Chapter 18 Eighty-eighth Night Pirates

I had a nightmare of many eyes, lifeless eyes, looking at me all the time.When I woke up, I felt a pain in my wrist. "I'll be back, to get your eyes." The guy's words are still ringing in my ears.Because it is winter, no one knows that there is an eye on my wrist, but I suddenly found that the eye that has been closed has opened, and it seems to be staring at me. I found that it can turn as if alive, And it actually responds to the intensity of the light.I tried to prick it with a needle, but it closed up immediately, and all I pierced was my own skin. And I feel that there is always a figure on the way home every day, but I can't see it like a ghost. If this continues, I will really go crazy.

Perhaps, Zongmu is somewhere in the corner, and he came back to take my eyes.I subconsciously touched my eyes, my muscles convulsed with tension. Work can give me temporary relief, and I can only keep myself busy so that I can forget about these things. But what happened next seems to be closely related to me. Almost every other week, the body of a young man can be found in the suburbs, with no obvious signs of death, but their eyeballs are missing. There is nothing in common between the victims. Even though the police searched everywhere, the murderer seemed to have disappeared.The police were overwhelmed. Although they repeatedly concealed the facts of the case, the impact was too great and they had to show their help to the media.And the perverted method of gouging out the dead man's eyeballs is naturally reminiscent of the madman Zongmu who collected eyeballs.

So, as the last person alive who came into contact with Zongmu, I was naturally summoned by the police.Of course, they also sent me a nominal assistant, who was actually a bodyguard, a young policeman with a short stature and a smile. His forehead is as smooth as a mirror. I rarely see people in this city who have no forehead lines after the age of thirty, especially men.And his small eyes make it impossible for me to see through his eyes forever, let alone know what he is thinking. Only when I feel the thick calluses on his index finger when shaking hands, can I believe that this person is the police force The ace police officer.He stuttered a bit, and he joked that he was born with a big tongue.

At first I was very worried about this police officer named Yan Wujun, because I thought he might not even be able to beat me, but soon I was glad that I had kept the things I depended on for food-wrists. A group of hooligans bumped into us on the street, and Officer Yan dislocated the wrists of two of them while talking and laughing. Fortunately, there were many vacancies at home, so I arranged for him to live next to him. At first I was worried that I was not used to living with other people, but soon I found that he was very tidy and rarely talked. At the beginning, I just asked some questions about me and Zong. Wood's case.Of course, I didn't tell anyone about the eyes on my hands. I didn't want to be sent to the laboratory for professors to dissect my eyes without being gouged out by Zong Mu.

Time passed quickly, but Zong Mu didn't seem to show up, and he didn't seem to commit crimes anymore. Officer Yan was a little disappointed.The police thought that Zongmu had lost interest in me, so they decided to let Officer Yan go back the next day. Although I still felt that I was being followed every day, the police would not believe ideas without evidence. They just told me to calm down and not panic. In their view, this was just an illusion caused by my nervousness.I can only go home helplessly, it seems that I can only rely on myself to protect myself. So this evening, I bought some cooked food and wine, and decided to have a good meal. After so many days, Officer Yan is also very tired, so I can count as making friends before parting.

But when I got home, I found that Yan Wujun was not there.I poured the aroma-smelling vegetables into a plate and put them on the table, then sat down on the sofa limply. The phone rang suddenly, and I saw it belonged to a stranger. "Is it Reporter Ouyang?" The voice was also unfamiliar. I grunted. Every day I receive a lot of calls from strangers, from various people, from salesmen, from reporting, from reporting news, or from complaining. They all say that journalists are the uncrowned kings. I think they are the sleepless kings—— Few of my colleagues in the newspaper office slept well, and it was commonplace for me to come to work with panda eyes on my face.

