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Chapter 121 Looking Up

The bed board was quite thin. Gu Mian lifted the mattress and sawed the bed board in no time.

It's worth mentioning that Zhao Guanhai probably stuck the bank card and diary to the bottom of the bed board and covered them with tape.

But for some reason, these two things that were supposed to be attached to the bottom of the bed fell down and landed on the ground, with a corner of the card sticking out.

There was some tape wrapped around it.

Removing tape in complete darkness is no easy task.

Even during the daytime, Gu Mian would take quite a while to unpack a package, let alone now that it's the middle of the night.

After removing the tape, he glanced at the card. There was nothing special about the card. Then Gu Mian turned to look at the diary next to him.

This book is thin, and it looks like it has only about thirty pages.

Zhao Guanhai could write several days' worth of content on a single sheet of paper in his diary, probably to save on notebooks.

He didn't like to mark the time when he wrote in his diary, but you can infer from the shade of his handwriting and the content of his diary that he only wrote it once every long period of time.

So there are only a dozen or so entries in the entire diary.

Gu Mian skimmed through the beginning and found that it was all useless information, just a record of how much money she had saved.

The following content contains some useful information.

Zhao Guanhai seemed to have a low level of education; his handwriting was crooked and messy, with many corrections, misspellings, and typos, but Gu Mian automatically filled in the blanks with the correct characters.

Actually, these are all minor issues. The main problem is that they are now in a mirror world, where all the words they see are reversed, making them extremely difficult to read.

However, Gu Mian's translation skills are extremely high; he can understand the original meaning with just a few glances.

"Xiao Lei is a sophomore now. It seems like it's been a long time since I've seen him. He doesn't even go home for holidays. I wonder if he's still holding a grudge against his girlfriend."

The next entry is another diary entry, and judging from the ink color, it seems to have been written at a much later time than the previous one.

"My back hurts, I keep coughing, and I've been feeling a bit dizzy these past couple of days. I'll rest for a day, just one day."

The following are some records of how much money I've saved.

Gu Mian continued flipping through the pages, and when he turned to a certain page, he clearly sensed something different; it seemed like there was a noise coming from the living room.

He glanced at the doorway, then looked at the page.

"Xiao Lei graduated and called to say he'd be coming back today to talk to me about something. I need to clean the house and dress neatly. I won't go to work tomorrow; I'll just stay home and wait for my son to come back."

This entry in the diary is written at the very top of this page, and below it is a blank page, as if this diary ends here.

The fat man shone a flashlight closer and said, "Doctor, I heard a noise outside, like a door opening..."

This place is like a haunted house. The power went out in the middle of the night, and there were only the two of them in the huge two-story building. They heard the sound of a door opening outside. Most people would shudder to show their fear.

Gu Mian gave a token shudder, then turned to the next page.

This is something most people would do.

Although this diary seems to be finished, most people would definitely choose to flip through it again, trying to find a few more words.

Just like the scratch-off lottery tickets on supermarket receipts, some people, after scratching off the first word and finding it to be "Thank you," will stubbornly continue scratching until all four words of "Thank you for your patronage" are fully revealed before they give up. Gu Mian has scratched off countless "Thank you for your patronage" since childhood, and each time he stubbornly scratches until the very end before giving up, always harboring unrealistic fantasies about his luck.

At this moment, Gu Mian stubbornly turned a few more pages, trying to find something else.

He then discovered that he was indeed lucky this time, as there was another piece of paper on the back with more content on it.

At this moment, the fat man curiously leaned over to look: "Doctor, you really found something else this time?"

But soon, Gu Mian discovered that her luck was still as bad as ever.

The reason he was able to scratch off "Thank you for your patronage" for over twenty years was simply because the worst result on a supermarket receipt was "Thank you for your patronage".

When an even worse reward is added to the prize pool, such as "reducing lifespan by thirty years," Gu Mian will definitely draw the reward that starts with the word "reduced."

The diary in front of me contained a reward that was even worse than "thank you for your patronage".

The paper had white paper with red writing on it.

Unlike the previous diary entries, this handwriting was neat and tidy, clearly written by someone who had been writing for many years.

Moreover, the handwriting was not a mirror image, but appeared before the two in the correct written form.

"Doctor..." The fat man turned his head, just about to take a closer look at the diary in Gu Mian's hand, when he was shocked to find that Gu Mian, who had been standing next to him, had vanished into thin air.

There was also a diary where Gu Mian had just stood, but it was slightly different from the one they had been looking at.

At the same time, he noticed that something was different about this room compared to before.

It seems... it's reversed?

The diary is upside down... and the whole room is upside down too...

"I'm out?" The fat man looked around like a startled rabbit. "Where's the doctor?"

"And I couldn't have appeared out of thin air, I was definitely pulled out by a ghost... It's going to attack me!"

Thinking of this, the fat man became even more flustered, and he looked towards the door.

He was still in Zhao Lei's room, but the door was now tightly closed. He tried to turn the doorknob, but couldn't open it.

Then the fat man rammed the door a little more, but still couldn't open it. It seemed that something was needed to open the door.

"A key...do you have a key...?"

The fat man wandered around like a headless fly for a few minutes, and then his eyes were drawn to the diary on the ground.

Come to think of it, he hadn't seen what that line of red text meant yet. Perhaps it held a clue to opening the door?

Thinking of this, he picked up the diary and quickly flipped to the back.

The night was quiet and dark.

The fat man flipped through the diary to the last page with a clatter.

Immediately afterwards, three bright red characters appeared in front of him: "Look above your head."

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