Chapter 93: The Red Moon at its Brightest
Dazai Osamu and Pei Zhen hurriedly followed. They both had some guesses about the gray wolf that suddenly appeared, and naturally would not let it disappear in their sight.
Rei Furuya and Conan don't know where they are, and they are relying on their strength to find a way to survive. Conan also realized that although this place is full of strangeness and danger, there are still many rules in the dark. But sometimes, danger has already come before you find the rules.
Moreover, he raised his head and looked at the dark red moon in the sky. He secretly guessed in his heart that at this special time point, there might be a significant increase in the power of those strange things, and as time passed, this strengthening... He shuddered and moved faster.
They have three directions. The best is to find the transcendent who has been hiding in the dark, or to find other people and find a way out that they don't know if it exists. Finally, if the first two cannot be achieved, then go back to the town, recuperate, and look for it again.
Fūya Rei stumbled forward. He was injured in a square. The monsters there had the ability to disguise and confuse people. They shaped themselves into the appearance of three other people. After Furuya Rei saw through it, they transformed into the people he wanted to see the most in his heart but couldn't see... Furuya Rei was shocked, but what arose even faster was incomparable rage. The angrier he became, the calmer he became. Finally, he escaped with the help of the rules he found, but he was still seriously injured.
He covered his bleeding abdomen and stumbled forward. He had to find a place to receive treatment immediately. If he couldn't find one... his consciousness gradually became blurred. His life would probably end here, right?
At the end of his field of vision, he saw a small signboard that was emitting a faint white light in the red moonlit night...
Pei Zhen and the other two were resting in the wild at night. They lit a bonfire and huddled together to keep warm. Dazai Osamu and Pei Zhen's eyes met, and then quickly separated. They didn't understand why they should stay here.
Dazai Osamu said: "Aren't we going to the town?"
Gray Wolf stirred the ashes in the fire with his hands and did not answer.
Dazai Osamu was a little embarrassed, and he signaled Pei Zhen with his eyes.
Pei Zhen asked hesitantly, "Is it not time yet?"
Gray Wolf finally turned his head and glanced at him: "You are very perceptive."
"It's actually not difficult to enter the town. If the person who falls here is not infected or mutated, then he only needs to stay here for a few days and eat only vegetables. Then, one day later, he will have the opportunity to return to the town." The werewolf's voice was cold, but there was a sense of relief. He lowered his head and said, "Of course, if you have a guide like me, these steps can be omitted. As long as the time comes, you can return there."
"Time, what time?" Dazai Osamu had no idea that he was being ignored. He asked excitedly, "Could it be that it is still hidden, and only at a certain moment will it reveal its tracks, like a road appearing in the fog, or a door suddenly appearing, and if you miss the time, you will never be able to find them again?"
Gray Wolf's eyes were cold. Somehow, the atmosphere around them suddenly became solemn. He looked at Dazai Osamu as if he was looking at a dead person.
Dazai Osamu looked unaware of it. He continued, "In fact, I think this place is not well built. The main reason is that we can leave if we encounter something unusual. There is no mission that we must complete. The outside world is not a minefield where you will die if you touch it. There is not even a time limit to force us..."
"Ahem." Pei Zhen suddenly interrupted him. Looking again, the gray wolf had changed its posture. It was no longer looking at the dead body, but was really going to take action! Pei Zhen quickly asked, "Will the red moon retreat during the day? Will we be safer by then?"
The gray wolf paused, but he didn't make a move. He was still looking at Dazai Osamu, who was smiling at him. Suddenly, an unpredictable smile appeared on the gray wolf's face: "The town can only be visited at a certain time, but before that, you have to wait until then."
Then it stopped talking. No matter how Dazai Osamu provoked it with words, and Pei Zhen tried several times, he was unable to get any information from it. For some reason, as time passed, Pei Zhen and Dazai Osamu felt worse and worse.
Moreover, this change did not only occur in their hearts. They had clearly calculated that the crocodile would come out to eat in the middle of the night. After experiencing the explosion, escaping, and searching, it should be after two or three in the morning. After that, it would be the time when night and day would turn.
But now, the red moon's night light has become deeper, and the endless whispers in their ears have become clearer. Dazai Osamu lowered his head, and in a trance, he seemed to have returned to the distant past - an empty old wooden mansion, rotten and dull air full of insects, maids gathered together, whispering about the privacy of their masters, and when they heard the sound, they turned their heads, revealing faces with constantly spinning black vortices.
