Eternal Day

Eternal Day was the debut work of a horror cartoonist 23 years ago.

The cover of the first comic officially released showed the protagonist, a young man with his hair in a ponytail.

He bit his black hair tie as he sat in front of the mirror, combing his hair.

His name was Nan Zhou.

He was the only protagonist of the comic ‘Eternal Day.’

The story of Eternal Day was set in the fictional Never Town.

In this closed off and warm town, the time of night was related to the moon.

Every month, there was a full moon on the 15th day and day and night were half:half.

Using the 15th as the dividing line, the hours of the night were shortened in turn.

The first day of the month was the only day without any night.

On the day, the snow-white sun would turn Never Town into a city of sunlight where nothing could be seen.

It wasn’t only darkness that covered people’s eyes but also light.

Therefore, the first day of every month became a day of rest for the residents of Never Town.

No matter what day of the week it fell on, the residents of never Town would rest at home.

Office workers and students were suspended.

There were few vehicles on the streets shrouded in white sunlight.

Only the constant light from the traffic lights was scattered by the blazing sunlight into light color ripples that swayed shallowly in the hot air.

This weird, abnormal light gave birth to a monster called the light demon.

The light demon was born from an irreversible source of infection called light bacteria.

They had the same appearance as humans but they were extremely aggressive and flexible. They also possessed the same intelligence as ordinary people.

In normal times, they firmly believed they were ordinary people living in Never Town.

At the beginning of every month, on the day of ‘extreme sunlight’, the self-awareness of the light demons would awaken.

In these 24 hours of white, chaotic light, they could choose to transform into their true selves and randomly hunt the residents of the small town to continue their lives.

If ordinary people were bitten and infected by the light bacteria, another light demon would be born.

However, once the light bacteria entered the human body, the light bacteria would form its own variants due to different physical techniques. It also formed a self-protective spiritual strain that occupied the brain.

Therefore, one of the characteristics of the light demon was mental fragility.

In other words, once the light demon treated another light demon like a human and bit them, it was possible to become infected and die themselves unless their strain was stronger than the other one.

It was like drawing a lottery ticket.

On the other hand, they could absorb the nutrients from the opponent’s body. This was huge luck and they wouldn’t need to hunt for three months.

Perhaps they wouldn’t need to hunt all their lives.

Of course, the light demons had limits.

Author’s note: the little yellow book placed under the pillow allowed Nan Zhou to gain strange new knowledge from the human world.