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Chapter 174 The Angry Cuckoo
The fat man quickly jogged forward.

But fearing to make too much noise, he ran in an awkward way, much like a waddling duck.

He had already handed over the injured Rose Night to Han Shan and the other two. At this moment, Gui Gu was carrying someone and following closely behind Fatty and Han Shan, looking somewhat anxious.

"Go straight ahead, to the end, then turn left and you'll see that two-story building." Han Shan's voice came from behind the fat man.

The fat man didn't wait for them any longer and ran forward in a flash: "Doctor, I've come to tell you the news!"

The night wind was cold, and the whistling wind gave me a headache.

But the fat man didn't care about anything else. His bulky body quickly crossed the narrow alley, which was less than three meters wide. Han Shan saw the fat man's figure disappear into the distance not long after.

Guigu's voice came from behind Hanshan: "Lieutenant, why are we following him?"

Han Shan glanced back at the still-bleeding boy Gui Gu was carrying on his back: "I guess we'll need to deal with this person again in the future."

As he spoke, he turned around and strode towards the fat man: "Keep up."

By this time, the fat man had hurriedly run to the end of the alley. He had swallowed a lot of cold air, and his stomach was now a little cold, but he didn't pay attention to that.

After running to the end of the alley, he immediately stopped and turned left, but as soon as the fat man turned around, he saw a group of people in front of him.

At this moment, Bai Yuhu and his group were still walking steadily ahead of the fat man, even though the fat man had taken a shortcut but still hadn't overtaken them.

Seeing several people stepping onto the stairs with one foot each, the fat man realized: "They want to go straight to the second floor?"

Several unremarkable people were left on the first floor, while the leader, clearly the boss, led a few tougher individuals up to the second floor.

The fat man immediately looked up.

The corridor of this two-story building surrounds the rooms, so he can clearly see a row of rooms on the second floor.

One of the doors was particularly noticeable.

The doors on both sides were ajar, or at least slightly ajar.

But the unconventional door was tightly shut, not a single crack was visible, giving one the feeling that "yes, there's something inside."

The fat man glanced anxiously around the door again.

There was no one in the corridor. There seemed to be a hint of green in the darkness around the corner, and beyond that, it was just deep darkness.

The fat man didn't pay attention to what that green color was.

What he cared about was getting to the second floor before these people.

As he thought about it, the fat man quickly surveyed the building.

The sharp-eyed fat man immediately noticed that the building had two staircases, and the person holding the handrail was quite far from one of the staircases.

Although it was quite far, it was still within their line of sight, and if they ran over, they would definitely be seen by these people.

But the fat man couldn't care less about that now. He took a deep breath, squatted back slightly, and assumed a somewhat unorthodox horse stance.

Then he suddenly darted towards the stairs ahead, like a mouse running away with a corn cob in its beak.

The group of people guarding the stairwell below were dumbfounded when they saw a nimble fat man.

"Hey!" one of them shouted, pointing at the fat man who was running very fast.

But to everyone's surprise, the fat man moved so fast that he disappeared into the dark stairwell shortly after the man raised his hand.

At that moment, Bai Yuhu's displeased voice came from above: "What's wrong?"

The place wasn't that big; anyone shouting would be heard on the second floor. The man below lowered his voice and looked up: "Boss, a fat guy suddenly ran upstairs just now, we didn't have time to stop him..."

"Fatty? The one with the doctor?" Bai Yuhu's voice came from above: "Fine, let him come up. Just stop anyone who tries to escape."

The people below nodded somewhat guiltily.

Then Bai Yuhu fell silent. The people below dispersed and stared intently at the two remaining staircases.

At this moment, Gu Mian was standing alone in the dark room.

There was nothing in this dilapidated house except for a huge mirror as tall as a person and dust on the ground. There wasn't even a window. I don't know why the mirror was placed in such a godforsaken place.

After Gu Mian came in, she carefully examined the mirror for a while, which might have something fall out, and even reached out and touched it.

The mirror was spotless, without a speck of dust, as if it had been placed there not long ago.

The riddle requires you to turn off all light sources, stand alone with your back to a mirror for a minute, and then suddenly turn around.

Gu Mian stood silently with her back to the mirror: "When I turn around when the mirror isn't looking, I'll be able to see what's inside."

He muttered to himself as he calculated the time.

A minute is not long; you just need to count from one to sixty.

However, Gu Mian always counts rather quickly, so to be on the safe side, he decided to count to one hundred.

In the dimly lit room, Gu Mian's counting continued.

In the still of the night, the counting sound was rather eerie; if someone were to pass by this tightly closed door at this moment, they would probably be frightened by the mechanical counting sound coming from inside.

A normal person would never lock themselves in a haunted place and count; anything making noise is definitely not human! — This is what most people think.

In the normal plot, a passerby would have discovered the counting sounds coming from inside the house, and after a thrilling adventure, would have found that it wasn't a ghost, but a person.
Then they were filled with awe for Gu Mian, who dared to enter the dark room alone, and exclaimed, "This kid is terrifying!"

But there are no innocent bystanders for Gu Mian to show off right now.

There were only a few burly men sneaking up from the direction of the stairs, and an angry fat man.

When Gu Mian counted to "68", she suddenly heard a sound outside.

It sounded like a person's cry, but it only rang once and then stopped.

Then, faint conversations could be heard from outside.

Gu Mian recognized that these were not Chu Changge and Mr. Green's voices, but because the conversation was too quiet, he couldn't make out what they were saying.

The voices lasted only a few seconds before silence returned outside.

Gu Mian paused for a moment, then announced the next number.

The room was exceptionally dark and quiet.

As Gu Mian recited the numbers, she thought to herself, "Could it be that some enemy has come knocking on our door?"

Thinking about it, he really has a lot of enemies, especially that mysterious and unpredictable evil god. He has already destroyed two of the evil god's statues.

Of course, even if the evil god himself were in front of Gu Mian now, Gu Mian would dare to swear on her chest that those statues were the ones who bumped into her first.

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