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Chapter 469 Gu Mian Online
"I can explain why this photo is here," Chu Changge said, adjusting his broken glasses.

Upon hearing this, the fat man looked at Chu Changge and said, "Brother Chu, you sound like a scumbag who got caught shopping with his girlfriend by his in-laws."

The fat man even imagined Chu Changge pushing up his glasses and saying, "I can explain why we're here; she's just my sister."

Gu Mian thought Chu Changge would probably lie to get away with it. Although it wasn't nice to say it like that, lying through his teeth was indeed his usual style.

Unexpectedly, Chu Changge told the truth this time.

At least it sounded like the truth; Gu Mian thought Chu Changge wouldn't lie so outrageously.

“I’ve been in a laboratory since I can remember. At first, I lived alone in a container, one of those transparent containers that was taller than a person. There were many other children living in containers with me. The whole room was filled with these densely packed transparent containers, and there was one person in each container. There were many adults around us. They were silent and would come over every day with notebooks, I don’t know what they were writing down.”

"My neighbor started as an embryo, the size of a fingernail. His container was initially filled with an unknown liquid. I would often go and look at the fingernail-like thing floating in it when I had nothing to do."

"Later, he grew up and became a baby, and that's when I learned that I was born in the same way."

“You know, if no one teaches children, they won’t understand anything. We don’t know what our parents are, or what’s outside the room. If no one teaches us to speak, we won’t be able to speak. Later, some children started to die.”

"Everyone was silent. I would often wake up to find a child motionless in a container, and then the adults would clean it out. At that time, we didn't know what death was."

“Like an invisible plague, the children in the container would always die inexplicably, some would suddenly develop a strange disease and be removed. Once I heard some adults say ‘it’s because of a genetic defect.’ That was the first time I heard people say that. Although I didn’t understand what it meant at the time, I wrote it down.”

Just then, Gu Mian saw Xiao Hong sneakily peek over from the corner.

Chu Changge paused for a moment and continued, "I can't remember exactly how many people died in the end... When most of the children in the containers in that room had died, the adults noticed me because I was very smart. Even if I had only heard the conversation once, I could imitate it and even narrate it completely without understanding its meaning. The other children in the containers couldn't speak yet; they could only mumble a few words now and then, and no one knew what they wanted to express."

“They took me out of the container and taught me to read and write. They found that I learned very quickly. Whether it was studying or anything else, I could remember almost everything after seeing it only once. I still remember the look in their eyes when they looked at me. At that time, I didn’t understand the meaning of that look, but now I do…”

Chu Changge seemed to recall something for a moment before continuing after two seconds: "I am what they have always been waiting for."

"That's when I realized that there were only white rooms outside of white rooms. I spent many years in those rooms. Strangely, my growth rate was very slow when I was young."

"I once thought it was because I also had a genetic defect, but later I learned that this was how they designed us. They set us to grow slowly in our early years to ensure that we had enough time to be tested and learn... As for any side effects, we don't know yet."

"I lived in a white room for those years. The first time I saw the sky was at the gate of the orphanage."

When Chu Changge mentioned this, Gu Mian remembered the first time he met Chu Changge.

The weather was lovely that day. The director stood at the orphanage gate with a little child who had a blank expression and was wearing a brightly colored dress. He told them that a new friend had arrived.

Gu Mian remembered that the child in the dress didn't look at them, but kept staring at the sky.

That damn flamboyant dress deceived Gu Mian for years!

“Speaking of Brother Chu…” The fat man cautiously leaned closer. Although Chu Changge didn’t seem sad at all, the fat man still decided to speak carefully. “Why were you released? What were those adults’ purposes?”

Chu Changge reached for the somber photo of Gu Mian on the table: "Because of this person, they gave me a stack of photos back then, photos of this person from childhood to adulthood. They said this person couldn't die." Ignoring the bizarre element in Chu Changge's words, Gu Mian looked at the photo in Chu Changge's hand and said, "Don't you think you might have the wrong person in mind...?"

Although this person looks exactly like him, upon closer inspection, they are not the same person at all.

Moreover, Chu Changge had already seen a photo of this person as an adult, so it definitely wasn't Gu Mian.

Chu Changge actually nodded: "I've considered that, but besides you, I can't find anyone else who looks exactly like the person in the photo, so..."

At this point, Chu Changge paused for a moment before speaking: "They've given up entirely."

What a terrible example of giving up! Gu Mian felt that her young heart had been greatly hurt.

“What a load of crap,” the fat man immediately raised his hand and declared, “In my heart, the doctor will always be the best container.”

After making the statement, the fat man asked curiously, "Brother Chu, is what you said really true?"

Chu Changge nodded.

The fat man asked curiously, "Did those people tell you why this person can't die? And isn't it a bit inappropriate to send a kid like you to save the day? You should at least send an adult, or at least a few more. What kind of nonsense is it to send a child?"

Chu Changge suddenly said something bizarre: "Because they can't get out."

"Can't get out?" The fat man wondered.

Then Chu Changge's voice continued to ring in his ears: "They don't belong to this world, they... are in a dungeon."

……

Tonight, Gu Mian's mind was filled with images of transparent containers as she tried to sleep. At times, those transparent containers would transform into terrifying replicas, all clamoring to rule the Earth.

These images were so bizarre that in the middle of the night he suddenly felt as if something had crawled into his blanket.

Gu Mian lifted the covers by the moonlight streaming through the window and saw a face that could scare a person to tears.

It's Xiaohong.

"It looks ugly no matter when you look at it..."

As Gu Mian spoke, she hugged the ugly head and continued to sleep.

When Gu Mian woke up the next morning, she found that Xiao Hong had been hung on the ceiling light by someone.

Two updates! Five thousand words! [Pretending to be a super update]

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