Chapter 1389: Burn It Once More
It was time to wake up. They should have woken up by now.
One Spirit Communication session, half a nightmare, two stretches of life.
The Dream Ghost had been in charge of this dream. Through it, the ghost had laid bare everything it could reveal—and everything it could not.
It no longer wished to remain attached to Ji Li. After all, the truth had been made plain.
The howling wind, laced with the bitter chill of winter rain, rang through the bleak, dilapidated Old Yu Street and woke the two sleeping men.
The despair of the truth chilled the heart far more than winter wind and rain ever could.
Difficult choices demanded people with hearts strong and resilient enough to make them, then carry them out without hesitation.
Yet some decisions did not necessarily have anything to do with strength.
The undertone of tragedy had long since seeped into everyone's lives unnoticed. They were all people who stood at the apex of the pyramid.
And precisely because they were so exceptional, they saw tragedy more clearly than ordinary people, understood it more thoroughly, and felt its despair more deeply.
Perhaps wisdom, too, was a curse.
On the empty, eerily quiet Old Yu Street, the only two ghosts had hidden themselves away. They seemed to have learned the truth in the dream as well, and so left the choice to those two men.
After all, for the ghosts here, having the employees bring Old Yu Street's order to an end would also be a release.
The evil spirit had already subsided. Its resurgence began before the Spirit Communication dream, and it fell dormant again after the dream ended.
The Dream Ghost was the most unusual ghost in this mission. Highly intelligent, it had been remarkably