Ji Yan had helped [Lying Eerie] advance its scam. In exchange, [Lying Eerie] needed to use Ai Li to dig up nearly all information regarding the [Tarot Card].
Xu Xin being cut offline back then had served as Ji Yan's greatest warning.
If he did not thoroughly understand that set of [Tarot Card]s, it could not threaten Ai Li at all!
Once that invisible strike, which was guaranteed to hit and guaranteed to kill, was triggered, he would have no way to stop it.
Ai Li had also nearly figured out Ji Yan's [Omniscient Understanding] and would surely have made ample preparations. The difficulty of analyzing him was far too great...
He could only have [Deceiving Ghoul] carry out this investigation.
Of course, there was another, even more important piece of information.
Before Xu Xin was eliminated, she had told him through the "paper figure" that the slash activated through "time" carried a similar feeling to the letter she had once received, sent from the future to herself...
That was the main reason Ji Yan wanted that set of [Tarot Card]s!
It was also the answer to why Ai Li had always wondered how Ji Yan knew the rules and conditions of the [Swords] cards so clearly... [Deceiving Ghoul] had leaked all of it to him through District 5 [Nightmare]!
"Actually, that [The Fool] card wasn't for you. It was for me!"
"Hehehe, I'm the true 'Fool'!" [Deceiving Ghoul]'s shrill laughter pierced Ai Li's eardrums.
Ai Li shook his head fiercely.
The Fraud Puppet would gradually devour the brain, causing its victim to lose judgment and twisting their goals and beliefs, until even their own words became lies.
[Deceiving Ghoul]'s final move—using a minor [Wands] card to fabricate the supreme privilege of God's Blood Dusk out of thin air—had been