Chapter 4: After Dark

Those eyes were not angry in the slightest, their pupils were dilated, and their brilliance was not visible at all, they were typical dead people's eyes. Those eyes stared straight at Zige who took a few steps back, and the empty eyes made Zige's hairs stand on end.

Zige calmed down, carrying an oil lamp, and the light shone on the window, and he realized that there was nothing below the eyes, as if the nose, mouth and neck had been cut off. This window is two-way, and it stands to reason that when Zige observes those eyes, those eyes should also be able to see Zige.

But the light shone on those eyes, and those eyes were still staring at Zige motionlessly, and Zige gradually got used to the gaze of those eyes, so he was no longer afraid, but concentrated on observing those eyes.

Dead people can't speak, but the eyes of dead people tell Zige something.

Zige found that those eyes still had the color of fear, and the death of its owner should have happened in an instant. What makes Zige feel bizarre is that its owner should not have been killed, but seemed to have been scared to death.

As for other things, Zige can't see it anymore. After all, it was just a pair of dead people's eyes, and there wasn't much useful information that could give Zige.

Zige put the candle on the windowsill, leaned against the wall, sat down, and habitually touched his earlobe.

"What the hell are these eyes trying to do? Why does it keep staring at me? Or is there another eye that is actually staring at every house in Tianyin Village? Is there something out there? Is it really a dead person?"

"No, if there were more than one dead person, the smell of corpses would be strong, but I didn't smell a trace of corpses. But it is obviously the eyes of a dead person, after a person dies, the three souls and seven spirits enter the reincarnation, leaving only an empty shell corpse, is someone manipulating the corpse?"

"Wait!" Zige suddenly touched his earlobe, "I seem to have overlooked something! Tianyin Village is forbidden on three sides, and the Demon Beast Mountain Range can be regarded as a forbidden area for humans, so how did I get here? Grandpa Yan said that he found me on the edge of the Demon Beast Mountain Range, so how did I pass through the Demon Beast Mountain Range? I remember that the Heavenly Dao hit a golden light into my body, and I fainted. What happened during my coma?"

"If you trace back to the roots, how did Tianyin Village come about? Why is it surrounded by the three forbidden lands and the Demon Beast Mountain Range? Does the man Grandpa Yan once mentioned have anything to do with the eyes outside?"

Zige suddenly felt a headache, he held his head in his hands, his eyes kept rolling, and his expression was painful. He struggled to the table, poured a glass of water, spilled a little of the overflowing water from the cup with his shaky hand, tilted his head, and drank it all.

He forcibly banished the question from his mind, and gradually regained his composure. It's not that he didn't think about calling Mo Ling out, the little fat man has always boasted that there is nothing he doesn't know, maybe he can know some clues from him.

But for some reason, Zige never summoned the little fat man.

The night was getting thicker and thicker, and Zige was a little irritable under his suppression, and he decided to observe it for a while longer.

......

On the third night, the eyes reappeared, and Zige looked carefully and found a difference. These dead man's eyes don't belong to the same person as last night's dead man's eyes!

The similarity is that both pairs of eyes have a residual look of fear, and they should be scared to death. Although it was a small discovery, it made Zige very inspired.

By the evening of the fourth day, the eyes were "on time."

Zige has been waiting for the rabbit, and finally let him make a new discovery, these dead people's eyes did not appear immediately after dark, but in the middle of the night, probably Zi Shi, and disappeared at Yin Shi, only existed for about two hours.

Moreover, the eyes of the dead on this night, like the previous three nights, did not belong to the same person, and there was still a look of fear in their eyes.

Fifth Night, Sixth Night, Seventh Night......

Every night, Zige observes the dead man's eyes outside the window, waiting until the eyes disappear before squinting for a while. But he seemed to have forgotten that he was only a mortal now, and that the long, short hours of sleep had made him feel refreshed during the day.

The old people in the village all laughed and said, did they do something unsightly with someone at night, Luo Zixin was full of resentment towards him, and Zige could occasionally eat some dishes that were either "too much salt", "too much chili", or "forgot to put salt".

Zige couldn't laugh or cry about this, but he couldn't explain anything, did he tell Luo Zixin that he was thinking about things in front of a pair of dead people's eyes every night?

So, this young man had to eat coptis dumbly, but he was bitter to Grandpa Yan, and often had to eat the clear water noodles that "forgot to put oil and salt" with Zige.

Soon, a month passed, and the continuous observation had made Zige know everything he should know, and what he shouldn't know was still in the dark. The only thing he was sure of was that none of the dead man's eyes outside his window every night belonged to the same person.

Moreover, the owners of these eyes should all die of their own fear. But the core question still haunts Zige, what is the dead man's eye outside? Is it just a dead man? Or is it something else?

