The mascot of the wishing shop is a cat.

Chapter 283 Scene

"This, this is a painting of the blood moon from a few years ago!"

He Hailuo, who was standing next to Lin Xiyue, also saw the illustration and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

Lin Xiyue turned to look at He Hailuo, her face filled with doubt.

"Don't you remember? Just a few years ago, I remember that blood moon covered our entire city. I even had three days off back then."

As Heheluo spoke, he recalled the joy of his vacation, and his laughter made him seem almost too sunny in the gloomy environment.

"You, all you remember is the holiday?"

Seeing He Hailuo's current expression, Lin Xiyue realized that she was still just a high school student and couldn't help but tease her.

She only just remembered that Heheluo was still a high school student.

Lin Xiyue smiled and pulled He Hailuo to sit on the carpet, placing the three nests on their bodies beside them as a warning.

"Come on, let's take a look at what's written next."

Afterwards, Lin Xiyue and He Hailuo looked at the notebook together.

The notebook pages are made of deliberately aged, yellowed paper, which gives the words and drawings written on them an antique feel.

However, you can tell just by touching it that the paper is cheap; it's the kind that's so smooth that you might slip when writing on it.

"A red moon appeared in the city today, and those cowards at the Psionic Center say it's just a weather anomaly. Ha, I don't believe it."

"I feel a magical power; this must be a revelation from heaven! I must go and see!"

Below these two paragraphs is a hand-drawn picture of the city bathed in red moonlight.

When they turned to the second page, the first thing they saw was a meticulously drawn hand-drawn illustration.

The painting is very detailed, and the scene it depicts is a dark and damp sewer, seemingly exuding a nauseating stench.

In this picture, you can clearly see a small figure drawn with simple lines.

Judging from his body shape and some subtle features, he is undoubtedly a man.

He stood alone in the middle of the sewer, leaning against the wall, looking somewhat frightened and helpless.

However, what was truly captivating was the monster standing opposite the man.

The painter's depiction of it is so meticulous and lifelike that it sends chills down one's spine at first glance.

The monster bared its fangs, revealing its ferocious barbs, and thick saliva dripped continuously from its mouth onto the ground, making a "drip-drip" sound, as if foreshadowing a bloody massacre about to unfold.

Then look at its face; its long, vertical eyes are fixed on the man in front of it like burning flames, revealing endless greed and ferocity.

Its body is even more peculiar—composed of a large mass of slender bones that are intertwined and twisted together.

But these bones were covered with a layer of skin as thin as a cicada's wing, making the whole body appear both bloated and delicate, a bizarre sight that sent chills down one's spine.

"I came to the nearest sewer with a premonition and saw a monster! It was extremely ferocious, and I knew it wanted to kill me the moment it saw me."

"But soon, a series of clear bell sounds rang out. I saw it, I saw the monster in front of me seem to have heard something, it paused for a moment, and then turned and walked away."

"When we turned the corner, I saw it turn its head as if to signal me to follow."

After reading this, this page will be finished.

Lin Xiyue and the others hurriedly turned to the next page, which directly recorded what happened next.

"Although I was still very scared, I mustered up the courage to follow. I know it's illogical, but maybe I was being bewitched. A voice kept echoing in my head, telling me to follow."

"I followed the monster around the corner, and then, at its occasional prompting, wandered around in the sewers."

"About an hour later, I followed it to a very spacious place. This must be the only way through the sewers."

The text on this page abruptly ends, and what immediately comes into view is a large-scale hand-drawn comic strip that resembles a window into a mysterious world, attracting their attention.

These comic strips are exquisitely drawn, with perfectly arranged panels. Even without any dialogue or narration, readers can still clearly feel the scenes and plots that the author wants to convey through the delicate brushstrokes and vivid composition.

The first few paintings had a simple style and used a style similar to simple line drawings.

The characters are depicted rather roughly, and the surrounding environment is also simplified to just a few strokes.

However, as the story progresses, when the viewer moves to the last picture, the style suddenly changes, as if the clouds have parted to reveal the moon, and all the details instantly fill the picture.

This painting has a unique perspective; it depicts a scene seen from below, looking up.

At the bottom of the image is a shallow pool of water with some garbage and debris floating on the surface, making it look somewhat messy and even giving the impression that you can smell the stench of the sewer through the image.

Above the floodwaters are walls so high that their tops are invisible, creating an overwhelming sense of oppression.

Along the edges of the wall, countless pipe openings are densely distributed, varying in size and shape, as if they were the lifeblood and veins of the city's underground world.

It's easy to imagine that this huge space is an important confluence channel for sewage before it is transported to the sewage treatment plant.

This scene must have left a very deep impression on the creator, which is why he put so much effort into depicting it and striving to present it perfectly.

By carefully observing the proportions between the figures and the passageway in the painting, Lin Xiyue and her colleagues could clearly perceive that the passageway was far larger than they could have imagined.

The figures in the painting appear as tiny, insignificant ants.

However, the part of the painting that truly draws everyone's attention is not the passageway itself, but the corner at the very bottom of the painting.

In the bottom corner, the painter meticulously depicted an incredibly luxurious armchair.

This sofa is so exquisite that it's astonishing. Every detail has been meticulously crafted, and in this place full of garbage and sewage, it's not even a speck of dust has touched it.

But the most eye-catching figure was the mysterious man sitting on the sofa.

Although the man's face was blurred for some reason, his exposed strong arms and his large, finely drawn hands, with distinct knuckles, gripping the sofa armrests tightly, made it easy to deduce that he must be a person with a mysterious aura.

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