The night was dark and cold.

The wind howled, the creatures in front of them swelled, and the smoke twisted and swirled, filling the damp clearing.

It was midnight, the gas lights were obscured by thick black smoke, and darkness enveloped everything, and Bill seemed to be locked in a black box, slowly injecting poison gas.

The rustle of leaves was muffled, the rain continued, everything was damp, trees and dirt were crying, and the air was filled with the suffocating smell of bloody rot.

"Can you speak?"

"Don't be nervous, we can just talk about something. ”

"My name is Bill, and I usually like to read suspense novels and whimsy, what about you?"

“......”

"Ignore me, I'll take him away~"

“！”

The black smoke dispersed in an instant, the sky was obscured by a black curtain, there were blue eyes the size of a human head everywhere, there were bursts of pain in the skull, the eyelids were hot, and the eyes were a little blurry.

The space suddenly resounded with a sharp stabbing sound, as if countless ghosts were shouting, and the black smoke turned into a crow impact!

The left arm was blocked in front of him, and the sight was quickly intercepted, and in the sky behind him, black smoke cracked through the gaps, and the bloody mouth was full of ghost fangs, quietly appearing.

The shadow eyeballs opened to their hearts, widened their eyelids in shock, and jumped out of the ground!

The picture is continuously sent into the brain, and the monster picture behind him collides with the real picture and turns into pieces.

Fired backwards in an instant, six bullets passed through the mouth without causing any substantial damage to it.

Giggles......

A cold aura emanated from its mouth, and when he turned quickly, he saw that its pitch-black throat was bottomless, like a giant mouth of the abyss!

"Hey, normal bullets really don't work against it. 」

"That's right, it's like a monster in the shadow world!"

"Why is there a shadow monster in this world, is it brought out by someone, or is it sneaking out?"

Bill thought quickly, but he didn't have time to give an answer, and the crisis quickly came.

A large mouth large enough to devour the truck fell from the sky, and with a quick throw of the revolver, Bill turned around and ran, distancing himself from it.

The black smoke followed, and the mouth that tore through everything closed frantically, about to bite the space.

The heart beats faster, the eyes are halfway covered by the shadow membrane and then stops, and the pupils take on two colors.

The excitement came to my heart again, the black blood was ready to move, and the ink color seeped into the capillaries, and the power spread brought about a speed beyond mortals!

Monsters chase after each other, like ghosts.

Running wildly, I don't know the direction.

One foot suddenly stepped into a strange space, and the surroundings instantly turned into a black expanse, as if time and space had disappeared, there was no light here, and I didn't know how to move forward or retreat.

The sense of solidity disappeared, I don't know how long he ran, Bill slowly stopped, it turned out that the monster had disappeared, there was nothing around, he could only see himself.

......

(Where am I?)

(What about the thing, what about the needle wood?)

(Ah——!?h

Suddenly shouted loudly, and the Adam's apple shook hard.

“......”

(Am I deaf or dumb?)

Bill was in deep confusion, he looked around, there was no light, no sound, maybe no air, so the sound could not travel, there was nothing here......

Only the shadow was still underneath him, the size of Bill, clearly visible.

Sitting down bored, with his hands folded around his knees, he didn't know if he had sat on something, maybe he was falling, maybe he was levitating.

I don't know how long it has been, a ripple slowly spreads, covering the original figure, and the diameter of the shadow circle has become larger again.

The vision swept over the shadow space, and both arms squeezed into the circle at the same time, I don't know if it was an illusion, Bill felt that the circle was getting more and more relaxed, no longer as tight and full of rejection as he first entered.

I believe that it will not be long before the shadow circle will be able to pass through a steam car, and the wish to get a steam locomotive will come true.

Fiddling with the gadgets for a while, the firearms are stacked peacefully in the corner, emitting a black metallic sheen, loading the black bullets into the shotgun and taking them out and placing them on the side of their legs.

The Book of Shadows and the pocket watch hung crookedly in the center, a box of coal cores beneath the Book of Shadows, and a pitch-black dagger flickered, and next to it stood the great psychedelic shadow of the smuggling ship.

Other than that, there are no other items in the space.

Stirring up the shadow-filled space, Bill felt strange, as if ......

Lost something?

Retracting the shadow circle and scratching his chin, he sees the shadow doing the same and waves to the shadow in greeting, and in response, the shadow waves to him.

"If I'm trapped here for the rest of my life, only the shadow will accompany me......

"Hehehehe, it seems to be good!"

"I won't be alone, as long as the shadow can talk!"

"Shhh

He suddenly had a wonderful idea, a sharp pain suddenly came from the skull, and the headache became more and more severe, like 10,000 ants biting the cerebral cortex, itching and numb.

"Ah——!!h

Holding his head in pain, curled up in a ball, as if a tearing sensation crossed it, his mind stripped away from consciousness and merged into a watery phantom.

The shadow eyeballs reappeared, and his face was seen to be separated from side to side, as if in a concave and convex mirror, extremely distorted.

He was in so much pain that he didn't know if he was still alive, but now only the constant pain could make him feel existential, to confirm that he was not in a dream.

"Ha, Ha......"

"Ahh

The shadow followed Bill and trembled wildly, and it was the first to emerge from its eyes and ears, and then a crack opened under the shadow's head, and a lip line grinned in a semi-circular arc!

The shadow suddenly had a mouth, and it covered its mouth and laughed, as if out of Bill's grasp.

Suddenly, the shadow eyeballs stared in a certain direction, and the huge cold dark green eyeballs slowly appeared, turning in the dark space, as if looking for prey.

The two shadow eyeballs blinked desperately, cold sweat covered their eyelids, they looked at each other, and they dug under the shadows at the same time in a tacit understanding, shivering as if hidden in a quilt.

Without warning, several large mouths emerge and fly straight for Bill, seemingly going their own way, but all targeting this fresh, delicious flesh and blood!

“！！！！！！”

Bill couldn't tell the similarities and differences between the real illusions, and more than a dozen pairs of ghost teeth were biting at the flesh!

Curled up and forced to pull away, as violently cold as a hard spring being straightened, palms torn by fingernails, Bill opened his arms.

Like dark and cold blood flowing from a rotting corpse, winding up and covering the heavens and the earth, the black blood gushed out for several meters, and the complete body instantly became full of holes!

Pieces of flesh are removed from the bones, drops of black blood are suspended, shadows are shattered, and the brain is plunged into a vortex of self-denial.

The flesh foamed and the ghost's mouth gnawed and tore frantically, but it did not devour, and Bill was numb with pain, and he suddenly remembered the fried fish on the table, the flesh shaved clean from the bones, and the head of the fish that no one cared about.

Everything is known from the footage transmitted back by the shadow eyeballs, he witnesses the scene of his body being dismembered, and feels like a piranha supper, this is the end of gluttony!

Looking at the mouth formed by the condensation of black smoke, Bill felt that time had slowed down, and the screen seemed to be slowed down, playing at 0.2 times the speed.

The shadow eyeballs blinked, swimming back and forth in the thin shadows, and the shadow's mouth kept opening and closing, not knowing what it was communicating with.

Suddenly realizing that he was not dead, even out of physical pain, Bill did not know what the shadow was now, everything seemed to be black and white.

Strange and absurd thoughts came to him, and the shadow's mouth opened and closed without making a sound, but Bill could clearly hear himself questioning in his head.

"It's strange, why is my body torn to pieces of flesh and bones, and I can still think?"

"Isn't it ......?"

"Conscious mind and soul do not reside in Williams' body, but ......"

"It's his shadow!?"

......