Chapter 385 I Have Been Waiting for Twenty-Seven Years

Gu Xingjian stood alone on the top of Tianming Mountain, overlooking the entire city from the highest point.

In the bleak west wind, a dark red light flashed across his pupils, and many fragmented scenes flashed through his mind like a slideshow.

A slight wave appeared on his calm face. He looked up at the sky with a slight smile on his lips.

He said something specious and unpredictable:

"One is named Li and the other is named Ji, which is quite interesting..."

A gust of wind blew up, and Gu Xingjian suddenly turned around. His appearance seemed to be slightly different from before.

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No. 333 Tianhai Street, Shanghai City, this is the villa area.

Outside Villa No. 13, a man took out the key and opened the villa that had been unoccupied for a long time. He turned his head and looked behind him suspiciously.

A squirrel glanced at him holding a pine cone, then fled into the woods and was never seen again.

The man seemed a little nervous. After a moment of silence, he closed the open door again, turned around and left.

In the same time and space, Zhu Xiaoning was sitting in the lobby of the Tenth Store, frowning.

The face that looked like he had just grown up was full of sorrow, but the cigarettes on the yellowed fingertips meant that his age should not be just around adulthood.

Zhu Xiaoning, 25 years old, is just an ordinary person.

Compared to other store managers, he is the most featureless and least present store manager.

There are not many sinful objects, not even a representative one.

There are only two criminal objects obtained in ordinary pickup missions that can be said to be unavailable.

With this crime, he participated in two store manager tasks, but he could only barely save his life and gained nothing.

The first branch looked down upon him, and it was only through hard work that he joined the ninth branch.

Unfortunately, Gu Xingjian only promised that if he could get a piece of the store manager's crime, he would further cooperate.

Zhu Xiaoning has an average mind, average ability, and average crime. She works as the manager of the Tenth Store because she has a fairly persevering character.

The Tenth Store is a branch opened to the outside world. The Eleventh Branch used to be in Shanghai, but that branch was cancelled.

Because they are far away from Tianhai's control, they only have one mission per month, making it extremely difficult to improve their strength.

For example, right now, they are just a two-star hotel, at the same level as the seventh branch.

Due to his natural disadvantages and Zhu Xiaoning's own ability issues, the Tenth Store has always been in a state of limbo.

Zhu Xiaoning also often thinks that the store manager task is the biggest way for him to improve his strength.

But there, his opponents were not only the much more powerful evil spirits, but also the store managers.

Here, weak people will only become weaker and weaker. Strong people will become stronger and stronger.

Zhu Xiaoning also knew that if she didn't have some opportunities, she might not be able to survive for long.

He hopes that he will be favored by God every time he is a store manager, but unfortunately fate seems to tell him straightforwardly: you are just an ordinary person.

He made up his mind to borrow a powerful sinful object even if he gave up his dignity. For this store manager mission, he must get his own representative sinful object.

Zhu Xiaoning let out a long sigh, rubbed her face, straightened her collar, forced herself to put on a fake smile, and dialed the video call of the Ninth Branch.

Living is never easy. Compared with other store managers, Zhu Xiaoning has the most real life.

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Another identity of Shanming Central Hospital is that it is the first branch of Dingding Daiming.

Xu Nan is a seemingly simple young man.

She looks very delicate, with short hair and light gray casual clothes. She looks like a freshly graduated student, but the wrinkles between her eyebrows have never relaxed, making her look preoccupied.

His footsteps passed through the stairs, from the bottom to the top.

"Deputy Store Manager Xu, what's the matter?" As he passed by the third floor, a middle-aged man with curly hair leaned on the stairs and teased with a half-smile.

Xu Nan didn't stop, choosing to ignore the man and walked straight up.

The curly-haired man sneered, took a puff of his cigar, and said slowly:

"I wish Deputy Store Manager Xu will take part in the store manager task this time and his strength will be even higher."

Xu Nan didn't want to talk to this man. He knew that Gu Qingyun, one of the three deputy store managers, was a shady person with a small belly.

Moreover, Gu Qingyun has a sin that is hard to guard against, which is to curse people through words.

So in the first branch, Gu Qingyun is a talkative, but few people dare to talk to him.

The situation in the first branch is always the most special because of Li Yi's presence.

Li Yi landed here by air and directly served as the store manager without passing the competition.

Tie Lin was naturally promoted to deputy store manager, and then Gu Qingyun and Xu Nan climbed up step by step relying on their own strength.

