He flipped over and sat up on the sofa, staring at the number. Jiang Ran was sure he didn't recognize it.
But he answered it anyway.
After connecting, the first thing from the other end was a rather young and steady voice:
"Excuse , is this Mr. Jiang Ran?"
"Yes, I'm Jiang Ran. May I ask who's speaking?"
"Oh, I'm the new apartnt manager. My na is Mao Li Zhishu. I've already arrived on the first floor of Alice Apartnt. Would it be possible to et with you?"
"Oh, oh, yes. I'll co down right away."
Jiang Ran had thought it might be a prank call, but he never expected it to be a call from the new manager.
Holy crap, the speed at which this manager is taking over is a bit too fast.
He hung up the phone.
Jiang Ran hurriedly put on his shoes and quickly took the elevator down to the first floor.
After exiting the elevator, he saw a man standing in front of the managent office, wearing a wine-red suit and shiny black leather shoes.
He was a young man with very fair skin.
Beside this man was a black, high-end suitcase.
When he saw Jiang Ran co out of the elevator, he imdiately waved at him.
Jiang Ran walked over quickly.
The two shook hands.
After the handshake.
This man gave Jiang Ran a smile:
"Hello, Jiang Ran. From now on, we'll be colleagues. I hope we can get along peacefully."
Jiang Ran also returned a smile: "Yes, I'm happy to be your colleague. But, are you from Cherry Blossom Country?"
He rembered the man introducing himself as Mao Li Zhishu.
That na is purely Cherry Blossom Country.
Mao Li Zhishu said with a smile: "Yes, but not entirely. I'm mixed race."
"My father is from Hua Country, and my mother is from Cherry Blossom Country."
"My father went to Cherry Blossom Country to study and t my mother there. They got together and had . After that, my father stayed living in Cherry Blossom Country, so I also obtained Cherry Blossom Country citizenship."
"Oh, I see!"
Jiang Ran understood.
Then, he said: "There's sothing I'd like to ask you."
Mao Li Zhishu's standing posture was very proper.
Although his facial features were average, his skin was very fair.
Overall, he gave off a sowhat gentlemanly and elite vibe.
Additionally, unlike Jiang Ran, who is Hua Country person.
Mao Li Zhishu's hairstyle was the very popular wash-cut-blow-dry long hair for n over in Cherry Blossom Country.
Jiang Ran asked: "How did you co to be the manager at Alice Apartnt?"
Mao Li Zhishu replied: "Internal referral. I passed the interview and ca."
Jiang Ran then asked: "Then have you t the boss or any leaders or anything?"
Mao Li Zhishu replied: "No, I only t one interviewer."
Jiang Ran nodded, truly and completely giving up any thought of becoming the manager himself.
Mao Li Zhishu: "So, do you have any other questions?"
Jiang Ran said: "No."
Mao Li Zhishu: "Oh, I don't either."
Jiang Ran: "If there's nothing else, I'll head back to my own place first."
Mao Li Zhishu nodded: "Yes, I know you have your own ho here. Go ahead."
Hearing this, Jiang Ran felt this new manager probably knew quite a bit about him, but he still asked: "It's working hours now, and you're just letting go back to my own place like this? You won't force to stay in the managent office during work hours?"
Mao Li Zhishu laughed: "Why would I force you to stay in the managent office?"
"After all, your work is the sa whether you're here or not. It's unnecessary."
Jiang Ran thought to himself, finally a manager as lax as Manager Xiao Zhang has arrived.
If another manager like Manager Li Chong ca, he would really be troubled.
Jiang Ran left, taking the elevator back to his Room 304 on the third floor.
Of course, Jiang Ran didn't forget that from the mont he saw Mao Li Zhishu, the danger warning in his mind had been continuously sounding:
[Ding! Dangerous person detected, points 8, points 8, points ...]
After Jiang Ran left, Manager Mao Li Zhishu dragged his black suitcase and found the room where the manager usually lived.
That is, the single room that belonged to Manager Xiao Zhang and Manager Li Chong.
He pushed the door open, ca in, took a brief look around, and discovered there were still personal items left behind by the previous manager after he was killed.
He took off his wine-red suit jacket, loosened his tie, and began tidying up.
...
Jiang Ran had just returned to 304 when he received a phone call telling him to co back down.
He was speechless.
He had just co up!!!
Complaints aside, he still had to go down.
When he went down, a young man and two uniford police officers were already waiting for him.
He recognized that young man;
he was the new resident, nad Shangguan Fei.
Jiang Ran had also watched too many martial arts novels and TV dramas.
For people with many compound surnas, Jiang Ran always felt these people were big shots. Even if they weren't big shots, they were still not simple characters.
"What's the matter? Why call down?"
Only after Jiang Ran walked over did he find out.
It turned out that today around three or four in the morning, soone wearing a white ghost face mask was sharpening a knife outside Shangguan Fei's ho.
So Shangguan Fei called the police then, and now they were here to check the surveillance footage.
To check who that person was and where they went.
"Oh, I see. I'll take you directly to the surveillance room."
The surveillance room at Alice Apartnt seed to have been left unlocked ever since Manager Xiao Zhang stopped working here.
Anyway, a lock can't stop a determined person. Locked or not, it's the sa.
Therefore, the four of them—Jiang Ran and the others—went directly into the surveillance room.
After entering, the two police officers began checking the surveillance footage based on the specific ti provided by Shangguan Fei.
But unfortunately, that segnt of surveillance video was gone, as if it had been deleted by soone else, deleted cleanly.
Therefore, the police were helpless.
They could only tell Shangguan Fei to call them again if he encountered that white ghost face mask person next ti.
Watching the retreating backs of the two police officers.
Shangguan Fei more or less guessed it in his heart.
Because he felt his current situation should be that he's fallen into one of those horror infinite flow stories from web novels. Therefore, it's normal that the surveillance video can't be found and was deleted.
Of course, he hasn't completely figured out the rules of this infinite flow yet.
He turned his head and saw the assistant manager, Jiang Ran.
Hmm, very handso at first glance. Still very handso at second glance.
Shangguan Fei thought if he looked as good as Jiang Ran, he could probably find himself a rich little sugar mama.
Right at that mont, he suddenly rembered the announcent in the Alice Apartnt residents' group chat he had joined.
The one that said if you need help, call Jiang Ran.
Isn't this just a blatant rule?
Placed in a horror infinite flow novel.
Jiang Ran would be that kind of trustworthy NPC?
Jiang Ran stared at Shangguan Fei's utterly ordinary face.
For so reason, this guy kept staring at him without saying anything.
It made him feel very uncomfortable all over.
"If there's nothing else, I'll take my leave first?"
Jiang Ran asked Shangguan Fei.
Shangguan Fei was snapped out of his thoughts by this.
Then, he quickly reached out his hand, grabbed Jiang Ran's arm, and said: "Oh, oh, there's sothing I need your help with."
Jiang Ran said: "Don't tell you want to help you find that white ghost face mask person."
Shangguan Fei shook his head: "Of course not. What I'm thinking is, that person might co again today or tomorrow. I'd like to ask you to help catch him together at that ti. Because I'm afraid that by the ti I call the police and they arrive, he'll have run away again."
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