The Doomsday Between You and Me

The Managers' Doomsday: Ten-Day Escape mission.

The answer naturally lay within the riddle itself.

The mission contained only a few words:

"Over ten days, embark on a journey of escape."

On the surface, it seemed like a very simple mission, even though it had brought together four major branches.

Yet the outcome was obvious: of those eighteen people, only one survived.

The Ten-Day Escape mission was an exceptionally unusual mission, later dubbed "the mission closest to being unsolvable."

Because even now, no one had found a way to survive it.

No...

It was not that no one had found a way to survive. No one had even figured out the mission's basic logic.

Since it was called "escape," the fleeing side was naturally the employees, which meant the ghosts had to be the pursuers.

Yet that was precisely what made this mission so bizarre. From beginning to end, the eighteen employees never caught so much as a glimpse of a ghost.

In an unrestricted escape set in the Real World.

For the first nine days, led by Chen Hansheng, Wei Hu, and Wen Linghua, the eighteen employees moved from place to place, treading on thin ice.

During that phase, there were no casualties, no ghosts, nothing at all.

Of course, with three managers holding the fort, they had tried all sorts of methods to force the ghosts to reveal themselves.

After all, where there was a dead end, there was a way to survive.

But throughout those first nine days, no matter how they tested things, there were not only no ghosts, but not even a proper attack.

And so, all eighteen employees lived until the tenth day.

However, just as the tenth day was about to end, with half a minute remaining before the mission time expired.

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