That knife had vanished somewhere. When he reached into his clothes, he came up empty.
It was not just the knife. He searched his entire body, but nothing remained—not a single external object.
Ji Li silently lowered his hand and calmly stared at the mirror before him. Inside it, the Time Ghosts watched him one by one.
Neither side made another move. They merely faced each other.
After a brief silence, he suddenly extended his right hand and aimed his fingertips at the mirror. His nails scraping against the glass produced a sound that made one's hair stand on end.
Four scratches appeared on the mirror's surface. The bright red wedding gown within was cut horizontally into four sections, and the other reflected figures were split apart as well.
Yet in the blink of an eye, the scratches vanished. The mirror was once again spotless, and the Time Ghost remained standing opposite him without moving.
The mirror surface could not be destroyed. That was the first rule.
Ji Li watched this scene and pondered for a moment before considering another angle—if the mirror could not be destroyed, then even if he found that soul, how was he supposed to break the situation?
What he needed to do was find the Time Ghost's soul and remove it from his mind.
But the first priority was not actually searching. It was determining whether "finding" and "removing" lay along the same path.
After giving it some thought, Ji Li swept his gaze across the mirrors. He realized that no matter how he moved, the Time Ghosts in all four mirrors always remained facing him directly.
"Angle..."
What was the purpose of the Time Ghost maintaining that fixed angle? The only answer was that she was observing Ji Li.
But that was strange. Since