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Chapter 235 A Sweet Watermelon Knife Covered in Cream
Gu Mian stared at Chu Changge's phone screen for a while, then turned to look at her own screen.

That large treasure chest was still lying in front of us, probably meant to be opened.

When Gu Mian was searching the classrooms earlier, she noticed that it was already past 12:10, and the two fat guys had been gone for quite some time.

As Gu Mian pondered this, she glanced at the frail, delicate figure beside her and asked, "Do you want to open this invincible treasure chest?"

It was clearly a strange, broken box from a supernatural game, but Gu Mian's tone made it sound like she was describing a treasure chest that could contain the Green Dragon Crescent Blade.

The temperature on the stairs was very high, but Ruoli felt cool standing next to the doctor, which was even more effective than standing under an air conditioner.

She wiped the cold sweat from her brow and shook her head: "No, no, I've never gotten anything good from opening equipment boxes in games. I'm just unlucky..."

Upon hearing this, Gu Mian opened her mouth, but ultimately resisted the urge to tell her about her tragic life.

Without saying much, he stepped down a step and moved his little figure to the treasure chest.

Sure enough, an option appeared on the screen.

You've found a treasure chest. Do you want to open it?

【whether】

Gu Mian naturally chose "Yes".

Immediately afterwards, the treasure chest lid on the screen suddenly flipped open with a "bang," as if a corpse inside had suddenly overturned the coffin lid.

Although the opening scene of this treasure chest is exactly the same as the overturning of a coffin lid, there is no corpse inside that can jump up and rise from the dead.

[Gu Gu: Ah, this is a good thing. It might change a bit when we finish the game.]

[Gu Gu: There seems to be jam on top?]

[Item obtained - 'Watermelon knife covered in cream', has been added to backpack]

A watermelon knife covered in cream, and jam?
Even a child could guess that the description of this thing would be something like, "A watermelon knife covered in cream, with red stuff in the middle, it seems someone used this watermelon knife instead of a cake knife."

Unfortunately, after this item appears, there is only an icon and the item name below it; you can't click on the description.

Gu Mian had no choice but to close his backpack. At this point, the box blocking his way in the game screen was gone, so he quickly went downstairs and arrived at the building entrance.

Without the obstruction of the teaching building, the almost boiling heat finally engulfed the three of them without any hindrance. Standing there for just a few seconds was enough to make them sweat profusely, making them wish they could find a shady place to crawl into immediately.

"Do you know which direction the laboratory building is in?" Gu Mian asked the two people beside her.

A few drops of sweat trickled down her forehead, and she shook her head; it seemed she was unaware.

Chu Changge nodded and said, "When I went downstairs just now, I noticed the surroundings. There's a building over there that looks a bit like an experimental building."

Gu Mian looked in the direction Chu Changge was pointing and saw a slightly shorter building that was faintly visible. It didn't look like a teaching building, a dormitory, or a canteen.

Anyway, it's not too far, so let's go take a look over there first.

Gu Mian lifted her foot and walked over there. Chu Changge kept watching the game screen. He saw that [Chu Changge] and [Ruo Liu Bu Fu Feng] were moving towards the experimental building with them, while only [Gu Gu] remained in place.

Gu Gu: They've all left, so I'll go to the cafeteria for lunch. But I'm still a little worried... Oh well, I'll go check on them anyway.

Gu Mian saw that the character she created had followed her, and did not give up on going to the experimental building because of her previous choice.

However, the little figure [Gu Gu] always kept a certain distance from the two little figures in front of him, as if he couldn't catch up with them...

Meanwhile, Fatty and Ziliang had already entered the somewhat gloomy laboratory building.

"This is unbelievable!" the fat man muttered, staring at his screen. "This thing can automatically recognize other players and even group up with characters created by other players!" Zi Liang tucked the two large iron bracelets he hadn't taken off his wrists into his hand. "Actually, I didn't want to be grouped up with you here either..."

The fat man glanced at the two bracelets on his wrists: "Don't block my view, I can see them all. Hey kid, are you some kind of criminal? Why are you handcuffed?"

Ziliang said somewhat flusteredly, "I'm not some kind of lawbreaker."

The fat man continued muttering to himself, "You didn't get handcuffed by the anti-prostitution squad, did you?"

Ziliang's face began to flush slightly: "How can a scholar's affairs be called pornography? Besides, I'm not..."

Before he could finish speaking, the fat man interrupted him: "Wait, don't make a sound yet."

Ziliang looked somewhat startled: "What's wrong?"

At this moment, the fat man was frowning as he stared at his game screen. Both of them had come here following the little figure that suddenly started moving on its own.

The little man ran to the middle of the first-floor corridor before stopping, and Fatty and Ziliang followed him there.

The lighting in the laboratory building wasn't great, but since there were no students in class, none of the lights were on. The two of them were standing in a long, dark corridor on the first floor, with laboratories on both sides.

The lighting was so poor that the two of them couldn't see what the end of the corridor looked like. They could only vaguely make out what seemed to be there, yet it also seemed like there was nothing there at all.

At this moment, the two little figures who ran into the laboratory building began to talk in the dimly lit environment.

[Wang Pangzi: Have you heard? Two senior students went missing here. I heard from an older female student that someone saw them come here in the middle of the night, and the next day they were reported missing.]

[Liang'er: Then we'd better be careful]

[Wang Pangzi: I heard there might be some clues about the senior in this lab building, why don't we look for them?]

Liang'er: Okay.

That's the end of the conversation.

Then a line of text appeared at the bottom of the screen.

[The side quest 'The Mysteriously Disappeared Senior' has been triggered. Please explore this map.]

The fat man stared at the screen: "Can I run out of this damn lab building right now?"

"I'm afraid not," Ziliang said, rubbing the handcuffs and looking at the door not far behind him. "This door... closed by itself just now, and not only closed, it locked itself!"

The fat man immediately turned around and looked in the direction of the gate.

A rusty chain had somehow bound the door tightly shut. The atmosphere here was already eerie, but it became even more so after the door was closed and locked.

But soon, Ziliang discovered something even more terrifying.

"I said—" He suddenly grabbed the fat man who was about to push the door open to check: "Have you noticed something's wrong?"

The fat man stopped in his tracks.

Something's wrong?
Something about this place doesn't seem right.

But immediately, he understood what Ziliang meant...

Yes, something's definitely not right...

The door was locked from the inside.

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