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Chapter 149 The Price of Life

The rain was still pouring down; I wondered if it was always a rainy night like this every time I entered this instance.

Gu Mian wiped the rain off her face: "He won't survive long even if you put him in the trunk."

He did some serious calculations: "I think it's better to complete the quests in this dungeon first. I remember there's something called 'List of Monsters' as a reward for this dungeon, right?"

"Huh?" Reminded by Gu Mian, the fat man also stood up: "What list of monsters? Why is my dungeon reward a mirror of monsters?"

Is it different?

Gu Mian still remembers that the rewards for this dungeon were 3 freely allocable attribute points, 300 game coins, and a list of monsters.

The list of monsters is obviously a ready-made special item. This thing sounds very much like a Japanese anime. If you expand on it a bit, you can directly turn it into an anime.

However, the "Monster's Mirror" reward for the fat man's mission sounds rather down-to-earth from its name.

For some reason, Gu Mian always thought of the demon-revealing mirror in Journey to the West when she heard about the fat man's reward.

The two looked at Chu Changge beside them.

Chu Changge shook his head slightly: "My reward is a monster's eraser..."

Gu Mian: "..."

What the hell is this? Could these things be the possessions of some monster who sponsored the game rewards with their personal items after the global game started?
"It might be a set of magical artifacts," the fat man, deeply influenced by fantasy novels, said.

Gu Mian wiped the rain off her face again: "Who cares? Let's get in the car first."

He clearly hadn't given up on the driver in the trunk, so he had the fat man drive Chen Beidou's car, with Gu Mian sitting next to him and Chu Changge in the back.

The three of them were heading to three different locations, which made things a bit complicated.

Fortunately, this place was far from where the three of them were going, so they could discuss who to send home first.

Gu Mian didn't want to drive himself; who knew what kind of accident might happen if he drove? He only drove the hearse because he had no other choice.

The fat man, clearly not having thought that far ahead, gripped the steering wheel and asked curiously, "Hey doctor, how did you end up in Chen Beidou's car? By the way, do you know that the guy you tucked into the back of the car is named Chen Beidou?"

The fat man felt extremely uncomfortable as he said this. Knowing about the driver's evil deeds, he had a feeling that the people who weren't quite dead yet were secretly listening to their conversation from inside the trunk.

There's time on the bus.

The group realized it was almost 3 a.m., and it was still pitch black outside.

The car seemed to be completely blocked by the heavy rain, and the road ahead was not visible. The fat man had no choice but to slow down.

Such a rainy night should have been terrifying, especially in a taxi in a horror movie scenario; but the thought that there were three of them now, and especially the doctor with blood-covered hands sitting in the back, gave the fat man confidence.

Gu Mian wiped the blood off her hands: "I know. After I realized the other drivers meant me no harm, I fiddled with the phone booth for a bit, and since I was bored, I dialed his family's number..."

The fat man scoffed, "You definitely didn't make that call because you had nothing better to do."

In his mind, Gu Mian must have discovered the secret of the phone booth after careful thought and reasoning. The fat man could even imagine the image of a doctor in a white coat frowning as he pondered the dial pad.

"If you say so, then so be it." Gu Mian felt that her hands were not clean enough, so she wiped them on her not-so-white white coat.

Fatty: "..."

"And then?" the fat man continued, "Doctor, how did you manage to get into that weirdo's car without making a mistake?"

“I ran into another person earlier, I think his name was Chasing the Wind Boy, he was incredibly fast… cough cough.” Seemingly realizing that she had gone off-topic, Gu Mian coughed twice: “He was in the same car as me, and I noticed that none of the previous drivers seemed to be targeting the players.”

The fat man spoke up matter-of-factly, "I don't think I was targeted when I was with you, Doctor." Gu Mian ignored him, "But he's pretty good at scaring himself. He ran away so fast that he left his map behind. After I found out I could call the family's phone number, I called both numbers on the missing person posters..."

Upon hearing this, a bold guess popped into the fat man's mind: "You didn't memorize Chen Beidou's voice... and then call a car, did you?"

"Otherwise, what do you think I called you?" Gu Mian glanced at him.

The fat man frowned again: "You got his car after just one phone call?"

If that's the case, then their luck is just too bad.

"Of course not," Gu Mian denied. "Based on the phone recordings of Chen Beidou, I determined that he likely suffers from some kind of mental illness, and as doctors, we naturally have to punish the wicked and promote the good..."

The fat man frowned.

Gu Mian paused, then continued, "No, of course we doctors should be tolerant of all patients; it's our duty, absolutely our duty."

"So I made several calls, and hung up as soon as I heard the voice was off. Then I finally managed to schedule an appointment with the patient."

Gu Mian wanted to pat the trunk.

However, he found that he was sitting in the front seat and couldn't get a picture of the trunk, so he had to give up.

The windshield wipers were flailing frantically against the windshield, but the view ahead remained extremely blurry.

The car's speed had been reduced to almost zero. Gu Mian was quite afraid that the three of them would die from excessive blood loss before they even reached their destination.

The fat man's voice turned serious: "What did you do after you arranged to meet this patient? You can't expect him to reveal his true colors as soon as he gets in the car, can you?"

According to the phone recording, Chen Beidou initially deceived the victim with words, appearing as a good person when the victim got on the bus, only revealing his evil side halfway through the journey.

"We had a great chat at first," Gu Mian answered truthfully.

As he spoke, he glanced at the map in his hand: "At first, the direction was correct. He probably didn't intend to kill every passenger. We were chatting, and then suddenly, for some reason, he asked me if I would be afraid if I encountered a really powerful psychopath."

The fat man interjected, "You must have told him before that you weren't afraid of anything. He just wanted to see your scared expression. That pervert likes to do that."

Chu Changge's voice came from behind: "Hmm, if you had answered that you were afraid back then, he would have found you boring and not worth killing."

If Gu Mian had answered that way back then, she would probably have been sent to the entrance of Rong'an Community by now.

Chu Changge continued, "So this dungeon isn't actually that difficult; there are very few dead ends."

However, every safe driver will "transform" halfway through the journey, and normal players will definitely abandon their vehicles and run away when they see a transformed driver.

So in reality, most players have gotten on Chen Beidou's "thief's train".

But even if you get into his car, it's not all a dead end. As long as you go along with Chen Beidou's whims, nothing will happen. Specifically, this means admitting defeat.

No matter what the driver says, you must nod and agree in order to survive.

But Gu Mian is the complete opposite.

Instead of trying to appease him, he beat the dangerous man until he was as stiff as a dead pig, and then stuffed him into the trunk of his car.

Gu Mian continued, "You all saw what happened next. He dragged me to the side of that godforsaken mountain to make his move, but he failed."

"It wasn't just a failure," the fat man lamented, "it cost us our lives."

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