Ling Xiao had grown up in that kind of family environment, so his mental state probably wasn't healthy either.
The negative emotions buried deep inside him might have been even stronger than his mother's.
In other words... Anna devouring Ling Xiao's emotions hadn't harmed him at all—it had saved him instead?
Could she really be that kindhearted?
No, that wasn't right... If negative emotions could be turned into Anomaly Memes, then to Anna, they could count as a "great tonic" too... Her main goal was probably still hunting, while clearing Ling Xiao's negative emotions was most likely just a side effect...
No, still not right.
If Anna had been hunting humanity's negative emotions, then Chen Hongjuan had been nearby while she spoke with Ling Xiao... Why hadn't she hunted Chen Hongjuan's emotions instead?
It couldn't possibly be because she preferred young, handsome men, could it?
That was fucking ridiculous... Whether on Nameless Island or in Lizhou City, she'd never been picky about what she ate. There was no reason for her to suddenly start picking and choosing after arriving in Tianfu City.
"What's wrong with you?" Wang Xiyi waved a hand in front of Sun Hang's eyes. "You look like your soul's wandered off somewhere."
"Nothing. I was just thinking about something," Sun Hang said.
"What were you thinking about?"
"Why have I never seen you wear black stockings?" Sun Hang blurted out.
He looked at Wang Xiyi's legs, then at Yang Qi's legs below the stands—the latter wore a wrinkled white lab coat that hung all the way to her knees, exposing a section of calf wrapped in black stockings.
To be precise, what Yang Qi wore couldn't really be called black stockings... They were about as warm as padded pants. If Sun Hang remembered correctly, girls seemed to