Welcome to the strange story that cannot be escaped
"Those three buildings belong to the research group. The tallest one belongs to Group 1 and its subordinate Groups 2 to 10 and the logistics group. It has 28 floors. The other two buildings belong to Groups 11 to 50, each with 30 floors.
Because groups one to nine are the ones with the most frontline tasks, they are grouped together with the logistics group for the convenience of mission reporting. "
Ji Yunding said, and pointed again,
"But this is a closed area, so I can't take you in."
"Why is it the twenty-eighth floor? According to what you just said, isn't it 'three' that can appease the weirdness?"
"It's convenient to jump..."
Ji Yunding muttered something in a low voice, and then explained seriously,
"Because the research team with more frontline tasks has a relatively radical attitude towards weirdness, they think it would be great if the weirdness came looking for death."
Just as he finished speaking, Ji Yunding was startled by a scream from the crowd, and then he was protected by Wang Linlin behind him.
From a distance, I could only see a guy covered in blood walking towards me quickly, which was a bit scary.
Ji Yunding patted Wang Linlin's arm, indicating that she was fine, and then stood at the front of the team and said helplessly: "Hello, Team Leader Ji Liuxing."
Ji Liuxing immediately understood that Ji Yunding did not want to reveal his identity, so he just nodded, not looking very familiar with him. Then he smiled apologetically: "Sorry, I scared you. Just now, the materials from the laboratory next door ran out, and I didn't have time to change clothes."
"...Is this Ji Liuxing?" Ji Yunding heard someone in the back row of the crowd lower their voices and whisper in a shocked tone, "No, he really looks like this. I also said that the pictures on the Internet were too exaggerated..."
"Yes, this is the leader of our school's campus wall, Ji Liuxing, who has won the popular school idol selection for many years."
Ji Yunding's tone did not change, it was the same as when he pointed at the lake and said that there were a lot of people jumping here.
Ji Liuxing almost couldn't hold back his laughter at this statement that sounded like an introduction to a tourist attraction. Blood was dripping from the tips of his hair, looking like beautiful red highlights.
He raised his hand to wipe the blood off his cheek, and sighed in distress: "The Ghost Story Bureau called me just now. If they said I was dead, I would be a little troubled. If it's convenient, can you please help me dispel the rumor to those who told you this news?"
At this moment, Ji Yunding realized one thing - the team leader seemed to have been temporarily invited by the Ghost Story Bureau, and was trying to convince people with his looks.
Indeed, many people will inexplicably have a stronger liking and trust for good-looking people, and he doesn't seem to mind taking advantage of this.
"Wait, Team Leader Ji Liuxing, you just said that the materials in the neighboring laboratory have escaped?"
Ji Yunding called out the honorific, which was a little awkward. Ji Liuxing also felt awkward, but he continued talking.
"Yes, he really ran away...ah, and mixed in with you guys."
As he spoke, Ji Liuxing reached out and tore off a paper figure from behind a boy, then smiled gently.
"Well, have fun."
Ji Liuxing showed up and didn't stay for even a second. After completing his task, he left immediately as if he had something urgent to do - after all, it would be too annoying to stay here and steal the spotlight during other people's classmates' reunion.
While everyone was discussing Ji Liuxing, Ji Yunding whispered a few words to Li Fengqing.
"Team leader, is he really that good looking?"
"You really have no idea. You'll need to get used to it before you can speak normally."
However, when Ji Yunding was depressed before, Li Fengqing was contacted and his mind was full of Ji Yunding's affairs. He was so anxious that he didn't pay attention to these trivial things.
It’s not that Ji Yunding can’t feel whether something is good-looking or not, but he needs to observe the people around him to understand what this “good-looking” means in human society, or to what extent.
The rules of human society are very strange. They chop independent individuals into labels and then attach prices to the labels. People are also accustomed to judging the person as a whole by just glancing at the price, and are even happy to establish irrelevant connections between labels.
In Ji Yunding's opinion, it would be more reasonable to say that the person is 1.72 meters tall just by looking at half a finger - after all, experienced seniors can really judge a person's approximate height based on the broken finger.
But when he heard people around him discussing Ji Liuxing's labels, Ji Yunding still felt a strange sense of disconnection. They analyzed Ji Liuxing from his appearance to his assets, and commented on his personality and deeds, mixed with countless subjective guesses and inferences.
This is the dismemberment that is unique to the civilized world - judging everyone in an invisible way with invisible and intertwined rules.
Of course, this does not mean that Ji Yunding thinks her classmates are bad people or have bad intentions. They just get used to being judged and accept this rule in the process of being quantified as objects.
