The dead face on the lantern wore a ferocious grin.
Faintly, anguished screams could still be heard coming from inside the lantern, as if someone were being tortured. Besides the screams, there seemed to be other sounds as well.
It sounded like someone whispering, but he couldn't make out the words.
"Heh heh."
"Who told you to go up there?"
"Get down here!!"
The lantern was less than a meter away from him. He pushed off with both feet and shot upward, the tile knife in his hand instantly slashing into the lantern.
The next second.
A violent dizziness suddenly descended upon him.
It lasted less than half a second, though. A strand of black aura seeped from Jiang Qiao's forehead.
Then vanished into the void.
"Pfft!"
With one swift stroke, the second lantern was destroyed.
This time.
Before the black aura could gather, it was twisted by a supernatural force, dispersed, and vanished without a trace.
An assault on his consciousness!
This black aura was clearly abnormal.
Based on Jiang Qiao's experience, it was probably a curse born after supernatural forces became entwined with a living person's negative magnetic field. It had been hidden inside the lantern. Once the lantern was shattered, the curse would be released and carry out its attack.
"This Vicious Ghost..."
"It already has some self-awareness this early?"
Jiang Qiao was somewhat surprised.
These lanterns were disguises, packaging for that curse.
Normally speaking.
When an Awakened encountered a lantern.
They would definitely smash it.
The lantern clearly looked wrong. It had a human face growing on it and kept drawing closer.
But smashing the lantern.
Was precisely when the curse would be released!
How sinister!
An ordinary person really wouldn't be able to avoid it.
Jiang Qiao had fought the Vicious Ghost twice and knew