Chapter 242: Eyes

Chapter 242: Eyes

I was a cowardly man. I never dared to go out at night because I felt like there was something waiting for me outside the door. Home was the only place where I felt safe. However, ever since father and mother went missing, everything changed. Father and mother went missing at home. That night, I was woken up by my parents. They told me to run and leave home. However, when I opened my eyes, my home was scarily quiet.

I hid under the blanket and peeked into the living room. The furniture and electronics were all there. Nothing was missing. If anything... There were additional shadows there. They stayed there quietly like coffins standing upright.

Finally, it was morning. I pulled open the curtain and ran into the living room, shouting my parent’s names. There was no answer. I opened the main bedroom door. My parents were gone. I quickly called the police, but the neighbours told the police that it was me who murdered my parents. They said they could hear arguments and pleas coming from my home throughout the night. They called me a crazed murderer. They said they heard my parents yelling my name through the night.

Even now, the police couldn’t find my parents. In this world, I should be the only one who knew where they were hidden. Look... They are here now...

The night enveloped Li San Hospital. After the last ray of light disappeared, the doors of the ICU units became coffins as they leaned on the walls. Shadows spread like moss. The man with the missing eyelids lay on the bed and slowly stopped struggling. After he fell asleep, white eyes appeared on the walls and doors. Various barely humanoid creatures crawled out. The horrors from the man’s imagination came true. They crawled towards his bed after he fell asleep.

This power was beyond that of a normal big ghost. The three patients crowded beside the bed. Su Mo, who hugged the heels, wanted to hide under the bed.

“Is the source of mutation his brain?”

The ground trembled like someone stomped heavily on the floor. Fingers clawed through the windows. Everyone could hear a shrill shriek. A giant face appeared at the ICU ward door. It was the face of a middle-aged woman. She was in deep pain and fatigue. Her cheeks billowed in and out like a sail.

The face wanted to squeeze into the room. However, it was held back by the thin lines between the doors. The endless bells tinkled.

“I think I’m close to healing you. However, to do that, I need your full cooperation.” Xuan Wen touched the lines between the door. “What was your occupation before you came here?”

The man calmed down after some time. He looked forward with his crimson eyes. “I was an actor. Many people loved me when I was young.”

“There were many eyeballs looking at you in your dream. Have you been stalked before?” Xuan Wen planned to reconstruct everything from his dream to figure out the correlation to the shadow world.

Many big ghosts possessed haunted houses. However, the scariest among them were people like Zhang Ding. They could replay their painful memory in their haunted houses. This man in the ICU appeared to be such a ghost. However, he still hadn’t gained full control of his power.

“How is that related to my illness?” The man was unwilling to answer.

“Every question I ask you now will be very difficult for you to answer. They will expose your heart and thoughts. However, we need to do that to cut the mutation out of your system.” Xuan Wen dragged Su Mo out of the bed. “You are too dangerous. If you don’t want to cooperate, I’ll leave now.”

“Before I fell sick, I was quite good-looking, but I was never famous. Therefore, I asked my friend to pretend to act as a paparazzi to follow me and to drive up some hype. I actually enjoyed the feeling of being stared at a lot. It felt like the world was my stage...”

“And then what happened?”

“My friend died in a car accident. Their eyes are still on me. I can’t seem to shake them. I start to suspect there are dead people in the corridor and dead bodies at the corner. I didn’t dare to go anywhere, so I only stayed at home.” The man widened his eyes with fear. “Then, the stalking eyes appeared in my home too. My parents became so strange, like something had taken over their bodies.”