Chapter 391 Are You Dead or Alive?

The door of the only room on the 18th floor was pushed open.

With the crisp and pleasant sound of cans hitting each other, Ji Li lifted his leg 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 ceiling of this house is very low, Ji Li is 1.82 meters tall, but he is only one head away from the ceiling, and he will hit it if he jumps.

As the only house on the entire 18th floor, the space inside is not large.

It looks like it is only about 30 square meters, but it is very tidy, without messy luggage, and it looks a lot more spacious.

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

There are many cracks on the wall, and the dark green color has faded a little, with some weird colors that are out of place.

There is only a pair of pink women's slippers on the shoe rack on the right hand side of the door, and a bright red umbrella is leaning against the shoe rack.

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

On the right wall was an open wooden board with a portrait hanging on it. There were three incense sticks inserted in a copper stove. Judging from the traces of burning, it was just lit not long ago.

The owner of the portrait should be a short-haired man, but no one knew who chose the photo, and chose a messed-up photo as the portrait.

On the black frame and white background, the pale lines were blurred, making the deceased unrecognizable.

Ji Li set his eyes on the wooden bench under the portrait. There was a shoe print on it that had not been wiped off in time. Obviously, the owner of the shoe print was standing on the bench to burn incense for the owner of the portrait.

This is a one-bedroom and one-living room house. As soon as you enter the door, you will see a round dining table. There are two folding stools placed by the wall.

Ji Li walked 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, she will be back in seven days, the dumplings are packed in portions and put in the refrigerator.

Pay attention to the time and quantity, you can only eat twenty dumplings a day, and mom will be back when you have eaten enough."

Ji Li held the note and looked at Gu Xingjian in confusion.

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

In other words, for Ji Li, he was a half-way joiner, and he had no idea about the past information.

Gu Xingjian looked at the note and smiled and said:

"The store manager's mission is relatively simple.

It is to help this Ruru find his mother. We have completed one-third, and we have helped him find two mothers."

Gu Xingjian's words were clear, but Ji Li became more and more confused the more he listened, and he turned his head to look elsewhere.

The dining room is also a living room, with a locked bathroom and kitchen on the left and right ends, and the only bedroom further in.

The bedroom had no door, only a can curtain like the one at the door, and a thin back figure was vaguely visible.

It was a little girl wearing a plaid school skirt, with two cute ponytails, sitting at the desk and writing something non-stop.

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

"What does it mean to find two mothers?"

Gu Xingjian waved at Ji Li, indicating that he should go to the kitchen together.

"Squeak..."

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

Seven men and two women, with different appearances.

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

However, through the store manager's map, he could also slightly identify a few of them.

Among these nine people, there was no Li Yi. He was obviously not in this house at all, and no one knew where he went.

And in the kitchen there was another Gu Xingjian, who was almost the same as Gu Xingjian beside Ji Li, except that his clothes were clean white.

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

"Welcome Ji Li, the manager of the seventh branch, come and have a bowl of dumplings."

Gu Xingjian in white put down the bowl and chopsticks in his hand, took out the bowl of dumplings that had been prepared by his side, and handed it to a lovely young girl from the innermost part of the kitchen.

Gu Xingjian's tongue was obviously not pulled out, he sat there without doing anything, but Li Yi disappeared again.

Obviously, some unknown changes have occurred between the two of them.

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

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

Xue Tinghai's appearance did not change much, and the whole person was still introverted and fierce. He held the bowl in one hand, looked at Ji Li and pushed the dumplings forward.

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

The silent man was eating dumplings in the big bowl, one by one, but his eyes never left Gu Xingjian.

This man was not the owner of the ten stores, but he also came to participate in the mission...

All the store managers were sharing the dumplings left by Ru Ru's mother. Ji Li held the bowl and looked at the dumplings carefully.

The big bowl was very large, with about ten dumplings, and some white soup at the bottom.

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

The skin is so thin that it is almost transparent, and you can see the dark meat filling inside. The small ball of meat filling is not much different from a fingernail.

Ji Li didn't know what this meant, so he didn't dare to eat. He raised his bowl and looked at Gu Xingjian suspiciously.

Gu Xingjian looked up and swallowed all the tadpole-like dumplings, explaining:

"Ruru eats 20 dumplings a day, and there are 140 dumplings left in seven days.

Mom said she would come back after the dumplings are finished. If we don't share and eat all the dumplings, the story won't start.

After all, only when the dumplings are finished and Mom hasn't come back, Ruru needs to find Mom."

This is the tradition of the store manager's mission. The mission is not officially started before the 140 dumplings are eaten.

Only when there are 10 dumplings left for Ruru to eat, he will go out to find Mom, and the mission will really begin.

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

"What would happen if we didn't finish the dumplings in advance?"

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

Su Chenghe, the manager of the second branch, is so beautiful that he is the most beautiful among the ten branches, even Huangfu Jiajia is slightly inferior.

"The store manager mission 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.

The first one is that anyone who stays in the house after dark will be killed by an unsolvable solution;

The second one is that as long as Ru Ru dies, all store managers will also be killed by an unsolvable solution.

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

It is now 4:51 pm. When it gets dark after 6 o'clock, this house will be completely swallowed by darkness.

Everyone who stays in the house will die, including Ru Ru.

With two dead ends, even Li Yi will die to the point where he can't die any more."

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

Ji Li narrowed his eyes and asked a question in return, which made most of the people present change their faces:

"If you haven't really died, you won't find these two absolute dead ends. So are you dead or alive now?"