Chapter 1188: Being trapped but not killing
"Recipient: Tianhai Hotel, Branch 7.
Please arrive at the ticket purchase office of Cheng Lake Happy World in Shanming City on time at 6 o'clock in the evening on January 3, 2016.
Mr. Ji Li, the manager of the seventh branch, please choose three clerks to go to Chenghu together.
Note 1: In this mission, sinful objects are prohibited;
Note 2: The details of this task will be explained by the staff at the ticket office;
Note 3: This task is jointly executed by ten branches of Tianhai; (Selection criteria: branches with commission)
Note 4: For this task, the total commission amount is based on the branch and is not owned by individuals. It will be distributed uniformly after being handed over to the store manager;
Note 5: Except for the branch store manager who must participate in this task, the remaining three store clerks can be assigned freely. Whether they have previously had commissions does not affect the execution candidates;
Note 6: In this mission, the tenth store is included in the seventh branch, with Mr. Ji Li as the sole store manager.
Sender: Tianhai. ”
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January 3, 2016, 3:30 pm, the seventh branch.
Except for Tongguan and Chang Nian, a total of 24 clerks gathered in the conference room. The room was filled with smoke and coughing, but no one dared to say anything.
Commission rewards have appeared since a year ago, but no relevant uses, tips and instructions have been given.
The commission task has been brewing for too long, and has been dormant for too long. It has been so long that most people have gradually forgotten about it, but some people who are interested can feel the pressure of the coming storm.
In fact, the seventh branch emerged very late. Before Ji Li woke up, this branch had not appeared in the public eye for a long time, let alone commissions.
Therefore, except for Ji Li who had forewarned him in advance, everyone else in the store had no idea.
Until this moment, the commission mission finally surfaced, in this terrifying way that roared in and had no escape.
Among the top ten branches, no one is immune. How difficult should it be?
In the conference room, the smokers were smoking, and the non-smokers covered their mouths and coughed, but they subconsciously did not dare to make a sound.
The reason for this situation is entirely involuntary fear.
The commission task email was sent to everyone’s mobile phone in the seventh branch, and all the details were announced.
In addition to Ji Li, there are three other people who will be assigned by the store manager or apply for it on their own initiative.
The mentality of most people is naturally to hide whenever they can, so they dare not speak.
Ji Li closed his eyes, picking up a cigarette and taking a puff from time to time. He did not comment on the current situation, but in fact he had already thought about the candidate.
This time, he wanted Tongguan to participate.
For one thing, Tongguan himself has rich work experience and behaves in a very disciplined and orderly manner.
This "rules" and "order" refer to his unique ability to spy on the main thread of the mission.
Often when performing tasks in Tongguan, everyone will focus on the main line and discover the most correct solution step by step.
Secondly, Tongguan was the store manager, and his command and decision-making were definitely not inferior to Ji Li's, and even better.
There are also three people participating in the Tenth Store this time. If there are more people, someone will need to share the command position.
The first among the three chose Tongguan, so the next candidates can no longer be core clerks.
In Ji Li's expectation, he believed that this mission was a meat grinder operation from the sky and the sea.
Each of the ten major branches has four people, a huge task of nearly forty people, and the number of casualties is definitely a very exaggerated number. He must never choose characters like Mei Sheng and Xiao Qian again, and it would be best not to use them even Jie Zheng and Jin Xi.
At the Tenth Store, Cheng Ming and Hu Li were in charge, plus Ji Li and Tongguan, the number of top-notch clerks was already more than half, and no more lives could be put into this meat grinder.
Then it doesn't matter the remaining two candidates, just grab two at will.
As for why this meeting was held after the candidates were determined, it was mainly because he was waiting for Tongguan's return and it was best for him to choose the remaining two people. After all, Ji Li was very unfamiliar with his clerk.
The waiting time has been a bit long, the air in the conference room is particularly turbid, and people are starting to get restless.
Some of them had disputes over certain issues, with deadly butcher knives hanging above their heads, uneasy fear squeezing their fragile hearts, and some experiencing mental breakdown.
The two clerks kept arguing in the conference room because of a mistake in their words. Someone even stepped on a chair and cursed, regardless of whether Ji Li was present or not.
What happened between two people affected the third person, and the third person affected the fourth person... until the conference room was in chaos.
Hong Fu, Jin Xi and others stepped forward to dissuade them, but they were unable to do anything.
Ji Li didn't even raise his eyelids and kept sitting quietly in the chaos. Fighting was prohibited in the hotel. Everything was harmless and he was indifferent.
Until the cell phone placed on the table finally buzzed, and the name that appeared on it made him feel reassured.
"Tongguan, when will you arrive?"
"I can't go back to Ji Li. There is something wrong with my parents' tomb. There are suspected traces of supernatural beings. Moreover, Chang Nian and I seem to be trapped in this cemetery."
Tongguan suffered another disaster.
But this time, he didn't speak urgently, as if the situation wasn't so bad.
However, Ji Li's heart sank after hearing this. It was obvious that Tongguan would not be able to come back.
This is not the reason for his gloominess. It doesn't matter if Tongguan comes back. There are other candidates who can take over.
The most important thing is that after Ji Li learned the news and connected some clues, he got a guess that made him very uncomfortable.
On the eve of the commission mission, Tongguan and Chang Nian left the Seventh Branch and went to Shanghai due to household registration reasons.
With his character, since he came to Shanghai, he would definitely go to the cemetery to pay homage to his parents.
However, because of this, he was inexplicably trapped in Shanghai City and could not return in time to participate in the mission.
This series of events seems to have been carefully planned, and the key lies in the word "trapped".
Tongguan is deeply involved in the matter of Tongen and his wife fifty years ago.
Very few people knew about him, and they used Tong En and his wife to plot against Tong Guan, and made him unable to participate in commission tasks.
"Don't kill when trapped, make plans", these eight words reminded Ji Li of a person...
But this man should have died!
The ashes in the black robe and the store manager changed hands, how could it be him?
How can he be so like him when he is trapped but doesn't kill, and he plots his plans?
The call automatically hung up due to the loss of signal in Tongguan, but Ji Li held up the phone and fell into a long silence, his mind fluctuating due to this incident.
It was precisely this matter that Fang Shenyan, who had been silent and saw Ji Li's silence, stood up from his chair in the cluttered environment and slowly came to Ji Li's side.
He came behind Ji Li, pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and whispered:
"Since you can't find anyone, let me go."
After that, Fang Shenyan walked past Ji Li without any other contact.