Keep an appointment
Each negotiation was an impromptu exchange meeting. Ji Yunding discovered an interesting thing - the larger the country, the more thorough the investigators' understanding of their own mysterious powers seemed to be, and their performance was closer to that of normal people.
On the contrary, in some countries, the visitors acted like witch doctors or chiefs, which made Ji Yunding feel that the popularization of compulsory education was urgent.
"Team Leader, before I joined the company, you didn't tell me that the business trip environment would be so... well, should I say colorful?"
Ji Yunding looked at the guy in front of him who was performing a strange dance and breathing fire like a charlatan, and couldn't help but complain.
"That guy? You should stay away from him. They are doing live festivals over there, playing dirty, but we can't control it. And we really need the relevant information they provide."
Ji Liuxing sighed and said in a low voice with some helplessness,
"It's not like everyone here is a good person. Just be careful."
Ji Yunding nodded, then sat in his seat, listening to their conversation in a daze.
It should be a good thing to slack off at work, but Ji Yunding always felt uneasy, but there was nothing he could do about it.
The days passed slowly one by one. Ji Yunding looked at the news coming from the administrative liaison office and felt unusually confused.
What should you do if you say that nothing can be changed if you do nothing, but there is nothing you can do anyway?
In fact, this is the atmosphere in the research group now. One group even jointly submitted a petition to the government, saying that they are willing to collectively solve the blizzard problem near Dongji, but it didn't work.
"They can't solve it themselves, and they won't let anyone else intervene. What's going on?"
Lin Shu cursed in the lounge for half an hour, and was so angry that he pounded the table on the sofa. Ji Changsheng paced around the room anxiously, while Wei Qianqiu... was sharpening a knife.
"Sister Qianqiu, please don't kill anyone." Ji Yunding said worriedly.
"…I know. This way, I am calmer."
As Wei Qianqiu spoke, he killed a mosquito with a wave of his hand, and then sharpened the already sharp blade on the whetstone with an expressionless face.
The chirping of cicadas in summer is annoying, and the hot and humid air around us penetrates into our bodies with our breathing, making us feel dizzy and losing our appetite.
The entire group was stuck in the progress of the operation. The new schedule could not be executed, and the progress of the original other world was also delayed. Everyone was in a bad mood.
"Boss, is it true that our group cannot rule the world?"
Lin Shu looked at Ji Liuxing, who had been slacking off in the lounge for a rare week after the handover of duties, and asked seriously.
If it was just a joke before, Lin Shu was really annoyed now. Everyone in the lounge looked over seriously, even Ji Yunding was a little hesitant.
"Well, actually, with our group, it's not necessarily impossible to just occupy the place, but can you or can I do the subsequent administrative work? Zheng Nuo can do it, but how many people can she be responsible for?"
Ji Liuxing shook his head and smiled helplessly.
"If the world goes haywire, there will be far more trouble than it has now. Maybe we won't even need monsters to destroy the world."
Needless to say, humans already have the ability to self-destruct.
Ji Yunding sighed deeply, and had to lower his head again, playing Minesweeper on his phone, doing nothing.
It was the first time that there were so many people in the lounge, but no one was in the mood to get together. Taking the initiative to schedule a leave to get together is completely different from being dragged and unable to do anything and forced to be idle.
"Come to think of it, no one has bothered me recently. I heard that the administration has called together several big stars to hold a joint concert, which made a lot of news. Finally, things have calmed down."
Seeing that the atmosphere was very solemn, Ji Yunding tried to break the silence - it was hard to imagine that one day Ji Yunding would be needed to play this role, but Zheng Nuo was now the busiest person in the entire group, staying up late in the administration office every day.
The research team successfully obtained a certain degree of power, including the right to investigate cases involving relevant investigators, a considerable degree of self-jurisdiction, etc. - although it has always been operated in this way, under Zheng Nuo's coordination, written documents were soon issued.
"Recently, I still see Leviathan following me from time to time, but now it's just a few tentacles... After this thing materializes, it seems to no longer dissipate."
This has led to a sharp deterioration in the mental state of people working in the entertainment industry recently - how could ordinary people bear to suddenly find strange tentacles extending from the ceiling in the middle of the night, with dead fish-like eyes staring at them.
