020 - Paper Man
Looking at the empty space in the mail album, Zhao Ke blinked again and took a closer look.
There was nothing but bear meat in the mail book.
The bodies of Zhou Shun, Wang Xiaochang, and Fan Jian, whose tongue he had pulled out in the cornfield, were actually gone.
"Where are the corpses!!!"
At this moment, Zhao Ke suddenly thought of something and jerked his head back, his eyes fixed on the cup of coffee on the table, as well as Wang Na's business card on the table.
At that moment, a coldness surged up along his spine, like a stream of cool water sprinkled down his head, the coldness penetrated deep into his bones, even his teeth were chattering.
The dead silence of the room was terrifyingly silent, nothing could be heard except for Zhao Ke's breathing.
"Damn it!"
Zhao Ke cursed, turned around and rushed to the attic, pulled open the door to the room, and walked to the dresser, his gaze fixed on the mirror in death.
His eyes stared with himself in the mirror, and vaguely, Zhao Ke could see that right behind himself, the shadows of seven other people stood, as if they were waving at him again.
Seeing this, Zhao Ke's chest gave out and he shook his head vigorously, "Don't come and pester me again, all of you get out of my way!" With that, Zhao Ke smashed his fist on the wall, only to hear a "Bang!" A muffled sound, the wall was immediately smashed by Zhao Ke concave down a pit out.
The fiery pain on his fingers made Zhao Ke's spirit awake a lot, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that he had returned to normal in the mirror, and the seven shadows from before had disappeared as well.
"Whew......"
Exhaling a long breath and rubbing his already stiffened face skin with his hand, Zhao Ke knew clearly in his heart that these seven guys, couldn't possibly disappear just like that, and it looked like the method of sleeping in a coffin, seemed to no longer be able to continue controlling his condition.
"It looks like it's still necessary to go for a checkup." .
Although reluctant, Zhao Ke knew that he really needed to go to Wang Na, preferably tomorrow, and had to find a way to get the other seven personalities under control again.
And just at this time, Zhao Ke's gaze subconsciously looked at his hand, and suddenly froze, his eyes fixed on the side of the dresser, a very familiar and unfamiliar box, not knowing when, appeared on the dresser.
At a closer look, on the black box, there was a stamp attached.
Dark red inlays, a carousel without a head in the background, and a rag doll standing on top of the wooden horse made it creepier and creepier the more one looked at it.
Although the stamp was different, the creepy style was the same as the last package.
"Parcel!"
Seeing the parcel in front of him, Zhao Ke's heart froze, wasn't there still three days left? How did this parcel appear here.
"Could it be ......"
Zhao Ke's heart was flabbergasted, then he looked at the date on the clock on the wall, and instantly realized that three days, the time he came to his senses, three whole days had passed.
"It's time to hit the road!"
Don't know where to blow out a cold wind, let Zhao Ke whole body goosebumps are standing up, Zhao Ke raised his head to look, only to see the mirror in the mirror actually a little bit of himself began to rot, turned into a rotting corpse, the face also with a touch of bizarre smile, let a person only feel a burst of numbness of the scalp.
Zhao Ke's pupils tightened, only to see a rotting palm mapped out in the black pupils, reaching out from the mirror, causing Zhao Ke's eyes to dim instantly.
"Pfft!"
Icy cold and piercing coldness, instantly wrapped around his whole body, Zhao Ke's whole body made a shiver, after realizing that he came to his senses, he opened his mouth and gulped down several mouthfuls of cool water down his mouth and nose.
Even swallowed down a few mouthfuls of river water, Zhao Ke immediately came back to his senses, looked up and saw the lake surface, immediately struggled to swim upstream.
"Cough cough cough ...... hoo hoo hoo hoo ......"
As soon as his head was out of the water, Zhao Ke first coughed fiercely for a while before gasping for air.
Floating on the surface of the water, Zhao Ke carefully glanced his eyes over in all directions, and it was certain that he had now entered the Terror Space.
However, unlike last time, this time, he was alone beside himself.
Next to the two sides of the banks of an obsolete ancient building, hanging a few red bright lanterns, reflecting in the river surface a red, at first glance it looks a little bit of the flavor of the Jiangnan water town.
And he is lying in the center of the river, beside a small boat from both sides of the slide past, the black hull, seems to have been deliberately painted black, strange is that the boat is black, it looks as if there is no one.
Seeing this, Zhao Ke carefully swam to the side of one of the boats, and with both hands, his body climbed out of the water and flung himself onto the boat.
At this time the cold wind blew, Zhao Ke felt like his body was scraped by a knife once, the cold whole body could not help but shiver, even his hands and feet were numb.
"Bad luck, why is it in the water!"
He didn't know how much water he drank, but fortunately he was quite good in water, he didn't panic because he fell into the water, but he didn't pack a change of clothes in his mail book.
Now the whole body is wet, it is already cold, not to mention the night wind blowing over, it is even more to the knife like, let the skin are freezing pain.
If this were a person with a poor physique, now I am afraid that I would have been frozen out of a serious illness.
At that time, not to mention the mission, it is hard to say whether he can get up and get through it.
