Chapter 40: The Death of the Grave Keeper 3
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After calming down a little, Zhu Fengling began to think. She's a smart woman, and she's got a general analysis of the matter.
The hairless monkey eats its eyes before eating human flesh and internal organs. The previous two grave keepers had their eyes gouged out and their internal organs cut off, most likely by the monkey. However, the two grave keepers were originally living people, but these times they were dead bodies. Zhu Fengling deduced that maybe the hairless monkey was originally going to attack the living, but since the death of the two grave keepers, no living person went to the cemetery at night, so it could only eat the dead corpses. Therefore, the monkey must not be allowed to find out, otherwise there is only a dead end.
At midnight that day, the hairless monkey reappeared, dug open a new grave, and ate the eyes and entrails of the corpse. This went on for four days, and then it was silent, as if it had never happened.
Zhu Fengling still closes the doors and windows every night, and does not turn on the electric lights. From the outside, it looked like there was no one in the room at all.
She also considered quitting her job, but after four days, everything was back to normal and her mood calmed down.
And the hairless monkey reappeared, again ten years later. This time, it appeared for eight days. Zhu Fengling didn't tell anyone about it, and she didn't move back home.
Zhu Fengling felt that she had become a little abnormal. She was obviously full of fear of the hairless monkey, but she still stood by the window at midnight every day and watched through the gap in the curtains.
And this time, she finally found out about a special situation.
A month ago, a villager accidentally poked his eyes blind while repairing his house, and since then he has been in a frenzy, thinking that he has become a waste, and soon committed suicide. His grave, this time the target of the hairless monkey.
It was still moving quickly, digging out the coffin, lifting the lid, and jumping onto the corpse's chest.
But this time, it just looked at the corpse's face fixedly, and after a while buried the coffin back.
It didn't eat because he didn't have eyes, so it lost interest.
Zhu Fengling hid behind the curtain and looked at it with a gloomy expression.
The eight tombstones that fell down successively were also restored by Zhu Fengling one by one. No one would rest when they knew that their loved one's grave had been dug up and that their bodies had been brutally destroyed. Anyway, since Zhu Fengling is doing this job, it is her responsibility to protect the grave. If she wasn't protected, she didn't want anyone else to know.
The last time Zhu Fengling saw a hairless monkey was ten years ago, when she was sixty years old. At this age, she should have retired a long time ago, but she always felt that she hadn't completely figured out the truth of everything, and she didn't want to just give up. As for the village committee, they only asked her once, and they didn't say much.
This summer, Zhu Fengling, who was already showing her old state, closed the doors and windows as usual and lay on the bed in the dark.
At midnight, a familiar voice rang out. Zhu Fengling was agitated and sat up from the bed. She knew that the hairless monkey was here again.
She stood up, walked to the window, and peered through the gap in the curtains.
The hairless monkey's eyes seemed to be larger, and the area of the whites of the eyes was also a little smaller, almost invisible, and the two huge eyes were almost all black pupils, which looked strange and inexplicable. It dug up a grave as before, dug up the coffin, ate the corpse's eyes and entrails, and reburied the coffin, then disappeared into the night.
After decades of observation, Zhu Fengling has already discovered that the reason why he had the illusion of seeing the previous tomb keeper Lao Li was because anyone who saw the hairless monkey's eyes would see the eyes of the last person it ate through those pupils. It's just that it's not so much "seeing" as it is a feeling, and only after thinking about it will you realize what you're seeing. And, as the number of eyes eaten by the monkey increased, so did its two eyes, which grew larger and darker, and the area of the whites of the eyes became smaller and smaller.
How many people's eyes does the hairless monkey have to eat before it stops? Zhu Fengling has no way of knowing. She hid behind the curtain at the moment, and saw that the monkey's eyes were barely white, and only a little white could be seen when the eyeballs turned.
What happens when its eyes turn completely black? Will it stop eating people, or will it break through some kind of boundary and become a new being?
Zhu Fengling is already sixty years old. As she grew older, she became much bolder. She also thought that when she saw the hairless monkey again, she would no longer have any anxiety or fear. But she was wrong. When she saw that thing and thought about it, she couldn't help but feel a chill.
Early the next morning, Zhu Fengling came to the fallen tombstone and began to restore the ground and tombstone as before. Looking at the name on the tombstone, she sighed, silently feeling sorry for the owner of this tomb.
Suddenly, she froze. She reached out to stroke the ashes from the tombstone, and her name was revealed.
It wasn't a special person, it wasn't her relatives or friends, but she was horrified. It was only at this point that she finally realized a very important problem.
All the graves that had been dug by the hairless monkey were all men's graves, without exception.
Zhu Fengling was originally half-squatting on the ground, but at this moment she stood up suddenly, looked around in a panic, and then ran between the graves, checking all the tombstones.
All the graves of the newer men have been dug up, and the rest are either old and the corpses are probably long decomposed and withered, or they are the graves of women.
Zhu Fengling suddenly felt a wave of dizziness and almost couldn't stand steadily. A terrible thought rose from her mind.
Night is coming soon. Zhu Fengling began to pack her things, she planned to go home and sleep tonight. No matter what, she didn't want to be left alone anymore. The monkey usually appears at midnight, but now it's only six o'clock in the evening, and there is still plenty of time. She packed her clothes and some daily necessities, wrapped it, and checked it. It's heavy, but it doesn't matter, her home is so close that it doesn't take a few steps to get there.
She picked up her package and headed for the door. Just as her hand was about to touch the doorknob, a loud thud came from the window. Zhu Fengling was so frightened that he was full of excitement, turned his head to look, and suddenly his soul was scattered.
That hairless monkey is right outside the window!
It grinned at Zhu Fengling, its teeth were sharp and long, and some unknown liquid was still dripping on it, and its two eyes were as if they were soaked in ink, and they were unbelievably big. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.