Not long after the night fell, there were hardly any people on the streets. The once bustling city had beco like an abandoned wasteland devoid of inhabitants for a hundred years co nightfall. Nobody knew how many monstrous entities, choosing their prey, were hidden within the darkness.
Subconsciously looking around, under Tang Ye’s deliberate gaze, he quickly found so human-shaped graffiti shadows hidden in the darkness. He scratched one with his hand, but nothing unusual happened, just as he had suspected. Could it be that these shadowy figures only show their different sides during the forbidden ti, unlike during the dayti?
He took out his mobile phone to check the ti, which showed 8:43 PM. There were still twenty-seven minutes left before the start of the forbidden ti. It was also then that Tang Ye noticed the phone he had found was not connected to the internet.
"Strange?"
He muttered to himself, swiped the screen, and saw that he had not even turned on the WiFi.
Tang Ye frowned, unable to recall when he had turned off the phone’s WiFi, but he switched it on anyway. Just as he habitually went to put the phone back into his pocket, it vibrated several tis. It seed to be notifications of so sort and also the "whoosh" sound of WeChat ssages being sent.
Who knows how many app notifications the original owner of this phone had enabled. The strange buzzing, like bees fluttering their wings, continued for a while before it finally stopped.
Tang Ye took out the phone, initially intending just to disable the app notifications, but upon seeing the contents displayed, his face took on an inexplicable air of strangeness.
The received ssages totaled up to over six hundred. Discounting a small number of push notifications from apps, the rest were all from fellow internet humorists, whose bemused emotions could be felt even through the screen.
Your dad replies while jerking off: [???]
Mr. Qin: [???]
ʚDragonɞ: [???]
⍢⃝⠒̫⃝ʚ◡̈⃝ɞ’◡’✺: [Big bro, how did you manage that?]
Mr. Qin: [Guys, I’m bamboozled!]
Lu Benwei Benwei: [If you’re still alive, make so noise.]
The Legendary Comnts Start at the Second Floor: [Big bro is ruthless.]
The Legendary Comnts Start at the Second Floor: [Big bro was a respectable man before.]
...
The countless comnts visible on the screen all expressed the netizens’ surprise.
Regarding these comnts, Tang Ye didn’t make any of his own. Under the night sky, a hint of a smile appeared on his face. It seed the creator of this world was not omniscient and omnipotent. At the very least, it had forgotten sothing when clearing away certain things - these comnts!
In his two sets of mories, one involved violating the regulations by opening his eyes during the forbidden ti, having a conversation with the man on the second floor of the hotel and with the young couple, Lu Xin and Little Ru, and later "waking up" in a zoo.
The other was obediently following the regulations and sleeping before the forbidden ti approached, and the world he woke up to was the continuation of the latter. If everything he had experienced in the forr was false, then why did this comnt stemming from the forr appear in the continuation of the latter?
"Another BUG, huh."
Tang Ye sighed to himself and checked the ti again—it had passed two minutes.
"It’s ti to start."
He looked towards a shadowy human figure painted on a wall not far away, walked over, and with a flick of his hand, his flesh and blood splashed off like water, falling to the ground and starting to coalesce into a large eye with four legs that could move.
He nodded, and the big eye rolled its eye and started moving its limbs toward darker areas, its gaze fixed intently on a graffiti shadow not far from itself.
After implanting the eye, Tang Ye went to other locations with shadowy graffiti figures, inserting an eye close to each of them in succession.
After a while, Tang Ye stopped. There were many shadowy graffiti in Xi River City. So were in inconspicuous corners, but with careful observation, several could be found instantly in the darkness. However, all of these were on the exteriors of buildings. He had placed eyes beside these graffiti only to observe any sudden anomalies they might display.
After pondering, Tang Ye retrieved several of the eyes. At 9:10 PM, he sneakily entered the buildings and began placing eyes beside the graffiti figures inside. Thus, ti slipped away bit by bit. After finishing with more than a dozen buildings, he jumped down from a tall building called Tianhe Building, and upon looking up, he saw a slanted figure graffiti on the wall behind a garbage bin.
Tang Ye originally didn’t intend to implant an eye there but thought that one more might increase the chances of observing anomalous behaviors in these graffiti figures. He couldn’t help but walk over like a workaholic, shaping a ball of flesh and blood in his palm and tossing it towards the ground.
After doing this, Tang Ye turned his head and was taken aback. Near a billboard not far away, a new shadowy figure graffiti had appeared without his knowing.
"Acting so boldly in front of ?" he thought. It seed the forbidden ti had passed, and with a flip of his hand, a blade made of flesh and blood suddenly ford. The next second, he threw it toward that newly appeared graffiti figure—the blade flew out, "whooshing" through the air, and fiercely stabbed into the shadow figure’s head!
The concrete and steel rebar of the wall shattered in an instant, dust flying in all directions, and around the elongated blade was a bowl-sized indentation!
However, the shadowy figure graffiti didn’t exhibit the action Tang Ye had expected. Its head simply lost a chunk, and that was all; nothing else happened.
"Strange, is there so pre-condition?"
This scene made Tang Ye furrow his brows, finding the situation sowhat tricky. He disliked work that resembled detective duties, always having to reason and deduce!
But it wasn’t long before Tang Ye felt sothing and turned his head sharply in a certain direction. In one of his many perspectives, one suddenly beca airborne, and then he saw a pair of eyes!
The owner of these eyes had their head wrapped in a headscarf, obscuring any clear view of what they looked like. But it was tentatively determined to be a normal person—judging from the forehead, furthermore, a woman?
"A person? How can soone be out during the forbidden ti?"
The eye he had placed did not stay in front of the woman for long. After a while, everything it saw was abruptly pulled down, as if the eye had entered a black plastic bag.
Tang Ye hurriedly shifted another nearby eye to observe the person who had taken his eye, but after a short while, the person turned around, picked up the eye he had planted, and packed it back into the bag!
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