Chapter 1189 Will it work wonders again?
What's the point of driving this far?
Ji Li finally stood up slowly after half an hour of silence. As he stood up, everyone's eyes were focused, and the chaos came to an abrupt end.
After such a long time, the store manager came together, which meant that he had made a decision.
There were nervous swallowing sounds, and pairs of eyes looked quietly. Everyone listened to their own fast heartbeat, waiting for the final verdict.
Ji Li's eyes did not change much. His goal was very clear and casual. He aimed at two people and said lightly:
"Those two who are quarreling, follow me on the mission."
Gao Mingjie and Wu Qingtong looked at each other for a moment, and then they could not conceal their fear and panic. They had long forgotten their previous gaffe, and begged and cried in an even more glum manner.
But these were of no use. Ji Li turned a deaf ear to this and walked out of the conference room.
At six o'clock tonight, the four participants of the seventh branch of Orange Lake Happy World will be confirmed from now on:
Ji Li, Fang Shenyan, Gao Mingjie, Wu Qingtong.
The last two characters are so different in terms of personal qualities that they will die if they play this kind of role.
Of course, Ji Li chose them just to be cannon fodder.
Now that the selection is over, there seems to be nothing to worry about in the rest of the time, except waiting for the mission to begin.
According to common sense, when a task is released, there will be an analysis meeting.
Although the content of this commission task is unknown, there are too many notes, including some clues that can be guessed.
But it’s not necessary anymore.
It's nothing more than some obvious difficulty, settings and meaning behind it. It can be analyzed or not analyzed. Anyway, when you get to the ticket purchase office, there will be staff who will explain it in detail.
Ji Li walked slowly outside with a cane, but in his heart he didn't feel that the participants in this mission were perfect.
It was time to partner up with Fang Shenyan again, but this time he couldn't use the mask, so it actually didn't have much impact if he was there without him.
The reason why Tongguan was chosen was because Ji Li believed that this commission task would most likely be based on the total commission amount of the branch.
Tongguan's style of conduct is more focused on teamwork, which is more advantageous in this mission.
But he couldn't come back, so Fang Shenyan took his place.
Fang Shenyan is not inferior to Ji Li in all aspects, and is even better in some aspects, but he has a cold nature and goes his own way.
Working individually is a perfect match, but working as a team may result in overlapping attributes.
But everything depends on how it is used. Fang Shenyan's strong personal strength may be able to tear a big hole in the mission one-on-one. It is not a bad idea to win in this way.
But in short, Ji Li has foreseen that there will probably be competition in this mission, and it will be more fierce competition than the puzzle pieces.
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Huang Banxian stood alone on the top of the Tianming Mountain. The cold wind stirred his wide robe and ruffled his hair and beard.
There were more wrinkles on this face, and his originally shrewd and energetic eyes were a little cloudy. In just one day, he seemed to have changed from an old man in his early fifties to a vicissitudes of life in his seventies.
He shook his sleeve slightly and picked up a cracked tortoise shell with his right hand hidden in his robe.
This tortoise shell is covered with hieroglyphs of unknown meaning. When these cracks spread, there is a strange echo with these words, as if lines and words form an abstract picture.
Huang Banxian's eyes were blank, and he couldn't help himself as he stared at the tortoise shell for a long time, until his tone was full of sorrow, and he whispered at a volume that only he could hear:
"No wonder...
When you gave me this sinful object, you said that the two previous owners of this object were both killed by it, and you told me to use it with caution.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I think this may be part of your plan.
Maybe you have already determined that I am the third sacrifice to feed this thing.
I am not its owner, it is my destiny..."
Turtle shell is a functional sinful object. Its effect is divination, but the price is to lose people's luck. Luck is a very abstract concept, it may or may not exist, but with the blessing of supernatural beings, it is real.
There are almost no products related to luck.
Such complicated and confusing things are too abstract and difficult to present concretely.
It is said that only someone in the first branch once obtained a sinful object of "luck", but this person eventually fell out of public view. It must have been the end of good luck and the arrival of bad luck, which caused the final destruction.
As for the second crime related to luck, perhaps it is this tortoise shell.
Huang Banxian spends half his life cultivating Taoism and half his life cheating. He has no Taoist fate and only seeks Taoist fate.
All of his sinful objects are more or less related to "Tao", including divination, divination, and talismans...
Huang Banxian had hesitated when Gu Xingjian gave him this sinful object, but in the end he could not resist the temptation of "peeping into the future".
As of the sixth store manager mission, Huang Banxian had used this item three times, and it was not used repeatedly in the same mission.
But its price has already begun to show.
After Gu Xingjian's death, Huang Banxian clearly noticed that the tortoise-shell sin object had particularly strong changes, and the hieroglyphs on it began to increase.
Before this, the turtle shell had only three words, but when the mission was over and a new day came, it doubled to six.
It is foreseeable that at this time tomorrow, the number of words will reach nine.
"Nine" is the largest number in Tao and represents the limit.
At the same time, the changes in the tortoise shell also had a similar correlation in Huang Banxian.
As the number of words increased, he clearly noticed that he was aging rapidly. The most direct change was the change in his appearance.
But the core is that his life is failing.
The price of the tortoise shell kept coming back to bite his "master" in an unreasonable and unexplained way.
It is foreseeable that the number of tortoise shell characters at this time tomorrow will be "nine", which is equivalent to reaching the limit of Huang Banxian's fate.
If it is pushed back one day and continues to increase above "nine", then his fate will rise beyond the limit, and his body and soul will disappear.
This is what Huang Banxian said, the countdown to fate.
Tortoise shell and destiny are bound together. This is the conspiracy sent by Gu Xingjian.
But from this point of view, Gu Xingjian's purpose was not to kill Huang Banxian, but to use him to feed turtle-shell sinful things.
Perhaps this is why Huang Banxian knows so many secrets but can still survive to this day.
But Gu Xingjian may not have thought that he would die tragically on the screen without waiting for the day when the "tortoise shell took shape".
And because of his death, Guijia began to reap the fate of Huang Banxian on his own initiative.
The scene that Clyde and others encountered at that time was actually Huang Banxian trying to use burning incense to forcibly peel off the binding relationship between himself and the turtle shell.
But he didn't expect that the blood spit out as the price of sin would directly extinguish the incense, and at the same time extinguish all his hopes.
The feeling of waiting for death is not pleasant, especially since Huang Banxian has not lived enough.
He is only fifty-three years old this year. He was poor in the first half of his life and homeless in the second half. He is obviously a shrewd person, but God gave him a rough and tortuous life.
"Let nature take its course and wait for death. You only care about self-pity, but you are sorry for this Taoist robe."
When the wind was blowing hard, Clyde walked over from behind at some point, talking as he walked.
Huang Banxian frowned, turned his head and looked at the blond and blue eyes, and asked:
"What do you want to say?"
Clyde put his arm on Huang Banxian's shoulder, but felt the bone was scratching his hand, so he pulled his arm back and said seriously:
"I want to say that if you really don't accept your fate, you might as well use these last three days to try out commission missions. Maybe it will work wonders."