After spotting the second graffiti figure, Tang Ye began surveying his surroundings. Across the street on those half-demolished buildings, there were three to four different spots with graffiti. Even on the monunt at the entrance of the Martyrs’ Cetery, there was a figure painted, and even on the ground!
"Huh?"
As Tang Ye looked towards the Martyrs’ Cetery, he noticed an old man, which was none other than the caretaker from yesterday who was still sitting on the couch dozing off in front of the TV after the prohibited hours!
Right now, the caretaker looked nothing like the sluggish man Tang Ye saw yesterday. He was chatting rrily with so people wearing black overcoats, all smiling and laughing. Where is the deaf and blind guy from before?
After a few n in black overcoats lifted the bodies of Lu Xin and Little Ru onto a vehicle, they left the Martyrs’ Cetery. Seeing their colleagues starting to leave, the ones chatting with the caretaker also bade him farewell and departed the scene.
The caretaker watched as the group of n in black overcoats got into their vehicles and left, and was about to leave himself when he turned around and bumped right into a face, those sudden eyes surprising even the weathered old man, causing him to shiver involuntarily.
"Goddamnit, young man, when did you get behind ?"
"Just now?" Tang Ye replied.
"You walk without making a sound? Don’t do that again! You’re giving a heart condition. If I drop dead right here, you’ll have to take care of for the rest of your life."
With that, the caretaker waved his hand and stopped joking with Tang Ye, asking, "Do you need sothing from ?"
"Sort of?" Tang Ye thought for a mont and said that.
"What is it?"
"Did soone knock on your door last night?"
"Last night?" Upon hearing Tang Ye’s question, the old man paused, then turned to look towards his resting room, and turned back, taking a mont before he could answer.
"Huh?"
"What are you talking about? Nobody knocked on my door."
"No one?"
"Look here, young man, are you alright in the head? I’m not cussing you, but many ntally ill people start off just like you, not even aware if they’re sick or not. Better go check yourself in a hospital."
Tang Ye’s brows furrowed; he felt that the old man was actually cursing him. But he didn’t get angry, and patiently continued questioning, "So really, no one did?"
"Nope, no one, who’s bothering this old man when they’ve not kicked the bucket yet? Don’t you see what my job is? I’m a gravedigger!"
"Is the job of a gravedigger that special?"
"Not special as such, but I’m too lazy to explain anything to you, young man."
"Do you ever break the rules?" Tang Ye asked again.
Upon hearing this question, the tombkeeper’s expression paused, and he fell silent for a while before he suddenly asked, "Young man, what exactly do you want to ask?"
"Huh?" Now it was Tang Ye’s turn to be stunned. His train of thought was abruptly interrupted, and for a mont, he couldn’t rember why he had asked the question.
"Damn it!"
Cursing inwardly, Tang Ye could only apologize to the tombkeeper. After speaking, he left the cetery while the tombkeeper watched his retreating figure, sinking into deep confusion.
After coming out, Tang Ye approached the partially demolished buildings and observed the silhouette graffiti on them. Under his rubbing and damage, these graffitis were just ordinary graffiti, completely different from the ones he saw in the zoo yesterday. Eventually, he asked the people around who had drawn these silhouette graffiti, and the response he got was quite disappointing.
It seed that people had grown accustod to these silhouette graffitis; they were a common sight, appearing in corners, sotis on billboards, sotis on certain walls, and even on so tombstones within the Martyrs’ Cetery. However, no one ever tried to erase them, as if they were things ordinary people shouldn’t touch. But strangely, if soone did erase them, people would find it completely normal!
After asking around to no avail, Tang Ye returned to the sa silhouette graffiti he had been observing, but by then, the expression on his face had instantly beco strange.
The silhouette graffiti was gone!
In these half-demolished buildings opposite the old house, there were a total of three graffiti. The first was located on a partially collapsed wall facing the old house, easily visible from a glance across. The second was under the eave of a second-floor window facing the old house, also easily seen with a turn of the head from the old house’s side. The third was inside the building, to the northwest where a pile of construction rubble lay, with half the silhouette on the wall and the other half on the heap of rubble.
But now, the first graffiti had disappeared from its original location! Tang Ye glanced around but couldn’t find where it had gone!
"Can it move?"
He looked up at the ceiling and still saw nothing; Tang Ye stepped back, looking up at the second floor. The graffiti there hadn’t disappeared; it remained in place. He then walked into the interior of the Building, where several people were walking in twos and threes on a pile of steel rods, chatting about sothing. They started discussing the deaths of Lu Xin and Little Ru, but now they were talking about daily life. As ti passed, so began to find it dull and started leaving one by one.
Looking at the location of the third graffiti, it hadn’t disappeared, but its position had changed! Originally, it should have half its body on the wall and half on the construction rubble, but now it was all on the ground! Two of the three silhouette graffiti showed signs of movent!
"Indeed sothing odd is going on!"
Looking around, it seed people hadn’t noticed these graffitis, even when their positions had changed from ti to ti. Wasn’t that strange?
Tang Ye could see so people walking out of the building, giving only a cursory glance at the graffiti next to them which had changed since before, showing not the slightest hint of curiosity.
"Isn’t it a bit rash?"
The scene before him was obviously unreasonable! If a normal person saw a graffiti seeming to grow legs and move to another position, they would be creeped out, but what about these people?
This might be the biggest BUG Tang Ye had encountered since coming here!
Thinking this, he picked up a steel rod scattered on the ground and scraped it across the third silhouette graffiti that had changed position. The people nearby only glanced over and nobody ca to interfere!
As the steel rod scraped against the wall, chalk dust from the graffiti’s body flew everywhere. Beyond that, Tang Ye did not see the reaction he was expecting, which made his expression turn ugly.
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