Chapter 394: Start the Mission Early

Ji Li took a deep look at Ruru, no longer lingering on him, and turned to the bedroom.

Gu Xingjian was looking through his homework, and Xu Nan was still staring at him like a ghost all the time. The two of them did their own thing without disturbing each other.

Ji Li opened the curtain and saw a corpse lying on the single bed.

The corpse water has completely soaked the sheets, and the skin and flesh have rotted away, making it impossible to see her previous appearance. Only the clothes represent that she is a woman.

The appearance of Ruru's mother's body further confirmed Ji Li's suspicion.

Because the highly decomposed head of this corpse was still leaning on the pillow,

Even if the body shrunk like this, it almost occupied the small and crowded single bed. The only thing that was clean was the small gap beside the bed.

All this indicates that Ruru can see her mother's body, retain her previous living habits, and sleep in the same bed with her mother.

This terrifying psychological quality made Ji Li secretly guess that Ruru's role as store manager was not simple.

There is still a calendar hanging on the bedside, it is the Fourth of July.

Ji Li has been thinking about this house that is divided into four areas. If you don't count the bathroom, there are three calendars.

The trash can was extremely clean, so where did the torn-out calendar pages go?

Ruru won't take it away, so it will only be taken away by other store managers.

Thinking of this, he turned his eyes to Gu Xingjian, who was sitting at the desk and reading elementary school textbooks with great interest.

Although Ji Li is unwilling to face tasks related to time and space, the reality is that there are many elements in the store manager's task, and time and space are obviously an important part of it.

Then, the calendar, the carrier of time, obviously has a more special meaning.

The torn-off calendar page would probably play a different role if it fell into the hands of the store manager.

It's a pity that Ji Li, who has just arrived, naturally wants to focus on familiarity. Whether it is a reward puzzle or a calendar page, he can only think about it.

Almost no power to snatch.

"Um?"

At this moment, Gu Xingjian suddenly frowned, turned his head back and looked towards the door without moving.

A few wisps of green smoke drifted strangely into the room along the bottom of the door crack, and more and more smoke gradually filled the entire living room and was heading towards the bedroom.

Then there was the sound of metal hitting the wall, the smoke dissipated immediately, and everything became calm again.

Zhu Xiaoning, who was always guarding the door, turned to look at Gu Xingjian and asked in a low voice:

"The mission format has changed again?"

Although Gu Xingjian is powerful, he is still a mortal after all. He has a pair of ordinary eyes, so naturally he cannot see through the wall and know the situation of the outside world.

The store manager's tasks are assigned a date of seven days, which is new and changes every day.

Every time it is turned on, the scene to be faced in each mission is different. There are countless ghosts in the whole building, appearing in various patterns.

This is one of the unique features of the store manager’s mission.

In the past few times, whenever the mission was about to start, ghosts would indeed infiltrate into the room in advance, but most of them were based on experiments.

It's nothing more than feeling the breath of a living person and being unable to resist the killing instinct.

"Huangfu Jiajia, try to contact your incense burner at the door. What's going on?"

The incense burner that Ji Li saw before entering the door was Huangfu Jiajia's crime object. Before each mission, she would set up the incense burner and light incense.

Through the results of burning incense, you can determine the strength and danger of the first ghost that appears, and it can withstand the first attack.

But the current situation is obviously that the ghost has appeared, and the smoke has filled the entire living room.

The previous few times, it only covered half of the living room at most, which shows that the ghost at the door is the most powerful one among the ghosts we saw for the first time.

But the strangest thing is that the incense burner has never shown any signs of smoke interruption or even damage.

Although Huangfu Jiajia was not Gu Xingjian's friend, the store manager's task was to coordinate arrangements and achieve the only goal, so she quickly closed her eyes to sense the situation of the criminal items.

But after a moment, that innocent and lovely face was covered with confusion and fear:

"Impossible! My crime was destroyed!"

Ghosts cannot destroy sinful objects, this is the rule.

However, if it is really destroyed, there are only two possibilities.

First, it is not ghosts but humans who destroy sinful objects outside the door;

But the thick smoke means that there is indeed a very powerful ghost outside the door, so this is not accurate.

Second, the ghost outside the door is particularly special. It uses unknown abilities to first cancel the power of the store managers to probe information.

Huangfu Jiajia glanced around the crowd and was obviously leaning towards the second point.

But Ji Li looked at this scene. Although he didn't speak, a third possibility appeared in his mind.

That is, there is not only a powerful ghost outside the door, but also a person.

The sinful object was damaged by that person, and one person and one ghost have already started fighting...

There was no doubt who that man was.

Zhu Xiaoning looked embarrassed. He only had three sinful items on him, one of which he borrowed from the clerk.

These three criminals can't get any bargains when facing ordinary tasks, and it is even more difficult to face the store manager's task.

He never expected that in this store manager mission, the first ghost would change from the beginning. Obviously, his luck was extremely bad.

"Manager Gu, no matter what is outside the door!

Ruru will go out in two minutes, so we must prepare in advance. "

Gu Xingjian was silent for a while, then a different smile appeared on his face. He stood up from the chair and walked into the living room.

Xu Nan followed closely behind him.

Ji Li noticed a detail. Before Gu Xingjian stood up, he tapped the table with the little finger of his right hand.

"It's okay. Let's wait for a while before going out. I can use some tricks to make Ru Ru go out later."

Gu Xingjian's confidence made Ji Li understand that they both figured out that it was Li Yi who was fighting with the first ghost outside the door.

Gu Xingjian obviously planned to further preserve his strength and let Li Yi fight with the ghost for a while, so that he could enjoy the benefits of being a fisherman.

The ten people present were all extremely shrewd, and Gu Xingjian's attitude had already explained a lot of problems.

Xue Tinghai frowned, slowly lowered his head and began to think deeply. Obviously, he guessed that it should be Li Yi outside the door.

It was right to listen to Gu Xingjian's words, which would help with subsequent tasks and avoid risks.

But he is not from the Ninth Branch after all. Now the Fourth Branch is weak. If he does not use some means to make friends with the First Branch, especially Li Yi.

Then the subsequent development will be more difficult. After all, even for Xue Tinghai, most of his crimes come from the First Branch.

Taking a risk for a while in exchange for future benefits, Xue Tinghai has always had a long-term vision. The most important thing is that Li Yi is outside the door.

What more risks can there be?

Xue Tinghai, who is vigorous and resolute, kicked the door open and forcibly joined the battle while everyone was still pondering Gu Xingjian's words.

The store manager's mission was launched ahead of schedule with Xue Tinghai's sudden action.