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Chapter 11 I, Hu Hansan, have finally returned!

"You are finally back……"

Inside the ticket booth, Gu Mian opened her eyes and saw the NPC who looked much more haggard.

Not long ago, the ticket seller even slapped himself.

"What's wrong?" Gu Mian immediately looked around and realized that she had come out of the door at some point. "I just went into a dungeon, why do you look like you've aged several years?"

His face, in particular, was deathly pale, and his eye sockets were sunken.

"How dare you say that..."

The NPC took a few steps back:
"I just received a notification... saying that one of the players I matched with committed a serious offense in the dungeon... they said the dungeon was destroyed, destroyed!"

"I've thought it over and over, and I'm realizing that you're the only one in this pavilion. I'll just stay here and wait for you to come out of the instance."

"Sure enough, you came out not long after the notice was given."

As he spoke, he glared at Gu Mian with resentment, as if he wanted to bore a hole through him.

Gu Mian stroked her chin and thought for a moment: "But I didn't do anything!"

"Let me ask you," the ticket seller clutched his chest, "the dungeon you were matched with is Ghost High School, right? What's the main quest?"

Gu Mian thought about it carefully for a while: "Be a teacher and find out the truth behind the deaths of the whole class."

"So what did you do in that instance?!"

"Become a teacher, uncover the truth behind the deaths of the entire class... save the fallen girl who was sealed away, resolve the misunderstanding between the teacher and the girl, and annihilate all twenty-eight evil spirits. Due to some indirect reasons, the school is accidentally burned down."

Upon hearing this, the NPC slammed his fist on the table in frustration: "Don't you think you're too outstanding?"

"Just find the truth, why are you saving people and burning down schools!"

"Now that's great, twenty-eight evil spirits are gone, and you've burned down the school. What do you think this dungeon can do now that everything's gone?"

This NPC has a lot of emotions; it's almost like a real person.

Gu Mian suddenly leaned closer, startling the person with the righteous heartache, who took a step back.

He stared at the NPC: "Isn't this a game? Can't the data be recovered?"

The NPC looked at Gu Mian and said sullenly, "Who told you that was data?"

"You mean those aren't data?" Gu Mian stroked her chin.

The NPC reacted abruptly, forcefully pulling Gu Mian up and shoving her towards the door: "Go away, go away! Don't let me see you again! Don't match with me for dungeons again! Do you know we also have performance targets? Every time you come here, my performance targets explode!"

"By the way, what's your name again?" he said, pushing Gu Mian to the doorway.

"Gu Mian".

"Okay, I understand. Let's go." The NPC pushed Gu Mian out and hurriedly returned to the ticket booth.

Gu Mian had no choice but to turn around and leave. After walking a while, he looked back and saw that the person was angrily hanging something on the door.

Upon closer inspection, he realized it was a hanging plate with the words written on it—

"Gu Mian and dogs are not allowed inside."

Gu Mian turned her head to look around again.

This is a familiar road, not far from Lianhua Hospital.

Looking south, you can see the hospital not far away, while to the right, it leads directly to the suburbs, with a driver's license test center in between.

This road is usually bustling with traffic and people, but now it's a desolate wasteland.

Some people were pulled into a ticket booth while driving and forced to play dungeons.

The driverless car went wild in an instant, and Gu Mian saw five cars suddenly clustered together in the distance, creating quite a spectacle.

Several vehicles crashed recklessly into the outer wall of the ticket booth, further damaging the already dilapidated booth and sending dust billowing up.

Let's not even talk about the chaotic state of the vehicles.

The pedestrians on the street also looked panicked.

Gu Mian saw another ticket booth not far to the north. That ticket booth was quite lively, with people running out of it from time to time in a panic, their legs shaking like waves, even more so than the epileptic patients in the hospital.

The people in my line of sight were running around in a chaotic manner. They definitely didn't want to go back to work right now; they were probably all running home.

Some people even took out their phones, seemingly making calls, but the calls wouldn't go through.

Since Earth initiated this game, and since the game includes a friend communication system, then there is no need for human communication methods to exist.

It's likely that Earth has directly blocked signals from human technology. This is truly the end of the world.

The atmosphere around Gu Mian was still quiet and peaceful. He patted his white coat, sat down on a bench not far away, and opened the panel.

The game is currently in the process of resolving the score.

[Receive 10 game coins]

[Received 1 free attribute point. Add it immediately?]

Of course, you should add points immediately.

Gu Mian was eager to know what her question-marked panel would become with attribute points.

He chose yes.

The panel then displayed several lines of attributes.

[You have 1 attribute point to allocate; please select an attribute to add.]

【physical strength】:? ? ?

【speed】:???

【strength】:???

[Mental Value]: ? ? ?

Gu Mian even pondered it for a while.

In martial arts, speed is the only thing that cannot be broken. Being fast makes it easier to escape, so let's speed up first.

As he thought about it, he pressed the "+" sign next to the speed indicator.

But Gu Mian immediately realized that all his previous careful consideration was unnecessary, because he found that he seemed unable to add points.

After pressing the "+" sign, the following message appeared on the panel:

[WARNING! You are incompatible with this property! Please abandon the operation in progress!]

Gu Mian: "..."

He tried pressing several other attributes, but the result was the same.

After trying it once, Gu Mian gave up. She knew she was the most favored person, but she didn't expect it to be this bad, that her attributes were no longer compatible with her.

That's an amazing move.

Another line of text popped up on the panel.

[Received 1 more chance to win a prize. Do you want to participate now?]

This is also a reward for clearing the dungeon.

Gu Mian chose: "I want to see if this lottery system is compatible with me."

Fortunately, the lottery was still open, and an explanation popped up on the screen.

[This is your first time using the lottery system. The prize pool rewards will be explained below.]

[The prize pool contains everything you can imagine, so please draw with caution.]

[Special Note: The phrase "Thank you for your patronage" does not appear in the prize pool, so please feel free to participate.]

Gu Mian felt much more at ease when he didn't hear the words "thank you for your patronage," after all, he knew his own luck.

Then the screen started to glitch.

It was like the static screen on a TV, with something flashing by every now and then. If Gu Mian didn't know it was a lottery, she would have thought Sadako was about to crawl out.

A few seconds later, the panel started flashing a little slower.

The image finally freezes.

Gu Mian stared at the frozen image, then gave a look of utter disgust.

Just as the instructions said, anything could be pulled out.

A roll of tissues

[A roll of ordinary tissues, nothing special, but if you keep it on your bedside table while watching an action movie, it might become an extraordinary roll of tissues.]

The author has been working so hard revising the dungeon these past few days that he's practically bald... Waa ...

Thank you to Junzhizuichu, Manre, Bingzetian, Woweicuigengqun, Sangdeyiduodexizijiang, Yebanshushenggechuangkui, and Lingtu for their donations. (づ￣3￣)づ╭～
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