For Lan Yu and Mei Sheng, each of them, more or less, had their own reasons for looking forward to the road to "The End."
In their eyes, "The End" represented opportunities, clues, and a path to survival.
But Clyde did not see it that way. That purple talisman claiming to be "life-saving" seemed to possess more than just the active effect of resetting one's condition to zero; it also had a passive function.
It seemed capable of foretelling fortune and disaster on its own!
No one knew whether Huang Banxian would have met that fate if he had kept the Life-Saving Purple Talisman for himself, or whether he truly could have broken the Hexagram Kun...
Of course, perhaps it was precisely because he gave away that talisman that events had developed to this point.
In any case, Clyde had fled. He had spent a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to turn his back on "The End" and escape.
What exactly had he glimpsed in advance under the Life-Saving Purple Talisman's warning? No one knew.
Lan Yu and Mei Sheng could only watch as he fled for his life, moving farther and farther away from the Ghost Tide procession as though he feared getting anywhere near it, yet they had no idea why.
"Why...?"
Lan Yu's peripheral vision caught Clyde's unharmed figure gradually disappearing along the corridor on the Sixteenth Floor, and he could not help but ponder it.
"The rules of Ghost Tide Ascent must have an incredibly high priority. He had a way to break free, but why did he choose to break free?"
Huang Banxian believed that only heaven and earth knew of the Life-Saving Purple Talisman's existence, so Lan Yu naturally knew nothing of it.
Still, it was hardly strange for branch managers and employees who had survived this