After throwing Sister Hong away.
Jiang Chen looked at the child before him, his gaze growing deep.
Calling it a child was mainly a judgment based on its height and build. In truth, apart from being vaguely humanoid, nothing else about it resembled a person.
Plastic bags wrapped its legs, holding filthy bones and straw. Its belly was stuffed with all kinds of garbage: cans, rotten flesh, dead birds...
Several pitch-black holes in its face served as its mouth, eyes, and nose.
Its entire body radiated an aura of calamity and terror that instinctively repelled people, as though staying with it for too long would infect them with all its misfortune.
Looking at that bright red hospital gown.
Jiang Chen found it somewhat familiar, and his breathing grew heavier. This was his first time formally facing a true Blood-Clad Ghost.
As for why he had run into a Blood-Clad Ghost on a C-Plus Rank mission.
That was perfectly normal, too.
Reality had never been a game. The Underworld App's mission ratings were merely estimates made by the Netherworld and Dao Alliance's support personnel after gathering information from various sources.
No one could guarantee complete accuracy.
For example, that night in Building Seven of the Jingjiang Resettlement Community, if Jiang Chen had chosen to flee upon encountering the family of three killed by the Mimicking Ghost, he would have received a Points subsidy after reporting it.
The personnel behind the scenes would then have issued a new mission: a family of three Mimicking Ghosts, with a threat rating of C-Minus Rank.
As for the true culprit that had killed the family-the Mimicking Ghost with the strength of a top-level vengeful ghost that later came from Building One and attacked Jiang Chen-there would have been no way to record it.
Besides, this