"Jiang Qiao, long time no see."
"Are you willing to be my friend now?"
Her voice was very soft.
But hearing it beside his ear and seeing the face that turned toward him, even Jiang Qiao shuddered in disbelief. "It's you! Braided Girl!"
When she turned around, what appeared on her face was not a normal human face.
Instead, it was a thick braid, just like the one on the back of her head.
Braided Girl!
Memories from over a decade ago flooded back the instant he saw the evil spirit before him. She was the first truly oppressive evil spirit he had encountered in Bin City after arriving on Blue Star.
She would emerge from the South City District Library in Bin City more than forty days after the Supernatural Revival.
With strength approaching the sixth tier.
She would become one of the worst nightmares of the early Supernatural Revival.
Back then, Jiang Qiao had run countless simulations with the [Simulator]. Most ended in certain death, with no way out. In many of them, he had not even seen Braided Girl before being cursed just a few days after the Supernatural Revival.
That curse.
Jiang Qiao had named it the "Faceless Curse."
Once someone was afflicted.
A voice would occasionally sound beside their ear: "Are you willing to be my friend?"
As time passed.
The voice would grow clearer and clearer.
Meanwhile, the features of the cursed person's face would gradually vanish. When the curse finally erupted in full, they would become a walking corpse, a sinister creature wandering around in search of faces.
In reality, however.
Jiang Qiao had never allowed the fully developed Braided Girl from the [Simulator] to emerge.
He had killed Bin City's "Human Head Lanterns," the "Ghost Mother in the hospital basement," and "Braided