Exploitation

The thought anomaly believed that the prey it had waited so long for—Wu Heng—had had his mind and spirit completely devoured, reduced to a walking corpse. It was just about to burst out through his eye sockets.

Yet it discovered that beyond the hollow, pitch-black mental space before it was another human mind.

This mind continuously cycled through memories of the landmark buildings on Central Street in Dragon Hidden District, Beiquan City; the interior of Crescent Company; psychics, anomalies, family, wife, daughter, and more.

There were even scenes from childhood—his father abusing and beating him and his mother, before ultimately killing his mother.

But the owner of this mind was not Wu Heng. It was Ji Quansheng, the head of Crescent Company, a high-level fourth-rank psychic and a third-rank Tower Guardian.

Wu Heng had previously infiltrated Crescent Company in disguise and slaughtered everyone within.

Only Ji Quansheng and two third-rank psychic department heads had escaped death because they had gone together to the node in Mountain Pool City.

Moreover, Wu Heng's power over fear could not directly extend that far to kill them, so he had left them alone.

Now, within the Dream Realm he had constructed, he used the extremely faint fearful thoughts emanating from Ji Quansheng as a link, blending illusion and reality to form a new living mind.

To the thought anomaly, this was a living person!

Though it did not understand why Wu Heng had not died and had suddenly become someone else, that did not stop it from acting. It repeated its old trick, once again spreading its strange black power to devour the entire mind.

At the node in distant Mountain Pool City, Ji Quansheng had just finished his posting. He walked out of the Absurdity passage and returned to reality, preparing to head