The sky was gloomy.
Ever since the Vicious Ghost sealed the city, no one in the entire city had seen sunlight.
Daytime was a little better.
It was overcast and gloomy, but one could still see the road.
When night came.
Without any lights, it was pitch-black, so dark that one could not see one's own hand.
Inner City.
Jiang Qiao stood with his hands behind his back.
He looked up at the towering Ghost Tree.
Its enormous crown had grown a little larger over the past few days and had already extended beyond the Inner City. At this rate, it would probably cover the entire Lan Guan City in a month or two.
"Do plants settle in one place and never move?"
"Perhaps."
"But at least this tree only looks motionless. In reality, every part of it is moving."
The Ghost Tree had come from the Tongling Island Research Institute. It was a combination of a Vicious Ghost and a mutated creature. No one knew how many lives had been spent cultivating it. Its bark was filled with rotting pus and blood, while the bulging tumors concealed nothing but human corpses.
Moreover.
They were all Awakened and Evolvers!
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the corpses in this single tree were equivalent to the destruction of a second-rate faction.
"Clearly, it failed."
"This tree isn't very strong."
"It has barely reached the Eighth Tier."
"But it has no self-awareness and still acts entirely on instinct."
Jiang Qiao walked step by step into the Inner City.
He made no attempt to hide himself, so the Ghost Tree soon sensed him. Countless vines and leaves began to shake violently.
"Wuu wuu wuu—!"
Ghostly wails rang out from all directions.
Decrepit corpses covered in thorns, female ghosts covered in