Two timid passers-by in the store had fainted from fright, and the rest found themselves unable to escape and no longer screamed or cried.

They were still huddled in the corner, not daring to move. However, after listening to the woman's words, their frightened and out-of-control expressions relaxed slightly and turned into a state of emptiness.

Zhang Biling's four talisman papers were firmly attached to the scroll door, saying that they symbolized "the city gate is wide open", but everyone waited tremblingly for a while and did not feel the change.

Xia Qiao asked quietly: "How to open the city gate wide?"

Zhou Xu kept staring at the woman eagerly, and took a moment to glance at the talisman paper: "I don't know, I have never practiced it! Anyway, the explanation of this talisman in the book is a bit scary."

Xia Qiao considered his courage and asked again: "What is the explanation?"

Zhou Xu: "Thousands of ghosts massacre the city."

Xia Qiao: "...This is a bit scary???"

Zhou Xu: "Are you illiterate? I didn't know there was a kind of rhetoric called exaggeration."

Xia Qiao thought the same thing, this is a city, and this is just a small shabby house. What's more, it's calm now, and Zhang Biling's talisman doesn't work.

"Then move a little bit, my feet are so numb." Xia Qiao pushed Zhou Xu.

Because of his young age and poor moral character, Zhou Xu didn't want to sit on the ground when he hid in a corner. He used Xia Qiao's shoes as a seat cushion and sat there with peace of mind.

Xia Qiao finally freed his legs and carefully stretched them out. Just as he was about to stretch his sore ankles, he suddenly saw the talisman paper on the scroll door automatically moving without wind, with the bottom gently floating up and down again.

His movements froze, and he stretched his legs and did not dare to move.

Then, a few more shadows quietly appeared under the crack of the door. Just like the ones in the corner before, only this time there were more shadows.

It seemed as if something was standing straight outside the door, staring dimly at the people inside.

Xia Qiao's scalp was numb and he was sweating. He rolled his eyes and scanned the circle, counting the number of shadows in his mind: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...

"Brother." He called out. He was so scared that he didn't even make a sound.

"Thank you, boss." He called again, and in a state of collapse, he chose someone closer to him, "Thank you, boss?"

Xie Wen bent sideways and said, "Huh?"

Xia Qiao pointed to the crack in the door and said tremblingly: "There is something outside. I suspect all five shopkeepers are here."

Xie Wen said: "Five? You think so beautifully."

Xia Qiao was at a loss for a moment. Before he could digest what Xie Wen meant, he heard a loud "bang" from the scroll door!

The door instantly dented a large piece!

boom!

There was another sound, and the scroll door behind him also changed its shape, and five-finger paw prints could be seen!

The people who were originally in a pool of stagnant water instantly jumped up, grabbing the arms and shoulders of their companions, and trying their best to shrink into the middle.

boom!

Everyone watched helplessly as the scroll door was broken open, as if it was not made of metal at all, but made of paper.

Zhou Xu is closest to that place.

He looked at the gap with a bloodless face, and heard faint breathing coming from outside, faint, like sighing.

He silently took a step back with his left foot, leaned back, and was about to retreat quietly——

Just listen to the bang!

Suddenly a hand came out of the breach! The cold fingertips touched Zhou Xu's face.

Zhou Xu was so distraught that he screamed and retreated.

The next moment, the scroll doors on both sides collapsed to the ground, revealing the dark faces outside...

Xia Qiao finally understood what Xie Wen meant: there are more than five people here, this must be a city besieged by a hundred ghosts.

For a moment, he almost had an illusion, as if Wangquan Eternal City was not a shopping mall at all, but a real Huangquan cemetery.

Zhou Xu fell down while trying to avoid it. When he scrambled to get up, he was faced with the pale and old face of Mrs. Xu.

Even though she had no expression at all, she was smiling. The corners of her mouth were so curved that no teeth were visible, just like a curved crack.

Zhou Xu screamed and turned to the right, and saw an old lady Xu, grinning exactly the same smile, looking at him motionless.

