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Chapter 461 Gu Mian and his beloved doll

Gu Mian already had the answer to her second multiple-choice question.

While he was having a friendly conversation with the three classmates, the test paper was filled in with answers on its own, apparently because they thought the mixed meat soup was quite delicious.

But after the answer to the second multiple-choice question appeared, no new options appeared. At this time, Gu Mian was on her way to the location of the fill-in-the-blank question—Girls' Dormitory Building 4.

Based on his gender, he should be able to get in.

The fat man was still babbling on and on.

[Fatty]: I just ran into a group of proctors who looked almost exactly like them. I cleverly averted the danger and also eliminated three players who were trying to take advantage of the doctor.
Gu Mian was highly skeptical of the fat man's statement. He felt that the three players were more likely to have run into the wall and died because they weren't looking where they were going than to have been "eliminated" by the fat man.

[Apang]: But I found that I couldn't find the main entrance of this building... It's probably because my fill-in-the-blank question was about Building 9. I can probably only leave this place after I finish the fill-in-the-blank question.

[Gu Mian]: Do you want me to pick you up?

[Apang]: No, no need. It's strange, there are so many players but I'm the only one in this building. I think it's probably the dungeon's doing. Doctor, even if you go into Building 9, you might not be able to find me.

[Apang]: By the way, Miss Xiao Qiao and I got separated near the restaurant and I can't contact her now. Doctor, you can look for her while you're doing your questions.

Okay, I understand.

Gu Mian closed the chat and continued walking towards Girls' Dormitory No. 4.

Apartment No. 4 was right across from his exam room, and Gu Mian knew the way very well.

On his way to Apartment 4, he would occasionally encounter several panicked players who hid in the darkness like frightened wildcats, getting so nervous at the slightest sound that they almost bristled.

"So scared?" Gu Mian was a little surprised. After all, they came from a dragon boat event; they shouldn't be this frightened.

The streetlights overhead were dim, but there were hardly any players on the road illuminated by the lights; almost everyone he saw was walking close to the walls.

So now only his head is bathed in the light of the streetlights.

However, Gu Mian had no interest in investigating those who were terrified. He took out the three school badges from his white coat.

These three school badges, which were obtained through illegal means, are special items, similar to the "Chu Beauty" badge, but these three can only change your game nickname.

The three ghosts got their nicknames because they wore these.

To be honest, special items that can change your nickname are extremely rare, and the chance of a player getting three at once is practically zero.

Moreover, these school badges are clearly not rewards that the event intends to give to players, because they are all on the ghosts. It is absolutely impossible for a normal person to reach out and pluck these things off the ghosts; doing so would mean certain death.

But Gu Mian managed to pull him down, though of course, death was inevitable.

Gu Mian had previously used the [Mind Speaker] on Xiao Hong, so she knew that ghosts could use special items, but only a few of them.

He had also tested Chu Meiren's school badge on Xiao Hong, but putting the badge on Xiao Hong didn't work at that time.

But the ghosts in this event can use the school badge to have nicknames. At this moment, Gu Mian thought of the ghosts in yesterday's dragon boat event who could impersonate players. It seems that since the dragon boat event started... or even longer, the ghosts in the game have undergone some kind of change.

"Although the game clearly stated at the beginning that it was about human evolution, humans haven't even evolved anything yet, and ghosts in the game can already impersonate players."

What a great evolution!

It's pretty much certain that the game has two organizers, and it seems that the organizer who wants to evolve humanity is currently getting crushed by the organizer who wants to evolve the dungeons.

Who beat whom was unimportant to Gu Mian; what he was paying attention to at that moment was the school name on the school sign—"Songcheng Academy".

It is not Lianhua University.

The three ghosts in the cafeteria were students from "Songcheng Academy".

This event seems to have brought all the ghosts from the entire school in the dungeon into the event itself, which is quite different from the previous two events.

The ghosts in the first two events were taken from various dungeons, but this event not only had uniform invigilators, but even the proctors were the same.

It's not a hodgepodge.

Gu Mian, clutching the test paper, wandered through the school and arrived at the bottom of Apartment 4 at exactly 8:30. He needed to check out what the fish tank in dormitory 4244 looked like.

……

"Strange, why does it feel like there are so few people in the school?" Luo Tianqing walked through the corridor on the fourth floor of the No. 1 girls' dormitory with a flashlight. She had just finished a multiple-choice question here and was about to leave.

