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Chapter 23: Everyone Passes, the Most Deadly

"By following the clues on all floors, we can deduce the storylines of the three characters and then figure out the relationship between the three vengeful ghosts."

"I suspect that during the road test, a vengeful spirit associated with each car will appear and interfere with the player, and the solution to the road test can be found in the written test."

“Ma Gang’s hatred for Yang Shuang has reached its peak, so I went downstairs to get a photo of Yang Shuang’s door. If I choose the prison van during the driving test, Ma Gang might appear. I can use this photo to attract hatred and buy time.”

After Chu Changge went downstairs to retrieve the photos, he encountered Fatty and Xiao Qiao on the stairs, and he was telling them about his discovery.

In the darkness, the fat man and Xiao Qiao looked at each other and listened, as if they had something they couldn't say.

Chu Changge looked at the two of them and asked, "Where is Gu Mian? We need to tell him about this storyline quickly."

The fat man paused slightly, then hesitated before saying, "No...no need..."

Chu Changge immediately noticed something was wrong with him, and he frowned slightly: "What's wrong?"

The fat man found it difficult to speak.

I can't exactly say that the storyline you risked your life, went through countless hardships, and racked your brains to develop was already forced out by Gu Mian, who was choking the ghost by the neck, can I?

That's really a blow.

After a long silence, the fat man finally stammered, "Actually... it didn't have to be so complicated. To be honest, Dr. Gu just caught that ghost on the second floor..."

Even if the fat man didn't say it, Chu Changge could guess what was coming next; he was a person with a very strong ability to make connections.

Chu Changge asked in a deep voice, "What did Gu Mian do?"

Although he asked such a question, he could at least imagine something about it.

Seeing this, the fat man asked in surprise, "Brother Chu, why aren't you surprised at all when you hear this?"

The fat man was nearly scared out of his wits when he saw Gu Mian drag the ghost out from under the bed.

It's not that Chu Changge didn't react; it's just that he and Gu Mian have known each other for too long and have witnessed many things beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.

Moreover, Gu Mian herself is like a bug in this game, as can be seen from the fact that she can actually die in dungeons and attack NPCs.

So even when he heard him attack the ghosts in the dungeon, Chu Changge wasn't surprised at all.

Gu Mian can even fight NPCs, so it's not surprising that he would target ghosts.

Seeing that Chu Changge remained silent, the fat man continued, "Dr. Gu dragged the ghost out from under the bed right in front of me, which is quite strange..."

"Seeing the doctor catch that ghost... I reached out to try too, and almost got my neck snapped... It scared me to death!"

"Dr. Gu seems different from us, no, he's completely different..."

The fat man looked dazed as he said this, as if he doubted that he was dreaming.

Without listening to his rambling any longer, Chu Changge asked, "So where is Gu Mian now?"

The three of them were currently on the stairs between the second and third floors.

The fat man glanced up at the upstairs: "Dr. Gu said he was going to look for you, Brother Chu. We didn't see him on the second or first floor. He just went up to the third floor and told us to wait for him here. That ghost on the second floor shouldn't come out again, right..."

After the previous instance collapsed, Gu Mian received a threatening letter from the game system, so he was very careful in this instance and tried not to destroy anything.

After asking the question, he naturally let go, and the ghost disappeared as soon as he let go.

As the fat man was still talking, the group suddenly heard rustling sounds coming from outside the stairwell below.

It looked like something was stuck to the back of the wall.

The three of them quickly looked toward the stairwell, where they saw a pale face peeking out from behind the wall, its eyes wide and staring intently at them.

It's back!

The fat man opened his mouth wide and suddenly stood up, trying to escape.

But just then, a noise suddenly came from the stairs above.

Someone was coming downstairs. He immediately looked up and spotted the familiar white coat.

"Doctor!" The fat man's earth-shattering scream immediately echoed throughout the entire building.

At this moment, Chu Changge turned around and looked at the second-floor stairwell.

Half of the face had disappeared. Gu Mian, dragging something in her hand, looked at the fat man: "What happened?"

“Ghost…there’s a ghost…” The fat man pointed tremblingly to the second-floor stairwell.

Gu Mian looked in that direction, but it was completely empty. There wasn't even a fly, let alone a ghost. There was just one more person there, though.

He looked at Chu Changge: "I thought you were out of the game."

"No," Chu Changge shook his head slightly. "I found some clues and finally pieced together the relationship between the three ghosts. I originally wanted to tell you, but I found that you don't seem to need it."

Gu Mian has always had her own ideas, and Chu Changge knows that.

As Lu Xun once said, there were originally no roads in the world, but as more people walked on them, they became roads.

But Gu Mian never follows any set path. He never cares whether there is a path or not, he just wanders around aimlessly, and in the end, he always manages to reach the destination by some strange twist of fate.

He also recalled that when he was in kindergarten, his teacher assigned a craft project, requiring him to submit a paper house the next day.

This stumped countless kindergarten students and parents, so much so that only Gu Mian completed the assignment the next day.

How did he manage to do it?

He went directly to a funeral supplies shop and bought a paper villa, the kind to burn for his ancestors.

Since then, the kindergarten teacher has never assigned this kind of homework again.

Gu Mian has been an oddball since childhood, and as time goes by, this oddball has blossomed more and more brilliantly.

Therefore, it's not surprising that he took a unique approach in the dungeon and did things like extorting ghosts and interrogating people.

Although the original intention of this instance was to encourage deduction, and normal players probably wouldn't do such a thing to a ghost...

It's 10:15 now, time to start answering the questions.

Gu Mian threw down the things she was dragging and prepared to take out the test questions and start answering them directly.

But Chu Changge seemed quite interested in the thing he had thrown down: "This is... a long-handled axe? Where did it come from?"

"That one?" Gu Mian glanced at the axe on the ground: "It was in the hand of that ghost on the third floor. He wanted to use it to hit me, but I snatched it away."

Fatty: "..."

Chu Changge stared at the long-handled axe on the ground, reached out and picked it up. He recalled the nameplate of Ma Gang's cell that he had seen on the third floor—

Ma Gang had committed intentional homicide and was released after serving thirteen years in prison. Thirteen years later, he used a long axe to kill a woman again.

Upon closer inspection, there are bloodstains on the long-handled axe, which is very likely the murder weapon he used to kill Yang Shuang back then!

"This axe might come in handy during the road test later," Chu Changge said, tossing the axe to the fat man. "You take it for now."

The fat man caught it: "So now... can we answer the questions?"

"Of course," Gu Mian said, already pulling out a pen. "We can leave after the road test is over."

The fat man grimaced, wishing the road test were as easy as they said.

There are seven players in this special instance.

There were four people gathered around Gu Mian's side, while one person died next to the stairs on the first floor. It was the uncle named Hao Laoshi. Ordinary players don't actually die when they die in the dungeon, so the corpses are simulated by the dungeon.

The other two players are missing and may be dead; their bodies are in a room.

The coach was already standing at the entrance of the test center, seemingly waiting to grade the papers.

The four people lined up and handed him their completed test papers.

The coach seemed somewhat surprised, probably because he felt that a lot of people had come out alive.

He looked down at the four students' papers: "Even though four of you players survived, there's no guarantee that one of you will pass the exam..."

But then, the words he was about to say were choked in his throat.

Surprisingly... everyone passed?
Thanks to the "Depressed Batch of Actress Sauce" and the person who joined the group to urge me to update for more content for their generous donations (′‵) IL

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