Eye of Ember Ruins

Eye of Ember Ruins Chapter 1 The Bone-Eating Postman When Lin Ye wiped his glasses for the seventh time, his fingertips touched the rust on the edge of the frame. He had just bought this pair of titanium alloy glasses three months ago, but at this moment, the temples seemed to have been soaked in rotten water. The rust spots crawled along the lines into a strange network, like the blood vessels of some kind of creature. It has been raining outside the window for forty days. The city was soaked in gray-green rain and fog, and even the neon signs in the convenience stores were soaked with moisture and turned into blurry spots on the glass. Lin Ye is the owner of this second-hand bookstore, and he is also the last one still in business. Since the appearance of the "Bone-eroding Postman", half of the people in the city have moved away, and the ones who are left are either old people who are reluctant to part with their ancestral home, or stupid people like him who are waiting for someone. When the door curtain was lifted by the wind, it carried a dry smell that did not belong to rainy days. Lin Ye raised his head and saw a man in a black trench coat standing at the door. The hem of the trench coat was not stained by any rain. He was holding a kraft paper envelope in his hand. The edges of the envelope were burnt yellow unique to old books. There were no stamps or addresses on it. There was only a wide-open eye drawn in the center, with the pupils dotted with red ink. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.