Ghost Persona

The Calendar played a particularly special role in this mission.

It was the concrete manifestation of the rules.

It represented both the death route—trapping ten employees within this Timeline, forcing them to constantly face death routes;

and the survival route—collecting the Number Cards, sending an employee back to the corresponding time, and completing the setup for the survival route.

On the first day of the mission, Li Yi devised the survival route of "using Xu Nan to counterbalance the rules," sending Chen Jie back to December 14 to plant a clue.

The second day of the mission had now arrived.

The survival route was being carried out.

Xu Nan, who had been unconscious for an entire day, finally braced himself with both arms and slowly climbed up from the ground.

With one hand against the wall, he slowly raised his head and looked toward the most unusual cylinder.

Xu Nan and Xu Cha—two faces on opposite sides of a single corpse—were slowly rotating in the liquid.

Under the normal death route, every employee died because they saw their own corpse.

But Xu Nan merely stared at it silently, frozen like a photograph.

Time passed second by second.

Only the final ten seconds remained of the one-minute limit Li Yi had promised.

Xu Nan slowly turned his head. His vacant gaze fixed on Li Yi, while vicious blood vessels covered half his face and were about to spread into his eyes.

"Manager, this death route is ineffective against me. Your survival route is wrong."

By all logic, the death route should have worked on him.

Although Xu Cha's ghost was by his side, she normally remained around him at all times unless something unusual happened.

However, on the way to 444 Diaoying Road, a "Mysterious Person" had triggered Xu Cha's resurrection,