The sensation of the needle piercing his skin was clearer than he had imagined. The pain was sharp, but compared to the pressure of his eyeball about to burst, it actually kept him clear-headed.
The dark red thread followed the needle's path, entering through his upper eyelid and emerging from the lower one, then tightened!
His eyelids were forcibly sealed shut, the skin around the stitches wrinkling as the thread bit deeply into his flesh.
His field of vision shifted from a sea of blood-red to darkness—but not complete darkness. The stitches were not airtight, and faint light and flowing bloody hues still seeped through the gaps.
Ji Li had yet to understand why the Ghost Heart entering the Time Ghost's body had triggered these changes, or what this scene meant.
But he had gleaned some clues from the current Killing Method.
The Time Ghost seemingly could no longer kill directly. It had not used the straightforward, unsolvable method from last time, but instead relied on the connection between inside and outside the mirror.
This indirectly showed that the Ghost Heart's arrival had greatly affected it.
Perhaps that was also the source of the intense emotions in its gaze within the mirror.
And why did it have to force open his eyelids?
Perhaps he needed to consider it from the opposite direction—it was forcing itself not to close its eyes.
Ji Li did not believe that, since it possessed the ability to kill both inside and outside the mirror, it would still need to use such a horrifying yet nonlethal method. It did not have much time left.
Then it must have had several considerations in doing this. That was why Ji Li suspected it was using this method to force itself not to close its eyes.
In that case,