Fang Xiu drove Qin Manjiang along at full speed. The sky remained gray after the snowfall. Qin Manjiang left the car window open; the cold wind could help keep his head clearer.
The situation in Moon City was more complicated than he had imagined. The players in Moon City's Eye Realm had forged a new path, causing the Eye Realm to stop issuing Ghost Story missions.
Without Ghost Stories, how was he supposed to collect the "ghosts" he had seen?
Qin Manjiang looked out the car window.
He remembered Yan Xiao's words that day very clearly. Yan Xiao had been serious, and so had he.
Using the Doll could indeed let him absorb the "ghosts'" negative emotions in reverse, but with Moon City in its current state, he might not even find any ghosts.
Tonight's trip should give him an answer.
Just what sort of beings those pursuers were, and whether he could use the Doll against them, would depend on what happened next.
Qin Manjiang considered the problems he might encounter, and his gaze inadvertently caught his own expressionless face reflected in the window.
He froze for a moment, then looked away.
Qin Manjiang knew his current condition very well. He had paid a heavy price to overcome the desire to "eat meat."
Every moment, his reason was being eroded by an "emotion" that did not belong to humans. After repeated attempts, he had found only one way to hold it back even slightly.
If human emotions were divided into positive and negative halves, using negative emotions to resist the erosion only accelerated the rate at which that abnormal desire ate away at his reason.
Using positive emotions to resist it, however, had some effect. The erosion of his reason stopped outright.
But the price was... the various positive