I stood in the lobby of the Chinese medicine store and looked at the girl standing opposite me...
This girl's body is as thin as paper. She wears a long white dress that seems to be hanging on her body. From head to toe, only her head looks like a normal person. It looks flesh and blood. Everything below her head is made of paper...
This is a half-human, half-paper... paper man?!
Moreover, her facial features are exquisite and her face is cold...
I slowly raised my hand, pointed at her tremblingly, and murmured:
"You...you are...Gu Han?"
The girl forced a smile, her bloodless lips raised slightly,
"Why...you haven't recognized me since we haven't seen each other for a few days?"
Although the tone was still cold, my voice was much weaker. I stared at her, my eyes slowly moved up to her bald head, and asked in a trembling voice:
"How did you become a paper man? And you... where is your hair? Why is it gone?"
Gu Han shook his head helplessly and looked back to the side. I followed her gaze and found a wooden box on the table. It was the wooden box with human bones.
My heart suddenly went cold, and I suddenly understood something.
"Did you become like this...could it be because of these human bones..."
Seeing Gu Han nod, I almost recited it in one breath. Suddenly I remembered what my master had told me when he asked me to ask Gu Han for help.
"If she doesn't want to, don't force it!"
"Why…"
Lao Yutou sighed softly and said:
"The secret technique used by Gu Han requires her hair as the medicine, her body as the container, and her own cultivation to be successful. Therefore, after using the secret technique, she will..."
At this point, Lao Yu suddenly stopped. I looked back at her and asked nervously:
"What will happen?!"
"It will...become a paper man again..."
"What?!!!"
There was a "buzz" sound, and my head seemed to be blown open by five thunderbolts.
"how so?"
No wonder when she asked Gu Han for help before, she said she wanted a hairpin. It turned out that this was her last request...
I had thought about what Gu Han might have to pay, but I never thought the price would be so heavy!
Not to mention her hair, which is as precious as life, now even the formed body is about to pass away...
"Gu Han..."
"Stop talking..."
Gu Han interrupted me and said:
"After being a human for so many years, I also want to take a rest. What's more, since Master Daxian left, I feel that this may be meaningless...Xiaoyu, if it weren't for your appearance, I would have killed myself long ago...Luckily
It is in you that I see the shadow of Master Xian when he was young, and I am grateful for the hairpin you gave me..."
"No...don't..."
My nose felt a little sore, so I turned around, grabbed Lao Yutou by the collar, and asked loudly:
"Why?! Why didn't you tell me earlier?! If I had known that it would cost Gu Han's life, I would never have let her do this!"
"Ahem..."
Lao Yu's head was strangled by me and he kept coughing, so I quickly let go of my hand.
"Ahem... Xiaoyu, please don't get excited. Just listen to what I have to say... Gu Han is an evil spirit, and the paper man is her spiritual body. As long as the paper man is not destroyed, she can turn into a human form again!"
I was shocked and turned to look at Gu Han with searching eyes. She nodded at me,
"Yes, as long as I preserve my spiritual body, I will be able to transform into a human form again in less than three years."
"Three...three years..."
I murmured, feeling that this time is too long...
"Is there any way to do it in three days..."
"Yes, yes, but..."
"Lao Yutou!!!"
Before Lao Yutou finished speaking, he was interrupted by Gu Han,
"Okay, Xiaoyu, don't talk about that. I'll tell you about the human bones first. As for my own affairs... I'll talk about it later."
I calmed down a little and tried my best to control my emotions, but I still didn't dare to look at the haggard-looking Gu Han.
Gu Han slowly walked towards the table. Because her lower body was now covered with pieces of paper, her movements were a little uncoordinated and staggering. At this moment, she seemed to have really become the "Mr. Gu" that others called her...
"Xiaoyu, please help me open the wooden box..."
I took a deep breath, walked over, and carefully opened the wooden box, and the red human bone appeared in front of the three of us. Because I always have the charm drawn by Master on my body, I don’t feel it on my chest.
pain.
"I have checked it using mystical techniques. The first thing I want to tell you is that my previous guess was wrong. These ribs... are not human bones!"
Gu Han's first words surprised Lao Yutou and me.
"It's not human bones? But the shape is clearly that of a human rib, and... it also completely overlaps with the black and blue patch on my chest. How could it not be human bones?"
Gu Han did not explain, but asked:
"Xiaoyu, look at me, are Lao Yutou and Ye Qing human?"
When she asked me this question, I was stunned for a moment, and then I suddenly realized that although Gu Han, Lao Yutou and Ye Qing have human appearances, one of them is an evil spirit, one is a demon, and the other is a ghost. They are not human.
…
"You mean, although the owner of this bone has a human body structure, he is not a human?"
Gu Han nodded,
"Yes, that's exactly what it means."
Lao Yutou and I looked at each other. Although we were shocked, we did not interrupt, but waited for Gu Han to continue.
"I have checked before and found that this bone is hundreds of years old, which means that its owner died hundreds of years ago, and there is still a strange smell left on the bone, which is very...
Evil means that its owner must be an evil thing, but not an ordinary evil thing..."
"Unusual evil thing? What does this mean?"
Gu Han shook his head,
"Unfortunately, I'm not sure. To put it bluntly, I can't confirm what kind of evil creature the owner of the bones is..."
Hearing this, Lao Yutou suddenly asked:
"No matter what it was, it's in the past. It's dead anyway. But what I don't understand is why this bone has such a strong connection with Xiaoyu?"
Lao Yutou asked the question I was most concerned about, and I looked at Gu Han expectantly.
Gu Han looked at me with a complicated expression and said:
"Reacting to you does not mean that I have a direct relationship with you. It is like...like..."
At this point, Gu Han's expression suddenly turned painful. Lao Yu and I were startled. We were about to ask her if it was okay, but suddenly we found that Gu Han's expression was getting stiffer little by little...
Little by little it becomes pale...
She just showed up in front of us without any warning...
