Desire's Temptation, the Tide Has Turned

Splat—

A hand wreathed in scarlet blood mist pierced through the thin fog and seized the Red Candle Eerie that had lunged at Liu Congming first.

The next moment, the red candle in its hand erupted with azure flames and burned away completely. Its entire eerie body shriveled like a sponge, collapsing to the ground and leaving behind only a wrinkled mass of skin, flesh, and bones.

"Player notification! Multiple severely rule-breaking NPC Eeries have been detected in the [Liu's Haunted House] you are currently in. Dungeon Order has intervened and issued a Judgment, erasing a total of five Out of Control Eeries."

The instant the panel confirmed the ruling, those Out of Control Eeries immediately sensed something...

Five Order Chains formed from dense code precisely pierced through them. Without even a muffled groan, they turned to dust in an instant and scattered into the faint mist with the night wind.

"So 'maintaining Order' still exists, but this review time is way too damn ridiculous, isn't it?"

"By the time you hand down your ruling, the day lilies will be stone-cold!"

Liu Congming wiped away a cold sweat and looked at the Greedy Money Eerie as its blood mist dispersed. "You knew Order would act?"

J did not deny it. "I knew."

"That's why I only charged two copper coins."

Liu Congming kept rubbing the bloodstains from his fingers and asked doubtfully, "But... why are your copper coins different from the ones Nangong Feng has?"

"And what's with this blood? Why won't it wipe off?"

"Of course they're different."

"These bloodstained copper coins... were the culprits that once drove the owners of fourteen Surnamed Haunted Houses mad, ultimately causing rivers of blood to flow."

As soon as J finished speaking, the Game Panel before Liu Congming switched again—