"Teacher Fang, what do you think?"
Ji Li did not look up. He merely stared quietly at the half-corpse on the ground, his expression somewhat grave.
Fang Shenyan cast him a slightly surprised glance. Rather than voicing an opinion immediately, he conducted a thorough examination of this newly opened area.
About three minutes later, when he returned, a look of sudden realization appeared in his eyes.
When he spoke, his voice carried his signature indifference as he revealed his conclusion without a trace of emotion.
"The cursed item shows signs of having been used, and it was successfully activated, only to be interrupted midway.
"This means that Xu Chan remained conscious even before her death and may even have resisted.
"She did not commit suicide. She was carrying out what she believed to be her path to survival.
"Only, judging from the result, she chose the wrong path."
Xiao Qian Duyue, who could not see anything and had possessed no presence whatsoever since entering the Manager Mission—nor would she ever—asked softly at that moment:
"Why was it wrong...?"
Fang Shenyan's gaze inadvertently swept over the stone pillar directly beside Xu Chan's corpse.
It was spotless. There was not a trace of blood, not a single mark—there was nothing there.
His gaze slowly shifted from Xu Chan to the end of the area, and he revealed the truth in a deep voice:
"If someone had the courage to carry out such an extreme path to survival, they must have had extremely weighty intelligence supporting it.
"Then, since the result was wrong, it means the intelligence she obtained was false from the start."
For Xu Chan to dare act on such a cruel "path to survival," she must have verified it countless times over. Yet it had still ended in failure...
That