The current Jiang Ran stood in stark contrast to the weather outside.
One was blazing hot, the other was an overcast day with chilly winds whistling.
That heat persisted all the way until noon.
When the new manager arrived.
The new manager was a middle-aged man, around the same age as Manager Wu Meiling.
His build was quite sturdy.
His name was - Wu Wen.
He was quite different from the previous managers.
He was calm, as calm as still water.
Even when Jiang Ran and Manager Wu Meiling smiled warmly to welcome him.
Manager Wu Wen still gave nothing more than a calm greeting.
It wasn't coldness, but simply a kind of calm, an indifference.
After he arrived, he immediately took over from Jiang Ran to sit in the management office.
Once seated inside the management office, he began inspecting the entire place.
He discovered the massive pile of erotic manga left behind by the previous manager, Mao Li Zhishu.
He didn't seem interested in these things at all.
So he prepared to dispose of all of them.
Jiang Ran felt it was a shame, so he said he would keep them safe for Manager Mao Li Zhishu.
That way, if Manager Mao Li Zhishu ever came back to retrieve them one day, he could return them.
While they were dealing with the manga, Manager Wu Meiling was also present. She said to Jiang Ran: "Jiang Ran, no need to keep them. Mao Li Zhishu sent me a message. He said all these manga are a gift to you."
Manager Wu Meiling tucked her phone back into her pants pocket, as if she had just been in contact with Manager Mao Li Zhishu.
Jiang Ran was very surprised.
After all, in the cardboard box he was holding with both hands, he had counted, there were 129 erotic manga books.
All of them were being given to him?
If each one averaged a value of 100.
These manga books were worth 1290 yuan total!
"He's such a good person!"
Jiang Ran exclaimed.
Hearing this exclamation, Manager Wu Meiling thought to herself, that bastard Mao Li Zhishu, down in the underworld, must be quite gratified.
Manager Wu Wen should be kinder and easier to get along with than Manager Li Chong.
Even though he had that calm, still-water demeanor.
Jiang Ran told him about his own duties, and that he normally stayed at home to work when there was nothing to do.
Manager Wu Wen didn't object to any of this at all. He agreed.
Meanwhile.
In another part of Alice Apartment.
At Huo Yun's home.
The young married woman who had signed the agreement with him was currently quite troubled.
Because she had to persuade Huo Yun to participate in the Special Live Stream, but Huo Yun absolutely refused.
Right now, Huo Yun was sitting on the long sofa in the living room. The young married woman sat beside him, deliberately using her tempting body to seduce Huo Yun into agreeing to sign the agreement for the Special Live Stream.
But her seduction seemed completely ineffective on Huo Yun.
Huo Yun simply refused, and sighed helplessly: "Sis, I really don't want to go. You say I go to that place, play around for seven days, come back, and my one-day-ten-thousand gets upgraded to one-day-twenty-thousand."
"What kind of place can even upgrade your treatment? Isn't it bound to be dangerous?"
Huo Yun wasn't stupid. He knew the situation in the apartment. Even though he didn't know exactly what the deal was with going to some other place for seven days, still getting paid, and then coming back to a treatment upgrade... whatever the hell that was about!
But no matter how you looked at it, that place you were going to was definitely not a good place.
Even though the young married woman in front of him had said the destination was a scenic town in Europe called Aisen Town...
But wasn't Alice Apartment itself considered a scenic, high-end apartment?
So Huo Yun definitely didn't want to go.
He was already very satisfied with the current one-day-ten-thousand.
There was no need to take more risks.
But the young married woman didn't think that way.
You were satisfied with one-day-ten-thousand, but she wasn't satisfied!
If you didn't go to the Special Live Stream, how would she get her bonus?
Even though she knew the place Huo Yun was going to had a nine-out-of-ten chance of death, and was very dangerous.
But making money!
It had always been about wasting other people's lives, not your own!
"Oh, Xiaoyun! Just help out your big sister! If you're willing to go, your big sister... for this whole week, I'll let you do whatever you want with me, how about that?"
She used her beauty offensive again.
But the young married woman was starting to wonder if Huo Yun was actually gay, or if he just couldn't get it up.
Because she noticed that even when she was like this, pressing her body tightly against his and acting all coquettish.
Huo Yun's... equipment seemed to have absolutely no reaction.
"No. I don't want to go."
Huo Yun refused again.
The young married woman was a bit desperate, but she wouldn't give up. She remembered the reason Huo Yun had used last round, and said again: "Mmm... what if I get Huang Kaiyu to go with you?"
Huo Yun shook his head: "No. Make him come along to take risks with me? That's too insane."
The young married woman was in despair.
She really couldn't think of any other way.
It was just as well, she was curious: were the lab rats at Alice Apartments in other countries all willing to participate in the Special Live Stream?
Or were the agreement signers over there just better at their jobs?
Just then, the young married woman saw a call come in on her phone. When she saw the caller ID.
She became very nervous and urgent, and solemnly picked up the phone, borrowing Huo Yun's bedroom to make the call.
As if the person calling her was absolutely extraordinary in identity and background.
"Sigh. No matter what you say, I'm not going. It's a textbook case of 'you've got the life to go, but not the life to come back.'"
Huo Yun lay on the sofa, pulled out his phone from his pocket, and casually scrolled through it.
Ten minutes later.
The young married woman walked quickly out of the bedroom. As she walked out, her face was covered in a smile.
She said to Huo Yun: "Huo Yun, I guarantee that when I tell you what I'm about to say, you will definitely want to go to Aisen Town."
Huo Yun was unimpressed: "Oh? Then go ahead and tell me?"
Huo Yun thought to himself, even if you raised my treatment from ten-thousand to thirty-thousand, he still wouldn't go.
Because the more the money increased, the more dangerous it proved to be.
"Heh."
Seeing Huo Yun's face full of defiance and disdain.
The young married woman simply felt that victory was already in her grasp.
She opened her mouth, speaking one word at a time: "Huo Yun, let me tell you a piece of news I just received."
"Your idol, Dr. Lucas, is also in Aisen Town. So now, are you sure you still don't want to go?"
Whoosh - Huo Yun shot up from the sofa in an instant.
Then, his eyes locked onto the young married woman's seductive face: "Really? You're not tricking me, are you?"
The young married woman shook her head: "Do you think your big sister here has ever tricked you before?"
"Even if I tricked you into going, and you didn't see Dr. Lucas, wouldn't you come back and settle the score with me?"
Huo Yun nodded: "That's true. Big sister, you really haven't tricked me before. But why is Dr. Lucas there?"
"Shouldn't he be in America? Together with his teacher?"
The young married woman yawned: "That I don't know. You'll find out when you get there in two weeks."
Huo Yun asked again: "Hey, but what if... I go there in two weeks, and Dr. Lucas just happens to be about to leave?"
The young married woman shook her head: "No, that won't happen. Even if you stay there for seven days, he won't leave. He's going to be staying in that town for quite a long time."
Rubbing his chin with his right hand, Huo Yun murmured to himself: "Could this be what they call fate?"
