These days Greg was even considering whether to go to town to buy home insurance and personal insurance, he was terrified.

After hesitating for a long time, he went downstairs. When he came to the kitchen, he was shocked. He saw the kitchen door open. He was very sure that he had locked all the doors and windows. Greg looked out the door, and the wet clothes he had dried in the yard were gone. He thought it was the woman who had taken it away. He broke out and couldn’t stand it anymore. Greg packed his luggage overnight and lived in a motel in the town.

Here, he finally enjoyed the long-lost silence. This was also the deepest sleep he had had in these days.

Greg contacted the locksmith and he planned to replace all the locks in the house. He drove back to his grandfather’s house. Although he really didn’t want to go back there, there was really no better way before he sold the house. On the way he drove home, a red object suddenly sprang out of the forest. He couldn’t see what it was, but because of this thing, Greg’s car got stuck in a deep ditch on the side of the road and he got off , determined to get the car out, But no matter how hard he tried, it was useless.

That day, he had no choice but to walk back to his grandfather’s house, and waited for the trailer to get his car out. If he didn’t do this, Greg would probably miss the appointment with the locksmith, and he would end up sleeping in the house without changing the locks. It was terrible to think about it.

Fortunately, there was only one way back to Grandpa’s house, so he would’t get lost. The forest was surprisingly quiet that day, and Greg couldn’t hear a sound. At this moment, Greg saw something that almost stopped his heartbeat. He saw the wooden triangle again which was very similar to what he had seen before, but this time, the clothes and socks that Greg lost a few days ago were tied in the middle of the triangle. Almost all the missing things were here, except for his sweatshirt.

On the way home, Greg found a pile of white eggs on the grass, much larger than the normal eggs. Greg reached out and touched them; they were very warm. For a moment, Greg wanted to break the eggs to see what was inside, but as soon as he reached out his hand, Greg drew back.

At this moment in time, he didn’t even want to sell the house, so just mortgaged the house. As long as he could quickly deal with it, it didn’t matter.

The locksmith arrived soon after Greg got home. After a while, the locksmith changed all the locks. Though some strange things were still happening around the house, after changing the lock, Gerg should be able to sleep better.

On December 28, when he was washing the dishes after dinner, a strange noise came from outside the house again. At first Greg thought it was the sound of an animal, but then he could hear approaching clear footsteps.

Greg ignored the fear, he took a knife and rushed out the door. He wanted to know the answer to all this too much. He followed the strange woman into the forest, and he was quite sure that this figure was the strange woman he had seen these days. The woman ran very fast, so to avoid getting lost, Greg went back to Grandpa’s house.

But in front of the door of Grandpa’s house, Greg saw the strange wooden triangle again, and this time it was a huge triangle, even taller than his height.

The missing sweatshirt was tied in the middle of the triangle, and there was a writing on the wall,
“Fear of the new moon”.

What exactly is this new moon? Greg quickly checked the Internet. It turned out what the new moon said was that there’s one day in each month during which the moon will face the earth with its dark side, which means that on this day, the moon cannot be seen on the earth. Greg discovered that the next new moon was January 5, 2019.

On January 5th, it rained heavily all day, and that day Greg stayed in the house and did not go anywhere. So far as usual, Greg had been in panic all day, but he didn’t know why. Maybe he shouldn’t stay here. Greg decided to leave here the next day.

Before leaving, Greg planned to go to the cellar in the basement to get a bottle of wine to ease his emotions, but when he opened the door of the basement, he was so shocked that he dropped the things in his hands because the strange, terrible woman was standing there, in the basement.

Greg couldn’t move on the spot. Then the woman turned around and said, “Don’t be afraid, I won’t hurt you. Let me explain all this to you.”

Woman said, I made those wooden triangles to protect you from being hurt by “them”. Greg was still in shock and his mind was a complete mess, who are they?

Greg didn’t know whether he should believe what the woman said, but he had been waiting for the answer these days, so he had no choice but to listen to what she had to say.

Next, Greg heard a magical story from the woman’s mouth.

Long, long ago, ‘they’ fall from the sky and fall into a nearby lake. ‘They’ bring some magical and weird things. Gradually, ‘they’ begin to communicate with the people in town, and the local people even give up their lives to protect them. Of course, all of this is not for nothing in return. ‘They’ can make the residents healthy and immoral with endless children and grandchildren, sparing them from diseases forever. Most of the time these things would sleep at the bottom of the lake. Later, as their numbers increase and the residents begin to lose control, ‘they’ go ashore to lay those eggs. People in the town would take care of these eggs until the day ‘they’ hatch, but, just like newborn babies, ‘they’ need food.

And like I just said, every family in town has many children.

But not every child can grow up. Every year when the eggs hatch, people in the town would pick one of their own children and bring them into the depths of the forest as a reward for ‘them’.

In fact, it is a sacrifice ceremony. The sacrifice first starts with the eyes. Greg was curious, how did this woman know?

At this moment, the woman took off the sunglasses she wore both day and night, and Greg instantly understood. There were two huge scars on the woman’s eyes.

“Because i am one of the victims”.The woman said sadly.

When the woman was a child, her father took her to the forest with other children. She watched an egg crack, but strangely, she didn’t see anything, as if the egg was empty. In an instant, something scratched her eyes. The little girl ran off desperately, but luckily, ‘they’ did not chase.

The woman went on to say that this is the case every year. Some eggs hatch earlier and feed on small animals in the forest. And most of the eggs hatch in the darkest time which is the new moon. And tonight is the new moon. ‘They’ need food and energy to help them get back into the water. After hearing all this, Greg jumped up and said: “I must stop this.” But the woman said, it’s useless, it repeats every year. Greg didn’t listen, he rushed into the woods, but he didn’t know where he could go or what he could do. He didn’t know when the rain had stopped outside the house, and it was dark around him. Greg was walking in the forest, as if he saw the light of a flashlight. But when he walked in, the light disappeared, and there were only broken eggshells on the ground. In an instant, Greg understood something. He came to the lake and saw the slight ripples on the lake gradually disappear into the moonlight.

When Greg got home, the woman was gone. Everything was like a dream. After this day, Greg left the house. He decided not to sell the house for the time being, after all, no one would buy it.

Greg would return to school next week, and he hoped he could return to a normal life. After experiencing these things, Greg gradually learned some things, such as why the relationship between his mother and his grandfather was bad, and why even until then his mother was still not willing to mention his grandfather; why is the boat in the middle of the lake there, because someone wants to communicate with them. But still the biggest mystery is what ‘they’ are.

It seemed that all of this could only be answered by the next new moon.