"The Ghost Is Waiting for Me"

"The source of the curse seems to have been found – a photo with a bloody hand.

But I find it very strange..."

Ji Li walked through the stairwell leading to the eighteenth floor. The only sounds besides his own footsteps were the analyses of the Third Personality in his mind.

"It is strange. We previously guessed that the source of the curse was near our staff.

But from the current situation, there are still too many doubts about how the ghost killed people.

Perhaps if we find Xiao Li's phone, many things will become clear the moment we see the photo."

At this point, Ji Li was no longer in a hurry.

He knew very well that things were progressing almost exactly as he had predicted. As expected, Xiao Qi's existence had become the key to the final truth.

And now, he was only one step away from the true source of the mission!

"Second, why are you dormant?"

Aside from the questions within the mission, what puzzled Ji Li the most now was his own change.

Ever since the last mission, the Second Personality seemed to be gradually weakening, always sleeping, and lacking energy when it woke up.

And the "Ji Li" he had just discovered, wearing a black robe with gray pupils, gave him a natural sense of dread.

Although he didn't know who that person was or how they had gotten inside him.

He still realized that some kind of imperceptible fusion was happening between them.

Ji Li could vaguely feel that person had been inside him for a long time and possessed extraordinary power.

Perhaps his special ability to "resurrect from the dead" originated from that person!

But, Ji Li was still very scared...

He had never feared anything like this before, not even ghosts, but he was worried that he would lose himself prematurely before accomplishing his major task.

He could feel that once he completely merged with that person, he would no longer be himself.

Then, all the secrets about himself and the Tianhai Hotel would be shelved and aborted.

"I don't know. I just feel that my five senses have become weaker and weaker recently, as if I'm suffering from a serious illness.

I have very little strength..."

Since its birth, the Second Personality had represented impulsiveness and passion.

Although Ji Li didn't like this personality, he had to admit that having the Second around made his journey of survival in this hell more vibrant.

After all, Ji Li was a person full of dead energy.

"Gray represents the person within your body.

But what is the red light..."

The Third Personality returned to the core issue. Xiao Qi had said before leaving that Ji Li, in addition to his natural eye color, also had red light and gray.

The gray was easy enough to explain, but what was the red light?

Ji Li glanced at the sign for the eighteenth floor, which he was about to reach, and said softly:

"When I reached the fifth floor, I felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.

It was also at that time that my head began to ache intensely, and some external force began to invade my body."

He suddenly fell silent at this point, his footsteps stopping abruptly. Then, he tilted his head back sharply, as if he had realized something.

He spoke in a hurried tone, "Could the cold, external force be a ghost!"

A ghost invading a living person's body...

This fit perfectly with the method of killing in this mission: possession leading to suicide!

The Third Personality was prompted by this statement. After a moment of silence, it suddenly realized:

"So that's how it is!

When you reached the fifth floor, the ghost from this mission must have attempted to possess you. That red light represented the ghost!

It entered your body, and because of this, it triggered the gray soul within you!

The gray soul tried to resist the invasion of the red-light ghost!

Judging by the looks of it, it seems to have succeeded, otherwise you would have committed suicide by now!"

Ji Li nodded repeatedly. If this explanation was correct, then everything made sense.

Gray was another soul hidden within his body for a long time, possessing incomprehensible power.

The red light was the ghost from this mission. Ji Li had inexplicably triggered a dead end just now and was about to be invaded when the gray soul resisted.

"But if the gray soul is a protective force, why didn't it appear during my previous deaths..."

Ji Li believed that things were not that simple. He still believed that he had reached some kind of trigger that activated the gray soul's protection.

And this protection was definitely not benevolent. Perhaps the person in his heart held deeper secrets, and this action must have had a purpose.

Once this secret was exposed, Ji Li would face eternal damnation.

"How did the ghost find you..."

Ji Li shook his head. He had a vague feeling that the ghost had been lurking by his side all along.

But he still had no clue as to what form or in what way it existed.

He brushed his scattered hair behind his head, his gaze fixed intently in a certain direction ahead, the location of the last clue.

This journey would determine the fate of all the staff members present.

Fang Shenyan and Yu Guo were to monitor the situation on the first floor, while Tong Guan and Chang Nian would deal with Li Xing on the lower floors. Ji Li had become the only one free, and the one closest to the truth.

"As long as I find that photo, I'm confident I can unravel the whole truth!"

Ji Li took a deep breath and, abandoning his previous mode of walking, quickly sprinted along the route in his memory towards the scene of the incident.

Xiao Li's body, along with the bodies of the previous five staff members, should still be in their original places.

But...

When Ji Li reached the familiar corner, he saw the five stiff and cold corpses on either side of the corridor.

However, one was missing, the most crucial one.

Xiao Li's body!

Ji Li's expression changed drastically. He had actually suspected this on his way here; if Lao Xue's body had disappeared, then Xiao Li's body...

He abruptly turned around, looking towards a room on the eighteenth floor.

There was only one location left, the place where Xiao Li had previously sent Lao Xue information about Brother Xu's death.

Now that both Lao Xue's and Xiao Li's bodies were gone, of the three who knew about the ghost incident, only Brother Xu remained!

"Ji Li!

I have a bad feeling about this. Brother Xu is the last clue, but everything happening now seems like a conspiracy!

The ghost is consciously leading us there!"

Yes, the bodies from two of the three death locations had completely vanished, and only the last one remained.

This situation was too obvious. Having experienced several crises, Ji Li immediately thought of this possibility.

But he had no choice but to go!

Ji Li's expression was extremely grim. With only one step left, even if it was a trap, he had to jump into it!

He strode quickly towards the very end of the eighteenth floor, without the slightest hesitation or delay.

"I will find it, even if I die!"