A Grand Spectacle That Drew Global Attention

Although the young man looked somewhat familiar, Old He did not think much of it, because he was certain he had never met or known this young man before—he trusted his memory quite a bit. Perhaps the young man simply resembled someone he knew. That was perfectly normal.

Old He's attention remained focused on his conversation with Chu Xiuwen. From their earlier chat, he could conclude that Chu Xiuwen knew why Qi Haoguo had come to Tongshi Town and Chongyun Village to invest, and why such enormous changes had taken place over the past year.

Although Old He had learned from Mr. Liang that Xiang Kun was a "Mutated Creature," he did not possess any information on Xiang Kun's specific mutated traits. Yet while investigating and reviewing Xiang Kun's social records, personal connections, and past history, he had learned from the information left in Shenxing Technology's database by Mr. Liang and Fang Pingfang's investigation team that Xiang Kun was connected to many anomalous incidents. The most famous of them was the Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Giant illusion in Montamira.

Naturally, this aroused Old He's intense curiosity. Whether for public or personal reasons, he wanted to understand how Xiang Kun had created that kind of mass illusion and produced such astonishing aftereffects. How had it directly overturned people's entire worldview?

It was not as though he had never encountered people influenced by hypnosis-type abilities from human "Mutated Creatures." The effect of such hypnosis could be described as "deception" or "bewilderment." Unless the target died, they would eventually wake up, and outsiders could more or less tell from their behavior and cognition that something was wrong.

But the effects produced by Xiang Kun's mass illusion instead resembled an ability to make people "wake up," pulling them out of all kinds of obsessions and desires