Chapter 603: One Less Person at the Start

“Meow!”

At 4 a.m. on December 5, in the alley at the entrance of Tingxin Tavern, a man and a cat looked at each other from a distance.

A very fat orange cat was hunched in the corner, staring fiercely at Ji Li who was more than ten meters away.

Ji Li leaned against the wall, holding a cigarette in his mouth, and looked at the fat cat who became ferocious due to fear with interest.

He couldn't help but think of his own civet cat, which was as fat as the orange cat.

Sometimes I don't understand why a cat can be so fat?

Speaking of which, the civet cat has not appeared for a long time.

The bloated and mysterious civet cat always appeared at the critical moment of Ji Li's life and death, saving him from fire and water.

Thinking of this, Ji Li's mouth corners rarely showed a smile, he slowly squatted down, and his long hair spread on the ground.

He imitated the orange cat's demeanor and exuded a threatening aura from his body.

The orange cat's eyes first showed confusion, and then he put his posture into an offensive posture, and the hair on his body stood up.

However, in this confrontation with a huge difference in physique, it was the first to lose and finally fled.

Ji Li watched it move its fat body, and after jumping on the wall several times, it climbed up the wall and fled, and the smile on his face became more obvious.

"Manager Ji?"

It was at this time that the door of Tingxin Tavern on the opposite street was pushed open.

Luo Xian appeared behind Ji Li in a dress that was more gorgeous than yesterday.

She looked at Ji Li with a hint of surprise. It was not easy to see Ji Li like this, and she was the first.

When Ji Li turned his head, he saw five strange men and women following behind Luo Xian.

When the seven people gathered at the alley, Ji Li had already stood up and restored his cold expression, as if nothing had happened before.

"Are you that Ji Li?"

Before Ji and Luo spoke, one of the five people, a tall and handsome young man, spoke first with a bad tone.

Ji Li took out a cigarette box, took out a cigarette from it and refilled it with an unburned cigarette butt, and looked at it calmly without answering.

Luo Xian stood in the middle and waved her hand, saying to Ji Li:

"Let's get in the car first, we'll introduce ourselves as we go."

...

The car was driven by a female clerk from the sixth branch, who was also the only woman in this mission besides Luo Xian.

The woman's name was Ma Mingyu.

She was nearly 40 years old, with an ordinary appearance, and had never spoken a word until now.

But she was an "old man" in the sixth branch, with five mission experiences and three sin objects in her hands.

Sitting in the passenger seat was a young man with a sickly white complexion. His entire exposed skin was white, even his eyelashes were white.

The young man's name was Bai Huaiguang, and he was an albino.

He had a very similar personality to Ma Mingyu, both of whom were the type of people who rarely spoke and were persistent in doing things.

Ma Mingyu, Bai Huaiguang, and Luo Xian were the top combat forces in the sixth branch for this mission.

In addition to these three people, the handsome man who had previously shown a bad attitude towards Ji Li was called Pan Ting.

He could barely be considered a senior clerk, having performed two missions, and he had obtained three sin objects in those two missions.

According to the sixth branch, Pan Ting is a rising star and the fastest growing clerk.

But he had been walking on this road for just 20 minutes, and he had expressed sarcasm to Ji Li more than once.

In Ji Li's observation, the other party looked at him at least ten times along the way, and looked at Luo Xian more than 30 times.

Then the reason why he treated Ji Li badly was naturally clear.

As for the remaining two, an old man in his seventies, Chen Wei, and a timid middle-aged man, Yu Guofeng.

There is nothing to introduce about them, they are just ordinary clerks.

The two of them together made up a sin object, which was borrowed from others.

In this way, six people, plus Ji Li, are all the members of this mission.

Luo Xian and Ji Li sat alone in the last row, introducing the situation of the clerks to him.

She looked at Ji Li's clothes, and then looked at the long hair behind him, and said hesitantly:

"Manager Ji, your dress..."

Ji Li first looked at himself, then at Luo Xian, and then understood.

Luo Xian was dressed like this to play the role of a "bride" to avoid unnecessary trouble in subsequent tasks.

After all, executing the task is one thing, but it is inevitable to face various villagers during the task.

