Gray Becomes a Ghost

By the time the cigarette had burned halfway down, the light in the Game Room had dimmed.

The game was not over. Ji Li, back from the dead, would eventually return to the Game World.

Thin wisps of smoke drifted down the corridor of the Eighteenth Floor.

Ji Li's long hair had spread across the floor. It stirred in the wind like black wings unfurling behind him.

The black in his eyes was almost imperceptible, nearly swallowed by gray.

Only a fleck of scarlet remained, proof that the Evil Spirit had not been consumed, though it had been pushed to the edge of his pupils.

For the first time since the Zhumahuiguan Club mission, the Gray Soul was about to take complete possession of Ji Li again.

This time, however, he was fully aware of what was happening and had seen it coming.

Ji Li took a deep drag on his cigarette and stared bleakly into the darkness ahead. Helplessness rose in his chest.

He could not say when the violence inside him had begun to surge so fiercely.

Perhaps it had started the moment he used the Evil Spirit in his eyes to kill Quan Liang. Since then, his appetite for violence had become impossible to satisfy.

During the Fourth Choice, when he faced Hou Guisheng and Su Chenghe, he had genuinely wanted to kill them both.

But he had also realized something was wrong with him. That was why he had gone to Room 0215.

He had gone there to watch the recording and find out exactly what was wrong with him.

As he watched, he made a startling discovery: when he killed Quan Liang, his hair had grown in an unnatural way.

The growth had been extremely slow and had stopped almost at once, but it had