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Chapter 156 The Mysterious Assassin

[Strange Camera]

[Description: This camera was the possession of a madman. One rainy night, people found his body; he was clutching it tightly in his hand.]

[Function: Can take photos of spirits; only one photo can be taken per day]

The fat man curiously poked at the camera in his hand. It was no different from an ordinary camera, and he easily figured out how to use it.

"So, if an invisible ghost appears in a future dungeon, I can use this camera to photograph it, right?" The fat man touched the camera in his hand.

This thing is much better than that hate-inducing black pot I got last time.

"However, you only have one chance a day, so you have to use it carefully."

While saying "be careful," the fat man raised his camera and snapped a picture of Gu Mian sitting on the sofa.

Gu Mian: "..."

"Look how handsome our doctor is..." The fat man looked at the camera screen with satisfaction after taking the photo.

But before he could finish speaking, his expression suddenly turned strange, and he stopped mid-sentence.

Gu Mian saw the fat man staring at the camera in his hand with a somewhat green face, as if he had captured something extremely strange.

Gu Mian frowned: "What's wrong with you?"

As he spoke, he glanced at the camera screen in the fat man's hand.

The hotel rooms are small, and the furniture and decor are in warm tones, making the overall space feel a bit cramped.

The room, which looked somewhat cramped, appeared even more cramped in the photos.

The photo that Fatty took barely captured Gu Mian and Chu Changge in the background, which was a cramped room with furniture that was arranged somewhat unevenly.

Behind Gu Mian in the photo is a window, through which one can see the sky and tall buildings outside.

But these are not the point.

Gu Mian immediately spotted one of the windows of a building outside.

The building wasn't far from here, so Gu Mian could see it very clearly. A pale face was sticking out of one of the windows, craning its neck to look in this direction.

That's definitely not the kind of face a normal human being would have.

How to describe it? That face was like a big-eyed doll on a supermarket shelf, with two dark eyes that seemed to have no whites and took up almost half of the face.

The pale skin looked as if it had been soaked in water for a long time, wrinkled and stuck to the skull, which was quite terrifying.

Its neck is over twenty centimeters long, and it is bent into an arc shape with its head facing this way.

The fat man shuddered, then immediately looked out the window.

He searched for several seconds before finding the window with the pale face in the photo, but behind that window was nothing.

"What's going on?" The fat man took a deep breath: "It's actually happening in the real world too?"

The concept of ghosts and spirits has existed since ancient times, but the fat man had never seen anyone take a picture of a ghost, so he could barely still believe in the twenty-four-character core values.

After the global game started, he thought that the so-called ghosts and monsters would only appear in the dungeons, but he never expected that such things would be photographed in the real world.

Gu Mian looked out the window thoughtfully: "Judging from its expression, it's clearly coming for us."

The fat man corrected, "Doctor, you can narrow down the scope. I think it's aimed at you."

At this point, the fat man suddenly seemed to remember something: "Right, that pursuit order... Doctor, could the person in this photo be that assassin?" He remembered that Gu Mian had pulled out a thing called the Crazy Pursuit Order last time, which was designed to make Gu Mian be hunted down by an assassin loaded with special items.

If the assassin dies, the special items on his body will belong to Gu Mian. Of course, the assassin will not die easily.

Gu Mian nodded: "Yes, the pursuit order doesn't say that the killer must be human, but the ghost in the photo is obviously targeting us. It's highly likely that it is the killer mentioned in the pursuit order."

Hearing this, the fat man shuddered: "And we can't even see this assassin..."

As he spoke, he glanced out the window at the building directly opposite, which was completely empty: "It is invisible, a true killer, capable of killing anyone unexpectedly."

If Fatty hadn't taken this photo, Gu Mian might not have known that the assassin mentioned in the pursuit order was already closing in on her.

"Doctor, can you at least show a little bit of anxiety?" The fat man tugged at his hair. "This guy's here to kill you. Look, I'm more anxious than you are."

Gu Mian touched her chin: "Anyway, I'm already used to it."

That's right," the fat man pursed his lips. Gu Mian had already endured twenty years of assassination attempts from life itself.

How did he manage to survive until now?
As the fat man pondered this problem, he tried to put the camera away, but then he noticed another issue with the photo.

“I said—” the fat man stared intently at the photo, then hesitated before speaking, “You two are truly brothers in misfortune.”

It's about Gu Mian and Chu Changge.

"What's wrong now?" Gu Mian asked the fat man.

The fat man handed him the camera: "Take a look for yourself, look at Brother Chu."

At this moment, Chu Changge also walked over, clutching the special item he had just obtained—a letter.

Gu Mian took the camera and looked down at the photo.

Because Chu Changge was far away, only half of his body was captured in the photo. Perhaps due to the lighting, Chu Changge's position was somewhat dark, and it was difficult to notice anything unusual without careful observation.

In the photo, half of Chu Changge's figure appears to be shrouded in shadow, making him somewhat indistinct.

Chu Changge stared at the photo for a while, then raised the object in his hand: "It's probably because I'm holding this."

Gu Mian looked at the envelope in his hand.

[Email from Hell]

[Description: This is one of ten emails sent out by a bored ghost, containing some trivial words.]
This is a place of exile.

'We are all monsters in a cage.'

[Function: The email contains the aura of a vengeful ghost. Burning this email will cause the ghost's aura to attach itself to the player, while the player's presence as a living being will be concealed. This effect will last for ten minutes.]

Gu Mian looked at the thing and stroked her chin: "So, if you burn this thing, even ghosts will think you're a ghost?"

"A great escape tool!" the fat man exclaimed. "If ghosts only attack living people, they won't attack you after you burn this thing."

Then we can take the opportunity to escape.

After reviewing the compensation offered by the other two individuals, Gu Mian stared at the IOU in her hand, lost in thought.

As expected, the world's malice towards him remains immense.

"Never mind," Gu Mian tucked the huge IOU into her pocket, then picked up the guitar case next to her: "Let's go to the premium ticket booth to get the tickets first."

The fat man nodded: "Yes, there are only five days left until the event."

I'm having writer's block today, it's so frustrating, my hair is all bald, I need to pluck a handful of everyone's hair to cheer myself up (╥﹏╥)
Thank you to Super Rare SSR, Tianyi Palace, and Breathing Free for the generous donations (づ￣3￣)づ╭～
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