Ji Li opened the car window, took out a cigarette, lit it, and said softly:

"Don't worry too much. It's weird enough that you brought so many "relatives and friends" to visit your parents."

Luo Xian looked at the road ahead calmly. She has always been very rigorous in executing tasks. Unless there is an unavoidable situation, she is used to doing everything perfectly.

For this reason, she deliberately abandoned the ordinary mission clothes and chose gorgeous clothes.

Even in the trunk, a large number of gifts and gifts were prepared for Ji Li, the "groom".

Most of the shop assistants in the car were elites. Chen Wei and Yu Guofeng, who lacked experience and quality, did not dare to speak out of fear.

Only Pan Ting turned around from time to time, poked his head and talked to Luo Xian, and intentionally or unintentionally led the topic to Ji Li.

Ji Li always closed his eyes and fell into a doze, ignoring all this.

…

The car drove from dawn to full sun, from the flat highway to the rugged mountain road.

The high mountains and narrow mountain roads on both sides made Chen Wei, an elderly clerk, complain.

It also rained last night, making the road extremely muddy and difficult to walk on. The car kept shaking as it struggled to move forward.

The road is getting harder and harder to walk, and the time is getting closer and closer to 8 o'clock when the mission starts.

"boom!"

Just as everyone was resisting the bumps, there was a deafening loud noise.

The ground in front of the car suddenly shook like an earthquake, and it stopped after a moment.

Ma Mingyu stuck his head out of the car window and waved the dust raised with his hand.

Only then did I see that a huge boulder had slipped from the mountain and blocked the road.

"Store manager, the road ahead is unreachable."

Bai Huaiguang promptly reported the situation to Luo Xian.

Luo Xian opened the car door first, walked to the front of the car to observe the situation, and then looked back at the road behind.

She returned to the car and said to several people:

"It seems we can't drive in, so let's carry our things and walk into the village.

Fortunately, it is not far from Wue Village, so arriving before 8 o'clock is not a big problem. "

After hearing this, Ma Mingyu, Bai Huaiguang and others got out of the car without saying anything and started to go to the trunk to get things.

Pan Ting, on the other hand, stretched out his suit with a displeased look on his face and smoothed his visible hair.

It was as if he was dressed as the groom who followed Luo Xian back home.

"Hmph, the bad start is probably because there is an unlucky guy in our team, and we have to go down such a bad path."

Ji Li's name almost came up in his words.

Ji Li didn't even look at him. He got out of the car last and closed the door.

He moved his stiff arms, came to the front of the car, and waved to Pan Ting behind him.

"Hey? What are the instructions from Store Manager Ji?"

Pan Ting walked past Luo Xian and others with empty hands, and took a few steps forward with a smile on his face.

Ji Li waved his hand again with a calm look, gesturing for him to come closer.

And when Pan Ting had just taken two steps, Ji Li suddenly had a black gun in his hand, aiming it between his eyebrows and shooting him.

The shot came so suddenly that the sneer on Pan Ting's lips did not disappear when he died.

A line of blood flowed from his forehead, dripped from the corner of his grinning mouth, and fell to the ground with a plop.

Ma Mingyu and others behind him were stunned and stepped forward to support him, looking at Ji Li in shock and anger.

Chen Wei and Yu Guofeng had already got into the back of the car, with only their heads exposed and looking at Ji Li with an indifferent expression, full of fear.

Luo Xian's reaction was relatively calm. She put the gift box at her feet, looked at Pan Ting's body that was starting to cool down, and then at Ji Li who was raising a gun.

Her face was slightly cold, but her manner of speaking was still very polite:

"Store manager Ji, you have no right to kill my clerk. This will affect the progress of the mission."

Ji Li took the pistol back into his arms, tied up his loose hair with the red rope on his wrist, and said softly:

"I would be very annoyed if I didn't kill him. That would affect the mission."

And just as he finished saying this, his eyes suddenly froze, and the gray in his pupils began to rotate automatically.

Ji Li turned sideways slightly and looked behind the car, deep into the muddy and dirty mountain road.

Luo Xian seemed to sense the unusual trace, and turned around at the same time, looking behind him with vigilance.

The two people's eyes intertwined for an instant, and they said four words in unison:

"Is there a ghost nearby?"

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