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Chapter 465 My Trip Around the World in a Hearse with the Doctor
"Doctor, do you think we might have run over something?"

The sound of tires rubbing against the ground continued in the darkness, sharp and piercing.

The fat man, who wasn't wearing a seatbelt, rolled around in the drifting hearse. Every now and then, he felt a "thump" under his buttocks, as if someone was being run over.

"Fasten your seatbelt," Gu Mian said, glancing at the fat man bouncing around in the rearview mirror. "Don't damage my car."

"Okay, okay..." The fat man grabbed the car seat in front of him, sat down with all his might, and quickly fastened his seatbelt.

Meanwhile, the test-takers nearby were witnessing what they would never see in their lives: a hearse drifting.

In a sense, this was indeed a real hearse drift.

This farce, which should never have happened, ended in a rather tragic scene. Gu Mian won this battle against fifty opponents, and almost all of the dozens of uniformly dressed proctors were run over by Gu Mian's wheels.

The sparse examinees on the dark teaching building swallowed hard. They watched as the proctor who had previously terrified them was run over by a car and stuck to the ground, turning into a pitiful pancake. They had never known that ghosts could be killed by cars.

They even began to suspect that something had gone wrong with the event. The test takers did not think that the doctor below was a player, but rather that he was a vengeful ghost hiding in the event.

"To be honest, hitting a proctor is against the rules, isn't it? It's against the rules!" The fat man gripped the seatbelt that held him to the car seat tightly, his knuckles turning white. "Even though it's not written in the rules, it's definitely against the rules!"

“What’s the big deal?” Gu Mian stepped on the brake and reached for the key behind the fat man. “The game told me from day one that I can’t beat up NPCs… Stop talking nonsense and get out of the car to see if there’s a keyhole on that board.”

The fat man let out a silent wail, then flung open the car door and ran towards the statue behind them, muttering to himself as he ran, "I don't think I'll be able to hand in my test paper today..."

It's 22:01 PM now, and they should hand in their papers in two hours.

But if he and Gu Mian really open the door in the fragments of "Second World", things probably won't be so simple.

Although the fat man was groaning inwardly, he still carefully felt around on the base of the statue. Before long, he found a keyhole where the statue and the base were joined.

"Found it!" the fat man shouted back to Gu Mian.

But as soon as he turned around, he saw more white figures appear in his line of sight. This was probably because Gu Mian's violent behavior had seriously disrupted the exam order, so the proctors...
They gathered here.

"Damn it," the fat man cursed, a rare occurrence for him, "I have a very bad feeling about this!"

Since this has happened, it means that either Gu Mian or Dong Huo must die. And since Fatty has never seen Gu Mian die, it must be Dong Huo who dies.

As he cursed, he quickly shoved the key in his hand into the hole. Immediately, he heard the stone slab beneath him crack open, and the statue on it moved to the side.

The stone slab on the ground split open like an automatic door, and the fat man sat on one of the doors, holding a lantern and looking down in astonishment.

Beneath the enormous door was a wide staircase that led all the way down to the bottom, its end invisible, even beyond the reach of his lantern with a radius of twenty meters.

Looking at the deep, dark cave, the fat man always had the feeling that going in was like entering the gates of hell.

Along with the fat man, the examinees who were observing the area were also stunned. They hadn't expected the event to take such a turn for the worse. First, a doctor who looked like a chainsaw killer ran over and killed dozens of examiners with his car. Then, more examiners appeared, and the fat man who was with the pervert opened a door that didn't look like a door at all.

Then they saw the doctor drive the car through the open door, and the fat man next to him jumped into the car the moment it disappeared into the darkness.

The proctors behind them didn't follow; they seemed to be afraid of something and kept their distance from the door.

Before long, the area below returned to silence, an eerie silence.

The players stared silently at the dark, ominous door in the middle of the school. A heavy atmosphere began to spread among them. They felt that once this empty door was opened, the darkness in the school would become even more terrifying.

"To be honest, I regret coming to this event now." Xingchen looked out the window.

They stayed in the classroom for a long time, but no other candidates returned.

Xingchen's hand twitched involuntarily a few times: "What that person on the radio said is probably true. Anyone who participates in someone else's exam questions will surely die. Right now, the only people still alive in this exam room are us."

The difficulty of this dungeon was terrifying, far exceeding their expectations. It was definitely the best option to leave this place as soon as possible!

As Xingchen pondered this, he gripped the test paper in his hand and turned to walk towards the podium, but he realized something was wrong after only a few steps.

Xingchen felt a chill run down her spine and stiffened her neck as she looked around.

"Where is Chen Jiyu...?"

He was the only one left in the empty examination room. Chen Jiyu, who had just been beside him, had vanished into thin air, as if he had never existed.

Xingchen swallowed hard as he looked at the empty classroom. Nobody was there! There was no one else except him!

