Weird Regulator

Ji Li, please pay attention to the calendar above the sink. It says today is July 4th.

I also saw an identical copy in the living room.

The role of the third personality came into play again, and he told Ji Li another weird point in the house.

One calendar is enough. Who would hang a calendar in the kitchen?

Time is obviously important.

Ruru's mother left seven days ago. Thinking back to what Gu Xingjian said just now, they found two Ruru's mothers...

Thinking of this, Ji Li gradually put down the dumpling bowl. He would not eat something of unknown origin.

At the same time, Gu Xingjian threw the sea bowl in his hand into the sink, picked up a blue rag and started to wash the dishes, saying as he did so:

Manager Ji really has a unique vision, you guessed it right.

The nine people standing in front of you, except for store manager Li, deputy store manager Xu and 伱, the old faces who participated in the store manager's task are all people who died once.

But strictly speaking, although we all died on July 1st, we are who we are today on July 4th.

Gu Xingjian always speaks in a vague manner. He loves to talk, but he won't give a very accurate answer.

So Su Chenghe, the manager of the second branch, who seemed to be quite enthusiastic among the store managers, explained this question with a more popular and intuitive answer.

Su Chenghe stood up, put down his bowl and pointed at a calendar above the sink.

I don't think Manager Ji looked at the back of the note on the table. There was a clear date of Ruru's mother's departure written on that side, which was July 1st.

Our mission also starts from July 1st and ends on July 7th, a full seven days.

Every time you enter the store manager task, it is a new day.

On July 1st, when all our store managers entered for the first time, the team was wiped out because they did not understand the absolute dead end rules and mission conditions.

But at the moment of termination, we were sent back to our respective branches without dying.

But not long after, the second store manager mission started, and the calendar on the wall changed to July 2nd.

Until July 2nd, store manager Li Yi found the first Ruru's mother, brought her back to the 18th floor, and got the first reward puzzle piece, and no one died;

On July 3rd, store manager Gu Xingjian found the second Ruru mother and brought her back to the 18th floor. She got the second reward puzzle piece and no one died.

It's the Fourth of July, and it's also the opening time for the fourth store manager mission. We need to find the third Ruru Mama.

Ji Li nodded. Gu Xingjian told him earlier that the store manager's task process was very simple, and now it seems that it is indeed the case.

They need to find Ruru's mother within one day, and the reward is a puzzle piece. It seems that this puzzle piece is the item that Li Yi and Gu Xingjian were talking about at the bottom of the building.

So, does dying during the store manager's mission not count as a real death?

No, no, no, Manager Ji, you misunderstood what I meant.

Su Chenghe quickly corrected:

“We did die on July 1st and became ghosts, but those will only be ghosts on July 1st.

When the mission actually begins, you will see us as ghosts entrenched in this building on July 1st.

But at this moment, the Su Chenghe you see on July 4th is still a human being.

And before we get the bonus puzzle, we are the yin body.

You will become the priority target of ghosts in the store manager mission. The more times you die and the longer the delay, the more severe the ghost transformation will be.

Su Chenghe showed his right arm and pulled up his sleeve so that Ji Li could see a spreading black line.

Obviously if the black thread enters the body from the arm, he will completely turn into a ghost.

This theory sounds extremely complicated and difficult to understand, but Ji Li immediately understood it.

The store manager mission is a seven-day special mission located in this building.

Each day within seven days is an independent time, space and world, but they are blended with each other.

If you die during the store manager mission, you will become a ghost in that time and space, and will appear as a ghost in subsequent time and space.

If you die, you will be kicked out of the store manager task and lose the qualification to compete for reward puzzles. You can only wait for the next time you start the task again and desperately get the puzzle pieces.

At the same time, becoming the so-called yin body will more easily attract ghosts, and if the black line enters the body, if it reaches the heart, it will truly turn into a ghost, and it will never be human.

Then where is Ruru's mother you found?

Ji Li returned to the original question he asked Gu Xingjian, which was why he came to the kitchen.

Gu Xingjian nodded and opened the refrigerator, and a human head rolled out from the freezer layer.

The frosty face was wrapped tightly in plastic wrap, making it almost impossible to tell the gender.

