chapter 8 his eyes

"Sherry Jiang is dead.
Ben Lin witnessed the entire process of her death.
A monster descended from the sky, and with its nails, as sharp as cutting tofu, cleanly sliced her neck, then began to feast with delight.
Until the very last moment, Sherry Jiang's eyes were fixed firmly on Ben Lin, filled with fear and resentment.
Ben Lin's mind perceived all the gruesome details, and his stomach churned, almost causing him to vomit.
Although he had experienced hardship and adversity, his mental fortitude had matured beyond his years. However, this bloody scene was his first encounter with something so horrifying.
And now was not the time to vomit.
Without hesitation, Ben Lin turned and ran to the other side of the alley while the monster was busy devouring Sherry Jiang's body.
The original escape route had been blocked by the monster, so he had to reroute and head toward the direction where Tom Wang had gone.
The monster seemed more interested in the corpse, and it didn't pursue him, which gave Ben Lin a slight relief.
He didn't know what that creature was, but it was unquestionably not a "human" and didn't fit into any known category of "beast" among humans.
If someone said it was a mutated humanoid due to radiation, he might believe it. Its physique, strength, and speed were far from what normal humans could contend with.
But it was only a "might."
In this world shrouded in mist, where he had personally witnessed the existence of Angel zhi, he didn't believe that science was the only truth in the world.
He believed in the existence of the "mysterious."
And Ben Lin had a feeling... he had heard about this kind of monster somewhere.
Just as he was lost in thought, something else entered his mental perception. Ben Lin slammed on the brakes and came to a sudden stop.
His breathing grew heavier.
Ten meters in front of him, the figure of that monster appeared again, and Ben Lin was certain it was not the same one as before.
Although they looked similar and equally ugly, they were definitely not the same.
The most obvious evidence was that this monster held the lifeless body of Tom Wang and continued to gnaw on it.
At this point, Tom Wang's face had completely disappeared, leaving only a blurry mass of flesh. If it weren't for his distinctive clothing, Ben Lin might not have recognized him.
This was the second monster.
And it was the one that had killed Tom Wang!
When he was with Sherry Jiang and the others earlier, he hadn't seen what was happening ten meters away and had subconsciously assumed there was only one monster. But now, looking back, he realized how wrong he had been.
From the behaviour of the monster that killed Sherry Jiang, it seemed to prefer eating corpses rather than chasing after living people, or else Ben Lin wouldn't have escaped.
But as soon as Tom Wang died, another monster immediately started chasing Ben Lin and the others.
This could only mean that... another monster was already feasting on Tom Wang's corpse.
There were two monsters in an alley, which completely blocked Ben Lin's escape route.
Ben Lin's face turned extremely pale, and a feeling of despair, long absent in his life, surged in his heart.
In his seventeen years, there were only two times when he truly felt despair.
One was about ten years ago, when he saw those eyes on the moon.
The other was his current situation.
Right in front of him, the monster that had finished eating like it was throwing out trash Tom Wang's corpse turned its head toward Ben Lin, and its crimson tongue licked the blood at the corner of its mouth.
At that moment, Ben Lin wanted to curse.
"Why the hell am I always so unlucky!?"
When he was a child, he could see Angel zhi when he climbed onto rooftops,
then he fell off the roof as if he was blind,
and people thought he had gone crazy and he spent a year in a mental hospital,
now that he had finally overcome all that, preparing to study hard and take the college entrance exam to embrace a new life...
I run into you, ugly monster?
Most people wouldn't encounter such creatures in their entire lives, and I ran into two consecutive ones?!
It's absurd!
Under the pressure of death, the frustration and anger that had been suppressed in Ben Lin's heart for years erupted like a volcano!
This rage burned fiercely, and the fear in his heart shrank smaller and smaller, replaced by an indomitable spirit that surged up!
He tightly gripped the white cane, faced the monster that was about to pounce, and his chest heaved violently.
At this moment, the monster in front of him didn't look like a creature that had just eaten a person but all the grievances and setbacks he had suffered in the past ten years.
Even Ben Lin himself might not have realized that under these surging emotions, those tightly closed eyes that had been closed for ten years were trembling intensely and seemed about to open.
"Puff—!"
The monster, seeing Ben Lin's tender and juicy body, screamed like a thug who had seen a beautiful woman, and leaped up!
"Damn it, I'm not afraid of you!" Ben Lin roared, lowered his body, and charged toward the leaping monster!
The distance between the two rapidly shortened!
Just as the monster's claws were about to cut Ben Lin's throat, he suddenly leaned to the side, narrowly avoiding the swipe!
However, although Ben Lin could perfectly grasp the monster's movements, his own physical abilities were still lacking. The claw grazed his temple, leaving a faint bloodstain.
At the same time, the black ribbon was cut, and it floated away with the swirling wind.
Ben Lin closed his eyes, seized the opportunity, and shouted, thrusting the white cane toward the monster's abdomen!
Snap—!
A crisp sound rang out, and Ben Lin felt his hand lighten as a tremendous force came from behind, yanking the monster away! Ben Lin was thrown to the ground and rolled several times. He gritted his teeth through the pain, got up, and sensed that the white cane in his hand had been broken in two.
The white cane was originally designed for the visually impaired and wasn't particularly sturdy, so it was naturally not very useful when it collided with the incredibly hard monster.
"Damn it!" He cursed and slammed the half-broken white cane on the ground.
He had finally seized an opportunity, only to waste it.
The breaking of the white cane was like igniting a fuse, setting off Ben Lin's emotions. He stood there, his fists clenched tightly, his nails digging into his flesh, leaving bloody marks.
"I refuse to accept this!" He roared!
In this moment of surging emotion, an inexplicable sensation suddenly surged into his heart. It was like a warm breeze, melting away the obstruction in his heart, and as it touched the stagnant place in his mind, it gently pushed...
The layer of paper-thin window finally opened!
Ben Lin felt as if a sun had imploded within him with a thunderous roar. An unprecedented, scorching heat engulfed his entire body. The skin beneath his eyelids felt like it was being seared, intensely hot!
As a result, almost instinctively...
He opened those tightly shut eyes after a decade.
And these eyes beheld a final image, another pair of eyes,
The eyes of an Angel zhi!
In an instant, a dazzling, blazing pillar of light erupted from the edge of the old city district, piercing straight through the sky!
At that moment, the night was as bright as day!

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