"Why him?"
Hong Hai frowned, looking puzzled. She quietly gave Long Jiu a signal... Long Jiu shifted slightly toward Gu Ze.
A Xing seemed not to notice. Hearing this, he merely pointed listlessly at Gu Ze. "Because this guy has an evil aura about him. It's almost identical to the aura that bald guy gave off when he was demonized."
Bald guy!
Long Wu's expression darkened at once, and countless black lines seemed to hang down over his eyes.
He was a senior researcher in the Pingtian Group's Curse Arts Department. Ever since joining the group after graduation, he had devoted himself to research day and night... Before turning twenty, he had been in the prime of his youth, but he had dedicated all of it to the group.
This was proof of the blood and sweat he had poured in.
I went bald, but I got promoted.
"What do you mean?"
A Xing thought for a moment before saying, "I could never figure out why someone had set up a mixed soul array on this guy in the hospital, using extremely strange talisman arts... The soul array was absorbing the hospital's lingering souls while suppressing this guy's primary consciousness and keeping him unconscious. It was quite contradictory. But now, I can more or less understand what happened."
"It has something to do with Yu Linglong?" Hong Hai suddenly had a flash of insight.
A Xing rubbed his chin. "If my guess is right, this guy may have been someone Yu Linglong intended to turn into a vessel and living anchor for an evil spirit."
"He... a vessel?" Miss Nan One rubbed her chin as well and began piecing together the information she had gathered.
"How should I put it?" A Xing scratched his head. "The people of the Styx