After Li Qingzhi finished speaking, something seemed to squirm beneath the clothes on his back, and a hoarse voice slowly emerged...
"I smell... That Eerie's 'origin'... It can be severed..."
Li Qingzhi suddenly smiled. "I was just joking, and this old thing actually got greedy."
"That's not why we came here."
"We came for your daughter—my sister."
"Sister... sister..." The "eerie" in his back murmured dazedly, as though it barely remembered.
Li Qingzhi shook his head with a bitter smile and sighed. "You've even forgotten your own daughter... Just like when you were alive, you never cared whether my sister lived or died. That's how you ended up in this miserable state."
As Li Qingzhi said this, his smile carried both mockery and helplessness. "Still, becoming an eerie like this is no more than you deserve."
"Now, borrowing your power to pray for my sister's 'safety' can be considered helping you atone to Mother."
"Mother..." The eerie on his back seemed to retain some impression of his "wife." Its voice brimmed with intense resentment. "That woman... that stupid woman!!"
"I told her long ago that Girl was inauspicious, that she had come to take revenge for her past life!!"
"Why didn't she strangle her to death? Why did she let that eerie girl be born into this world?!"
The smile gradually faded from Li Qingzhi's face.
Avoiding the subject, he looked at the "Buddha-body Eerie Statue" ahead and said, "Of the twenty Players at the scene, almost all have been affected by [Phone Eerie]. Their sanity and judgment have dropped severely, and they're being led around by the nose by the information on that 'forum.'"
"They haven't noticed at all that they've already fallen into the trap of [Temple of the Dead Buddha]."
"Only that guy named Ji Yan hasn't