The theater beyond the main doors had been empty, gloomy, and dark, with no warm light to catch the eye.
Only when Cheng Shi pushed open the door and the light from outside poured into the theater could he make out, by the faint glow amid the wind and snow, the play being performed inside and the densely packed audience below enjoying it.
At that moment, Cheng Shi's pupils shook violently, and he froze on the spot.
He stood at the doorway with a look of horror, not daring to move for a while.
Because he clearly saw that the orderly audience seats were completely full. Floating above every seat was an ear that looked as though it had been torn off!
Those ears were covered in bloody flesh, dripping dim, foul-smelling black blood. As Cheng Shi pushed open the theater doors, they all contracted at once, then slowly turned around, directing countless cochleae toward the outsider who had interrupted the performance.
When this unimaginable scene unfolded before his eyes, Cheng Shi's scalp prickled, and goosebumps rose all over his body.
He frantically asked Mouth Brother in his heart what was going on. However, the one who answered him was not his own mouth, but... the performer onstage, who had stopped performing.
It, too, was an ear, and there was no difference between it and the many ears below the stage. If one had to distinguish it from all the others, it was probably because it behaved more flexibly than the rigid ears below.
When it saw... This was too strange. Perhaps it was when it heard Cheng Shi intrude that it smiled and greeted him.
"You're back," it said.
Cheng Shi was terrified. He had never expected that after the treacherous mouth and the abstract tongue, there would be