Ghosts?
Jiang Qiao suddenly realized.
The scene before him was strikingly similar to traditional ideas about ghosts.
When people died, they became ghosts.
Humans and ghosts did not interfere with each other.
These Vicious Ghosts imitated humans. When they were "alive," apart from lacking qi and blood, they were perfectly normal most of the time, and their words and actions were barely distinguishable from those of living people.
But after "death," they reverted to their original forms as Vicious Ghosts.
They still imitated humans.
But like normal Vicious Ghosts, they were extremely stiff and mechanical, as if they were following a script prepared in advance.
They no longer possessed the ability to adapt or respond flexibly to emergencies.
At the same time.
Some kind of Ghost Domain separated the "living Vicious Ghosts" from the "dead Vicious Ghosts," preventing them from encountering each other. Even if their bodies overlapped, they could not detect each other.
"This kind of experiment... I'm afraid it couldn't have been completed through research alone, could it?"
Jiang Qiao pondered the information he had obtained from Tao Ji.
Medicine King City was terrifying.
It even had a Half-God.
But ultimately, it could not possibly surpass the two major organizations, the Guangming Society and the Old Citizens.
If even the Guangming Society could not accomplish something.
Could they?
"Could it be the Green Lotus Sect?"
Jiang Qiao naturally knew that the Green Lotus Sect stood behind Medicine King City. The Green Lotus Sect was mysterious and strange, and it really might have been capable of this.
But he also recalled something else.
Before the research institute was established in Medicine King City, Tongling Island had actually been controlled by another faction. The so-called "Tongling Island shipwreck" had originally belonged to that faction.
According to public records.
When the