"I wonder when Mr. Jiang first learned about vicious ghosts, and when he obtained his superpower?"
Wei Nianhua did not continue beating around the bush and asked directly.
"About a week ago."
Jiang Qiao smiled. "I suddenly got a superpower. Then I searched for information online, both domestically and abroad. I looked into everything, official and unofficial, and found a lot of things that seemed true but weren't."
"But last night was my first time actually fighting a vicious ghost."
"It was quite a close call."
"Since Captain Wei is with the authorities, it seems the authorities have done quite a bit of research into these supernatural events. I wonder if you could clear up my confusion. What exactly is going on?"
He asked in return.
"Of course." Wei Nianhua smiled faintly. "Calling them vicious ghosts is quite reasonable."
"But internally, we usually call them monsters. They're more like monsters than ghosts formed from the souls of the dead, as described in traditional culture. Although some of them do indeed resemble the people they were before death."
"But in reality, they have nothing to do with the dead."
"These monsters..."
"You can think of them as a kind of virus—a virus from outer space. America was the first to extract it from a meteorite, hoping to create super bioengineered soldiers."
"Later, things went wrong in the laboratory, just like in a zombie movie."
"After the supernatural virus spread..."
"It quickly turned people into monsters and animals into beasts. Even plants began to mutate."
"A small portion of the supernatural bacteria spread through the atmosphere."
"Because it was diluted in the air..."
"It could be absorbed by the human body, resulting in a state where people did not become monsters but were no longer normal humans either. Those are people like