Chapter 33

The crowd instantly bristled, feeling a chill run from their tailbones through their entire bodies, making them shudder.

The gaze of these uninvited guests was truly bizarre, hollow and cold, devoid of any vitality, as if everything they saw was lifeless.

The warriors had already placed their hands on their sword hilts, ready for any unforeseen events.

Stirred by the cold, sinister gazes of the uninvited guests, they instinctively wanted to draw their swords and rush forward, hoping to catch the intruders off guard before they could make a move.

Perhaps they could eliminate the enemies.

However, before the warriors could act on this impulse, Qin Shaoyou and Zhu Xiuzai held them back.

Qin Shaoyou made a gesture, signaling the warriors not to act rashly.

Although these uninvited guests were looking in their direction, they had not actually discovered them.

In front of them, in the courtyard of the post station, several guard dogs were baring their teeth at the uninvited guests.

But they only bared their teeth.

These guard dogs, either frightened by the uninvited guests or sensing danger from them, were clearly very afraid. They kept their tails between their legs and did not bark loudly; their voices only trembled in their throats.

Even so, the uninvited guests did not let them off.

One of them grinned and opened his mouth wide.

His mouth opened so wide that it reached the bottom of his ears, and combined with his sinister smile, it looked even more eerie and terrifying.

He inhaled deeply towards the guard dogs in the courtyard.

The dogs seemed to realize the danger and tried to bark, both to warn their owners and to call for help.

But just as their barks began, the bodies of the guard dogs deflated like punctured balloons.

In just a blink, they turned into dog skins and skeletons.

As for their organs and flesh, they turned into streams of blood that flew into the mouths of the uninvited guests, satisfying their hunger.

At this moment, someone inside the post station was woken by the barking and cursed loudly.

The uninvited guests immediately turned their heads towards the room from which the cursing came.

Qin Shaoyou and the others, using the moonlight, could see very clearly that the uninvited guests turned their heads very quickly and with a wide angle, almost 180 degrees.

Such a wide turn was not something a normal person could do.

It seemed as if they were not at all worried about breaking their necks.

The cursing soon stopped.

Probably because the person inside the room, hearing the dogs bark only twice and then fall silent, did not take it seriously.

Moreover, it was the time when people were most drowsy, so he quickly fell back asleep and did not come out to check the situation.

This saved him from a disaster.

Seeing no further movement, the uninvited guests withdrew their gazes, and their strangely twisted necks returned to normal.

Qin Shaoyou and the others, hiding in the dark, breathed a sigh of relief.

The strength of these uninvited guests was still unknown, but their bizarre appearance and behavior were truly unsettling. Qin Shaoyou and the others were also afraid they might harm the innocent.

Fortunately, such a situation did not occur.

The uninvited guests stood in the courtyard, looking around with cold eyes, and finally focused on the large dormitory where Qin Shaoyou and the others were staying, and walked over.

They walked silently, and their posture was very strange, more like floating than walking.

When they reached the dormitory, they neither opened the door nor knocked on the window, but simply turned sideways.

Then their bodies, like the guard dogs earlier, quickly deflated.

After a few breaths, their bodies were as thin as paper.

They then twisted their thin bodies and easily slipped through the gaps in the door and windows into the dormitory.

Seeing this, the warriors hiding in the dark could not help but shudder.

Fortunately, their superior was steady and had predicted such an event would happen.

Otherwise, while they were sleeping soundly, dreaming of passionate moments with the village girls and widows, they might have been killed by these uninvited guests, which would have been a great injustice!

When Qin Shaoyou saw the uninvited guests turn into paper-thin figures, he did not shudder, but he could not help but raise an eyebrow.

However, his thoughts were different from those of the warriors.

"These are paper figures? Goodness, if some people knew their paper figure wives could turn like this, would they be afraid or excited?"

After the paper figures slipped into the dormitory, Zhu Xiuzai prepared to follow the plan and go outside to keep an eye on what the paper figures would do in the room.

However, just as he was about to leave his hiding place, the guard dogs in the courtyard, which had been drained of blood and organs, suddenly inflated rapidly.

They quickly became plump, even fatter than before.

Then these dogs resumed their duty of guarding the door.

This time, however, they were guarding for the paper figures.

Seeing this, Zhu Xiuzai had to abandon his plan to monitor the paper figures, to avoid being detected by the dogs and exposing himself.

Fortunately, these "resurrected" dogs, although they could see, had a much weaker sense of smell than before.

Otherwise, Qin Shaoyou and the others, no matter how well they hid, might have been exposed.

As for what the paper figures did in the dormitory, although it was not visible, the others could imagine.

They were simply killing and searching.

The paper figures indeed did just that.

After slipping into the dormitory, they did not "inflate" but directly floated to the side of the "sleeping" "people" on the bed.

Without any unnecessary words or actions, they raised their thin, blade-like hands and swiped across the necks of the "people."

Blood marks appeared on the wounds, followed by a steady flow of fresh blood.

These puppet figures were so lifelike that even the paper figures could not detect any flaws.

After killing all the "people," the paper figures even laughed mockingly:

"The people in this room have no sense of vigilance at all. The government's watchdogs are truly useless!"

Their voices were hollow and ethereal, not sounding like they were coming from the paper figures themselves.

It was more like someone was speaking through them.

After the killings, the paper figures searched the room but found nothing they wanted.

Finally, they gathered some flammable materials on the "bodies" and lit the oil lamps, throwing them onto the bed.

"Boom!"

The flames from the oil lamps instantly ignited the flammable materials.

The raging fire consumed the "bodies" on the bed, and the flickering flames, combined with the eerie appearance of the paper figures, created a truly hellish scene!

Qin Shaoyou and the others, hiding outside the post station, saw the flames inside the room and immediately guessed what the paper figures had done.

Not only did they kill, but they also set fire. These paper figures were truly vicious!

Fortunately, they were well-prepared; otherwise, they would have been burned to death.

Thinking of this, the warriors could not help but look at Qin Shaoyou.

They felt even more that their superior had foresight and was steady, giving them a sense of security.

However, some were worried about one issue.

Zhu Xiuzai leaned close to Qin Shaoyou's ear and whispered, "Sir, will the puppet figures be damaged by the fire?"

Puppet figures were supernatural items, although only of the Yellow level, they were still very valuable.

If they were damaged, how could they explain it to the Demon Suppression Bureau?

Qin Shaoyou was not worried at all.

"Don't worry, I've already checked. Puppet figures are immune to water and fire. Besides, even if they are damaged, it's normal for supernatural items to be used and worn out during missions. If the higher-ups blame us, Lord Xue will take the responsibility, so it won't be our fault."

Zhu Xiuzai and the others were relieved: They almost forgot that you have someone backing you up, so there's no need to worry...

Then they began to speculate: The fire is burning fast and fiercely. Will the paper figures burn themselves?

This is something to look forward to.