Among the first branches, Li Yi is an outlier, and he is accepted by Tianhai Hotel.

Although he is affiliated with the first branch, he is not under the jurisdiction of the branch and has its own system.

Generally, only the store manager participates in store manager tasks.

However, due to the unique nature of Li Yi, the store manager, Li Yi and a deputy store manager will enter the task at the same time in the first branch.

This time, the deputy store manager who participated in the store manager task was Xu Nan.

There is only one room on the top floor of the first branch, which is open to Li Yi alone.

Xu Nan can be regarded as a relatively innocent person among the top ten branches where evil people gather.

He must have blood on his hands to be the deputy store manager, but compared to other people who have very low bottom lines, Xu Nan can even be called a good person.

"Knock, knock, knock..."

There was a knock on the door, and Xu Nan's mood gradually became nervous.

He rarely saw Li Yi, and even in the mission, Li Yi often acted alone.

He had only seen him once during the store manager mission.

This time he took the initiative to look for him because of the store manager mission.

Not long after, the door was automatically opened, and Xu Nan stepped in.

As soon as he entered, he saw the blood on the ground that had already flowed into a river, and a familiar person who was half dead.

Tie Lin fell on his back on the ground, reaching out to Xu Nan in a pool of blood, and his mouth opened and closed as if asking Xu Nan for help.

Xu Nan was startled, and of course he didn't dare to pay attention, and walked to the window of the room with his head down.

There, stood a back figure with his hands behind his back.

Wearing a spotless black Zhongshan suit, with hair combed neatly behind his head, simple and clean, and a slender and straight body, he just stood there without saying a word, which represented strength.

Looking at this back, even though Xu Nan was a little taller than Li Yi, he couldn't help but look up to him.

This didn't mean that Xu Nan's will was too weak, but that Li Yi was too dazzling.

This kind of dazzlingness, even if he looked up and looked directly at the sun, he didn't need to avoid it.

"Manager, due to Deputy Manager Tie... I should represent the first branch to participate in this mission."

Xu Nan glanced at Tie Lin, who was still lying on the ground, and didn't dare to say more.

Tie Lin's many life-saving methods were ineffective at this time. No matter how strong his sin object was, it was insignificant in Li Yi's eyes.

"Tell those people below for me that Ji Li has appeared, so they don't need to intervene anymore."

Li Yi's voice was a little low, and he seemed to have some emotions when he mentioned the word Ji Li.

Xu Nan secretly took note, and didn't say much, and turned away.

The door was quietly closed. Xu Nan straightened his mind and walked downstairs.

His hands trembled slightly. In fact, if Tie Lin had not made a mistake, he would not have been the manager this time.

However, since Li Yi had agreed, his goal had been achieved.

Xu Nan suppressed his excitement, took out a photo from his arms, and gently brushed it with his fingers.

It was a woman who was not very beautiful, but this smiling face could make people feel friendly and pure at a glance.

Xu Nan looked at it for a long time, and finally put the photo away and wiped the wet corners of his eyes with the back of his hand.

"A Cha, I will kill Gu Xingjian in three days and avenge you.

You wait for me for another three days, only three days left..."

Xu Nan withdrew from the top floor with a photo of a dead woman.

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"Manager... You can't kill me, I'm doing things for you..."

Tie Lin is still alive. He has a trump card, which can ensure that as long as he is still alive, he has a chance to revive again. Now he just needs to delay time.

Li Yi still had his back to him, ignoring his words, and whispered softly:

"Ji Li, we are finally going to meet. I have been waiting for this day for 27 years."

His face was reflected in the window.

It was a face that anyone who had seen it would never forget, calm and handsome like a lake of clean water, with eyes shining with a scorching light, like the scorching sun turning the lake surface into gold.

"Manager... It is not easy for people like us to survive. As long as you let me go this time, I will never climb the top floor door again, never again..."

Tie Lin was still begging, he still had the last glimmer of hope.

Then, he saw the man turn around, a pair of gray eyes without any impurities, like a pure gem, reflected in his vision.

Tie Lin widened his eyes, he looked at Li Yi, remembered the photo of Ji Li he had seen before, his eyes were full of disbelief.

"Why... why do you look exactly like Ji Li?"

After saying this, Tie Lin's pleading voice disappeared, and the remaining body turned into ashes, along with those sinful objects that ordinary people dream of, disappeared forever in the room.