Chapter 188 Paper Man
There was a flicker of fire at the entrance of the building.

But these flames were only burning on the open space inside the building. Looking from a distance, although these flames were moving slowly, they did not look like a fire in the building at all.

There was a muffled sound of 'puff...'.

A black shadow shot out from the building and landed on the open space outside.

"It's Yan Qiming Sir, he came out of the building!"

Several high-powered lights shone directly at the place where the black shadow fell, and people with sharp eyes recognized the identity of the black shadow at the first time.

At this moment, Yan Qiming was lying on the ground with his four legs up in the air.

Supporting himself with his elbows, he tried hard to stand up, but after trying several times, he still failed.

When he performed at his best, he only raised his upper body slightly, and then immediately fell to the ground.

It was obvious that he didn't look like he walked out normally, but rather like he was thrown out by someone.

Several police officers nearby rushed over immediately, squatted beside Yan Qiming, and carefully helped him up.

"How's the situation, Sir Yan?"

"What's going on in there? I just saw you walking around in circles in the hallway on the surveillance camera."

"Why did you come out alone? Where are the others with you?"

……

Yan Qiming was confused and hadn't come to his senses yet. Many middle and high-ranking police officers on the scene had already surrounded him and asked him questions.

Even Zhao Changfeng, the commander-in-chief of this operation, had a heavy expression on his face. He walked to his side and looked at him.

Although he did not ask anything, judging from his attitude, he also wanted to get an accurate answer from Yan Qiming regarding the questions just asked by other colleagues.

"Inspector Zhao, everyone, just as we were about to conduct a thorough search on the first floor of the building, an old lady suddenly stopped me and said she wanted to invite me to her home."

"Later...later...I don't seem to remember anything..."

"When I woke up, I suddenly appeared here."

Feeling the gazes falling on him, Yan Qiming patted his head hard, trying to make himself more awake.

Unfortunately, it seemed as if his memory was missing something. He thought hard for a long time, but he just couldn't figure out what happened after entering the building.

He only vaguely remembered that he seemed to have met an old lady, but he was a little confused about what the old lady looked like and could not remember it at all.

"During the day, all residents in the building had been evacuated. Before you entered the building, it was completely empty. There was definitely no old lady inside."

Someone in the crowd took over the conversation with a confident look on his face.

Everyone looked at each other, and there was silence for a while.

Since the building was already empty, everyone already had an answer to the question of who the old lady Yan Qiming was talking about was.

It's just that, as members of the police force, they have received so many years of atheist education, and although they understand some things, they just can't say them directly in front of so many people in public.

“According to the clues we found, in the first one or two days, only one or two people disappeared from the building.

"With every day that passes, the number of people who go missing after entering is increasing exponentially."

"Last night, most of the residents in the building were still asleep and sound, and nothing unexpected happened to them."

"When we evacuated the residents in the building today, many people were still confused and had no idea what was going on."

"It took a lot of effort, and we finally had to persuade everyone to leave by saying that the building was bombed by terrorists."

"But now, Sir Yan and the others have only been in the building for half an hour and have lost contact. Some inexplicable abnormalities have also occurred to them. Compared with last night, the situation in the building is obviously much more serious."

……

After a long silence, a group of middle and high-level police officers headed by Zhao Changfeng began to discuss in low voices with different expressions and heavy faces.

Of course, many people also turned their eyes back to the entrance of the building.

After Yan Qiming came out, the flames burning inside had not yet disappeared.

Everyone was just a few meters away from the entrance of the building. At such a short distance, there was a dim light inside, but the situation inside was still vague and unclear to everyone.

It's not just the naked eye. Some clever people have even come up with some high-tech items to assist vision.

With the help of these devices, they can see clearly what is happening hundreds of meters away by changing the direction. However, when they look inside the building, it is like looking at people through a layer of frosted glass; they can't see anything clearly.

Finally, several balls of fire slowly moved to the door. It seemed that some inexplicable things were dispersed by the fire, and everyone could finally see the situation near the fire.

There, a hunchbacked old man with white hair and beard was holding a paper man more than half a person's height in one hand, and several fingers of his other hand were covered in blood.

