Yu Guo's right calf had been completely crushed. His head trembled incessantly as strands of bloody water squeezed out through his clenched teeth.
The Female Ghost lying prone on the ground had already moved her hands up from his calf, about to destroy this living man's last remaining ability to move!
No matter how unusual Yu Guo was, he was still only an ordinary man with slightly more courage than most. Under the double torment of psychological pressure and physical agony, he was even beginning to hallucinate.
Having lost a leg, there was no longer any question of escaping!
On the other side, Fang Shenyan seized the brief opening Yu Guo had bought with his own body and jammed the key into Room 702's lock as quickly as he could!
Ji Li instead became the idle one. Looking down at Yu Guo, only a dozen or so steps below him, at his teammate suffering bitterly, he quietly gritted his teeth.
He glanced at Fang Shenyan beside him, then, without a word, struggled for a moment before leaping directly down from the seventh floor!
His target was Yu Guo's side!
The Female Ghost's attention was entirely fixed on Yu Guo, and she did not immediately concern herself with Ji Li's frantic attempt to rescue him.
Ji Li landed, grabbed Yu Guo's arm, veins bulging, and used every ounce of strength in his body to haul him upward!
Yu Guo finally could not hold on any longer. His entire body collapsed limply onto the stairs, his consciousness gradually fading.
The Female Ghost's pitch-black eyeballs glimmered with Eerie Glow beneath the night sky, tightly restraining Yu Guo's right leg.
Ji Li felt as if both his arms were on the verge of dislocation. He had poured every bit of strength into them just to barely keep the Female Ghost from dragging Yu Guo any farther down!
The scene had reached a stalemate.
Creak!
Room 702's door finally opened. The lock on the door to survival had turned; they were only one step away.
Fang Shenyan did not enter the room at once. Instead, he turned around and looked at the two struggling below, his face seeming somewhat hesitant.
"Yu Guo can't die, and Ji Li definitely can't die..."
Fang Shenyan sighed. Though after that incident, he no longer valued human life.
Yet it was undeniable that after coming to this hotel that could only be called hell, especially when facing ghosts and the line between life and death, he had actually become somewhat intoxicated by it.
Everything now was the last remaining ripple in his numb life.
He did not want it to end so soon.
After several thoughts flashed through his mind, Fang Shenyan abandoned the escape route within reach, jumped down the stairs as well, and grabbed Ji Li by the shoulder!
Although Ji Li's arms were already aching and swollen, on the brink of dislocation, the moment he felt those broad palms, a smile appeared at the corner of his lips.
He knew Fang Shenyan would help!
From a purely rational perspective, although Fang Shenyan was coldhearted, he was undoubtedly a smart man.
If he wanted to survive, he needed Ji Li. He needed Yu Guo as well.
Just as Ji Li had risked himself to save Yu Guo earlier, they had both acted to save someone for their own purposes.
With Fang Shenyan joining in, the balance of strength gradually began to shift.
Yu Guo's legs had gone completely limp, and his consciousness was close to vanishing. If not for the last breath he held in his chest, he would have fainted long ago.
Crack!
A sudden, crisp crack came from Ji Li's arm joints!
His arms had been completely dislocated by a force no human strength could resist, yet they became ropes binding Yu Guo's life.
At that very moment, Fang Shenyan let out a roar and violently yanked upward!
Under that immense pressure, Yu Guo's legs were forcibly torn off with the ghost's aid!
"Go, go, go!"
Ji Li had reached his limit. The weight of both men now rested entirely on Fang Shenyan.
Fang Shenyan's fair face had turned completely red. He had expended far too much strength and was already beginning to weaken.
But hope of escape had appeared, and in the desperate situation, his nearly exhausted strength surged once again.
One step, then another—eight steps.
Dragging the bodies of Ji Li and Yu Guo, two grown men, Fang Shenyan forcibly pulled those two lives to Room 702's doorway during the one-second interval in which the ghost lost her strength!
At that moment, Fang Shenyan was entirely inside Room 702, and Ji Li's upper body was inside as well, but only one of Yu Guo's hands rested on the threshold.
And that ghost had already closed in before the three of them.
Ji Li watched her silently. Everyone was exhausted, having struggled to their limits.
Their current position was the furthest they could manage. Theoretically speaking, all three of them were inside Room 702 to varying degrees.
But that standard of judgment was not easy to determine either.
Ji Li wanted to struggle backward another inch, but he could not draw even a shred of strength from his body. He could only watch the ghost before him as she scrutinized him.
Yet after a long while, the ghost's foul-smelling body stood atop half of Yu Guo's body without making a move.
With an ethereal sigh, her figure completely vanished.
She then turned into a black shadow and rushed straight into Room 702, charging toward Fang Shenyan by the wall!
It was Fang Shenyan's first time facing such a situation. He jolted in fright, then saw the black shadow land on the back of his hand.
It became a tattoo in the shape of a Black Eyeball.
Seeing this, Ji Li let out a long breath. He looked at Yu Guo beside him, who had completely passed out, and said softly:
"We completed this mission. The ghost has been successfully collected.
Perhaps because you were the first to reach the escape route, you're the one carrying her. She'll disappear once we enter the hotel.
But until eight in the morning, we probably still can't leave Room 702. Otherwise, the ghost will revive."
Fang Shenyan laboriously pulled out his Cigarette Case, lit a cigarette, and held it to Ji Li's lips before lighting one for himself.
Ji Li's arms hung limply against the floor. Gritting his teeth, he smoked to ease the exhaustion that had accumulated over most of the night.
"It'll be dawn soon. In another two hours, we can return to the hotel, and it will treat all our injuries."
After what had just happened, Ji Li's opinion of Fang Shenyan and Yu Guo had improved once more.
He glanced at Fang Shenyan's somewhat torn clothes and spotted several knife-scar marks beneath his arm. Taking a deep drag, he asked:
"Have you tried to kill yourself?"
At those words, Fang Shenyan's expression did not change. He gently avoided Ji Li's gaze.
"I tried to kill myself many times, but I never died.
Perhaps people must obey fate. I never died before because I was destined to come here."
Hearing that, Ji Li's mind went blank for a moment. He looked again at the unconscious Yu Guo.
Everyone had secrets of their own, and those secrets shaped a person's fate.
Numbed by the pain in his arms and the nicotine, Ji Li's thoughts drifted.
He thought of himself.
If people truly have fate, then where does my fate lie...
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