"21:27..."
Ji Li looked at the time on the mantel clock, then turned to look at the bulging quilt on the bed, sinking into thought.
If he traced things back, the Door opener should have voluntarily adjusted the time from 18:01 to 21:02.
The clock time and the actual time did not necessarily conflict. The mission should follow actual time, while the clock time probably corresponded only to some rule of Number 1414.
Then the Door opener had deliberately adjusted the clock time to achieve some purpose, such as...
Only after "21:00" could it lie down and sleep in this bed?
Ji Li frowned tightly, his gaze fixed firmly on the quilt. A doubt in his heart was growing ever larger.
If he assumed the Door opener was the Solitary Old Ghost, then as the owner of this room, why did it need to adjust the time before it could fall asleep?
Of course, it was possible that the Solitary Old Ghost simply had an extremely disciplined habit, but that possibility was clearly less likely.
Thus, after continually assuming that the Door opener was the Solitary Old Ghost, Ji Li discovered an even bigger doubt.
When that ghost had walked through the bedroom, his eyes had focused on its feet.
Those feet were pallid and rough, their Blood Vessels bulging—a clear sign of the dead—but they were definitely not that old.
That raised a question.
If the ghost lying in the bed at this moment was not the Solitary Old Ghost, why was it so familiar with Number 1414, and what exactly was its identity?
Number 1414 involved three parties, human and ghost alike: the Solitary Old Ghost, the Twin Female Ghosts, and the Mysterious Man who had dropped his swim trunks.
The relationship among those three parties was incomparably