Replenishment Person

Everything had been overturned! Every one of our previous assumptions had been reversed!

Ji Li faced the woman who had fully revealed her ghostly form across a glass window.

He could even read a trace of mockery in the Female Ghost's hate-filled, resentful eyes!

We were wrong from the very beginning!

This Female Ghost was Room 701's owner!

When the Second Personality said this, even its voice trembled. It had never imagined such a shocking reversal could occur!

A preconceived mistake!

Everyone assumed that voyeurism was a perverse act committed by a man against a woman, but this mission was precisely the opposite!

Room 701's owner was a deranged woman. Her diary was filled with twisted love for the single man in Room 702!

The toiletries in the Restroom and the men's clothes in the cabinet had to have been stolen from the Raincoat Man's room!

The diary mentioned that the teddy bear on Room 702's owner's door matched the pattern on his phone case. That was irrefutable proof!

The Raincoat Man could be stabbed, bleed, and run away. He had the key to Room 702, yet he could not enter Room 701...

That was because he was a living, breathing human being!

We had all been fooled by that murder scene, believing the victim was Room 702's owner while the murderer was Room 701's ghost!

But everything we had seen had not been a reenactment created by the ghost at all!**

The Third Personality laid out the general outline of the matter amid the wind, its voice growing louder and louder!

The Female Ghost could not be killed.

That was why the Raincoat Man, the true victim, had tried again and again to kill her, hoping to end her terrifying harassment!

That was the truth behind this mission!

The Third Personality did not need to explain it. After seeing the phone case and the Female Ghost's true appearance, Ji Li had already understood everything.

He let out a heavy breath, gave the Female Ghost—still lying motionless on the bed—a deep look, then slowly drew himself back onto Room 701's windowsill.

When Ji Li returned, he found Yu Guo and Fang Shenyan crouched by the hole, while Cao Yuan leaned against the bed, clutching his chest with an utterly pale face.

"Brother Ji... Brother Ji... save me..."

At the sight of Ji Li's return, the fading hope in Cao Yuan's eyes flared up once more. He stretched out his arm and called Ji Li's name.

Desperately begging to be saved...

But Ji Li ignored him completely and instead walked straight toward Fang Shenyan, who had caused all this!

"What happened after I left?"

Yu Guo pursed his lips and glanced at Fang Shenyan. Seeing that Fang Shenyan had no intention of speaking, Yu Guo began recounting everything that had happened to the three of them.

Moonlight spilled into Room 701's Master Bedroom. The shadows of Ji Li, Fang Shenyan, and Yu Guo converged together, as if they were heading toward some kind of overlap.

Only Cao Yuan's curled-up figure was reflected on the floor, one corner of his shadow beneath Ji Li's foot.

"That was what happened." Yu Guo's mouth was dry from talking. He wanted to take a drink of water, but reconsidered and gave up.

"The Raincoat Man definitely wasn't a ghost. Everything about him proved he was a living person!"

Ji Li nodded upon hearing that, then sat cross-legged and told them everything he had seen in Room 702.

When Yu Guo heard that the truth had been completely overturned, he sprang to his feet.

"Damn! That ghost had hidden itself incredibly well!"

Even Fang Shenyan was shaken. In truth, if he had not boldly provoked the Raincoat Man earlier, such a subversive truth would never have been exposed!

It could be said that none of them had expected things to develop to this point.

Ji Li's gaze was deep, as though he had blended into the surrounding darkness.

"What could now be confirmed was that the Raincoat Man was a real, living person.

"He had tried to kill the Female Ghost because she had tortured his mind to the brink of collapse!

"So, with things having progressed this far, the path to survival seemed almost within reach..."

Ji Li let out a long breath. From the looks of it, the Raincoat Man's identity was highly unusual.

When the Female Ghost had been alive, he had been her most "favored" target. Even after her death, she had continued to entangle him without end.

Most importantly, why could the Raincoat Man confront a ghost directly, even attempt to kill her, and yet remain alive all this time?

Yu Guo began pacing again, his mind racing.

Other than Cao Yuan, the remaining three were all intelligent people. Gathered together now, they immediately understood.

The key to the path to survival undoubtedly lay in the Raincoat Man's peculiarity!

"Why... did the Raincoat Man know there was a ghost in Room 702, yet return there again and again?"

Fang Shenyan, who had been silent for a long time, raised a question.

Ji Li glanced at him. This was also something he had never been able to figure out.

By all reason, if the Raincoat Man knew there was a ghost in his home and that she was haunting him, why would he keep returning to Room 702?

After learning the truth, Ji Li had actually discussed it with the Third Personality in his mind for a long time.

He discovered that even though most of the Mysteries had now been solved, there were still many things that could not be explained.

The Raincoat Man's strange behavior was one of them.

There was also the sixth Replenishment Person employee who had yet to appear. Ji Li had always believed that this living person, hidden until the final stage, would be the key to uncovering every answer.

Yet even now, he still had no clue.

Ji Li slowly rose from the floor and turned to look at the sky, where the moon shone amid sparse stars.

"Constraint..."

A word suddenly leaped into his mind and began circling through his thoughts!

"We were forced into Room 701 to carry out this mission, forced to remain here and wait for the ghost to hunt us down.

"The Raincoat Man returned to Room 702 again and again, forced to face the Female Ghost's harassment. Could it be the same in principle?!"

The idea came abruptly, but there was a connection to be found within it!

Could the sixth person, who had never appeared, have already appeared?!

The Raincoat Man was a living person—and the only other living person they had encountered tonight!

The sixth employee was the Raincoat Man, constrained for some unknown reason and waiting at the mission site!

In an instant, Ji Li gathered the chaotic clues in his mind and formed a complete picture!

"But... there was one point that did not make sense.

"The email had clearly said that the mission site was Room 701.

"If the Raincoat Man was the new employee, then the place where he was waiting had already exceeded the mission's boundaries..."

A moment later, Ji Li sucked in a sharp breath, as though he had suddenly thought of a possibility!

Within Room 701, only the faint breathing of a few surviving people remained.

The ghost's true face had already been exposed. From this point on, anyone could become her next target.

The path to survival was right before them, just one step away.

But failing to lift this final veil would be enough to cause a terrible disaster!

At that moment, Ji Li suddenly turned and looked at Cao Yuan, who was leaning against the edge of the bedframe and barely clinging to life!

He strode over, his steps unusually firm and confident.

As their eyes met, a profound light flickered in Ji Li's gaze. He looked at Cao Yuan's face, twisted by pain and pleading.

Then, enunciating every word, he said, "Do you want to live?!"