White Paper House, a Strange House

Deep within Stone Ridge Mountain, near the back mountain, we suddenly saw a white paper house standing amid the forest.

It caught us off guard and filled us with surprise.

The house looked much like the single-story paper buildings sold outside, with white walls, green tiles, and yellow windows.

A standard paper effigy building arrangement.

But this paper building was the size of a real house, standing there amid the white mist of the forest, looking utterly bizarre...

We all froze at the sight, then exchanged glances.

"A paper house?"

"It's my first time seeing such a huge paper house. It's so creepy!"

"..."

I frowned without saying anything.

After studying it for a few moments, Mao Jing spoke quietly:

"That's called a mortal-world Nether Building. It's for ghosts to live in.

In the past, only people of high status and wealthy families could afford to build this kind of Nether Building.

After the dead were buried, they would place a paper effigy of the deceased inside and burn it all together.

Even among paper effigy craftsmen, those capable of making a Nether Building this large were extremely rare.

And nowadays, there are even fewer who know how to make one.

Usually, they just convert a living person's house into a mourning hall.

For such a huge paper house to suddenly appear in this remote mountain wilderness...

It shows that this dead person must have held an extraordinary status..."

Hearing that, I thought of the paper effigy girl ghost Zhang Yuchen and I had encountered earlier, the one using paper effigies to prolong her life.

Could this house have been built for the white paper effigy carrying her seven souls to inhabit?

As I was thinking, Pan Ling asked:

"What do we do now? Should we go over and take