A Normal Television

A normal television, expensive and far beyond its actual value. Unless you bought it to show off, it wasn't worth purchasing.

It possessed a consciousness of its own and could perform different programs to entertain its audience.

It could start even without electricity. Who knew what it had been through?

It hadn't been in a good mood lately. If the audience didn't react enough to its programs, it would try making more stimulating adaptations.

These words appeared before Lu Ban along with the television's technical specifications. The reporter on the screen wore a vicious expression, but there was also a hint of confusion. He seemed curious about what Lu Ban was doing.

"Is this the source?"

Lu Ban found it quite fascinating.

Clearly, this television might have been contaminated, causing it to develop its own consciousness. Besides functioning as a normal television, it could also do certain things on its own.

This included processing and recreating programs, blending them together into the show Lu Ban had just watched.

Furthermore, if the audience failed to react to the program, it would continue evolving. It might become even stranger and more terrifying.

Merely watching these programs could lower a person's sanity and cause hallucinations. In a daze, they might try taking drugs to alleviate their symptoms, or accidentally walk into the path of a mud truck and get killed. That seemed perfectly normal.

But a psychopathic murderer was harder to explain.

Unless the person had already harbored similar thoughts and the television program had merely acted as a catalyst, a normal person wouldn't suddenly become such a calm killer.

Of course, many television programs also featured neighbors saying things like, "That person usually seemed so kind. He didn't look like someone who could do something like this at all." Lu Ban also