Xu Ye brushed the dust off the notebook, only to discover bloodstains beneath it.
The blood visibly bubbled and churned, then formed the words-Curse Notebook.
?
Xu Ye tilted his head.
"Tsk, this is actually a Taboo Object, not an ordinary notebook. Open it and take a look," the Bandit Lord urged.
Xu Ye did as he was told and opened the cover.
Inside, however, it was completely blank. The pristine white pages were untouched by dust. They looked somewhat unusual, yet also seemed perfectly normal.
"Wait, let me take a look."
The Bandit Lord had Xu Ye extend a tentacle, then sent his own energy along it to coil around the notebook.
After a moment, the Bandit Lord withdrew his energy and said:
"This is a Class C Taboo Object, the Curse Handwriting. It has two functions."
"The first lets you curse someone simply by writing the curse on its pages."
"The second is recording. It can block causality, allowing you to record things that cannot be spoken without the writing disappearing."
"But there's a condition for using it. Every time you activate it, you need a drop of fresh blood from an Awakened whose IQ is no higher than 100."
An IQ below 100?
Xu Ye considered his own IQ well above 100.
This would be tricky.
Suddenly, as though remembering something, he got up and headed downstairs.
It was late at night.
But quite a few people had only just finished work and were hurrying home, covered in dust and weighed down by exhaustion.
Xu Ye realized that Wangchun Building already offered the best living conditions in the area. The other apartment buildings did not even have cleaners, and the stench of rotting garbage filled every corner.
Near the seventeenth floor, he found the two people he