Chapter 1404: An exclusive boon
The tenth supervision event began amid a torrential downpour.
A black sedan headed toward Chengxiang Port cut through sheet after sheet of rain, receding into the distance along the boundless highway.
In the foul weather of the dead of night, it alone raced like a steed across the open wilderness, hurtling forward at full speed without restraint.
Ji Li rested his head against the cold car window, his eyes downcast as he watched raindrops strike the glass opposite him, blurring every scene beyond it.
He held a cigarette stub in his left hand. Wisps of smoke slowly spread through the sealed cabin, lending it a heavy air of dejection.
The Old Yu Street mission had not been a fate-changing one. It had been ordinary.
It had simply led into the commission, then ushered in the tenth supervision event, with "eight ghosts arrive together"—an incident aimed specifically at Ji Li—sandwiched between them.
To Ji Li, the intelligence revealed at that riverside stage a few dozen minutes earlier went far beyond what he had seen on the surface.
The Female performer was gone.
The Bronze Ancient Coffin had forcibly escorted her to the underworld. Apart from the Stage Sword now embedded in his cane, nothing about her had anything to do with Ji Li anymore.
Yet there was still much to consider, whether it was the Female performer's murderous intent, the attitudes of the other seven ghosts, or even the identity of the "seventh outside ghost to place a bet."
Some unknown secrets seemed to lie buried within Ji Li's body.
And this secret had to be crucial. It might even concern the futures of many people, as well as the truth.
But the outside ghosts placing their bets would not allow Ji Li to learn that