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Chapter 409 The Unattainable Beauty Gu Bengbeng

"Both of these events are Chinese festivals..."

"And if I remember correctly, June 7th should be the date of the college entrance examination. It seems that the Dragon Boat Festival and the college entrance examination coincide this year."

The fat man looked at the panel and sighed, but before he could finish his sigh, he suddenly noticed another event announcement below.

Two event announcements?

Are the two events going to be held together?
At this moment, Gu Mian had already clicked on the next announcement.

The world's third major event, the "National College Entrance Examination" (Gaokao), is about to take place on Earth.

[Event Location: See event ticket for details. To maintain fairness between game event areas in the future, the ticket will have a teleportation function, allowing ticket holders to be teleported to the event location during the event period.]

【活动举行时间：2019年6月8日7:00至6月9日24:00】

[Content: All players participating in the event will enter the examination room together for a large-scale exam;]

Players whose scores ultimately reach the admission cutoff will receive event rewards.

[Participation Requirements: The event area will be locked during the event period. Only the top 20% of players in the 'Dragon Boat Race' event will receive a ticket to the National College Entrance Examination.]

Gu Mian stared at the game panel: "The dragon boat race event is on June 7th, and the college entrance examination event will start on June 8th. Only players who rank in the top 20% in the dragon boat race event can qualify for the college entrance examination event... No wonder it's the college entrance examination."

"Won't players be overwhelmed by having two large events this time?" The fat man scratched his head. "They just came out of the last event and are now entering the next one. I bet players will suffer heavy losses in the dragon boat race event."

Chu Changge, standing next to him, pushed up his glasses with his index finger: "The two events are seamlessly connected. Players who obtain college entrance exam tickets in the dragon boat race can continue to participate in the next event if they are not injured. If they are injured..."

At this point, Chu Changge paused slightly and turned his gaze to Gu Mian: "Next up is the stage for the doctor profession. Of course, injured players can also sell their tickets at a high price to players who don't have tickets. I guess that's one of the reasons why tickets exist."

Injured players will naturally rely on healers who can quickly restore their health, and right now there is only one doctor in the world, Gu Mian, so they can't rely on anyone else.

As for whether Gu Mian will be harmed by players...

Just look at the drooling little red girl and the smiling older brother in the back, and you'll know that the difficulty level is a bit high.

"Doctor, should we go?" The fat man asked, holding a bowl in his hand and looking at Gu Mian.

Gu Mian straightened her collar: "Of course I'll go. Maybe I'll discover something."

As he spoke, he tapped the tablecloth with his knuckles: "Chu Changge said before that participating in the event would be beneficial to us, right? But today is only April 5th, and there are still two months before the event starts. Let's send 007 back first."

If nothing unexpected happens, we should be able to reach 007's hometown, Yingchuan, in seven days without any delays.

007, whose name was called, sat up straight with a loaf of bread in his hand: "Thank you for your help."

However, there are four living people in the hearse now, so it's not appropriate for them to squeeze together to sleep at night.

On her way to her destination, Gu Mian found a hotel that had been locked up for a long time. The owner might be dead or taking refuge at home. The sun was already halfway down the mountain, and the afterglow of the sunset shone on the empty building, adding a touch of warmth to the somewhat chilly early April.

At this moment, the fat man was picking the lock: "Luckily, I've traveled all over the country and done all sorts of things over the years..."

Gu Mian couldn't remember exactly what the fat man had done. In fact, the door could have been easily sawed open, but the fat man felt it was beneath him to freeload off someone else's room and then try to saw through their lock. So, he was currently bent over, fiddling with the lock.

A gust of wind blew by, and Gu Mian's white coat rustled in the wind.

The fat man's buttocks trembled slightly, as if he felt a bit cold.

Just then, Gu Mian felt something draped over his shoulders. He turned his head and saw it was a coat.

Then a pair of hands reached out and helped him fasten the buttons—though they were a little tight.

Gu Mian looked up following the hand and saw her brother, who was bent over and carefully buttoning his clothes.

This coat...

Gu Mian lowered her head and pondered for two seconds, then looked back.

The 007 who had his coat taken away was standing in the cold wind, clutching the collar of his sweater, shivering as he looked at him.

"This is really..." Gu Mian reached out with a slight headache, unbuttoned her coat, took it off, walked over to 007, and helped her put it back on.

007 looked up: "If you... if you feel cold, then wear it."

Gu Mian shook her head helplessly: "I'm not cold."

At this moment, the fat man finally pried open the lock, and 007 no longer had to endure the arduous task of guarding his coat.

"Alright, we can go in now!" The fat man excitedly pushed open the door. "I wonder if there are any blankets or anything in the room."

He spoke as he stepped inside.

Gu Mian also took a few steps forward and entered the hotel. The hotel's main feature was a quiet style. It had six floors and was surrounded by greenery. It was quite a while before you could see the road.

"Hmm," the fat man had already climbed over the counter and started rummaging around, "I'm looking for the room key. Doctor, which floor are we staying on?"

“I don’t feel safe living on the first floor,” Gu Mian turned to look at the elevator next to her, which was no longer in operation. “The third or fourth floor, I guess.”

The last few people chose to stay in a large room on the third floor. The room was very clean, with a huge window embedded in the wall facing the door. To the left of the entrance was the bathroom, and to the right was the kitchen. A soft light brown carpet was laid on the floor, and further inside were four single beds spaced about the same distance apart, just enough for the four of them to sleep.

