Tom is a general vendor on Dunkel Street in St. Gran.

He learned the trade from his father, and as a cheese vendor, Tom has become accustomed to living as a street vendor who cooks at sunrise and returns at sunset.

This rickshaw full of cheese is his livelihood.

As the sun gradually sets.

Tom glanced at the time, smiled and said hello to his vendor friend next to him, and then pulled the four-wheeled cart and walked towards his home in the suburbs.

When he was on the road, he didn't forget to buy a small jar of honey for his youngest daughter as a birthday present.

Although he is only twenty-seven years old this year, he is already a father of four children, the youngest daughter is exactly three years old today, the eldest is eleven years old and can milk cows skillfully, and his wife has a fifth unborn child in her belly.

Steady progress all the way.

Unconsciously.

By the time Tom returned home, the sky was only the last rays of the setting sun.

Today's fiery clouds seem to be exceptionally beautiful, revealing a bewitching scarlet, like a moment before the midnight rose withered.

"Daddy!"

"Daddy......"

The children happily gathered around him and spoiled him.

Tom smiled happily.

While dealing with the children, he handed over the money he earned today to his wife, and in ordinary life, the two only made eye contact, but they were also full of love.

"How's business going today?"

"There is still about a tenth left, today is Hua'er's birthday, and I came back early."

Soon.

When the people entered the house, the wife had already prepared the meal in advance, and the family prayed sincerely around a table that was not sumptuous dinner.

"Thank the Lord ......"

When the children opened their eyes, Tom smiled mysteriously.

He took a small jar of honey from his clothes and gently placed it on the table.

"Wow!"

The children screamed in surprise, and the sound of cheerful laughter spread throughout the room, and Tom watched this scene and felt that his heart was about to melt, he was so happy.

Amid the happy laughter of the children, the family had a good time and began to enjoy today's dinner.

"Tom, Tom?"

The voice of the neighbor Bob outside the window made Tom frown slightly.

But the other party kept urging, and he got up very reluctantly and walked out of the house.

Only then did he realize that all the neighbors of the farm had come out of the room, standing together in twos and threes, pointing to the sky and discussing something.

Tom couldn't help but look at the blood-red moon that was gradually rising in the sky.

Some appeared frightened and knelt on the ground and prayed.

Bob said in a low voice: "Tom, this is not a good sign, I feel terrified, the extinction day described in the "Bright Festival" is the blood-colored moon, should we do something?" ”

"I don't know."

Tom didn't like it either, he felt a little creepy.

Bathed in the blood-colored moonlight, the atmosphere of panic and unease, he felt that his goosebumps were about to rise.

Moo!

The cows in the cowshed in the distance also began to make uneasy noises.

"Daddy?"

The children ran out of the room and saw the blood-colored moon in the sky, revealing a look of confusion.

"Bring them back!"

Distraught, Tom hurriedly motioned for his wife to bring the children back to the room.

The wife nodded, and was about to take the four children back to the room, but the eldest son, who was usually the most lively and active, suddenly pointed into the distance and made a frightened sound.

"Look, what's that!"

Tom heard this and looked in the direction that his eldest son was pointing.

The pupils of his eyes suddenly shrank to the size of pintips, and his face instantly turned pale.

I saw that on the ground shrouded by blood-colored moonlight, some strange phantoms gradually appeared in mid-air, and their forms were extremely hideous and ugly, as if the demon that had been sleeping for hundreds of millions of years and gradually woke up was gradually opening its blood-colored eyes.

They look very massive.

But the amazing thing is that they only have the part that is in the air, and the vague form can be faintly seen, and the part near the ground has nothing.

Followed by.

Some of the monsters who opened their blood-colored eyes slowly raised their heads and looked at the blood-colored moon in the sky.

They roared in the sky, but they couldn't hear anything.

"Ah......h

The frightened screams of the farmers came and went, which seemed to attract the attention of some monsters.

Some of these monsters, with their large hands with sharp nails, scratched at the restless cows, but when their monstrous claws landed on the ground, they were affected by the unknown and turned from corpses to nothingness.

A strange scene appeared.

The cows were not affected in the slightest.

Seeing this, the monster seemed to be angry, and he opened his bloody mouth, and dark red demonic light poured out, enveloping most of the farm.

The frightened women reacted and planned to return to their rooms.

However, as the monster's mouth sucked violently, the women's bodies suddenly froze in place, and then they fell straight down, and their souls were forcibly sucked away, and they floated into the bloody mouths of the sky.

"Get into the room, don't stand in the light of the blood moon."

Tom, who looked sluggish, was awakened by a dragonfly-like elf, and fear made his breathing heavy and his body covered in cold sweat.

