Hao Ren had been eating perfectly well, but he never expected Anna to sit down and suddenly mutter such a long string of things to him. Combined with the girl's unusually eerie eyes, made strange by her madness, and her pallid complexion, those few sentences sounded downright ghostly and sent chills down anyone's spine. Hao Ren, however, had been tempered by everything he'd experienced recently until his nerves were practically deadened, so he only felt baffled. "Huh?"
"Tanagrus... High-energy aggregate state... You can't kill that thing..." Anna's gaze wavered slightly, but Igor quickly cut off her rambling. "Anna, mind your table manners—and don't disturb our guests with those jumbled memories of yours."
"Wait a second." Hao Ren hurriedly waved at Igor. "I'm very interested in what Anna said. What is this Tanagrus she mentioned?"
A stiff smile appeared on Igor's face. "It's the evil spirit's whispering, Master. There's no need to pay attention to such mad nonsense. The evil spirit beneath the castle has always whispered knowledge from the Evil Abyss into my poor daughter's dreams. Those things have become mixed up with Anna's memories, making it difficult for her to distinguish reality from illusion at times. She should mention them as little as possible. Otherwise, sooner or later, she'll end up like those unfortunate family members from the past, with the evil spirit's thoughts completely occupying her body."
"So the an—evil spirit told her these things?" Hao Ren looked extremely interested while doing his best to adopt an expert's bearing. "I think this information could be useful. Perhaps we can deduce the source of the evil spirit's power from it."
Igor spread his hands. "Master, you can try, but I guarantee you won't get anything useful. My daughter's memories are chaotic, and the evil spirit would never allow its