Wu Ling glanced at the skinny man. "That cursed mirror you believed in before..."
The skinny man's expression stiffened.
"Not many people knew about it, and those who did knew many different versions. Even fewer believed the mirror was cursed and that the dead person's ghost lingered inside it. So, unless your ability influenced it, the mirror wouldn't have any special powers, nor would it form a spirit. In another situation, if it were a ghost story everyone knew—some people believing in it and others not—it could still produce a spirit. But because so many people had different feelings about it, that spirit would be unstable. Sometimes, it might be impossible to detect its presence at all. It could appear, kill someone who believed in it, and then vanish completely. The next time, someone might do something that caused it to appear again." Wu Ling continued, "Besides, unstable spirits can't be destroyed. Their very forms aren't fixed, so there's no way to destroy them."
Something suddenly occurred to me. I glanced at Nangong Yao. "If that game... There are still lots of people who like games now—online games, mobile games, all kinds of games... Could a spirit like that appear again?"
Nangong Yao nodded. "Yes. There might be a game-related spirit in the world right now, but it wouldn't be the one you destroyed. The one you destroyed was attached to a game disc, a game that had once been wildly popular. It absorbed similar thoughts and formed a spirit. As one game after another fell out of fashion, it developed a certain personality... Another game-related spirit might not be like that."
Guo Yujie asked with some naivety, "So you're saying that spirits and ghosts can never be completely eradicated?"
"That's right," Gu Mo replied lazily. "People will always die,