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Chapter 399 Gugu's Dream

"Isn't it undignified to stab the butcher in the neck during a survival game?"

"Am I the first player to stab the killer to death...?"

At this moment, Gu Mian had already made his character stand up unsteadily. He felt that he should be able to hear rapid breathing now, but unfortunately, the game did not play sound externally.

The butcher chipped away at Gu Mian's health bar in the upper left corner, leaving it less than half full.

If someone were to slash him again, he'd probably be on his way to the afterlife... No, he still has a save file.

After a character dies, the most recent save file will be automatically loaded, so he can't go to heaven yet.

As he stood up, he looked down at the enormous corpse on the ground—no, he wasn't a corpse yet, but he was close.

A dim light shone in from the opening ahead. The massive body on the ground was convulsing. He was clutching a wound on his neck with his filthy hand, which was covered in mud under his fingernails. His eyes were wide open, reflecting the light from the opening. Shards of kerosene lamps were scattered around the butcher, stained with blood.

Those wide, angry eyes didn't last long before dimming, and he became a real corpse, lying motionless on the ground.

Gu Mian quickly crouched down, trying to find anything useful on the butcher's body.

Sure enough, he found several useful items on the corpse.

A worn-out golden key, I wonder what it opens.

An old, worn-out lighter—this thing used to destroy save points can be found everywhere.

There was also a small diary, about the size of a palm.

Gu Mian had never known that anyone could write so badly. Time was of the essence, so he quickly scanned the few pages of his diary, using the light from the nearby fire, and roughly selected two useful lines:

Our food is running out, and we're forced to eat grass roots to stave off hunger. Fortunately, four more saintesses arrived today, and I'm in charge again this time. This is the 158th time.

[The saintess always brought some new little trinkets with her on her later visits, and sometimes even food.]

This……

Gu Mian frowned.

The first paragraph indicates that at least 158 ​​player-controlled characters perished in the tiger's jaws, and he himself was one of those 159; however, he didn't quite understand the sentence "Four saintesses came today."

And the second paragraph...

What does "a few times after each time" mean?
Gu Mian frowned and thought for a while, feeling that the sentence might mean something like "My mom comes to cover me with a blanket several times every night."

Does this mean the Holy Maiden will appear several times within a short period of time?

If we combine these two paragraphs, does this diary mean that the saintess comes many times a day?
And it will also bring many novel things...

Thinking of this, Gu Mian frowned even more, and then looked at the butcher who had already fallen to the ground.

The faint light shone on the butcher's dirty apron, giving him a halo-like glow; Gu Mian's gaze shifted downwards, landing on the sharp cleaver the butcher had pulled out.

It was indeed a kitchen knife. The knife was still stuck in the leg of the stool, with some scraps of meat stuck to it, seemingly from the same place as the bits of meat hanging in his messy hair.

He reached out and picked up the black kitchen knife from the ground. The knife was indeed incredibly sharp; with just a slight movement, it reflected a chilling glint. Holding the knife in one hand, he stood there for a moment, then took the slashed stool leg and the broken kerosene lamp back into his inventory.

You never know when you might need it.

After taking everything she could, Gu Mian turned her gaze to the other side of the cave entrance, which was emitting the glow of a furnace fire.

Now he finally understood why there was a flickering firelight coming from the cave entrance ahead. There was probably a stove inside, with a roaring fire burning underneath, and maybe a large pot or steamer on top. There might even be a fragrant aroma wafting out. Gu Mian didn't have time to imagine how enticing the aroma was.

He immediately guided his character toward the cave entrance.

The time in the upper right corner was 9:15. Gu Mian reached the cave entrance in less than a minute, and at that moment he could see the scene behind the cave entrance clearly.

Sure enough, a stove was set up against the left wall, with a rather weathered-looking cutting board on it, piled with scraps of meat; a roaring fire was burning under the stove, and a large pot, blackened by smoke, was placed on top of it, seemingly cooking something and emitting billowing steam; a wooden lid, now completely smoky, covered the pot.

Orange flames filled the cave. Gu Mian shifted his gaze to the wall opposite him, and finally saw what those white things were—bones, piled up densely, seemingly without any gaps between them, appearing as a single, blinding white mass from a distance. Beside the bones, in a corner, were piles of clothing. Gu Mian guided his quest to the corner and looked down; they were all identical, blood-stained white garments, countless in number.

It seems these are the "players" they devoured before. Gu Mian doesn't want to become one of them, and he keeps coming up with ideas.

Just then, he noticed that there seemed to be some other colors mixed in with these clothes.

Gu Mian zoomed in to take a closer look.

The first thing you see is a mirror mixed in with these worn-out clothes.

The small, round mirror, about the size of a palm, shone brightly in the firelight, but its surface was covered with a layer of ash. Gu Mian tried to control his character to pick up the mirror, and to his surprise, he actually managed to do so.

However, immediately afterward, a panel appeared in front of the screen.

The Queen's Little Magic Mirror

[Introduction: "Magic mirror on the wall, who is the person I most want to see in this world?"]

[Function: Reciting a spell into the magic mirror allows you to view the situation of a random player in the dungeon. This can only be used once a day, and each use lasts for two minutes.]

Special items?

I never expected to find special items in a video game, but even if I did find them, I probably couldn't take them out of the game.
As Gu Mian pondered this, she turned her gaze back to the pile of clothes.

There seemed to be something else below.

He frowned and fumbled around for a while, and sure enough, he found quite a few more things.

There are distorted humanoid figurines, wallets with buttons that can never be fastened properly, and a card depicting a man sitting upright on a stone chair...

There were many more, all found by searching under these messy clothes.

It's worth mentioning that they are all special items!

Despite acquiring so many special items at once, Gu Mian felt no excitement; on the contrary, as he looked at the several columns of special items in his inventory, a huge sense of eeriness rose in his heart.

"These things... seem to have been left behind by players who entered this instance before."

However, it is absolutely impossible for a player sitting in front of a computer controlling a character to drop special items into the game.

The only people who can leave special items here are players who were already in the computer game... only those who are at the save point.

However, the people in the save point cannot be moved easily. Judging from the diary, these special items were obviously brought by the previous "saintesses". But how could the "saintesses" have special items from the players in the save point?
Countless strange conjectures churned in Gu Mian's mind, finally condensing into two sentences recorded in her diary.

Fortunately, four more saintesses arrived today.

The saintess always brought some new little trinkets with her on her later visits.

After silently repeating these two sentences, Gu Mian finally squinted her eyes.

I understand!

As he thought about it, he looked at the already very low health bar in the upper left corner; when the health bar reached zero, he would die.

After the "Saintess" dies, the most recent save file will be loaded immediately, and she will be resurrected at the save point.

But she was probably resurrected inside the save point.

Judging from the special item in front of us... as long as she revives at the save point, she will immediately kill the player at that save point!

Once the character you control dies, someone else will actually die!

GuGu's dream is to update continuously next month; GuGu has only missed seven days this month! [Excited]

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