CHAPTER 07
"Pottery? If it's pottery, I'll do it, but why?" Shen Si tried to pull the corner of his coat out of the paper man's hand.
Looking at the paper man, whose face was faded in white paper and whose hair and eyes were made up of black paper and whose clothes were in flower and green. Shen was always reminded of the man who died in his funeral when his parents said they had burned his body and left the only paper man they had bought cheap.
"Can you make pottery for me?" The paper man waved his white paper hand, "It's simple. Help me out!"
Shen Si stood two steps back, but the paper man pulled his corner tightly and moved forward with his movements.
"Why do you make pottery?"
The paper man who ignored Shen Si continued to ask Shen Si to make pottery for him, and the sound gradually became sharp from the beginning of peace, and he gave one noise after another, causing a headache for Shen Si.
"Are you afraid of fire? Let me go." Shen Si found the lighter he was carrying from the backpack behind him, which he lit with a click.
Since the paper man was supposed to be afraid of fire, the paper man placed in the family compound was so ignited that his parents seemed to look him out, and then rushed to banish him, even spreading rumors that he was a lonely star, that his parents were dead, that their unrelated aunts and families were gone, and that their only children were sick.
Shen Si was completely excluded from the village.
Just then, a bit of sparks leapt from the lighter on to the paper man. The paper man was instantly lit, Shen was dumbfounded, and he pulled out his corner and backed back two steps. The paper man was burning in the flame, and it didn't talk, as if it were really burned.
Looking at the burnt paper man with some surprise, he looks at his lighter and puts it in his pocket.
The paper man was burned down, the flame was so small after the combustion aids disappeared, and Shen Si didn't want to stay, moving around the ceramic walls.
"Jiang Yi? Are you there?" Shen shouted the girl's name.
At that time, a little noise was heard under the table next to him, and Shen Si hurried to the place where the sound was made. Under the table, Shen Si saw a girl who held herself tightly under the table and kept shaking. She tries to suppress her voice for fear of constantly making the sound of teeth clashing against each other.
"Jiang Yi?"
"No!" Jiang was screaming, and she kept moving inside, trying to hide again, but behind her was a wall and couldn't shrink.
Shen knelt down on his single knee, and he reached out to try to calm the terrified Jiang Yi, "Don't be afraid, I'm the guide you went up with, and I won't hurt you. Don't worry, look up at me."
With Jiang Yi trembling, she slowly lifts her head, her dyed yellow wheat hair stuck in her face with tears and sweat, and Jiang Yi is not a good look at all, watching in horror and shouting as she sees the familiar white hair.
"Mr. Shen! Help me!" Jiang Yi's voice was a bit hoarse. "I'm scared. I want to go home."
Shen breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay, I'm the guide who brought you. If I brought you here, I'd definitely take you back safely."
"Mr. Shen, I know you!" The girl could not seem to hear Shen's words of comfort, and she wiped a tear with her hand, then held Shen's sleeve with her hand, "Please make sure you get me out of here! I heard that man say you're awesome! You're a good friend of the three s-level survivors, and I'll repay you. Please, help me!"
Shen Si gave a small pause, "Sorry, what are you talking about?"
"No! You must be!" Jiang Yi couldn't hear anything else, clutching Ms. Shen's clothes as if she were clutching the last straw to save her life.
Shen Si looks at her, and after a moment he carefully steps back, "It's not a matter of time. You get out of there first. It's okay. There's no danger. I'll protect you."
As soon as she heard that she was going out, Jiang Yi was slightly repulsive, and the small space could give her a sense of security. She shrank under the table, leaving Shen unwilling to go out anyway.
"But if you've been inside, how do we get out of here?" Shen's voice is calm, "Don't you want to go home? You can only go home if you leave here, right?"
Jiang Yi shook her head, and she stood still for a minute, and she seemed to hear a sigh. Jiang Yi looked up somewhat trembling, but she was afraid that Shen Si would turn straight away and leave across the table. Shen still stands on one knee, his dyed white hair glowing as if it were a ray of light.
At that moment, Jiang Yi's heart suddenly settled.
No problem. No problem! Shen is very strong, even in these strange places it doesn't matter, he must have a way of taking himself out.
Jiang Yi moves her body slightly outwards. Shen sees her ready to come out and shove her, and the girl emerges from under the table, looking around in horror. It is not until she is sure there is really no one around that she seems to relax as a breath.
She slowly dropped her hand, snapped, and it was the sound of porcelain crashing into the hard stuff.