"You are sitting on the sofa at home right now, are you still holding the key that just opened the door?" The stranger's words made me very strange. I subconsciously stood up, looked around, and thought maybe the police installed a monitor on me?This may be a prank by Officer Yan's friend. I'm going to go to the table and get a chicken leg. "Are you going to get a chicken leg?" The voice on the phone rang again, quite mocking. I put down the drumsticks. "Who the hell are you? If it's a joke, it's too boring and low-level." I said coldly.

"You really don't even know who I am? I said that I will come back to get your eyes." It was Zongmu, but his voice changed. "Do you know why I want to get new eyes? As I said, all I need is your eyes, eyes that fit my body, won't rot, and won't lose life, so I need to keep looking for new ones Eyes, and when I get the eyes, I will have all the things of the original owner. Next time we meet, you will not know who I am. Hehe, don’t worry, there will be no pain. It will be your pride to be my eyes. "After speaking, the phone hung up. I originally wanted to track down the origin of the phone call, but then I thought Zongmu would never do such a stupid thing.It seems that if I don't tell Officer Yan about my eyes, I will really lose my life.

Yan Wujun came back with a tired face. I ate and chatted with him, told him everything, and showed him the eye. Yan Wujun couldn't hide his surprise. "It turns out that what we were hunting was not human at all, no wonder." Yan Wujun took a deep puff on his cigarette, the cigarette holder squeaked and the flame became brighter. "What should we do? He said he can transform into anyone." I said with my head down. "It doesn't matter, I will bring all the photos of the victims and get to know him first, he can only change among these few people, right?" Yan Wujun wringed out half of the pipe and put it in the ashtray.

I sighed and said that was all I could do. This is a huge project. Yan Wujun and I searched for it, only to find that there are a lot of victims all over the country, and many cases are dead cases. Zong Mu did this in other places more than 30 years ago. However, since the murderer could not be caught, the matter could not be resolved. In addition, he changed his appearance, so it is undoubtedly impossible to catch him.In all cases, the murderer is called "eye thief". Looking at the thick and dusty files stacked in front of me, I seem to see faces without eyes, with empty eye sockets, some of which are male and some are female.

