"Ting Tao, these glasses aren't particularly powerful, but if you use them at the right moment, they might help you escape certain death."
"Brother, the right moment... when would that be?"
"You'll have to figure that out yourself..."
Xue Tingtao bolted, not daring to look back. He scrambled on all fours through the apricot blossoms and blood mist, fleeing in a panic with utterly graceless movements.
Several branches had slashed bloody streaks across his once smooth, delicate face. After pressing his hands into the earth, he used them to adjust his glasses. Mud and blood made him look like a stray dog driven from its home.
Yet, ungainly as his movements were, the route he took was remarkably clever.
Within the blood-shrouded Screen World, directions and paths had long ceased to exist. For an ordinary person walking through the mist, making progress was out of the question; even a brief spell alone could leave their mind lost.
With these glasses, however, Xue Tingtao could discern a faint, barely perceptible route.
The Square Frame Glasses Sin Object's effect: the wearer gained visualized, automatic pathfinding, allowing them to avoid supernatural threats as effectively as possible for five minutes.
The price was that, after five minutes, the supernatural threats they had bypassed would appear before them in a concentrated mass.
The effect and price of this Sin Object mirrored each other closely, and using it felt very much like drinking poison to quench one's thirst.
In some respects, it also resembled the Eye of Calamity, except that its stated price was more severe.
Xue Tinghai had hesitated for a long time before giving this item to Xue Tingtao.
As his elder brother, and especially as a veteran manager, he naturally understood this Sin Object's peculiar nature: "a brief period of seeking advantage