Shen looked slightly surprised at her hand. "Your hand....."
"......become ceramic." Jiang Yi's face was pale, even when she came out from under the table, she still curled up, "There was a paper man who asked me to help him make pottery, I did it half the way and I managed to escape in fear. I just ran two steps and I felt my hands were heavy, and when I looked again, my hands and arms were turned into ceramics."
"Do you still feel anything?"
"No." Jiang Yi looked at Shen Si with fear. "Mr. Shen, will my hand never come back?!"
Shen Si shakes his head, "Let's not jump to conclusions. There are many survivors out there. Maybe they can do it. Now let's find a way out."
"Okay." Jiang Yi nodded in a hurry and she understood the current state of affairs. She fully believed that Shen Si was a strong man, and she listened to whatever she said.
Shen pulled Jiang Yi up. They went ahead along the wall, which was white ceramics with various flowers on it. Shen reached out and knocked, which was the sound of hitting the ceramic bowl completely. Jiang Yi followed Shen completely behind him and did not speak, so as not to affect Shen Si while trying to reduce his own sense of existence.
Jiang Yi felt only that she was struck by the sound of porcelain, which made her nervous to jump all the time.
As the pounding stopped, Shen seemed to find the right place, and he stopped and began to turn over his backpack, and Jiang Yi stood next to him and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
For some time she's been feeling a little hot around.
There was nothing in this strange space, only the white ceramic walls and some messy tables, the whole space was dead, just the sound of Shen flipping through things, Jiang Yi shaking, she pulled her clothes on her own, but they didn't budge.
Jiang Yi was stiff, and this time she wore a long overcoat and grew to the point of bending her leg, but the dress was not so heavy that she could not pull.
It's like there's something hanging on her clothes that prevents her from pulling...
Jiang Yi looked down with horror, and the next moment she stared at something that had been hanging from her corner. It was a burnt paper man, who looked up at her. Jiang Yi was able to see the paper man's two dark eyes, as if a scene in a horror film that left Jiang Yi's head blank.
She couldn't even cry out, and she was standing stiff and staring at the paper man.
Some sparks jumped onto Jiang Yi's clothes along with the paper men and arrived with a slight passing of anxiety. Jiang Yi finally responded that he wanted to shake off the paper men on his clothes, but the corners of the clothes had started to flare up. Just when Jiang Yi was busy with her hands, Shen Si dragged down her coat and threw out the paper men together with her.
Jiang Yi fell on the floor, and she stared dumbfounded at the burning jacket as if she had not reacted.
"Fire?" Shen looked at the burning clothes, and the paper man came out of the flame with fire, and black pieces were falling on his dark body.
"Mr. Shen!" Jiang Yi backed off two steps. "What do we do? It's coming. It's going to turn us all into ceramics!"
Shen pulls up Jiang Yi, "Get out of here first!"
When I pushed out Jiang Yi, Shen felt his clothes were too heavy. The spark suddenly ignited Shen's coat. He threw it out and flung it aside with little paper men.
The lighter in the pocket fell on the paper man, and the lighter in the red shell contrasted with the dark paper man.
Wait...... Does the lighter explode when heated?
"Run!" Shen Si responded.
"Okay!" As Jiang Yi rushed out, she dragged herself into a ceramic hand and, with her head blank, even felt as if she was in a state of inexpressible self-awareness, she could hear the sound behind her, know her purpose, as if her whole mind could not control her body, and now she is keeping her instincts to escape.
Suddenly she stumbled, Jiang Yi nearly fell to the ground, she returned to her senses, gasped, subconsciously turned back.
The paper man stood there, reaching out to Shen where his coat was burning, and his voice is as it always has.
"Can you make me pottery?"
Across from the paper man, Shen stood silently, only a meter apart.
The image was eerily unusual, of a white-haired young man and a paper man burnt to a scorch, the paper man falling off the black residue. At that point, a thud, an explosion, a hand from Shen Si stretched out as if he was trying to catch something. At the end, he put his hand down and ran towards Jiang Yi.
He is too calm, and Jiang Yi does not even understand what makes him feel so calm, both in the face of inexplicable things and in the face of a nearly insoluble dilemma.
Why isn't Shen afraid? Coming to such a terrible place can also be turned into ceramic, and there is no way out, so normal people are afraid.
Or, for Mr. Shen, it's nothing, as long as you believe him, you can leave.
In that moment, with extreme fear, Jiang Yi placed all his hopes on Shen, who in her eyes was the strongest man to save her.