Chapter 104 Magicked Paper Figures

Jiang Cheng couldn't determine whether the other party was telling the truth, but those who rashly opened doors in mission worlds never lived long. "Why should I believe you?"

After a moment of silence, Dr. Zhou's voice became even lower, "The two corpses were stripped clean of their clothes. I saw a birthmark below Li Bai's chest, a triangular birthmark!" Perhaps knowing that things had reached a critical moment, his speech was much faster than before.

"A birthmark..." Jiang Cheng looked hesitantly at Li Bai in the other room, who was now tied up securely.

"Ugh!"

A muffled groan suddenly sounded outside the door. Dr. Zhou seemed to have encountered some trouble.

"Are you alright?" Jiang Cheng asked.

"Something found me, but I can't see it. I have to go. Jiang Cheng, I swear I really didn't deceive you!"

After saying this, the rustling sound outside started again, heading towards the room they had been in before.

Dr. Zhou left, never begging Jiang Cheng to open the door from beginning to end, seemingly aware of the taboo against opening doors in this mission.

But Jiang Cheng had to act. He turned his head. "Zhu Jie, take off Li Bai's clothes and see if she has a birthmark below her chest."

The room was dim, the flame in the oil lamp seemingly drained by an unknown force, only a tiny spark flickering, as if it would go out in the next second.

Using that little bit of light, Zhu Jie crawled over to Li Bai. Upon hearing that they wanted to see the birthmark on her body, Li Bai was stunned, then shook her head. "I don't mind you looking, but I don't have a birthmark at all."

However, after pulling open Li Bai's clothes, Zhu Jie, including Li Bai herself, was stunned. A triangular birthmark was growing on the skin below Li Bai's chest.

Zhu Jie's hand trembled, almost falling off the bed. "It's there! There really is a birthmark!"

Li Bai stared blankly at her body, her face full of confusion. "A birthmark... How... How can there be a birthmark? I never had one, this is wrong! This... This isn't my body!"

Listening to Li Bai's increasingly crazed voice, the hearts of the others sank. Zhu Jie and Tang Qisheng couldn't help but move closer to the door. Li Bai's condition was clearly wrong.

Slowly, they saw an even more terrifying scene. Bruises appeared on Li Bai's arms, and then on her face.

Seeing this, Tang Qisheng's breathing stopped. He recognized what these were: rigor mortis! Rigor mortis was actually appearing on Li Bai's face!

And... and the unconscious Yao Shunyu next to her was the same!

"How could this happen?" Li Bai completely broke down. "Am I dead? How could I be? When did I die? Why don't I know? Why don't I remember anything!"

Seeing Li Bai like this, how could they not understand? They had indeed made a mistake this time. Dr. Zhou was right. Li Bai and Yao Shunyu were already dead. What they... what they had saved were two corpses!

And now Li Bai had realized it. When she completely lost control of herself, she would kill them all!

"Run!"

As Jiang Cheng opened the door, they rushed out. Fatty was a step slow and Jiang Cheng slapped him hard on the back. "Don't be distracted! Run!"

Jiang Cheng knew the bond between Fatty and Yao Shunyu, but they couldn't care about that anymore. They were both dead. Now their former friends had become enemies who wanted to kill them, although this was definitely not their intention.

"Dr. Zhou!"

The group rushed to another room in the courtyard. The door wasn't locked. They pushed it open and entered, but everyone was dumbfounded. There was no one in the room.

Jiang Cheng had clearly heard the sound of footsteps disappearing here, and the courtyard was only so big. The only places suitable for hiding were these two rooms.

"Look!"

Tang Qisheng's voice sounded from behind. Everyone turned around sharply. Behind the door, two paper figures vaguely appeared from the darkness.

The paper figures were still there, and one could tell that they hadn't moved, still maintaining their previous poses.

But... but the appearance of the paper figures had changed. Both paper figures looked as if they had been left for too long and had become moldy, covered with patches of mildew.

And below the chest of the female paper figure, there was a triangular patch of mildew.

"Damn it!" Tang Qisheng's head buzzed. "We've been tricked!"

"This... this is magic! Li Bai and Yao Shunyu aren't dead. They've been magicked by someone using paper figures!" Tang Qisheng regretted wanting to slap himself. He had checked the paper figures, but he had been interrupted by Dr. Zhou... Tang Qisheng's eyes widened suddenly. "It's Dr. Zhou! The problem is Dr. Zhou!"

At this moment, the unease in Jiang Cheng's heart finally erupted. He should have thought of it earlier. It was one thing for Wu Shen, a top-level paranormal entity, to not be able to see the problem with the Yao old man and his wife, but how could he not even be able to tell whether his two teammates were alive or dead!

"Go back!"

The sky pressed down even lower, and an oppressive atmosphere enveloped everyone. Dr. Zhou hadn't appeared, but everyone could feel the danger getting closer and closer.

Rushing back to the original room, Li Bai and Yao Shunyu were still on the bed, but the faces of Jiang Cheng and the others changed. Li Bai was now facing away from everyone, combing her hair stroke by stroke.

After the previous fierce battle, her long hair was stained with blood. Dirty blood and mud were stuck together, making it difficult to comb, and strands of hair would be pulled out each time, the sound making one's hair stand on end.

The next second, Li Bai turned her head sharply, revealing a rotten, bony face. "Hehehe..."

The chilling laughter didn't belong to Li Bai's voice, it was Dr. Zhou!

And then, Li Bai, Yao Shunyu, and even the entire room shattered. After a daze, everyone suddenly appeared in the courtyard, with the room they had been in before behind them. As if time had rewound, they had returned to the moment they had just run out of the door.

The sky was pressing down even lower, just as the Yao old man had said, the stars and moon were covered up, and the sky was oppressively like a mass of ink that couldn't be dissolved, and in the deepest darkness, there seemed to be something surging.

Without hesitation, Jiang Cheng tore off the bell he carried with him. Originally, he had planned to ask the Dahe Niangniang (River Goddess) for help when fighting the old president, but no matter how he called, there was no response from the bell.

Realizing what was happening, Fatty also took out a jade pendant, which had been given to him by the boy who had inherited the mantle of the Wangyan Hou (Marquis of False Words), but like Jiang Cheng, there was no response at all.

This eerie darkness seemed to isolate everything, taking them to another world.

"This is bad..." Gripping the bell tightly, Jiang Cheng knew that this time he was probably doomed.

Suddenly, accompanied by a crisp tinkling sound, a rotten arm wrapped in red thread and strung with countless copper coins plunged down from the darkness a few meters above Jiang Cheng's head.

Just a moment before the sharp nails were about to pierce Jiang Cheng's eye socket, a tall male corpse with tape wrapped around its head suddenly appeared, swinging a giant axe down at the arm.