Starting from the folklore forum, making up town objects

Chapter 46 Attracting Ghosts
Ye Shan wiped the sweat from her forehead.

“I don’t know if this is true.”

In Lingyuan City, the two locations of supernatural events she found were Room 404 of the previous "Goblin Hotel" and an unfinished villa on this low hill.

Room 404 of the 'Goblin Inn' is where it is said that anyone who is bold and outspoken enough to enter that room will not be seen again the next day.

Originally Ye Shan believed the news, but when she entered the hotel and asked for room 404, the proprietress who served as the front desk told her a lot of things.

It seemed like they didn't take the so-called supernatural incident of 404 seriously at all, and instead treated it as a... publicity point?

Especially after learning that she was not a ghost-hunting host, a store explorer, or a novel author, the boss lady lost interest in her.

Even when he learned that Ye Shan would only stay for an hour, he still offered a high price of 300 Daxia coins.

Ye Shan did not refuse. Even though she felt it was a bit fake, she still went in and hid a paper-cut of a substitute in the corner under the bed with the attitude that she had come here anyway.

That stand-in paper-cut is of Wu Mengmeng.

Ye Shan did not put the paper-cuts of the three people in the same place. She would put paper-cuts of different people in different supernatural places.

In this way, if anything happens to any of Wu Mengmeng and the other two, she can quickly locate where the supernatural event is really happening.

Not only does it save the waste of paper cutting, but it can also identify haunted locations.

It will be helpful later whether you put the other two people's paper cuttings in or deal with other things.

Thinking of this, Ye Shan had already arrived at the villa halfway up the mountain.

This villa, including the yard, is about 500 square meters. If it were in the city, it would definitely be considered a big deal, but it seems ordinary in this suburban mountainside location.

The villa has not been completed yet, it only looks like a rough draft, and things like glass have not been installed yet.

Moreover, it was barely 6pm, but there was no sign of construction work at the villa.

Thinking of the situation described in that post, Ye Shan felt that if what happened here was true, then not only would no one start work at 6 o'clock, she would not even think it was too early to get off work at 5 o'clock.

Wearing a mask, Ye Shan walked to the security booth at the entrance of the villa.

"Hey, hey, hey! You're not allowed in here."

An old man in his sixties, wearing a baggy security uniform and without even a hat, walked out of the security booth and drove Ye Shan away.

But Ye Shan did not stop. She walked up to the security guard and spoke while he looked puzzled.

"Uncle, I was asked by the foreman here to take a look at something."

The old man was stunned.

"A fortune teller? You are a little girl and you can tell fortunes?"

After the old man finished speaking, he saw Ye Shan staring at him coldly.

For some reason, the old man didn't dare to look Ye Shan in the eye.

"Even if you were found by the foreman, the foreman didn't tell me. I have to call to confirm."

The old man said this and was about to enter the security booth.

"There were dogs barking at night, and many times people couldn't get out after entering. Some people even fell from the second floor and broke their legs..."

Ye Shan told the old man everything that happened in the villa. The old man stopped and turned to look at Ye Shan with surprise.

He didn't expect that the foreman actually found a female teacher.

But this matter was serious, and the old man felt that he should report it to the foreman.

"I'm only here to take a look. I need to prepare for the real work. Take me to have a look before it gets dark. Otherwise, it might be inconvenient when it gets dark."

When the old man looked at the sky, his face changed. He didn't even bother to make a phone call. He turned around and walked inside with Ye Shan.

"Young man, do you mind if I call you that? Let me tell you, there are footsteps here after 8 o'clock at night, the same sound as the dogs walking in the village, but when I turned on the flashlight, there was nothing!"

"It's only because I, an old man who has lived a long life, seen a lot, and am not afraid of death, that I dare to take this job. Otherwise, there would really be no one guarding this gate!"

The old man seemed somewhat pleased with himself when he said this.

"Actually, they just don't have much experience. Even if there is a ghost in this house, it is only a little ghost. Little ghosts are more afraid of people than people are afraid of little ghosts. I have never seen anything happen to two people together!" Ye Shan asked after hearing this.

"How dare you guard this place alone?"

"Haha, sir, I have a solution! There's a butcher knife in my security booth! I bought it from the village butcher. I can kill at least fifty pigs with that knife, if not a hundred. If I put it in the security booth, not only the little ghosts, but even the old ghosts will have to retreat a little bit if they come."

"So, I don't have to leave the security booth at night and nothing will happen to me."

Looking at the old man's smiling face, Ye Shan became interested in the butcher knife he mentioned.

But I have something else to do this time, and there are butcher knives everywhere, so there is no need to rush with this one.

Within two minutes, the old man and Ye Shan entered the first floor of the unfinished villa one after another.

"Now, this is it."

After the security guard brought Ye Shan over, he stopped talking and seemed to be waiting for Ye Shan to take action.

But how could Ye Shan see things?
She had seen all the previous words from forum posts, and she just wanted to fool the old man.

But she can't see things, but she can do things.

Pretending to look in several places, Ye Shan hid one of Fan Chengdong's paper-cuts in each of the three floors above ground and one on the first floor underground in blind spots where the old man couldn't see.

Ye Shan didn't know whether such a large range would trigger it, so she simply put a few more cards.

After that, Ye Shan walked straight out of the villa.

"Eh? Is that all?"

When Ye Shan put things, she always chose the old man's blind spot, so the old man had no idea what Ye Shan had done.

Ye Shan ignored the old man. After putting her things away, she walked back the way she came.

It was already six o'clock and it wouldn't be long before dark. Although there was a driveway halfway up the mountain, there were few street lights. Ye Shan didn't want to go down the mountain in the dark.

The old man looked at Ye Shan's back, shook his head and sighed.

"Hey, the foreman is really wasting money. Give me the money and I'll buy a dozen butcher knives and put them in the villa to see if there will be any more trouble."

The old man shook his head and went into the security room, continuing to watch his short videos.

At this moment, in the villa, Scorpion was holding a paper-cut in his hand.

"She ran all this way just to release this?"

Scorpion didn't see anything different about the paper-cut, so he put it in his pocket and left the villa.

At night, the villa fell into darkness.

Not long after, there were some crackling noises coming from the basement.

The sound stopped after a while, and then the sound reached the location of a brick.

Under the brick is a dark red paper-cut.

The sounds circled back and forth, and from time to time there were dog barking sounds.

But no matter how loud the dog barked, the brick and the paper cutting did not move.

A humming sound was heard, and a small tooth mark suddenly appeared on the substitute paper-cut under the brick.

The teeth marks are very light and can be ignored.

But as time went by, just one hour later, a row of clearer teeth marks appeared on the paper-cut, and even faint teeth marks appeared on other parts.

At the same time, Chen Xin, who was typing at Wang Xingping's house, opened the page of "The Complete Collection of Town Objects" where the substitute paper-cut was located. After seeing what happened, Chen Xin's pupils shrank.

"Stand-in paper cutting... can it be used like this?"

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(End of this chapter)