"Master, we are all waiting for you."
"Master, why don't you come to us?"
"Why is this kid so terrible? He can't communicate well with anyone and is not as good as his brother!"
"How can you live in society if you stay in the house all day?"
"Can't you give us some peace of mind?"
A face with only a pair of indifferent eyes and a mouth that kept chattering. They surrounded him and looked down at him. It was as if Dazai Osamu had returned to his past self and could only allow them to continue to judge him. Subconsciously, he gave an impeccably fake smile.
Someone pushed him hard and he woke up suddenly. His face was covered with cold sweat, and the smile was stuck on it like a dead pig's skin, unable to be removed. After a long time, he covered his face and changed his expression. In his pair of iris-colored eyes, black mud mixed with sticky malice flowed out layer by layer.
He glanced to the side. The man who had pushed him before had returned to his position and was adding branches to the fire. Looking again, there were only two of them here, and the other figure had disappeared.
He was stunned, and regardless of his own loss of composure, he asked, "Where is the werewolf?"
Pei Zhen raised his head, glanced at the moon above with some sadness, and then sighed: "It said it had something to deal with, so let's hide first, and it will come back to find us later."
He looked at Dazai Osamu again: "I feel that the environment here is getting worse. You seemed to be possessed just now, so I pushed you. What do you think we should do next?"
What he didn't say was that before the werewolf left, it said to him, "If you want to stay safe, you'd better stay away from this person."
Dazai Osamu was speechless. This guy was really not interested in his strange behavior just now, and he didn't show any emotions that were unbearable to him like some people did. He felt a little relieved and started to think about it.
But a faster change came. A huge wave came from a little further away from them. Pei Zhen and Dazai Osamu looked over there, and there they saw a huge black shadow jumping high. Its body was too huge, like an evil beast from the abyss. Black smoke was surging around it, like a demon with fangs bared, colliding with an existence that could not be described in words. The red moon was dim, and it seemed to be shrouded by it.
"Let's go!" Dazai Osamu grabbed Pei Zhen's arm and took him and ran quickly to the other side.
"This is the monster that chased us from the town before." Pei Zhen thought, "It is fighting with something."
"The red moon must be special. It is a manifestation of some kind of power here," Dazai Osamu said as he ran. "The fox that gave the police officer the rules must be full of malice. It deliberately puts us in danger. Just like there is a werewolf wanderer here now, there are also hostile dangers hidden in the town. But if there is something that can only be done on a red moon night, the rules it gives cannot be said to be false, because the police officer himself also has his own needs."
Pei Zhen quickly recalled: "Officer Jōtani said that he wanted to leave here and meet the owner of this place!" His eyes lit up.
"That's right," Dazai Osamu said calmly, his windbreaker fluttering in the air, "If we want to meet the owner here, we shouldn't hide from the red moon."
A gleam of reason flashed in his eyes. In the surrounding houses, there was a dark shadow standing behind the windowsill, watching them escape; as if completely alarmed, more and more red substances poured in from nowhere, and the whispers screamed sharply. The two men's heads felt dizzy, and in a trance, they saw countless waterweed-like figures standing on the street. Their figures were transparent milky white, their bodies were light, their limbs and torsos were twisted, and their facial features were hollow.
"Is this what the werewolf said, 'You have to wait until then'?" Dazai Osamu instantly understood the conversation around the campfire.
"It's the 'rules' of the streets," Pei Zhen said quickly, "Dangerous places are not limited to certain areas. This large map is actually the site of a larger event, but it has not been aroused before. You are right, the owner here did not use his full strength against us, but he is using it now. We must find out the rules here as quickly as possible..."
A shadow like white smoke flashed towards him. Pei Zhen immediately shut his mouth. All the white shadows looked at them.
White shadows floated towards them. Their target was not only Pei Zhen, but also Dazai Osamu - not because of the conversation.
"Run!" Dazai Osamu shouted again. They immediately turned around and ran to the other side. The white shadows whistled and screamed. They could not speak, but hollow and endless sounds came from their bodies, like the last howl of a person, filled with boundless despair.
The red moon became brighter, and countless monsters were freed from their restraints. They stretched their bodies and howled freely in the area.
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