The manager of Branch No. 5 had lurked silently in the darkness for so long, all for this very moment.
All the employees who had come with him had belonged under Li Guanqi's command, yet every one of them had been lost—dead or scattered.
Even he had lost an arm in the early stages of the project, but it was precisely that arm that had won him his only sliver of hope.
Before Chang Sheng cut off that arm, it had been fiercely scorched by Supernatural Ghost Fire, burning away most of its flesh, blood, and bone.
But fire was still fire. It could not burn away every last bone.
The remaining section of Bone Spike became tainted with intense deathly resentment and spiritual power, becoming Li Guanqi's only—and final—trump card.
Fang Shenyan went to lure over the Anomalous Ghosts, Chang Sheng went to guide the charred ghost tide, while Li Guanqi alone faced the most mysterious Gao Zhihua.
And now, they knew that Gao Zhihua's true identity was another Ta, a terrifying entity comparable to the project's Root Ghost.
But Li Guanqi had not known that at the time.
Still, Li Guanqi was Li Guanqi. He was a manager with foresight far beyond the present and a remarkably broad perspective.
If Class 1, Grade 3 was the heart of this project, then Gao Zhihua was the heart of that heart. Gao Zhihua itself signified immense danger.
Entering this place was the same as walking willingly into a trap.
Li Guanqi considered himself an ordinary man. With Sin Objects sealed away, blindly fleeing was utterly meaningless. He might as well use his only trump card and take a gamble.
Whether the Bone Spike counted as a Sin Object now was unimportant. It undoubtedly possessed Supernatural Power, and it could only