Amid the terror of the unknown, beyond anything common sense could explain, people often chose spacious, brightly lit places to satisfy their subconscious, desperate need for safety.
There was only one such place in the Rose Hotel, and it was also where everything had begun—the reception lobby.
His earlier attempt to use the guests to carry out a path to survival and counter the Female Ghost was no longer viable. After several failed probes, Ji Li had to enter the fray himself.
He dared to do so because he had finally discovered the Female Ghost's limitation.
From Miss Lin in 305, the victim in 304, and even the Man in the Cap, these three deaths had revealed the difference between his killings and the Female Ghost's.
He discovered that the Female Ghost seemed unable to stop him from pulling people into mirrors. At the same time, she was deliberately preventing Ji Li from seeing her attack.
That was enough to prove that the Female Ghost was certainly not unrestricted. Her sole limitation was Ji Li, the Mirror Vengeful Ghost.
So far, through probing and elimination, Ji Li had discarded numerous suspicious but useless clues. The abnormalities surrounding the Female Ghost and himself had become the only remaining avenue worth pursuing.
The understanding of the overall situation derived from clues, information, and reasoning could indeed be wrong.
But the Female Ghost's traits, established from the outcomes of actual deaths, could not be mistaken.
Thus, the reception lobby was the final arena Ji Li had chosen for this mission. It was spacious enough to hold the lives of the six remaining guests, and enough to decide the victor between the two ghosts.
What he needed to do was pull the Female Ghost into his own mirror.
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