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Chapter 411 Gugu is sometimes late, but never absent.

Xile Town is a town of moderate size. It takes less than 20 minutes to drive from here to Liannujiang. Some players have come here with the idea of ​​checking it out first.

Today is May 21st, and there are still more than ten days until the event starts on June 7th. Almost everyone who can come here has already arrived.

The infectious disease that raged a few months ago has subsided, and people are still coming and going in this not-so-bustling town, which has a bit of the liveliness of life before the game begins.

Even in the suburbs outside the town, you can see a few people every now and then.

007 is right, driving a hearse is too conspicuous. Gu Mian plans to park the hearse in a secluded spot outside Xile Town.

Unexpectedly, when the hearse stopped, they saw two familiar faces in the distance.

These two people were already exceptionally good-looking, so they were even more noticeable when they stood together.

It was Xiao Qiao and Liu Ruyan.

A washed-up female celebrity, no matter how popular she was before the game started, is now definitely washed up... Although Gu Mian saw a group of people gathered not far from the two of them, glancing at them from time to time, they obviously recognized Xiao Qiao's identity;
The other was the landlady who had been trying to turn on the gas valve in Gu Mian's house for many years. Although she failed every time, she kept trying until Gu Mian changed the door.

The fact that these two people, who should have been completely unrelated, appeared together, especially at the last location mentioned in "Second World," made Gu Mian suspect that there was a secret relationship between them.

At this moment, Gu Mian had already stopped the car, opened the door, and walked over there.

The fat man quickly put the droopy roses in his hand into a water-filled can and followed Gu Mian out of the car.

The street, which should have been deserted, was now busier because of the two of them. They were standing in front of a rather bulky-looking vending machine; they weren't there to buy any drinks, of course. The vending machine had been emptied out, the glass had been smashed, the door had been pried open, and even the large spring that pushed the drinks inside was almost straightened out and exposed to the broken glass.

At this moment, Liu Ruyan was leaning against the vending machine with her arms crossed, tilting her head slightly and talking to Xiao Qiao with a smile.

Xiao Qiao's expressions were exactly the same as what she showed on screen—slightly widening her eyes to express surprise, slightly widening her eyes to express fear, slightly widening her eyes to express happiness, and slightly widening her eyes to express confusion.

Fortunately, she is beautiful. If Xiao Hong had to perform with her eyes slightly wide open on TV every day, half the viewers in the country would probably get heart disease.

At this moment, she slightly widened her eyes.

Gu Mian couldn't decipher what emotion she was experiencing either.

However, Xiao Qiao quickly made a move. In front of a group of people who were secretly watching them from a distance, she squatted down and reached out to touch the gap of less than three centimeters between the vending machine and the ground.

"Something fell in?" It seemed like someone nearby wanted to come up and help.

Just as Gu Mian was wondering what was going on, she suddenly saw the washed-up actress squatting on the ground lift her arm up with force.

The beverage machine was brought in...

The bottom of the machine formed an acute angle of about thirty degrees with the ground. Then Gu Mian saw her let go of one hand and grope on the ground. The scene was quite terrifying.

Gu Mian could even hear people gasping for breath not far away, and their outstretched feet stiffly retracted.

The fat man next to him also gasped in surprise: "That thing is heavier than me!"

Chu Changge pushed up his glasses: "About three hundred kilograms."

The fat man closed his eyes peacefully.

At this moment, Xiao Qiao seemed to have found what she was looking for. With a "bang," she let go, and the heavy beverage machine crashed back to the ground. Gu Mian felt the earth tremble. It was truly a good material for bricklaying.

Just then, he was about to reach the two of them when he saw Xiao Qiao extend her hand to Liu Ruyan, which was dirty from groping on the ground. In her hand lay a coin, which looked like a game token from an arcade: "Is this it?"

"Yes," Liu Ruyan took the coin, "Is it heavy?"

"not heavy."

Liu Ruyan smiled helplessly and took out a handkerchief to wipe the hands of the person in front of her.

Gu Mian had already led her large group to the two of them. After feeling the earth tremble, the fat man silently moved behind Gu Mian. Chu Changge did not make any move. The older brother stayed by Gu Mian's side the whole time, but fortunately he knew how to restrain himself and did not call his sister "sister" in front of many people, which allowed Gu Mian to barely save face.

Xiao Hong also got off the bus. She was always holding a can of lychee soda and sipping it, looking like she was reminiscing about the past.

At this moment, Xiao Qiao noticed a white hem of clothing beside her. She looked up along the hem and saw Gu Mian's happy, wealthy face.

Gu Mian looked down at the two people in front of her, backlit by the light: "What are you doing here?"

Xiao Qiao didn't react; she was still looking at his face.

Liu Ruyan was not at all unfamiliar with Gu Mian, as if she had known he would be here. She glanced at Xiao Hong and her brother and said, "You probably won't believe me if I say we just happened to be passing by, but I still have to say we just happened to be passing by."

Gu Mian: "..."

Xiao Qiao was still looking at the face, her eyes widening slightly.

The fat man standing nearby leaned over and asked, "Is it pretty?"

"nice."

Gu Mian: "..."

At that moment, Chu Changge's voice suddenly came from the side: "I called them here."

Gu Mian turned her head and saw that Chu Changge's face was expressionless, and his glasses were reflecting light, making them appear completely white.

"Ah, is it for dragon boat racing?" The fat man raised his head slightly as if recalling something. "I remember you seemed to be quite familiar with Landlord Liu, Brother Chu, and you also seemed to be quite familiar with Xiao Qiao for some reason during the Fairy Tale City instance."

