Ji Li had entered many Supernatural Barriers. Each one had been different, yet all had been perilous and unpredictable, places where survival was a one-in-ten chance.
A barrier, in other words, was a ghost's domain.
Even in the Real World, ghosts' inconceivable abilities had already left those who opposed them with no choice but to flee for their lives, placing them at an absolute disadvantage.
Inside a barrier, ghosts expanded their home-field advantage to a terrifying degree, nearly stripping people of even the right to escape.
Yet no barrier had ever looked like this one.
If he had to describe it with a single word, this dark-green space felt only "strange."
After entering this space, the desolation, emptiness, and sense of void it had evoked from afar were magnified to the extreme.
The dark-green walls around them stretched endlessly. At a glance, aside from the occasional bare load-bearing pillar, it seemed there was nothing here at all.
There were many people around Ji Li. Their scattered yet synchronized footsteps sounded like discordant drumbeats, striking against their hearts again and again.
So many people, yet they could not blend into the vast, empty void surrounding them.
Even as he walked through it, with more than twenty people around him and their sounds in complete disorder, Ji Li somehow had the illusion that he was the only one moving forward alone.
"Strange. This place is very strange..."
Li Guanqi took out the Detective Sin Item again and scanned the surroundings. His voice was soft, yet it echoed endlessly through the space, lingering without fading.
Ji Li listened to the tap of his own footsteps while carefully following Li Guanqi's echoes.
The sound rippled continuously like water, once, twice, three times...
This dark-green space was enormous and expansive. Judging by the frequency of