"It is a little strange."
After killing three ghosts, Jiang Qiao felt no joy at all. Instead, he increasingly felt that something was wrong.
He glanced out the window.
The Stone Statue atop the pyramid still stood there.
It had made no movement since rising. Even the deaths of the three Vicious Ghosts had failed to provoke any reaction from it. It simply stood there quietly. If he had not seen it rise, Jiang Qiao would have thought it had originally been a standing statue.
And the entire town... or perhaps it could also be called Grievance Swamp.
The Vicious Ghosts followed their routines.
They lived their own lives.
The battle just now had been so intense, with all kinds of Supernatural Aura erupting and rules running rampant, yet it had not attracted the attention of a single Vicious Ghost. On the streets, vendors continued selling things, and people continued taking walks.
Life went on as usual.
"Maybe I've overthought it. These Vicious Ghosts seem to possess Self-awareness."
"But it's very likely just a preset."
"This preset is different from a Vicious Ghost's instinct. They perform many actions that seem possible only for living people, to the point that I thought they possessed minds."
Jiang Qiao muttered thoughtfully.
Such presets were not uncommon. The most common example was insects.
Insects had no thoughts.
They had no Self-awareness.
They acted according to a preset 'factory program.' All their behavior fell within the instincts established by that program, existing for the sake of better survival and reproduction.
The instincts of Vicious Ghosts were different.
Vicious Ghosts had no need to survive or reproduce. Their instinct was to kill people.
To kill more people.
To devour the uncanny.
To devour more of the uncanny.
Some of them would possess living people and turn