Dou Shengnan's Mental Evolution was ridiculously powerful. Besides supplying mental energy over a wide area for a long time, she could directly make High-level Players kill themselves. It was almost unbelievable. A High-level Player's willpower was beyond that of an ordinary person. Even if someone could successfully interfere with them, the difficulty of doing so—and how quickly they could regain their senses—was nothing an ordinary person could match, let alone making them take their own life without hesitation.
Dou Shengnan usually fiddled with a Pocket Watch, so it was hard not to suspect that it was some powerful Artifact. But during their two confrontations, she hadn't taken it out even once. Instead, her eyes had used some strange power to control people's minds. Compared with ordinary High-level Players, Xu Huo should have been harder to affect, so these two attempts had clearly been targeted. Dou Shengnan hadn't used this trick against Nie Xuan; she'd specifically used it to kill him.
When Xu Huo attacked, he hadn't thought about an Artifact. He'd simply followed his instincts and tried to blind her. He hadn't expected to feel something inside when he dug out her eyeballs.
It was a very strange sensation. The transparent bead in his hand was solid, like a glass marble shaped like an eyeball, but when it had been inside Dou Shengnan's eye, it had seemed not to exist. At the very least, there'd been no way to tell that her eye was fake. Of course, the eyeball itself really was human.
In all his time in the game, Xu Huo had never seen an Artifact that could merge with a person like this. Unfortunately, Dou Shengnan wasn't dead, so he couldn't put the Artifact in his inventory. For now, he had no way of finding out what it