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Chapter 222, everyone, look how ridiculous this chapter number is!
When Gu Mian returned, she saw a girl with pigtails whose face was visible.

Let's just call her a young girl—if we ignore her strikingly ugly face.

Fortunately, although the female ghost was ugly, her ugliness was still within the range of normal human appearance.

If someone saw her with her face completely uncovered in the middle of the night, their first thought would definitely be, "What kind of incredibly ugly woman have I encountered?"

Instead of thinking, "What kind of incredibly ugly ghost have I encountered?"

To make her look better, the fat man somehow got hold of a long red dress and forced it on her.

Fortunately, the female ghost was quite thin, so even though there was another layer of clothing underneath, it wasn't very noticeable.

The female ghost seemed to really like the long dress the fat man had put on her.

Gu Mian saw her blood-stained hand twitch, as if unsure where to put it; immediately, the blood stopped seeping from her body, as if afraid of soiling her pretty dress.

From the back, or even without looking at her face, the female ghost has a rather good presence; she stands tall with her chest out, stomach in, and head held high, much like a professional dancer on television.

If you walk down the street with your head covered, you might win the hearts of quite a few boys.

However, Gu Mian had no intention of taking this female ghost out for a fashion show; it was more realistic to keep her hidden away.

As he pondered this, he glanced at the fat man beside him and asked, "Have you named it yet?"

The fat man certainly knew what Gu Mian was talking about.

He nodded solemnly: "Get up!"

Seeing the fat man's solemn expression, Gu Mian thought he had given the female ghost some earth-shattering, tear-jerking name. However, the fat man immediately uttered two very common characters—

"Little Red"

Gu Mian: "..."

Oh well, Xiao Hong it is. He hadn't originally planned to give her the name of a female protagonist in a novel.

The wind was howling outside the window; it seemed particularly strong today, making the abandoned billboards on both sides of the road rustle loudly.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, as if it might rain at any moment.

The fat man glanced at the sky outside the window with a hint of unease: "By the way, Doctor, how did things go with those two in the dungeon?"

“That’s good,” Gu Mian said, taking out the [Strange Camera] and tossing it to the fat man. “When we came out of the dungeon, Han Shan said it was a pity…”

What's a pity?
“It’s a pity that someone as handsome as me can’t go with them,” Gu Mian said without blushing at all. “Because he said I have terrible luck, and whoever is with me will be unlucky.”

Gu Mian paused for a moment at this point: "I'll just take it as a compliment."

The fat man boasted shamelessly, "This is definitely a compliment to you, doctor!"

Gu Mian continued, "In short, we can't stay here for long. Although many players left after the event, quite a few are still staying. With so many people around, it's best to leave first."

As he spoke, he looked out the window.

The wind lashed against the windows, as if trying to shatter the poor glass. Dark clouds filled the sky, and if you listened carefully, you could hear a low rumbling sound.

"Strange," Gu Mian stared out the window. "Why has the weather suddenly changed like this?"

He remembered that the weather wasn't this bad when he went out in the morning, but after only half a day it looked like a typhoon was about to make landfall.

Gu Mian stared at the dark clouds in the sky and stroked her chin: "Today is not a good day to take action. Let's sleep here for another night and talk about it tomorrow."

Although it's still afternoon, it's already almost nighttime, and you have to turn on the lights to barely see anything.

A fierce wind, carrying dark clouds, pressed down on the city, creating an incredibly terrifying scene. The howling wind echoed around, making one's hair stand on end.

If I had to use a line of poetry to describe the current scene, it would be a perfect example of "dark clouds pressing down on the city, threatening to crush it."

The atmosphere was strangely similar to that of Xiao Hong, who was standing in the middle of the living room. The fat man had already closed all the windows of the house, leaving not a single crack. He was now leaning against the windowsill, propping his head up with his hand: "Looks like a typhoon is coming? It's so inconvenient without weather forecasts..."

At this moment, Chu Changge, who was sitting at the table, suddenly spoke up: "In February, we usually don't have any typhoons making landfall here, right?"

The fat man paused for a moment, realizing that it was indeed true; typhoons usually didn't make landfall in February.

Gu Mian never watches the weather forecast. In Lianhua City, where he lives, there might not be a typhoon even once in eight hundred years, so he is not familiar with the characteristics of typhoons. At this moment, he is observing the three special items he brought out from the dungeon.

The system reward is the "Protagonist Survives Cliff Jumps" rule.

The other one is the Queen's Poisoned Apple.

He himself stole the access card for the warehouse in carriage number one (one-time use).

At this moment, the fat man spoke up in confusion: "That's right, there shouldn't be any typhoons in February."

No matter how strong the typhoon was outside, it couldn't stop Gu Mian from checking the attributes of special items.

[The Protagonist's Survival Law When Jumping Off a Cliff]

[Introduction: Actually, this is a secret manual, a blue book, with the words "The Protagonist's Law of Surviving a Cliff Jump" written in black ink on the cover... no, it seems to be eight words.]

[Function: When the holder is holding this manual and falls from a height, there is a 60% chance that they will not suffer any damage.]

It seemed like a good thing, but Gu Mian knew it was useless to her.

Judging by his luck, he definitely belongs to the remaining 40%.

Give the useless stuff to Fatty—this is a principle that Gu Mian has always adhered to.

So the fat man was hit by a blue book that flew over.

Gu Mian then looked at the next special item.

The Queen's Poisoned Apple

[Description: The Apple Created by the Evil Queen; this item is also known as 'The Princess Must Die']

[Function: The princess will die immediately from poisoning after consuming it; it will not harm ordinary people]

After reading the attributes of this apple, Gu Mian was completely overwhelmed.

Even if you wanted to use this thing, you couldn't find a suitable object to use it with.

A princess? Unless you go dig in the ground right now, you might find one that's been dead for ages...

It's a pity that the current theme doesn't seem to be tomb raiding, otherwise Gu Mian felt that she could take a fat guy and a young man to raid tombs.

All afternoon, Gu Mian was preoccupied with the question, "Where do I go to find the princess?"

The sky was getting increasingly terrifying. The group heard the sounds of a group of people outside the door from time to time. Many players who had come to participate in the event and had not yet left realized that the typhoon was about to make landfall and were now looking for houses to take refuge.

Of course, the price of 100 coins a day is unaffordable for most people, so most players share a house with seven or eight other people, just hoping to survive the typhoon.

The boss made a fortune that afternoon and even wanted to raise prices, but he was probably threatened, so the price increase didn't happen.

By the time night truly fell, the small hotel was already full of guests, with those who couldn't find rooms even occupying the lobby.

At this moment, the sky also became incredibly terrifying; the fat man had never seen such weather in his entire life.

It looked as if thick ink was churning in the sky, everything was pitch black, and the wind was howling.

The fat man looked at the sky and shuddered: "I don't know why... but I have a feeling that something terrible is about to happen..."

Thank you to Ling Xiaoye and Green Apple Jelly for the donations.
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