Chapter 51 - Puppet
"I'm too weak, I didn't see it at first... Alas..." Wen Na lowered her head, looking very guilty...
"Who could have thought that he was so crazy and took the body of a child? I should blame me... When you said the first time you thought this little boy was weird, I should have paid attention to it..."
"Okay, okay, the matter is over, so let's think about what we will do next..." Chaoyang turned over and walked to the window and looked at "The people in the yard are gone, and they are all heading to the slum behind. Should we follow and take a look?"
"You eat something first and replenish your physical strength. Those people lose their control of "his" and will not pose a threat to us. What we really need to do is to capture his shadow as soon as possible and not let him escape."
"We can't find it. Look at it here, including outside the high wall, there are so many people. It's easy for him to find a pair of skins to hide... We don't have time to waste with him." Wenna said.
Afterwards, the other two human-headed spiders found some clean food for us. The four of us ate it separately and prepared to go to the shanty town to take a look.
Liu Liu was in front of him, and the other giant spiders surrounded the four of us in the middle to prevent any sudden attack. The shed was built very simple, and the wall was built with cement and a support roof was made of colored steel. There was no window. It didn't look like a place where people lived, but more like a shed for raising cattle and sheep.
"So many people, why are there no sound at all?" Chaoyang asked in a low voice.
I also found it strange that a hundred or so people flocked to this shed, but there was no sound at all! We all took out our weapons and gently pushed open the door of the shed.
The moonlight passed through the ceiling and the wall, which was about thirty centimeters and shone into the shed. The moonlight was desolate and slightly bloody. The shed was densely packed with hundreds of people like transplanting rice seedlings! Everyone knelt on the ground and looked at the moonlight from afar, but as long as you look carefully, you can find that their eyes were rolling upwards and their pupils were missing!
Such a creepy scene in the night makes people feel scared. Everyone is like a puppet, maintaining a kneeling position, as if praying to the moonlight!
"Are they living people?" Xiwu asked in a low voice, wanting to get closer and explore.
"I know his purpose. He wants to absorb the power of faith!" Wenna said as she looked at the situation in front of her.
“Is faith powerful?”
"Of course there is. Even if you often maintain a house, as long as it does not live in people, it will slowly become ruined. Popularity is a very important force in this universe dimension."
"You all know that someone says that if someone can't give birth to a boy, it means that the incense is broken. In fact, what people say is broken has nothing to do with having a boy or a girl at first, but it means that no one worships the ancestors, so the incense is broken. People have three souls, one soul enters the ancestral tablet, and one soul will enter another space. These three souls need other media to continue to exist. Prestigious families can get the protection of their ancestors and become more prosperous. One of the reasons is that their ancestors' spirits have been worshipped and believed, so they are more powerful and can protect their descendants. When some people die, their spirits slowly disappear..."
I remember a foreign cartoon I have watched, which talks about the disappearance of a person's true meaning, which starts with everyone forgetting him... This is similar to what Wen Na said...
"But he is still a living person. What's the use of the power of faith?"
"The people in this space will become an invincible weapon with the power of faith."
"Look at it!" As soon as Chaoyang pointed to the corner, the dagger in Xiwu's hand flew out in that direction!
A black shadow crawled along the pillar supporting the ceiling to the cross beam!
"Catch him!"
But there were too many people in this shed, and those human-headed spiders were too large to enter at all!
During the day, the shadow was still dark red, and now it has completely turned black. He no longer looks like a monkey, and his torso is thicker! The facial features on his face are clearer. He grinned at me because he had no lips, and his teeth were cold under the moonlight, and each one was very sharp!
Xiwu raised his foot and stepped on the shoulder of the person kneeling beside him, jumped up, and landed steadily on the cross beam. The black shadow arched up and rushed towards Xiwu like a shell fired! The speed was amazing!
Not good! I secretly screamed, the beam is so narrow, it seems that Xiwu can only bear this blow...
I grabbed a heart and saw Xiwu leaning back at a very extreme speed and about to fall off the beam. I reached out to pick it up, but I didn't get anything. When I looked up, I saw Xiwu bent her legs, hooked the beam, and formed an inverted gold hook...
Seeing that the attack failed, the black shadow eye would launch a second attack!
"careful!"
Xiwu was now unarmed. She pulled out the hairpin above her head and met the shadow of the attack. Her long black hair, like silk satin, hanged down from the crossbar and passed over my face.
I was a little dazed and lost my mind for two seconds...
"He ran away!" Xiwu shouted, and Chaoyang immediately chased towards the place where the shadow fell, and Wen Na followed closely behind. But I felt that in addition to my hair, there was also some warm liquid flowing down on my face...
"You're injured?!"
Xiwu turned over and fell to the ground. I saw blood constantly overflowing from her fingers on her left abdomen that she was covering her hands...
"It's okay." Xiwu was still pretending to be strong.
"Let me see!" I couldn't help but resist, and pry her fingers apart. The black shadow actually grabbed three scary blood marks on Xiwu's body! The wound looked very deep and was gushing out blood...
"I'm so stupid, stop the bleeding first!"
"Okay, okay..." I said ok, but I didn't know how to start, and my hands were raised in the air with uneasy...
"I just protected you so well. Now I can't even treat the wounds. I should have you put on a few pieces... I tore your clothes into strips and press them down!"
I did as she said, my movements were clumsy and my actions were not serious. Xiwu kept smoking...
"Okay... let's do it for now..." Xiwu sat down against the wall and tied up her hair loose again with her hairpin. "They have been there a little while. No, we have to go and have a look." Xiwu covered her wound and was about to look for Chaoyang and Xiwu. I held her down.
"You don't run around now, I'll just go find it."
"Master, don't move! Something is approaching us!" Liu Liu crawled on the roof and sent a message to me, "It's the spirit body just now! This spirit body is very powerful!" I pulled out the dagger and blocked Xiwu behind me.
"I just stabbed him with a hairpin, but it didn't seem to work." Xiwu's voice was a little hoarse because of his weakness...
It seems that this thing pretended to escape before to disperse the four of us, and his purpose has always been me!
The combat-capable Wen Na and Chaoyang were both pulled away by "he", leaving only the injured Xiwu and me, as well as a few big spiders who could not enter outside...
I held my breath, observed all directions, and was alert to the sudden attack of "him". At this time, near the wall, a puppet slowly stood up. He twitched at the moonlight, and his white eyes returned to normal.
Then there was the second...the third...all the manipulated puppets in the shed stood up! Looking at me expressionlessly!
"You come out! Don't hide behind these puppets. Is this the only skill you have?"
I used the provocation to make ‘him’ come out to face me, but he was also smart and didn’t take the trick I made.
Then, everyone in the shed was walking in an orderly and mechanical step, approaching Xiwu and me little by little, and we were forced to the corner...
"Don't show off your tricks." One of the puppets spoke, and I looked for the source of the sound in the crowd. Then the sound went to the other side and changed to another puppet and continued, "Save some effort." The sound was changing constantly, and I couldn't find his real position!
"If you take the initiative to offer it, I may think of your dedication." The voice was getting closer and closer. I didn't know where the next person would be. I knew it was his spirit that was constantly possessing these puppets and controlling them to speak...
"I will let your friend go." The puppet in front of me suddenly raised his head and grabbed my neck with both hands!
Chapter completed!