Just like a fleeting clip in a TV drama, if a list of grades appears - even just for a brief moment - it will shift almost everyone's topic and attention to grades.
Sometimes, the thought of being a real "human" will make you feel a little uneasy. Walking under the blue sky and feeling the evening breeze, you may vaguely feel that people are not objects that need to be measured by "value", but you will soon be swept up in the standards of society.
As the students walked forward, the speculations and inferences they had just made shattered and scattered in the wind. Ji Yunding couldn't help but look back, but he seemed to see something flash by.
"Huh?"
It’s more like I sensed something rather than seeing it.
It seemed as if the tentacles of some extremely huge, unobservable existence brushed across the place where everyone had just stood, almost gently caressing it, as if sweeping away something.
It was rotating its organ, which it was not sure if it could be called an eyeball. When Ji Yunding sensed it, it noticed Ji Yunding.
But in a flash, Ji Yunding could not find anything. Only a withered yellow leaf fell from the tree, turned a bend, and was blown into the green belt.
illusion?
Ji Yunding shook his head, wondering if he was a little tired recently, and then caught up with the other classmates.
"Finally, this is the zoo I particularly like." Ji Yunding pushed open an iron gate that looked like a park. "Be careful, the gate is heavy."
"Does your school even have a zoo?" A classmate asked with a slightly envious tone, "That's great..."
"They are all pets of investigators who died in the line of duty. The school will take care of them. Since many of the investigators come from reclusive families that possess mysterious powers, they have everything."
Ji Yunding pointed at a tiger guarding the intersection over there.
"That's a cat. It can understand what people say. It's better not to say bad things about it."
The tiger raised its head in a very human way and glanced at Ji Yunding as if to say hello, then lay down listlessly, wagging its tail.
"Ji Yunding, this is a tiger, right..."
And he was outside the cage, which is much more terrifying than walking the dog without a leash.
"Yes, but its name is Cat."
I've said it before, the investigators are not in their right minds.
"Cat, look, here are the visit permit and documents. I'll take them there."
The tiger sniffed the document in Ji Yunding's hand, then closed its eyes and completely relaxed its vigilance. Ji Yunding reached out and hugged its furry head, then patted its head gently.
Its owner was Guan Ningyue, who died in April last year. Ji Yunding had met this senior once before, and had said that he wanted to see her win the rookie competition, but in the end, he never came back.
Ji Yunding had used the seal hanging around the tiger's neck on a joint letter, so she would come to accompany it from time to time, as a way to repay the favor of her predecessor. After a few visits, she became familiar with the tiger.
Ji Yunding always felt that it seemed to be in a state of low spirits today.
After going around in a circle and sending the classmates to the school gate, Ji Yunding didn't feel anything, but everyone else was a little dazed - not because of tiredness, but mainly because their worldview had been impacted.
While other students were taking taxis and Wang Linlin was waiting for a taxi to go back to the dormitory arranged by the Ghost Story Bureau, Ji Yunding stuffed a box into Wang Linlin's hand like a thief, and then turned and ran away. Those who didn't know would think she handed over a bomb.
"Ji Yunding! Hey! Hey, this kid..."
Wang Linlin obviously couldn't catch up with Ji Yunding, so he could only sigh and decide to open it first. If he couldn't accept it, he would send it back to her later.
Unexpectedly, there was an ordinary necklace inside, and a handwritten apology note, expressing his apology for the last time he transferred money.
"This kid, the price tag is still there...Is he really afraid that I won't accept it?" Wang Linlin looked at it and shook his head, "Is it really okay for him to work in the future?"
Of course, she did not despise the student's kindness, and she also knew Ji Yunding's character, but she was really a little worried about whether Ji Yunding could live well in the system, a place where human relationships are the most important.
It was getting late, Wang Linlin looked up at the sky, and muttered in surprise: "Why is the moon purple these past two days?"
The next day, Ji Yunding inexplicably received a call asking her to attend a group leader meeting. When she arrived, the group leaders at school were all in their seats, about a dozen people, and the others seemed to be attending the meeting online.
As soon as Ji Yunding entered the room, Ji Liuxing, who was originally sitting at the front seat, stood up and asked her to sit over.
“Yesterday, news came that a large amount of discussion about Ji Yunding’s partial information and deeds suddenly emerged on the Internet.
The administrative liaison office has been suppressing online discussions, but simple keyword extraction and screening are no longer able to suppress them. The number of people available to manually screen and delete information is limited, and such screening will further expand the spread of information.
