Chapter 55: Abyss Ghost
By evening, the county magistrate had cleared out an entire inn for their group to rest in.
Looking at the tables laden with delicious food in the main hall, Xia Fan found that he had no appetite at all.
"Come over and exchange your intelligence. Let's see what all of you discovered." Judge Zhang clapped his hands to summon them. "Time waits for no one. There's no harm in talking while we eat."
"Then I'll go first." Yue Feng concisely repeated the survivor's account. "In short, in his panic, the man did not get a clear look at the Evil Spirit, but he confirmed that it could instantly move from one container to another, and that it was no bigger than a three-year-old child..."
After some discussion, the six of them had basically reached a consensus.
The Evil Spirit did not fear light and showed obvious hostility toward living creatures. It could not have been large; its Chaos trait manifested as acting across empty space, while its method of attack was to drag living things into cramped containers and crush them alive—judging by both its danger and its abnormality, it had to be a ghost.
And in the Bureau of Military Affairs' Records of All Evils, there was a similar account.
"Abyss Ghost."
Its movements were unpredictable, its form ghostly; where it hid was like an abyss.
"This judgment can barely count as passing." Judge Zhang nodded. "But if ten is full marks, I can give you no more than five."
"Why?" Wang Renzhi asked in surprise. "Could it be that we missed something during the investigation?"
"It's simple. Abyss Ghosts are unaffected by sunlight. How do you know it isn't still lurking at the scene of the crime?"
The moment he said this, everyone shuddered.