Weird Regulator

The door of the only room on the eighteenth floor was pushed open.

With the clear and sweet sound of the cans hitting his ears, Ji Li raised his legs and stepped over the incense burner, with a piece of green smoke lingering around his body, and walked into the room.

As soon as he entered the door, he felt a sense of oppression.

Because the roof of this house is very low, Ji Li is 1.82 meters tall, but he is only one head away from the roof. If he jumps, he will hit him.

As the only house on the entire eighteenth floor, its interior space is not large.

It looks like it's only about thirty square meters, but it's very neat and tidy. There's no messy luggage, so it looks a lot more spacious.

But for some reason, the walls and ceiling of the room were all painted with dark green paint, and it looked like it had been there for a long time.

There are many cracks on the wall, and the dark green color is also somewhat faded, giving it a weird and nondescript color.

There is only a pair of pink ladies' slippers on the shoe rack on the right hand side as soon as you enter the door, and a bright red umbrella is leaning against the shoe rack.

Ji Li looked at the umbrella a few more times, because it was the same one he saw in his dream.

There is an open wooden board on the wall on the right, with a portrait hanging on it, and three sticks of incense inserted in the copper stove. Judging from the burning marks, it was just lit.

The owner of the portrait should be a short-haired man, but I don’t know who chose the photo. Instead, he chose a flower-photographed photo as the portrait.

On the black frame and white ground, the pale lines are blurred, making the deceased unrecognizable.

Ji Li's eyes fell on the wooden stool under the portrait. There was a shoe print on it that could not be wiped away. Apparently the owner of the shoe print stepped on the stool to offer incense to the owner of the portrait.

This is a one-bedroom, one-living house. When you enter, you are facing a round dining table with two folding stools placed against the wall.

Ji Li took a few steps towards the dining table. There was a note on it, with black characters on a white background, written very neatly:

Ruru, mom is gone. When she comes back in seven days, the dumplings are wrapped in portions in the refrigerator.

Pay attention to the time and quantity. You can only eat twenty pieces a day. If you eat enough, your mother will come back.

Ji Li held the piece of paper and looked up at Gu Xingjian doubtfully.

He had heard a female voice say that under the leadership of Li Yi and Gu Xingjian, one-third of the store manager's tasks had been completed.

In other words, for Ji Li, he joined halfway, and he did not understand the past information at all.

Gu Xingjian looked at the note and smiled and said:

“The store manager’s task is relatively simple to say.

Just to help Ruru find his mother, we have completed one-third of the process and have already helped him find two mothers.

Gu Xingjian's words were clear, but Ji Li became more and more confused as he listened. He turned his head and looked elsewhere.

The dining room is also the living room. The left and right ends are the locked bathroom and kitchen respectively. Looking further inside is the only bedroom.

There is no door to the bedroom, only a can curtain similar to the doorway is used to cover it, and there is a faint figure of a thin back.

It was a little girl wearing a plaid school skirt, with two cute twin tails, sitting at the desk and writing constantly.

Ji Li looked at Gu Xingjian again and returned to the previous question:

What does it mean to find two mothers?

Gu Xingjian waved to Ji Li and motioned for him to go to the kitchen together.

Zhizhizhi...

The wooden door of the kitchen was pushed open, and Ji Li saw nine people crowded into the small kitchen of only a few square meters.

Seven men and two women, with different appearances.

There were acquaintances of Ji Li, such as Xue Tinghai and Li Guanqi, and even more store managers whom he didn't know at all.

However, through the store manager's map, he was able to slightly identify a few of them.

Among these nine people, there is no Li Yi. He is obviously not in this house at all, and no one knows where he has gone.

There was also Gu Xingjian in the kitchen, who was almost the same as the Gu Xingjian beside Ji Li, except that the clothes were clean white.

The paper man Gu Xingjian smiled kindly at Ji Li, then walked through the crowd, walked to Gu Xingjian in white and disappeared.

Welcome, Manager Ji Li of the seventh branch, please have a bowl of dumplings.

Gu Xingjian, who was dressed in white, put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands, took out the bowl of dumplings that had already been served beside him, took it from the back of the kitchen, and handed it to a cute young girl.

Gu Xingjian's tongue obviously had not been pulled out. He was sitting there without incident, but Li Yi disappeared again.

Apparently, something unknown had changed between the two of them.

The young girl was wearing a sportswear with black and white lines. She looked at Ji Li with curiosity and continued to pass the dumplings forward.

Huangfu Jiajia, Zhu Xiaoning, Su Chenghe, Li Guanqi, and finally the dumpling fell into the hands of Xue Tinghai, who had a scar on his face.

Xue Tinghai's appearance has not changed much, and his whole person still has a restrained and vicious temperament. He holds the bowl in one hand, looks at Ji Li and pushes the dumplings forward.

Ji Li saw that besides Li Yi, there were nine people present, which satisfied the number of ten stores, but there was obviously one more person.

The silent man was eating the dumplings in the bowl with his head down, one bite at a time, but his eyes never left Gu Xingjian.

This man is not the owner of Shidian, but he also came to participate in the mission...

All the store managers were sharing the dumplings left by Ruru's mother. Ji Li was holding the bowl and looking at the dumplings carefully.

The sea bowl is large, with about ten dumplings and some white soup at the bottom.

The size of the dumplings is extremely small, several times smaller than normal ones, but they are wrapped very delicately.

The skin is so thin that it is almost transparent, and you can completely see the dark meat filling inside. A small ball of meat filling is no different from a fingernail.

Ji Li didn't know the meaning of this, so he naturally didn't dare to eat, so he raised his bowl and looked at Gu Xingjian suspiciously.

Gu Xingjian raised his head and swallowed all the tadpole-like dumplings, and explained:

Ruru ate twenty dumplings a day, leaving a total of one hundred and forty dumplings in seven days.

Mom said she would come back when the dumplings were finished. If we didn’t share the dumplings and eat them all, the story wouldn’t have started.

After all, Ruru only needs to find her mother when she has finished eating the dumplings and her mother has not come back.

This is the tradition of the store manager's task. The task does not officially begin until the one hundred and forty dumplings are eaten.

Only after leaving ten dumplings for Ruru to finish eating, he would go out to find his mother, and the mission would really begin.

Ji Li frowned at the dumplings in the bowl and asked blankly:

Then what will happen if we don't finish all the dumplings in advance?

This time, the man sitting next to Li Guanqi answered instead of Gu Xingjian. If it weren't for his voice, Ji Li would have definitely mistaken him for a woman.

Su Chenghe, the manager of the second branch, can be said to be one of the top ten most beautiful stores, even Huangfu Jiajia is slightly inferior.

The store manager task has two absolute dead ends. If you don't have the power to reverse and modify it after it is triggered, you will definitely die.

Article 1: Anyone who remains in the house after dark will be killed without explanation;

Second, as long as Ruru dies, all store managers will also be killed by Wu Jie.

If we don't finish the dumplings and force Ruru to go out to find her mother, the mission will never start, and we will be trapped and die in this house.

It was now four fifty-one in the afternoon, and when it got dark after six o'clock, the house would be completely engulfed in darkness.

Everyone left in the house will die, including Ruru.

With a double dead end, even Li Yi would die as hard as he could.

Su Chenghe's explanation was very detailed, but if you think about it carefully, you will see that there are huge loopholes in his words.

Ji Li narrowed his eyes and asked a question, causing the expressions of most people present to change:

If you had never really died, you would not have discovered these two absolute dead ends. Then are you dead or alive now?