Some things were strange by nature.
Chang Nian had used the Space Map to shake the Supernatural Gate, severing the involvement of herself, Tong Guan, and the others in this event.
Control over the opening and closing of this gate had since passed to a higher power—Heavenly Sea.
But then something strange happened. She had neither seen Heavenly Sea appear nor caught any sign of it acting. Instead, someone who should not have been there jumped into the well.
That person was Ji Li, yet he was not Ji Li.
Much of what happened was incomplete from Chang Nian's perspective, but she could more or less piece it together from the events that followed.
Ji Li was no longer the Ji Li she knew. His eyes had turned pure gray, his long hair had spread across the ground, and when he raised his gaze, it brimmed with inhuman indifference.
This seemed to be another state of Ji Li's. Chang Nian even believed that the Ji Li who had taken Tong Guan's parents away eighteen years ago had been in this very state.
This state could grant him abilities beyond those of the living, perhaps making him more terrifying than ordinary ghosts.
When the Black and White Water Ghosts in the processing plant had nearly killed her, Ji Li had arrived to help her escape. By the time they emerged, all the water ghosts had turned into pools of blood, evidently his work as well.
And the Supernatural Gate seemed to acknowledge Ji Li's arrival.
It had indeed stopped targeting the far weaker employees. It recognized Ji Li as an opponent it had to take seriously.
There were some things Chang Nian could not resolve. She could only delay them, and that was all she could do.
After Old Yu Street,