Barren Ghost Domain, one o'clock in the morning.

The sky was overcast as ink, and the night breeze swept through the clouds, making the rolling green belt rattle like waves.

On the right side of the endless stretch of road, stands a dusty glass phone booth.

At this time, the upper position on the left side of the phone booth was wiped clean and the size of a palm, as if it was a skylight on the roof, revealing two figures huddled inside.

Erica sat in a phone booth, staring worriedly at the dark sky, her hair tossing with the wind. She grabbed her teammate's hand with one hand and told them in the most confident tone:

"It's okay, Evan and they have already given us a way! as long as we go back to the past, we will definitely be able to save the knight!"

"You don't have to worry about me, really. When we were together, we expected a similar outcome. and agreed that no matter who dies in the future, the other party will take his share to live. The Eye Demon looked at the gray lighthouse on the mountain peak in the distance, and replied seemingly calmly.

"That's not the end, and you can't be sure that the corpse is a knight, he's rotting like that!" Erica corrected her errors in words and logic.

"I'm sure it's because I'm familiar with every part of his body. ”

The Eye Demon smiled slightly, a little wryly, as she curled up and sat on the floor against the stained glass of the phone booth. As if sitting in the trench to the wounded in the rain of bullets, his face was weak and pale, and he muttered like a dream:

"It's been two days now, and if the lighthouse doesn't shine tonight, then you and I will fall from hunger. It was agreed in advance that if I couldn't survive first, you could eat me. ”

Hearing her words like a walking corpse made Erica feel sad for a while, and she had the heart to refute, but she couldn't say anything sadly, so she could only keep shaking her head to resist.

......

An hour later, it was business as usual, the only thing that changed was their physical strength and spirit.

Due to the consumption of too much energy and the inability to replenish it, Erica and the Eye Demon are both drowsy at this time. I just opened my eyes from time to time to see if the lighthouse in the distance was lit. It didn't take long for the two daughters to take turns resting because they couldn't get through the sleepiness.

One-one-one-one

After Erica closed her eyes, she fell into a sweet sleep almost immediately, and it didn't take long for her to wake up in a deliberately suppressed and anxious voice:

"Wake up, wake up!"

"Huh!?"

She had just opened her eyes and was about to speak when someone covered her mouth. Then I felt a burst of bright light shining into my eye membrane, and the whole person suddenly felt refreshed.

"Could it be that the lighthouse is glowing!?"

Erica was ecstatic to see that after her eyes adjusted to the light, she realized that it was the Eye Demon who reached out to cover her mouth. At the same time, she also raised her index finger nervously and made a silent motion.

She sensed something was wrong when she opened it—the white light shining into the phone booth was deflecting as if it were going to drown them out, and it was gradually rising higher and higher as the light source moved.

The moment Erica opened her eyes and regained her senses, the white light shining into the phone booth became even more intense. It was a dazzling glow, the gasoline spilled on the highway being refracted by it.

“......”

She carefully held her breath, as if infected by the frightened eyes of her companion, and a trace of panic gushed out inexplicably in her heart. It's as if the originally dark night is still acceptable, but the extra light that slowly wanders away and is pale and dazzling makes people daunted.

Immediately after, the ground and even the phone booth where the two of them were living began to vibrate slightly, as if the ground was being subjected to the voltage of some kind of heavy object, and the amplitude was constantly increasing.

Erica couldn't see anything with her back to the light, so she tiptoed around and raised her head to look in the direction of the vibration.

The abandoned villa and the road stretched to the end of the pitch, with a white light shining from the outside in. It seems that the strong light cast from the mouth of the well to the bottom of the well is too obvious because the contrast between light and dark is too obvious, but people can't see things near the light source.

The Eye Demon and Erica stared at the light source for a long time, and as it drew closer, the white light flooded the entire phone booth, only to realize that it was an old kerosene lamp hanging in mid-air.