The fat man drew the curtains, then excitedly inserted the electricity card into the slot by the door and said, "Let's choose a bed. It's been so long since I've slept in one." Gu Mian didn't care. He randomly picked a bed, sat down, took off his coat, and took out the book "Second World" that he had obtained from the central library to read.

He had glanced at the book a few times in his spare time, but hadn't found anything.

He could take advantage of this evening to thoroughly explore the contents of the book.

Just then, the fat man walked over with a large basket: "Doctor, I see a laundry room outside. Do you have any clothes to wash?"

Gu Mian and the others didn't have the habit of hoarding clothes, so they bought and changed clothes as needed, throwing away each one as they changed, because they didn't have the time or energy to do laundry.

At this moment, Gu Mian was wearing a thin white shirt.

He reached out and tugged at the button on his collar: "If I give you this shirt, I'll have nothing left to wear."

“I was prepared,” the fat man suddenly pulled out a black turtleneck sweater as if by magic. “A black sweater, stylish and warm; look how fashionable this loose turtleneck is, wearing it you’ll be a true unattainable beauty…”

“Alright,” Gu Mian interrupted the fat man, reaching out to take the sweater. “I’ll go change next door.”

There were two other girls in the room, and Gu Mian was too embarrassed to take off her clothes in front of them.

That's right, Xiao Hong also followed into the room, where 007 was secretly stuffing bread into her mouth.

When Gu Mian returned after changing her clothes, Fatty was stuffing Chu Changge's coat into the clothes rack. When he saw Gu Mian come back, his eyes lit up: "I have really good taste."

Gu Mian ignored the chubby man with bright eyes. He sat back on the bed, leaned against the headboard, and bent his legs to read "Second World".

This book has a book jacket, and the introduction says that this is Wang Yushu's first work. In fact, the book is written in a rather chaotic way. It starts as a supernatural novel set about ten years ago, then turns into science fiction, then into tomb raiding, and finally even includes fantasy.

The main character's fate is uncertain, and their presence in the plot feels forced, as if they were forcibly inserted; the initial main character dies before the story is even halfway through, and then it's just a constant cycle of changing main characters...

Gu Mian flipped through the pages for several hours, but because she didn't have time, she only skimmed through them.

The book contains the deaths of seven or eight main characters, as if an author suddenly came up with this idea, got bored halfway through, and then killed off the main characters to start a new idea.

Yuan Qinghua is a fictional character, but she still existed in the real world in 13. Wang Yushu is Yuan Qinghua's classmate. He wrote "Second World". When Gu Mian and the others got their hands on the book, they were all drawn into a special instance that would result in their immediate death, as if something didn't want them to get the book.

"What the hell is this?" Gu Mian slammed the book shut.

At this moment, Chu Changge's voice suddenly came from above his head: "Have you noticed that the beginning of this book is a little different from the end?"

Gu Mian turned her head and saw that Chu Changge had been standing by the bed for some time, and her brother was sitting on Gu Mian's lap, watching her.

Gu Mian asked, puzzled, "You haven't been standing next to me for hours, have you?"

Chu Changge did not answer, and he sat down as well: "The beginning of this book is very similar to the real world, and the protagonist is inserted very awkwardly, as if a character was forcibly inserted into a book that introduces the world view. But it is different later on, and it is very much like a story created by a novice writer with passion."

"That's right," Gu Mian nodded. In fact, the introduction on the book jacket also said that the beginning of the book was of the highest quality, and the rest was just a mess of stories.

"It's like he copied a decent beginning, but then made up the rest," Gu Mian said, rubbing the pages of the book in her hand. "You mean Wang Yushu's book isn't helpful to us at all later on?"

“Perhaps we should find out where he copied the beginning from,” Chu Changge said.

Gu Mian yawned. He spent another two hours rereading the beginning and memorizing the locations that appeared in it.

The first part of the story, "Yan Chuan, Hou Ming, and Xile Town," is not long; Gu Mian only managed to identify these three locations after reading it.

"Do these three locations actually exist in the real world?" Gu Mian stroked her chin, lost in thought.

Chu Changge's resolute voice rang out: "Yes."

"Yes?" Gu Mian turned to look at him.

Chu Changge's face was backlit, and his expression was obscured by the dim light.

Gu Mian suddenly remembered that Chu Changge remembered the map very clearly. After the hide-and-seek instance, she had asked Chu Changge about the location of the number "seven", and Chu Changge could immediately give her several locations.

“However, I need to look up some information,” he said, standing up and looking down at Gu Mian. “You guys go to sleep first.”

"Are you going out?" Gu Mian saw Chu Changge walking towards the door.

Chu Changge stopped in her tracks: "I'll go find a more detailed map. There's a supermarket nearby that sells them."

In this case……

Gu Mian turned to look at Xiao Hong, whose mouth was stuffed with bread: "Xiao Hong, you go with him."

It's not safe for someone to go out alone late at night.

Xiao Hong felt as if she had been given a second chance at life and quickly followed Chu Changge away.

Gu Mian lay on the bed with her eyes closed: "I haven't read in a long time, I'm a little tired, I'm going to sleep."

When the fat man came back after hanging up the clothes, he saw Gu Mian sleeping soundly in the quilt, with her brown-eyed brother sitting next to her.

But then, as if sensing something, he looked out the window. Before the fat man could react, the gray-haired man suddenly stood up, turned around, and left the room.

Tickets [loudly]

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(End of this chapter)