Seeing that knocking was hopeless.
Manager Li Chong quickly pulled out his phone, preparing to call for help.
But just as his hand reached into his pants pocket, he suddenly rembered sothing he'd been taught before becoming a manager.
He had been indoctrinated with the manager regulations.
One of them stated that the vast underground space beneath Alice Apartnt.
Functioned like a perverted prison.
Soundproof, disconnected from networks.
Therefore, there was no signal here—it was completely blocked.
Although he knew this, Manager Li Chong still wanted to try anyway.
After all, what if his phone was powerful enough?
But reality shattered his dream.
His phone had zero signal bars, just like a brick.
No, it was even worse than a brick.
"Ahhhhhh!"
Manager Li Chong violently threw his glowing brick-like phone forward, smashing it against the iron door.
Then he plopped down on the ground.
Completely broken.
He was the dignified manager!
Even if he wasn't the manager, he was still a ruthless man with over a dozen lives on his hands!
How could he possibly be defeated by a middle-aged woman?!
...
Jiang Ran naturally had no idea that Manager Li Chong, who wanted to kill him, was now trapped in the freezer room with his life hanging by a thread.
After helping that resident who needed assistance, he returned to the first-floor managent office.
But he didn't see that annoying Manager Li Chong.
However, Jiang Ran didn't care—not seeing him was even better.
Out of sight, out of mind.
He took out his phone and continued scrolling through TikTok.
After scrolling for a while, he started following along with his phone to exercise.
...
There were many live stream rooms on the Black Software.
Each live stream room represented a different live stream ga.
Recently, one live stream ga had been gaining quite good popularity.
Called: [I Want to Be the Treasure King].
I Want to Be the Treasure King, this live stream ga was quite simple.
A fixed location was chosen, such as a school, mountain, village, etc.
Using a school as an example, within this school, there would be unlimited small treasures and large treasures.
Small treasures, if found and possessed until the ga ended, could be exchanged for 100,000 Chinese yuan.
Large treasures, when the ga ended, could be exchanged for 1,000,000 Chinese yuan.
Then, multiple ga participants would join the treasure hunt.
From these rules, this live stream room ga seed like nothing special, just a normal treasure hunt ga.
At worst, there might be situations where participants fought each other over small and large treasures.
But it wasn't particularly bloody, not really matching Black Software's usual style.
Therefore, there was one rule that directly intensified this.
Each participant was equivalent to a dium treasure, worth 500,000 Chinese yuan.
As long as you killed one participant, you would obtain one dium treasure to exchange after the ga ended.
Generally, during the I Want to Be the Treasure King ga phases, the ga locations basically only had ga participants, with no other people.
Because the chosen places were relatively remote.
But there were always exceptions.
There had been multiple rounds of Treasure King gas where unrelated people accidentally entered.
And these unrelated people were also drawn into the ga.
The organizers of I Want to Be the Treasure King designated them as small treasures—killing one unrelated person would earn you one small treasure.
And should we say Jiang Ran was unlucky, or unlucky, or just plain unlucky?
The Qingfeng Mountain in Beicheng City that he, Wang Qingzhao, Fatty, and others were planning to climb a week later.
Was exactly the ga location for I Want to Be the Treasure King.
Moreover, the timing happened to be the second day of that round's I Want to Be the Treasure King ga.
...
Jiang Ran had been quite happy all day today, not knowing where that new manager Li Chong had gone.
No sign of him all day.
Even when Jiang Ran sent him ssages, he didn't reply.
"Good that he's not here, I'm comfortable!"
Jiang Ran alone in the managent office was as happy as an immortal.
Checking the ti, his food delivery was almost there.
Jiang Ran went outside the apartnt building in advance to wait.
At 5 PM, Jiang Ran was eating his braised pork knuckle rice.
This portion of braised pork knuckle rice had lots of rice but very little pork knuckle.
And it cost him 20 yuan.
Restaurant owners these days were really getting increasingly greedy.
Clearly not full.
"Just right with several major delivery apps competing, I'll order a milk tea. Hey, this is good, pearl milk tea for only 3.9 yuan."
He placed an order for a pearl milk tea on his phone, but when he reached the paynt interface.
A text ssage popped up.
After finishing the paynt, Jiang Ran opened the text ssage and found it was from Doctor Bai Xiaoliang, telling him to go to Red Leaf Psychiatric Hospital for treatnt tomorrow at 8 AM.
To be honest, Jiang Ran didn't really want to go anymore.
After all, when he initially sought treatnt from Bai Xiaoliang, he hoped all his alternate personalities would disappear.
And he would beco a ntally healthy person.
But now, whenever he encountered dangerous situations, he still relied on his alternate personalities to save his life.
So he found himself in a dilemma now.
"Forget it, I'll go check it out tomorrow anyway. Doctor Bai's treatnt fees are practically nothing anyway."
...
Nancheng City First People's Hospital.
The sky wasn't completely dark yet, with intense gold coloring the horizon.
But this golden hue was gradually being swallowed by darkness.
Within the golden range.
Standing before a huge floor-to-ceiling window in one of the hospital's VIP wards was a handso young white man wearing a wine-red suit.
This white man was precisely Lucas.
"I'm sorry, Doctor Lucas. Not only did I fail, but I also made you spend so much money for to stay in such a good hospital."
Lying on the luxurious hospital bed behind Lucas was another young man.
Compared to Lucas's appearance, this man was like clouds and mud—worlds apart.
It was Huang Kaiyu.
After Huang Kaiyu pretended to be a Lightning Delivery driver, climbed through the window to murder Jiang Ran, failed, and fell from the building.
He had fled all the way.
After escaping, he called Lucas.
Upon learning the news, Lucas imdiately called an ambulance and arranged ergency treatnt for Huang Kaiyu.
Although he arranged ergency treatnt for Huang Kaiyu, Lucas didn't visit him.
Within a few days, he went to a hospital in another province for exchange learning.
He only returned today, and after returning, ca directly to the ward where Huang Kaiyu was staying.
"It's nothing, failure is normal. Everyone fails, just like Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty in your country's ancient history—he lost more often than he won against Xiang Yu, yet in the end, he was the one who gained the empire."
Lucas didn't turn around, his tall and straight silhouette alone could be used as movie material.
Huang Kaiyu bowed his head in sha: "Doctor Lucas, after my injuries heal, I will make another attempt on Jiang Ran's life. This ti, I absolutely won't fail!"
He wanted to pound his chest in assurance, but after just one pound, he started coughing violently.
Lucas turned around, extended his right hand, made a sharp grabbing motion at the air in front of him, then smiled slightly: "No need, I plan to take action personally."
...
The next day, Jiang Ran woke up in the morning.
Since he had to go to Red Leaf Psychiatric Hospital today, and he couldn't wait to find out where Manager Li Chong had gone before leaving work yesterday.
So he had sent Manager Li Chong a ssage last night asking for leave.
But even after waking up this morning, Manager Li Chong hadn't replied.
"No reply ans tacit approval."
Jiang Ran got up, washed up, and prepared to go to Red Leaf Psychiatric Hospital.
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