She and 007 were teammates in the dragon boat activity, and they came together this time. Besides her and 007, the other teammates were Xie Bi'an, Eighteen Girls, and Xue Ning.

While they were participating in the college entrance examination activities together, Luo Tianqing, Shiba, and Xue Ning discussed doing the questions together, while Xie Bi'an and 007 wanted to act alone.

The three of them agreed to meet at the statue in the center of the school if they had free time. As it turned out, the examinees were indeed allowed to move around freely in the school, but Luo Tianqing was unable to meet them because she saw the proctors on the way.

When she arrived at the agreed location, there was no one there.

With no other option, she had to figure things out on her own at school.

As Luo Tianqing walked down the dark corridor, she looked at the walkie-talkie hanging around her neck, a reward she had received from the dragon boat event.

[A walkie-talkie (master unit) that can only be used once per day]

[Description: A pair of tattered black walkie-talkies, looking like they're about to run out of battery.]

[Function: The master unit can call the slave unit once a day for a maximum of 30 minutes each time.]

There are two walkie-talkies in total; the other handset is with Xue Ning.

When she couldn't meet up with Xue Ning and the other person before, Luo Tianqing thought about using a walkie-talkie, but after thinking about it carefully, she realized it would be a waste.

It's better to split up than to act together, so Luo Tianqing decided to explore the school for a while before meeting up again.

This wasn't their first time entering a dungeon; they weren't at the point where they wouldn't dare to act alone.

“It’s already 8:30,” Luo Tianqing checked the time. “The exam has been going on for an hour. Xue Ning should have found some useful clues by now, so we can talk to her.”

As Luo Tianqing pondered this, she pressed the intercom button next to her: "Is Xue Ning there?"

One drawback of walkie-talkies is that when you call someone, they might be hiding from pursuers, and your shout could reveal their location, especially in horror scenarios.

She was also a little worried about this happening, but fortunately, she received a reply from the other end shortly after pressing the intercom button.

“I’m here. I’m with Shiba. We’re right next to the performance hall near the North Gate.”

As the name suggests, a performance hall is a place for singing and dancing, and welcome parties and similar events are usually held in such places.

"Performance hall?" Luo Tianqing subconsciously looked at her fill-in-the-blank question.

There was a life-sized doll in seat number 4, row 6, section F of the performance hall.

She hesitated before asking, "Could you do me a favor?"

A static-filled voice came from the other end: "What?"

"Could you please look around or in the performance hall for a life-sized doll and place it in seat number 4, row 6, section F..."

Luo Tianqing felt a little guilty as she spoke. She knew it was very unfair to ask someone to do such a dangerous thing during the event, and it would be thankless work. To put it bluntly, "only an idiot would help her with the questions." But she had looked at the school map. She was currently in Apartment Building No. 1, which was diagonally opposite the performance hall. It would take about twenty minutes to run there, not to mention that she might encounter terrifying proctors along the way.

And she doesn't know if having someone else "fill" the doll in there counts as her answer to the question, but what if it does? She'll have to try to find out.

The other side fell silent as expected.

Just as Luo Tianqing was about to take back her words in embarrassment, Xue Ning's voice came through the walkie-talkie: "No problem, but if I do it, it might not count as your answer."

Luo Tianqing quickly said, "It's alright, you can try. If it doesn't work, I'll go myself."

The voice continued to come from the walkie-talkie: "By the way, where are you now?"

"Apartment One..."

Before Luo Tianqing could finish speaking, Xue Ning's voice came through the walkie-talkie again: "Apartment No. 1, what a coincidence?"

Coincidentally? Luo Tianqing was taken aback.

Xue Ning continued, "My fill-in-the-blank question is about Apartment Number One."

"What is it? Let me see if I can make it for you, that way we can save time."

"The question is 'The curtains in dormitory 1433 are closed,' I think it means I need to close the curtains in that dormitory..."

Luo Tianqing is currently on the fourth floor of Apartment No. 1. Although each floor of the dormitory building is very large, she still found dormitory 1433 very quickly.

The dormitory doors were all open. Luo Tianqing stood at the door for a short while before mustering up the courage to step into the dark dormitory room in front of her.

Things went quite smoothly; no ghosts jumped out along the way, and no examiners suddenly appeared behind them.

Luo Tianqing successfully drew the curtains of dormitory 1433, and then she discovered that she also had the answers to the fill-in-the-blank questions on her test paper.

It really can help others with fill-in-the-blank questions!

Xue Ning's voice came through the walkie-talkie: "I checked and I have the answers to my fill-in-the-blank questions. We just put your doll away. Do you have the answers over there now?"

