Chapter 44 Preemptive Strike, Paper Craftsman
Chapter 44 Preemptive Strike, Paper Craftsman
The first floor of the Rest Inn.
When the proprietress saw Su Ming coming down from upstairs, she looked as if she had seen a ghost.
His face was full of surprise: "Didn't you sleep in that room last night?"
"Or did you leave that room before you fell asleep?"
Su Ming replied: "I have solved the nightmare, and no one will die at night from now on."
The boss lady's face was even more shocked: "You really did it?"
The bald boss also heard the noise and ran out from behind.
He was a little bit unbelievable: "Really?"
Many people had entered the dreamland before and died there, including many masters of the Church of Light.
The young man in front of me actually said that he had done it, and he looked unharmed.
This sudden surprise made the bald boss start to worry.
He looked outside the hotel, as if worried that something might come.
He waved at Su Ming: "Come in, let's talk in detail."
Su Ming left behind good people and rich buddies.
Follow the bald boss to the back room.
The bald boss couldn't wait to ask, "Did you really enter that nightmare last night and come out alive?"
Su Ming nodded: "Of course, last night... I killed Nightmare, and that's the situation."
He roughly recounted what he had experienced in his dream last night.
The bald boss nodded repeatedly after hearing this: "Using the things in the funeral shop to deal with nightmares is really amazing."
His face was full of anticipation: "Finally someone did it! It seems that this is the closest we have ever come to clearing the town of anomalies."
"I hope everything can return to normal and our town can become completely normal..."
The way he looked at Su Ming was completely different, full of admiration and recognition.
Bald Boss: "Is there anything we can do?"
"This is about restoring peace to our town, and we, the townspeople, should contribute."
Su Ming: "You should also know that in addition to monsters, there are also some evil cultists hiding in the town, right?"
Bald Boss: "Cultists? After all this time, they're still in this town?"
"They haven't been seen for a long time. We thought they left town long ago."
"We haven't noticed any rumors of cultists appearing in the area for a long time."
Su Ming: "That's because no one has been able to break the dream before, so it poses no threat to them."
"If I'm not mistaken, they're getting anxious and are about to start making trouble."
"I hope you can cooperate with me and clean up the cultists in this town first."
Bald Boss: "How do you need us to cooperate?"
Su Ming: "It's very simple. When the Public Security Bureau investigates, you just need to testify for me and say that I have been in the hotel."
He doesn't need to keep it secret as long as the news doesn't explode in the short term.
"I'll go out and preemptively eliminate the cultists physically."
Cultists can also enter dreams.
He didn't want a group of cultists to cause trouble for him while he was cleaning up the source of the weirdness in his dream tonight.
The bald boss was shocked: "Are you going to kill someone?"
Su Ming: "Don't be so blunt. We are cleaning up the cultists."
The bald boss still felt that this operation was a bit sudden: "Do you know who are the cultists?"
"If you knew, why didn't you report it to the Public Security Bureau and let them take action? Those cultists are too dangerous."
There is no way reporting it would be useful.
The Sheriff's Office in this town is just a decoration, with only two or three cats and kittens.
All they can do is collect the bodies.
It would be too much to expect them to clean up the cultists.
The reason why I asked the hotel owner to testify for me was to avoid trouble. …
……
Zhaoji Funeral Shop.
Originally, the funeral shop would have been open at this time.
But today, there was no movement here.
An old man in gray was sitting at a long table, painting a face on a paper figurine.
On the other side of the long table, sat a few ordinary-looking townspeople.
Among them was an old woman whose eyes were completely white and who looked like she had serious eye problems.
He was accusing the shop owner, the old man in gray, "Papermaker, do you know that these broken things of yours have caused a big disaster?"
"That new murderer used these things of yours to kill Nightmare."
"The bishop asked me to tell you that he is very angry. You have to solve the trouble you have caused yourself."
"You must kill that murderer as soon as possible. This town does not need such instability."
The grey-shirted old man said slowly, "I thought that kid was looking for death, how could I have known this would happen."
"I know the strength of those three paper figures. They are definitely no match for Nightmare. In other words, even without my paper figures, he can still kill Nightmare."
The blind wife asked, "Are you trying to excuse yourself and shirk responsibility? Or are you questioning the bishop's decision?"
The old man in gray looked at them with pity on his face: "Who gave you the courage to talk to me like this?"
As soon as he finished speaking, several paper figures stood up.
They moved quickly, directly controlling several people sitting opposite the long table and forcing them to put paper clothes on.
Several people's faces changed drastically and they asked, "Paper Maker, what are you doing?"
"Are you going to betray the Bishop?"
"We are the bishop's men. How dare you attack us? The bishop will never let you go!!"
"Stop! Stop now! If we die here, the Public Security Bureau will also cause trouble for you."
"I was wrong, Grandpa Papermaker, please let me go, forgive me this time, I will never dare to do it again!"
“Ahhhhh——you’re going to die a horrible death!!”
“Uh huh huh—”
……
Amid wailing and cursing.
The paper clothes on several people were quickly tightened, turning them all into paper people.
The old man in gray shook his head: "I've been in the town for too long, and my mind has become unclear."
"Even the bishop doesn't dare to talk to me like this, who are you?"
After killing a few cultists, he no longer focused his energy on them.
Instead, he paced back and forth in the funeral shop, looking at the paper figures and paper clothes inside, as if he was inspecting an army that belonged to him.
"If I had known that boy was so troublesome, I should have let the paper figurine kill him when he came to the shop yesterday."
This is his home ground. If it were somewhere else, it wouldn't be so easy for him to get rid of the other cultists.
Trying to trick him into coming here?
"He won't be fooled so easily. This guy knows a lot and is very smart."
"Let's wait until night. It's safest to deal with him in a dream."
"It's just a little trouble. A mere murderer can't cause any trouble."
"The once powerful Church of Light was destroyed by us. Now it is just a murderer. What can it do?"
Although he said this, he was still quite wary of Su Ming's strength.
To be on the safe side, the old man in gray shirt did not plan to leave the funeral shop all day today.
He didn't want to die unclearly like the cultists he had just killed.
I plan to stay here until night and get rid of that guy.
Thanks to Yingli A for the reward of 100 points!
Thank you, sir! Thank you very much!
(End of this chapter)