Everyone still alive was sharp-minded and clear-eyed.
Perhaps precisely because they were all people of extraordinary experience, they could feel the oppressive weight of approaching despair all the more keenly.
Yet a single remark from Ji Li was like a stone cast into that lifeless lake, jolting everyone awake.
White Wolf had been proactive all along. He hurriedly pressed his communicator and asked anxiously:
"Manager Ji, did you foresee this outcome? If there's a way to survive, please don't keep it from us."
Hou Guisheng's eyes shifted, lingering on Fang Shenyan one moment, turning toward Huang Banxian the next.
Strangely enough.
Huang Banxian, the Taoist who feared death more than anyone, seemed untroubled by the prospect of their total annihilation. His wizened face was quite composed.
Fang Shenyan, on the other hand, sat silently in his chair with his head bowed and eyes lowered, as though weighing something.
Hou Guisheng believed that, if anyone present was truly capable of turning the situation around, it could only be him.
And sure enough.
Faced with the prospect of everyone dying, Ji Li had no intention of concealing anything. He named the man outright:
"Teacher Fang, you should understand that our way out rests with you alone."
Hou Guisheng felt greatly reassured. Ji Li's thinking aligned perfectly with his own.
As he carefully watched Fang Shenyan's subtle expressions, he saw no worry in his face, only contemplation.
That meant Fang Shenyan had realized it himself.
Ji Li's voice reached everyone through their communicators as he explained his solution to this seemingly inescapable death trap.
"We have to admit that they are indeed the root of this case, but under this project's rules, everything about them has been deleted.
And precisely because of that, we can't find the true culprit, leaving us trapped in