Fang Xiu drove at full speed with Qin Manjiang in the car. The sky remained gray after the snow, and Qin Manjiang left the window open. The cold wind could help keep his head clear.
The situation in Moon City was more complicated than he had imagined. The players of the Moon City Eye Realm had forged a new path, causing the Eye Realm to stop issuing Ghost Story missions.
Without Ghost Stories, how could he 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 necessarily find any ghosts.
Tonight's trip should yield an answer.
What exactly those pursuers were, and whether he could use the Doll against them, would depend on what happened next.
As Qin Manjiang considered the problems he might encounter, his gaze inadvertently fell on his own expressionless face reflected in the car window.
He froze for a moment, then looked away again.
Qin Manjiang knew his current condition very well. He had paid a steep 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 slow it even slightly.
If human emotions were divided into positive and negative halves, using negative emotions to resist the erosion would instead accelerate the rate at which that abnormal desire eroded his reason.
Using positive emotions to resist it, however, did have some effect. The erosion of his reason stopped outright.
But the price was... the various positive