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Chapter 229 The Anti-Prostitution Squad's Attack

It's still the ten-minute break between classes.

High school restrooms are usually located at the far left end after exiting the classroom. Gu Mian hid her phone in her pocket and planned to walk to the left after leaving the classroom.

Logically, there should be mirrors in the school toilets in horror-themed scenarios.

But as soon as he stepped outside, he bumped into something extraordinary—a person, or more precisely, a student.

There were quite a few students in the corridor, and people were constantly going in and out of the classrooms.

It's normal to bump into other classmates when you go out, but it's not normal to bump into a classmate who's timid and has handcuffs on their hands.

Furthermore, Gu Mian discovered that she could actually access the player panel of this handcuffed classmate.

【Ziliang】—This is the player nickname for this timid male classmate.

Gu Mian has seen it all in his life, but he's never seen anything like starting with handcuffs before...

Ziliang clearly realized that the person he bumped into was also a player, and his eyes lit up. Although he was a little curious as to why the player's nickname was green, now was obviously not the time to discuss such things.

"Um, this was an accident... Can you help me?" Ziliang pulled his hand back forcefully to hide the handcuffs on his wrists, and then spoke with great embarrassment.

He clearly wanted Gu Mian to help him unlock the handcuffs.

He hid it well; if Gu Mian hadn't been so sharp-eyed, she wouldn't have noticed the shiny thing cuffed to his hand.

Although Gu Mian also wanted to ask him what the accident was about the handcuffs on his hands, he knew that now was not the time to discuss such things.

Gu Mian glanced back at the classroom sign hanging on the wall, which read 'Art Class 2-3'. Without saying a word, he looked at Zi Liang in front of him and said, "Go to the restroom and wait."

Ziliang was very obedient. He hid his hands and ran towards the toilet, as if he already knew where it was.

Watching his departing figure, Gu Mian turned around and walked back into the classroom.

There was a guitar case leaning against his desk, though he knew that the exquisite case didn't contain a guitar, but rather a useful tool for cutting handcuffs.

This is an art student's classroom, so Gu Mian's current identity is that of an art student, and it's not surprising that she carries a guitar.

He strode to his guitar bag, slung it over his shoulder, and the student in front of him, seeing his puzzled expression, asked, "Hey? We only have the afternoon off, why are you going back to the dorm now?"

"You're taking the afternoon off?" Gu Mian received an important piece of information.

He glanced at the desk in front of him: "No, I have something to do for now, I'll be right back."

After saying that, he slung his exquisite guitar bag over his shoulder and strode out of the classroom without looking back.

The person in front of her seemed to want to say something, but Gu Mian disappeared in a moment.

It was probably close to class time, and people in the corridor were walking towards the classroom.

When Gu Mian walked into the restroom, there was hardly anyone there.

Presumably to prevent students from secretly smoking in the toilets, the stalls in the boys' toilets do not have doors.

When Gu Mian entered the restroom, he saw a timid head peeking out from the innermost stall. Upon seeing him, the head immediately ran over excitedly.

That sleazy head belonged to Ziliang, who was wearing handcuffs.

Don't be fooled by his seemingly respectable appearance; he wears glasses and appears quite refined. But when he does things, he always acts furtively, like a thief plotting something.

Ziliang looked at the guitar case Gu Mian was carrying: "Is this a guitar?"

Gu Mian shook her head slightly.

Sure enough, there was a mirror in the toilet of the supernatural instance. As soon as you enter, there is a row of sinks on the left, and above the sinks is a huge horizontal mirror. Gu Mian saw out of the corner of her eye that when she shook her head, the reflection in the mirror also shook its head.

He put down his guitar bag and was about to take the contents out.

Just then, a bell rang. Based on Gu Mian's many years of teaching experience, this bell should be the preparatory bell.

Upon hearing the ringtone, Gu Mian suddenly remembered his phone in his pocket. He took it out as he thought about it, but he didn't exit the game; the screen remained displaying the game.

Ziliang's expression became somewhat unnatural after seeing the game screen. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but then noticed something was wrong with the screen: "Huh?"

Gu Mian also noticed.

The character in the game moves along with the real-life player. At this moment, Gu Mian moved to the toilet, and the game screen naturally switched to the toilet as well. The screen now shows an overhead view of the toilet.

Although toilets are known to be places where paranormal events occur, nothing has happened in this toilet yet; the only change is the number of people in it.

When they were in the classroom, the room was packed with people, but in the game screen there was only one little person, the little person representing Gu Mian.

At this moment, there is one more little figure on the screen.

Standing opposite Gu Mian's avatar, the two avatars looked exactly alike. However, because each avatar had a name above its head, Gu Mian was able to tell which one was the character she had registered.

On the screen, a small figure represents Gu Mian's registered character, [Gu Gu].

The name above the other little figure's head is [Liang'er].

Without a doubt, this is the character name registered by Ziliang, but the name is really... indescribable.

The two little figures are a tiny bit far apart.

Zi Liang, still handcuffed, stared at Gu Mian's phone screen with a puzzled expression: "I thought this was a single-player game. How come we players can meet?"

It seems he has already downloaded the game; Ziliang's phone must be in his pocket.

Gu Mian noticed that the character representing Zi Liang in the game was not handcuffed, and the character representing herself was not carrying a guitar.

It seems this supernatural game cannot yet recognize items held by real people.

At that moment, a sentence suddenly appeared at the bottom of the screen.

The preparatory bell has rung; it's time to go back to class.

Immediately afterwards, the two little figures started talking to each other.

[Gu Gu: What are you doing here?]

[Liang'er: I'm here to take care of some things, just like you.]

These two little figures seem to know each other.

Regardless of why these two newly registered characters know each other, their two sentences just now were truly an amazing conversation.

What can you do in the toilet? Eat shit?

"Speaking of which, doctor," Zi Liang had already raised his head and glanced at the two large green characters "Doctor" in Gu Mian's nickname: "Can you open these handcuffs for me?"

Gu Mian glanced at the slender chain on Zi Liang's hand: "There shouldn't be any problem."

Immediately afterwards, Ziliang saw the doctor in front of him take something that wasn't particularly exquisite out of the beautiful guitar case...

After a motorcycle roared, the handcuffs on Ziliang's hands snapped.

It was clear that the handcuffed, dumbfounded student wanted to say something like "Holy crap," but he swallowed the words back down.

Gu Mian glanced at the two iron bracelets still hanging on Zi Liang's wrist: "Do you want to saw these two bracelets off too? I promise I won't hurt you."

Ziliang quickly waved his hand: "Never mind, never mind."

Gu Mian glanced at the phone screen again and saw that the two little figures were motionless, probably because he and Ziliang hadn't moved either.

Seeing that the two little men didn't move, Gu Mian looked up at Zi Liang: "There were too many people around, so I didn't ask you anything. Now can you explain what's wrong with the handcuffs on your hands?"

"To my shame," Ziliang scratched his head awkwardly, "when this game started, I was handcuffed by the anti-prostitution squad..."

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