Zhao Ke slowly climbed up, moving his numb hands and feet, his eyes surveyed the surroundings, on the river surface, there was more than one small black boat, as if someone deliberately prepared it, one after another, drifting forward along the river.
"Strange, where are these boats going? Why is there no one?"
Looking at the boats on the river, Zhao Ke's mind became puzzled.
The large red lanterns hanging on both sides of the river illuminated the river into an eerie red.
Zhao Ke didn't feel anything at first, but after a long time, he felt stuffy and nauseous in his chest, and immediately lowered his head and turned his gaze to the boat canopy behind himself.
The black canopy was made of bamboo mats on the boat, forming an arched shed, with black curtains hanging on both sides, making it impossible to see what was actually inside.
Seeing this, Zhao Ke's gaze rose in suspicion as he summoned the dagger in his mail book and gently flicked the black curtain.
Only to see that the black curtain was opened, two miserable white faces appeared in front of Zhao Ke, causing Zhao Ke's chest to gasp, and the dagger in his hand subconsciously wanted to stab over.
However, Zhao Ke realized that the feeling of the dagger stabbing on it was not like stabbing on flesh and blood, but more like stabbing on wood, it was very hard.
Upon further scrutiny, the two miserable white faces in front of him were smeared with two large pieces of red blush, and their black eyes were dead.
"Paper people?"
Zhao Ke walked closer to take a closer look, his heart slowly relieved, the original sitting in front of the eyes, is not a living person, but a man and a woman two paper people.
These two paper people sitting in the boat, at first glance is exactly the same as the real person, exquisite demeanor, if it is not the pair of dead eyes, afraid to say that the living people are believed.
But even if it is a paper man, also let a person scared enough, this midnight, and two paper people stay together, think of all feel creepy.
But Zhao Ke now can not care so much, his whole body clothes have been soaked, standing outside in the cold wind, the whole body shivering.
Quickly drilled into the boat shed, Zhao Ke called out the mail book, first took out a pot of steaming hot herbal tea and drank it down, and only then did he feel that his internal organs had warmed up a lot.
However, he did not bring extra clothes in the mail book, see the situation, Zhao Ke eyes swept to the front of a man and a woman two paper people, to see that the male paper person chest was pierced by his own mouth is only a small pit, Zhao Ke raised his eyebrows, went up to take a closer look.
Only then realized, don't look at the paper man, but only the exterior of the paper skin, in fact, is with six or seven layers of paper paste up, a full centimeter thick, hard and heavy, burning, as if burning wood, paper skin, not to mention the paper man inside the skeleton, and the human skeleton is quite similar, but it is not so complex.
Seeing this, Zhao Ke's eyes lit up, a good idea came to his mind, and he started to take off his wet clothes, and put them on that female paper person's body, temporarily acting as a coat rack.
After taking off his clothes, only to see that under Zhao Ke's seemingly slim physique, there was a body of, lean muscles, rigid and shapely lines, as well as the fisherman's line under the belly, making Zhao Ke look as if he was like a panther that would explode at any time.
If one were to see such a body, one would be afraid that no one would associate Zhao Ke with the profession of a chef.
After taking off his clothes, Zhao Ke copied his dagger and began to dismantle the male paper man on the side, preparing to burn it as firewood.
Although it was on a ship, it didn't hinder the building of a fire, Zhao Ke took out a cauldron from the mail album to use as a stove, and threw the dismantled paper figures in.
After lighting the paper figures, Zhao Ke's body obviously felt much warmer, and at the same time, he leaned his clothes against the fire and roasted them.
While roasting the clothes, Zhao Ke fell into deep thought.
He had thought that sleeping in the coffin would be able to make his condition less severe, but this time, his sudden onset of symptoms was more severe than any other time before.
When the symptoms erupted before, the duration was only a few minutes long, and when it was short, it was over in mere seconds.
But this time, it lasted for three whole days.
Even worse, during these three days, God knows, these guys manipulated their bodies and did something.
Thinking about the disappearing bodies in the mail book, and every night, the diners who came with reservations, and wondering what exactly they did, thinking about this caused a wave of annoyance in Zhao Ke's heart.
"Hopefully, it won't be that violent maniac who comes out."
Zhao Ke could only plan for the worst in his heart, but still held a glimmer of hope, his palm stroked on the silver cross in his bosom, and he silently prayed in his heart, just praying that these guys, don't cause any trouble for themselves.
After all, now, Leike had already left his job, there was no way to cover for himself anymore.
However, Zhao Ke also knew that it was useless to think about this now, it was better to first figure out what mission would be in the Terrorist Space this time, finish leaving early, and then go back to clean up those messes.
"Ding bell ......"
At this time, a ringing bell interrupted Zhao Ke's thoughts, Zhao Ke's ears moved, quickly put out the fire, while wearing clothes that had almost dried, quietly ventured out from the boat shed, and took a look outside.
A ringing in the distance was getting closer and closer, Zhao Ke vaguely seemed to see two silhouettes, "Someone!" Zhao Ke's eyes lit up, when he looked clearly, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, the silhouettes didn't seem to be like adults, and more importantly, they didn't seem to be standing on the boat, but were suspended in mid-air ......