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Chapter 432 Relatives at the Crematorium

At this moment, Fatty and Chu Changge were still on their way to Gu Mian, but they encountered a fortune teller on the way.

She looked hesitant, as if she had discovered something, but before the two could ask, a strong tremor came from underground, a sign that the instance was about to collapse.

"This strange tremor..." The fat man, feeling the vibration coming from beneath his feet, said familiarly, "Brother Chu, this dungeon is probably going to be over, isn't it?"

I wonder what the doctor did this time.

The fortune teller paused, his expression hesitant, and looked thoughtfully behind him: "This... what good deed has Gu Mian done this time?"

The tremors beneath my feet were already quite strong.

Gu Mian braced himself against the wall and looked down into the ghost's eyes, the shaking from the ground seemingly preventing him from seeing anything.

Then, a page appeared showing that the instance was about to collapse.

[WARNING! The 'Death Appearance' instance will be closed early, and players within it will be immediately removed from the instance...]

Gu Mian had no interest in the game panel; he focused intently on the ghost's eyes.

But the collapse of the instance is also happening rapidly.

A loud cracking sound came, as if something had torn the entire instance apart. Gu Mian felt a beam of light pierce the darkness from above, gradually spreading throughout the instance before quickly shining on him.

He's about to be kicked out of the instance.

At that very moment, Gu Mian also saw the dazed scene in the ghost's eyes in front of her.

That's... a garbage dump?

It seemed as if there were countless pieces of trash in its eyes. Gu Mian saw what looked like colorful blocks piled up together, forming a small hill that wasn't too low.

What is that? A mosaic in a crematorium?

Before Gu Mian could think any further, the light completely enveloped him. Then, the sounds of footsteps, conversations, and quiet throat clearing reached his ears. He turned to look around.

came back.

As expected, the instance threw him back into the real world at the crucial moment.

Also thrown out were Chu Changge, Fatty, and Xiao Qiao and Liu Ruyan.

At this moment, they were all looking at Gu Mian, and the scene looked somewhat strange.

"Doctor," the fat man whispered, "did you do something to the ghost again...?"

No, Gu Mian shook her head: "Not this time."

This time, the instance ended its own life; it seems the instance didn't want him to see the scene the ghost saw before it died.

Let me see what's wrong. She's not pregnant, Gu Mian thought to herself.

“Let’s leave here first,” Chu Changge took a step forward. “We can talk about this somewhere less crowded.”

The ticket booth was definitely not a suitable place to talk, especially since there was a ticket seller in the nearby ticket office who was eyeing them intently.

Gu Mian thought he might be considering going to the supermarket to buy the sign that read "Gu Mian and dogs not allowed".

The group quickly arrived at the hearse. Gu Mian parked in a relatively secluded spot, so even if Xiao Hong pressed her face against the window, it wouldn't scare anyone.

Five people and one ghost were cramped in the hearse, and the brother in the CD stretched out a hand, trying to squeeze into the crowded space. Gu Mian sat in the car seat and looked at Chu Changge: "This instance self-destructed because there were things it didn't want me to see."

Chu Changge pushed up his glasses: "Did you see it?"

Gu Mian recalled the scene she saw in the ghost's eyes before leaving the dungeon: "...I saw it."

To be precise, I should say I saw it, although what I saw was different from what the ghost saw, since it was seeing things through the reflection of the eyes, making it difficult to see the image clearly.

Gu Mian briefly described the ghost's characteristics, then quickly began to observe what she saw in its eyes: "I see... mosaic?"

The colorful blocks of color are mosaics.

What inappropriate things did that ghost see in its lifetime that it was censored into a mosaic?

“But it’s not necessarily a mosaic,” Gu Mian continued. “I couldn’t see what it was looking at; I only saw a jumble of colors.”

"Ah... does seeing that thing pose any threat to the dungeon? Why does the doctor get kicked out of the dungeon if he sees it?" the fat man asked, puzzled. Then, as if suddenly remembering something, he took out his camera. "Oh right, doctor, Brother Chu and I found a piece of paper in the ghost's room, and I took a picture of it."

Gu Mian looked down at the screen.

The painting isn't very well done, but you can still make out what it depicts.

It's a simple sketch of little figures, densely packed with tiny figures that fill the entire sheet of paper, and these figures look very close together.

“This,” Gu Mian frowned slightly as she stared at the densely packed, simple figures on the screen, “is it drawn by ghosts?”

“Most likely,” Chu Changge said, “it was found in the cabinet that it was locked in, hidden at the very bottom of the clothes.”

In this case……

Gu Mian looked intently at the camera screen: "Then I might know what I saw in the eyes of a ghost."

It should be a person.

A dense crowd of people dressed in different colored clothes.

To be precise, it was corpses; they were all piled up together, in such a large number that they filled the entire crematorium.

This explains why the ghost saw corpses at the crematorium, corpses that almost filled its entire field of vision.

But what kind of crematorium would be piled high with so many corpses? The crematorium the ghost saw a year ago must not belong to the real world. It must have existed in the instance world before the game started, and there's a crematorium filled with corpses in that instance world. Where did those corpses come from, and is there any connection between them and the instance's arrival on Earth...?

Moreover, the ghost claimed to have seen her at the crematorium. Gu Mian frowned.
But that wasn't him. Gu Mian was quite clear that he hadn't been to any place related to the crematorium a year ago.

"Doctor, what's wrong?" the fat man's voice came from in front of him.

Gu Mian raised her head and told them her thoughts.

After listening to Gu Mian's words, Chu Changge pushed up his glasses: "So, the ghost saw you before the game started, in a crematorium, and it's very likely that it died because of you. That means there might be another 'Gu Mian' in the instance."

Gu Mian shrugged: "Who knows? But if there's another person in the dungeon who looks exactly like me, the NPCs in the dungeon should know something, right?"

Gu Mian recalled all sorts of NPCs she had met.

What might Mr. Green know?
Then there's Coach Che, who's been wandering around various dungeons. Gu Mian remembers Coach Che mentioning the word "crematorium" to her.

But if there really is another "Gu Mian" in the dungeon, then what's the point of hiding it?
Could it be that they're afraid he'll cling to someone and claim to be their twin brother?
(End of this chapter)