Paper horse incense shop

It was unusually quiet in the hotel, with only the gentle breeze blowing into the hall and the slight sound of the crystal chandelier swinging.

The flickering lights reflected on the faces of the two owners of the hotel, making their faces dim and unclear.

The landlady's face turned green and red, and she wanted to follow her husband's words and argue:

“No such thing”

The next second, her hand was squeezed tightly by her husband.

The little boss who seemed to be the backbone looked slightly green, straightened his back and said:

"When will the police come?"

I looked at the table:

"Based on the last police dispatch time, it may take another twelve or thirteen minutes."

The young boss's face softened a little, and he leaned into his wife's ear and said a few words.

The second the lady boss heard the words clearly, she immediately screamed:

"No! How can that be possible!"

The young boss patted his wife's hand comfortingly. The lady boss gritted her teeth, stood up reluctantly, and walked towards her bedroom on the first floor.

I wasn't worried that the landlady would run away, nor was I worried that they would take action. I glanced at her and said nothing.

The young boss leaned his back on the back of the sofa, looking a little relaxed for no reason:

"Are your friends like you?"

"Are you not surprised to see more than a dozen people died in Wutou Village?"

I replied casually:

"Don't you also know that my friends went straight to Wutou Village from the first day they came here?"

"Since you dare to go to Wutou Village, you must have some courage."

My answer was not what was asked, but it hit the point of the little boss’s thoughts. He easily accepted my explanation, nodded and said:

"I understand, you are more like the bounty hunters or adventurers in the movies, right?"

"You must have heard of the legend of Wutou Village, so after discovering the corpse in the hotel, you discovered that our acting skills were poor, but you did not choose to expose our little trick. Instead, you combined the headless condition of the body with the rumors of Wutou Village. When we get together, are you going to visit Wutou Village first?"

In my eyes, the little boss is trying his best to figure out the whole story at the limit of a normal person.

He let out a long breath:

"Since there was a murder in the hotel and there was obviously something wrong with the two owners, the heavily armed gangsters who were essential in the murder appeared again at the festival."

"Especially every time he appears, he is accompanied by a headless man."

“It was really easy to tie the whole thing together.”

"So, you can see our desire for the headless man, right?"

I nodded casually and said to the point:

"It is clear."

"It's even obvious that you two are villagers of Wutou Village."

"You know the rumors, you know the existence of the headless man, and you even know how to threaten the village chief to hand over the key."

"You've been planning this for a long time."

"So, to answer my question, when was the first time you saw the Headless Man?"

"Who is the other man following you?"

"Why."

I paused for a moment, then put my legs, which were originally loose and overlapping, on the ground and stepped firmly:

"Why do you chop off the head of an ordinary person and put him under the bed? Are you like the village chief who thinks you can make a headless man who can move?"

My guesses may rarely be wrong, but my observation skills are absolutely superb.

The corpse lying under the bed was that of an ordinary person who had just died. This was a premeditated murder.

The couple, both medical graduates, obviously have an indescribable obsession with the headless man.

Rather than talking about other small possibilities, it is better to say that the two people are replicating the path of the village chief of Wutou Village, and they also want to——

"I don't think I can make a headless man."

The little boss answered me. There was no sadness or joy on his face, but a serious expression that I had never seen before:

"Rather, we're getting really close to the truth."

"What we said about this hotel before was actually not a lie."

"My wife and I were college classmates. After graduation, we worked in the same company. We worked as part of a work-study program and divided our money into two cents. When we graduated, we scraped together a down payment and bought a house in the city center. Get a room."

"Both of our families can't actually help much, but we both have a love and outlook on life, until, last year, we were called back by my dad to watch the Headless Man."

Instantly, I thought of the tree-cutting uncles I saw in Wutou Village. One of them seemed to have said that his son 'they' didn't believe the legend of Wutou Village, so they begged the village chief to be merciful and make a special case for them. I saw a headless man once.

It turned out that everything had been foreshadowed.

The little boss's voice was very soft, but it was brewing a storm:

"That is the headless man who absolutely subverts common sense, cognition, and three views."

“No one can lose his head and still be alive.”

"The knowledge I have learned over the years, the three views I have established, and the stable life I have all been destroyed in that moment."

The little boss suddenly raised his head:

"I know why. The end of science will be metaphysics."

"Words cannot even express the impact of facing the unknown."

“At that moment I even remembered the prose I had read before——

All time, space and regions, joys and sorrows are just an insignificant point in the many galaxies throughout the universe.

And Mansu is the supreme and only existence at the beginning of the entire universe.

Each Sichen (god) lives in Mansu, holding different powers and overlooking all living beings.

Everyone who comes outside Mansu will find that there are no walls, the so-called borders.

As long as anyone is willing to study the secret existence hidden in the history, it is possible for anyone to enter Mansu and pay a visit to Si Chen.

Since there is Si Chen who bestows knowledge on mankind, there is also Si Chen who controls the secrets and guides believers forward after the lights go out.

I used to study under a certain Si Chen, but after I saw one of the four headless men take away another person's head, and I also got its body.

Then I knew——

Although Mansu is not unified, they definitely grow on the same forest land."

A whisper like a magical voice penetrated my ears. I subconsciously opened my mouth, but I still swallowed back all the words the moment I opened my mouth.

The person opposite is not going crazy, but is getting close to it.

I thought about it:

"To put it simply, you used to study medicine, but after you saw the headless man killing people and taking their heads, you started to believe in metaphysics, right?"

The so-called Mansu grows in the same woodland.

My heart sank heavily:

"You want to say, different paths lead to the same destination?"

"You found something that could be explained scientifically on the headless man's body, so you started killing people later."

Before I finished speaking, I was stunned.

If I remember correctly, before I opened the sheets and bedding in that room, the area under the bed was almost completely sealed.

Before I opened it, I didn't even smell anything. At first, I was still in my 40s, so I realized something was wrong.

In other words, the body was not placed randomly under the bed.

It's more like a——

'Petri dish'. (End of chapter)