He stood with his back to the entrance of the building, and as he slowly retreated step by step, his bleeding fingers drew bloody lines on the paper man's body, forming extremely complex and strange patterns.

A few steps in front of the old man, there were also several paper figures burning.

The fire that everyone saw came from the flames produced when these paper figures were burned.

"I remember that this old man is called Mr. Tian, ​​and he is the helper invited by Sir Yan."

"What is he doing by making some paper figures? Is he using them to block something?"

"Looking at his expression, it should be the case. After all, there are some things that ordinary people like us simply cannot see."

"Of the dozen or so colleagues who entered the building earlier, only Sir Yan came out. Perhaps, the reason he was able to escape successfully was not because of his good luck, but because Mr. Tian helped him behind the scenes."

……

Just seeing Mr. Tian slowly backing out of the building, everyone was a little surprised, but they could still accept it.

But the burning paper figures in front of him were actually keeping the same pace as him and were also slowly retreating. This was a little unbelievable.

Yan Qiming, who had come out of the building earlier, as well as Zhao Changfeng and other middle and high-level police officers, most of them had already retreated from the open space in front of the building entrance.

There are more than ten people who are still staying here at this moment. Except for one or two inspectors, the others are just ordinary police officers.

It was the first time for them to see such a strange phenomenon as paper figures moving. They were all stunned, and many of them had horror on their faces.

Among them, there was a kind-hearted police officer who rushed into the building and tried to drag out Mr. Tian who was slowly retreating.

Unfortunately, under the light of the fire, he had not actually touched Mr. Tian's body before a black mist surged in and enveloped his body. The next moment, under the gaze of everyone outside the building, such a living man disappeared inexplicably without a trace.

Silence, deathly silence.

Among the police officers at the entrance, some had the same idea as the man just now and were considering whether to help Mr. Tian.

But now, they were sweating profusely, and their collars were wet.

Some people may be able to remain calm in the face of death, but it is hard to find anyone who can remain calm and composed when faced with the possibility of disappearing inexplicably.

Mr. Tian, ​​who had been retreating slowly bit by bit, finally walked out of the building and stepped onto the concrete floor outside.

He was hunching over, as if he had passed through an invisible barrier. He suddenly became blurry for a moment, then gradually became clear again.

The paper figures, which were a few steps away from him, did not follow him out of the building.

The flames on their bodies began to disappear quickly, and all the paper figures turned into black ashes. Without the illumination of the flames, the situation inside the building began to become blurry as if separated by a layer of frosted glass.

"Damn it, I've suffered a huge loss this time..."

His face was as pale as gold paper. After staggering a few steps, Mr. Tian lost his balance and sat down on the ground, cursing.

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Inside the building, on the third floor, in the living room of a house.

After realizing that he seemed to be hallucinating and having visual and auditory hallucinations and his perception was affected to a certain extent, Jiang Yao did not say anything and directly used the Yin Sha Body.

"Little girl, I recognize you. Your name seems to be Li Xiuer, right?"

In this state, Jiang Yao was clear-headed and the cold aura that had penetrated into his body could no longer have any effect on him.

He had felt that the girl who held his hand was a little familiar before. Now that his mind was clearer, it only took him a moment to remember the girl's origins.

Before, when he followed Dakou Liu to this building to investigate the case of death by electric shock, he looked at the photo of the deceased Li Xiuer again and again, and looked at it carefully several times.

"Big brother..." Jiang Yao's change in state obviously surprised Li Xiuer.

Looking at her pitiful appearance, she tried to pull her hand back from Jiang Yao.

But before she could open her mouth to say a word, Jiang Yao slapped her hard on the head.

The little girl, who originally looked innocent and cute, had her head spun 360 degrees after being hit. Her whole body was charred and her clothes became tattered.

Even in this state, she did not die. She was still struggling desperately, trying to pull her hand away from Jiang Yao.

"Bah, it's not tasty at all!" Pulling Li Xiuer in front of him, Jiang Yao bit her shoulder with a tentative move.

A strong stench rushed into his head, making him so nauseated that he almost vomited out all the food he had eaten last night.

(End of this chapter)

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