"Alright, Little Li."

Jiang Ran said again.

"Hehehehehe..."

This time, the manager Li Chong's sinister cold laugh was even more pronounced. "I'll repeat it once more, you must address me as Supervisor Li from now on, understand?"

Jiang Ran: "Understood, Little Li."

Manager Li Chong's expression froze completely.

But in that moment, he restrained himself.

"Jiang Ran, since you're back from your trip, you can come to work tomorrow, right?"

Jiang Ran thought for a moment and said, "No problem, after all I'm a work-loving ox and horse."

"By the way, Little Li, you should be a work-loving ox and horse too, right?"

Jiang Ran grinned mischievously.

Li Chong remained silent, turned, and walked away.

It seemed he no longer wanted anything to do with this Jiang Ran.

Watching Li Chong leave, Jiang Ran loudly called after him again:

"I burst out laughing and walk out the door, who are we to be common folk!!!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha!"

Accompanied by laughter, Jiang Ran stepped into the elevator.

The elevator quickly took Jiang Ran up to the third floor.

Dragging his suitcase, Jiang Ran arrived at the door of Room 304.

The door opened immediately via facial recognition.

He tossed his backpack inside, flung the suitcase aside, rushed onto the couch, and spread his arms wide.

In his heart he shouted, "System, send me back to the inner landscape world!"

Look how obedient he was, not like the other alternate personalities who cling to controlling the body.

So next time the random pick must pick him too!

After shouting in his mind, Jiang Ran indeed felt his head go a little dizzy.

It was at that moment a sudden knock on the door shattered the dizziness.

Jiang Ran paused.

He jumped off the couch, came to the door, and opened it.

Standing there was an absolute beauty.

Jiang Ran knew this woman lived in Room 303 and was called Qin Kelian;she had an older sister named Qin Yi.

The instant Jiang Ran opened the door, before he could speak, Qin Kelian stepped forward and thumped his chest.

Pouting with a bit of coquettishness, she said:

"Jiang Ran, tell me, where did you go for so long while you weren't home?"

Other men, faced with a beauty acting that way, would probably wish for more.

But Jiang Ran pulled away from Qin Kelian.

He smiled and said, "I went to Macedonia Island to play. Didn't Manager Xiao Zhang give me his travel opportunity?!"

Qin Kelian's face lit up as if she'd suddenly realized something.

But actually she didn't care where Jiang Ran had been.

What she really wanted was:

"Jiang Ran, tonight at seven, there's a gathering at my place. Me and my sister, and Manager Xiao Zhang's distant cousin Kim Yoon-ah will be there too, how about it? Come!"

"The three of us big beauties will be there, you won't not come, right?"

Jiang Ran said, "A gathering? There should be a bar at a gathering?"

Qin Kelian seemed to seize on something and hurriedly said, "Yes! And lots of booze! Baijiu, beer, wine, different brands!"

"Besides alcohol, there will be delicious food! My sister will cook it herself!"

Jiang Ran said, "Alright then, for the sake of the alcohol, I'll go!"

Seeing Jiang Ran agree, Qin Kelian leaped away in ecstatic joy.

She hadn't expected it to go so smoothly.

Qin Kelian returned to Room 303.

Seeing her sister so happy, Qin Yi instantly knew Jiang Ran had agreed to come at seven.

She smiled, "Wonderful, I refuse to believe he can escape the palms of us two sisters this time!"

Qin Yi and Qin Kelian, this pair of Demoness sisters, had teamed up with the cross-dressing killer Kim Yoon-ah, who the Diamond Bachelor had used privileges to move from Korea's Alice Apartment to kill Jiang Ran.

They had reached a cooperative understanding before Jiang Ran went to Macedonia Island.

To kill Jiang Ran together.

Of course, though the goal was the same—to kill Jiang Ran—there were slight differences in methods.

Kim Yoon-ah simply demanded Jiang Ran's death, no matter the method.

The Demoness sisters, however, wanted to make Jiang Ran share the same fate as those they had killed before.

After losing consciousness, they would tie him to the execution platform, use a chainsaw to cut him up, and make human meat cans.

If not for that, they believed killing Jiang Ran would actually be simple;they had plenty of methods.

Poisoning, for example.

"Big sister, why did the manager become that Li Chong? He always has that gloomy face;someone might think his wife is cheating on him!"

After finishing talking about Jiang Ran, the sisters turned their conversation to the new manager.

Qin Yi shook her head. "I don't know why the manager changed."

"Maybe Xiao Zhang died, maybe Xiao Zhang was taken somewhere else. After all, weren't we asked if we'd like to go elsewhere to hunt the lab rats?"

After agreeing to the seven o'clock gathering, Jiang Ran closed the door, returned to the living room, and turned on the air conditioner.

He sat under the cold air and closed his eyes.

After a while, he opened them again in puzzlement.

He wondered suspiciously, "Why hasn't the system sent me back?"

"Could it be that I behaved obediently, so it let me control the body a bit longer?"

Jiang Ran thought this might actually be possible.

After all, now that the crisis was over, he could have been forced back into the inner landscape world.

He couldn't make sense of it, so he decided not to think about it.

He sat back on the couch and took out his phone.

He intended to scroll through TikTok.

He hadn't been scrolling for five minutes when he noticed constant @ notifications popping up in WeChat.

He tapped the notification.

It was a private group chat.

Including him, there were six people in the group.

Him, Wang Qingzhao, the original owner's ex-girlfriend Shen Xing.

Besides them, the two men and one woman from that class reunion he had attended.

Fatty, the short guy, and the ordinary girl.

The one who @'d him was Fatty.

Fatty's message in the group was like this:

He and the short guy were preparing to hold a wedding together, right?

So they planned to go climb a mountain one more time before getting married.

After this climb, he, the short guy, and the short guy's fiancée—the ordinary girl—would focus entirely on wedding preparations.

Now they were asking Jiang Ran, Wang Qingzhao, and Shen Xing whether they'd join.

Wang Qingzhao replied quickly in the group.

She'd go.

Shen Xing also replied, saying she didn't have time and wasn't capable.

She was pregnant and couldn't possibly climb a mountain.

The last person who hadn't answered was Jiang Ran, so Fatty @'d him.

Jiang Ran thought it over;the one who would go climbing would definitely be the main personality, not him.

So he decided to be a good person and agree on behalf of the main personality. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

When Fatty saw Jiang Ran agree, he was naturally very happy.

He then gave instructions about the climb.

The hiking date was set for one week later.

The mountain to climb was Qingfeng Mountain, a big mountain in Beicheng, the city neighboring Nancheng City.

Beyond that, everyone was to prepare the necessary gear for climbing...

Anyway, none of that concerned him.

Right now, Jiang Ran only cared about what kind of alcohol there would be at tonight's gathering.