This fourth unit looked full of life on the surface, but even after two people had died, none of the other residents had made any move.
Ji Li's eyes remained that same gray. The situation was gradually settling down.
The Raincoat Man had only spent two minutes outside Room 702 earlier. By now, he had roughly three minutes left before he needed to return to Room 702.
Ji Li raised his head and looked upstairs through the layers of railings. Everything above was deathly quiet.
It seemed that after Cao Yuan died and the sixth person appeared, the ghost's attacks could only come to a temporary stop.
The heavy stone that had weighed on the employees' hearts for so long had finally fallen away. No matter how they looked at it, they had already found a way to survive.
All they needed to do next was remain beside the Raincoat Man and hold out until dawn the next day!
Yu Guo leaned against the wall nearby, panting heavily. His face was filled with uncontrollable excitement as he muttered to himself, "Ghosts... they really exist! After all these years, I finally found them!"
With some time to spare, their nerves gradually calmed. Ji Li glanced at the excited Yu Guo.
He had always felt that this plain-looking man was far more obsessed with ghosts than with people.
Normally speaking, after witnessing Ding Miaoxin and Cao Yuan die, anyone who could still show such emotion was, at the very least, not normal.
But the one who truly caught Ji Li's attention was Fang Shenyan.
The first time Ji Li met Fang Shenyan, he had sensed the aura of death on him.
That aura was not something he had been tainted by. It radiated from Fang Shenyan himself.
It sounded mysterious, but it was merely intuition. Others could not perceive it, but Ji Li could be said to understand death better than anyone.
He could sense that Fang Shenyan had definitely experienced death...
Perhaps he had not truly died, but he had certainly brushed past death's edge!
That was why he was so indifferent toward life!
Cao Yuan's plan might have seemed like Ji Li's scheme, but the initial spark had still been Fang Shenyan's devastating blow.
As the world fell silent, Fang Shenyan returned to his taciturn state, completely different from how freely he had spoken while analyzing the mission earlier.
Without a sound, Ji Li thoroughly analyzed the two of them and ultimately came to one conclusion.
"Anyone who performs exceptionally in a Hotel Mission and survives is not normal!"
"By what you're saying, even if I survive tonight, I'll be spending every day and night from now on alongside ghosts?"
With no one else speaking, the Raincoat Man, the most ordinary person among them, could not help but speak up.
He was arguably the most innocent person in the entire incident. For no reason at all, a deranged woman had fixated on him, and even after becoming a Female Ghost, she still refused to let him go.
That had been the beginning of this mission.
Only after hearing him speak did Ji Li finally direct his gaze toward this "special" man.
Instead of answering, Ji Li merely watched him quietly.
To be honest, he could not see anything about this man that was particularly appealing.
What could make a ghost favor him so much, or treat him differently?
Even now, one doubt still stuck in Ji Li's throat like a thorn.
Ghosts did not possess the complex emotions of humanity.
Why was the Raincoat Man treated differently, even to the point where he could not be harmed...
"We should return to Room 702. Time is almost up."
At that moment, Fang Shenyan checked his watch and offered a reminder.
The Raincoat Man jolted. The earlier commotion had nearly made him forget about the time limit. Without bothering about the others, he headed upstairs on his own.
Ji Li watched his retreating figure and frowned.
Fang Shenyan glanced at him. "What is it?"
Ji Li shook his head without speaking.
Just as the Raincoat Man was about to return to Room 702, an inexplicable sense of foreboding flashed through Ji Li's heart...
He could not explain why. Perhaps it was that doubt which had never been answered, or perhaps it was the intuition he had gained through several missions.
But after pondering it for a moment, he still followed behind the Raincoat Man and began walking upstairs.
"Where do you think that Female Ghost is now?" Yu Guo suddenly asked in a furtive tone.
Fang Shenyan turned to look at him, pressed his lips together, and did not answer.
Ji Li remained silent as well, because his right eyelid had begun twitching. That strange feeling was growing stronger and stronger, already causing him physical discomfort!
The Raincoat Man's back, so close before his eyes, the body wrapped in that dark raincoat, became blurry and ethereal in his vision...
It was as though something was blocking his sight, preventing him from seeing through it completely.
Ji Li's heart lurched. At the same time, the Third Personality's doubtful voice echoed in his mind.
"That back..."
"Stop! We can't keep going!"
Ji Li's abrupt shout drew everyone's attention to him.
Fang Shenyan and Yu Guo turned around in confusion, only to see Ji Li's pale, paper-white profile clouded with gloom!
Following his gaze, they saw the Raincoat Man slowly turn his head. His movements were sluggish, as though something bound him.
At some unknown point, copious sweat had broken out across his face, mixing with the Bloody Water and making him look hideous and terrifying.
And when his body finally turned fully around, Ji Li and the others' eyes nearly split open in horror!
From beneath the Raincoat Man's raincoat, a deathly pale human face bulged out from his chest!
Thick black hair clung tightly to its head. That terrifying, grotesquely swollen face nearly burst through the thin raincoat.
Through the blur, they could vaguely make out that the ghost's limbs had wrapped tightly around the Raincoat Man's body!
Yet the Raincoat Man was completely unaware of it!
If Ji Li had not noticed that his back looked slightly broader than before, he might not have discovered that he had already been possessed by the ghost!
"What... is wrong with you?"
Even now, the Raincoat Man had not noticed anything abnormal.
But at this point, no one could answer him. No one had even anticipated this sudden development!
Fang Shenyan silently took half a step back and whispered into Ji Li's ear, "This is bad. We got the way to survive wrong!"
He did not need to say it. The moment Ji Li and Yu Guo saw the Raincoat Man possessed by the ghost, they immediately understood.
The Raincoat Man would also suffer the ghost's attacks!
He was not special at all!
Sweat appeared on Yu Guo's forehead. He could neither stay nor flee. Their mistaken judgment of the way to survive made his mind go blank, and he could only look toward Ji Li!
Ji Li showed no outward abnormality, but a storm was already raging in his mind!
"Damn it, we already said ghosts can't possess complex emotions! We were all fooled by everything we saw before. The Raincoat Man surviving time after time created the illusion that he was special! But we forgot that he's also an employee! No matter how special he is, how special can he really be?"
The Second Personality was already on the verge of madness. In his view, their chances of turning this around had likely fallen to their lowest point...
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