"Woof!" Tangyuan barked, wanting to join the discussion.
However, none of the investigators understood dog language. They could only vaguely sense that Tangyuan was discussing the same thing they were.
"What is your dog saying?"
"Tangyuan is saying we should shine the light right in the Bandaged Man's face," Ke Meng translated.
"Haha, that's a cute idea!" someone laughed.
"Would that work? It's supposed to guide people, after all."
After laughing, they settled down again and discussed its feasibility.
"Maybe it would work?" Director Lei mulled it over. Tangyuan's suggestion was worth a try. It wouldn't take much effort, and the Lantern Bearer wouldn't lose a chunk of flesh over it.
The side effect was a given. Anyone who became a Lantern Bearer would become lost in the future, as Big-Faced Cat had already mentioned.
Ke Meng had already held the lantern earlier, which effectively made him a Lantern Bearer.
After a brief discussion, they contacted Headquarters directly and asked them to bring the Bandaged Man over for treatment.
Meanwhile, several investigators who had returned from overseas also left their quarantine rooms and boarded a van bound for Ke Meng's location.
During this time, Ke Meng and the others gathered around the lantern, examining it constantly.
They went over Big-Faced Cat's instructions again and again.
First function: protects the soul, but only the lantern holder's.
Second function: purifies the souls of the lost.
"Seriously? It makes the lantern holder become lost, yet it can also purify the lost? Isn't that a contradiction?"
"Maybe it can't heal its own holder."
"If someone else heals the original holder, wouldn't that make it a perpetual motion machine, with no side effects ever?"
Everyone was baffled, unable to understand why Big-Faced Cat had described the item this way.
An hour later, the investigators who