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Gu Mian stroked her chin: "All the students who downloaded this game before have disappeared..."

He remembered that when he first entered this instance, his classmate in front of him, who had a sour face, seemed to have mentioned this to him, but in order to save time, Gu Mian left the classroom without saying much to him.

It now seems that the fat guy must have learned about the history of this game before coming to find him.

Gu Mian didn't plan to ask her classmate who looked so miserable.

He stroked his chin and looked at the fat man in front of him: "Tell me about it."

Suddenly, a bell rang above their heads. Such a loud sound in the quiet corridor was quite frightening.

Fortunately, Gu Mian and Fatty had experienced quite a few supernatural scenarios, so they weren't too scared.

This should be the class bell; the previous bell was the preparatory bell.

Gu Mian noticed that after the bell rang, a line of text appeared at the bottom of the game screen.

The school bell rang, and the teachers and students should already be ready in the classroom.

Now that she's in high school, Gu Mian remembers that her high school teachers never arrived at the classroom on time. Usually, the teacher of the previous class would stay for five minutes after class ended, and the teacher of the next class would arrive five minutes early.

The teachers Gu Mian had in high school often made students with stomach aches suffer terribly.

Putting those aside for now, the teachers at this school were clearly keeping a tight rein on their time, as the sound of a teacher lecturing could already be heard from the classroom next door.

At this moment, only Gu Mian and the fat man were in the corridor.

Just as the fat man was about to answer Gu Mian's question, he saw the two little figures on the phone screen start talking again.

[Wang Pangzi: It's Saturday today, I'm on holiday this afternoon, where are you planning to go?]

[Gu Gu: Let's sleep in the dorm.]

The fat man looked at the two little figures on the screen with some confusion: "Don't the characters in the game go home for vacation?"

Gu Mian continued reading.

[Gu Gu: Where are you planning to go?]

[Wang Pangzi: How about we go to the lab building this afternoon? I heard they have some good stuff there.]

Now, the two little characters in the game aren't busy with class anymore; instead, they're looking for some "good stuff."

It's strange, it seems like players have no control over how the game progresses.

Gu Mian felt that this game of disappearing into the shadows was turning into a treasure hunt.

The fat guy seemed to want to ask something, but he answered Gu Mian's question first: "It's about my deskmate... Speaking of which, my deskmate is quite a beauty..."

The fat man coughed twice as he said this: "He told me that there were also upperclassmen who secretly brought their phones to school before, but that was many years ago. Because his sister also studied at this school, my deskmate knows more about what happened back then."

The fat man frowned as he said this: "This high school was built a long time ago. Back then, students still had keypad phones. Of course, there were some more advanced touchscreen phones, but touchscreen phones basically still had keys. Students couldn't afford those touchscreen phones with keys back then..."

The fat man paused for a moment when he said this: "Back then, the cell phones they carried were similar to our Nokia phones. Speaking of which, have you ever seen a Nokia?" Gu Mian nodded: "Yes, I used it to crack walnuts when I was a kid."

Fatty: "..."

He paused for a moment before continuing, "That was probably about ten years ago. There weren't many students secretly bringing their phones to school back then, only about seventeen or eighteen in the whole school. That's when the game came out."

It appeared so early?
The fat man continued, "I don't know who discovered this game first, but it immediately became popular at school, and eventually almost everyone, more than a dozen people, had it on their phones."

"Ten years ago, this game was considered quite advanced, and I heard that you could find treasure in it, so everyone would wander around the school in their spare time, hoping to find treasure chests or something like that."

"But then the first person went missing... I don't know the specifics, but I do know that after the first person disappeared, the upperclassmen who played these games started disappearing one after another."

"The last one to go missing among those dozen or so people was named Liu Qing, who was my classmate's older sister's roommate..."

Gu Mian stroked her chin. Her deskmate's older sister's roommate?
The fat man continued, "A few days before her sister's roommate disappeared, her behavior suddenly became very abnormal. She often talked nonsense, saying that someone was secretly following her, and she stayed up at night, secretly staring at the other people in the dormitory..."

"One night, her sister was grabbed by the arm and choked by Liu Qing. Liu Qing seemed to be talking nonsense, saying things like 'I'll die if I don't follow them.' After that, she grabbed her phone and ran out of the dormitory. No one has seen her since."

As Gu Mian listened, she glanced at the two little figures on her phone screen. Was this "they" referring to these little figures?

"It's strange, the dormitory building's main doors were all locked, and the windows were all fixed in place. The only cracks that could be opened were too small for even a small child to squeeze through, so she shouldn't have been able to escape the dormitory building."

"But the police searched the entire dormitory building inside and out, but couldn't find Liu Qing. Everyone suspected that there was something wrong with the game. The principal and the director seemed to have heard something about the game. Although they said things like 'Don't believe in superstitions,' they subsequently tightened their control over cell phones even more."

"Back then, the school leaders seemed to have borrowed a cell phone detector from somewhere else, was that what it was called? The machine that checked for smuggled cell phones during our exams."

Gu Mian nodded: "Call me whatever you like."

Fatty: "...They set up several machines to check cell phones at the dormitory entrance, and not a single student's cell phone survived that year."

"About four or five years later, the principal changed, and several batches of teachers left. Everyone relaxed their vigilance again, and that's when the game reappeared... The doctor can probably guess what happened next. Some daring and skeptical students downloaded the game, but later all of these students who didn't believe in the superstition were cursed and disappeared without a trace..."

Gu Mian patted her school uniform. It's really not easy for this school to have been open for so long.

"Later, the school strictly banned cell phones, and then four or five years later, the management became lax... so we came here. It seems we're destined to disappear."

Hearing this, Gu Mian couldn't help but laugh.

The fat man pursed his lips: "Doctor, please stop laughing, it's giving me the creeps."

Gu Mian's smile faded: "Speaking of which...did you know that the character you created can move around on its own in the game?"

The fat man's eyes narrowed: "I don't know!"

Gu Mian nodded: "Now you know."

Oh, the ocean... no! Gugu isn't water at all!

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