On the night of the thirty-first day (thirty days is a month in the Jiwu Continent), Zige didn't look at the dead man's eyes outside the window anymore, because he couldn't see anything else. As the night grew darker, the moonlight hid in the depths of the clouds, and Tianyin Village fell into deep darkness once again.

Zige was lying on the bed, not falling asleep, just closing his eyes and recuperating, silently calculating the time in his heart, at a certain moment, he suddenly opened his eyes, turned over and got out of bed. He didn't wash and change his clothes, and kept wearing the clothes of the day, as if he had been prepared.

He walked to the table, lit the candles, warmed the pot of water, made a cup of tea, and placed it on the windowsill. The rising heat replaced the window, and the next moment, a pair of eyes suddenly appeared, and in the mist, Zige hooked the corners of his mouth and said softly: "I'm looking for you." ”

He walked to the door, raised the hand that had been raised thirty times and lowered thirty times, and exhaled deeply: "It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided." Mozi Song, you must come back alive. ”

He opened the door and walked out.

The wind was not very strong, but in the late summer night, it was still a little cold, which made Zige, who was mortal, shiver. In the eye, in addition to darkness, it was still darkness, and only through the thin moonlight, I could barely see the outline of Tianyin Village.

As if there was nothing.

Zige slowly walked to a corner, which was the corner of his house, and turned around to the only window. Zige had fantasized about countless possibilities, such as the fact that there was a white skeleton with only eyes left outside the window, which explained why there was nothing but eyes, for example, that the mischievous child in the village played a prank on him, drawing a pair of dead people's eyes on a white piece of paper to scare him, although this was basically impossible, and for example, all of this was really just his imagination, in fact, there were no dead man's eyes at all, but he was scaring himself......

But what Zige didn't expect was that outside the window, there was nothing!

Not to mention the eyes of the dead, there is not even a dead leaf. The only thing he could hear was the sound of his own breathing, his heartbeat, and the whirring of the wind. And the only thing he could see, apart from himself and the moon shadow hiding behind the clouds, was endless darkness.

However, there was obviously nothing, that's right, it was the so-called nothing, but Zige felt that those eyes had turned around, still staring at him motionlessly!

The chill swelled up, and the back was cold, which made Zige's body tremble involuntarily. He was afraid, his pupils were dilating little by little, if there was a mirror now, he would see himself in the mirror, those eyes were gradually becoming the thirty pairs of dead eyes he had observed!

Consciousness was clear, the heart pulse was beating normally, the blood was flowing in an orderly manner, and the breathing was a little heavy, but it didn't make a difference. But Zige found that his body couldn't move, not only his body, but he couldn't even roll his eyes!

Zige began to regret his reckless behavior, the rules that have been passed down from generation to generation in Tianyin Village are not without reason. Don't go out after dark, on the first day Zige woke up, Grandpa Yan had already cautioned him. In the days to come, Grandpa Yan and the uncles and aunts in the village also reminded him repeatedly, and Luo Zixin would also say a word to him from time to time, for fear that he would not understand the rules and lose his life.

But those eyes were like a thorn in his heart, and although they were not fatal, they always kept him awake at night and made him scratch his cheeks. He finally took that step, although he said something "woe" and "blessing" or something, but when it was really time to face life and death, Zige still regretted it, and the regret intensified, and slowly turned into remorse.

He regretted why he didn't listen to the old man's advice and had to go out after dark; he regretted that he was going to die before he had time to avenge his family and Lai Mengtian......

But it's too late.

At this time, there were noisy voices from all directions, and these voices scrambled to burrow into Zige's ears with a certain greed and anticipation.

"Look, another fool! Didn't anyone tell him not to go out after dark?" The voice must have come from someone in Tianyin Village, and this person did not listen to the persuasion, and went out after dark, and ended up being one of the many dead people's eyes.

"Delicious and delicious, I haven't seen a living human race for a long time! Come on, I can't wait to enjoy the food!" Listening to these words, the owner of this voice does not seem to be a human race, and it seems that he wants to eat Zige.

"O souls with nowhere to be buried, welcome to the land of the dead. "Uh...... It sounded like there was a welcome voice.

Zige's ever-expanding pupils slowly reflected a longing shadow, and in these unreal shadow armies, there are humans, animals, demon beasts, and other non-human and non-demon creatures.

Although the voices that came into Zige's ears were distinctly colorful, their eyes were no different from those seen by Zige in the first thirty nights, magnified, hollow, without brilliance, and with a residual fear.

Those shadowy figures became clearer and clearer, the body outside the eyes began to emerge, and Zige's pupils were about to dilate to the limit.

"Am I going to die? Am I really going to die? But, I am so unwilling! I want to live, I want to live!" Zige shouted in his heart.

Suddenly, a heavenly voice rang out, and the cacophony of voices seemed to fall silent as if it had never existed.

"Little boy, why don't you go home so late?"