Chen Ling's pupils suddenly constricted!
However, when he blinked, the bloody characters on the ground disappeared in an instant, as if they had never existed.
Hallucination?
Chen Ling stood there blankly. Those words seemed to have drilled into his mind and he couldn't forget them.
[We are watching you.]
Chen Ling suddenly turned his head!
In the empty living room, it seemed as if there were pairs of invisible scarlet pupils observing him. This feeling of being stared at was exactly the same as in his nightmares.
He stood there like a statue for a long time, then began to force himself to take deep breaths.
"Maybe I was too tired from staying up late these past few days to prepare for the Law Enforcer exam. My mind is too tense..."
"But that was the original owner of this body's doing. It has nothing to do with me... Could it be that something went wrong when the two souls merged and damaged my mind?"
"I've heard that in severe cases of schizophrenia, it's indeed possible to have indistinguishable hallucinations..."
Chen Ling temporarily suppressed the fear in his heart and tried to explain everything in a scientific way. A strong sense of hunger welled up in his stomach. He casually took a sausage from the cutting board and gobbled it down in two or three bites, then he somewhat regained his senses.
"Maybe I need a psychiatrist."
Startled, Chen Ling didn't even have the mood to wash his face. He hastily put on a black cotton overcoat and pushed the door open to go out.
Even so, the cold air that rushed in from behind the door still made Chen Ling shiver.
This was the first time Chen Ling had formally interacted with this world since regaining consciousness. He took a deep breath and prepared himself to face all the unknowns and difficulties.
However, when he accidentally looked up at the sky, he couldn't help but curse.
The morning light scattered from the east. Dream - like blue ribbons floated above the small town, as if they were within reach yet out of reach.
Aurora.
Aurora in the daytime.
Chen Ling stood at the doorstep, staring blankly at the sky full of aurora for a long time, muttering to himself:
"What the hell is this world...?"
...
"Damn it, why is this road so hard to walk on?"
"The weather is too cold. It rained heavily last night, and the mountain roads are all frozen. Be careful."
"We've been dawdling all the way, and it's already dawn." The man wiped the sweat from his forehead. "How much farther do we have to go?"
"The mass grave is just ahead... We should be almost there."
The two staggering figures climbed over the mountain peak and finally saw the mounds of earth not far away. These mounds were new and old, and most of them had no inscriptions. Only a wooden plaque was randomly inserted in front of the mounds, or some items from the deceased's lifetime.
But after last night's heavy rain, many of the mounds here had been washed away, and the wooden sticks and other items were scattered in a mess all around. The scene was in a state of chaos.
What the two didn't expect was that at this moment, the mass grave was cordoned off with yellow police - like tape. More than a dozen figures were moving within the cordoned - off area, and their faces were all rather solemn.
"Law Enforcers?"
Seeing the striking black - and - red uniforms of those people, the man widened his eyes. "Why are they here!"
"Have they already discovered it?" The woman's face turned pale. "Is... is it A - Ling? Could it be that he went to find the Law Enforcers? Is he really not dead?"
They thought they had killed Chen Ling, but the next day Chen Ling came back on his own. Coupled with the sudden appearance of Law Enforcers at the burial site... There was almost no other explanation.
"No... " The man stared intently at those figures. "Even when dealing with criminal cases, at most only three Law Enforcers from District Three will be dispatched! For them to send more than a dozen people at once, it can only mean..."
"Has a calamity... emerged?"
The woman seemed to have thought of something, and cold sweat instantly soaked her back!
"Could the monster in the bedroom be..."
"Run now!!" The man grabbed the woman's wrist and turned to flee from this place.
Just then, a cold voice came from not far away.
"Stop."
The figures of the two stiffened instantly.
A law enforcer crawled under the police cordon and slowly walked up to the two, his eyes slightly narrowed.
"Who are you? What are you doing here?"
"I... I..." The woman stammered and couldn't get the words out.
"We came to visit our son," the man said as calmly as he could. "He's buried here. Today is the anniversary of his death."
"Then why were you running?"
