Old Man Sun's Experiment

An underground cavern.

Having found nothing, Jiang Qiao decided to wait for a while and see whether any information or NPCs would be triggered again.

For example, the brat might show up again, or some old grandmother might appear.

While waiting, he decided to fuse that eerie entity with Old Man Sun and observe exactly what kind of chemical reaction occurred between a human and an eerie entity.

"Have you made up your mind?" Jiang Qiao asked again for confirmation.

"There's nothing to think about. Isn't this a good thing? I've lived for seventy years. Even if I die a natural death, how many years do I have left?"

"Besides, in this world, who knows when I might inexplicably die by the roadside."

"Having some strength is always a good thing."

Old Man Sun said this with a hearty laugh.

He had already learned about the risks of becoming an Awakened from Jiang Qiao.

But so what?

He had thought it through clearly. In this world overrun by Vicious Ghosts, ordinary people were like meat on a chopping board, unable to control their own fate and destined only to be dominated.

It would be better to take a gamble. If he won, he would become one of the elite and gain the means to fight Vicious Ghosts.

If he lost...

"Rarely does anyone live past seventy since ancient times." He had only a few years left to live anyway.

As a top expert with a cheat in hand, Jiang Qiao had reached his peak the moment he debuted. Thus, he still did not quite understand ordinary people's pessimism about the future or their despair toward reality.

That bleak darkness, in which they could see no hope, had driven many people to suicide over the past six months.

So the old