Chapter 23: Paper

On the highway, it was so quiet that it could be said to be very creepy. Time passed quickly. After walking along the highway for a while longer, Qin Xiaoming and Qin Xiaolan still couldn't remember anything. As for the bloodletter quest, there were already only 35 minutes left. That was a little over half an hour. "What should we do …… Time is already getting shorter and shorter!" Lin Xuan was the most anxious amongst them. After all, waiting for death was just too unbearable. There were only two protection targets left, and the Blood Word mission was soon to end. Once the remaining two died, they would be killed by their own shadows before the blood word mission ended! Even Chen Fu was not very composed anymore. No one knew how the situation would turn out if it continued to develop. He also began to complain, ''Mo Yuan, I don't think we should let go of that middle-aged man just now. Maybe he has other clues on him, you care so much about his death, so do you not mind at all about ours? We are the ones who consider you as the building manager, and I am also the one who usually supports you the most!" Obviously, Qin Ziyuan's earlier remark that Mo Yuan was not suitable to be the building manager was completely heard by Chen Fu. "We don't have enough evidence to prove that he can constitute a path to life, the fact is that he stayed by Qin Xiaohei's side and let him die instead, who knows if he will be a path to death instead? If he is just an ordinary passerby, we involve him in getting him killed ……" "He can't be an irrelevant passerby! Mo Yuan, do you think you're the Virgin Mary or Jesus?" Chen Fu was close to directly cursing Mo Yuan as a holy mother bitch at this point. In today's times, the word "Madonna" had become a derogatory term that was even worse than "devil". Moreover, the word "mother of God" is usually indistinguishable from "mother bitch". But for Mo Yuan, he knows exactly how painful it is to lose someone you love, and how horribly tortured their loved ones can be. He had experienced it, he knew what it was to be separated from heaven and earth, and those who hadn't really experienced it couldn't realize the eventuality of such pain from the portrayal in novels and movies. "Enough!" Chen Fu looked at the time on his cell phone and said, "It's already 1:27! If we can't find a way to survive any longer, both Qin Xiaoming and Qin Xiaolan will die as well! We have no choice!" "What do you want ……" "Go back and find those four mahjong rollers again! It's not likely that they're still continuing to play mahjong right now! Stay with them! Whether it's the way of life or death, it's better than waiting for death like now!" The hope of not knowing whether it was true or not was better than the despair of not having hope. As soon as Chen Fu said it, Lin Xuan also hurriedly agreed, "Yes, we don't have any other way out anyway, so why don't we just do it!" They were all occupants who had lived three times in the Bloodletter and had seen many people killed by evil spirits for no reason. Having been numb in the face of death, they didn't mind sitting back and watching others have their lives harvested by the Grim Reaper as long as they didn't die themselves. If the death of others could be exchanged for their own continued life, then it would be even better. "I have similar thoughts, Mo Yuan." Qin Ziyuan saw that both Lin Xuan and Chen Fu were saying this, so he no longer hid his thoughts, "There's still half an hour left! We all want to survive, don't we?" Mo Yuan's face twitched a few times, eventually he sighed helplessly and said, "Alright." He was helpless, yet he could only accept it. At this moment, he realized that Chen Fu, a friend who used to be extremely close to him, was looking at him with eyes full of disdain and indifference, whereas he was now standing a little closer to Qin Ziyuan. As for Qin Xiaoming and Qin Xiaolan, the two key figures, they naturally wouldn't object. After all, it was a matter of their own lives and deaths. But just at this time, Qin Xiaoming suddenly pointed ahead, "Wait …… you guys see that car?" Then, they saw that a car had appeared in front of them! This was exactly the unmanned car that had appeared suddenly and automatically driven away earlier! At that time, Mo Yuan drove to chase this car, but then he couldn't find it again. Now, the car reappeared! The car is still as empty as before. At this juncture, they weren't afraid of any evil spirits, they were all going to die anyway might as well put up a fight. "It looks like none of them have changed much ……" They maintained their previous formation and slowly approached the car. Qin Ziyuan walked at the front, he slowly moved to the side of the car and looked in through the teal colored glass windows …… but still couldn't see anyone either. Mo Yuan, on the other hand, simply stretched out his hand and touched the car door. "How does this feel …… so warm?" Yes, it is the same as those plutonium bills! Now at this temperature, why does the car door feel so warm? Even, it can be said to be close to the degree of "hot"! Qin Ziyuan also came up and touched it, and then he looked into the car again, but this time, he found that inside the teal-colored glass window, there was a figure sitting on the driver's seat! Immediately afterward, the car's engine actually started! Qin Ziyuan suddenly thought of something, he quickly took out the lighter, lit the fire, and then …… aimed the flame at the car window! So …… the car window in front of him actually burned! The sound of the car's engine starting also stopped! "Back off!" The fire spread quickly, and in no time, the top half of the car was completely engulfed in flames! After the top half of the car was burned away, the interior of the car was revealed. On the driver's seat, a "person" was also being burned. But at a closer look …… "Paper man?" Yes, the one sitting on the driver's seat was a paper man! Then, the car continued to burn, and before long, there was only a pile of ashes left in front of them. "Just like the medieval banknotes, they are all funerary items that are burned to the dead ……," Mo Yuan understood: "Paper cars, paper people, they are all burned to the dead!" And as Qin Xiaoming looked at the burning paper people on the driver's seat, he grabbed his head and his memories began to tumble! He remembered something else. Dark and narrow area, he kept running away …… He was scared, he was running away …… The memory was of this car …… "I ……" He just wanted to say something, but suddenly, he felt a sharp headache! Lin Xuan, who was behind him, hurriedly supported him! "Are you …… you alright ……" "I, I remember ……" Hearing the word 'remember', the residents all focused their eyes on him! "What did you remember?" "Yes, quickly say it!" At this time, they could even be said to be staring at Qin Xiaoming with incomparably hopeful eyes. If he could remember anything, it would be an extremely significant development, and would definitely become a clue to the path to life! Otherwise, the apartment wouldn't have sealed their memories! "I remember …… we were running away, we were escaping from this car! This paper man is going to kill us!"