"Good boy..."
Lu Xin crouched down, patted the hairless puppy on the head, then picked up a stone from beside him and threw it. He pointed and said, "Go."
The hairless puppy silently stared at Lu Xin for a while, then quietly ran off to retrieve the stone.
Lu Xin lowered the motorcycle's kickstand, took a small notebook from his bag, and looked at the half-charred, deathly silent tree before him, as well as the scattered corpses beneath it, each with a rope still looped around its neck. He began silently recording and analyzing the situation:
Pollution Source: The banyan tree in the wilderness
Method of Pollution: Causing people to lose their way, similar to being trapped in a ghostly maze, then luring them to the tree to commit suicide
Cause of Appearance: ...
He raised his head and looked at the tree.
It was merely an ordinary tree. Lu Xin could confirm this by switching to "Mom's vision."
When he switched to "Mom's vision," he lost the ability to directly see Mental Monsters, but he could understand what things looked like through an ordinary person's eyes.
For example, when the tree had changed earlier, every leaf on it had appeared to have a mouth when viewed through his own eyes.
But through Mom's vision, the tree was still just a tree. It was only that some strange distortions had appeared in the air around it, as though the tree were constantly radiating some kind of power.
Through Mom's vision, Lu Xin could understand what state these mental entities were in and whether they harbored hostility toward him.
Using this method, Lu Xin also tried to analyze how this Pollution Source had come into existence.
A tree could not become a Pollution Source for no reason.
So, had the first