But quickly, the paper figure seemed restricted, beginning to retreat step by step. The paper figure's empty eyes stared fixedly at the crack in the door, as if it knew its brothers were observing through the crack.

　　A deep sense of powerlessness spread.

　　"Calm down," Du Moyu said to himself, "One wrong move, and the whole game is lost."

　　The pressure Chen Hao faced was no less than Du Moyu's. According to his observation, there was a high probability that this paper figure was Lei Mingyu, but he couldn't be certain. After all, it concerned three lives, and he didn't dare to gamble.

　　He had paid attention to the time when the first paper figure appeared. The first paper figure stayed for one minute, and the second paper figure also stayed for one minute. It seemed that this was the time limit.

　　And the time interval between the appearance of the two paper figures was 5 minutes, very precise.

　　Chen Hao had no idea whether a new paper figure would appear next time, or whether the first paper figure would continue to come.

　　After a moment of thought, Du Moyu hardened his heart and said to Chen Hao, "This is not a solution. I have an idea. It will be a bit risky, but...it should be effective."

　　Chen Hao turned his head to look at him and whispered, "What's the idea?"

　　……

　　The situation faced by Chen Hao and Du Moyu was also playing out on Jiang Cheng. He encountered two paper figures, both looking flustered, much like Fatty when he was scared.

　　The moment he saw the paper figures, Jiang Cheng guessed what this mission was all about.

　　He needed to accurately pick out Fatty from the paper figures that came to test him. Otherwise, once 4 a.m. arrived, the paper figure representing Fatty would be soaked and rotten by the rain, and Fatty would become a dead fatty.

　　And a real ghost was mixed in with the paper figures. Once he opened the wrong door, not only would he fail to save Fatty, but he would also lose his own life.

　　His thoughts raced. Before he could think carefully, the familiar knock sounded again.

　　"Dong."

　　"Dong."

　　Lying behind the door, observing through the crack, there was also a paper figure standing outside. The paper figure's expression was painted especially exaggeratedly, like a child's casual doodle.

　　In the dim light, it actually gave people an unspeakable sense of weirdness.

　　The more Jiang Cheng looked at it, the more he felt that this was the kind of thing Fatty could draw.

　　More importantly, this paper figure was the one Jiang Cheng first saw 10 minutes ago.

　　It's back again...

　　Thinking this way, there were only two paper figures coming to him tonight, and each one would only stay for 1 minute, and then 5 minutes later, the second paper figure would come again.

　　So... the real Fatty was one of these two paper figures.

　　Fortunately, a 50/50 chance, the probability was okay.

　　Jiang Cheng suddenly felt a little regretful. He wished he could switch identities with Fatty. He would be outside pretending to be a paper figure, and Fatty would be in the room. According to Fatty's heaven-defying luck, he could be picked out even if he didn't move.

　　But on second thought, Jiang Cheng gave up. If it was based on Fatty's thought process, he probably still thought he was dead and was mourning for him, maybe even rushing out to fight the paper figure, clamoring to avenge him.

　　Just like last time, this paper figure still behaved very much like Fatty. Jiang Cheng could even detect a trace of grievance and resentment in the paper figure's weird expression.

　　He had the urge to open the door, but he suppressed it, because... he couldn't be sure, and he couldn't see any flaws in the other paper figure's performance either.

　　He was waiting, waiting for an opportunity to confirm.

　　The time was up, and the paper figure slowly retreated step by step, with an unspeakable sense of despair, and left, retreating back into the ethereal mist.

　　After the paper figure completely disappeared, Jiang Cheng suddenly felt a little regretful. If this was really Fatty, then he had missed another opportunity to save him. Now he didn't have much time left...

　　At most one more cycle, he had to make a decision!

　　The wait was extremely agonizing. He had never thought that 5 minutes could be so long. But this time, when the time came, he didn't hear a knock. Puzzled, Jiang Cheng went to the crack in the door and looked out.

　　It was quiet in front of the door, and there was no sign of a paper figure.

　　The second paper figure... had disappeared.

　　After a moment of confusion, Jiang Cheng calmed down. He had two guesses as to why the second paper figure had disappeared. First, the second paper figure was the ghost. The ghost felt that he was not easy to deceive, so it simply gave up on him and went to kill others.

　　This possibility was not impossible, but Jiang Cheng felt that it was unlikely.

　　Then there was the second guess. This late paper figure was Fatty. The reason why Fatty didn't come was because he was worried about implicating himself. The sudden disappearance of a paper figure was the best warning for himself.

　　This possibility was very high!

　　Thinking along these lines, this Fatty was likely looking for a place to die, and he only hoped that he would not open the door tonight.

　　Jiang Cheng became nervous. He almost subconsciously wanted to go out and find Fatty, but reason finally controlled him. He picked up his phone and glanced at the time. In another 2 minutes, the other paper figure would arrive.

　　It was too dangerous to open the door now, and he didn't have enough time.

　　Sure enough, 2 minutes later, the other paper figure arrived as scheduled.

　　The paper figure outside was performing very hard, knocking on the door helplessly while making painful wails, which sounded very pitiful, but Jiang Cheng was unmoved.

　　Because he knew that the one outside was the ghost, and Fatty would not do such a thing.

　　While the paper figure ghost was performing, Jiang Cheng found a fire starter from the room, and also took a piece of rhinoceros horn, put it in his pocket, and kept it safe. At critical moments, these were life-saving things.

　　After that, he squatted behind the door, staring at the phone screen and silently counting the time from when the paper figure ghost left.

　　After 30 seconds, Jiang Cheng stood up, quickly opened the door, and then gently closed the door halfway with his hand. He turned around and rushed into the fog without looking back.

　　The fog was denser than he thought, and the visibility was very poor. The originally familiar scene was covered by the fog, revealing a gloomy atmosphere everywhere.

　　It seemed that something would rush out of the depths of the fog at any time and take his life.

　　He struggled to distinguish the direction in the fog. He only hoped that this stupid Fatty wouldn't be narrow-minded and run to a remote place.

　　Because he didn't dare to make a sound, he could only sneak in the fog. Time passed by every minute and every second. He only had 5 minutes... no, to be precise, he had less than 4 minutes, because he had to reserve time to return.

　　His peripheral vision scanned around, and suddenly, a white thing attracted his attention.

　　Not far away, a paper figure was sitting on a collapsed step with its back to him. From the back, it revealed a deep sense of loneliness.

　　Jiang Cheng didn't have time to carefully identify it, so he trotted over and asked softly, "Fatty?"

　　The paper figure's body suddenly trembled, but only for a moment. The paper figure raised its head and looked around, and then, as if suspecting that it was having auditory hallucinations, it reached out and scratched its ears with difficulty, and then continued to lower its head and sit.

　　Seeing this scene, Jiang Cheng was even more certain, and rushed over directly, patting the paper figure's arm. This time, the paper figure was so frightened that it jumped more than 1 meter high on the spot, almost drifting away with a gust of wind.