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The desolate Ash World spoke of ruin and decay.

At that moment, the world fell silent once more, without a sound.

The girl, neither human nor ghost, held a card against her chest, uttering only a looping whisper.

The vehicle doors swayed as the five of them stepped out of deep red and into pale gray.

With visibility poor, Shao Yong'an surveyed his surroundings. His mind was blank save for a single thought:

It's so cold here.

It was not the cold of low temperatures, but the chill of utter isolation.

It felt as though he had entered an alien world devoid of human life, without the human warmth of companions.

"444 Diaoying Road after the fire..."

Watching Li Yi, Shao Yong'an began to understand.

Putting together the series of events that had occurred, he could already more or less guess the answer.

Xu Nan's mental state had been poor, but he had remained relatively stable after entering the mission.

Why had Xu Cha suddenly come back to life, disrupting the entire world and bringing disaster?

Clearly, something had been driving it from behind the scenes.

Either the Root Ghost of this mission, or one of the employees' Supernatural Totems.

Earlier, the totems belonging to Xu Nan, Guo Liang, and Shao Yong'an had all appeared, leaving only Li Yi's and Chen Jie's.

From Li Yi's perspective, then, he would naturally attribute Xu Nan's abnormal transformation to Chen Jie.

Of course, that had only been speculation at the time, so he had taken the next step to verify it.

If Chen Jie really was the one who had created a Supernatural Totem and brought about Xu Cha's resurrection,

then she would next connect to the "supernatural fire," escalating the situation further.

Xu Cha alone could not kill the others.

So, at