Just then, he suddenly felt something cold grab his ankle. He looked down and saw a withered hand.

After a scream, the last person in the examination room disappeared.

At this point, the entire 7608 exam room was wiped out. Meanwhile, 007 had already left the school.

After the proctor left the girls' dormitory, she immediately ran back to the exam room, handed in her paper, and left quickly.

007 didn't stay in the girls' dormitory to find Gu Mian and say something to thank her, because she knew that doing so during this terrifying event was a complete waste of time; she might as well just fart.

Two seconds after she stepped out of the school gate, she heard the sound of drifting coming from the school behind her.

Looking back, however, a huge statue blocked his view. But a few minutes later, 007 saw the huge statue move. Its base slowly split open to the sides, revealing a covered cave. Then a hearse rushed in.

Just as 007 was staring blankly, a voice came from the side: "Hey, did you finish your questions and come out?"

Upon hearing the sound, she instinctively looked to the side and saw some players waiting at the school gate. 007 guessed that these players were waiting for someone inside.

“Hmm,” 007 nodded silently, then looked up at them. “Who are you?”

"Some of us got tickets but were injured and couldn't participate in the event, and others didn't want to participate. We came here but had nowhere to stay, so we're waiting for our teammates inside... Oh, by the way, I just saw that thing crack. Was that part of your test?"

Upon hearing this, 007's lips stiffened for a moment before he finally spoke after a few seconds: "I guess... right."

"This event isn't too difficult, is it? It's just answering questions, so not many people should die," the man in front of him continued to ask.

Players who did not participate in the event have no idea how arduous the event was, nor whether they would be able to wait for their teammates.

It's likely that only a handful of people will be able to leave this event in the end.

007 fell silent and stopped speaking.

When Chu Changge arrived near the statue, he saw that the bluish-gray marble base had been neatly split open in the middle, revealing a pitch-black door.

There were no patrols around the dark door, only a few daring players peering out at the staircase that seemed to lead straight to the underground.

"They've gone in. Are you going in too? If you go in, maybe you can turn the tide." Liu Ruyan appeared behind Chu Changge at some point, speaking in a tone that seemed to anticipate the truth coming to light.

Chu Changge stared at the cracked base for a long time before finally turning away, saying, "Never mind."

Xiao Qiao suddenly appeared from some obscure corner and watched Chu Changge's departing figure with Liu Ruyan. After watching for a while, this seemingly emotionless but actually beautiful star suddenly exclaimed, "How tragic."

"Oh, right," Liu Ruyan suddenly said to Xiao Qiao, "that Xie Bi'an, isn't he..."

Just as she was halfway through her sentence, they suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from a corner. The two turned around and saw only a fleeting glimpse of a piece of clothing.

Liu Ruyan felt that the hem of her clothes looked somewhat familiar.

Just then, she heard Xiao Qiao beside her speak up: "Success or failure in this world is never determined by one's character."

This sounds... I feel like I've heard it somewhere before?

"Driving a hearse around underground is a first for me in my life. I wonder if anyone else will ever have such a experience. Doctor, my experiences since I started following you could fill a book. I've decided that if I'm still alive when this global game ends, I'll publish a book called 'Driving a Hearse Through the Underworld.' This place really is similar to the underworld..." The fat man's voice echoed in the car.

The hearse was moving very fast, and it was traveling up stairs, so the two of them were being jolted around. Even the seatbelts were not very effective. The fat man had to hold on tightly to the back of the seat to avoid being thrown to the back of the vehicle. At this moment, he was holding on to the back of the seat and shouting incoherently.

By this time, they had been speeding up the dark staircase for several minutes and still couldn't see the end.

"Doctor, can you slow down a bit?" The fat man felt a sharp pain in his butt; his dinner from the night before was about to be shaken up. He regretted not eating such a good dinner.

Gu Mian remained quite calm, as if she hadn't been affected by the bumpy ride: "It's downhill, and I don't think it's going very fast."

The deeper you go, the colder it gets. It's normal for the underground to be cold, but the fat guy, who has been through many dungeons, knows that this is not a normal cold. It's like countless venomous energies are intertwined and stick to people, making you feel like your bones are being filled with cold air.

"Was this underground filled with corpses before? How can there be such a strong resentment! As expected, places associated with this kind of second world are never good places." The fat man was trembling as he hugged his chest with one free hand.

The deeper you go, the colder it gets, like drowning in a frozen lake in winter, until you can barely breathe.

The fat man felt they were approaching something incredibly terrifying, and they were almost there.

Gu Mian, in the driver's seat, seemed oblivious to anything amiss. He drove with a perfectly normal expression, without even flinching.

"Doctor...aren't you cold..." the fat man asked, shivering.

"Cold?" Gu Mian carefully felt the temperature. "Oh, it does seem to have dropped a bit."

Upon hearing this, the fat man peacefully hugged himself.

(End of this chapter)