They were turning on each other.
One said the other had taken the wrong path; the other said the first could not be trusted. The Rose Hotel had become a pool of muddy water, impossible to clear.
At the 8:30 p.m. ghost officer checkpoint, Ji Li had learned two more crucial pieces of information.
First, Fang Shenyan seemed to have been forced into a desperate, all-or-nothing position. He had become an outcast in the Rose Hotel. Ghosts wanted him dead, and so did people.
This also indirectly confirmed that what Fang Shenyan had said was largely credible.
The ghosts wanted to kill him because he had found a loophole in the Rose Hotel; the people wanted to kill him because he stood in their way.
Those "people" were probably the ghost officers led by Hou Guisheng, which brought Ji Li to the second crucial piece of information he had obtained.
Second, among the seven ghost officers, the voice that had accused Fang Shenyan before the white-faced ghost officer disappeared had belonged to Hou Guisheng!
This also meant that the moment when Ji Li had seen all the ghost officers' faces had not been a hallucination. He had seen three familiar faces.
They were Hou Guisheng, Xiao Qian Duyue, and Gao Bo!
In fact, many things seemed chaotic, but they still had rational explanations. After experiencing the ghost officer checkpoint, Ji Li had figured out a great deal.
At midnight, an enormous event would take place.
Fang Shenyan had ended up in his current predicament because of this event, and it was also why Hou Guisheng and the others had undergone such abnormal changes in identity.
The two sides had most likely developed irreconcilable differences over this event, which had escalated directly into their current outright hostility. Even the relationship between