"…Because we're scared."
"Scared?"
"You've dispatched so many law enforcers at once. It's because the Gray Realm has converged here, right?" The man swallowed. "Maybe a calamity has even crawled out of it... We're afraid of getting hurt accidentally."
"Oh? You seem to know quite a bit." The law enforcer raised his eyebrows in surprise.
The man forced a pale smile.
"Sir Law Enforcer," the woman asked tentatively, "did a calamity really crawl out of the Gray Realm?"
"That's classified information."
The law enforcer replied indifferently, "You won't be able to visit your son today. Go back... You should know the rules about not spreading what you've seen here, right?"
"Yes, yes."
"Leave."
Hearing these two words, the man finally let out a sigh of relief and immediately turned to leave.
"Wait."
The hearts of the two skipped a beat.
"Leave your names and addresses," the law enforcer took out a pen and paper. "It's a requirement of the confidentiality regulations. Please understand."
"Chen Tan, Li Xiuchun. No. 128 Hanshuang Street, District Three."
After finishing the record, the law enforcer let the two leave. He himself walked through the yellow police cordon and came in front of a man wearing a black overcoat, handing over the document.
"Brother Meng, I've asked them clearly. They came to visit their son."
Han Meng was smoking a thick cigarette. He took a deep puff, and the pungent smoke mixed with his breath dissipated in the cold wind.
He casually glanced at the document and said calmly:
"Send a few people to follow them secretly. There's something wrong with them."
"…Huh?"
"Hanshuang Street is at least more than ten kilometers away from here. If they arrived at this time, they must have set off at the latest around 4 a.m... At that time, the rain hadn't stopped yet.
Who would come to pay respects on the mountain in the rain before dawn?
Also, this is a mass grave, a place for burying people with no relatives or those who died away from home. As parents, why would they bury their child here?"
The law enforcer was stunned. He suddenly slapped his head. "That's right. Why didn't I think of that?"
"…Xiao Qin, how did you pass the law enforcer exam back then?"
The law enforcer named Xiao Qin forced a couple of dry laughs and immediately changed the subject. "Oh right, Brother Meng, so did a calamity really crawl out of the Gray Realm last night?"
Han Meng didn't answer. Instead, he took out a palm - sized device from the inner pocket of his overcoat. In the center of the device was a pointer mechanism that resembled a compass. Different colors marked different areas of the scale, which was clear and straightforward.
"Is this the Calamity Pointer?" Jiang Qin curiously examined the device and reached out to touch it, but his hand was slapped hard.
"This thing is very precious. When you're promoted to a law enforcement official, you'll naturally get the chance to touch it one day."
Jiang Qin rubbed his handback bitterly. "How exactly does this thing work?"
"This is a device for detecting the danger level of a 'calamity'. After it's turned on later, whichever area the pointer points to indicates which magnitude of 'calamity' fluctuation has occurred nearby. If it's just a simple convergence of the Gray Realm and no 'calamity' has crawled into the real world, it won't react."
The higher the level of the calamity, the more violently the pointer will shake."
Jiang Qin nodded and said with some concern:
"Brother Meng... There shouldn't be a 'calamity' that has crawled out, right?"
"Most likely not. After all, if a 'calamity' had really descended here yesterday, Districts Two and Three would have been in chaos already."
"That's good then."
"Just to be on the safe side, we still have to complete the detection."
As Han Meng spoke, he turned on the Calamity Pointer. Seeing this, the other law enforcers all looked over curiously.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
The Calamity Pointer didn't react at all.
Just as Han Meng let out a sigh of relief, the pointer on the compass suddenly began to shake violently!
The pointer swept wildly across the areas of different colors, and an ear-piercing creaking sound came from inside the device. Han Meng's pupils suddenly constricted, and he instinctively let go of the Calamity Pointer!
Bang——!!
Countless parts shattered in mid-air, and the sharp broken end of the pointer scraped across Han Meng's cheek, instantly leaving a scarlet streak of blood!
The Calamity Pointer...
Exploded.