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Chapter 457 Family members are not allowed to enter.
Gu Mian already had a deep understanding of Chu Changge's ability to trick people.

He used to think he was the best at tricking people, but he didn't expect that he was still slightly inferior to Chu Changge.

Chu Changge is a cunning and treacherous man who tricks people in secret, and by the time they realize what's happening, it's too late. Otherwise, he coaxes people into willingly being tricked, and they feel it was all worth it afterward, showing the potential to be a scumbag.

However, he did not expect that Chu Changge and Xiao Qiao would conspire to commit murder. Of course, the conspiracy to commit murder was just Gu Mian's own imagination and was not a fact until Chu Changge and Xiao Qiao admitted it.

"I'm saying, you two didn't actually team up to kill someone, did you?" Gu Mian leaned closer to the two of them.

Since the start of this global game, Gu Mian, Chu Changge, and Fatty have basically been together. Chu Changge probably won't have time to meet up with Xiao Qiao to kill people.

Could it be that it was killed before the game started?

Was Chu Changge already this ruthless before the game even started?
Xiao Qiao shut her mouth and stopped talking. Shutting up is usually a sign of guilt, but Gu Mian didn't read a trace of guilt on that pretty face.

“We first met him at the Lantern Festival, and the last time we met was on the dragon boat,” Gu Mian thought for a moment, “Chu Changge, if you really killed him, how come you didn’t recognize him?”

But thinking about it again, even if Chu Changge knew Xie Bi'an before, it's understandable that he didn't recognize him later.

Xie Bi'an was wrapped up like a mummy in an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb; even his parents might not recognize their child if they were standing right in front of him.

He must have been wrapped up so tightly because he was afraid of being recognized and killed by Chu Changge.
Several more seconds passed before Gu Mian heard Chu Changge's voice: "I didn't kill him."

Xiao Qiao, who was standing next to her, also silently raised her hand: "Me neither."

But you two obviously know each other.

Moreover, judging from the way Xie Bi'an glanced in their direction, he clearly recognized an old acquaintance. Gu Mian immediately felt deceived, as if she were the only person in the world who didn't know Xie Bi'an.

The fat guy next to him leaned over to join in the fun: "Doctor, don't be discouraged. I'll recognize him even before he takes off the hood."

"Get lost!" Gu Mian shoved the fat man back.

The fat man, who had been pushed to the window, continued, "That's not right either. His voice is so nice. If I knew him, I would definitely recognize him... If his voice is so nice, he must be good-looking too. It would be even better if he were a woman."

Gu Mian ignored the fat man who was staring at men and thinking about women. He tugged at Xiao Qiao, who was sitting next to him, and said, "Quickly tell me what your relationship is with that cloak."

Xiao Qiao paused for three seconds before speaking: "He is an orphan."

It sounds like stating facts, not taking the opportunity to insult someone.

Then she continued, "I am an orphan too, and Chu Changge is an orphan too."

Upon hearing this, Gu Mian remained silent for a moment. "Hmm, not bad. Is this an orphanage? This car must be called Orphan's Home."

“We knew each other before, but then he had an accident, and we all thought he was dead.” Xiao Qiao finished speaking succinctly and then shut up.

Gu Mian quietly spoke up: "Could you say a little more?"

"No."

Although she felt there was much more to it than that, Gu Mian was more concerned about why Xie Bi'an was so covered up: "What does he look like?"

Xiao Qiao thought about it carefully for a while: "It seems pretty good."

It seems that his reason for covering himself up so tightly is different from Xiaohong's.

Could it be some kind of superpower? Like, obtaining a special item tattooed on the skin, the kind that would kill anyone who saw it...?

Just as Gu Mian was imagining the tattoo's design, Chu Changge suddenly spoke up: "He's dangerous."

It definitely looks dangerous. If you dressed like that to go to the train station before the game starts, you would definitely be caught on the spot by the police on duty.

At this moment, Chu Changge suddenly turned to look at Gu Mian: "You need to be careful."

"Why?" Gu Mian asked.

Chu Changge shut his mouth.

Gu Mian was furious at their stammering answers. If they were ghosts, he would have already taken out his guitar case and interrogated them.

But the other party is Chu Changge, who might not even blink even if his head is cut off, and Xiao Qiao, who might not even realize she's been dead for several minutes.

"Ah." Gu Mian leaned back and exhaled, he wanted to hit someone.

But if she were to drag her brother out and beat him up at this point, it would attract too much attention, so Gu Mian immediately gave up the idea of ​​hitting him.

The school bus sped along from dusk till dawn.

The sun was slowly setting in the west. In the middle of the day, the school bus had only picked up a little over twenty people. Fortunately, the bus was spacious and the seats were quite far apart, so the players didn't have to crowd together.

It turned out that the bus was indeed the school bus that picked up the top few dozen participants in the dragon boat race, and by the time half a day had passed, the players inside had started chatting.

However, no one struck up a conversation with the six people sitting in the last row, though they would occasionally glance back. Among these six people, two were covered up tightly, looking rather strange; there was a beautiful, mature woman who was clearly not a good person; a bespectacled man with an expressionless face; a doctor with a stern expression; and the most frightening of all was the large, fat man in the far corner who looked menacing.

