To be honest.
Jiang Qiao really hadn't noticed how Lu Tianxiong had fallen victim. Everything had seemed fine from start to finish.
He could tell.
This hadn't been the work of that old man or any other Evolver.
But that was precisely why.
It was even eerier.
If that old man had done it earlier—say, by using hypnotic illusions to plant a bomb in Lu Tianxiong's consciousness—that would have been relatively easy to understand.
But the problem was.
The shadow Jiang Qiao had just forced out was utterly pure. It was unmistakably a curse released by an evil spirit. As a top Awakened, he couldn't possibly have mistaken that.
"That tells me something."
"There are evil spirits hiding in this city that even I can't detect."
Jiang Qiao frowned.
Although his strength was only at the first order, anything capable of completely evading his perception either had a terror level at the Fifth Tier or was an exceptionally unusual evil spirit with latent potential.
And either kind would clearly be difficult to deal with.
"This is damned strange."
"Why didn't these things come out while the Gui Family was here? The moment I arrive, I run into them..."
"No!"
"Maybe the Gui Family left because they discovered something abnormal. It wasn't just Gui Jizhen hiding from me after getting injured. Otherwise, the timing would be far too coincidental."
"To take a darker view."
"These evil spirits might even have been released by the Gui Family to deal with me..."
People from the supernatural circle.
And Evolvers, at that.
You couldn't expect too much of their morals.
He looked around.
No more vicious ghosts appeared.
This was already a fairly remote part of Ninggu City, or perhaps it could be considered the outskirts. Abandoned shacks stood everywhere, and there were