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Chapter 390 Gu Mian and His Three Useless Teammates

[Triggering the special instance 'Angel's Redemption']

Angelic salvation?

The name itself sounds very spiritual.

Gu Mian had to admit that she was indeed an expert in the path of redemption; this instance was very good at choosing its characters.

At this moment, 007, who was staring at the panel, said, "This is the first time I've seen a special dungeon. I've heard that these kinds of dungeons are very difficult..."

The fat man mumbled from the side, "I'm different. After meeting the doctor, the first thing I was matched with after the beginner dungeon was a special dungeon."

Upon hearing this, 007 looked over: "So unlucky?"

At this moment, words also popped up on the panel.

[Number of copies: 4 person]

Four people...

Upon seeing this, 007 subconsciously counted the people present; there were exactly four: "So, only the few people who discover this special instance can enter?"

“No,” the fat man shook his head violently, “it wasn’t like this before!”

The death protection mechanism will be disabled in this special instance.

Gu Mian paused when she saw this.

Is the protection mechanism off?

The only protection mechanism in this game is that death in a dungeon doesn't result in actual death, but now it says it's turning off that protection mechanism...

At this moment, the fat man next to him shouted, "What the hell!"

It was like being struck by lightning.

Gu Mian remembered that he said the same thing when he was first matched with a special instance after meeting her.

But that was just the fat man's tone, which at most indicated shock; this time, it was downright fear.

After all, Gu Mian was already used to the fact that she could actually die in the dungeon.

But other people wouldn't be as calm as him in this situation.

The fat man almost jumped up on the spot, and even 007 was shocked: "Is the 'disabling death protection mechanism' it's talking about... the kind I'm thinking of?"

Gu Mian nodded: "I suppose so."

While worrying about the fat man's safety, he pondered that this special instance was really strange; the protection mechanism had been actively disabled, yet the instance quest was still not appearing...

And just then, the next line of text finally appeared.

Players will enter the dungeon in batches, please wait patiently.

[The first player to enter the instance: The Doctor]

The familiar green font color, that forgivable color, almost dazzled Gu Mian's eyes.

But before he could even complain about why the page didn't show what the dungeon quest was, he vanished from the spot.

The book in his hand fell to the ground with a "bang".

The fat man was left staring wide-eyed at the spot where Gu Mian had disappeared: "The dungeon quest hasn't even appeared yet, has the healer already vanished?"

The three people and their panels were still in front of them; only Gu Mian had disappeared.

007 and Fatty looked at each other, then stiffly turned to look at Chu Changge, as if they wanted to hear him say something.

At this moment, Chu Changge also turned to look at the fat man: "This instance is aimed at us."

"Targeting...us?" The fat man shuddered. "Is this what they call 'capture the enemy's henchmen first'?"

That's right, Gu Mian was never protected by the death protection mechanism, so this rule was irrelevant to him.

But the remaining few...

An eerie atmosphere permeated the three of them.

007 didn't quite understand why the fat man would say something like "capture the small soldiers first to catch the thief," but she knew very well that the situation was extremely critical.

The fat man opened his mouth and said, "Although I don't really want to be a burden, in this situation, the only way to be safe is to stick to the doctor's side."

Chu Changge looked at his panel: "Why do you think this dungeon is letting us in in batches?"

To disperse them. There's no need to disperse them one by one, just separate Gu Mian from them.

Sure enough, the next item on the three-player game panel was—

[The second batch of players to enter the instance: Chu Meiren, the fat guy surnamed Wang, and 007]

Before the fat man could make another sound, the three of them disappeared from the spot.

The library was brightly lit but empty, with only a single electricity card inserted forlornly in the card slot.

The room suddenly darkened, the wooden door creaked softly in the wind, and the open notebook on the table turned its pages with a rustling sound.

The sky outside was orange-yellow; it was evening.

The antique pendulum clock swung its pendulum, indicating that it was now six o'clock in the evening.

The fat man felt a little dizzy as the heavy smell of sawdust filled his nostrils, mixed with the scent of paper books that had been sitting in the dust for years.

He looked up and around, but there was no one else there.

The place was a bookstore, with old wooden bookshelves filled with a jumble of miscellaneous books, looking as if they might collapse at any moment. The fat man had no doubt that if he leaned on one of them, the bookshelves, which were probably older than him, would fall apart.

In front of me was an old desk with many cracks. On the right corner of the desk was a pen holder with several pens stuck in it, and next to the pen holder was a desktop telephone.

Just as he was about to silently answer the phone, a strange voice suddenly entered his ears.

"Hello, I'm here to return a book."

The fat man turned his head to look.

A tall woman had appeared at the doorway at some point.

She was tall and thin, her head almost touching the door frame when she stood there. She was emaciated and looked haggard. She held a black book in her hand and handed it to us, but we couldn't see the cover.

The woman was wearing a tattered garment that looked like a broken sack, but the tattered garment was unusually white, giving it an odd and incongruous feel.

The setting sun stretched her shadow long, making her look like a monster lying on the floor of the bookstore.

"Okay, okay..." Seeing the woman standing at the door without moving, the fat man hesitated for a moment before standing up, walking forward, and taking the book from her.

Meanwhile, Gu Mian was in a small, dark room of about twenty square meters.

Moreover, the place was truly bare, with not even a window left for him, as if they were afraid he might sneak out from some nook or cranny.

Gu Mian tried using a chainsaw to dig through the wall, but it didn't work.

The walls of the room were incredibly thick. Gu Mian dug for over two meters but still couldn't find an exit, so she had to give up.

Fortunately, this dilapidated house still had one piece of entertainment – ​​a computer.

A computer that can play games even without a network cable.

Gu Mian was already sitting in front of the computer and operating it: "This game is okay in other ways, but it's incredibly laggy when saving."

A line of text appears on the screen when the game starts.

You can leave the dungeon after completing the game.

After reading this line of text, Gu Mian sat down and started playing. He quickly figured out the game's mechanics.

Like many horror games, this game is played from a first-person perspective, exploring a strange place. There is a health bar in the upper left corner; when the health bar reaches zero, you die.

It can save, but like many games, you have to go to a specific save point to save. There are several save points on the game map.

This is similar to finding a ticket booth in the real world to enter a dungeon.

After death, the protagonist will be resurrected directly from the location of the last save point.

The background is that the player falls off a cliff and loses their memory...

Although Gu Mian didn't know why the player went up the cliff or why he didn't die after falling from it, now was not the time to complain about such things.

He should now bravely rush out of this dark room to save his teammates, who are probably screaming in fear right now.

Unfortunately, Gu Mian has no idea where the other three people are.

He sighed with relief as he looked at the message that popped up on the page: "You have successfully saved your work."

Each save point has only five save slots; if you exceed five save slots, you'll likely have to overwrite the previous saves.

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(End of this chapter)