Calamity

Chen Ling's pupils suddenly constricted!

However, when he blinked his eyes, the bloody characters on the ground disappeared in an instant, as if they had never existed at all.

Was it an illusion?

Chen Ling stood there dumbfounded. Those words seemed to have drilled into his mind and he couldn't forget them.

[We are watching you.]

Chen Ling suddenly turned his head around!

In the empty living room, it seemed that there were pairs of invisible scarlet pupils observing him. This feeling of being stared at was exactly the same as in his nightmares.

He stood there stiff as a statue for a long time, and then began to force himself to take deep breaths.

"Maybe I was too tired from staying up late these past few days to prepare for the Enforcer exam, and my mind was too tense..."

"But this was the doing of the original owner of this body. It has nothing to do with me. Could it be that something went wrong during the fusion of the two souls and damaged my mind?"

"I heard that in severe cases of schizophrenia, it is indeed possible to have illusions that are difficult to distinguish..."

Chen Ling temporarily suppressed the fear in his heart and tried to explain all this in a scientific way. A strong sense of hunger welled up in his heart. He casually took a sausage from the chopping board and wolfed it down in two or three bites. Only then did he feel a bit more composed.

"Perhaps, I need a psychiatrist."

Startled, Chen Ling didn't even have the mood to wash his face. He quickly put on a black cotton coat and pushed the door open to go out.

Even so, the cold air that rushed in from behind the door still made Chen Ling shiver.

This was the first time Chen Ling had officially come into contact with this world after regaining consciousness. He took a deep breath and prepared himself to face all the unknowns and difficulties.

However, when he accidentally looked up at the sky, he couldn't help but blurt out a curse.

The light of the early morning scattered from the east. Streaks of dreamy blue ribbons floated above the small town, as if they were within reach yet also out of reach.

The aurora.

The aurora in the daytime.

Chen Ling stood at the door of his house, staring blankly at the aurora in the sky for a long time, and murmured to himself:

"What the hell is this world?"

...

"Damn it, why is this road so difficult to walk on?"

"The weather is too cold. It just rained heavily last night, and the mountain road is all frozen. Be careful."

"We've been dawdling all the way, and it's already dawn." The man wiped the sweat from his forehead. "How much farther is it?"

"The mass grave is just ahead... We should be there soon."

Two staggering figures climbed over the mountain peak and finally saw the mounds of earth standing not far away. These mounds were of different ages, and most of them had no tombstones. Only a wooden sign or an item from the deceased person's lifetime was casually placed in front of the mound.

But after the heavy rain last night, many of the mounds here had been washed away, and wooden sticks and other items were scattered in a mess all around. The scene was in a state of chaos.

To the surprise of the two, at this moment, the mass grave was already cordoned off with yellow warning lines. A dozen or so figures were walking around in the cordoned area, all with rather solemn expressions.

"Enforcers?"

Seeing the striking black and red uniforms of those people, the man's eyes widened. "Why are they here!"

"Have they already discovered it?" The woman's face turned pale. "Is it... Is it Ling? Could it be that he went to the Enforcers? Is he really not dead?"

They thought they had killed Chen Ling, but the next day Chen Ling came back on his own. Coupled with the sudden appearance of the Enforcers at the burial site... There was hardly any other explanation.

"No... " The man stared intently at those figures. "Even when dealing with criminal cases, at most three Enforcers from District 3 will be dispatched! For a situation where more than a dozen Enforcers are dispatched at once, it can only mean..."

"Has a calamity... appeared?"

The woman seemed to have thought of something, and cold sweat instantly soaked through her back!

"Could the monster in the bedroom be..."

"Let's go quickly!!" The man grabbed the woman's wrist and turned around to flee from this place.

Just then, a cold voice came from not far away.

"Stop."

The figures of the two people froze instantly.

An Enforcer crawled under the cordon and slowly walked up to the two of them, squinting his eyes.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

"I... I..." The woman stammered and couldn't say a word.

"We came to visit our son." The man tried to speak calmly. "He was buried here, and today is the anniversary of his death."

