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Chapter 164 The Fat Guy and the Four-Eyes

The event will run from 7:00 PM to midnight, lasting five hours.

"The event area is now filled with lanterns. Players who guess the riddles on the lanterns correctly will receive a random reward from the lanterns. The lanterns whose riddles are solved will then disappear. There is no penalty for guessing incorrectly..."

"However, please note the following points!"

"Each lantern is infested with a ghost. Every fifteen minutes, the ghosts infesting the lanterns will appear in the open for five minutes to search for players in the area. Please be careful and avoid them!"

At this moment, Gu Mian had already found the door to the dilapidated house, and then pushed it open.

He only saw the scene outside after he pushed open the door.

This is a small alley, like the alley in a Qing Dynasty drama, with red walls, gray tiles, and bluish-gray stone slabs.

Looking further into the distance, you can even see rooftops that only exist in period dramas, but Gu Mian didn't have time to pay attention to them.

Sure enough, the place was filled with lanterns. White lanterns hung one by one at the top of the alley, swaying together in the wind, making it look just like a funeral procession.

A white paper strip with black characters hanging from each lantern resembled a funeral couplet, but Gu Mian knew it was a riddle.

It seems like loudspeakers have been installed all over the outside, and they are all playing sound in unison.

Gu Mian felt that this place had definitely been modified by the game; there shouldn't have been so many speakers before.

"The countdown has begun. The ghost will make its first appearance in the world in fourteen minutes..."

Gu Mian glanced at the time; it was 19:01 PM.

"Attention all players, death during the event will be considered a real death!"

"Deaths during the event will be considered real deaths!"

They probably thought this point was important, so they repeated it over and over again.

Gu Mian listened quietly. There was no one around him; he didn't know where the fat man and Chu Changge had been scattered.

"After the event ends, all players who have not died within the area will be teleported out of the event area..."

Then it said some auspicious words such as "Good luck" and "May you have good fortune," and then stopped making noise.

Gu Mian stroked her chin, savoring the ingenious rules: "This activity looks like a riddle game, but it's actually hide-and-seek?"

The ghost will appear once every fifteen minutes, for five minutes each time.

Therefore, within these fifteen minutes, players not only have to guess the riddles, but also have to find a good place to hide, otherwise it would not be worth losing their lives for guessing the riddles.

Thinking of this, Gu Mian glanced at the time in the upper left corner of the game panel.

It is 19:03 now.
If we start counting from when we enter the game, there are twelve minutes left before the monsters appear in the world.

Gu Mian looked up at the lanterns hanging overhead. There were so many lanterns, probably to create the atmosphere of a "night parade of a hundred ghosts" in twelve minutes.

Gu Mian casually tore off a strip from the lantern and then discovered that the riddle was not simple.

"Walk forward fifty meters, turn left, continue forward twenty meters, then turn right. You'll see a well. If you plunge in, what will you find inside?"

Gu Mian: "..."

He had never seen such an unconventional riddle before.

"Anyway, I'm not going to jump into this well, so give up." Gu Mian put down the riddle in her hand.

He glanced around as he spoke.

This place has an antique charm. Gu Mian knew that Hengdian World Studios had many attractions, but he had never been here before, so he couldn't tell which attraction this was at a glance.

However, he didn't come to this event to guess which tourist attraction it was.

Gu Mian had no intention of solving the riddle. He took a few steps forward and said, "Let's talk about it after we get out of this alley..."

He glanced at the time as he walked forward; there were still ten minutes until the first appearance of a hundred ghosts.

"I need to figure out what these ghosts are like first. The most urgent thing is to find a place to hide." Gu Mian pondered as she walked out of the alley. At this moment, Fatty had the same idea as Gu Mian.

After he came in and heard the rules, he immediately started looking for a place to hide.

The fat man was in an antique-style room, like the boudoir of a well-bred young lady; this was the place where he was born.

"Who knew we'd have to be separated from the doctors to get into this event!" the fat man muttered to himself as he wandered around the room.

He first bent down and lifted the bed curtain, intending to hide under the bed, but considering that this place was also a place where ghosts and monsters frequently appeared, the fat man gave up on this plan.

Fortunately, there was a wardrobe next to the window in this room. It was quite large and completely empty.

It seems this cabinet was just there to show off, so there was nothing inside, not even a partition, which allowed the fat man to squeeze in as he wished.

After crawling into the cabinet, he glanced at the time; it was already 19:10 PM.

In five minutes, the ghosts will appear.

The fat man glanced at the lanterns outside and saw that quite a few were hanging there. If every lantern could turn into a ghost, then ghosts and monsters would definitely be running all over the place.

"Sigh," the fat man sighed softly, huddled in the closet, "I should have known better than to come to this damn event..."

Just as he was sighing softly, he suddenly heard a noise outside.

The noise didn't come from his room, but from outside the window.

The fat man immediately held his breath and listened carefully to the sounds outside.

"It's not time yet, there can't be ghosts, right?" the fat man said anxiously.

Because the wardrobe was close to the window, the fat man could hear some of the noise outside, even though it was quiet.

It sounds like someone is talking.

The first thing he heard was a somewhat frightened male voice: "Boss, I was already here when I came in, and I didn't see anyone else."

Then a slightly shrill voice came: "No rush. Since we've separated, the others must have separated too."

This must be the loudest voice from before.

The fat man heard the boss pause for a moment before speaking: "After coming in, you didn't see anyone else besides me?"

"I think I saw a woman, but I didn't pay attention to her. She disappeared in a flash."

"Hmm," the old man's voice continued, "Don't worry about others, let's find the person we're looking for first, let's find that doctor first. The second brother has a locator, let's meet up with the second brother first."

"The fat guy and the bespectacled guy next to that doctor..."

"Don't worry about them. They don't seem to be of much use, and he didn't tell us to arrest them."

The fat man was horrified. This description clearly referred to them. Why were these people arresting the doctor? And who was "he"?

Immediately afterwards, he heard sounds coming from outside.

"Damn it, it's almost time, I need to find a place to hide!"

Then came the sound of hurried footsteps.

The fat man glanced at the time; it was 19:13 PM, and the ghost would officially appear in two minutes.

He tried to contact Gu Mian through the friends panel, but found that the function was locked in the event and could not be opened.

After his attempt failed, the fat man had no choice but to give up.

But just then, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from another direction.

The footsteps were hurried, and they rushed to his door, then yanked it open.

Thank you... no thanks needed, thank myself (coo coo coo).
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(End of this chapter)