Returning to the main road of Bai E Hua Avenue, Ji Li faced a three-way intersection and chose the left without hesitation.
He remembered this intersection clearly. During the Republic Street mission, this was where he had lost his lighter and taken the road to the left.
Following the route from his memory, the Li Residence was only a little over a kilometer away in a straight line. Even accounting for the curves of the branching roads, it was less than two kilometers.
Back then, it had taken him only fifteen minutes to walk there. But with his current physical condition, it would take considerably longer, not to mention the three ghosts following him like shadows.
White mist continuously escaped Ji Li's mouth. On the cold, empty street, the left turn led into a long, straight road.
This was the most difficult stretch. Shops stood densely along both sides of the road, all of them now shut tight, doors and windows closed. There were no side paths to take, and the road stretched for nearly five hundred meters.
The Blue Stone pavement was completely covered in snow, slowing his already sluggish pace even further. Worse still, the trail of footprints he left behind practically exposed his location.
What had happened in the narrow alley had allowed him to identify two of the three ghosts.
The first was a group of Invisible Ghosts. Their ability seemed to be nothing more than invisibility, and their method of attack should have been quite limited. Their threat lay in their sheer numbers; the second was the Tracking Ghost Ji Li had been deeply wary of. He had always felt that his location had first been exposed because he had been tracked from the very beginning, yet he still had not found where it was;