Jenny called out through the fog like a lost lamb, making Viya, soaked in black oil, somewhat excited. Her rotting facial skin kept **, forming nauseating folds.
"Li Ziran, have you made up your mind? Your greatest specialty." Viya smiled faintly, like a fierce ghost hidden in purgatory. Her voice was dry and piercing. "You should know that only a Time Ghost truly understands a Time Ghost."
Li Ziran did not move. Though Winnie had little connection with him, the girl's purity had touched him somewhat. She had allowed him to enter Thorn Prison Li as a matter of course.
Without question, he could act. Before the laws of survival, any living creature could become a lamb to fill one's stomach. If this woman truly had a way to track down the Time Ghost, he would strike without mercy.
Compared to fate, a little purity amounted to nothing.
"How can you make me believe you?" Li Ziran asked with a faint smile. "The seductive words of a Time Ghost."
Viya did not get angry. She said very casually, "Time Ghosts are the failed products of Demons proficient in Time Element when they become souls. However, this is not accidental. It is a normal method of the Void Spirit Church, a transformation every Void Spirit believer must undergo when their soul reaches its limit. They emerge from their broken shells and occupy richer bodies, like those skuas, claiming those marvelous bodies for themselves."
Skuas?
Li Ziran froze. He had heard of those birds.
Legend said they lived on Iceland in the ocean, neighboring flocks of seagulls. Every breeding season, skuas would send their offspring into seagull nests, where they would grow alongside the young gulls and, upon hatching, treat those little creatures as their first breakfast.
He said nothing. This was