The unlucky triangle-faced man had not even reacted before his head was pierced through. The people behind him could even see Tang Chuan's icy gaze through the scorched hole.
Thud~
Brother Triangle fell stiffly to the ground, twitched twice, and then went still.
That single shot stirred up a thousand waves.
The pedestrians, who should have screamed and scattered in panic, instead froze in place against all logic.
Then—
They all raised their heads and stared fixedly at Tang Chuan, their eyes vacant, their expressions either twisted or crazed.
"Why?"
"Why?"
"Why?"
The same words came from their mouths, their dull voices unable to conceal the madness beneath them.
Pedestrians.
Shop clerks.
Even the children playing on the street corner.
All of them wore twisted expressions as they slowly stepped closer to Tang Chuan.
"Why did you kill me?!"
"Why did you kill me?!"
"Why?!"
The crazed yet uniform voices shook heaven and earth, like a single person roaring the same frenzied cry.
The emotions spreading through the air were enough to make an ordinary person's mind tremble and surrender without a fight.
"Confirmed."
Quintessa's voice sounded in his mind. "This is one of the higher-ranked species among Mental Body lifeforms. It is called an Associated Body!"
Tang Chuan knowingly tucked the gun at his waist.
Associated Bodies were creatures so dangerous to civilization that they had been recorded on a minor page of the Main God Codex. Tang Chuan had also learned about them from the panel Quintessa had given him last night.
Associated Bodies had no physical form. From the moment they were born, they existed as mental energy that ordinary eyes could not see.
Judging from the diary and the situation before him, these things lived up to their name. Like a virus, they could infect