Wei Guang had been a criminal detective for nearly twenty years. Crimes of passion, revenge killings, senseless murders... no matter how bizarre the case or how horrifying and brutal the method, he had seen it all.
But he truly had never encountered a case where someone used religious culture to kill.
In the Real World, ghosts seemed not to exist. They clearly lurked around people, watching them, yet he had never seen a supernatural murder.
Many things he had once dismissed or remained noncommittal about had happened after entering Tianhai Hotel.
Having seen all walks of life, Wei Guang knew a thing or two about the Five Elements, so he quickly recognized the current setup as "Water Generates Wood."
But that was as far as it went.
Even if he knew Water Generates Wood, he also knew Gold Restrains Wood, but so what...
"Gold" was not something that could be countered with a sharp weapon, but a type of fate. With his limited knowledge, he had no idea who possessed a "gold fate," much less how to use one to break it.
Wei Guang knew full well that he was already fortunate in the situation he faced, because Ji Li had drawn most of the danger away.
How much time he had depended on how long Ji Li could hold out. Within that time, he had to uncover the task's true nature.
So far, it was known that every "person" Wei Guang had encountered since the task began had been impersonated by ghosts, especially his police friends.
The ghosts had impersonated his police friends in order to deliver this fake Case File, luring everyone to the victim's home and using the Five Elements to kill them.
From the very beginning of the task, the ghosts had constructed an enormous cage,