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Chapter 385 (The previous chapter is gone)
"The grass on my grave has grown a meter high before you finally came out?"

As soon as Gu Mian and Chu Changge left the instance, they heard a long-lost voice—it was Fatty, whose grave was now overgrown with weeds.

By this time, the sky outside was completely dark, and Gu Mian guessed that the ticket booth table had been smeared with the fat man's saliva.

"I've been waiting for you guys for so long! It's only been a few hours, but it feels like two months have passed." The fat man ran over happily at this moment.

He looked Gu Mian up and down with a cheerful expression, a stark contrast to the ticket seller behind the ticket window who looked like she was about to commit suicide.

The fat man happily reached out and touched Gu Mian's white coat: "Doctor, you came out alive. It seems the ghost won."

Gu Mian nodded slightly.

In fact, the outcome was already decided when only one person and one ghost remained after the third round of voting.

Seemingly feeling there was no need to continue, the instance directly punished Guo Jimei after Chu Changge's death.

So Gu Mian won the game and left the instance after watching Coco, Chu Changge and Guo Jimei die one after another, although he was the only one left in the end.

“Let’s go back to the hearse first,” the fat man said, pulling the two of them out. “Doctor, I was quite worried about you. After all, this instance isn’t necessarily about ghosts killing people; you could also be killed by the rules… After I came out, I was terrified that only Brother Chu would come back in the end.”

Gu Mian glanced at the puddle of drool on the table next to her. So you were so worried that you fell asleep on the table?
The fat man said as he stepped through the doorway, "It's great that the dungeon didn't break this time..."

But his mouth was like it had been blessed; as soon as he finished speaking, an announcement appeared on the game panel.

Strange, Gu Mian looked at the announcement: "I didn't do anything, did I?"

They didn't kill a single person; even Guo Jimei, the last one, was eliminated directly by the player in the instance.

【announcement】

The normal dungeon 'When Darkness Falls (High-End Version)' will be closed immediately for rectification due to a large number of 'actors' (players intentionally throwing the game) caused by a dungeon bug. The reopening date is undetermined.

"Actor?" Fatty certainly knew the word; he often saw it in games, like when someone on your side infiltrates the opposing team's ranks during a 5v5 game.

"I know Brother Chu will definitely be in it, but who else is going to play the role?"

Gu Mian coughed as she walked: "Let me sort it out. 007, Yuan Qinghua, Coco, and Chu Changge, the four of you are definitely a group of four. Of course, Fatty, if you hadn't been eliminated in the first round, you would definitely have joined the ranks of actors."

Chu Changge remained silent and continued walking forward.

The fat man gave an awkward smile: "I did die too early... but how did you two ghosts and two commoners come up with this plan, and Yuan Qinghua is a real ghost too?"

As Gu Mian walked forward, she began, "Let me start from the first round. Fatty, you were killed by Yuan Qinghua, right?"

The fat man shrank back and nodded: "She made me understand why so many people hold pigs down when they're slaughtering them, because it really fucking hurts."

Gu Mian continued, "Back then, the group of four probably hadn't been formed yet, and Yuan Qinghua was killing people indiscriminately."

The fat man lamented, "...It's such a pity that I missed the chance to sacrifice myself for the doctor."

Gu Mian's forehead twitched, and then she spoke:
"Chu Changge, you took action back then. I saw you standing on one of the buildings, and Li Wentao passed by the window of another building. So you used the school badge to impersonate him to mislead Pan Yue and Keke, resulting in civilians being voted out in the first round."

"During the second round, you followed Yue Nu again and saw her playing a video in the classroom, and you deliberately appeared in the camera's field of view; then you went to talk to 007 and asked her to kill Yue Nu and appear in the video, and you were voted out in the second round, although I don't know why she agreed to your unreasonable request."

"007's extra fourth vote was cast by herself, to ensure her elimination without implicating me. Furthermore, you and 007 agreed on her death location and guaranteed to bring Li Yibai there during the daytime in the third round to provoke him and cause his death."

"Furthermore, you took the watch where Xu Xingcheng kept his identity card, so you already knew that the person participating in the game was Xu Xingcheng, not Zhang Pingfan, but the others didn't know that."

"Civilians cannot kill other players, but civilians can kill others." "So you killed Zhang Pingfan, who was not a player, and recorded the video, which was then used by Keke to mislead Guo Jimei. I'm afraid you did it in the school's underground area, which is why we saw you looking for something, looking for a suitable room to make your move."

When Gu Mian got to this point, the fat man gasped sharply: "Brother Chu, are you really that ruthless?"

"In the final round, you used Yuan Qinghua to move Zhang Pingfan's body to the construction site, and then had Yuan Qinghua kill two people nearby. In order to prevent Guo Jimei from suspecting Xu Xingcheng's identity, you switched Xu Xingcheng's body with Zhang Pingfan's."

As Gu Mian was speaking, Chu Changge suddenly looked up: "You saw it?"

Gu Mian nodded: "I knew something was wrong when I saw Yuan Qinghua kill two people."

In the final round, after examining the bodies of Yuan Qinghua and the others, Gu Mian turned and left the place, not actually leaving, but secretly observing.

So he watched as Chu Changge dragged Zhang Pingfan out of the building next door and then dragged Xu Xingcheng into the building.

"However, I don't know how you and Coco reached an agreement. During the second round of searching for clues, Coco chose to team up with Li Yibai so that it would be easier for you to take action against Li Yibai. Moreover, she has been preventing Guo Jimei from using the prophecy book."

The fat man stared blankly at Chu Changge, his eyes filled with awe.

Chu Changge stopped.

The hearse was now almost in sight.

Little Red, wearing a red dress, pressed her face against the back window, not wanting to be left out. When she saw them return, she grinned and showed her teeth.

Gu Mian heard Chu Changge slowly say, "Keke and I reached an agreement because she needs your help. She wants to tell you in person when we meet next time."

Do you want anything from me?

Gu Mian recalled the way Coco looked when she died. She was willing to sacrifice herself for a stranger for a request, so much so that the request would probably be difficult to fulfill.

He remembered the hide-and-seek instance, the instance where he met Coco. There was a female player named Ji Bieli who tried to take advantage of him but failed and was strangled to death with an earphone cord.

He frowned as he thought about it: "I think it was she who killed Ji Bieli back then."

Chu Changge nodded: "As for 007, you saved her before, so she agreed without hesitation when we found her."

He nodded and looked over: "Gu Mian, you should be able to see that the situation is getting increasingly serious."

"This time, Fatty, Coco, Yuan Qinghua, 007, and I all died in the dungeon; you were the only one who barely won."

"You should be able to tell that this instance is clearly targeting you."

Gu Mian nodded slightly.

Guo Jimei's player-like transformation illustrates this point. In order to punish him, the dungeon even made the NPCs player-like to use special items. In the end, when Guo Jimei used the prophecy book, he almost fell into a trap.

At this point, Gu Mian suddenly remembered something and looked at Chu Changge: "Did you promise Yuan Qinghua something?"

Otherwise, why would Yuan Qinghua say that before he died?
Chu Changge shook his head: "No."

That's a really dry and unhelpful answer.

Little Red in the hearse had been waiting for them for a long time, baring its teeth. For some reason, Gu Mian felt that Fatty seemed a little scared when he got back into the car.

The previous chapter was the finale of the previous arc, so its absence will affect the viewing experience. I'll try to post it in the chapter comments section under this chapter's title.

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