In the Fairy Tale City instance, Gu Mian was mostly in contact with 007. By the time she finally met Chu Changge and the others, the instance was almost over, so she didn't have time to care about who she was familiar with.

Chu Changge pushed up his glasses: "There are some things that require us to meet, and it might not be safe to form teams on-site for the dragon boat race."

Gu Mian felt that the landlady who had repeatedly sneaked into her home was even less reliable.

Just then, Xiao Hong finished her drink and turned to head back towards the hearse. The fat man quickly pulled out his car keys and followed, saying, "Wait for me to open the door, don't smash the window."

Gu Mian glanced at the strange atmosphere between Chu Changge and the other two, then looked at the fat man chasing after Xiao Hong, and said softly, "I'll go get my bag from the car."

His brother followed closely behind him and got into the car with Gu Mian.

The fat man was looking for straws in his shopping bag at the back of the car.

Gu Mian quickly sat in the driver's seat and looked at Chu Changge and the other two in front of him. They seemed to be talking about something.

He then recalled Chu Changge's identity from the "Close Your Eyes When It Gets Dark" instance, which contained several strange identities. After thinking for two seconds, he reached for the "Book of Prophecy" that 007 had given him before leaving.

By filling in a person's name, you can find out all the identities they have had up to this point.

Gu Mian picked up the pink rabbit pen and glanced at Xiao Qiao and Liu Ruyan. Xiao Qiao's name was controversial, and Gu Mian was quite afraid that if she filled in her name, the paper would end up with the bizarre identity of "Zhou Yu's wife." Although special items have specific meanings, it was unlikely that such a situation would occur.

However, just to be on the safe side, Gu Mian still filled in Liu Ruyan's name.

Name: Liu Ruyan

[Identities: Student, Murderer, Prisoner, Fugitive, Player, Champion, Guardian, Landlord]

The three glaringly obvious "criminals" in the middle were practically blinding to Gu Mian's eyes.

Before meeting Liu Ruyan, he had indeed unfortunately rented a house from a murderer landlord, but he never expected that his landlord would later turn out to be a murderer.

Why wasn't she arrested? And she's still out there all the time, showing up and wandering around.

"What the hell is going on?" Gu Mian rubbed her forehead, feeling a bit of a headache.

Chu Changge and Liu Ruyan do indeed share a common identity as "guardians," which Gu Mian guesses is why they have so much in common.

Xiao Qiao, who was standing next to her, didn't run away either.

Looking at Liu Ruyan's identity, Gu Mian couldn't help but think about her strange attitude towards him: "If this guardian is supposed to be protecting me, then that's really absurd. I've never seen anyone turn on the gas valve of the person they're protecting."

He couldn't help but wonder if Chu Changge had also turned on the valve in his own house.

What exactly is the strange relationship between these three people?

Just then, the fat man's sorrowful voice suddenly came from behind: "Who plucked my flowers?"

Gu Mian looked back and saw that the flowers that the fat man had stuck in the can had been pinched off, leaving only an old green flower stem swaying in the can.

The older brother smiled gently beside him.

"Never mind, I'll buy you another one later," Gu Mian said, picking up the guitar case next to her seat and pulling the chubby guy who was holding flower stems. "Let's go down first... Is Xiao Hong going down too?"

He looked at Xiao Hong as he spoke.

She was huddled at the back, silently biting her straw, seemingly lost in memories of the past.

Gu Mian stopped asking Xiao Hong questions, pulled the fat man out of the car, and returned to Chu Changge's side.

The three of them seemed to have finished their discussion quickly, and stopped as soon as Gu Mian came over, and an eerie silence fell over the air.

Gu Mian, with one hand in her pocket, asked, "Don't you guys have anything to say to me?"

All three shook their heads: "No."

They do have a good understanding.

Gu Mian was still thinking about how to expose their identities when Chu Changge pushed up his glasses and said, "They will leave after these two events, but there are still twenty days before the events. We can go into the dungeon first."

"The dungeon has been selected." At this moment, Xiao Qiao suddenly pulled out something that looked like a ticket from her pocket, as if she had prepared it in advance; Gu Mian looked at it and recognized it as a [Dungeon Exchange Ticket]. After filling in the dungeon name and player name, he could enter the dungeon through the ticket booth.

I didn't expect Xiao Qiao to have this too.

Moreover, even the name was filled in. Gu Mian frowned as she looked at it and saw that the dungeon's name was [Death Appearance].

It's a rather creepy name.

Why do we need to enter this instance?
Chu Changge pushed up his glasses: "I chose it. I filtered out all the words that could be the names of the dungeons from the beginning of the book 'Second World,' and only this one word can be filled into the dungeon name of the dungeon exchange coupon."

It seems that Chu Changge had already discussed it with Xiao Qiao, probably through the friend system. Chu Changge might have been secretly chatting with her while they were sleeping.

Gu Mian rubbed her temples with her index finger and quickly accepted the situation: "Fine, I don't want to be stared at anymore. Let's go find the ticket booth."

There was also a group of people watching them from the side.

Fortunately, they found a ticket booth not long after they started walking, and entered the instance under the desperate gaze of the ticket seller.

……

At 12:15, the room was already pitch black.

Wang Xin yawned while nestled in bed, her phone emitting a dim glow in the darkness.

She scrolled through her messages for a while, then put down her phone and prepared to go to sleep.

But just then, she suddenly saw a person standing in front of the dark door.

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