The car was heading somewhere unknown. Countless blurred sights rushed past its windows: tall buildings, streets, passersby...
One scene after another played out within the fixed frame of the window, but the car's speed turned them into blurred, moving images.
Ji Li finally noticed something was wrong.
Smoke rose slowly from between his slender fingertips. His loose, long hair covered the left side of his face, leaving the smooth right side exposed. That half was expressionless, showing nothing but indifference.
The window was open a crack, and the cool breeze occasionally blew his hair aside, offering fleeting glimpses of his left cheek and the madness in his left eye.
Two different emotions, two different expressions, appeared in conflict on the same face, seemingly signs of a split.
Ji Li had been watching the view outside. The fleeting sights reached his eyes but never his heart. He was looking for a man and a boy.
If he saw the pair again during this mission, that would mean there was actually a reason behind his "madness."
In just a few hours, he had already noticed his emotions and thoughts slipping out of his control.
The first bout of madness had struck at Chengxiang Port Primary School. In a similar state, he had killed a security guard, only to see a little boy on the verge of death.
The second had struck in the hotel suite. He had cut open Yuan Kuan's corpse and dug out his internal organs, searching for what the killer wanted, only to hear a sentence.
"Look how much you and I are alike."
Before those words, his consciousness had already begun to blur, and he had seen Yu Guo and the ghost child appear.
But once he heard them, he had instead broken free of that haze. Although