Jiang Qiao never sped up, seemingly in no hurry to close the distance.
Through his "Dual Pupils," the faint thread attached to the snow deer became clearer. It extended from the back of its neck into the darkness behind it.
A marionette!
He was all too familiar with this sort of thing.
In the Supernatural World of the future, plenty of living people and evil spirits could use it.
He remembered first encountering this method shortly after transmigrating, when he met the Paper Figure Maker in Bin City on Blue Star.
The man controlled paper figures with eerie threads and had clashed with him quite a few times.
Of course.
Most of those clashes.
Had actually happened during future simulations run by the [Simulator].
They were battles that had never really happened.
As far as he remembered, there hadn't been many direct clashes with the Paper Figure Maker in reality.
The most memorable one.
Was a fight with one of the man's special paper figures on a hidden floor of the Malevolent Ghost Building. It was also then that he truly learned this fellow was probably a half-god.
Only, for some reason.
He had been dismembered.
And at that time.
The man had probably just relied on the mysterious "Great Emperor Water Official" to resolve his calamity and successfully return to normal.
But he hadn't fully recovered his strength yet.
"Where exactly is this thing trying to lure me?"
Jiang Qiao followed the snow deer at an unhurried pace, slowly entering the darkness.
Cold winds blew around him.
Yet there was a strange sense of confinement.
It was as though he'd been shut inside a tin can, where even the wind could no longer move freely.
"This kind of evil spirit is fairly clever."
"It used the White Deer