Zhu Xiaoning listened with a deepening frown. She had never imagined that events could be interpreted from this angle.
Although Ji Li had yet to finish his account, she could already guess the broad outline.
If what Ji Li said was true, then this mission really was Yu Guo's solo performance. He had shaped all of it himself.
Finding the files had never been easy, especially in the Haunted Academy.
Yu Guo had paid many prices and endured countless hardships, only to be stopped by the safe's three-digit combination.
Ji Li could not determine whether he had gone to Building E-2, E-1, or E-3 during that process.
But he had probably encountered Director Wang from the Personnel Department.
With Director Wang's help, he had likely succeeded, not only obtaining his own file but also learning Tiannan Academy's greatest secret.
—the truth about the Dean's File.
Yet even after making such a breakthrough, Yu Guo had not followed the path to survival through to its end. Instead, he had launched an enormous plan.
He had returned to before the mission began.
Zhu Xiaoning interrupted the account again here. She could sense that Ji Li was deliberately concealing certain details, but she still did not understand.
"How could Yu Guo return to before the mission began? Could he really do that?"
Ji Li pointed to the White Candle, took a severed arm from his backpack, and explained:
"The White Candle Sin Item is divided into four sections. Each section lets its user briefly return to a particular moment in the past to do one thing."
The severed arm was Yu Guo's left arm, the one he had lost inside the safe.
Burn marks were visible on its palm, and the skin had already peeled away.
This was evidence that Yu