"This really was unexpected."
Jiang Qiao truly hadn't expected things to turn out like this. He had thought the black hole was some malignant supernatural entity, but it turned out to have been left behind by an Evolver.
No need to ask.
That person had definitely died.
After death, the Vicious Ghost on him had remained in this place.
To be honest.
Although he had spent quite a long time on his hometown's Timeline, self-sacrificing "Evolvers" still felt a little unfamiliar to him.
"It feels like the Evolvers of these eras retained their humanity fairly well."
"This isn't just because their levels were low. In later generations, Evolvers started harming people and becoming serial killers as early as the first and second tiers."
"It feels..."
"It might be related to the degree of Supernatural Erosion in the world."
Jiang Qiao noticed a detail.
There was a difference in humanity between the Evolvers of this Timeline and those of later generations.
"The supernatural erodes the entire world."
"It does so in every aspect."
"Including the human mind."
"So after being inhabited by Vicious Ghosts in later generations, people become more extreme and more inhuman."
"This is an influence brought about by the environment."
"There's no escaping it."
"It's like living in an area with severe pollution. No matter how careful you are, you're still more likely to develop respiratory illnesses than someone in a normal area."
"That's why the path of the Awakened became mainstream in later generations."
He then recalled that in the later stages of his hometown's history, the Awakened also seemed to have been the proper path. Even the early Evolvers appeared to have found ways to become Awakened.
For example, the Dragon Tiger Daoist before him had definitely once been an Evolver.
But later...
He had clearly