Weird Regulator

Tianmingshan Cemetery, Ninth Branch.

The corridor on the top floor was silent, with only the emergency lights flashing in the darkness.

Follow the light of the indicator light and advance to the deepest room.

There is a house plate hanging in front of the locked door, which reads 501.

The structure of the ninth branch is slightly different from that of other branches. It is obviously the first room on the fifth floor, but it is arranged at the very back.

Inside the locked door, there was the same darkness.

The pure black curtains are thick and wide, covering all the windows in the room, without any light being exposed.

This small house is dust-free and has neat furniture. It can be seen that there is a person who pays great attention to hygiene living in it.

Every door in the room was locked, as if to prevent others from entering.

At this time, only a small gap was left in the door of the second bedroom, but there was also darkness that could not be seen through.

Gu Xingjian stepped on the soft carpet with her bare feet, leaning on her body slightly, holding an oil paintbrush in her hand, and was applying something.

His hand was very steady, moving the handwriting while dipping it in oil paint.

On that ordinary face, there was only seriousness and concentration.

A little bit of moonlight squeezed in from under the thick curtains could faintly illuminate what he was drawing.

It was actually a corpse sitting cross-legged on the carpet.

It was said to be a corpse, but apart from the fact that he was not breathing, his limbs and skin color were normal.

But on the face of the corpse, the left eye was wide open, with a milky white turbidity inside it.

Compared to a human eye, it looks more like a prosthetic eye.

The right eye was even more weird, it was actually a dark void.

Except for these weird eyes, the rest of the characteristics of the corpse are the same as those of a living person.

Gu Xingjian was facing the corpse, very close to it, as if he was trying to get close to it.

The oil paint pen in the palm of my hand is using flesh-colored paint to completely erase the paleness on the lower jaw.

Perhaps this is the direct reason why the corpse maintains the appearance of freshness.

When the reluctant moonlight wanted to see more clearly, the wind blew a corner of the curtain, and the pale moonlight finally illuminated the corpse.

The face of the corpse was 70% similar to Gu Xingjian's.

Gu Xingjian tilted his head in dissatisfaction, put down his colored pen and closed the curtains again, returning the room to darkness.

He stood next to the corpse, his gaze as deep as a strange black hole, staring at the face that was very similar to his.

Brother, please wait a moment.

I will get your right eye soon, and then you will be whole again.

By then, both you and I will have a new life.

However, at this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door outside.

The sudden appearance of a voice interrupted the secret conversation between Gu Xingjian and his eldest brother.

Huang Banxian's withered and desolate voice echoed from outside the door.

Store manager, everyone in the meeting is here. When will you come down?

Gu Xingjian didn't respond, just hummed an unknown tune, picked up the paint pen on the carpet, and left slowly.

But just before locking the door, he looked at the body with an unknown meaning.

Strangely, the corpse's remaining left eye actually moved and looked directly at him for a moment.

…

Beside the round table, five people were sitting.

Some of them were whispering to each other, but most of them were silent and nervous.

Clyde frowned and kept playing with a string of beads in his palm, thinking a lot.

A cute girl with twin ponytails stared at him for a long time, then suddenly raised her hand and hit him on the shoulder.

Xiao Ke, where have you been since I haven't seen you for so long?

Clyde was startled and pulled away from what he was thinking. He turned back to look at the girl helplessly and whispered:

Teacher Jiang, I have a secret mission, but I can't reveal it.

This cute girl, named Jiang Xi, is Clyde's Chinese teacher, and is also what Huang Banxian calls a bad mouth.

But without this foul-mouthed girl, both of them would have died on the spot during the last ghost boy mission.

Jiang Xi pursed her lips, with a look of distrust on her face, and said in an old-fashioned way:

I said Xiao Ke, lying is not a good habit.

The last mission in our branch was done by you and the magic gun. It has been calm for so long. Where did the mission come from?

