Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 346 - 17: The Female Ghoul

"It’s getting late today, if you want to attend tomorrow’s ritual ceremony, I suggest you rest early." The little girl said, "The inns, hostels, and unoccupied houses in town are all available for accommodation, no payment needed."

"This sky... hasn’t it been ’not early’ for a while?" Sun Hang looked up into the air. Except for the bright full moon, the pitch-black night always shrouded the entire town – people living in the Shuzhou Region had gradually become accustomed to this night-after-night lifestyle.

"We must prepare for the ceremony, so we’ll excuse ourselves first." The two little girls nodded slightly to Sun Hang, then turned and left.

In the blink of an eye, they had turned into a small alley, disappearing from Sun Hang’s sight.

Sun Hang quickly followed, but when he reached the place where the two little girls had disappeared, he found no alley but a solid concrete wall lying between two buildings.

Sun Hang stepped forward and pushed the concrete wall hard.

The wall didn’t move an inch.

Sun Hang examined it carefully again, but it didn’t seem like there was any hidden path or secret door.

"Another Blinding Skill? They don’t want to be followed?" Sun Hang muttered to himself.

He reached up and touched his own throat, the big hole in his throat was still there, he inserted his finger into the hole, and could even feel the mucous membrane on the inside of the esophagus and the muscular texture beneath it.

The edges of the hole were smooth, without a trace of the trauma, as if this hole was originally a part of normal physiological structure - like eye sockets, nostrils, and mouth, a "channel" connecting the human body with the external world.

Sun Hang pondered for a moment, then took out his phone, switching the camera to the front camera for selfies.

Just as he expected, in the footage captured by the camera, the moon behind him was bright as blood, and his throat was intact - the terrifying big hole disappeared as silently as it had appeared.

Sun Hang reached out and touched it, a normal feeling of the neck’s skin met his fingertips, with fine hairs and slightly protruding follicles, and the Adam’s apple that slid up and down with the swallowing motions beneath the skin.

Sun Hang stuffed the remaining piece of compressed biscuit into his mouth, chewing it up and swallowing it in no time.

He could clearly feel the food passing smoothly through the esophagus, not leaking out from that "nonexistent big hole" in his throat.

"...So, perception is existence? This really is an idealistic world?"

Sun Hang placed his hand on his Adam’s apple and moved the phone camera away.

The next second, his fingertips suddenly felt empty as half of his hand plunged directly into his throat.

"Cough, cough... what the heck." Amid a violent coughing fit, Sun Hang hurriedly withdrew his hand.

The big hole had appeared again.

But the good news was that the food he’d just eaten had already passed through the esophageal area and didn’t fly out of the hole.

"Isn’t this problem easily solved? Just put a mirror in front when eating, wouldn’t that work... why don’t the people in the town..."

At this, Sun Hang suddenly paused.

He suddenly realized he was different from the people in the town.

The image of the townspeople, the one seen with the naked eye and the one in the mirror, was completely different, but they had one thing in common, which was that whether it was the "human form" or "spooky form," they all had a big hole in their throats - Sun Hang had already verified this when examining those "corpses."

But he himself was the exact opposite.

Whether the Sun Hang seen with naked eyes or the one in the mirror looked the same in form - at least everything below the head was the same - but there was one significant difference, which was that the Sun Hang in the mirror had no hole in his throat.

Sun Hang put away his phone, looking up at the moon in the sky.

He knew clearly, he was always an outsider.

The so-called "becoming a member of Maoyun Town," this phrase was most likely those two little girls deceiving him... As for the previous outsider who came to Maoyun Town, his situation was probably the same as his.

Just when Sun Hang planned to stroll around the town a little longer, a crisp clapper sound suddenly rang out.

A headless watchman wearing a straw hat, dressed in blue-gray cloth clothes, and wearing straw sandals approached, sizing up Sun Hang - Sun Hang noticed, this watchman had no head, a bamboo pole was inserted into his neck, supporting the worn-out straw hat, with circle after circle of straw wrapped around the pole, shaped into the form of a human head.

On the front of this straw head, a piece of rice paper was pasted, with a stiff and expressionless face drawn on it with ink.

"It’s getting late." A dull voice came from the watchman’s neck, "Don’t wander on the streets anymore."

"Uh... a curfew?" Sun Hang suddenly remembered that for ease of management, curfews were usually imposed in quarantine zones - just like in the current Tianfu City.

"Since you know, why violate the rules?" The watchman’s tone seemed somewhat displeased.

"What is the punishment for breaking the rules?" Sun Hang asked.

"The mayor will be very unhappy."

"What happens if the mayor is unhappy?"

"The ritual ceremony might be canceled tomorrow, everyone will suffer from hunger because of you."

"..."

Sun Hang initially wanted to be rebellious, but hearing that the ceremony might be called off, his mind wavered.

After much contemplation, he decided it was best not to complicate matters.