Eternal Night

Chapter 21: The Mother of No Birth and the Weakness of Paper Figures

The moment Lin Heier saw the paper man, countless thoughts flashed through her mind. One of them was that she had just been poisoned.

Lin Heier heard that those who took the longevity paste often had hallucinations, and thought they saw paradise in heaven, or saw power over the world, or saw immortality. Occasionally, he also heard of seeing some horrific scenes, but they were all stories he heard from others.

But this possibility is too small.

She is a master of dark energy and her control over her body far exceeds that of ordinary people. Although she cannot say that she is immune to all poisons, she is well aware of the changes in her own body after being poisoned. Since she came here, she has indeed not found any signs of poisoning.

Two... There is weirdness, horror, and those legendary things here!
Lin Heier's mind raced, and she stood sideways, on the one hand, on the other hand, guarding against those eerie and terrifying paper figures, and asked Wu Xianxiao in a stern voice: "What did you do? Where are my sisters?"

Wu Xianxiao pointed upwards helplessly, and Lin Heier immediately looked up. Then her whole body trembled and she could no longer speak.

Because he had come into contact with Wu Xianxiao, he saw all of this. This was the case with Xu Rongyu before, and it was the same with Lin Heier now. Obviously, there was some mechanism that allowed him to share his inspiration with others. This was also the reason why he tentatively touched Lin Heier, because Xu Rongyu did not turn into a paper man after being touched by him before. What if Lin Heier also did not turn into a paper man because of his touch?

This paper man is very dangerous, Wu Xianxiao can feel it instinctively.

It seems like a light piece of paper, but it conveys some eerie and terrifying vibrations.

And this is just an ordinary person turned into a paper man. If a martial arts master like Lin Heier also turned into a paper man, would it become an even more terrifying existence?

In any case, after seeing the silk thread on Lin Heier's head fall off, Wu Xianxiao had some ideas in his mind.

When Lin Heier looked up into the air, she saw the huge twisted human figure with silk threads hanging down.

Others might not be able to tell what the human figure was, but she was shuddered all over, and a familiar feeling made her hands and feet cold.

This is... the Mother of No Birth!!
Although it was just a very hazy shadow and a distorted human figure, Lin Heier had been visualizing the image of the Mother of No Birth for more than ten years. She was so familiar with it that there was no way she could make a mistake!

The martial arts that Lin Heier practiced was the Yellow Lotus Holy Mother Sutra.

It is said that the Mother of No Birth has five lotus incarnations, namely the Supreme Blue Lotus, the Golden Lotus of Merit, the Black Lotus of World Destruction, the Red Lotus of Purgatory, and the Thick Earth Yellow Lotus that she practices. This is actually a set of Buddhist exercises, and during the practice, one needs to visualize the Yellow Lotus form of the Mother of No Birth, and the Yellow Lotus form is the distorted and hazy human figure before your eyes!

The five lotus incarnations also represent the location of the vacuum hometown where the Mother of No Birth is located. The Supreme Blue Lotus represents the way of heaven, the Golden Lotus of Merit represents the Buddhist world, the Black Lotus of World Destruction represents nothingness, the Red Lotus of Purgatory represents the hell of sin, and this Thick Earth Yellow Lotus represents the human world... Is that why it is a paper figure?

Lin Heier was shocked, but at the same time she seemed to understand something. She looked at the silk threads on the heads of the paper figures and said to Wu Xianxiao anxiously, "If all this is true, can I save my sisters by cutting the silk threads?"

Wu Xianxiao hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I'm not sure if it's okay. When I touched you before, part of your body had already turned into paper, but now it has recovered. Feel if there's any difference."

Lin Heier was startled, then she immediately sensed herself carefully, and then her face became extremely ugly.

Her energy and blood were at least 30% deficient, almost reaching the point of being exhausted. If others hadn't reminded her, she wouldn't have even noticed. If she continued to forcibly move energy and blood to unleash her dark power at her current level of deficiency, she might even die on the spot!
This was only part of the paperization, so her sisters had already been completely turned into paper figures. They might have already...

Lin Heier gritted her teeth, shook the red soft gun in her hand, and shot at the head of the paper man closest to her.

Under the gazes of the three people, the red soft gun directly cut through the silk thread above the paper man's head, but it was like cutting through the air, or just cutting through the air, the silk thread did not move at all, and the paper man was still "floating" closer step by step.

Seeing this, Lin Heier stepped back slightly. Although he was still some distance away from Wu Xianxiao and Yamade, his action and posture already explained a lot.

Even though these paper figures were her sisters before, but at this point, they are no longer human or ghost... No, even these paper figures are not ghosts, but something even more bizarre.

"Master, is there any solution?" Lin Heier was extremely anxious, but asked in a calm voice.

Wu Xianxiao frowned and was about to walk forward to stand with Lin Heier. Yamade next to him immediately reached out to hold Wu Xianxiao. Seeing this, Lin Heier sneered and said, "Don't worry, if the master wants to go up, I will definitely go up too."

