After watching Gao Ming for a long time, the voice inside Big Dog sounded a little weary. "This must be your first time entering this Shadow City, right? It's like the real world's shadow, taking in all the memories and nightmares abandoned in reality. There is no joy, happiness, or light here, only despair, death, and darkness."
"But what does that have to do with you imprisoning those people?" Gao Ming felt that the blind man seemed to know a great deal. Although he could neither see nor hear, his heart could perceive things more clearly.
"The moment any monster twisted by the shadows opens its eyes, this world implants a thought in it." Big Dog lay down on the ground. "This Shadow City is dying. We need to bring more living people into it. Only when the living outnumber the Ghosts will the disaster stop, and monsters like me finally find release."
"The living have to outnumber the Ghosts?" Gao Ming looked at the empty city before him. "How many living people would that take? A thousand? Ten thousand? There don't seem to be that many Ghosts in this city."
"Your eyes hold too much hope. Only eyes steeped in despair can see them." Big Dog opened its mouth again. "Don't resist. I'll help you."
Its enormous mouth swallowed Gao Ming whole, and he felt as though a chill had enveloped him.
What would a deaf and blind person's nightmares be like?
No shapes, no colors, no sounds. Only pitch-black darkness and despair that struck without warning.
Gao Ming sank deeper and deeper into the nightmare, until he reached its very depths. That darkness seemed to connect to another world.
The blind man shared his perception of the outside world. His heartbeat synchronized with Gao Ming's, and they opened