"Yes, the subordinate investigation team will have to send many people to appease and protect those public figures. What should we do? Do we really have to collectively accept ordinary tasks?"
Lin Shu said, leaning back reluctantly.
"Even if the extradimensional channel cannot be opened casually, is there nothing we can do?"
At this point, the atmosphere became even more solemn. Everyone looked at Ji Liuxing, then looked away, and no one said anything.
Ji Yunding frowned and looked at Ji Liuxing, feeling that his expression was a little abnormal.
Should a normal person show such a relaxed and comfortable smile at this time? Ji Yunding was not sure.
Ji Liuxing noticed Ji Yunding's gaze, turned around, squinted his eyes and smiled at her, shook his head, and then spoke.
"It's okay. This may not be a bad thing, right? All countries are too comfortable now. I will die to put some pressure on them."
"Team leader, please stop learning random expressions on the Internet. They make me want to laugh at inappropriate times."
Ji Yunding complained, then stood up and went to get a Coke.
Junk food to relieve stress is standard for investigators, just like the police in some blockbuster movies always carry donuts - although the reasons are different. And because of the amount of exercise and stress, these people generally eat a lot, resulting in everyone's office equipped with a full refrigerator.
Firstly, people who do this amount of exercise do not need to consider diet to control their weight; secondly, their life expectancy is not long. Investigators generally retire at the age of 37, but no one can guarantee that they can live to retirement, and they are not used to thinking about the issue of aging.
Finally, this group of people are very rich and have the highest-level medical insurance and regular physical examination benefits. In short, they are ruining their physical and mental health while maintaining and receiving psychological counseling.
Ji Liuxing spread his hands, looking indifferent.
"Everyone will die sooner or later anyway. If I die now, no one will know what I will look like when I am old and ugly. You can hang a particularly handsome portrait of me."
"Team Leader, I've been wanting to ask you for a long time, why do you have such terrible anxiety about your appearance..."
Ji Yunding complained, a little confused.
"It seems that no one among the investigators cares about this kind of thing."
"It's not that I have appearance anxiety, I'm just used to responding to other people's expectations, including many people's comments on my appearance. It doesn't matter, I don't have any opinion, I'm quite happy."
Ji Liuxing rubbed his hair and smiled.
"And it's not that serious. At least it doesn't interfere with my work. For example, in the civilized world, doing hair is too complicated. It takes hours at a time. I really don't have time to do it, so I just do it myself with a dagger."
"Yeah, me too. By the way, there is a special serration design on the back of a set of daggers. That one is very useful."
"That? I designed that, although it was selected as one of the top ten useless designs in our group."
When Lin Shu heard what Ji Liuxing said, he raised his hand and said, "I voted for this design at the time, but I actually got to use it in the last group mission. I'm really upset. Which one did Sister Qianqiu vote for?"
Wei Qianqiu raised his head and pointed at the brick-like phone in Ji Yunding's hand.
“Built-in quiet voice.”
“Ah, this one’s number one.”
Ji Yunding became a little curious after hearing this. She turned on her mobile phone and searched for a long time before finding this function in the corner. Then the sound of Buddhist scriptures echoed in a lounge.
"Well, it's well deserved." Ji Yunding nodded and frowned, "Why does this function still exist?"
"People in the civilized world don't understand our work, so sometimes someone will try to make some useless features. If it's really too troublesome, they will complain. If it's not a problem, they will just leave it alone. Who knows, maybe it will be useful someday."
Lin Shu leaned on the table and shook his head.
"Come to think of it, today is Thursday."
"Yeah, it's Thursday."
Ji Yunding felt the slight stinging pain on the tip of his tongue caused by the carbonated drink, looked at the scenery outside the window that was so hot that it seemed as if the light was distorted, and thought about many things.
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On Friday, Ji Liuxing stood on the stage of the school's west stadium. He looked in a good mood. He was not going to leave any words for anyone, nor did he prepare a speech - although the administrative office hoped that he would encourage others a little.
The hot and humid air enters the body through the nasal cavity, and even if you don't exercise, sweat will appear on your forehead, dripping down your hair and falling to the ground.
Ji Yunding looked at the black air currents surging in the sky, stretched out his hand and tried to touch it, but soon withdrew his hand with a pale face.
In fact, Ji Yunding and Ji Liuxing’s ability to endure pain is roughly the same. The difference is that the latter is more "accustomed" to it and it won’t even affect his thinking and actions.