Wu Xianxiao also turned to Yamade and said, "We have to test whether the attack method of this paper man can turn it back into a human being and whether it can be eliminated. If we don't even know these, what should we do next?"

Only then did Yamade let go of Wu Xianxiao, and then Wu Xianxiao stood together with Lin Heier.

At this time, the nearest paper man was only two meters away from the two of them. Lin Heier suddenly threw the red soft gun towards the charity cemetery, and then took a stance with his empty hands.

This was actually telling Wu Xianxiao that she had no intention of clashing with him at this time, and that these paper people in front of them were their common enemies. Lin Heier asked in a low voice, "How did you get me out of paper manification just now?"

Wu Xianxiao did not hesitate and said directly: "Anyone who touches me can see these things, but it is up to you to change back from a paper man."

Lin Heier said thoughtfully: "You have the Yin-Yang Eyes, or the Wisdom Eyes? And to reverse the changes of the paper man, you need your own Qi and blood?"

Wu Xianxiao didn't know either.

To be honest, although he had been awake for more than a hundred days, and there were some living predecessors leading him before, both he and those predecessors dared to wander around in the dream world of 0.9 baseline reality, and generally did not dare to set up a shelter at will. After five days, they returned to Gaia, unless they confirmed that there was nothing strange in that world, or the nightmare was very weak, then they would set up a shelter.

The definition of a weak nightmare is that it is not weird or supernatural, but has only pure physical strength, such as mutated beasts and weaker monsters in various legends.

Only under such circumstances would his predecessors establish a shelter in that world.

As for the supernatural, bizarre, and all kinds of horror, rules, and incorporeal monsters, the last time it was the second-level nightmare that directly caused the deaths of the two remaining seniors, and he was the only one who survived by luck.

Seriously speaking, the paper man in front of him and the distorted human figure that transformed into the paper man were the second non-purely physical nightmare he had encountered.

Lin He'er didn't wait for Wu Xianxiao's answer, nor did she continue asking. Instead, she took a step and ran forward. Wu Xianxiao was only a moment slower than her, and the two of them rushed towards the first paper man almost side by side.

Lin Heier raised her palm and struck the silk thread on the paper figure's head. At the same time, she whispered, "Wait for me a moment."

Wu Xianxiao was about to tear the paper man's throat with one claw, but after hearing the words, he paused for a moment, then changed his claw into a palm and hit the paper man's arm that was holding the paper hammer.

The two men came one in front and one behind, and each hit the target within a split second of each other. Then their faces changed suddenly, and they each stepped back several meters. They looked at each other and spread out their palms, and saw blue-black marks on their palms. The blue-black mark on Wu Xunxun's palm disappeared in the blink of an eye, while the blue-black mark on Lin Heier's hand took two or three seconds to disappear, and her face turned a little pale.

"It works, but this..." Lin Hei's face looked extremely ugly. She knew that her sisters might not be saved.

The moment the two touched the silk thread and the paper man, they each felt a chill and pain at the point of contact. Even though it was only a momentary touch, they could feel that their energy and blood were less. Although they could immediately transport energy and blood to recover, the total amount of energy and blood was absorbed.

Looking at the paper man again, there were some wrinkles on the paper surface of his arms and the silk thread on his head had some fluctuations, but that was all. The paper man was still slowly floating towards the two of them, and the dozen or so paper men behind him also kept the same pace.

"It works." Lin Heier whispered, "But we can't fight against so many...paper figures!"

Wu Xianxiao also nodded, then he turned to Yamade behind him and said, "How are the preparations going?!"

Yamadea chuckled and let out a loud roar. Two seconds later, a woman's roar came from the charity cemetery.

Wu Xianxiao said to Lin Heier, "Let's go to the charity cemetery. We have prepared something to deal with the paper figurines!"

After saying that, Wu Xianxiao and Yamadeh quickly ran towards the charity cemetery.

Lin Heier did not retreat immediately. She looked at these paper figures with a sad face. Among them were several of her confidants, and the rest were her sisters. She didn't expect that they would all become so weird after just a casual trip.

Seeing the paper man approaching, she gritted her teeth and followed Wu Xianxiao and the other man into the charity cemetery.

On the dam in front of several buildings in the charity cemetery, Xu Shilan and Xu Rongyu were standing there holding a few unlit torches. When they saw Wu Xianxiao and the other man running over, followed by a beautiful woman with a little exposure on her shoulders, they immediately lit the torches. At the same time, Xu Rongyu shouted, "But is the Red Lantern Society's senior sister here in person?"

Lin Heier was a few steps behind. When she saw Xu Rongyu, whose clothes and hairstyle were different from the other three, she also shouted, "It's me. Is that Young Master Xu?"

Both of them knew each other's identity, but this was not the time for greeting. Behind the three people, more than ten paper figures were slowly approaching. Wu Xianxiao took a torch first and said loudly to everyone, "This is a paper figure, its body is made of paper. Don't touch it with your body, or your qi, blood...life force will be sucked away, and you will feel cold and have no strength!"

"It's worth the money we spent on buying all the fuel for that post station. Use fire!"

"Let's see if this paper man is afraid of fire!"

(End of this chapter)