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Chapter 405 A Simple-minded Gu Mian
That must be the gallows; it's really well hidden.

You can reach your destination by simply passing through this narrow alley and over the dilapidated thatched huts on both sides.

That was the third memory point.

At that time, Gu Mian will be able to transform, and his health bar, which is almost reduced to a thin layer, will be guaranteed. He also remembered that when he was a child, the TV station often broadcast some anime about magical girls. Whenever the scene of the girl transforming was shown, the little girls in the orphanage would exclaim in amazement.

Gu Mian scoffed at the idea at the time, but he never expected to be so excited when it was his turn to transform today.

My friends are saved!

Gu Mian quickly maneuvered his character forward, but after taking a few steps, the screen suddenly began to shake, as if the videographer had developed Parkinson's disease; at the same time, words popped up at the bottom—

"Boom"

"Boom"

"Boom"

The moment Gu Mian saw those words, she understood that it was probably the monster on the other side of the gap who was up to something!
He quickly switched his perspective to look behind him, and sure enough, the cliff behind him began to shake. Small pebbles rolled down from it, and tiny cracks appeared on both sides of the gap, as if some enormous creature was trying to pass through this pitifully narrow gap. The rock wall behind him could collapse at any moment!

Gu Mian cursed under her breath, "Holy crap!" and immediately turned and ran towards the gallows.

Besides the "dong" sound that kept popping up at the bottom of the screen, other words appeared. The path was not wide to begin with, and if Gu Mian stretched out her arms while running in the middle, she could even touch the houses on both sides. The newly appearing words were conversations between people in the houses who had been startled.

"what happened?"

"It must be the monster's noise. Is it chiseling at the wall?"

Gu Mian didn't have time to consider where the monster behind him was. He put away his shovel and tried to speed up, pressing his keys tightly as he sprinted toward the shelf in front of him. But the awakened people had already started moving, some even pushing open their doors to look outside. Simply opening a door wouldn't be a problem, but the narrow path with houses on both sides was very narrow. When the person in front opened their door, they blocked nearly half of the way. If the person on the other side also opened their door at that moment, Gu Mian would have to perform a hurdles.

Although it's not certain that we can get over it.

Fortunately, the saintess was lucky; neither of the two doors opened at the same time. But even if only one person opened the door, they could still see the saintess running wildly down the path.

Sure enough, someone spotted her and screamed, "It's her!"

The people in the room were quickly awakened, and candlelight lit up the room. Gu Mian watched as the doors in front of her were pushed open one by one, revealing heads that were so thin they were almost nothing but skeletons. Soon, the eyes embedded in those withered heads lit up. Gu Mian recognized that look; it was the look of a hungry wolf seeing its prey.

And this was mixed with excitement and madness.

"Don't let her get away!"

“Holy Maiden, we have seen the Holy Maiden alive again. In all these years, we have never been able to kill her with our own hands... Is our wish about to be fulfilled today?”

As they spoke, they leaned out, trying to stop Gu Mian.

Of course I can't let you have it! Gu Mian quickly ran towards the gallows in front of him. At this moment, he was less than twenty meters away from the charred gallows.

At this moment, he took out the shovel from his inventory and started running forward while smashing it at the people who were peeking out from both sides. The remnants of the Crusader were already few and far between, with only a dozen or so heads peeking out from the two rows of houses. Gu Mian roughly calculated the population density and, while running, took out the only lighter he had left and threw it at the side with more heads peeking out.

Perhaps because it was in a game, the fire burned very quickly. The huge, leaping flames quickly engulfed the entire row of houses, instantly obscuring the withered heads inside. Gu Mian casually swung a shovel at a person trying to escape, shoving the shocked man back into the burning house.

The flames also engulfed the saintess. Gu Mian saw flames erupting from one side of the screen, and her health, which was one-sixth of her original amount, began to slowly decrease.

More and more people rushed out of the houses in front, chasing closely behind Gu Mian, shouting, "Catch her!"

The "thump thump" sound still present at the bottom of the screen indicates that the monster behind you has not given up advancing.

Bright flames danced in the dark canyon, a noisy crowd chased the saintess through the inferno, a colossal monster squeezed through narrow gaps into this world, and a charred gallows stood silently in the chaotic environment as if watching everything.

The scene was chaotic. Gu Mian pressed her fingers hard on the keyboard, charging out of the inferno as her health bar dwindled to zero, followed by a group of crazed people.

"hurry up!"

He kept running forward, and finally, when his health bar was almost empty, he touched the charred gallows.

For a moment, time seemed to stand still, and even the raging flames stopped their devouring.

A new image flashed across the screen.

"Run! Get out of here!" A girl's face appeared on the screen against a backdrop of a nighttime forest, but her eyes were exceptionally bright, like stars in the sky. She was leaning against a thick tree, with a huge animal trap on her foot, as if she had stepped into one.

In the distance, there seemed to be many faint lights flickering; Gu Mian recognized them as the light of torches.

Gu Mian cannot control the character when the memory fragment is triggered.

He could only sit in front of the computer and watch.

"Go quickly, don't worry about me." The girl reached out and pushed him... no, she should have pushed the saintess at the time.

"If you don't like it here, then don't stay. Kindness isn't your responsibility. You should go to a new place, give yourself a real name that you like, and someone like you deserves to live a happy life."

The screen view remained unchanged.

The flames in the background seem to be getting closer and closer, almost right in front of us.

The saintess remained silent. Perhaps she was keeping quiet, or perhaps Gu Mian couldn't see her words. But the image never left the girl with bright, sparkling eyes. The saintess hadn't abandoned her and run away alone.

But the girl's face showed excitement, and she pushed the saintess to the ground. Gu Mian staggered when she saw the scene.

"Go away! I told you to leave!"

In the end, they did not make it, because the torches from the darkness were already close at hand, and countless faces surrounded them.

They were taken back, and from then on, the saint's perspective never left the girl.

Gu Mian saw the girl being tied up and placed on a gallows that looked like a barbecue grill in the pitch-black night. Flames rose from beneath her feet, instantly turning the dry firewood black. Before long, the person struggling on the gallows gradually turned the color of the dry firewood beneath her feet, along with the terrifying gallows itself.

“Look, Holy Maiden,” the village chief’s face suddenly appeared on the screen, making Gu Mian almost pick up a saw, “This is the consequence of making a mistake. Of course, the great Holy Maiden would not make a mistake. The mistake can only be made by others.”

The saintess's gaze never left the charred gallows, and at the same time, Gu Mian heard a whisper in her ear.

Selfishness, hypocrisy, greed, cruelty

"This is not someone I should be protecting."

Gu Mian turned her head to look around, but there was no one else in the empty room.

Then another change appeared on the screen.

Gu Mian saw that her health bar in the upper left corner was completely gone, not because her health was depleted... but because the entire health bar had vanished into thin air.

At the same time, the faces on the screen that were almost right in front of them suddenly showed expressions of extreme panic.

They stumbled backward, their mouths opening and closing, and Gu Mian saw the translation of their words appear on the screen below—

"The Devil Descends"

(End of this chapter)