Inside the Haunted House.
[Ding! An unknown force has been detected observing you and collecting information. Please be alert!]
As the System Notification sounded in his ears,
Lynn stared with dead-fish eyes and said, "I've noticed."
Lin Ying stiffened and rubbed her eyes hard. Floating diagonally above them was a dark cyan eye that had suddenly appeared, seemingly sketched out of lines, staring intently at them.
At the same time, fine threads were gathering the black aura emanating from Lynn, bit by bit.
Lin Ying said stiffly, "What's that?"
Lynn said with dead-fish eyes, "No idea, but judging by its aura, it's a little like the technique used by that Celestial Master I saw at the Supernatural General Administration last time. Seems Taoist."
Lin Ying asked in surprise, "Is it one of those spells from our legends? Like the kind Lam Ching-ying used?"
Lynn shook his head and adjusted his Monocle. "I don't know much about it. I've only dealt with flesh, psionics, machinery, cursecraft, and the other systems common in Hell. I really haven't seen much of the local stuff from China. More importantly..."
Lynn narrowed his eyes.
He studied the outline of the eye, with its drifting Taiji symbol.
He watched it busily siphon little wisps of black aura off him.
And since the black aura on his body was strongest around his...
It looked as though the eye was creepily extracting black aura from his...
Lynn: "..."
Lin Ying: "..."
Pop-
Lynn simply poked it until it burst!
"Aaaah! Master!! Master!! What's wrong?! (ΩДΩ)! Why is blood spurting out of your eye?!"
"It's spurting blood!!"
After popping it,
Lynn shook his hand with dead-fish eyes, grabbed Lin Ying by the wrist, and strode farther inside.
"Come on, ignore it. Some Exorcist probably noticed