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Chapter 32 A Gathering of Cries!

The fat man quickly got up and watched as Chu Changge stood on the balcony, taking a deep breath of the first smog of the morning.

“Brother Chu, do you know?” the fat man said, looking at Chu Changge’s back, “there used to be an old man living next door to my house who would go to the rooftop every morning to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Later, he got poisoned by smog.”

Upon hearing this, Chu Changge silently took two steps back and left the balcony.

Gu Mian's balcony is open-air, the kind where you can see the sky as soon as you look up.

As you can see, the weather is not good today; it's rather gloomy, and it looks like it's going to snow.

The fat man looked past Chu Changge and gazed out onto the balcony: "Where did Dr. Gu go?"

Chu Changge answered simply, "He went to make money."

The fat man was slightly taken aback: "The doctor went by himself?"

"Yes, he told us to air-dry the meat we bought last night at home so it would be easier to carry on the road."

At this moment, Gu Mian had already taken the ticket and started matching for the instance.

Perhaps because the game had just started and there weren't many players participating in the dungeon, his matchmaking time was a bit long this time.

After waiting in the darkness for a long time, that long-lost feeling of weightlessness finally returned.

Gu Mian fell in the darkness for a while before his body touched something solid. He felt as if he had landed on a bed.

At the same time, the darkness quickly receded, revealing the scene before us.

He is currently in a room.

Information about this instance is popping up on the panel.

[Instance: Fatal Curse]

[Content: Have you ever felt eerie being watched? Have you ever heard a slight noise coming from under your bed? Have you ever felt like someone is behind you?]
You are all cursed by vengeful spirits. Please do your best to survive this curse!
Please remember, 'it' is getting closer and closer to you!

Number of players: 5

Main Quest: Survive 10 days in the dungeon.

Difficulty: ★★★★☆

[Dungeon Rewards: 100 Game Coins, 1 Lottery Draw Attempt, 2 Freely Allocable Attribute Points]

"The rewards for this instance have been increased by more than one level," Gu Mian muttered to herself as she looked around.

This is a small room that looks a bit old, but it's still quite clean.

A bed took up half the space of the room, covered with a gray-blue sheet and a quilt of the same color. There was a writing desk next to the door.

The bed was right next to the window. Gu Mian looked out and realized that she was on the first floor.

Outside were rows of dilapidated buildings, and not far away was an open space with a huge statue of a person on it.

The sun was slowly setting in the west, and the afterglow of the sunset shone through the window, making Gu Mian feel warm and cozy.

His chainsaw, packaged in a guitar case, landed successfully without any damage.

Gu Mian turned her head to look outside the door. There was a small living room outside, which could be seen at a glance.

A solid wood cabinet held a desktop television. Not far from the television was a glass coffee table and a small, dark red sofa. The sofa was clearly quite old, with its leather worn through.

Next to the sofa was a cabinet that looked like a bedside table, with a desktop telephone on it, and next to the telephone seemed to be a phone book.

This is a one-bedroom apartment, and it seems to be one of those apartments from many years ago.

Sure enough, Gu Mian noticed from a calendar hanging in the living room that it was July 15, 2002.

Who knows how time is arranged in the instance? He didn't have time to think about that; instead, he focused on finding clues.

“This is a five-person instance, but right now there’s no one else besides me and Chainsaw?” Gu Mian thought seriously.

This instance is different from the previous two.

The first two times, his teammates were clearly placed in front of him, but this time it seems he has to find his teammates himself.

"Actually, not finding teammates isn't a big problem," Gu Mian muttered to herself. "This dungeon seems to be similar to The Ring."

The Ring is a curse that kills you seven days after watching the videotape. This instance, however, curses the player from the start, and during this time, "it" will get closer and closer to the player.

When this "it" comes to the player, that's when the player is doomed.

"We have five players, so there should be at least five ghosts in this instance. Otherwise, wouldn't one ghost be exhausted from killing five players?"

Gu Mian was thinking very seriously.

But just as he was deep in thought, the phone on the cabinet next to the sofa suddenly rang.

"Ring ring ring——"

"Ring ring ring——"

It was still dusk, and Gu Mian wasn't worried about the possibility of a midnight nightmare. She reached out and answered the phone.

Immediately afterwards, a young man's voice came from the other end: "Hello, are you... Gu Mian?"

Gu Mian paused slightly: "You are..."

The other person seemed to hesitate for a moment before continuing, "You're a player too, right?"

He didn't go looking for his teammates, but they came to him on their own. But how did they find him?
While lost in thought, Gu Mian reached out and flipped through the phone book next to the phone. Sure enough, there were only four phone numbers in the book, which should be those four teammates.

This person also called from the phone book.

Gu Mian readily admitted, "Yes."

As he agreed, he glanced at the screen of the desktop phone, which displayed the other party's number and matched it with the name in the phone book.

"Are you Yuwen Hao?"

Good at Chinese? What kind of weird name is that?

The person on the other end seemed a little excited: "It's me! You're truly the most comfortable teammate I've ever had to communicate with here."

Gu Mian is good at drawing inferences from one instance to another, and she can guess many things without the other person saying them.

It seems that Yuwen Hao had called his other teammates beforehand, which explains why Gu Mian's understanding nature is so remarkable.

“I just called other people, and they were either incoherent or asking all sorts of questions, like ‘How did you get my phone number?’ ‘Who are you?’ You are truly the teammate I feel most comfortable with.”

Gu Mian didn't chat much with Yuwen Hao.

He looked at the other names in the phone book: "You called to ask us to gather together, right?"

The person on the other end choked for a moment: "Um...yes, that's right. As far as I know, the five of us have been separated and are all in our own rooms, so I want to get everyone together first."

Where should we meet?

"...Actually, I'm not quite sure where everyone is. Could you look out the window and see if there are any unusual buildings?"

Gu Mian looked out the window: "There's a huge full-body statue... Actually, I'm quite unique too. You should be able to recognize me immediately if you look at me."

"What?" came a strange voice from the other end.

Gu Mian, carrying a chainsaw, said, "I'm the doctor who carries a big guitar."

Fortunately, the instance was relatively humane, preventing the five players from being too far apart.

When Yuwen Hao led the other three people to the statue Gu Mian mentioned, they immediately spotted a figure that was even more unusual than the statue itself.

A doctor stood there, wearing a white coat.

The white coat was already somewhat worn, with some reddish-brown stains on the edges that were unidentifiable, fluttering in the wind.

He carried a large guitar that seemed quite out of place for a doctor; the guitar was too big and was tightly strapped to his back.

His incongruous attire gave him an odd aura, but the doctor didn't seem to care.

"Oh my god," Yuwen Hao sighed inwardly, "What kind of weird teammates did I get matched with?"

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