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Chapter 439 Gu Mian's Ten Thousand Sweet Words
Having lost his school badge, Chu Changge revealed his real name.

Although the name Chu Changge is quite familiar to other players, it is far less impactful than the name Gu Mian.

Fatty looked at Gu Mian's changed game nickname and said, "Now we don't have to worry about other players recognizing you, Doctor. This thing can keep you disguised for half an hour. Doctor, who are you going to become?"

Gu Mian touched her chin.

Being one of those present is obviously not a good thing; twins always attract more attention than someone alone.

So Gu Mian decided to make his move between his brother and Xiao Hong. Since Gu Mian had no experience of becoming a woman, he couldn't disguise himself as one well, so he ultimately chose his brother—not because Xiao Hong was ugly.

Xiao Hong, who was standing to the side, was unaware of Gu Mian's thoughts.

At this moment, she found an outdated smartphone somewhere in the house and started randomly pressing buttons; as a modern female ghost, she loved new gadgets, and soon this outdated phone replaced lychee soda as Xiao Hong's new favorite.

Gu Mian saw her randomly press a few buttons to open the camera, and her own horribly disfigured face immediately appeared on the screen.

Xiao Hong seemed quite confident in her face. Without any instruction, she grinned foolishly and snapped her first selfie.

The fat man looked away, unable to bear watching: "She looks as happy as Runtu who has just been stung by a badger."

Gu Mian: "..."

Today is June 1st.

Children's Day.

Gu Mian was certain that if the dragon boat race wasn't so close, the fat man would have definitely gone to a children's amusement park and jumped around on the trampoline to show that he was still young.

"By the way," the fat man said, looking at Chu Changge, "Brother Chu, didn't you say someone was buying gasoline? What if it really catches fire?"

It's unlikely that their boats will be set on fire directly, but the fat man doesn't know how densely packed the players are during the event. It's possible that if just one boat is set on fire, the fire will spread along the cluster of dragon boats.

Chu Changge tapped the table: "Get away from the crowd first. Fire will spread along conductors, so as long as you separate from them, you won't get burned."

"Huh?" The fat man was a little confused. He could imagine the scene when the event started in a few days. The players on the river would definitely swarm forward, and it would be quite difficult to get ahead of them by a large margin.

The fat man frowned as he thought about this.

At this moment, Chu Changge's voice came next: "There's no need to exert too much effort."

……

June 7th came very quickly.

Before the fat man could even warm up to Children's Day, the Dragon Boat Festival arrived; in the past, this would have been a joyous holiday with drums and gongs, but now it's lost its former liveliness.

Gu Mian used the phone that Xiao Hong had found to set an alarm for six o'clock in the morning.

The event was scheduled to start at seven o'clock, and he certainly didn't want to wake up to find himself lying naked on the dragon boat.

Gu Mian woke up promptly at six o'clock in the morning. Sure enough, the fat man was still fast asleep in bed, and the alarm clock did not disturb him in the slightest.

Gu Mian reached out and patted the fat man awake, presumably because the other players didn't want to see a fat man sleeping soundly without any clothes on during the dragon boat race.

Chu Changge had already woken up, and the other two girls were also sitting on the sofa early. Today's breakfast was frozen wontons.

Because Fatty always had trouble waking up in the morning, and Gu Mian and Chu Changge were quite bad at cooking, the focus fell on the two girls. Unexpectedly, these two were just as unreliable as they were.

After being tortured by Xiao Qiao several times, Gu Mian decided to eat ready-made meals for breakfast. So the refrigerator in the house was filled with ready-made foods such as frozen dumplings and frozen wontons.

Chu Changge was still giving instructions about the event: "Xiao Qiao, make sure you wear your hat and mask properly, and try not to make a sound so you don't get recognized; Liu Ruyan, don't flirt with others; Gu Mian... where is she?"

At this moment, Gu Mian was squatting in front of Xiao Hong, confirming that the dungeon entry ticket was with her; since she couldn't be sure whether Xiao Hong could enter the event, Gu Mian specially bought her another event entry ticket.

Xiao Hong is neither a special item nor a player, and Gu Mian is very worried about whether she will be able to get in after getting the ticket.

After all, they are important sources of cheap labor.

Gu Mian patiently stuffed the ticket in her hand into Xiao Hong's pocket, putting it at the very bottom to prevent any unexpected situations.

At this moment, Xiao Hong was not worried about anything at all. She fiddled with her phone and then put it into Gu Mian's hand.

Gu Mian looked down and saw Xiao Hong's face on the screen—it was still her selfie, a half-body photo.

"What's wrong?" Gu Mian took the phone and looked at Xiao Hong's photo.

At this moment, the sleepy-eyed fat man squatted down behind Gu Mian. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the phone in Gu Mian's hand: "She probably wants you to Photoshop her photos to make them look better, right? She probably wants to use them to post on WeChat Moments... Oh, I forgot that WeChat Moments is probably bankrupt now."

is it?

Gu Mian looked up at Xiao Hong and saw that her eyes were sparkling with anticipation.

Seeing this, Gu Mian lowered her head again and edited the photo to make it look better.

Gu Mian stared at that horribly disfigured face, lost in thought. This was slightly more difficult than clearing a dungeon...

The hour before the event should have been a tense preparation time, with all the players anxiously waiting for the event to begin an hour later. However, Gu Mian calmly squatted on the ground, considering how to Photoshop the photo to make it look better.

Several minutes later, even Chu Changge stood behind Gu Mian and looked at the phone in his hand.

But this small problem did not stump Gu Mian. After thinking for a long time, he finally took action. He pulled out a sticker and covered Xiao Hong's face in the photo. Then he turned the screen towards Xiao Hong and coaxed her, "Isn't it pretty?"

Xiao Hong stared at the screen for several seconds, then pouted and cried.

How should a female ghost suspected of suffering from depression be treated?

[5,000 Years of Photo Editing]

[A Thousand Sweet Talk Phrase a Scumbag Would Use]

These were the topics that Gu Mian and the others were nervously discussing an hour before the event started. Fortunately, at the very moment seven o'clock, Xiao Hong's crying stopped abruptly, replaced by an eerie silence.

The event has begun.

The fat man turned his head to look around, only to find that Gu Mian and the others had all disappeared, and he himself was sitting on a small boat on the river, which was obviously the dragon boat that had been mentioned...

Every now and then, a whistling wind would blow from afar, making his eardrums throb.

"What's going on... Where are the five people you promised?" The fat man looked around in a daze.

Other players on the river were in the same situation as him. They looked at each other, seemingly wondering why their teammates had disappeared.

(End of this chapter)