Whether a Special Project was an Unsolvable Mission was something no one dared to conclude rashly. This was merely one of Ji Li's theories.
Take the first Special Project as an example. Throughout that game, he had never encountered a ghost, much less seen a ghost make a move.
There were no ghosts, yet people could die one after another. That was the result of the rules.
In other words, the first Special Project had been a game driven entirely by rules, one in which people had to die.
By the same logic, the underlying logic of this second Special Project remained highly consistent.
Whether it was self-verification or questioning, everything served the final vote. Regardless of whether the clerks themselves cast the votes, people would certainly die.
Death was part of the rules in a Special Project.
And that was precisely the underlying concept of an Unsolvable Mission as commonly understood.
The reason Ji Li called the Special Project a "variant of an Unsolvable Mission" was because it added a "game objective" on the premise of being unsolvable.
Before the Special Project began, the Clown Doll would give the clerks a "New Rule" that offered a chance of survival.
As long as they could complete that objective, they could survive within this "unsolvable" situation.
But the game objective did not interfere with or affect the game itself in any way, so the game was still equivalent to an Unsolvable Mission.
Ji Li had not proposed this theory merely to alarm people. Perhaps part of him did want to warn the others and draw them closer to himself.
But more than that, he hoped to uncover the true nature behind the emergence of Special Projects from this "unsolvable game" and its "New Rules."
That essence concerned the Root Ghost of