Gu Xingjian reached out to pick it up and put it back into the freezer. He placed the head casually on top of the dumplings left for Ruru to eat in the last bag:

The other one is on Ruru's bed. He sleeps with her arms around her every day, but he doesn't seem to be able to see her.

It's interesting to find his mother. We know about his mother, but he turns a blind eye to it, not even to find it, but just to find it.

Ji Li watched this scene helplessly, then looked at the dumplings in the bowl and felt slightly uncomfortable.

He always felt that there was something wrong with the meat filling of this dumpling. It was abnormally black and the dumpling skin was as thin as white paper, as if they were not allowed to see the meat filling.

Everyone present except him all ate dumplings.

No.

There was also Li Yi who hadn't eaten. He didn't have time to eat at all.

In the end, Ji Li put down the dumpling bowl cautiously and did not decide to swallow it.

Gu Xingjian looked at him with a half-smile when he saw this scene, and asked softly: Why don't you eat?

I think there's something wrong with the dumplings. Ji Li didn't bother to lie. It was his first time entering a mission. Such things of unknown origin always made him feel weird.

Then good luck to you.

Gu Xingjian said this meaningfully, wiped his hands and glanced at his watch before saying:

Ruru is coming in. We have ten minutes left. Get ready.

Saying this, Gu Xingjian walked through the crowd and was the first to go out, followed closely by Zhu Xiaoning and Chen Hansheng.

Chen Hansheng's mood didn't seem to be very high. His eyebrows were lowered and the corners of his mouth turned down. He stopped when he passed by Li Guanqi and said in a deep voice:

Eldest nephew, Brother Li and I were close friends in life and death. Now that he is no longer here, I will be your uncle from today on.

I've heard that you have a great mind but a too kind personality.

Be careful of the people in front of you, none of them are good and they will be struck by lightning sooner or later.

Chen Hansheng! What do you mean by this? What do you mean we will be struck by lightning sooner or later?

Chen Hansheng's words were very offending, and Gu Xingjian was scolded by his words, or that's what he thought.

But Huangfu Jiajia couldn't listen. He stood up and slapped the bowl on the table, glaring at each other.

Luo Xian wiped his mouth with a tissue and looked at Ji Li with interest from a few people away, a pair of bright eyes shining with strange brilliance.

Li Guanqi is not a very sociable person. He didn't respond to Chen Hansheng's sudden words. He didn't want to persuade him or not.

But no matter how dissatisfied Huangfu Jiajia was, Chen Hansheng didn't even look at her.

Instead, when passing by Ji Li, he stopped again, lowered his head and whispered in a hoarse voice:

Brother Li died at your hands, right?

Ji Li frowned. He looked at the middle-aged man with an ordinary face and an ordinary figure in front of him and told the truth:

To be honest, no.

Chen Hansheng nodded silently: That's it. After saying that, he didn't say much and just followed Gu Xingjian out of the kitchen.

Only Xue Tinghai snorted coldly and grabbed the bowl of dumplings Ji Li put down, swallowed it in one gulp, and touched the corner of his mouth with his sleeve:

“I really don’t know whether to admire your courage or laugh at your stupidity.

Do you think of yourself as Li Yi? Dare you imitate him and not eat this bowl of dumplings?

Xue Tinghai put down the bowl, but he was not the one who followed Gu Xingjian.

That silent man, Xu Nan, who participated in the store manager's duties as the deputy store manager, seemed to have left here before he could leave.

Next came Xue Tinghai, Huangfu Jiajia, Li Guanqi and Su Chenghe.

The only ones left in the kitchen were Ji Li at the door and Luo Xian, the female store manager of the sixth branch.

Luo Xian still hadn't finished her bowl of dumplings. She slowly put the dumplings into her mouth with chopsticks and said:

“Have you ever heard of the story that condemned prisoners eat a meal of dumplings before going to the execution ground?”

Ji Li looked at this woman for the first time. Luo Xian's appearance didn't matter to him, but his temperament was partially similar to Mei Sheng:

Oh? What do you mean by this?

Luo Xian pursed his lips slightly, picked up a dumpling, and said to Ji Li from a distance:

“Whether you eat it or not, you will be beheaded by the executioner, but what if the filling of this dumpling is made of the executioner’s meat?

If it eats the executioner's meat, will it think that I am part of you and you are part of me?