"Then why were you running?"

"...Because we were scared."

"Scared?"

"You've dispatched so many Enforcers at once. Is the Gray Realm converging here, right?" The man swallowed hard. "Maybe a calamity crawled out of it... We were afraid of being accidentally injured."

"Oh? You seem to know a lot." The Enforcer raised his eyebrows in surprise.

The man forced a pale smile.

"Sir Enforcer." The woman asked cautiously, "Did a calamity really crawl out of the Gray Realm?"

"That's classified information."

The Enforcer replied indifferently, "You won't be able to visit your son today. Go back... You are not allowed to spread what you've seen here. You should know the rules, right?"

"Yes, we do."

"Leave."

Hearing these two words, the man finally let out a sigh of relief and immediately turned around to leave.

"Wait a moment."

The hearts of the two people skipped a beat.

"Leave your names and addresses." The Enforcer took out a pen and paper. "It's a requirement of the confidentiality regulations. Please understand."

"Chen Tan, Li Xiuchun. No. 128, Han Shuang Street, District 3."

After finishing the record, the Enforcer allowed the two of them to leave. He himself crossed the yellow cordon and came in front of a man wearing a black coat, handing over the document.

"Brother Meng, I've asked them clearly. They came to visit their son."

Han Meng held a thick cigarette in his mouth and took a deep puff. The pungent smoke mixed with his breath drifted away in the cold wind.

He casually glanced at the document and said calmly:

"Send a few people to follow them secretly. There's something wrong with them."

"...Huh?"

"Han Shuang Street is at least a dozen kilometers away from here. They arrived at this time, so they must have set off at around four o'clock in the morning at the latest... At that time, the rain hadn't stopped yet.

Who would come to the mountain to pay their respects in the heavy rain before dawn?

Also, this is a mass grave, where people who have no relatives or who died in a foreign land are buried. As parents, how could they bury their child here?"

The Enforcer was stunned and then slapped his head. "That's right. Why didn't I think of that?"

"...Xiao Qin, how on earth did you pass the Enforcer exam?"

The Enforcer named Xiao Qin forced a dry laugh and immediately changed the subject. "By the way, Brother Meng, so did a calamity really crawl out of the Gray Realm last night?"

Han Meng didn't answer. Instead, he took out a palm-sized device from the inner pocket of his coat. In the center of the device was a pointer device that resembled a compass. Different colors marked different areas of the scale, which was clear and distinct.

"Is this the Calamity Pointer?" Jiang Qin looked at the device curiously and reached out to touch it, but his hand was slapped hard on the back.

"This thing is very precious. When you're promoted to an Enforcer Officer, you'll naturally have the chance to touch it one day."

Jiang Qin rubbed the back of his hand bitterly. "How exactly does this thing work?"

"This is a device for detecting the danger level of a 'calamity'. After it's turned on later, the area where the pointer points indicates which level of 'calamity' fluctuation has occurred nearby. If it's just a simple convergence of the Gray Realm and no 'calamity' has crawled into the real world, then it won't react.

The higher the level of the calamity, the more violently the pointer will shake."

Jiang Qin nodded and said with some worry:

"Brother Meng... There shouldn't be a 'calamity' that crawled out, right?"

"Most likely not. After all, if a 'calamity' really descended here yesterday, Districts 2 and 3 would already be in chaos."

"That's good."

"Just to be on the safe side, we still have to complete the detection."

As Han Meng spoke, he turned on the Calamity Pointer. When the other Enforcers saw this, they all looked over curiously.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

The Calamity Pointer didn't react at all.

Just as Han Meng let out a sigh of relief, the pointer on the compass suddenly started shaking violently!

The pointer swept frantically across different colored areas, and a harsh creaking sound came from inside the device. Han Meng's pupils suddenly constricted, and he instinctively let go of the Calamity Pointer!

Bang——!!

Countless parts shattered in mid-air, and the sharp broken end of the pointer grazed Han Meng's cheek, leaving a scarlet streak of blood!

The Calamity Pointer...

Exploded.