Possession meant occupation.
A human body housed a ghostly entity; the original will was erased and the person died. From then on, the ghost became the owner of that shell.
However, Mo Lan's situation was clearly more complicated.
She had indeed been possessed by a ghost, yet her will had not been erased, nor had she died. She did not even know that a ghost was hidden inside her body.
As they moved forward, Mo Lan's will still remained In Charge. She stayed alert as usual, fearing ghosts, unaware that her confusion came entirely from within.
Rather than possession, this was more like being "parasitized."
That ghost used Mo Lan's body as a refuge, seeking to evade the employee rules within Building E-3, or perhaps the enormous threat that would arrive at nine that night.
But for that very reason, it could not harm Mo Lan, much less seize her body. It could only hide.
Ji Li did not truly know that Mo Lan had been possessed. He had merely followed normal logic and noticed several inconsistencies.
The anomaly lay in a matter of "identity."
Take Luo Ge, for example. As a student, he had fallen victim fastest. One reason was his mismatched identity, and the other was that there were no "friends" around him.
Chen Xu, Lu Jingting, and Zhong Feiluan's shallow confusion was also understandable, since they were all students.
But Mo Lan was strange. She was the only teacher.
A teacher was an employee. Coming to Building E-3 should have been like a fish taking to water for her. As long as she did not violate the surface-level rules, they would not be triggered passively—especially the first rule.
Yet she had become confused, and her symptoms were exactly the same as Chen Xu's and the others'.
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