Flames filled the sky.
Li Xijiu's voice was almost inaudible amid the roaring flames.
Qin Manjiang's eyes had gone completely blank.
He was not stupid. There were just some things he had deliberately ignored.
When he first received Li Xijiu's call, Li Xijiu had still been alive.
But by the time the words "Save me" arrived, Li Xijiu was already dead.
Everyone's perspective and position were entirely different. From his own perspective, Qin Manjiang knew very well that Li Xijiu had encountered something supernatural, but Li Xijiu himself had not known.
Under those circumstances, even if he had run into danger and needed rescuing, Li Xijiu should have called the more professional, more efficient police, not him.
Besides, the real Li Xijiu would never have put him in danger.
Li Xijiu... was already dead.
Everything after that message had been a setup to lure him into this game.
"Li Xijiu" had been guiding him all along.
Whether it was hiding in the last stall or watching a movie in Screening Room Three, despite being so terrified, he had never once screamed when the vengeful ghost injured him twice.
There was also that diary full of work notes he had suddenly found, and the attempt to lead him straight out of the movie theater, only to reveal the boundless darkness outside...
And those four utterly inexplicable instances of sensing danger.
But they had also saved Qin Manjiang four times.
"...I tried so hard... but I still want to... kill you..."
Tears streamed down Li Xijiu's face. Black veins spread across his entire face, and malice gradually filled his pupils.
"I... can't hold on anymore..."
The flesh all over his body began churning grotesquely, as though it had come alive. One eyeball, two eyeballs, three eyeballs...
Densely packed eyeballs emerged from his