Chapter 5: The Yin and Yang Eyes (2)

  After repeated trials, Xiao Yu felt that he could control these changes at will, and he let out a soft breath, secretly thinking about what was going on. Xiao Yu slowly searched through Zhong Kui's memories, although he had already inherited Zhong Kui's thousand-year-old perceptual experience and memories, but due to the large amount of information, most of the memories were locked deep in his mind, only a small portion of Zhong Kui's memories from when he was still a mortal were merged with his own.

  But these memories did not reveal the reason for the change in his eyes. Suddenly, a flash of insight appeared in Xiao Yu's mind, "Could it be... could it be the 'Yin Yang Eyes' described in the Zhong Kui legend?"

  To verify what was in his mind, Xiao Yu concentrated again. Those mysterious patterns had once connected with both eyes, and the world in Xiao Yu's eyes quickly faded into black and white.

  Xiao Yu's ward was a four-bed room, with two beds occupied by patients who were both in comas. These two patients had severe cerebral hemorrhage and had undergone craniotomy surgery.

  Xiao Yu looked at the two people in the black and white world, where two large and small clusters of black fog floated above their bodies. The two clusters of black fog rolled over each other above the two people's bodies, changing into various shapes. Every time the cluster with more black fog rolled over, it decreased a little, while the one with less black fog increased a bit with each roll. They were mutually diminishing and increasing, and soon the one with less black fog became the one with more, and the one with more black fog became less.

  Suddenly, the black fog that was originally less dense quickly increased, rolling faster and changing into various shapes. Suddenly, the swirling black fog stopped and turned into a human shape, quietly lying above the patient's body. The patient's heart rate monitor suddenly emitted a piercing alarm, and his heart rate became a flat line. His family hastily called for a doctor, who came to the patient's side, looked at him, and shook his head at the family members.

  Also didn't know was an illusion or......Xiao Yu felt that the human-shaped black fog seemed to have moved.

  "Whoa, it's really moving...?"

  Xiao Yu suddenly widened his eyes, and the human-shaped black fog that was lying flat suddenly stood up straight, opened its eyes, looked at the crying family members below, and revealed a hint of sadness.

  Suddenly, behind the human-shaped black fog, a pitch-black whirlpool appeared out of nowhere. The whirlpool grew larger and larger until it was as big as two people. A chain that seemed to exude an eerie aura in this monochrome world stretched out from the whirlpool and bound itself around the human-shaped black fog, pulling him closer to the whirlpool. In the instant he entered the whirlpool, it vanished into thin air, as if it had never appeared at all.

  Xiao Yu broke the connection between his eyes and the mysterious pattern. He sat stupidly on the hospital bed, recalling everything he had just seen, thinking: "Was that human-shaped black fog the legendary ghost? What was that black vortex and iron chain?"

  Xiao Yu saw a Hong Kong horror movie several years ago called "Yin Yang Eyes". The content is a bit fuzzy, but it seems to be about people with Yin Yang eyes who can see through the two realms of yin and yang.

  Since watching that movie, Xiao Yu has also looked up a lot of information and said that people with yin-yang eyes are generally born in the year of yin, month of yin, time of yin, and place of yin. People with yin-yang eyes can not only see ghosts but also communicate with them simply.

  After seeing these materials, Xiao Ye directly regarded it as a ridiculous talk. After all, he had received atheist education since childhood and just treated these things as a story.

  Later, I saw some modern official explanations that the yin-yang eyes are just a person's hallucinations caused by sleep and psychological problems. Xiao Yu thought this was the correct explanation.

  Until this moment, Xiao Yu finally believed that those weren't all nonsense, and the yin-yang eyes really existed!

  Xiao Yu concentrated again, the mysterious pattern and his eyes connected, and the world in Xiao Yu's eyes turned black and white again. He stood on the windowsill of the ward, gazing outwards, and outside, the entire hospital was shrouded in a thick fog, with large and small clusters forming a dark cloud. The dark cloud churned and changed into various shapes, giving an eerie feeling in this monotonous black-and-white world. Xiao Yu's heart tightened, his scalp numb, after all, he had never experienced anything like this before.

  Xiao Ye suppressed the fear in his heart, using his yin-yang eyes to gaze at everything outside. His eyebrows gradually furrowed, something's not right! According to what he had read and seen in some videos, wasn't it said that yin-yang eyes could only see ghosts? He was indeed able to see ghosts, but what about the dark mist that hadn't yet formed into a ghost?

  Xiao Yu got down from the windowsill and sat on the bed, deep in thought. What was going on? Suddenly a flash of insight struck him - could it be...

  To verify his speculation, Xiao Yu used his yin-yang eyes to observe normal people and found that none of them had black fog on their heads. He walked in the hospital corridor, looking at the patients passing by, and every patient in the hospital had more or less black fog on their head.

  Xiao Yu arrived at the small park behind the hospital and sat on a bench, seeing some trees, bushes, especially some seasonal flowers, all of which were also shrouded in dark fog.

  To verify what was in his mind, Xiao Yu caught a grasshopper on the lawn. Under the yin-yang eyes, there was no black fog appearing on the grasshopper. Xiao Yu grasped the grasshopper and slammed it to the ground with force. The originally lively grasshopper was smashed to the ground, jumping around wildly, but a cluster of black fog quickly emerged from its head, surging above it. As the grasshopper's movements gradually slowed down, the black fog on its head grew thicker. Finally, the grasshopper stopped moving, and the black fog on its head took the shape of the grasshopper itself.

  "It's really... it's actually death energy..."

  Xiao Yu took a deep breath of cold air, shocked and bewildered. He had never heard that the yin-yang eyes could see a person's death energy, let alone the death energy of plants and animals. Xiao Yu took another deep breath, and his mood finally calmed down.

  Suddenly, Xiao Yu thought of the two people in the same ward as him earlier. One had more vital energy and one had less, but the person with more vital energy was gradually decreasing. Did this mean that her illness was slowly recovering? Thinking of this possibility made Xiao Yu extremely excited.

  This is absolutely not something that ordinary yin-yang eyes can achieve, so what should this be called? Alright, let's just call it the life-and-death eye!

  Unable to contain the joy in his heart, Xiao Yu excitedly burst out laughing. To think that although he had only discovered he could see through one person's death aura for now, he believed this mysterious pattern would bring him even more surprises - who knows if he could be like Zhong Kui from legend, vanquishing demons and evil spirits across the land?

  "Xiao Yu, what are you smiling at all alone like that..." Wei Jun asked the doctor and returned to the ward without finding Xiao Yu, so he ran out to look for him. Who knew that when he arrived at the small park, he saw Xiao Yu standing there smiling foolishly, and his voice interrupted him.

  I have to go to work tomorrow, I'll try to squeeze out some time to write at night after stewing meat, probably just one update tomorrow.