"They are infatuated with the mortal world because this was their world to begin with. They crave supernatural power because it makes their limited return last longer... If you lose yourself in an endless time loop, you, too, will return to the present world as a Grinning Angel."
"Grinning Angels...?!" Lin Yi's pupils contracted sharply. "That's what Grinning Angels really are?"
"But their numbers... Aren't there far too many Dreamweaving People? Is it because they can't be killed for good?"
"Grinning Angels cannot be killed for good. They are a manifestation of supernatural power seeping through layers." He remembered what Lao Mo had once told him, more or less in those exact words. So the Night Watchman had told Lao Mo that.
"There aren't many of them," the Night Watchman corrected him. "Often, it is the same one, or the same group. Their lost souls merely seep through layers and possess people in the present world. They themselves cannot return at all."
"Like network terminals? No, Wi-Fi? Divine possession?" Lin Yi's eyes lit up.
The Night Watchman did not know what Wi-Fi was, but he nodded slightly at the mention of divine possession.
The Dreammakers' lost souls were trapped in different dimensions. Taking the form of Grinning Angels, they descended into the present world using the bodies of Dorm Supervisors or other people as vessels... Like the spirits of those who had died far from home trying to return...
For some reason, thinking of it that way actually stirred a sense of pity and sympathy for the Grinning Angels.
They, too, had once sacrificed themselves to fight the Gray Fog Invasion, yet now they had become the "enemy."
"So those Dorm Supervisors who turned into Grinning Angels were like that, too..."
The Night Watchman said, "Lost souls attach themselves to