“Your name was already exposed during the dragon boat event,” Liu Ruyan said, looking at the players chatting ahead, in a voice they could never hear. “Everyone knows that Gu Mian is the first place winner, and they also know that the first place winner is sitting in this car. They probably already know that we are the first place winners.”

“It’s okay,” Gu Mian touched the school badge on her chest. “Everyone knows that Chu Meiren and Gu Mian are two different people. Now I am Chu Meiren.”

The panels of the five normal players can all be opened, but the most suspicious one now is Xiao Hong, whose player panel cannot be opened.

Even if a player wants to kill someone, they'll target Xiao Hong, whether it's shooting with firearms or assassinating with melee weapons.

Although Gu Mian is a man and Xiao Hong is a woman, who knows whether Gu Mian is a man or a woman?

Thinking of this, Gu Mian stretched out her hand and smiled as she touched Xiao Hong's hair: "Xiao Hong is so kind."

Confused, Xiao Hong looked up at Gu Mian and happily rubbed her hand against his.

However, no one dared to make any rash moves for the time being. Gu Mian thought it was very likely that the "No Fighting" sign on the front of the bus had stopped the players from having any impulsive thoughts. Long-term gaming experience had taught the players that they must abide by the rules, otherwise they would not even know how they died. So when they saw the "No Fighting" sign, the players naturally assumed that it was a rule on the school bus and that they must absolutely follow it.

But nobody knew that the sign was put up temporarily by the driver after he saw Gu Mian get in the car.

“The next group to be picked up should be the last one,” Chu Changge said, looking at the setting sun outside the window. “It’s already past four in the afternoon, and the event starts at seven. The school bus needs time to get us to the event location.”

At five o'clock in the evening, the school bus stopped and began playing the "No Return" recording that Gu Mian had listened to many times.

Before long, the three girls hurriedly got into the car. Coincidentally, Gu Mian recognized one of the girls.

“Mingyue?” The fat man blinked. “Doctor, do you remember her? The one from the Deathly Encounter dungeon.”

Gu Mian twitched her eyebrows: "My memory isn't as bad as you imagine."

He's the player from the previous instance; how could he possibly forget?

This bright moon was one of the few players who survived to the end, besides them. According to Fatty, his character was questionable, and he was eventually killed by a clothes rack that fell from the sky as a sign of justice.

Whether it was Gu Mian's imagination or not, he saw Mingyue glance around the carriage after getting on the bus, and when her gaze fell on him, she suddenly trembled and then hurriedly lowered her head and plopped down in the front row.

"What's wrong with her?" Gu Mian was a little confused. He didn't think he looked like the clothes hanger who had killed Mingyue.

Xiao Qiao spoke up righteously: "I don't know."

After this stop, the school bus sped along until 6 p.m., when it finally stopped. By then, Gu Mian was in a familiar scene – the gate of Lianhua University.

"Get off in order." At this moment, the driver stood up and shouted at them, as if afraid that someone would stay on the bus and refuse to leave.

Starting with the taciturn man in the first row, Gu Mian and the others should have been the last to get off. However, Gu Mian noticed that many players ahead of them were secretly glancing in their direction as they got off, as if they were plotting some wicked scheme.

Mingyue, whose character is highly questionable, got off the carriage very quickly this time, almost jumping down, as if some ghost was chasing her.

At this time, several other school buses were also parked in front of Lianhua University, and players were getting off those school buses.

Gu Mian was already standing at the school gate, watching the players slowly getting off the school bus. This was not all the examinees; most of them were probably still on their way, and some might have already entered the examination hall.

Gu Mian saw several NPC-like figures standing outside the huge gate of Lianhua University, holding what looked like metal detectors. At this moment, the players were lining up in a long queue to be checked by these NPCs.

"Candidates, bring your admission tickets here for inspection to check for prohibited items." An NPC waved to the players.

Players from all over the country scattered towards the school gate, forming an irregular line to undergo testing. Gu Mian felt that this line looked somewhat like the trajectory of the eighteen flower pots that almost fell on her head.

"Let's go." Gu Mian walked over quickly and joined the last line.

During this period, no new school buses transported the examinees, and there was no one behind Gu Mian and the others.

Once the line shortened a bit, Gu Mian noticed that the item the NPC was holding was called a "Contraband Detector."

It wasn't a metal detector, because Gu Mian saw a punk with a nose chain successfully pass through it, a player with a walkie-talkie hanging around their neck successfully pass through it, and a player riding a bicycle passed through it—it was something she had never heard of or seen before.

"What exactly is that thing used to detect?" The fat man standing right behind Gu Mian began to complain.

Gu Mian sincerely expressed her thoughts: "I think it must be broken."

But it was soon proven that the device was not broken. Just as Gu Mian was being examined, the previously silent detector suddenly beeped and the red light on it lit up.

Gu Mian thought of something and silently picked up her saw: "But I saw that the bicycles in front had all passed by..."

“No,” the NPC suddenly spoke up, “not this one.”

what is that?
Just as Gu Mian was wondering, he saw the NPC in front of him hesitate for a few seconds before speaking: "Family members are not allowed to enter."

"I don't have a home..." Gu Mian suddenly paused, then uncertainly pulled a CD from her pocket, "This?"

(End of this chapter)