After opening the bedroom door, for almost ten seconds, nobody made a sound, and nobody stepped further into the room. Everyone crowded at the entrance, their gaze fixed unblinkingly on the eight-armed, eight-eyed wood carving in the glass case.
They were all trying to grasp the fear that the people in their previous investigation, who saw the "eight-armed, eight-eyed monster" illusion, had experienced.
Without thinking, Mijoe and Ye Chong and the others recalled their conversation that afternoon with Old Man Du about his sighting. They also remembered how the illusion of the eight-armed, eight-eyed giant seen by Zhao Feng and Wang De'an in Myitkyina had affected various people differently.
