Chapter 5 The Final Moment
The road to death corresponds to the road to life.
Once the dead end speculation fails, what awaits the living people will be a terrible situation that will never be restored.
Ji Li's two proactive plans before and after were correct. Except for the vague death of Liu Zi, there was a buffer time between his attack and the death of the lanky man.
Moreover, the tall and thin man's words before his death gave him an illusion.
"Don't look at it" is a living person's active observation behavior of the frame.
From the perspective of the tall and lanky man, the frame was first aimed at Ji Li. In the confusion, following his attention, the frame shifted and glanced at his face.
It was also at that time that the tall and thin man was illuminated, a curse was carved on him and he died.
Therefore, he subconsciously believed that it was his observation that caused him to trigger the dead end.
But they ignored the fact that the frame rotates on its own!
It was precisely because of this illusion that Ji Li's reasoning was pushed into the abyss!
That's why he attributed the dead end to "a living person looking directly into a mirror frame".
But Huang Mao closed his eyes tightly and did not take the initiative to look at the frame, so an even more terrifying suspicion emerged!
The real way to die: As long as your face is caught in the frame and painted as a portrait, you will definitely die!
After Ji Li thought everything through, he shuddered suddenly, as if he realized something...
Video call still not closed!
Because Huang Mao wanted to take pictures of the coffin, he turned on the rear camera. After his death, his phone naturally fell to the ground...
But now the scene on Ji Li's mobile phone screen is dark.
This means that the screen with his front face is exposed to the air!
Ji Li's scalp was about to explode. He was about to throw the phone away, but when he subconsciously lowered his head, he happened to see an empty frame, right across from the screen!
The frame actually came out of the coffin and hung in the air, aiming at Huang Mao's cell phone screen and Ji Li's face!
A dead end is imminent!
Ji Li threw away the phone, but the throbbing feeling in his heart still did not disappear. On the contrary, his whole body began to be enveloped by a different kind of coldness.
A hand stretched out from the coffin again, grabbed his long hair, and dragged it all the way towards the coffin!
Ji Li felt anxious and cut off the strand of hair with a knife. Then he rolled and crawled forward, but was immediately grabbed back by that hand.
In a critical situation, he lifted up the skirt of his clothes and put it over his head to cover his face. Then he dug into a raised stone on the ground with his only palm, barely blocking the attack of the ghost.
But it’s just a delaying tactic!
Having experienced several missions, he immediately understood that this meant that he was on the verge of death.
Perhaps it was just a glimpse, and the ghosts were not enough to outline his entire face into a portrait.
Therefore, he did not die immediately like Huang Mao and others, but was given a chance to breathe!
He used all his strength to lie down on the ground, holding onto the stone with his hands and placing his feet against the coffin board, achieving a barely balanced balance.
"Just smash that bullshit frame!?"
The second personality fell into mania and screamed in Ji Li's mind.
"Absolutely not!
The frame is the carrier of ghosts and cannot be destroyed!" The third personality began to analyze calmly and proposed another solution.
"There is less than half the time until the end of the mission, so is it feasible to keep covering your face like this, wrestling with ghosts, and delaying the mission until the end?"
Ji Li was also in a hurry, his face covered by clothing was covered with sweat, but the cold feeling around him had not disappeared.
He was almost certain that the empty frame was stopping in front of him, waiting until he was completely exposed or the mission time was over!
After hearing the third personality's suggestion, he retorted in a deep voice:
"It's impossible. I've lost most of my strength due to the injury to my left wrist, and I can't hold on for three hours.
And what you said can only be regarded as avoiding a dead end, but the mission requirement is to find a way out to pick up the ghost!
Otherwise, the ghost will still be there after the three-hour mission is over, and I won’t be able to escape from this alley without the rules!”
In just a few thoughts, Ji Li and the two personalities had already thought of several solutions in their minds, but none of them were enough to get out of the predicament.
Ji Li frowned and managed to calm down. The way out must have appeared now. What on earth was he neglecting?
And at this moment, his face, which was covered with clothing, felt a glimmer of light...
"Light……"
"Light!"
Ji Li's mind suddenly thought of an anomaly that has yet to be resolved!
Why, in the second round, he was hit in the face by the empty frame without any cover, but he did not die instantly.
Instead, there is this "half-dead end" situation of wrestling with ghosts at this moment!
"Street light!
When I was attacked in the second round, the first thing I saw was not the frame, but a dazzling reflected light!
The surface of the empty frame is a piece of glass, and its purpose is to illuminate the entire face of a living person.
But precisely because I was standing under the street lamp at that time, the ghost's image was blurred due to the reflection of the mirror at the first time, so it was not possible to fully reflect me!
That’s why we reached this weird ‘half-dead end’ situation!”
The fog in Ji Li's heart was instantly broken, and all the clues came together at this moment to form a complete way out!
As long as the empty frame can no longer reflect his face, it will completely break the deadlock.
Thus, a way out is formed!
"Your bag!
You have a head-mounted flashlight in your bag. As long as you put it on your head, you will completely prevent the ghost from dying!
It can no longer capture your face, only a blur of light!"
The second personality had already died once with Ji Li, and it was extremely afraid of that feeling. The moment it found a way out, madness screamed in Ji Li's mind.
Needless to say, Ji Li had already taken action.
Before the ghost took action, he clearly remembered that his backpack was open and not far below him. Following the previous fight, it was now very close to him!
Ji Li decisively gave up the struggle with the hand, and his body was immediately dragged towards the coffin.
But with the help of his memory, he found the location of the package and took it into his arms!
"Quick! Only three seconds left!"
The third personality has now lost its calmness, alarm prompt!
Ji Li held his backpack under his left arm and fumbled around randomly with his right hand.
"three!"
At the same time, Ji Li finally found an irregular-shaped object. It felt a little cold to the touch and had a band around the edge. He had no time to identify it.
"two!"
When the final countdown appeared, Ji Li took off his clothes. The moment his vision returned, he suddenly lowered his head, not looking at the empty frame hanging in the air.
"one!"
Most of Ji Li's body has been completely pulled into the coffin, and the hand holding him is the dead yellow body!
In half a second, turn on the flashlight and wear it on your head!
And the empty frame, which was the carrier of the ghost, was facing his face at this moment!
But this time, Ji Li's eyes did not dodge at all. There was a 30W bright light above his head, and his face completely turned into a halo in the frame!
From another perspective, in the eyes of ghosts, the current Ji Li has no facial features at all, and it is even less possible to outline the portrait of death.
"thump!"
The empty frame swayed in the air for a moment and fell to the ground.
In the image with a white background, the appearance of an old man with a sallow complexion suddenly appeared.
It glanced hatefully at the living person standing in the coffin, and then disappeared in an instant.
The bodies of the tall, thin, and yellow-haired three men that Ji Li was originally stepping on disappeared.
All the people in white clothes in the funeral procession also disappeared, and the entire begging alley no longer had any supernatural power!
Ji Li lost all his strength. After holding on for so long, his left wrist was numb due to excessive blood loss, and he fell to the ground helplessly.
While he was fainting, his phone vibrated and an email arrived on time.
"Ji Li, acting manager of Tianhai Hotel, No. 7 store.
Successfully received the third resident, met the upgrade conditions, and became a one-star hotel.
Store No. 7 will recruit five more clerks, who will manage the hotel together with the store manager.
Chapter completed!