Eternal Night

Chapter 165 In Pairs
"Indeed... I feel like there's a strange, eerie smell to this village."

Wu Xianxiao and Hao Cheng walked into the weak spot of the curtain. Compared with the outside world, the scenery and time inside and outside the weak spot of the curtain were the same. There was no such thing as darkness inside. It seemed that there was not much difference between inside and outside the curtain, but after stepping in, anyone could feel a sense of discomfort.

Wu Xianxiao felt it even more clearly. He frowned and looked at the mountain village buildings in the distance. Then he couldn't help but said to Hao Cheng beside him: "I said, don't hold my arm!"

Hao Cheng said with an expression that looked like he was about to cry: "No! I'm afraid! I'm born afraid of ghosts!"

Wu Xianxiao frowned and said, "You are a grown man, and you are holding another man's arm and saying that you are afraid of ghosts. Are you trying to make me laugh to death?!"

Hao Cheng still gritted his teeth and refused to let go. If others saw his expression, they would feel indescribable pity.

Wu Xianxiao felt goosebumps all over his body. He pulled his arm back vigorously and scratched his skin with his palm, saying, "I'm saving face for you outside. Haven't you noticed? Your body is starting to become feminine. Your X-head is on my arm. It feels very obvious, right?!"

Hao Cheng immediately hugged his chest with a bright red face, glaring at Wu Xianxiao fiercely, but then he came to his senses, broke out in a cold sweat and said, "Oh no, my subconscious has begun to change!"

Wu Xianxiao said angrily, "You just found out? You've been acting like a fairy since the airport. I can't say anything to you outside. Now you better behave yourself."

Hao Cheng patted his chest awkwardly and said, "I'm just happy to see someone familiar... I'll be more careful."

Wu Xianxiao said nothing, but just looked at the village in the distance, then carefully felt for a while and said: "Something is wrong, it's really wrong. This place gives me a very strange feeling, not just danger."

Hao Cheng immediately said beside him: "Yes, we feel the same way, and the longer we stay here, the more obvious this feeling becomes. It feels... indescribable."

Wu Xianxiao was speechless. He was silent for a few seconds and then said, "Let's go into the village and take a look."

This was only natural, and the two of them walked down the hillside toward the village.

The village looked quite old, and was basically composed of tiled houses with an exotic shape. In addition to tiles, there were also palm leaves on the roofs. At this moment, the entire village was dark and silent, with only Wu Xianxiao and Hao Cheng heading towards the mountain village in the dark.

When the two men walked a short distance and were about to approach the village, they suddenly heard screams and gunshots from the hillside behind them.

The two looked at each other, and without bothering to enter the village, they immediately turned around and ran up the hillside. As they ran, Wu Xianxiao asked, "Did they follow us in?"

Hao Cheng immediately shook his head and said, "Impossible. We have all experienced the dream world many times, and we have the most basic rules. If they say that only two of us will go in, then it must be the two of us who will go in... It must be someone from this world who has entered the weak spot of the curtain!"

Wu Xianxiao narrowed his glasses and asked, "Does this island country ban guns?"

Hao Cheng's face also turned serious. He said, "It's not prohibited, but not many people have guns. Most of the guns are old-fashioned hunting rifles..."

After the gunshot just now, it continued, at least twenty or thirty times. This is definitely not something an old-fashioned hunting rifle can do.

Both of them were very fast, and Hao Cheng even had to slow down and wait for Wu Xianxiao to catch up. In just a few tens of seconds, the two of them reached the hillside and saw fourteen corpses on the ground. What shocked Wu Xianxiao and Hao Cheng the most was that these fourteen corpses were in pairs, with two identical corpses stacked together.

Wu Xianxiao and Hao Cheng looked at each other, and then each began to look through the corpses. The more they looked, the more surprised they were, because these corpses were indeed in pairs. One corpse had a strange smile, and the other corpse had an inexplicable look of horror and realization. Then the corpse with the strange smile was hugging the corpse with horror and realization tightly. This was the scene that Wu Xianxiao and Hao Cheng saw, horror mixed with inexplicable weirdness.

"...They are not villagers, not even indigenous people." Hao Cheng said with a complicated expression: "The indigenous people of this island have reddish-brown skin, while they are white and wear modern suits. They are outsiders, not people from this mountain village."

Wu Xianxiao's ears twitched, and he stood up and ran in one direction. Hao Cheng was faster than him, trotting beside him easily, following him and saying, "The worst situation has occurred. This situation where a living person found his body in the village is not limited to the natives of this mountain village, but any outsider who enters will experience this strange situation."

While Wu Xianxiao was listening to Hao Cheng talking and the voices in the distance, he was quickly approaching the group of people. Then he saw seven people running around like headless flies in this small forest. Among them were five men and two women. The five men were all wearing suits and each of them was holding a pistol and shooting everywhere, while the two women were a short distance away from them. One of the women was actually someone Wu Xianxiao had met once before.