Due to the special nature of Tiannan Drama Academy, except for a few people in the ninth branch, they could not even notice that the seven clerks had disappeared.

Gu Xingjian knew this because he was the store manager.

From this, we can also see how scary the ghost in the academy is, and he can even cover up the rules of the branch.

Naturally, Clyde wouldn't communicate with her much about this kind of thing. He was now preoccupied with the past.

Gu Xingjian most likely knew about the deal between him and Ji Li, but there was no news for so long.

Based on his understanding of Gu Xingjian, the other party would not quarrel in public, but he must be planning something secretly.

He lowered his head and glanced at the time. It was now 23:00 on the evening of December 7th.

Just a few hours ago, Gu Xingjian suddenly announced that the fifth store manager mission was about to begin and announced the rules.

In front of all the store employees, he explained that he could execute the game world and needed a deputy store manager to execute the real world.

Because the stakes were so high, he gave him a few hours to think about it and waited for someone to take the initiative to sign up.

It was at that time that Clyde forwarded the news to Ji Li.

In fact, the Ninth Branch does not have a deputy store manager until now.

It's not that Gu Xingjian doesn't assign it, but that no one is willing to take on this unknown position.

Of course, it can also be seen from this store manager task that perhaps this is a wise decision.

What's bothering Clyde now is that he's starting to hesitate to sign up.

If you really want to save your life, of course you should hide if you can.

The horror of the store manager's task is obvious to all. The intensity of the ghosts is not on the same level as ordinary tasks.

But from Clyde's perspective, he was considering whether this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

It is difficult to perform the task of being a store manager, but if you can obtain a powerful crime object, you will have a stronger guarantee of survival.

What's more, Clyde is in urgent need of a highly confrontational crime object that has not been contaminated by Gu Xingjian.

Gu Xingjian runs the game world, and he runs the real world. In theory, if the other party wants to trap him, it will be more difficult.

In this case, the only things he has to deal with are ghosts, and there is no situation that he cannot escape from.

At worst, after obtaining the crime object, he would just stay where he was, waiting for someone to get the puzzle piece, and then lie down and return.

Once some thoughts appear in the mind, they cannot be ignored and become more and more intense.

He thought over and over about the current situation, and his fear of Gu Xingjian put him in a difficult situation.

Should we take the initiative to fight for it, or should we retreat and avoid it?

Clyde was spinning the beads faster and faster, which meant that he was struggling more and more inside.

At this moment, Huang Banxian and Gu Xingjian appeared.

Gu Xingjian came to the round table with brisk steps and did not sit down. Instead, he looked calmly and said bluntly:

Who among you here is going to accompany me to the store manager mission?

Huang Banxian stood beside him, pursed his lips, and took two steps back, not daring to speak.

Jiang Xi also closed her mouth and sat obediently on the chair.

As for the woman with the earrings who appeared last time, Yitong, and the beer-bellied man next to her, both looked away.

On the contrary, Old Wei, whom Huang Banxian had mentioned in the ghost boy mission, looked directly at Gu Xingjian, feeling eager to try.

But at this time, Huang Banxian blinked hard at him, as if trying to stop him.

Gu Xingjian took all this in his eyes, but didn't pay attention. He just looked at everyone calmly.

In this extreme atmosphere, the bead in Clyde's hand suddenly broke off, and countless crystal beads rolled from the table to the ground, crackling.

In the end, he couldn't stand it anymore and made a difficult decision.

I'll go with you!

Everyone looked at him with extremely shocked eyes. Huang Banxian frowned and sighed inwardly.

Gu Xingjian looked at Clyde with a half-smile, and nodded with satisfaction.

…

At this point, all ten major branches have determined their direction of action.

In the fifth store manager mission, there was no imaginary factionalism or confrontation that caused variables.

Everyone involuntarily made way for the two people.

Now this colorful stage is very clean.

There are only the clean Ji Li and the clean Gu Xingjian, the two protagonists competing against each other.