In the stranger's terrified eyes, Ji Li grabbed his elbow and yanked hard, pulling him straight up from underground.
The moment the man broke free from the ground, the Dark Red Organization on the surface began to squirm rapidly, as though a wound were swiftly healing.
In the blink of an eye, the road was seamless again. Even the White Line from before had vanished, completely blending into the surrounding pavement.
But in that instant, both Ji Li and Li Yi saw...
At the moment the stranger was pulled from the earth, there was another person underground—though perhaps he could no longer be called a person.
It was a corpse that had been completely skinned. Its flesh had been stripped from top to bottom, its skin discarded at its feet like scraps.
Yet strangely, although all its skin had fallen away, it still wore a brown leather jacket.
At a glance, Ji Li saw countless densely packed blood vessels clinging to the skinned corpse like leeches, devouring its flesh.
At the same time, the skinned corpse was almost completely fused with the Dark Red Organization underground. They seemed to coexist symbiotically, becoming part of the barrier.
"Skinning again..."
Ji Li frowned. He had also seen skinned corpses at the Children's Hospital, and he had found it strange even then.
The White Robe Ghost's abilities were more or less related to Human Sculpture. Skinning was drastically different in nature, so why were there several skinned corpses within its territory?
"Skinning again on the path where the White Robe Ghost is hunting us... Could it be a coincidence?"
Ji Li drew no conclusions. The skinned corpse he had seen after pulling up the stranger signified an even more serious and troublesome problem.
The unfamiliar man before him stared at him in terror