"Manager, there's a ghost outside my door!"
An early morning call woke Ji Li from his groggy state after a sleepless night.
But it came and went in a rush. He only heard a piercing cry from the other end before the call abruptly cut off.
The cry sounded like the wail and roar of someone on the brink of death. Even though her voice had changed completely, Ji Li recognized her instantly—Hu Nuannuan.
He hurriedly sat up from the bedside, grabbed a new crutch beside the cabinet, and quickly headed out.
"Ji Li, I think I saw a ghost while you were sleeping."
"Third, stop lying to him. There were clearly three ghosts."
"I wasn't lying to him. I really saw one ghost, and it was so blurry that even I wasn't sure whether I'd seen it wrong."
He had not seen the Second and Third Personalities for a long time—so long that Ji Li had nearly forgotten about them.
The external ghosts had begun running rampant. That was inevitable, but he had never taken such things to heart. To some extent, he had even been looking forward to it.
Chaos was good. The more chaotic, the better.
If the ship called Heavenly Sea sank, the secrets hidden beneath the sea would one day see the light again.
Thus, Ji Li did not bother with anything else. He directly opened the door on the left marked with a "ten" and headed to Branch No. 10 as quickly as possible.
Branch No. 10 was exceptionally quiet in the early morning, clean and tidy as though no one lived there.
Ji Li's hurried footsteps halted. The moment he arrived, an odd sensation suddenly surfaced in his heart.
The feeling made his heart deeply uncomfortable, as though it were rejecting something. Even