The faint flute music sounded like weeping, filled with an indescribable sorrow.
As though bidding a final farewell to friends and family.
Yet beyond the kitchen door he had pushed open ahead, the supernatural attack he had imagined never came. There were not even any evil spirits or living people inside.
It was a very ordinary kitchen.
A moldy chopping board, a soot-blackened earthen stove, a large earthenware bowl, and a portrait of the Kitchen God enshrined above the stove... It was not modern at all. Instead, it resembled the back kitchen of a small restaurant from the old era.
If anything was different, it was probably that the image of the Kitchen God did not quite look like the Kitchen God.
What did that mean?
Its clothing, seated posture, and various accessories were no different from those of the Kitchen God, but if you looked at its face... you would discover that it had no face at all.
Where its face should have been was a blank space, with nothing there.
What a strange thing.
Jiang Qiao quietly went on guard, secretly gripping the Sin Mirror in his palm. In the supernatural world, gods are neither the imaginary puppets of a materialist worldview nor the supernatural beings of occultism.
Nor are they the traditional deities of religion and folk worship that can protect all living beings.
The gods of the supernatural world represent madness, strangeness, indifference, despair, mystery, and unpredictability... No one can explain where they actually came from.
Durahan believes that deities are the world's immune system.
It was precisely because something went wrong with the deities that the supernatural world became infected by supernatural forces from beyond its boundaries.
But that's only his personal conjecture. There's no evidence to support it.
*The only thing we know for