When Bright Moon Encounter the Dark Clouds

I shielded my head with my arms and wanted to rush over. Unfortunately, more birds came at me as if they knew what Yan Yuan was thinking. Crowding me, the birds basically formed a net, blocking my way.

There was no chance of me getting to Yan Yuan. The latter grabbed Zhu Zhongling’s head while having a similar expression to what Xu Zifeng had before. It was a smile that felt sad and joyous at the same time. The cold blade sliced across Zhu Zhongling’s neck, and blood started flowing out.

Bang! Out of nowhere, the door was kicked open, accompanied by a single gunshot. Yan Yuan froze while blood left his face. He looked down after a while and fixed his gaze on the gunshot wound in his chest. At the same time, the birds left me and surrounded Yan Yuan.

Covered in blood, I looked up and saw Shen Shiyan’s stern face. He aimed his gun at Yan Yuan as he walked into the living room. Following closely behind him was Tan Jiao.

Tan Jiao ran to my side and asked worriedly, “Are you alright? Are you injured?”

I held her hand and said, “I’m fine. These are just superficial wounds.”

The police rushed in and helped the Zhu family members. Shen Shiyan holstered his gun and quickly placed Yan Yuan in handcuffs before helping him up. “Call the ambulance immediately! He doesn’t look too good!”

Flapping their wings, the flock of birds exited from the window, leaving the room within seconds. However, they did not leave the residence immediately. Instead, they circled above the house while letting out terrifying calls.

All of the policemen stood rooted as they witnessed this eerie scene while Shen Shiyan raised his gaze to the two of us.

Laying there in Shen Shiyan’s arms, Yan Yuan, or more accurately, the real Zhu Shuyun, had a ghostly pale face with his eyes half shut.

Tan Jiao and I walked over to him.

Zhu Shuyun looked at us with his dying gaze, his face looking particularly pale.

Out of nowhere, his eyes widened, and a layer of sweat covered his forehead as if he had seen something extremely horrifying. He pointed his hand at us and said, “You… how could this be?”

Before he could say anything more, those fixated eyes of his lost their luster. Those lifeless eyes stayed fixed on us while his hand gradually lowered to the ground.

I ignored the police, sprung toward Zhu Shuyun, and asked while holding his hand, “What do you want to say? What did you recall?”

His eyes only had horror in them, as though he could not hear what I asked. Soon, his body trembled greatly, convulsing unnaturally. In the end, after a final jolt, his eyes rolled back, and he laid there motionless.

Everyone in the room looked at each other, unsure about exactly what had happened. The police pulled me back, and I slowly got up. Tan Jiao came into my arms and asked with a quivering voice, “Is he dead? What happened to him? What caused him to become so terrified?”

I fell into a brief silence before saying, “Perhaps… his mental state was unstable before he died. Maybe what he saw was not us but his inner fears.”

Tan Jiao looked slightly relaxed when she heard this, but she still appeared to have some lingering fears. “Oh…”

It seemed that everything had come to an end.

The strange birds had left the area, while the gravely injured Zhu family members were saved. Tan Jiao and I, with the help of a policeman, walked out of the Zhu residence. The sky was already dark, with the police lights illuminating the surrounding area with red and blue. I looked back and saw the already motionless Zhu Shuyun lying on the floor. His horror-filled eyes were still wide open. Tan Jiao wanted to look back as well, but I pressed gently on her head, not allowing her to look back.

……

It was not until a long time later that we finally found out the real reason why Zhu Shuyun was frightened before his death.

In truth, some of the people who came down from that ship, only at the moment of death, the moment when time stopped or when they fell into eternity, would remember everything that had happened on that ship.

This was the same for Tan Jiao and I.