The six gilded characters had lost their dazzling luster even in the torrential rain, making them seem gloomy beneath the bleak sky.
A renowned university in Shanming City, it had shaped countless students and borne countless honors.
But to the employees of Tianhai Hotel, this place symbolized eternal darkness, cooking corpses, stitching faces, and fates diverging down separate paths...
"Mu Nianmei, eighteen years ago, who exactly killed you?"
Having come here once more, Ji Li looked at the newly rebuilt campus gate and quietly asked the figure beside him.
The pale, thin shadow stood there without making a sound. Only the silk scarf around her neck slowly fluttered in the wind and rain.
Gu Xingjian glanced at him, unconsciously rubbing his still red and swollen neck. He stepped forward and said to the two silent people beside him:
"Manager Li, you'll enter the campus alone later. Fate will come out on its own. Your goal is to survive."
Li Yi said nothing upon hearing this. That was precisely why he had come today.
This matter was of great importance. Since Gu Xingjian was the one restarting the Manager Mission, everyone naturally followed his arrangements.
Li Yi did not ask about the subsequent plan either. Showing no reaction after hearing it, he simply headed straight for the gate.
The rain was still pouring. Once they were more than five steps apart, they could barely make out each other's figures—only a vague outline that gradually receded before vanishing into the rain.
Gu Xingjian watched as the lights of the automatic doors began to flicker through the curtain of rain, confirming that the other party had entered.
Then, he gave Luo Xian, whose expression was calm, one final confirmation:
"Luo Xian, restarting the Manager Mission requires the Nightmare Sin Item. So Bai Huaiguang—Fate...