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Chapter 183 Alternative Riddles
The lanterns in this event are quite tall, at least three meters high, making them unreachable for most people.

And nobody would have any particular thoughts about the lanterns above their heads.

A vengeful ghost is infesting the lantern, and it comes out for a stroll every fifteen minutes. The players are not confident that they can solve the riddle within fifteen minutes.

So if someone really intends to carry the lantern, then when the time comes, a ghost will crawl out of the lantern.

The thought of that scene was terrifying, and the fat man shuddered.

Meanwhile, Gu Mian had already found the pole.

This place is Hengdian, the filming location for many TV series. After the global game started, the people here left in a hurry, leaving behind a lot of props.

At this moment, Gu Mian was holding something that looked like a red-tasseled spear, and he was using the handle to poke the dangerous-looking lantern above his head.

"Holy crap!" the fat man quickly interrupted, "Wait a minute!"

"What are you doing?" Gu Mian stopped what she was doing and looked at him.

The fat man choked back a sharp retort: ​​"What do you mean, 'what are you going to do'? I was thinking, these lanterns for this event aren't hung here so you can just poke around with your red-tasseled spear, are they?"

Gu Mian spoke up as if it were a matter of course: "I don't think this activity says I can't just stick my red-tasseled spear around and poke around."

Moreover, this lantern looks quite sturdy; it shouldn't be able to be punctured.

The fat man's face twitched, and he looked in Mr. Green's direction.

Sure enough, Mr. Green had already poked his head out of the window, looking at them nervously, his lips even slightly parted, as if he were about to speak up and stop something at any moment.

The fat man glanced at Mr. Green, then at Gu Mian: "Have some decency."

Gu Mian gripped the red-tasseled spear tightly in her hand: "I think I've been doing pretty normally."

The fat man pursed his lips, his expression somewhat puzzled: "But I think you're not quite normal."

"Anyway, the event didn't say that players couldn't use sticks to poke, right?" Gu Mian argued, "You have to understand, games usually have multiple solutions, and this event definitely has more flexible ways to play."

“I don’t know if other players have more flexible ways to play, but I know that the flexible ways you’re talking about are definitely not truly flexible ways to play,” the fat man said with lingering fear.

As he looked at Gu Mian, he said, "Doctor, this is the activity area, the real world... If we die here, we're really dead; this is nothing, but if the ghosts in the activity area are released, then this world will be doomed!"

The fat man touched his chest and said, "Besides, doctor, look how many people are participating in this event, but I haven't seen anyone brandishing a red-tasseled spear and trying to take down these lanterns, right?"

Just as the fat man was trying to dissuade Gu Mian, the group suddenly heard a strange noise behind them.

"What is it now?" Gu Mian turned around to look.

He noticed that Chu Changge had turned his head to look in the direction from which the sound came.

Gu Mian followed Chu Changge's gaze, which was in the direction the White Impermanence had left. However, the man named Xie Bi'an was no longer there, and another player with a somewhat unfamiliar face had appeared.

The fat man looked curiously at the timid girl who had suddenly appeared behind them.

The girl looked to be in her early twenties; if this were a normal world, she would be a college student.

At this moment, the girl was hesitantly craning her neck to look in their direction.

The girl was quite a distance away, at least three meters away, because Gu Mian found that she couldn't access her player information.

This girl has short hair, a baby face, and looks rather innocent.

The fat man seemed about to ask something, but the girl spoke first: "What...are you doing?"

Shouldn't we be the ones asking you that?
Gu Mian became curious. "What are you doing, sneaking around behind us like that?"
She looked somewhat nervous, as if she had remembered something terrible.

Before Gu Mian and the others could speak, the girl continued, "Whatever you do, don't touch these lanterns!"

Her face was contorted with terror, as if she had witnessed firsthand the fate of those who touched the lanterns.

The number of players participating in this event is not too many, but it is definitely not small.

Among them were naturally many skilled and imaginative individuals; judging from the girl's expression, she had likely encountered such powerful individuals before. The fat man had clearly considered this as well; his mouth gaped slightly, inwardly shocked: There really was a player who had managed to take the lantern down and carry it with them?
“I… not long ago…” the girl’s voice began to stammer, “I saw someone, like you, carrying a lantern with him… when the fifteen minutes were up, he put the lantern nearby and then tried to find a place to hide…”

“I was in the house right across from his, and I saw him place the lantern far away from the house, but it didn’t work…”

"I secretly peeked out the window and saw the ghost come out of the lantern... as if it knew the person was there, it didn't hesitate at all and went straight into the room where the person was hiding..."

"The house was very secluded, a small hut within a cluster of houses, quite inconspicuous, but the ghost didn't hesitate at all and went straight into that house."

"Later I heard a man screaming from inside the house, and then there was no more sound..."

"I think he's dead... If you take the lantern down, the ghost inside will haunt you, and throwing the lantern away won't help!"

"So please, whatever you do, don't bang on these lanterns!"

As the girl was speaking, a lantern above her head was suddenly blown by the wind and fell down.

The pale white lantern even rolled several times on the ground, until it rolled all the way to Gu Mian's feet.

The fat man stared at the lantern on the ground with his mouth slightly agape: "We didn't touch it, did we?"

"No," Gu Mian said, "I already took the opportunity to poke it several times with the pole just now."

Upon seeing a pale white lantern fall, the girl's face instantly turned ashen. She staggered back several steps, then turned and ran, as if afraid of being haunted by the vengeful ghost inside the lantern.

Gu Mian even saw the girl bump into another player coming this way while running away, then she hurriedly said something to this player, and then there were two people running away in a panic.

Gu Mian: "..."

The girl was not close to them to begin with, and she turned and ran away, disappearing from sight.

The fat man was left standing there, staring blankly: "Doctor, do you think it's too late for us to run now?"

Gu Mian squatted down: "I finally managed to get it down, of course I can't just run away."

The fat man watched Gu Mian, who was squatting down and fiddling with the lantern, with trepidation.

Chu Changge remained silent, still watching the direction the girl had left. Gu Mian noticed that he seemed to have a particular fondness for staring in the direction others had left today.

Ignoring the two people beside her, Gu Mian reached out and picked up the lantern, looking at the words on it.

But at that moment, he suddenly froze, and then revealed an indescribable expression.

The fat man craned his neck slightly to look at Gu Mian, whose expression had suddenly changed: "What's wrong, doctor?"

Gu Mian looked up: "But this doesn't seem to be the lantern I chose..."

The fat man also looked at the riddle on the lantern in shock.

There is only one small green house in this area, and inside lives a 'scary little girl'. After you help her tie her hair into pigtails, how will she thank you?

The fat man was still immersed in the description of the "scary little girl" when he heard Gu Mian exclaim, "Oh no!"

"What's wrong, doctor?" He looked at Gu Mian hesitantly. Did he think the little girl was too scary? The riddle did look a bit frightening. As we all know, many ghosts in horror movies are related to little girls.

The fat man thought to himself that if the doctor didn't want to guess the riddle, they could still turn around and run away now.

At this moment, Gu Mian was looking at the lantern with a serious expression: "I don't know how to braid hair."

Fatty: "..."

Gu Mian felt that he couldn't be blamed for this, because no one had ever taught him how to braid his hair since he was a child.

Moreover, he never expected to encounter such a riddle today.

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