Chapter 1398: Yet the curtain had not fallen
In the Yang World, inside Room 1818.
Ji Li stood before the window, facing the wind. With his eyes closed, he listened to its howl, felt the flesh writhing around him, and smoked in silence.
The Blond Young Man who had once stood beside him had now been stranded in the Yin World once more. His end could only lead to ruin.
Memories were being rewritten. Another female staff member of the Seventh Branch stood guard outside Room 1818, waiting for the final outcome.
In the current timeline, Chang Nian had become the sidelined figure who had failed to ascend the building and accomplished nothing more.
Perhaps her only purpose now, aside from waiting for Tong Guan, was to help Ji Li complete the path to survival.
The Old Yu Street mission had brought both natural disasters and man-made calamities.
Ji Li treated Branch No. 9 as already wiped out. The agreed time had arrived. He could give Clyde no more time, and no one would give him any more, either.
He dropped his last cigarette at his feet. A vicious Tongueless Person swallowed it in one gulp, made a strange squeaking noise, then glared savagely at the figure standing on it.
Keeping his eyes closed, Ji Li silently turned his head, directing his dark gaze toward the human chrysalis occupying the most conspicuous spot in the room.
Once Gu Xingjian's two question cards had been removed, the ghastly state of Huang Banxian's death lay fully exposed.
This Senior Staff Member, once renowned in the Tianhai Hotel, this fake Taoist with his distinctive personality and defining traits, had ultimately failed to defy destiny...
Or perhaps it was the fate Gu Xingjian had woven for him.
Ji Li could not see any of