Twelve fifty-five o'clock.

There were many clouds in the sky, and the moon was sometimes hidden behind the clouds. When the clouds are thick enough, the moon seems to be non-existent, and when the clouds are gone, they are so bright that it is impossible to ignore.

Syk thought he heard a whisper, but couldn't figure out where it was coming from. Sometimes, the voice would hide in the wind, making him feel like he hadn't heard anything. He couldn't tell what language it was. After a while, he heard a voice mixed in that sounded like a demon was talking, there were a lot of chirping sounds, but it was probably the dialect of the demon, not the standard language of the demon. Nick was unable to make out the contents. The voice grew louder and louder, as if the person who was speaking was approaching.

He tapped the silver box around his neck with his index finger and asked Ash if he had spotted any other demons. Before Ash could answer, he saw the light of a flashlight slowly coming up from the bottom of the mountain.

He saw an elderly man shining a flashlight on the road. He looked like an ordinary person, with a lack of exercise, with no fat or muscle. His hair is thin and long, already completely white, and his scalp can be seen. He wears thin, old gray clothes, straw sandals, and walks with a steady pace. He was carrying an old canvas bag with a lot of empty sacks. Holding another ** bag in his hand, he closed the bag mouth with one hand and held it in his hand. It looks like there's a little stuff in it, and it's about the size of a fist.

He walked over to the cemetery sign, stopped, grinned and asked Rick in the standard Ethero, "Can I go in?"

If it weren't for the novelists who write ghost stories who repeatedly warn people not to casually promise that something else "can come in", Rick might have said yes in passing.

Rick was silent.

"Well, I haven't had a lot of harvest lately. It's hard for the old man to come here. Can I go in?" the old man asked again. He turned the flashlight off, as if he didn't need it in the first place, and used it to make people think he needed it. Now that Xi Ke knew that he didn't need a flashlight, there was no need to continue pretending.

"No. He said, "I also know that you are not good at foraging for food these days, but you should go elsewhere." 」

"Well, I saw that you had one of our kind on you, so I asked you. 」

"If you don't mind, I can treat you to jerky, but I can't agree to anything else. Rick said. This old man is a ghoul, a demon that is quite difficult to encounter in this era. Nick has a deeper understanding of his luck, but this encounter is not a bad thing for him. The Ethero Ghouls only eat corpses and do not move the living, as long as they don't try to kill him, they are safe demons.

The old ghoul lowered his eyebrows, looked at Rick in disappointment, and after a long time said, "Well, something is better than nothing. 」

Passing by the land statue at the entrance, he walked out of the cemetery and took the beef jerky from his bag to the old ghoul.

The old ghoul took the beef jerky, unpacked it, took out a slice and put it in his mouth to chew. The jerky he bought was quite famous, and he thought it was delicious, but the old ghoul chewed the jerky as if he were chewing on tasteless rubber.

The old ghoul sat down on a stone by the side of the road and chatted with Rick, "I picked up some on the railroad tracks today, and since the 'anti-suicide barrier' appeared, the big station couldn't pick it up, and the big station used to be easy to pick up. Last month, I was lucky enough to find a hanged person before the police, and I haven't encountered such a good thing this month. 」

"Do you follow Mina's rules?" asked Rick. The mage Mina was an important figure in the history of the Ethero that established the coexistence of humans and demons.

"Of course. Otherwise, I will run away after taking the meat, and I don't have to call the police and let the humans return the rest to their families. The old ghoul said. The Mina Rules are the standard by which the Wafer of Light decides whether or not to hunt a particular demon. As long as these rules are followed, the Staff of Light will turn a blind eye to any ecology that would make humans uncomfortable, and the Holy Shield will respect the decision of the Staff of Light.

One of the many benefits of Mina's rules is that they allow the Staff of Light to focus on suppressing evil mages instead of wasting effort dealing with demonic problems that are just there all the time, and will not alleviate or worsen. Although demons are rarely in the news, and there are few famous mages who are demons, their power has never diminished.

"I say, what are you doing to sweep the streets so clean?" The old ghoul chewed the jerky with great movements, and finally spat the scraps on the side of the road, saying, "How good old times were, and you could fill your stomach everywhere. 」

"Times have advanced. Rick said. He didn't want to live in an era when ghouls ate until they were blessed.