The elf looked into the distance, his face anxious.

"These Blood Moon creatures have just woken up, they are very hungry, and entering the room to avoid being in the light of the Blood Moon will be able to effectively avoid being discovered by the Blood Moon creatures."

Tom reacted and hurried back into his room.

……

The other side.

Chen Mo and Zhan Hao of St. Grand City were like tourists at this time, sitting by the window of the house, looking at the blood-colored full moon in the sky.

The once bustling and lively streets have become completely chaotic.

Everywhere there were sounds of horror, wailing, screams.

Some Blood Moon monsters resembling gnomes, mud monsters, rotten toads, and big-eyed insects are wreaking havoc on the streets.

However, their strength is generally not very strong, and they are only evaluated by ordinary creatures.

Farther away.

In the direction of the tower of the Grand Academy of Natural Sciences, there was a thunderous explosion and concussion.

Two huge half-length creatures loomed in mid-air.

One of them, like a unicorn giant, with a huge horn on top of his head and a hideous spike on his body, tried to get close to the tower, but was forced back again and again by the tower's defenses.

The other is like a three-headed snake, with three heads sometimes manifested, sometimes hidden in nothingness, in a state of disappearing and appearing, launching a long-range attack in the direction of the tower, but being resisted by the tower's energy shield.

These two huge creatures, it seems, the upper body part appears high in the air.

The lower half of the body is completely empty, which looks very weird.

After Chen Mo took a deep breath, he looked at Zhan Mo.

"These two blood moon creatures should already have the strength level of the Cataclysmic Lord."

"Hmm."

Zhan sighed and said, "You are going to spend three years in this kind of world next, so you must be careful." ”

Chen Mo smiled softly.

"Don't worry, if you want to go back, I can go back at any time, but I have already planned the mission objectives for this time, and these two little guys are not independent yet, I want to take care of them here."

on the bed.

Maddy and Linda shivered and leaned back together, staring out the window in disbelief at the horrific scene.

It's a nightmare.

"Don't worry."

Chen Mo said to the two of them: "This is the normal natural law of this world, people will soon adapt to everything in the Blood Moon Era, although the process will be accompanied by some death, but this is the necessary price, people have joys and sorrows, the moon has clouds and sunny days, you also have to learn to adapt." ”

After turning on the gramophone, he came to Linda's side and sat next to her.

Nerina's singing voice came over the gramophone.

"As long as we don't go outside the house when the blood moon rises, those high-level blood moon creatures won't be able to spot us, just like we can't see the ants in the anthill, and as long as we fall asleep, even those low-level blood moon creatures that occasionally break into the room will lose our tracks, you have to learn to survive in the next dark and turbulent times, learn to overcome fear."

Let's talk about it.

He took out a bottle of sleeping potion.

Mom's taste made Linda relax a little.

"Aunt Zhan, are you really leaving?"

He hugged Linda into his arms and kissed her forehead.

"Tomorrow night, we are one, and when you think of me, you will ask Uncle Traveler, and then you can summon me over, and forget what I taught you?"

"Nope."

Time passes.

Before you know it, it's the middle of the night, and the streets are getting quiet after the initial chaos.

Chen Mo could occasionally see some figures running quickly.

The baby's cry came from the neighbor's house, but it soon fell silent again, and the apparently helpless adult, afraid of being exposed, covered the baby's mouth or hid him.

However, Chen Mo is not worried about this.

As long as you don't actively expose yourself to the light of the Blood Moon, it is only a small probability event that those low-level Blood Moon monsters break into the room.

And even if a monster breaks into the room, it's just some of the weakest monsters.

They are the only ones who can operate on the edge of the connection between the Appearance World and the Blood Moon World, and the probability is very low, almost equivalent to the weeds on the grassland, worried about being trampled by wild horses.

The connection between the world of appearances and the world of the Blood Moon is not a combination as understood by ordinary people.

Although the high-altitude areas of the two sides have been basically connected together and become a unified existence, on the ground, they are only entangled, and only the area shrouded by the light of the blood moon will form a marginal area where you have me and I have you, but it is also limited to the blood moon monsters below the second level that can move.

But unless they're just too hungry, they won't come to such a dirty, crowded area.

As for those shadow areas that were not shrouded in the light of the Blood Moon, only the weakest Blood Moon Monsters could barely reach them.

And it's magical.

As long as the humans living in the superficial world sleep in a place that is not illuminated by the light of the blood moon, they will be in a state of absolute safety, and they will not be able to be detected by the blood moon creatures, which is quite similar to humans who have no magical talent and cannot see the elves.

This is probably what is called balance.

(End of chapter)