I remembered the dream I often had recently. There are many eyes, each of which is different. "It's too difficult. It's impossible for me to remember everyone's faces." I rubbed my eyes, and Yan Wujun also sighed. "Indeed. Otherwise, I will shrink everyone's photos and make them into a photo album. You can carry it with you or save it in your mobile phone. If a stranger comes to you, you can just look at it. How about it?" It was a good proposal, and we followed suit right away. Yan Wu also promised that I would not tell the above about the eyes, but a secret between the two of us. In fact, if we did, they would think we were crazy. In the end, Yan Wujun was recalled.Before he left, he told me to find him immediately if I had anything to do. I suddenly felt that this short man made people feel safe, and our people's police could be trusted. The days that followed were a bit funny. Every time someone came to see me, I would first keep a distance from the person who came, and then kept flipping through the images on my phone, which annoyed the visitors. They often complained that I regarded them as wanted criminals .The boss scolded me several times, and I had no choice but to give a nod, thinking to catch Zongmu quickly. But he has never appeared, since that TV. As Christmas was approaching, I gradually forgot about Zongmu. If Officer Yan hadn't called me frequently to remind me to be careful, I would have almost forgotten about it. But the thing is like this, when you want to forget, he surfaced again. I walked through the alleys that I often walk on weekdays. The Christmas songs not far from the street and the smell of roasted corn wafting from the roadside slowly subsided, and only the sound of my own footsteps lingered in my ears.The few lights are like shattered glass shards, scattered on the dark road.All I had to do was turn on the phone light and take photos all the way. I was alone on the road, but I vaguely heard two footsteps, and when I stopped and looked back, it was silent again. I could only quicken my pace, and then I saw a pair of red leather shoes under the light, a pair of dilapidated men's leather shoes. There are very few men in red leather shoes, very few, but at least there is one in front of me. "Hello." I couldn't see the man's face clearly, but he spoke.I didn't answer him, just breathed out, with my back against the wind, my breath condensed in front of my glasses, forming a cold mist in an instant, but it disappeared soon. I shine the phone on his face, a face I've never seen before. I began to keep sifting through this face in my brain. He smiled, revealing a row of snow-white teeth, which shone silver in the dim cell phone light.I have seen those teeth, carnivores in the animal world will show a row of snow-white fangs before eating.His eyes were so red that he could hardly see other colors. Without further ado, I rushed over and punched him, slapped him completely on the left side of the cheek, and my hand hurt so much, it seemed that the beating was not light, so I called Yan Wujun while running home. On the phone, Yan Wujun told me to protect myself and said he would be there soon. I could feel the hurried footsteps behind me. "Is running useful? Give me your eyes." The damn voice rang again. "You have to know that the owner of this eye was a long-distance runner in the past. When his eyes were gouged out, his legs were still running habitually. He ran for dozens of meters before falling down." Zongmu haha Laughing loudly, the laughter is like water poured into a frying pan, boiling in the quiet alley. "Crazy," I cursed under my breath, but home was pretty close.At this time, I blamed myself for getting up early to practice long-distance running, boxing, floor exercises, etc. Of course, I often do this on the computer. Finally entered the unit building, I was slightly relieved when I pressed the elevator.I hurriedly took out the key and opened the door. Just as the key was inserted, a human face suddenly flashed in front of my eyes. That guy was hanging upside down from the ceiling. "As I said, I have a lot of human power. I'm superhuman. I can run the stairs much faster than you can take the elevator. That's the result of relying too much on tools." My eyes were close enough to his to see his pupils. But his pupils were dilated and dull. I took a step back and fell to the ground, but Yan Wujun did not come. Sure enough, in the end, I still have to rely on myself, maybe I can no longer see those friends, and I can no longer listen to Ji Yan's stories. Zong Mu walked over with a smile, and stretched out his skinny hands like eagle claws towards my eyeballs. Getting closer and closer, the nails of my hands have touched my eyelashes, but I can't move. "Just for a moment, soon, we will become one. With your eyes, I will live a good life for you, and no one will know that you are dead." Zong Mu's words were like a spell, and I seemed to acquiesce. Suddenly, there was a sharp sound of piercing wind, and then I saw something familiar to me stuck in Zongmu's index finger. A mahogany spike with engraved characters. "Is