Malevolent Ghost Building.
The deepest part of the Negative Ninety-ninth Floor.
Beside the pool.
Jiang Qiao remained silent, waiting for information from his avatars to return bit by bit.
So far.
Three of the nine avatars had died.
The causes of death for two were unknown. The other had discovered the target of this trip—the Hungry Ghost Hell.
In the end, it had self-destructed through collapse and expansion.
It had accomplished its purpose.
Of the six remaining avatars, four had returned empty-handed, finding nothing but endless darkness and descent. Of the other two, one had discovered a strange asteroid.
The other had found an oil lamp floating in the void.
But it could not touch it.
It could not get close.
That was all he had gained from this trip.
"An endless pit."
"I felt that, in the end, I might really have entered outer space."
"A floating oil lamp."
"And that asteroid."
"They could all be considered Strange Entities."
"I found the entrance to the Hungry Ghost Hell, but I didn't expect there to be things besides hungry ghosts inside. The origins of those statues are mysterious. The bronze statue was called the Old Mother, and she was an extremely ancient consciousness."
"The Kitchen God..."
"That clearly wasn't the Kitchen God, but they insisted on calling her a Kitchen God statue."
"There might be a reason behind that."
"The avatars' final self-destruction injured the other stone statues in the hall. But the bronze statue was unharmed and didn't move in the slightest, as if a gentle breeze had merely brushed past her."
"That shows how terrifying the bronze statue is."
"She's absolutely beyond comparison with those three ghosts I killed."
Jiang Qiao reviewed the trip.
He found that he had gained quite a lot.
"Hungry ghosts..."
"Hungry ghosts appeared