Moreover, there are praises and doubts on the Internet. Some people have compiled and collected Ji Yunding's interpersonal relationships and other information. Some even claim that the official blockade of the news is to suppress newcomers without a backing background, and public opinion is in chaos.
It is currently suspected that this incident is related to abnormal astronomical phenomena, but there is no direct evidence.
One of the topics of this group meeting is the attitude that the research group should take in handling matters related to Ji Yunding.
Second, whether studying the mechanisms of how weird things affect real-world electronic devices should be a top priority.
After saying that, Ji Liuxing placed the document in front of Ji Yunding, and stood behind her, gently supporting the back of the chair.
"First of all, after careful discussion within our group, our position is to put the personal wishes of the team members first. Any proposal that goes against the personal wishes of the team members will be rejected by the group. That's all."
Ji Yunding flipped through the documents, then asked Ji Liuxing in a low voice: "Team leader, when did our team have an internal discussion?"
"This morning, check your phone."
Of course Ji Yunding had read it, but the chat records were neither careful nor a discussion. It was just Ji Liuxing talking about things and Lin Shu talking about things with a curse. As for the others, Ji Liuxing was told to deal with them and not to let his own people down. Then Wei Qianqiu followed with a 1.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Ji Yunding sighed and rubbed his head: "Well, how about this."
...What?
"I'll change my name. I'll let the people at the Guidan Public Opinion handle the name 'Ji Yunding'."
Ji Yunding had a look on his face that said "this is so troublesome".
"Just change my first and last name, and print a new ID for me. Anyway, I don't think those people really care who I am."
"But someone is already sharing your photo online."
Ji Liuxing reached out to help Ji Yunding flip through the documents and pointed to the relevant pages.
"And according to the feedback from the counterparty, if you hadn't been suppressed, your popularity would have surpassed mine. Also, many people seem to know what you look like for no apparent reason."
Just like the previous news of Ji Liuxing's impending death, it spread without any beginning or end.
From his background to his resume to his personality, Ji Yunding is a hot topic and is worth discussing. Even his pseudonym account is popular - this is the result of changing his age to two years older and only uploading bloody rain and some trivial deeds.
"Plus, now the rumor that I'm going to die is spreading everywhere, which will also make you more discussed."
Ji Yunding flipped through the book for a while, thought about it, and for no reason he remembered the thing he vaguely felt yesterday.
She seemed to be being watched.
"On the bright side, the price that the monsters paid for this behavior would not be small, but on the negative side, since they did this, it means that they have some corresponding purpose."
The leader of Group 12 raised his hand and said,
"I think the main target of this attack is not Team Leader Ji Liuxing, but this student Ji Yunding."
“I second the motion. From this, it can be inferred that Guaiyi may think that Ji Yunding is extremely threatening, even as threatening as Team Leader Ji Liuxing. However, based on the information provided by the current team, it is not enough to serve as decisive evidence.
Therefore, could the group disclose more relevant information? "
"It involves an oath, dismissed."
Ji Yunding only needed to respond to the proposals that involved her wishes and put forward her ideas. So he listened to the discussion here while looking at his phone - looking at the messages on the chat software and the information on the social platform.
It started fermenting from midnight yesterday, and even if all the entries were deleted, it was still easy to find related content. If Ji Yunding were to give her an evaluation, it would be as if all the compliments from the world were pouring down on her.
For some reason, Ji Yunding inexplicably recalled the illusion he had sensed yesterday.
The more you argue, the clearer the truth becomes. In fact, the impact of this matter so far is still limited. The biggest impact is probably that Ji Yunding has to step forward, but as long as you keep a cool head, it is not unsolvable. At most, it will take some time.
After that, discussions on the Internet should be allowed to continue appropriately, and then the research team will block Ji Yunding's whereabouts on the grounds of closed training until the matter fades from people's sight.
Ji Yunding had no objection to this. Although she could not go on the mission, she could take this opportunity to stay in the other dimension for a while, which did not seem to be something she could not accept.
Everyone agreed that the monster would have further actions, but they could only respond accordingly and let the people in the other dimension inquire more about the situation.
The meeting had already started at noon. When it was time to adjourn, everyone went out, but Ji Yunding remained in his seat, preparing to finish his last post before leaving.
At this moment, Ji Yunding suddenly stopped and saw a message hanging at the top of the social software like a virus.
"Welcome to the weird story you can't escape from."
This message box was the same as the virus pop-up window, with an eye in the middle that looked like it was painted with red paint, staring at Ji Yunding.
Then, the phone flashed with a snowflake-like noise and automatically turned off. When Ji Yunding turned it on again, the phone had returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.
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