This winter was truly a season of trouble.
A ghost appeared outside the window on the Third Floor of Branch No. 7 and spied on Ji Li, supernatural forces inexplicably manifested in Branch No. 10, and now even a ghost had infiltrated the ranks of the staff.
Ji Li had never been someone interested in such things, but he had to get a firm grasp of this information in advance and deduce how the situation would develop from it.
At present, the External Ghost Faction had become a topic that could not be avoided, no matter what.
Previously, Branch No. 10 had suffered a purge by Miaojiang's ghost infant. Although it had not caused too great a shock, its impact on the branches as a whole was still considerable.
Looking back at the ghost infant incident from the perspective of someone in the later stages, Ji Li had truly reached a different conclusion.
The ghost shadow incident had been an operation by Miaojiang and Gu Xingjian to probe "that thing." The key lay in the meaning of "probe."
But perhaps they had not merely been probing "that thing." On another level, they might also have been testing the limits of Heavenly Sea.
Heavenly Sea's influence had already dwindled to the point where even the autonomy of a single branch had been mostly lost.
Never mind the staff's protection—even the entire branch had basically been left to fend for itself.
The ghost infant incident might have been a move by Miaojiang and Gu Xingjian, or it might not have been. But the result it had ultimately produced was already clear: the External Ghost Faction was beginning to make its move.
And at a time like this, would the infiltration of a ghost into the staff ranks also produce an influence capable