If two independent souls existed within one person's body, they would often influence each other.
For instance, the ideas Ji Li was instilling now would also slip into Ruru's mind without her noticing.
As Su Chenghe's image was brought up again and again, Ruru, the "main personality," would gradually draw out points of recognition from her memories.
As her priorities shifted, Su Chenghe gradually became a new candidate.
Ruru would not do anything to Ji Li. She seemed utterly certain that he could not be the vessel for Fate.
Likewise, Ji Li believed Fate was most likely still within Xiao Qian Duyue. He could not hold out much longer in his current state; he had to resolve everything as quickly as possible.
And making Su Chenghe the new candidate was the first step in this plan.
By this point, even a little process of elimination was enough to uncover the truth behind certain things.
Of the three—Ruru, Fate, and Ruru's Mother—only the last had remained entirely unaccounted for. She would undoubtedly become the key to solving this puzzle.
Throughout the entire mission, what other anomaly could correspond to Ruru's Mother? Only that colossal entity outside the Dark Room remained.
Suppose Gu Xingjian had not been lying, but had deliberately been steering their thinking.
Then, working backward, the identity of that black matter could only be Ruru's Mother.
Whether this theory held up, whether it matched the truth, did not actually matter at all.
Because whether or not the black matter was Ruru's Mother, it was what Ruru intended to fight with Fate's help.
Thus, it would be the only solution to this problem.
Handing over Su Chenghe's head would be Ji Li's first step toward stirring up this mission, which had all but reached a dead end.
Su Chenghe was