Is it Zhou Qingqing, the great martial arts master who is sitting on the throne with the elixir in his arms?

At this moment, she had an incredible expression on her face. Although she was not afraid, she was extremely shocked. At the same time, her hands were placed in the dragon and snake positions to defend, and her blood was surging. It was obvious that she was using her strength, as if she was on guard against something.

Wu Xianxiao stood not far away and looked at the seven people. He did not rush forward directly, but silently sensed for a moment, and then said to Hao Cheng: "After the death just now, the feeling here is even more weird."

Hao Cheng also nodded repeatedly: "Yes, I felt it too, just like... something is gestating."

Wu Xianxiao nodded slightly, but what he felt was not something gestating, but a feeling similar to waking up. It was very strange that he didn't feel it before, but after entering this weak point of the curtain, especially when outsiders died in this weak point of the curtain, Wu Xianxiao felt it more and more clearly, that is, he seemed to be waking up from a lucid dream state similar to waking up from a dream.

This is really an indescribable feeling, and this sense of clarity is very obscure. That is to say, his inspiration is high, and he also has the Coptis chinensis fragments, the sleepless aura, and so on, which makes him have this clearer feeling.

Suddenly, at this moment, one of the five men in suits shouted loudly, and the other four immediately pointed their pistols at him. Everyone saw this man standing there in a daze, looking at the ground stupidly. At some point, a body of his appeared on the ground, exactly like him, and this body had a weird smile on its face.

"no no……"

The man in the suit was moving backwards with his hands and feet, but what was strange was that he kept getting closer to the corpse, and his words made the people around him shudder.

“It shouldn’t be like this…”

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, Talisa, I didn't mean to abandon you..."

"…I'll be right over. I'll be right over."

Then the man hugged the corpse together, and in just a breath, he also turned into a corpse, with fear and realization on his face.

The other four men in suits were so frightened that they raised their pistols and fired at the two bodies hugging each other until their magazines were empty. Two of them still pulled the trigger subconsciously.

"Stop, stop!" There seemed to be a captain among the remaining four men in suits. He shouted loudly, which made the other three slowly stop. Then they each took out a magazine from their arms and loaded it. For a moment, their faces were full of fear and confusion.

Not far from them, Zhou Qingqing had the same expression.

Everything before her eyes was beyond her imagination.

Although she was a great master of Chinese martial arts and had heard of many myths, legends, and strange stories, she had never heard of such a strange phenomenon. Even some so-called evil cultivators, whom she had encountered before, were all illusions. How could it be possible that the one in front of her was real?

Just when everyone was terrified and at a loss, suddenly a tall and strong young man and a beautiful woman in red rushed over at the same time.
The four men in suits immediately pointed their guns at the newcomer, but before they could make any move, they saw a flash of red light before their eyes, and their guns all disappeared, snatched away by the beautiful woman in red.

"This, this...are you a human or a ghost?" the captain in suits exclaimed.

Even Zhou Qingqing looked at the beautiful woman in red with fear on her face, because the speed was really too shocking. It was a speed that no human could achieve, and even her master probably couldn't do it.

Before Wu Xianxiao could say anything, Hao Cheng threw the pistol to the ground and immediately asked anxiously, "Who is the Talisa he just mentioned? Do you know her?"

The four men in suits were still hesitating and fearful, but the white woman behind Zhou Qingqing shouted loudly: "Answer me, who is that Talisa!?"

One of the men in suits hesitated and said, "Talisa is his wife. They love each other very much and have a daughter. As far as I know, his wife lives in the city of Ribit, and he has never abandoned Talisa..."

Hao Cheng heard this and said with a puzzled look on his face: "In other words, it's not a ghost claiming his life? Then why did he say that his wife was abandoned by him? It's really weird."

At this moment, Wu Xianxiao suddenly turned his head and looked at the white woman. The white woman was stunned. Before she could make a sound, Wu Xianxiao had rushed in front of her and then suddenly reached out and covered her face with his hand.

Zhou Qingqing was startled and was about to make a move when she heard Wu Xianxiao say, "Don't look, close your eyes, now!"

The white woman found that she was not attacked, but her eyes were covered by Wu Xianxiao's hands. She breathed a sigh of relief. Then, after hearing Wu Xianxiao's words, she was moved and immediately screamed: "Is it my corpse that appeared? I ask you, did you see..."

Then she couldn't speak anymore, and Wu Xianxiao felt his palms were cold. When he took his hands away, the white woman had turned into a corpse with a look of fear and surprise on her face. The body was cold and stiff, and it was unknown how long she had been dead.

When Wu Xianxiao let go of the white woman, he saw her body lying limply on the ground. Although it was clearly a corpse, it was wriggling towards another corpse that emerged on the ground, and then they hugged each other.

The two bodies were stacked together, with their faces facing the crowd.

A weird smile, and fear.

(End of this chapter)