Ji Yan not here? How can this lowly creature be so arrogant." The weird and mean voice sounded again, and I looked back happily. Sure enough, that guy was dressed in white clothes and silver hair as usual, standing at the stairs, playing with a few spikes in his hand, tilting his head and squinting at Zongmu. There was no surprise on Zong Mu's face, he pulled out the nail indifferently and threw it on the ground. "You finally appeared." Zong Mu yelled, then jumped up to the top floor, and quickly crawled over Li Zheng's head. "Want to escape?" Li Zheng looked up, then chased him out.I also got up and ran out. The lawn outside is spacious, and it's all gone for Christmas, and there's no one around. "Hehehe." Zong Mu lay on the ground like a cockroach, looking up at Li Zheng. "How could I escape?" It's just that the inside is too narrow. "What kind of monster is this?" Li Zheng turned his head and asked me.Before I could figure out how to answer, he waved his hand again. "Forget it, no matter what it is, it will turn into a corpse in a few minutes anyway." After he finished speaking, he looked at Zongmu mockingly. The smile on Zong Mu's face disappeared.He rushed towards Li Zheng quickly, the speed was not human at all, Li Zheng was a little surprised, but soon laughed again. Zong Mu's pace slowed down again, like in slow motion, and finally stopped.When he looked down suspiciously, I found that Zongmu's feet were entangled with a pile of golden yellow soft dough-like things. "Die, no matter what you are, these nails will drive you into reincarnation, and you will never return to the ordinary world." Li Zheng gritted his teeth, pulled out six nails from his hand, and shot them into Zong Mu's eyebrows, Binocular, human center, temple. Zongmu monster screamed, his voice was fierce, and then he collapsed on the ground, and the things under his feet gradually returned to Li Zheng's shoulders, forming a huge worm image. "That's the end." Li Zheng smiled lightly, walked up to Zong Mu, and wanted to pull out those nails.When Li Zheng's hand touched the nail, I vaguely felt that something was wrong, and things seemed to be going too smoothly. Sure enough, before the nail was pulled out, Zong Mu suddenly came back to life, and strangled Li Zheng's neck tightly with his hands.The clothes on his body also gradually fell off, revealing his bare upper body. I would rather not watch this kind of disappearance, because like last time, Zong Mu's body is full of eyes, opened and closed. Li Zheng had a puzzled look on his face. "It's impossible, anything with a soul should be sent to the Six Paths if it hits a nail!" "I said that having a pair of eyes is equivalent to having a life. Unless you destroy all my eyes at the same time, I will not die." Zong Mu smiled and began to exert force with his hands. Before Li Zheng could speak, Zong Mu's fingers had already penetrated into his eye sockets. "I accept your eyes." I couldn't bear to look any longer, and when I turned my head again, Zong Mu had let go of Li Zheng, but the latter's left eye was gone.Zong Mu dug out his own eyes and threw them by the side of the road, and put Li Zheng's eyes in. "Now that I have your ability, how are you going to kill me? Ouyang's eyes, I want to fix it!" After finishing speaking, he ran towards me again.I couldn't dodge in time, and I was hit hard by him in the abdomen.I feel like a rib is broken, and I'm having trouble breathing, and every breath makes my bones tingle. Zongmu stood beside me, looking at me lying on the ground. "This is far better than breaking your leg. The pain in your ribs makes you unable to exert any strength at all. Please give me the eye of the sealed mirror demon." I wonder why he knows about the Mirror Demon. "You don't think you've won like this, do you?" Li Zheng stood behind Zongmu, there was no bleeding from his injured eye, as if he didn't know the pain at all. Zongmu looked at him strangely, then laughed. "It turns out that you are a monster just like me." As soon as Zong Mu's voice fell, he put me down again and rushed towards Li Zheng. "Don't rush to kill me, just look at the nails on your body." Li Zheng pointed to Zong Mu's face. I raised my head with difficulty, and saw the nails on Zongmu's face slowly seeping in, until finally I couldn't see them at all. Zong Mu fumbled frantically on his face and body in fear, as if trying to find the missing nail. Li Zheng clasped his hands together, stared at Zongmu and said, "Thank you for telling me just now, what is it? It seems that you want to destroy all the eyes on your body at the same time, right?" Zong Mu became frightened, and waved his hands at Li Zheng, "No, don't do that!" Li Zheng's eyes, which Zong Mu had originally stuffed in their eye sockets, also disappeared. "The eyes inlaid on your body exude a serious corpse odor. They are the favorite food of corpse control insects. They have split into nails in your body. I will guide them to find the location of those eyes." Li Zheng paused, " Then, you can rest in peace, no one will go to save your soul." Zong Mu opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a word, and then his body was like a durian expanding outwards, all his eyes began to bulge outwards, and finally, countless peachwood nails flew out.Zong Mu's body turned into pieces of flesh and spread out, and all his eyes turned into muddy corpse water. Li Zheng retracted the nail, and his left eye slowly emerged. "Are you okay?" Li Zheng helped me up, then looked at the ground, "In this way, the owners of those eyes can go back to reincarnation." I nodded. At this time, a person ran from a distance, it turned out to be Yan Wujun.He ran over anxiously and looked at me.I introduced Li Zheng to him, Yan Wujun gave Li Zheng a oh, and the latter just looked at him coldly.I endured the pain and told Yan Wujun what happened just now, Yan Wujun just kept apologizing for being delayed by some things. "I know this kind of technique, which controls them by planting eyeballs in the human body, and can share vision. The reason why the nails were useless just now is because that guy is not the subject at all, and has no life or soul at all." "Oh? So what?" Yan Wujun smiled at Li Zheng. "There is always a part of a puppet with eyes." Li Zheng looked at Yan Wujun. "Are you suspicious of me because I'm late? That's good." Yan Wujun took off all his clothes angrily. Indeed, he didn't have any so-called eyeballs on his body. "Do you want to take off your pants? Anyway, there are no women." Yan Wujun was really taking off his belt. "Forget it, my friend is just more cautious, nothing else. Officer Yan is definitely not Zongmu's puppet. I testify to this. I went to the bathhouse together a few days ago. If he has eyes , I scared people to death not long ago. You should take me to the hospital first." "I know a very good orthopedic doctor, your ribs are fine." Yan Wujun said with a smile. Li Zheng suddenly pulled me over. "How do you know he hurt his ribs?" Yan Wujun didn't speak, just smiled and said: "Guess." I looked at the two men puzzled.Li Zheng suddenly pulled out a nail and thrust it into Yan Wujun's tiger's mouth, but the latter quickly dodged away.But the golden corpse control insect reappeared under his feet. "Don't lie to me, the smell of corpses on your body can't hide it. Besides, ordinary people can't see that bug." Li Zheng looked at Yan Wujun who was dodging and sneered. Yan Wujun jumped out and kept a distance from Li Zheng. "I have never dared to go to Ouyang easily, because I knew someone was following in secret. I hoped that puppet could deal with you, but I didn't expect you to be so powerful." Yan Wujun said with his head down, and then stuck out his tongue. There is a squirming eyeball on the blood-red tongue.It turned out that his eyes were on his tongue, no wonder he couldn't hear clearly. "What a disgusting guy." Li Zheng said disgustedly, and at the same time threw the nail in his hand towards Yan Wujun.The latter was fast and easily dodged the nails. "Know yourself and the enemy, I will not let you drive nails into my body again!" After finishing speaking, Yan Wujun rushed towards me, "My speed is much faster than yours, and I can get your nails before they hit me." His eyeballs are gone, even you can't kill me at that time!" Indeed, Li Zheng was still more than ten meters away, but Yan Wujun had already rushed in front of me, and I could almost feel his fingers were about to touch my eyes. The pain in my abdomen made me unable to move at all, so I could only subconsciously raise my hand to cover it, but after a few seconds, I found that Yan Wujun's hand stopped a few centimeters away from my eyes.He also looked surprised, looking down at his feet in almost disbelief. Or rather he has no feet. "Stupid, I fired the nail just to let you jump into the territory of the corpse control bug. It doesn't take a few seconds, it will eat up your dead body until there is no scum left. This body must be yours after killing it." Right. It’s different from your puppet, this time it’s your own eyes, and you can’t live without the host.” Li Zheng walked slowly from behind. Yan Wujun seemed to have stepped into a quagmire, his body sank slowly, as if disintegrated, leaving only a pile of clothes and an eyeball. That eyeball was full of anger and sorrow, Li Zheng walked up to it and stabbed it with a nail. "If you want to curse, just curse your damned fate, just like me." The nail pierced Zongmu's only eyeball. It was all over, the eye on my wrist fell off and disappeared, and the wound healed quickly.With Li Zheng's support, I went to the hospital. After examination, the injury was not serious, and fortunately my ribs were not broken. "Why did you come to rescue me suddenly?" I was very curious. "Hmph, I just came back to see my sister, and I heard that you were threatened by a strange guy, so I watched in secret. Fortunately, nothing happened. You take good care of your injuries. There is no danger for now." After Li Zheng finished speaking, he walked out of the ward. I looked at his back, still very unfamiliar with him, but one thing is certain, he is definitely a trustworthy friend and partner, just like Ji Yan.