Calodi

He has a mouth on his neck!

This discovery intrigued Yu Xing, and her gaze towards her grandmother shifted from indifference to a renewed sense of curiosity.

That's interesting. This ability should probably be categorized as a rule-based ability.

If the prey that Grandma has her eye on responds to her, it will most likely be eaten by Grandma.

But if the prey is clever and doesn't reply, it has to run away from Grandma quickly. Otherwise, if Grandma keeps nagging and fussing beside the prey, these sounds will make the prey grow a new mouth in its throat.

This new mouth will likely no longer be under the control of the prey itself.

Whether or not the prey speaks at that point is not up to them to decide.

That's quite a creative way to die.

Yu Xing pressed the tip of her tongue against her cheek, feeling the skin on her neck being pulled.

The mouth wasn't fully formed yet; it was extending to both sides, tearing the skin and flesh in the extended area without the user's awareness, at most causing a slight itch.

Even though it wasn't fully grown yet, the mouth on its throat was already trying to open, Yu Xing could almost feel its urgent desire to speak.

Yu Xing tilted her head, ignoring the rebellious mouth on her throat, and thought of another problem.

How does Daisy avoid running into her grandmother when she goes out at night?

He lowered his eyes to look at the hand-held oil lamp in his hand.

Grandma's presence clearly had a suppressive effect on the light of the oil lamp, but it didn't completely suppress it; at least the oil lamp was still shining normally.

He tried to hold the oil lamp closer to his grandmother.

Grandma took two steps back.

"What are you doing..." Her aged voice was sharp and piercing, as if squeezed out from glass.

"I'm getting old, I can't stand such bright sunlight, young people, please move it away..."

Her voice is unpleasant, but she talks a lot.

Logically speaking, this reaction should prove that the oil lamp has some effect. Yu Xing should take this opportunity to hold the oil lamp close to his grandmother's face to see how it would affect her.

But he actually obeyed and moved the oil lamp away.

Not only has the oil lamp gone, but the people around them have gone too.

Before her grandmother could react, Yu Xing laughed and turned to run ahead.

From the darkness ahead, one could faintly hear someone shouting, or perhaps just whispering. In any case, after Yu Xing his grandmother, he discovered that his hearing had been affected. He could only hear his grandmother's voice, while other sounds seemed to be filtered out as if by an extra layer of mesh.

But he was no ordinary person after all, and this kind of shielding was useless to him; the faint shouts still reached his ears.

Suddenly, Yu Xing understood how Daisy managed to get past her grandmother every night.

As he took off running, his grandmother's voice paused for a moment, then immediately followed, whispering in his ear again, "Young man, why are you running...?"

Yu Xing ran to the end of a room, where there was a door. All the rooms he had passed before had their doors wide open, but this one door was closed.

Fortunately, there was no lock.

The cryptic shouts came from behind the door; it was a man's voice. Upon closer inspection, Yu Xing recognized it as Calodi's.

Just as he touched the door, it opened from the other side, and an arm reached out and grabbed Yu Xing, pulling him inside.

Then the door was immediately closed.

"Young man..." Grandma's voice suddenly became very soft, as if it were separated by several layers of solid brick wall or steel plate, rather than by a wall.

Grandma's voice softened, and the other sounds became clearer.

"Snap." The sound of a tinderbox.

Suddenly, a spark ignited in the new darkness.

Immediately afterwards, the entire new room was lit up.

A man in a suit and hat put away the tinderbox used to light the candlestick. His serious face was almost as stern as during the day. He frowned and stared at Yu Xing, who was holding the oil lamp, and asked in a deep voice, "Where's Daisy?"

"She has something to do..." Before Yu Xing could finish speaking, the door behind her was slammed shut.

The thing that was banging on the door was very strong, and the whole door shook.

The conversation was interrupted, Calodi seemed a little unhappy, but perhaps out of consideration for the oil lamp, he still nodded to Yu Xing: "Lock the door; Grandma can't get over the door and the wall."

"I guessed it." Yu Xing shrugged and did as instructed.

Then he touched his throat, and behind a door, the crack in his throat didn't continue to split open; instead, it seemed to have been freed from some kind of curse and faded away from his skin.

He could almost feel the resentment of that almost formed mouth for not being able to speak, but unfortunately, the resentment quickly dissipated as the slit disappeared.

Yu Xing immediately began to complain, "This grandma is too wicked and cunning. On one hand, she made me think that her way of killing people was stupid, just lying, while on the other hand, she set other traps for me."

The knocking outside paused for a moment. "..."

"Oh?" Calodi uttered a single, intrigued syllable. "You guess what Grandma wants to do to you?"

"The closer you are to her, the more profound her influence becomes, which is why she approached me without making a sound. It's actually to make it easier for her voice to affect me," Yu Xing said, still in a accusing tone. "She's not afraid of the oil lamp at all; she just wants me to think that the oil lamp can resist her power. If I get any closer to her, the mouth on my throat will probably heal completely, and then I'll be eaten like a dish delivered to her door."

At this point, the thing outside stopped knocking completely, probably knowing it was useless, since their trick had been seen through.

"How did you know?" Calodi asked calmly.

In the darkness, he seemed out of place among the other residents, not only looking no different from during the day, but also appearing almost the same mentally.

Daisy said a couple of things.

In fact, it was Yu Xing's special physique that allowed him to hear Calodi's calls from behind the door.

Calodi didn't actually shout it out; instead, he was hoping the lamp would get to the door quickly. Later, he probably thought it was Daisy holding the lamp.

This was cheating, but Yu Xing didn't say anything, no one would know. So he brazenly attributed the advantages he gained through his abilities to Daisy: "When she asked me to come out in her place, she mentioned that if I ran into Grandma, I should go find you right away."

Calodi's gaze flickered for a moment, as if he had thought of something else.

However, he couldn't find a loophole in Yu Xing's words on this issue, so he nodded. "Yes, Grandma likes to linger in front of my door, but she can't get past it."

Yu Xing asked, "I only saw Little Rosie on my way here, the others aren't here. Is it because this closed door separated everyone?"

"Only Little Rosie and her grandma were at the door; you were the first one there."

"That's right." Calodi reached out and took the lantern from Yu Xing's hand. "Daisy needs protection, and Little Rosie is perfect as a guide. Grandma wants to eat everyone, but not her."

Yu Xing: "Because she's a child?"

Calodi paused for a moment. "Because she's made of plastic, and Grandma doesn't eat plastic."

Yu Xing: "..." That actually makes some sense.

Only then did he use the candlestick to observe the new room.

The new room still had a hospital-like atmosphere, with some empty medicine bottles scattered around the corner, but there was only one table in the center of the room, with a new light source candlestick on it.

In addition, there was a circular array made of blood next to the candlestick.

Yu Xing glanced at Calodi's fingertips without making a sound.

There is a wound.

He suddenly realized something.

The reason why Calodi didn't transform into a more terrifying monster after nightfall like the other residents might be because he didn't sleep.

He deliberately pushed open the door and stepped into the darkness, just like Daisy who carried a lamp out every day.

The other residents were transformed into monsters in their sleep and wandered around unconsciously.

This shows that...

Whatever Daisy does every night, whatever her schemes are, Calodi knows it all. (Mobile version updates fastest at:)