Chapter 1240 The Living Dead
Ji Li frowned suddenly, raised his phone to find the angle to take the photo, and finally slowly withdrew his hand.
The Central Lake Restaurant is a very isolated building outside Orange Lake Plaza. There is no obstruction in front of it, and there are no other buildings.
He was on the 4th floor. He was able to take parallel shots, and even the wide angle could cover Fang Shenyan, indicating that the photographer was not far in front of him at the time.
In other words, this photo was taken by a ghost.
At the same time, Fang Shenyan was also performing similar actions. When the two parties took back their mobile phones, they looked at each other and said in unison:
"There is a ghost who selected everyone at the same time."
"Manager Ji, don't worry about the guy who took the photo."
Hou Guisheng's voice came from upstairs. When Ji Li looked up, he saw him holding his hands on the balcony guardrail, exposing half of his face and staring at him.
"The ghost is not important, it is just a selected character. We have to find out the dead person, the way of death and the real murderer within half an hour."
Hou Guisheng could vaguely judge this. He only knew that taking pictures of ghosts was not important, but he didn't know why.
However, Ji Li was able to make a rough guess. The ghost who took the photo might be a cartoon doll, one of the three types of dolls.
At present, they are the only ones related to the act of "taking pictures" in this mission.
The reason for taking photos is probably related to the "failure penalty".
The Fireworks Bureau has now confessed.
This is a special mission for all store employees, which forces everyone to conduct a large-scale cooperative operation to investigate a murder case.
The purpose of taking photos of everyone should be to punish the people in the photos one by one after failure.
After realizing this, Ji Li's thoughts also matched Hou Guisheng's will, and he must now start investigating the case.
"Everyone, come to the innermost private room on the fifth floor. I'll call the other clerks back."
Hou Guisheng was very active this time. He is located on the 5th floor and plays a role as a link between the past and the future.
Ji Li looked at the bustling crowd in the square, frowned and glanced at Fang Shenyan, and couldn't help but think of what the other party had said before.
"What kind of project is this that dares to call all of us here..."
……
Private room deep on the 5th floor.
This not too big room suddenly had 18 people pouring in, making it even more crowded. Some of them were not qualified to enter the room and could only guard outside the door.
There are ten people in the room. They are:
Gu Qingyun, Hou Guisheng, Su Chenghe, Xue Tingtao, Li Guanqi, Ji Li, Fang Shenyan, Huangfu Jiajia, Clyde, Huang Banxian.
The other eight people are not ordinary people, they are all Chang Sheng and Bai Lang.
As for the remaining store clerks, they were placed on the square and did not move rashly. They were on standby at any time.
This sudden project, except that Li Yi and Luo Xian were not present, can be said to have gathered the top forces of the ten major branches.
A thirty-minute project that must be successful.
Once it fails, no one can bear the death of such a large number of people, let alone imagine what kind of huge collapse it will cause to the entire Tianhai structure if they are destroyed.
Hou Guisheng was always in the dominant position this time. He looked at the people present and took the lead in clarifying his point of view:
“The store clerks scattered around have given feedback that no bodies have been found in any location of Orange Lake Plaza.
After several verifications, it was basically certain that no one died suddenly during the 20 minutes when the fireworks bloomed.
Therefore, the first step to consider is the issue of the dead. ”
Gu Qingyun opened the zipper with one hand, revealing his slightly bulging belly. He held the cigarette in his gauze-wrapped hand and said with a gloomy face:
“The email clearly stated that someone died, but we didn’t find the body, so there are only two possibilities.
First, the body is indeed in Orange Lake Plaza, but it is hidden in a location that is extremely difficult for us to search.
Second, the corpse the email refers to may be beyond our inherent knowledge. ”
Obviously, this second possibility is greater and more reasonable.
However, this does not mean that the first possibility is invalid, but it is relatively low, but it still cannot be given up.
"One person from our branch went to dig deep in the square to find him."
Xue Tingtao was the first to raise his hand, as if he was eager to take on this low-risk job.
Huangfu Jiajia also looked pale, and said in a depressed tone:
"I asked Mochou to go with Manager Xue's men. Two people should be enough."
According to the first possibility, finding the body is an operation that has little chance but has to be carried out, so two people are enough. After confirming this, Xue and Huangfu began to leave the scene and called their respective clerks to assign tasks.
After Hou Guisheng thought thoughtfully for a while, he opened his mouth and analyzed:
"In our original understanding, the dead are synonymous with bloody, stiff, numb, and dead things.
If it goes beyond cognition, then this kind of dead person will definitely look like a living person on the surface.
Maybe it even doesn't know it's dead? ”
"That's a ghost." Su Chenghe answered.
Clyde put his hand on the table and dragged his chin with one hand. His blue eyes showed a thoughtful look as he further analyzed:
"To be precise, it should be a person who is undoubtedly alive, but actually dead, but without any supernatural powers.
Maybe we can call it ‘the living dead’. ”
This conclusion is somewhat absurd.
But the strange thing is that all the top store managers present nodded and agreed with this idea.
Hou Guisheng was even more outspoken, and the possibility of reaching this conclusion was definitely more than 70%.
Only in this way can we be worthy of such a luxurious lineup, otherwise it would be too easy.
"For the deceased, proceed both ways.
One person, the fourth and the eighth were two people in total. They didn't have to worry about other things, they just focused on desperately looking for the body.
Of the two, those of us specialize in the ‘living dead’.
The key point of our first step appears, how to find this living dead in the vast crowd? ”
"Kill!"
Fang Shenyan, who had done too much killing, blurted out this word while sitting among the group of store managers as a deputy store manager.
Some people still have concerns.
Su Chenghe frowned, glanced at Fang Shenyan with some fear, and asked:
"Kill them all?"
"Kill them all."
After Fang Shenyan glanced at him, he rarely gave everyone a detailed explanation of his views:
"Human life is not important here. Our situation is not as good as expected. If we want to succeed, we must use thunderbolt means.
Since the deceased has become a living dead, it means that there is something supernatural behind his death.
Therefore, we don’t have to worry about the loss of clues and intelligence after killing tourists.
On the contrary, I think that by getting rid of them, we can better advance to the next step. After all, there are too many of them, and they have already hindered our actions. ”
Su Chenghe was silent, but his frown meant that he was not completely convinced.
He is a relatively conservative person who often carries out large-scale purges. It is difficult to guarantee whether he will clear out all the clues about how to survive.
After all, after finding the body, there is another step to restore the circumstances of the death. Who can guarantee that there will be no tourist factors in this second step.
But after Ji Li knocked on the floor with his crutch, this strategy gave him a reason that he could no longer refuse:
"Now that things have happened, don't you still understand?
In this Orange Lake, everyone except you and me are sacrifices. Sooner or later, they will die in various projects.
Instead of doing this, why not pave the way for us now?
Our project time is too tight and we must use extraordinary means to quickly confirm the goal. There is no room for getting stuck on the first step just because we are worried about the second step.
Speed is our only opponent.
What dead people, living people, living dead...
After killing them all, the remaining one is the ‘living dead’ we are looking for. ”