Ji Li's Seventh Branch;
Cheng Ming's Branch No. 10;
Luo Xian's Branch No. 6;
Hou Guisheng's Branch No. 3;
Xu Nan's Branch No. 1.
The five major branches had only one opponent: Gu Xingjian, who held the final Red Forbidden Zone.
Even Lu Caiwei, naturally restless as she was, finally represented the Fifth Branch at this moment and pushed this performance toward its final climax.
Lu Caiwei, hidden within space, was the sole hidden piece and the only variable—the greatest unforeseen change that even Gu Xingjian could not have predicted.
Perhaps Gu Xingjian had never accounted for the Fifth Branch in his initial design. After all, daring to trap the four major Red Forbidden Zones should theoretically have been enough to draw out everyone's full strength.
But the tone of this Manager Mission had been different from the very beginning—every person and every branch was defying convention.
Li Guanqi, Su Chenghe, and Huangfu Jiajia, all conservative by nature, had risked universal condemnation to resist the four major Red Forbidden Zones head-on;
Hou Guisheng, silent and gloomy, had dared to interfere in the dispute between Ji and Gu without seeking any tangible return;
Even Xue Tingtao, the most cowardly and useless of them all, had broken through his own limits and ventured deep into the Screen World...
Perhaps the opportunity created by Heavenly Sea's weakening and the emergence of the External Ghost Faction had driven these managers to the edge of the cliff, turning every one of them into gamblers.
Human nature had always been the hardest thing to fathom.
Gu Xingjian did not believe that Li Guanqi could truly control the four major Red Forbidden Zones. He was not wrong, but he had genuinely underestimated Li Guanqi.
Li Guanqi's original strategy had been to use the three major Red Forbidden