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Chapter 448 Sexy Gu Mian Slacking Off Online
The final level appeared at 3 PM.

During this time, Gu Mian and the others' dragon boat braved the wind and waves. Chu Changge suggested that the players in front should test the waters, so their boat never made it to the front.

The fat man had bought a pocket watch sometime ago and was wearing it around his neck. The watch case was made of brass and looked quite old.

He would occasionally open his pocket watch with a "click" to check the time. Just as it was exactly three o'clock, Gu Mian saw the dragon boats on the screen in front of him stop moving.

At this time, the dragon boats on the river were scattered here and there.

This activity, with its extremely high mortality rate, didn't attract many players to begin with. After several rounds of selection, the remaining dragon boats were sparsely distributed.

At this moment, Gu Mian and the others' boat also stopped. Fatty looked at the water strangely and saw Xiao Hong poking her head out of the water. Her not-so-pretty face showed a confused expression, as if she couldn't push the boat.

Then a choice appeared before Gu Mian and the others—

Should we accept the last teammate?

This rudimentary choice made the fat man wary: "Why is there no formality this time, and they're just asking us if we need any people... Could this be a trap?"

Chu Changge pushed up his glasses: "The event shouldn't have such a nonsensical trap."

While Chu Changge was still speaking, Gu Mian had already chosen "yes".

Immediately afterwards, Liu Ruyan appeared on the ship.

After she appeared, she looked around first, then sat down lazily, quite calmly.

The fat man was already nervously observing whether Liu Ruyan was an imposter.

The boat hadn't moved yet, but Xiao Hong pushed hard at the stern a few times, and the dragon boat didn't budge.

Immediately, something else appeared in front of them.

[Fourth Challenge: Making Choices]

What the heck? Gu Mian looked at this bizarre fourth level with a puzzled expression. First, it directly gave a teammate, and then a new level appeared. It was really baffling.

The fourth level did not provide any details. Gu Mian only saw that the ship had changed from a dragon boat to a dilapidated ship, and an old man suddenly appeared at the bow.

The old man appeared out of nowhere like a ghost, stood at the bow of the boat, glanced at them, and said coldly, "I am the boatman of this boat. The next stage will require us to travel on this boat. Your boat is already overloaded. There are things to give up and things to take, losses and gains. You must abandon one person for me to carry you."

The fat man opened his mouth slightly, then whispered, "This is the turning point Brother Chu was talking about? They want players to find the ghost hidden among their teammates, right? But why not just say who the ghost is?"

"There might be some restrictions," Chu Changge replied.

“But the ghost hiding among us has already run away,” the fat man said somewhat embarrassedly. “There’s nothing to give up. Should we explain things to this old man?”

Chu Changge continued, "But if he wants to make things difficult for us, there's nothing we can do."

This old man really wanted to make things difficult for them.

No matter how the fat man tried to explain, he wouldn't listen and insisted on leaving someone behind.

Just as the fat man was about to stand up impatiently, Gu Mian reached out and pressed him down: "That's right, you have to give up something to gain something, you have to lose something to get something." The fat man looked at Gu Mian in confusion, only to see him think for a moment, and then kick the boatman off the boat.

“Alright,” Gu Mian said happily, “now we can move on.”

Fatty: "..."

The ship did indeed begin to move forward slowly again, but the two ghosts at the stern were having some difficulty pushing the ship, and its speed decreased considerably.

Gu Mian stared thoughtfully at the water: "The speed has become so slow. That old man was really useful. If he had been punting the boat, the speed would have been much faster."

The fat man nodded in agreement: "We should have tried to persuade him to stay and help us by appealing to his emotions and reasoning with him..."

Gu Mian was still muttering to herself, "If I had known, I would have just lassoed him and thrown him into the water to push the boat."

The fat man choked on his words.

Although there was no boatman, Xiao Hong and her brother, the two ghosts, were not slow. Their boat still moved forward at a steady speed, overtaking many players.

But as the dragon boat continued forward, the water became narrower and narrower.

As the water narrowed, the boat could only move towards the center, and the players gradually became more densely packed; Gu Mian could even see other players in the distance from the boat.

The "Doctor's Stunning Fan Club" had previously attracted a lot of attention, but everyone just switched ships, and now none of the ships have names.

Therefore, Gu Mian and her group did not attract the attention of other players.

But as the river narrowed and the players drew closer, people noticed something amiss.

Gu Mian also noticed the anomaly.

On the other boats, there was an old man standing at the bow to steer, but Gu Mian's boat moved forward by itself without any wind, which was extremely strange.

If you look closely, you can see what looks like something under the stern of the boat, but people don't dare to crane their necks too far, because there are many ghosts lurking in the water waiting for their chance.

But not far away, someone was craning their neck to look this way, as if they wanted to stretch their neck into a giraffe's. Gu Mian also noticed this unusual player.

He glanced over there and saw a face that looked somewhat familiar.

However, Gu Mian couldn't remember who it was for a moment.

The fat man had also spotted the man who wished he could turn into a giraffe early on, and he whispered to Gu Mian, "Doctor, it's someone I know."

Who was that again? Gu Mian silently tried to recall.

The fat man thoughtfully reminded me: "I remember he called me Yu Qitian."

Ah, the name sounds familiar, but Gu Mian forgot which instance she encountered this player in.

The fat man continued, "In Mr. Green's instance, he tricked you with special items, and you tore off his teleprompter and put it in your pocket, Doctor. Remember that?"

(End of this chapter)