He tried to go to the left again, still the same!

In addition to Mrs. Xu, he also saw several other impressive shopkeepers, and they were like this, as if they were everywhere.

The dark human faces are like ghosts hitting the wall in another sense. Each of them is the eyes, ears, hands and feet of the cage owner, looking directly at the group of strangers entering the cage.

The wind blew miserably.

The group of things screamed, their pale white faces quickly elongated, their mouths were like gaping holes, and they rushed towards them mightily!

"Ahhhhh——"

Everyone was scared crazy on the spot!

Zhou Xu was knocked to the ground and watched helplessly as a face roared towards him——

I'm dying.

he thought.

His hands and feet were cold, and he closed his eyes tightly, waiting for that moment to come. However, the expected pain and horror did not come, and instead something rubbed the top of his hair.

At that moment, he heard the sonorous sound of strings.

Soon he realized that it was not a string, but a thread.

Zhou Xu opened his eyes suddenly, raised his head, and saw Wen Shi's thin chin and thin white hands. Familiar threads were wrapped around the fingers, and the fingers were taut.

Are you going to tie someone up again?

Zhou Xu thought subconsciously.

He knows much better than Xia Qiao. He knows that many new puppet masters can only make flowers, birds, fish and insects. They cannot make a decent puppet that can save lives. At the critical moment, they can only swing the empty rope and control the white cotton thread of the puppet.

Be a different kind of whip wielder.

Either bound or strangled.

In his eyes, Wen Shi is such a person.

But there are so many monsters at the moment, how can it be possible to get through? If you can stop this one, you can't stop that one, it's hard to do anything.

I'm still going to die.

Zhou Xu thought.

When he heard it, he threw something out. It seemed to be a paper ball, which he couldn't see clearly. Zhou Xu moved his eyes numbly and watched the small ball fall into the raging group of monsters... and suddenly it burned.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew up! It roared through the entire corridor, like the roar of an animal.

Zhou Xu was hit by the heat wave and had to raise his elbow to shield himself.

The moment he opened his eyes again, he saw a giant python that was completely black, with flaming edges trembling, snaking past the monster's head, coiling around in a circle, and then sweeping out from the group of monsters.

The black python is so big that it can wrap around the entire corridor. It is wrapped with iron chains, and when it swims, the chains make a clanging sound. There are flowing marks on each chain, dark gold, with sparks looming.

Those marks mark the origin of the giant python——

It is a puppet.

Zhou Xu slowly opened his mouth and raised his head again.

When he saw and smelled it, he flexed his fingers, and the intertwined long threads stretched straight and tight, contracting or releasing according to his movements. The black python wrapped with chains swung its long tail amidst the splash of sparks, pulling the bird away.

All the white-faced "people" are wrapped in their long bodies.

As long as he moves again, he can strangle all those things.

It was only then that Zhou Xu finally realized that it was really a puppet! The kind of puppet that could kill a hundred of them with no problem.

The puppet when I heard it.

I...day...

Zhou Xu went crazy.

At this time, no matter who or what the ghost is, he can no longer care about being afraid. He grabbed Xia Qiao and asked: "Why can't a person like your brother get on the famous genealogy chart?"

Xia Qiao was stunned by him, and after a moment he said: "Ang."

"Your father." Zhou Xu looked at Wen Shi angrily and muttered, "Liar!"

He spoke without hesitation, and as soon as he finished cursing, he felt a "buzzing" sound in his head, and the cold feeling of his hood came down. He was so cold that his mouth and tongue were numb.

The feeling is hard to describe, it's like being slapped on the head and scolded by an elder.

what's the situation?

Zhou Xu subconsciously covered his head and turned to look, only to see that there was nothing behind him. At least there was no one where he could reach out and hit him.

A little further away are the ordinary people who are protecting you when you are heard.

Oh, and Xie Wen, that half-assed guy who pretends to be an ordinary person among them, is not ashamed.
To be continued...