"I'm not lying to you, I'm cheating the rules."
The mirror-like figure curled up at the corners of its mouth.
Years of being subordinate to others did not diminish his ambition. On the contrary, through his interactions with Yin Zhu, Jing Gui discovered that he still had the potential to become a manager.
It was indeed bound by the rules and had to be loyal to the temporary apartment manager, but it learned another reasonable way to circumvent the rules from Yin Zhu—its loyalty to the temporary apartment manager did not mean it could not become the manager of other areas.
Moreover, precisely because the Mirror Ghost originally belonged to a temporary apartment, it also qualified as an "agent".
Yin Zhu was a little curious: "How so?"
It was clear that Jinggui had a strong urge to confide, seemingly because he had accomplished something he had never thought of before, and was in a state of great excitement and exhilaration. Yin Zhu simply gave him a way out, waiting for him to spill everything out on his own.
Jing Gui cleared his throat and explained, "An agent can manage an area on behalf of the supervisor, but several conditions must be met:"
"[An agent will only appear when the supervisor disappears from this area];"
[Agents need to have extremely high deterrent power in this area; fear is the source of Sin City's power.]
[The rules of this area will remain in effect even after the person in charge disappears];
The agent must have previously been approved by the supervisor and be willing to act as the supervisor's representative until the supervisor returns.
"But I later discovered that for rules to emerge in a region, it is not necessarily necessary to have a leader. Rather, as long as enough people believe in these rules and abide by them, then the rules in that region will become real rules."
At this point, Yin Zhu understood.
“You took advantage of the fake rules I left with the property management.”
It's not a question, it's an affirmative statement.
Jing Gui nodded and added, "The people of Sin City are not easy to fool, so when they first saw your rule, most people didn't take it seriously, after all, Jiayuan Community has never had a manager before."
"And then you try to deceive me, to launch a sneak attack?"
"They themselves have died, so they've started to believe it's true, how can you say I'm lying?"
Mirror Ghost said this, but his tone was quite smug: "I used some broken mirrors scattered in the neighborhood to create an illusion of a blue-clad cleaner, so that my clone would clock in on time every day."
Speaking of the mirror shards, Yin Zhu recalled that she had indeed seen many shiny fragments in the neighborhood at the beginning.
I wonder what happened to this neighborhood before it became a sin city. Why are there so many mirrors? Could it be that before it became a sin city, this place was contracted out to some mirror developer as a warehouse?
Of course, these are not the main points.
Yin Zhu understood what happened next without Jing Gui saying anything. The mysterious cleaners who kept appearing, and the residents who were scared to death by Jing Gui after "breaking the rules," made others believe it to be true. With fear and rumors, Jiayuan Community gradually became a truly law-abiding area in everyone's mind.
The principle is similar to that in kindergarten. When Yin Zhu is unaware of the rules, the rules do not really take effect. But once you become aware of them, the rules will grow wildly into your entire world like weeds.
This may be a characteristic of Sin City itself.
"Now that you've become an agent, what do you need my help with?" Yin Zhu asked, puzzled.
“If you help me, I’ll help you.” Jing Gui wanted to reach out and pat her shoulder, but quickly realized that the two of them could not touch each other through the mirror, so he regretfully withdrew his hand: “You see, as long as I can become the fifth supervisor, you can go directly to the city lord.”
"What can I do? Let me make it clear beforehand, I'll only contribute my time, not my manpower."
Yin Zhu cautiously hugged her weak and helpless self.
She was thinking of possessing someone through a mirror.
Mirror Ghost quickly realized Yin Zhu's thought process, clenched his fist and smashed the mirror: "The rules of the community have already started to operate, and the residents in the community are all afraid of me, the [manager hidden in the dark]. But now you know, I am not the manager. This is just an informal [area]. Once this is exposed, then all my previous efforts will be in vain."
"So you need me to be your shill?" Yin Zhu's expression suddenly dawned on her. "I'll help you solidify your position as the supervisor, and from then on, you'll truly gain power?"
“That’s right. If I become the manager, I can be independent and have my own name.”
The mirror ghost became more and more excited as it talked, and even started walking in circles in the mirror. It might be a bit childish for a mirror ghost to do this in one mirror, but it was a bit outrageous that every mirror in Room 202 was filled with mirrors and that this scene was appearing in every single one of them.
"Don't spin, I'm dizzy," Yin Zhu stopped it in time.
Yin Zhu's biggest concern was: "So what do you want me to do?"
"...I don't know, so I hope you can help me figure out what to do, because you seem very smart." Jing Gui spread his hands, starting to sound a bit cheeky.
"Where do you see that I'm smart?"
Yin Zhu choked up. She thought she would just be a tool for the online army, but she didn't expect that she would even have to do the planning part-time. She thought Jing Gui was going to be very successful, but she had overestimated the strangeness.
The Sin City's nerfs to it are too drastic. Look at Mirror Ghost, a perfectly good ghost has been completely nerfed into a stupid state.
...
"I knew Jinggui was going to cause trouble, but I didn't expect him to rebel and become the person in charge."
“Every time Yin Zhu asked Jing Gui what she was going to do, Jing Gui would avoid talking about it, so I guessed that Jing Gui didn’t actually have a specific plan. It seems that she is planning to get something for nothing and make Yin Zhu work for her.”
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