It really hurts, it hurts so much, but except Ji Yunding, probably no one else can truly understand how much it hurts.
"similar……"
Ji Yunding muttered softly and shook his head.
Forget it, it was destined that the team leader would hate her to death, but it didn’t matter.
Ji Yunding watched tens of thousands of people pouring out, and looked at Ji Liuxing with confusion about the future, but Ji Liuxing didn't give them any look, as if he finally didn't care about other people, but he was still wearing long sleeves in such hot weather.
It was not until the black meridians climbed up his neck that he revealed a trace of embarrassment. He raised his eyes and scanned the crowd, then looked at Ji Yunding. He instinctively tried to cover his neck with his hands, but then quickly put them down and smiled helplessly.
Ji Yunding didn't understand, because she had lost the memory of several private conversations with Ji Liuxing, and forgot his reluctance and fear of becoming weird. Ji Yunding just suddenly felt that this picture should be included in the Anle Tomb as a work of art.
But soon, Ji Yunding shook her head, closed her eyes, and stopped looking at Ji Liuxing as a sign of respect for him - she didn't really want to treat Ji Liuxing with a viewing attitude, but the picture did have some beauty.
Ji Liuxing's face was indeed good-looking. Even people who didn't have feelings based on appearance couldn't deny that it was good-looking. His long, light-gold eyelashes trembled slightly, and then half of them were covered by the hard mask, turning into an empty black hole.
The surging air flow gradually subsided. Ji Yunding opened his eyes and saw Ji Liuxing squatting there with his face buried in his knees. It was not known whether it was because of pain or because he did not want others to see it.
Is he a monster now? Is he a human?
This was probably the doubt of everyone in the audience, but in just a moment, the moment Ji Liuxing raised his head, the moment everyone saw the mask on his face, Ji Yunding heard an explosion that almost deafened her.
However, he just stood up intact, without speaking or moving, and the creepy and simple smile on the mask swept over and stayed on Ji Yunding for a moment.
Ji Liuxing waved his hand and suddenly disappeared. At the same time, an alarm sounded in the school.
"A strange reaction of undetectable intensity has occurred on campus. All personnel in the research group office building are requested to evacuate immediately. Repeat..."
Ji Yunding sighed deeply, followed the group and ran against the crowd to the office building where the group was located. This time there were no ordinary people running slowly around, and in less than ten minutes, Ji Yunding stood at the bottom of the office building and looked up.
"What about the casualties? Is anyone involved?"
As the deputy team leader, Lin Shu immediately took charge of understanding the situation and caught a person who ran away and asked. In this office building, there is not only one team and its nine subordinate teams, but also a logistics team and many ordinary people who manage the building's sanitation and infrastructure maintenance.
Ji Yunding looked at the people who kept running out of the door and shook his head.
"It's okay. The team leader won't do anything until everyone has left."
This was indeed the case. The second after the last person left, a black air current swept down from the top of the 28th floor and quickly covered the entire building. The exterior of the building quickly weathered and aged, and it looked unstable, like a shaky, dangerous building.
The entangled black cracks spread on the wall. Ji Yunding took a deep breath and walked into the building.
Lin Shu grabbed Ji Yunding and frowned.
"Wait until the list of the vanguard is confirmed, and do not act on your own."
"Sister Lin Shu, the team leader won't want to kill anyone. To ensure this, I have to get rid of him myself."
Ji Yunding turned around, looked at Lin Shu, and spoke confidently,
"If he kills anyone, he won't allow himself to live even if I save him. A person who doesn't want to live is truly hopeless."
"What are you talking about, saving him? Wait, you…"
Wei Qianqiu quietly walked behind Lin Shu and suddenly knocked on her wrist that was holding Ji Yunding, causing her to let go in pain. Then he locked Lin Shu's hands from behind.
At this moment, some people in the group wanted to stop it, but they soon squatted down because of the pain and looked angrily at Ji Changsheng next to them.
"You two are crazy. That was a weird story created by the boss. How could you let her go alone..."
"Senior, please trust me, just like you trust the team leader."
Ji Yunding seized the opportunity, rushed to the door quickly, and looked back at one group of team members.
"It's part of my vows, and I'm going to keep my appointment."
After saying that, she walked in.
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