He could not enter this game.
Ji Li was now the only person capable of changing the situation and in a position to do so. He absolutely could not surrender the last of his initiative.
At first, he had believed that if the rules killed people, the way to survive had to lie within those rules.
But after seeing Song Yitong, he abandoned that idea entirely, because he suddenly realized that this so-called "game" had no rules at all.
The life-swapping game was hardly a complicated setup.
It was simply a ghost gathering a few humans and ghosts to play rock-paper-scissors, with winners and losers.
But the winners received no rewards, while the losers faced only punishment, and the cycle continued until every player was dead.
There could be no winner in this game, which made its so-called "rules" meaningless.
How could he find a solution within rules that had no meaning?
That meant this game had to be broken from "outside the rules."
A new round began, and Song Yitong lost consciousness again. She played a meaningless game of rock-paper-scissors against Duan Yanyan outside the restroom.
Ji Li did not focus his attention on her. As he had said earlier, he was confident he could break the game within a single round.
He left the fourth stall, ignoring the scattered fragments of the Porcelain Doll on the floor as well as the intense light shining in through the doorway.
The child's voice kept prattling on about the meaningless rules of the game, repeatedly driving the concept of "rules" into their minds.
But Ji Li had already become immune to it. He quickly entered the third stall.
There was a ghost here, another one of the players.
It was little different from the fourth ghost. Black mist swirled around its