Chapter 435: You in the Past and Future

"Sir, it's over..."

A light sigh came from behind, and the oil-paper umbrella opened to cover the flying black snowflakes above Ji Li's head.

Ji Li's ears became particularly quiet, and he felt the world silently.

Everything seemed to have come to an end with Gu Xingjian's elimination.

The originally extremely chaotic spiritual atmosphere on the fifth floor dissipated in the blink of an eye.

The ghost-transformed store managers disappeared one by one, the shadow ghosts returned to the shadows, and the ghosts on the ninth floor returned to where they should go.

The moment the black snow formed by the crow feathers stopped, Ji Li raised his head faintly.

Troubles do not seek people, people seek troubles themselves.

From the beginning to the end, Ji Li regarded Gu Xingjian as a potential opponent and tried to resolve it by all means.

But even though he now has a gray soul, it is like a punch on cotton, soft and powerless.

Gu Xingjian would rather let the ghost Li Yi kill him than let Ji Li do it.

From this point alone, Ji Li has already failed miserably.

When the female voice came back to him and held up the umbrella for him, Ji Li felt the whole black and white building tremble abnormally.

The source was on the ground floor of the first floor.

Ji Li's figure gradually became blurred until he disappeared in the store manager mission.

No one knew what Li Yi did.

But what is certain is that he went to the first floor after Gu Xingjian's prompt, and an accident occurred, forcibly terminating this fourth store manager mission.

All the survivors were sent back to their respective branches.

…

Tianhai Hotel, the seventh branch.

Ji Li sat lonely on a chair directly opposite the lobby, his arms resting weakly on the chair, with a slowly burning cigarette between his fingertips.

The hotel is repairing all his injuries, but he is still a blind man.

There are three things on the table next to him.

A kerosene lamp that was not lit, a pair of iron scissors, and an old-fashioned calendar.

This is the spoils of his store manager mission this time.

The scissors are the sin object of the paper-cutting ghost, and the effect is still unclear;

The calendar was stolen from Ru Ru's home, and it is suspected to be related to time;

And this kerosene lamp...

Gu Xingjian's death was planned by himself, but he left behind this sin object of kerosene lamp.

Even before his death, he specifically told Ji Li about the origin of the sin object.

In addition to the calendar, Ji Li will send the kerosene lamp and scissors to Zhu Xiaoning in the tenth store.

This is his promise to the man.

"Sir, I can't repair your eyes. I can only wait for you to go to Zhu Xiaoning to get your eyes back."

The female voice is still so gentle, making people feel like spring breeze.

Ji Li has no expression or movement, as if he had never heard it, just sitting quietly in his original position.

He didn't even take another puff of the cigarette.

In the fourth store manager mission, he didn't get any benefits, and Li Yi didn't get the third puzzle piece.

Not to mention Chen Hansheng, Luo Xian and the like.

On the contrary, Zhu Xiaoning got two store manager tasks and sin objects because of the transaction with Ji Li.

Of course, this also includes the kerosene lamp that Gu Xingjian suspected to have left deliberately.

Although Ji Li did not get any external benefits, he also got a lot of information, although most of it was obscure.

First, the chanter's ballad.

"Black sesame, poppy, no food to eat, eat mud and sand, sell your own children, and hate your mother with a rotten stomach;

Black sesame, poppy, no food to eat, eat mud and sand, did evil things in the previous life, and was caught by ghosts in reincarnation.

Copper pipa, washing colorful gauze, tall lamp feet, short sweet potato, gold locks and silver rings were all torn off, bleeding and broken heads still babbling;

Copper pipa, washing colorful gauze, tall lamp feet, short sweet potato, there is no marriage in this life, cut the meat and bones and take it home."

After Ji Li calmed down and thought about this first sentence, it may be confirmed that the ghost in the spherical space on the fifteenth floor.

"Biological children", "female reproductive organs", "mother"...

These images all correspond to what is seen and heard on the fifteenth floor.

So after this hint, each sentence of this ballad should correspond to a special ghost.

But so far, Ji Li has only guessed the first ghost, but he can't guess the inner meaning of the ballad at all.

Second, his eyes.

Ji Li knows that he is not a normal person, and he is not even a person.

But what is he...

Why when other people's eyeballs are stuffed into his eye sockets, a completely unfamiliar voice will appear in the depths of his soul.

With overwhelming hatred, let Ji Li get out of his body.

And third, Gu Xingjian said that he and Li Yi are both products of that thing...

Combined with the second point, the abnormality of the eyes and the hateful curse.

The source of Ji Li's pain is here.

He suddenly felt tired and didn't want to do anything, just felt very tired.

Like a drowning person, searching everywhere, but in vain.

At this moment, Ji Li only understood one thing.

He Ji Li is not Ji Li.

His body is not his body;

His memory is not his memory.

Ji Li's blind eyes are just like the dark world he sees.

What is the result of his unscrupulous means, desperate efforts, and repeated tasks...

He is just a thing created by someone unknown.

Since returning to the seventh branch, Ji Li has not spoken a word.

He was reflecting on what he had been doing all along, what was the meaning of it.

Until a pair of cold hands tightly grasped his hands.

"Sir, no matter who you were in the past or who you will be in the future.

You are you.

There are not many meaningful things in this world, but at least you know what you want from this moment on.

The meaning you want will be slowly regained as you move forward step by step.

You will follow the footsteps and find your own meaning and life, and you are destined to complete redemption."

Ji Li slowly turned his head and looked at the source of the voice.

There was nothingness there, like a black hole that could swallow everything in the world.

But there was a voice that was warm enough to bring him an inch of light in the isolated and helpless world.

In this store manager's mission trip, the identity of the female voice was half true and half false.

It was true that she was good to him, and it was also true that she lied to him.

But no matter how sincere or fake the female voice was.

At this moment, she was the only one who said these words to Ji Li.

Just watching, Ji Li said thank you in a hoarse voice in a low voice.

Because today he finally knew what his mission was, he was going to find redemption and meaning.

If what Gu Xingjian said was true, the seventh and ninth branches would be tasked with receiving each other in seven days.

Ji Li still remembered that Gu Xingjian would tell him his fate at that time.

And by then, he would tell this man from the bottom of his heart.

No one could decide his fate.

Now, he was going to Shanghai City to redeem his promise.

Use the two sinful objects, the kerosene lamp and the paper-cutting knife, to get his eyes back.