Weird Regulator

"Ji, don't go, really don't go."

The crying woman held on to Ji Li's sleeves tightly, refusing to let go.

The stars in the night sky were so dim, like a bonfire that was about to go out.

Ji Li still refused to say anything, just looking at the stars above his head and calculating the plan to reverse everything.

“You can’t win it.

Let’s die together and stay with Mo, Ouyang, Tongen and the others..."

The cherry blossom pattern on the woman's white shirt changes from pink to red, and the petals are broken bit by bit and mixed into the wind.

There was a sweet smell in the wind, and a strange pink color appeared in the dark night world.

Ji Li looked at the pink wind in the sky with a pair of black eyes, and finally turned around.

He gently pressed his hand on the woman's silky hair and said in a low tone:

“To this day, death is a mercy and a relief.

Over the years, you have made too many difficult choices and gone through many bumpy roads.

I'll leave the simple things to you.

Leave it to Mo, Ouyang, Tong En and A Jing.

I'll survive on my own. "

The only thing in the woman's eyes was his face, filled with unspeakable love and heartache, until she heard those last words.

Her expression changed and she was about to speak, but her consciousness became blurred and her body collapsed to the ground.

"I can win it, no matter what the cost."

In the woman's sad eyes, the man walked away slowly and slowly, leaning on a cane.

…

The dream, from this moment on, becomes fragmented and obscure.

The first floor lobby of the seventh branch.

Ji Li was lying on the sofa, frowning in pain, struggling constantly, as if there was a shocking wave in his mind.

The female voice sat next to him, put his head on her lap, and gently stroked his forehead.

Waves of warmth spread from the warm and delicate palms, and the whispers in his mouth were as gentle as lulling someone to sleep.

"Those are all fake, you are Ji Li, don't be afraid."

…

A long black robe covered his body, revealing only a pale and thin face and a slender hand holding a cane.

Ji Li was in an open space, looking at the seven half-person-high stone pillars in front of him with a calm expression.

Seven bloody human heads were stuck on the top of the stone pillar, with blood flowing downwards.

His eyes stared at three of them for a long time, and finally there was movement in his eyes.

With the brim of his hat lowered, no one could hear clearly what he was saying, but they could only see his lips moving.

"Ouyang, Tong En, A Jing.

Your life will not be in vain, I will give you an explanation.

My name is Ji Li, I am Ji Li, my name is Ji Li, I am Ji Li..."

…

In the seventh branch.

The veins on Ji Li's neck popped out, and his body was shaking violently, as if he was on the verge of waking up, but he still refused to open his eyes.

Wisps of gray were seeping out of his body, threatening to break out.

"I'll make this bet with you!

Taking fifty years as a cycle, my bet is on all the living people in the top ten branches, including Haruyama Mirai...

I am Ji Li, so I am qualified..."

Many disorderly words were spoken in gibberish.

That was the memory that Ji Li was searching for, but now he was reawakened through a nightmare.

But those broken memories are very obscure, only a few words, but there is a huge amount of information behind them.

The gray soul showed signs of recovery again because of a dream, but Ji Li refused to wake up.

There was nothing false about the anxiety in the female voice's eyes. She was so panicked that she didn't know where to put her hands. She could only hold Ji Li's face and shed tears.

"Why is he still sleeping?"

At this time, Fang Shenyan, wearing a Chinese tunic suit, came down the stairs and frowned at the sofa.

But obviously this sentence was not said to Ji Li, but to the female voice.

Fang Shenyan, who became the deputy store manager, naturally has a certain degree of special authority, so he can also talk to female voices.

The figure of the female voice had faded by half due to the gray aura, but she still hugged Ji Li tightly and said urgently:

"Deputy store manager Fang, quickly press the jigsaw puzzle on Mr. Ji's chest."

Fang Shenyan stared at the female voice without asking too much. She just took out a piece of khaki cloth that was no bigger than a palm from her arms.

When this piece of cloth appeared, the figure of the female voice disappeared instantly, and the gray air surrounding Ji Li was also frozen.

On the contrary, the dozen or so residents on the second floor became restless, and sometimes they heard heart-rending screams.

Fang Shenyan gently placed the puzzle piece on Ji Li's chest, and the whole world fell silent for a moment.

All the gray energy retracted into Ji Li's body, and the residents immediately returned to calm, and the previous struggles immediately stopped.

Ji Li suddenly opened his eyes, which were a mixture of gray and black, with a streak of scarlet dotting the edges of his pupils.

He looked at Fang Shenyan with empty eyes, and after a moment he returned to his usual calmness and indifference.

The puzzle piece attached to his chest disappeared as he woke up.

"what happened?"

Fang Shenyan stared at Ji Li with an incomprehensible look and asked.

Ji Li rubbed his temples and sat up from the sofa. He had no time to answer, but kept reviewing the nightmare.

In the dream, he saw Chunshan's prayers for the future, seven stone pillars, and even the heads of Tongen and his wife.

Many things are too fragmented to be connected together, but these pictures must be related to the "turning defeat into victory plan".

In the chaos, Ji Li seemed to feel some kind of change in his body and pulled up his left sleeve.

Only then was he surprised to find that there was a pattern embedded in the skin on his wrist.

This pattern is not complete, just the angle formed by two dark cyan straight lines, like an incomplete puzzle.

And this puzzle piece just covers the black line that represents the gray soul.

Ji Li put down his sleeves, touched his pockets, looked at Fang Shenyan, and asked in a hoarse voice:

"Is there any cigarette?"

After Fang Shenyan threw out a pack of cigarettes, he looked at Ji Li and didn't ask for the puzzle.

Maybe for him, the puzzle is not important at all, he just said:

"It seems that you still need to sort it out. Let's talk about some things later."

After Fang Shenyan said this, he turned back and prepared to go upstairs, but before that, he turned back and said:

"By the way, at the end of the mission, I went to see the list of store managers in the elevator.

First place: Gu Xingjian, Fang Shenyan;

Second place: Hou Guisheng (Chen Hansheng);

My ranking continued to rise, tied for first place with Gu Xingjian, but this way of expressing it should indicate that Gu Xingjian is not dead.

Chen Hansheng is obviously dead, but his name has not disappeared, but has become a supplementary content to Hou Guisheng.

There should be some inside stories during this period that we cannot guess.

But either way, you're right.

The list of store managers is not a ranking of strength, but a sequence with unknown meaning. "