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Chapter 438 Have you found a girlfriend?

Just then, Xiao Qiao, who had been sitting silently to the side, suddenly picked up something with both hands and displayed it to the group as if she were stretching out her clothes. At first glance, it looked like a black arm sleeve: "I have a solution."

As she spoke, she looked at Gu Mian: "I'll cover my head, or you can cover your head, or we can all cover our heads together."

She was holding a face mask.

It was a rather rudimentary mask; Gu Mian suspected that she had cut a few holes in a pair of relatively elastic black socks to use as a mask.

Gu Mian: "..."

To be honest, he thought the person wearing black socks over their head was the most conspicuous among all the players.

Not to mention the entire team wore black socks over their heads.

"It's not Christmas, why would you put a sock on your head?" Gu Mian immediately rejected this bizarre suggestion.

The fat man on the side questioned, "Does anyone wear stockings on their heads at Christmas? I remember stockings are for holding presents from Santa Claus. Of course, if a girl makes a wish on a stocking that she wants you to be her boyfriend, then it would be perfectly reasonable for you to put your head inside the stocking..."

"Shut up." Gu Mian reached out and stuffed a pie from the table into the fat man's mouth, leaving him only able to make muffled noises.

Gu Mian is currently facing three main problems.

First, there's Xiao Qiao's face.

Secondly, it is identified by players who know him.

Thirdly, it's the fat guy's game nickname.

Fatty is well-known to the public because he frequently appears in the dungeon compensation announcements, and he is often listed in the announcements along with the names "Gu Mian" and "Chu Changge".

The mere sight of a fat man's nickname immediately evokes the image of Gu Mian. While players might not be particularly interested in a fat man's nickname during a crowded event, the threat still exists.

Xiao Qiao's face is easy to cover; she doesn't need to use black elastic stockings to cover her entire head. Just wearing a baseball cap and a mask can cover most of her face. But even if most of her face is covered, there is still a possibility that she can be recognized. Before the global game, Gu Mian occasionally browsed the internet for current events, but what she usually saw were gossip photos of various celebrities. Even if the main characters in the photos were wrapped up tightly, they could still be recognized at a glance.

In short, every activity from now on carries the risk of exposing Gu Mian's identity, but she cannot simply avoid participating.

Gu Mian still wants to figure out the relationship between the dungeon and the real world. Right now, he mainly wants to find out where the original "Second World" is.

Mr. Green, being an NPC, should know something about this, so you're likely to run into him if you participate in the event.

Although I don't know how he will appear...

“Speaking of which, Doctor,” the fat man said, taking out the pie from his mouth and glancing at the calendar hanging on the wall. The calendar was already there, and the fat man had turned to today’s date, June 1st, which was quite eye-catching. “Before this game started, quite a few people probably knew you, but we’ve hardly run into each other.”

This is actually quite normal.

In countless instances, the chances of two familiar people running into each other are slim.

The first instance after the game starts is matched based on the player's location, meaning that players who are closer to each other are more likely to be matched in the first instance.

That's why he happened to be matched into the same instance as Chu Changge and Fatty.

However, after the first instance, the rule that "the closer the players are, the easier it is to enter the same instance" seems to have disappeared, and players are being matched randomly.

Afterwards, Gu Mian and her two companions drove away from Lianhua City, making it even less likely they would run into any acquaintances. However, this event might be different. The event rules have been finalized, and players can directly enter the event location with their event admission tickets. Perhaps they really will bump into a few acquaintances during the dragon boat race.

Thinking of this, Gu Mian began to recall the people she had known since childhood.

But I can't think of many.

Almost all of the few people who had left a deep impression on him were dead, including his math teacher from his school days, the couple who almost adopted him, and the little girl from his childhood who always liked to play rock-paper-scissors with him.

There are also some people I remember but don't remember well, including my roommates from the orphanage, junior high school, high school, and university, and my colleagues from the hospital.

Gu Mian wasn't actually very familiar with her classmates; she only had some impression of the people she had shared a dorm room with.

But then again...

Gu Mian turned to look at the fat man: "The game has been going on for half a year, and you still haven't run into any acquaintances, have you?"

Unlike Gu Mian, Fatty had clearly traveled all over the country before the game started, and his social circle was much larger than Gu Mian's.

“That’s true,” the fat man scratched his head. “I didn’t run into anyone I knew, so it’s normal that you didn’t either, doctor.”

But Gu Mian had a premonition that they were about to run into some acquaintances—right during the dragon boat race.

Normally, when acquaintances bump into each other, they would probably ask, "What did you eat today?" or "Have you found a girlfriend yet?"

But what if we bump into each other at the event...

Gu Mian felt that no one could stand on waters teeming with vengeful ghosts and worry about whether the people on the opposite boat had found girlfriends.

"Do you want to cover your face?" Chu Changge asked Gu Mian.

Gu Mian considered it for a moment and said, "I'll just wear a mask."

One can imagine what it would be like to run into acquaintances at the event and stare at each other blankly. Even though Gu Mian didn't want to join the staring contest, whether or not he would be recognized was not something he could control.

Gu Mian has already started thinking about how to deal with those acquaintances she doesn't know well. As the only person on the wanted list, her appearance will definitely attract the attention of those acquaintances. If she is not careful, the dragon boat race will turn into a major exposure of her identity.

It's certain that some players now possess long-range weapons, and if Gu Mian's name is exposed, he'll likely become a target.

Even though the white coat she was wearing was a special item that could block a certain degree of attack, Gu Mian knew that it could not stop arrows or bullets, and there was a possibility that a skilled shooter would just blow her head off.

Gu Mian suddenly felt a headache coming on, and he even seriously considered the possibility of drilling a large hole in another player's ship first.

At this moment, Chu Changge suddenly reached out and took off the school badge on his chest: "This can help players change their nicknames and appearances. The appearance change can only last for thirty minutes. I think thirty minutes is enough. It's enough time for us to move away from crowded places after the event starts."

“But I’m not sure I can use this thing.” Gu Mian knew he was different from the other players, so he took the school badge from Chu Changge and put it on his chest.

Immediately afterwards, the fat man noticed that Gu Mian's player nickname had changed.

...she became "Beauty of Chu"

Surprisingly, it works!
(End of this chapter)