The Gathering of the Living and the Dead to Claim Their Kin
The instant they saw the patterns, the three realized that the so-called Eye Offering Festival was actually a way to strengthen the dungeon. They hadn't seen any actual eyes, yet even the pictures made their eyes feel as if they were being pierced by awls. Their bodies instinctively wanted to flee, but a strange impulse also urged them to look.
"How are you?" Xu Huo asked Yi Pei.
Yi Pei shook her head. Her poor eyesight offered no advantage now. When she couldn't make something out, she felt an urge to move closer and examine it!
"Go!"
The three quickly left the float behind. Before they had gone far, they ran into other players who had also fled. After the float passed, the other residents began hanging all kinds of pictures in their courtyards. They didn't look unusual, but they exerted an oppressive force that was impossible to ignore.
Some players tried to destroy the pictures. Even without touching them, anyone who damaged one was instantly hit by something like a dizzy spell.
"I think I heard a bell..." After trying twice, the Hoodie player didn't dare touch the pictures again.
The players skirted the pictures, but there wasn't a single place in the county town without eye patterns now. They wanted to leave town and hide in the woods, but the residents seemed to see through their plans. One after another, they approached with pictures in hand, grinning as they tried to give them to the players.
The closer the players got, the less they heard the residents chatting and laughing. Instead, they heard a distant, lingering sound. It overlapped with itself, and anyone who heard it could tell there were more voices than the people in