The Danger of Desolate Village

"This Pregnant Woman seems to be a trigger. Touching her will probably cause some kind of balance to be broken."

Jiang Qiao sensed the entire village begin to "come alive" as darkness descended.

Figures swayed in every shadow and corner. Sounds came from every house. Even the top of the rock wall overhead began to seep with crimson liquid.

However, this was not blood, but some strange life-form mixed with fungi.

"What's going on?" Old Man Sun was startled.

He only felt his vision go black, and then he could not see anything. Panic immediately began to rise in his heart.

A powerful premonition that disaster was about to strike surged into his mind.

"Don't panic." Jiang Qiao patted him on the shoulder. "Stand still. It'll be fine in a moment."

"Oh..."

"According to legend, evil spirits all moved about in the darkness of the dead of night. This fits the description rather well." Jiang Qiao had his Dual Pupils activated, so his vision was unaffected.

Colorful figures surged toward them like a tide.

He could hear dense footsteps by his ears, along with the rustling of crawling movements and even faint whispers echoing all around them.

Snip!

Snip!

Snip!

Jiang Qiao held an old, rusty pair of scissors and viciously snipped several times at the area ahead.

In an instant.

Several shrouds drifting toward them were torn to pieces and fell to the ground.

These scissors had come from that terrifying convenience store in An City. They were spoils of war from after the old-timer ghost story had been burned to death.

Their function was simple.

They could cut off certain things from humans and ghosts.

There were physical things, such as hands, feet, heads, torsos, and even breathing, emotions, memories, and logical ability... Anything that truly existed in