Hellish Phenomenon

"How could it be so fast!"

With almost no time to react, Ji Li's mind went blank. His hand was still on the man's shoulder, but the man's head had already begun to turn!

Things happened too suddenly. Ji Li froze for a moment, then jumped up, grabbing the man's arm joints with both hands and pulling backward with all his might!

"Li Xing! Bring everyone here quickly!"

Actually, Ji Li and Li Xing weren't that far apart. By all rights, with eight people present, this situation shouldn't have occurred.

But it had, and without any warning.

Ji Li's forehead was already beaded with sweat. In less than a second, he felt his own arms stiffen.

It was as if he were holding onto rebar, a cursed, hard object. By holding it, he had personally touched the curse, and it was starting to spread.

Little by little, he saw his palms turn black and blue, as if something was slowly infecting him from the man's shoulder!

Ji Li shivered violently. This was a discovery he'd never had before, and he immediately let go of the man's arms.

His hands trembled uncontrollably, as if covered in frost. The icy chill lingered, concentrating on his hands.

At the same time, Li Xing arrived with the others, just in time to see Ji Li leaning against the wall, both his hands unnaturally black, as if poisoned.

"What's going on?"

As Li Xing saw the scene, he couldn't help but ask. Then, he heard a crisp cracking sound, like human bones breaking!

Taking half a step forward, he saw around the corner, a living person's head being twisted unnaturally!

"What are you standing around for? Tackle him!"

Ji Li shouted, his eyes wide with fury. His palms felt a bone-chilling stiffness and coldness as he reached for the handgun tucked into his back.

"Bang bang!"

Two shots hit the dying man's legs, but...

He still didn't fall!

Li Xing and the staff behind him were almost scared stiff by the current situation. The staff didn't understand what was happening.

They saw an employee from the same building about to kill himself, Ji Li attacking a living person for no reason, and most importantly, the person didn't fall even after taking two shots!

Blood flowed from the two bullet wounds, about to drip onto the ground, but the man remained motionless.

Only his head, about to be snapped off, was still pushing against the limits of the human body!

Li Xing's eyes were bloodshot. He clenched his fists, wanting to charge forward, but he knew!

The man looked alive, but there was a ghost inside him!

He was possessed by a ghost. If he charged forward now, would he be killed along with it?

Besides, he wasn't stupid. If he could charge, Ji Li would have stopped him long ago. Why would he have to wait for him to arrive!

Seeing the man on the verge of death, Ji Li ignored the strange injury on his hand and charged forward, hitting the man's back with his raised left shoulder!

With that impact, he felt his own bones shatter, as if he had collided with a truck.

The man didn't move at all. Instead, his whole body went limp, his left shoulder completely numb, only a tingling sensation remaining!

Ji Li, seeing death approaching rapidly, disregarded the pain in his left side and pulled a short knife from his pocket.

His eyes were filled with madness as he repeatedly stabbed the man's wrists, trying to sever them before the man died!

Li Xing and the others behind him were completely stunned by Ji Li's "inhumane" method of saving someone.

Li Xing was terrified. The living person possessed by a ghost in front of them couldn't be moved no matter what they tried.

How could they protect him? They couldn't stop him from being killed!

The staff behind them began to retreat, intending to flee.

Previously, Ji Li's killing had been so rational that they dared not resist.

But now, seeing Ji Li shoot and then stab a "living person," they had thoroughly realized that Ji Li was a bloodthirsty madman.

Those five staff members fled. Li Xing tried to persuade them to stay, barely managing to stall for time.

He hadn't been able to help Ji Li at all. If these five people escaped, he didn't dare to imagine if Ji Li would vent his anger on him.

Ji Li was completely exhausted. The man's arms were riddled with holes, especially his wrists. By all rights, his palms should have been severed.

He had used more than ten knives. While they caused injuries, they only cut through flesh and skin.

The hardness of the man's bones after being possessed by the ghost was something Ji Li could no longer affect.

Ji Li had completely given up. He watched as the man slowly twisted his head completely off, unable to utter a single word.

"This is... an unsolvable murder!"

Only the Third Personality transmitted a sound of extreme shock in his mind.

Unsolvable. Murder.

Ji Li also realized that as long as someone was possessed by a ghost, no matter how they tried to save them, it was impossible to reverse!

Certain death!

"So the Isolation Theory isn't real…"

Ji Li turned his head to look at the five staff members tangled with Li Xing, then glanced at the man standing still beside him, already dead.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible…"

His hazy pupils were filled with too much doubt and shock.

Nearly two hours had passed since the staff entered the building.

Ji Li had come face-to-face with the possessed dead several times, and had only managed to figure out one killing pattern.

Staff members near the store employees would be possessed and killed under an unknown number of isolated circumstances.

But…

The initial conclusion seemed to hold true; every deceased employee was near the store employees.

However, the Isolation Theory had been thoroughly disproven.

At the time, there were already eight people around them, so many that they completely filled the corner space. Isolation no longer made logical sense.

But if there was no killing due to isolation, why did so many people gathered on the first floor, and not a single one die?

Ji Li looked at the struggling people. Although there were still too many unanswered questions.

But the worst possible outcome had emerged: the efforts of the past two hours had been completely in vain.

The direction of their escape route was wrong.

Ji Li sat on the ground, looking at the six people around him, his vision blurring for a moment for no apparent reason.

It was as if something was interfering with his optic nerves. When he finally regained his senses, he saw an even more despairing sight!

Li Xing let out an extremely piercing scream. He was fine, but the other five staff members crammed together…

They froze completely at the same time.

Some were kneeling on the ground, some were leaning against the wall, some were sprinting towards the hallway entrance, but without exception, they were all frozen in place!

In the terrified and helpless gazes of Ji Li and Li Xing, each person's hands were pressed against their own heads.

There was no blood, no screams, but the scene was incredibly absurd and bizarre, like a Hellish Phenomenon!

On the eighteenth floor, all living people, except for the store employees, were possessed and killed simultaneously!