"Progress? Just hiding the corpses and destroying them is not much progress. The current human race doesn't want to know how many people have died, which is a big step backwards for human beings. In the past, human beings would be anxious to know where and how people died, and they would not be able to save their lives without pursuing this knowledge. Now this kind of world realm where 'I don't know how to live a better life' is not normal at all. Every time humanity has this tendency, there is a catastrophe that takes advantage of it. 」

"I don't deny that. 」

"Anyway, it's human beings who will suffer when the time comes. Hey, some humans say that in the future the Earth will become a place where no one will die, what is going on?"

"The true God says that the Kingdom of God will come. Rick shook his head. They also say that in the future all carnivores will be vegetarian, which obviously will make the planet severely desertified. In addition, a large number of new religions have copied this piece, and it seems to be a doctrine that works well in missionary work.

"Oh, a cult. The old ghoul said this in a tone that seemed to say, "Oh, it's an amoeba protozoa." 」

"It's a decent religion at the level of the world. 」

The old ghoul said, "No, the last time I stood behind a fellow and listened to him talk to his companions for four hours, I'm sure some of these fellows' companions must have killed a bunch of people somewhere, but I don't know where the corpses are. Humans with that kind of thinking will definitely kill people when the time comes, and they are so aggressive that there will definitely be a companion somewhere who will have an opportunity. 」

"They used to kill a lot, but now they don't. 」

"I don't believe it, old man. You're sure to find the mass graves they created somewhere in the world. I can bet against you with the fresh loin I picked up today, as well as the liver. 」

"Forget it. It didn't work if I took that. 」

Syk sat the old ghoul at the entrance and continued to nibble on jerky, and he went back to patrol. As long as he doesn't give permission, the ghoul won't enter the graveyard area.

After patrolling for a while, Xi Ke took out the wooden board and wrote: "The cemetery is like the other side of society, and the people who haunt here are those who can't see it on the bright side of society. There was a brief intersection between the two worlds during the day, but after each of them 'went home', those guys appeared. The things that people in that world realm saw were absolutely different from what they saw in this world, but what they saw on both sides was the same world realm.

"Do I belong to this side, or do I belong to the other side, or am I somewhere I am, just wandering between two societies? I've seen too much of the scenery of the other world, and even if I go back to this world, I still won't see the same things as people who have been in this world. 」

Rick recalls the small talk he had with Kai. He once asked Kai Si what it was like to have a wizard's eye?

"It's just going to see, it's weird, something extra. 」

Xi Ke didn't understand, "What does it mean to have more?

"No, it's not. If there is something strange about a normal picture, like everyone is normal, only one light and shadow is wrong, then before you notice that something is wrong, your eyes will actively focus on it. 」

"That's right. Some people may not be able to find for a long time what is strange, that kind of exception. However, the people who will find it often feel weird first, and then find out that the light and shadow are wrong.

"If you see something like that, your eyes will catch it. So you can see it very clearly, as if it was extra pasted. 」

"Extra stickers?"

"Well, put it on extra. Kai Si looked serious: "If it's all humans, you won't be able to see anyone clearly. But when a non-human is in it, it will be seen very clearly when it happens to be 'connected'. Even if I didn't deliberately stop to look at him, I still had an image in my head that I wouldn't have seen so clearly even if I took the time to stare at him, and all the details were revealed. 」

"Like a freeze-frame shot right into your head?" Nick struggled to imagine what it would be like.

"Almost. So even if I can't catch a fast-moving ghost with my dynamic vision, I'll still see what it looks like. 」

"It sounds like the eye is just a pointing tool in this process, and it's looking at something else. The eye is only used to determine which area to scan for the thing that can be seen.

"Probably. However, everyone's wizarding eye is different. Some people can see angels and demons, some can see ghosts, and some people can see the aura of a living person or a memory of the past. This thing is inherently unstable and can also be affected by physical and psychological conditions. There are many people who lie that they have seen things, but there are also many people who can see the same things without having to collude with them. Some people will see it even more when they are not in good physical condition, while others will see the opposite. 」

Rick recalls his current paranormal experience. There are too many in the Dark Academy, and it's impossible to count them all, so leave them alone. There are too many zombies to count. After starting work, he took supernatural photos in the Fourth Incinerator, took ghost magic words at the Altaro Demon Letter, and saw the creatures in the Dragon's Magic Library. In the past few years, it has been relatively rare to hit ghosts, although it is not less than a situation that makes him want to scold "hell".

Excluding the problem of the innate necromancer, Xi Ke felt that his psychic situation should be considered within the range of normal people.