“I’ve got it,” Luo Tianqing replied excitedly. “Let’s meet up quickly. I’ll go downstairs now and keep in touch.”

"it is good."

Luo Tianqing immediately walked out of the dormitory, grabbed a flashlight, and headed towards the stairs.

She found the activity to be simpler than she had imagined. Although the questions were a bit scary, she managed to avoid any real danger and was even able to help others fill in the blanks.

As she thought about this, she held up her flashlight and walked forward through the corridor lined with dormitories on both sides.

As she passed a dormitory with its door open, she glanced inside casually.

"What's that?" Luo Tianqing stopped abruptly. She glanced at the window with the curtains not drawn and saw the building across the street through it.

Across the street is Apartment Building No. 4.

She saw that there seemed to be someone behind the window of apartment building number four, with their face directly facing her.

It was too dark outside, and Luo Tianqing could only see a blurry figure. Although it was blurry, it was definitely a human shape... as if it was looking at her through the window.

She shuddered upon seeing the figure and quickened her pace.

Let's get out of here quickly...

Luo Tianqing quickly left the dormitory entrance and ran towards the stairs. After running for a full half minute, she looked at the dormitory next door again and was immediately terrified.

That thing was still right in front of her window!

It's following me!

Luo Tianqing ran forward desperately again, and after running a considerable distance, she glanced out the window one last time, unwilling to give up.

That thing disappeared...

The figure was gone; it seemed like it was just her hallucination. Luo Tianqing stared at the opposite window for a long time before finally letting out a sigh of relief, but before she could fully relax, she had to hold it back.

She saw a man in a white coat suddenly appear out of nowhere, holding a flashlight and poking at the windowsill behind the opposite window, as if he were looking for something.

Although the sudden appearance startled her, judging from the person's behavior, they were clearly a player. Luo Tianqing patted her chest and relaxed: "It's good that it wasn't the same thing as before... but why did it suddenly disappear?"

Just then, Gu Mian, who was searching for dead fish in each dormitory on the fourth floor, suddenly felt as if someone was watching him, so he looked up.

He saw a cute girl with a flashlight looking at him from the dormitory building across the street. Perhaps because he had seen too much Xiao Hong, Gu Mian now saw everyone as cute. He waved to her and said, "Hello."

The cute girl was clearly shocked by his "making the best of a bad situation" spirit, but in the end she still waved back at him to show her respect.

Gu Mian explored almost the entire floor but didn't find any dead fish. He did find quite a few short skirts, which were of no help to his fill-in-the-blank questions.

He turned around with his flashlight in hand: "I sincerely hope that the fifth floor won't be filled with little skirts anymore..."

Luo Tianqing watched as the person opposite her left with a flashlight, and even kindly closed the dormitory door behind them.

Then she suddenly discovered a terrifying fact—it hadn't left.

Just after that person turned and left, Luo Tianqing saw the terrifying humanoid figure that he had just blocked.

It's still following me!

run!
Luo Tianqing seemed to have only this one thought in her mind. She ran forward desperately, but found that no matter how hard she ran, she could not reach the end.

There are no stairs! No exits! Only open dormitory doors.

Whenever she turned to look outside, she could see that person standing behind the window... staring intently at her.

She ran for an unknown amount of time, and when she looked to the side again, she saw a familiar dormitory number—"1433".

The curtains she had drawn were still tightly shut. Luo Tianqing suddenly remembered that all the strange things had happened after she had drawn the curtains in this dormitory.

She moved shakily into the dormitory in the darkness, step by step toward the tightly closed curtains.

"If...if it's because of this...then I'll pull it open again..."

As she spoke, her hands trembled as she pulled the curtains open a crack, and she saw a pair of eyes staring intently at her through the gap.

"After passing the statue, turn left... Hmm, you should see Dormitory Building No. 3 now. Walk along Building No. 3 and through the pavilion..."

Xue Ning held onto Shi Ba with one hand and the walkie-talkie with the other: "We agreed to meet at the statue, but Tian Qing seems to have encountered some accident. We need to go to Dormitory Building No. 1 to meet her now."

Eighteen followed closely behind Xue Ning: "It's okay."

"After passing through the pavilion, look to your left..."

"We've arrived!" Xue Ning responded and looked to her left.

One glance sent shivers down their spines. They saw the doll standing to the left of the pavilion, holding a walkie-talkie and grinning at them.

(End of this chapter)