At 9:27 p.m., the final hour of the Commission Mission was nearly halfway over.
Orange Lake Castle, the final attraction.
It had presented Ji Li with a bizarre, shapeless, inexplicable series of performances.
From the suspicions in the art gallery to the dead in the auditorium, then the hellfire in the Study Room, it had finally settled on hanging corpses in the Bedroom.
One had died in the first scene, two in the second, and three in the third. Of the eight formidable managers, only Ji Li and Luo Xian remained.
But this Luo Xian could probably no longer be called human, because at this moment, she had clearly become Ta's representative.
The third passage was recited from her mouth, and the final, unidentified hanging corpse in the Bedroom could only correspond to Ji Li himself.
Throughout this journey through Orange Lake Castle, the perspective had remained fixed on Ji Li. Through his eyes, they had witnessed one scene after another change, one manager after another die.
Yet from beginning to end, he had never found a clear underlying thread to the attraction.
That thread was the most crucial thing employees had to find while carrying out a mission. Whether or not the employees could survive, every mission had to have one.
This thread was not determined by the employees, but controlled by the ghost, because every death had to be grounded in rules. It could not be utterly illogical or arbitrary.
So no matter what, a thread had to exist, even if the employees failed to discover it.
But in this attraction, starting with White Wolf's inexplicable death, no one's death had any reason behind it. There was not even a target to overcome, and the ghost had never appeared.
It was as though Ji Li had been given