That's right, the same lighting tool that was before electric light was widely available. The bulb resembles a thin-waisted, pot-bellied glass, with a rusty wire handle attached to it and an oil-stained copper lampholder at the bottom.

Erica didn't know anything about it, but the Eye Demon was a person who lived in that era, and the lamp could be said to have been with her throughout her childhood. But the kerosene lamp in the distance was too big, more than three meters tall to the eye, about the size of a small, glowing house.

The glow of kerosene in the darkness was white and intense, and the light bulb seemed to be shrouded like an old yellow veil, indescribably dirty and old. It swayed slightly, making a strange crunching sound, and floated closer and closer in the air.

The Eye Demon watched the scene in silence, sitting cautiously in place, not planning to take any action until the kerosene lamp was sure of its threatening level. Erica was a little disgusted by the light, and she felt the urge to pull out a cannon and blast the broken lamp with an air cannon.

At this time, the Eye Demon seemed to sense the commotion in her teammates' hearts, and quickly pushed her back, shaking her head to signal her not to mess around. Erica nodded silently, indicating that she was measured and would not do bad things because of impulse.

One by one, one by one

The pale glow of the kerosene lamp slowly swept across the road, and then a withered figure emerged behind the dim light bulb—an old woman's dress.

It wore a tattered dress, straw-like yellow hair was draped over its shoulders, and its head was buried in its chest. He was shaking his head from side to side, looking at the villas on both sides with a pair of eyes that were deep in the black holes under his eye sockets. As he staggered along the dimly lit road, the vibrations on the ground became closer and clearer.

The kerosene lamps are three meters higher in height, so the owner of the kerosene lamp is obviously even larger, and the road and the villa look like small children's toys compared to it.

The kerosene lamp in its hand emitted a miserable white light, but its body was shrouded in a faint green glow that came from nowhere. The body under the strip of rotten cloth was shriveled and thin, without a trace of muscle, as if it were a dry corpse that had been sealed in the dust for a long time.

As it staggered forward, it occasionally lifted the lantern and shone through the window into the depths of the villa. In an instant, the entire villa would be shrouded in white light, and a thin layer of ice would soon rise on the ground, walls, and ceiling, spreading rapidly in all directions, completely freezing the entire space. If there is a corpse or some unknown ghost hidden inside, it will be pulled out and swallowed, and the clear chewing sound is extremely terrifying in the dark night. \

It seemed to move very slowly, but as it moved, the long road seemed to be getting shorter, and in an instant it was crawling to the next villa.

Observing this scene from afar, both the Eye Demon and Erica had a feeling of falling into an ice cellar - they had seen all kinds of monsters in the past few days, but this was the first time they had encountered such a strange and huge one.

“......”

The two glanced at each other, and through each other's eyes, they quickly understood each other's thoughts.

This phone booth can't be kept, even the ghosts hidden in the villa can't hide, as long as the two of them are frozen by the white light, they will definitely die even worse.

The two of them tiptoed open the glass door, ready to slip away quietly. However, the telephone booth was so old that even the door shaft seemed to be rusty, and the sound of a gentle push was extremely harsh and sharp, almost immediately alarming the huge and emaciated glutton.

It immediately turned its head and turned the kerosene lamp to the phone booth.

At this moment, this strange gluttonous eater also raised his chin, revealing the true face of Lushan hidden on his chest - on that head, there were countless small holes densely arranged, like a huge honeycomb that had been discarded, and even the eyes were just the holes of two black holes.

The second daughter, who was about to leave in an instant, suddenly stiffened - that feeling was really indescribable:

The terrifying and sinister goblin twisted its head into a series of teeth-rattling bone grinding sounds, its black hole staring at the phone booth. At the same time, the light from the dim old kerosene lamps swept through the long, dark and narrow road, completely enveloping the dusty telephone booths in white light.

The sudden increase in the light made their scalps tingle, as if they heard a heart-piercing wail from the bottom of their hearts.

