"You're rejecting that soul now as an instinctive reaction, not a rational one. Once you've calmed down and thought it over, you should understand that it means no harm. It means no harm to you or to us. Just as you've done, it's trying to save us and help people in trouble." Chen Yihan spoke in a soothing tone.
I listened with a sour look on my face. When he finished, I asked, "What can it do?"
"Something similar to you, except what it sees in dreams is the future," Chen Yihan said.
I stared at him.
"It enters dreams and sees what will happen in the future. That's how it kills ghosts ahead of time," Chen Yihan said. "At least, that's what it claims. It has incredible timing, so I think it has the same ability as you. But it can act at that crucial moment, minimizing the impact those events have on reality without changing the past."
"How does it kill ghosts?"
"It erases them outright."
My expression must have looked awful.
Chen Yihan sighed and tried to persuade me again.
But no matter what else he said, I couldn't listen.
That thing wasn't me.
My instincts told me so. I was absolutely certain. But no matter how I put it, they wouldn't believe me.
They even thought that thing meant no harm.
What did it mean, to mean no harm while taking over my body and avoiding me?
The things they thought were perfectly normal all looked suspicious to me.
Besides, I'd seen Nantian. I knew Ghost Kings used tactics like these, and I knew the Ghost King was targeting me.
To Chen Yihan and Chen Xiaoqiu, that was complete nonsense. They didn't think I was important enough. They might not even believe the Ghost Kings were