Ma Dabao handed Yang Yi an unusual Great Blasphemer Statue. It was dark purple-black, with numerous bumps on its surface, like blistered paint.
The statue's pose had changed, too. Instead of standing like the original statue Cui Xiya had made, it knelt on the ground with its knees bent and both hands clutching its head. Its wolf claws had left scratches on its face, and it looked as though it were howling in agony.
Yang Yi studied it for a long time but still could not figure out why its form had changed. In the end, he could only attribute it to some unscientific, mysterious phenomenon.
[Name: Deeply Nightmare-Stricken Great Blasphemer Statue] [Description: A Great Blasphemer Statue gradually distorted by nightmares. It looks extremely pained, making anyone who looks directly at it share its suffering and fall into misfortune along with it. Staring at this statue for a prolonged period or sleeping near it carries an extremely high chance of becoming deeply trapped in nightmares.]
"This statue gives people nightmares, unlike the original, which only lowers sanity, so hardly anyone wants one," Ma Dabao added.
"Do all affected statues turn out like this?" Yang Yi asked tentatively.
"Not exactly the same, but more or less."
Yang Yi nodded, then suddenly had an idea. He removed his eye patch and examined this unusual statue with Three Eyes, discovering something new.
Through Three Eyes, he could see a large amount of viscous, unidentified matter clinging to the statue, like some kind of vapor that constantly changed shape.
But this vapor was invisible to the naked eye and was very likely some special form of energy.
Yang Yi put his eye patch back on and put the statue away.
"How many more statues like this are there?"
"Uh... we burned