The pure darkness behind him made anyone who stared into it feel as though they were falling into an abyss.
That monotonous color faintly carried a destructive force. It could not only devour one's gaze, but invade the mind directly through the eyes.
This oppression from the black-clothed person was naturally ineffective against Ji Li.
Yet an inexplicable silver light flashed again, briefly shining from outside the Seventeenth Floor of E-2.
It was utterly inconspicuous, yet it could tear through the darkness and fall into Ji Li's eyes.
Trapped on the isolated, world-rejected Seventeenth Floor, Ji Li's mind was filled with chaos.
E-2 was a Special Path, but it was not special in itself. With the black-clothed person's arrival, both the floors above and below had been destroyed.
As for why the Seventeenth Floor still remained, Ji Li guessed there might be two reasons.
First, the Dean's File was highly likely to truly be in Room 1716, which provided a certain degree of protection;
Second, Room 1716 contained not only the file, but also A Lian.
By now, the main thread of this mission had actually been revealed.
Even if the Dean's File was not the final path to survival, it had to be the most important part of it. Therefore, it could not possibly be affected by external forces.
As for the method of escaping Tiannan Academy, it should come after obtaining the file.
However, there were still many unanswered doubts.
A Lian, Yu Guo, the black-clothed person, the rules, ghosts, no ghosts...
Ji Li had developed certain guesses about some of these questions, but others still eluded him.
Still, Ji Li was confident that if he had just a little more time, none of these would be problems. He would resolve them while completing the path to survival.