The wail seemed to be an eternal nightmare, which caused a rotting and withering breath to grow in the depths of the soul, as if the whole person had lost all his flesh and blood in an instant, and weathered into a dry corpse. The soul also fell into bottomless darkness, falling in the bottomless abyss of the unknowable, never ending.

Click-click——!

The entire phone booth was instantly coated with a thin layer of ice, and the ice continued to multiply and spread under the white light, and Erica and the Beholder froze in place after being eroded by fear, and their legs were frozen.

"Oops!"

Erica snapped out of the withering despair and realized she was frozen in place. Immediately raised his weapon with his back to the glutton, and fired a powerful laser cannon from afar.

Boom ——!

The dazzling white pillar of light instantly crossed the road, hitting the monster's thin neck and directly shattering it.

Smack——!

The withered head fell to the ground, but the body did not stop, running towards the Eye Demon and Erica. Then he was hit by several high-temperature dissolving rays, and it exploded in pieces.

After the huge gluttony was shattered, the kerosene lamp still hung high in place, and the wreckage began to squirm towards the light source. Then something even more bizarre happened: the stumps gathered so quickly that it was as if an invisible hand was rapidly helping it to be installed.

Bang bang bang——!

In the process, the Beholder first fired one shot at the phone booth and then two more shots at the ground, scorching the icy pavement. Then, together with Erica, he broke free, turned around and smashed the regrouping Gluttony with another shot, and began to run for his life in the direction of the lighthouse in the distance.

One by one, one by one

Invisible city, unfinished real estate.

Evan was squatting on the side of the stairs to deal with the remains of the monster, and had just put the two corpses together when a female researcher suddenly heard a scream in his ears: "Don't dispose of the corpse indiscriminately! The corpse of that monster is very valuable for research! Don't destroy it!"

"I know it without you saying it. ”

He stared at the corpse lying on the stairwell and replied from afar.

Then comes a series of hurried footsteps, from far to near, and soon the door to the hall behind her pops open, and Rarity pounces on the stairwell like a cheetah:

"Where, where, where is the corpse of the monster?"

"On the ground. Evan gestured to the ground.

I saw a pale-skinned male corpse lying on the ground, his face twisted in pain, even if it was completely silent at this time, it could still make people feel a burst of spiritual pain and depression. The limbs of the entire corpse had cut marks, as if they had been slashed by a sharp blade, and the skin was so pale that there was no trace of blood, and the person had a strange feeling that it was swollen and about to rot.

“......”

Rarity approached the corpse with trepidation, and before she walked in, she felt an indescribable oppression. And with a gloomy feeling, that gloom gave her goosebumps all over her body, and her body became cold.

"Are you sure it's dead?" she stood timidly, not daring to come closer.

"yes, I'm sure. Evan replied in a very affirmative tone.

"You snuck up on this monster from behind while it was chasing me?" Rarity asked, taking another half step back, excited.

"Can it be called a sneak attack?"

Ivan decisively denied it, and explained with a serious face:

"When it attacked you, I took the opportunity to kill it!

"Anyway, thank you for saving me. ”

The female researcher blushed, then decisively turned her face, pointed to the corpse on the ground and said, "Later, the three of you will be responsible for escorting it to the research institute! When you arrive at the research institute, I will recommend you to your superiors and help you testify." ”

"Finally willing to believe in us? Thank you. Ivan breathed a sigh of relief.

"Giggle......

At that moment, a cold, ice-cold voice with almost no undulation felt from the corpse's severed neck. As the sound came out, a stream of blood with white foam spurted out of it and splattered onto the walls of the stairwell.

"Ahhhh

Rarity stumbles back in fright, then tripped over the door frame, falls on her back, and faints in front of her eyes.

"How can it be alive!?"

At this time, Evan didn't care about the female researcher falling to the ground, and directly stepped in front of the corpse, and suddenly raised his calf and stepped down, instantly smashing the skull.