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Chapter 505 Waaaaah, the book I've been following has been abandoned!

As early as two thousand years ago, a large-scale hunt for the lower-dimensional world was launched.

Chu Changge put down the tattered page in his hand.

"Two thousand two hundred years ago, Qin Shi Huang burned books and buried scholars alive, and except for the Qin Records, the historical books of the six states were all burned to ashes."
Two thousand years ago, the Wang Mang dynasty was overthrown by Liu Xiu, and tens of thousands of books were destroyed.
Sixteen hundred years ago, the Five Barbarian Tribes invaded China, and countless books were destroyed in the flames of war.
Fifteen hundred years ago, the Western Wei Dynasty captured Jiangling. Before being captured, Emperor Yuan of the Southern Liang Dynasty burned down the library, destroying 140,000 volumes of books.

Fourteen hundred years ago, Yuwen Huaji usurped the throne, killed Emperor Yang of Sui, and burned down the palaces, destroying 370,000 volumes of books. After Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, he immediately sent people to transport the surviving books to Chang'an by waterway, but the ships were destroyed halfway, and the remaining few thousand volumes were also lost.

Fourteen hundred years ago, An Lushan launched a rebellion known as the An Lushan Rebellion, during which eighty thousand volumes of books were destroyed.
The Huang Chao Rebellion 1200 years ago, the Jingkang Incident 900 years ago, the Shaoxing Rebellion in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the recent 20-year burning of books by Emperor Qianlong—and similar events abroad as well, which I won't go into detail about… As a lower-dimensional world, any alteration of the host world would certainly be detected by Earth. However, 200 years ago, Earth was still tirelessly searching for the Second World within books, indicating that for at least 200 years, the Second World still existed in the form of books.

At this point, Chu Changge stopped and looked at the fat man next to her with his mouth agape.

Realizing he was being watched, the fat man closed his mouth and stammered, "So all of this you're talking about is the good thing Earth did?"

Chu Changge shook his head: "That's not the case. Apart from force majeure, those who can launch such a large-scale event must be great figures who will leave a deep mark on history and are difficult to control. Perhaps some people are simply burning books, or perhaps with the intervention of the Earth... they have long realized the world's inevitable end."

In the grand sweep of history, there will always be those who can sense the threats that arise from humanity.

The fat man always makes strange remarks, and Gu Mian heard him speak again: "So the ban on supernatural novels is also because they're afraid that if too many people read them, they'll evolve into lower-dimensional worlds?"

He vividly recalled that not long ago, a website's paranormal channel had been transformed into a suspense channel.

Chu Changge slightly turned his head away, seemingly unwilling to answer the fat man's idiotic question.

Gu Mian realized she was a little hungry as Chu Changge kept rambling on.

However, he remembered that he was discussing serious business.

Gu Mian clutched her stomach: "We no longer know what the true form of the Second World is. So, besides the attacks on the Second World, Earth must have also targeted other worlds. Besides the books, what else has Earth hunted down on so extensively?"

Upon hearing this, the fat man looked somewhat puzzled. He turned to look at Gu Mian, revealing a hesitant expression.

Gu Mian knew exactly what was going on in the fat man's head, and he immediately used the process of elimination: "Except for me."

The fat man couldn't help but speak up: "Doctor, don't you find it strange? Why have you been so unlucky since you were a child, always being assassinated by Earth? Plus, Brother Chu and these guys from the lower-dimensional world are all eager to protect you. You must have something to do with the lower-dimensional world."

Just as Fatty was about to propose the conjecture that "low-dimensional worlds cultivated into humans before the founding of the nation," Chu Changge suddenly interrupted him: "Gu Mian is not from a low-dimensional world. Once the original body Earth is found, it will have the absolute power to destroy low-dimensional worlds and can easily make the entire world turn to ashes. But obviously, Gu Mian was found by Earth twenty years ago."

That's right. Earth hunted Gu Mian for twenty years but couldn't kill him, which shows that Gu Mian is not a low-dimensional world that Earth can control.

The fat man asked in bewilderment, "Then what are you, doctor?"

Thinking about it, there doesn't seem to be anything worth the Earth hunting down for over twenty years.

Perhaps finding the orphanage where the doctor first lived could reveal something.
Just as Fatty and Chu Changge were discussing Gu Mian's bizarre background, Gu Mian got up and took out the strawberry jam that Fatty had made the night before from the refrigerator, and began to eat it spoonful by spoonful.

The fat man then realized something: "Doctor, are you hungry?"

Gu Mian nodded heavily.

As someone who causes explosions wherever she goes, Gu Mian has only played with fire a handful of times in her twenty-odd years. The last time she touched a pot was during her university military training. They were taken to a military training interest class in a neighboring city, and the cooking teacher was excited to teach them how to make soup. However, when Gu Mian tried to do it, the pressure cooker exploded, and the lid flew off with a bang, knocking out two of the teacher's front teeth.

Fortunately, Chu Changge wasn't there at the time; otherwise, the list of financial losses would surely have included "the military training instructor's two front teeth."

Later, that teacher went next door to teach sows postpartum care. For the sake of her teeth, Gu Mian rarely went near the cooking area.

The fat man had no choice but to dust himself off, stand up, and resignedly go into the kitchen.

Xiao Hong finally finished changing Xiao Qiao's clothes. She opened the door hesitantly, seemingly showing off her fashion sense to Gu Mian.

Gu Mian looked up into the room and saw Xiao Qiao wearing the red dress that Xiao Hong liked best—because Xiao Hong always crawled around on the floor and then climbed back onto the bed, Gu Mian had specially bought her many dresses.

Xiao Hong naturally prefers the reddest one.

At this moment, the brightest red dress on Xiao Qiao reminded Gu Mian of a certain brand of bright red sausage packaging...

Putting aside her thoughts about the sausage, Gu Mian looked at Chu Changge: "Liu Ruyan hasn't appeared since she went back last night, and she hasn't shown up this morning either."

Even after Xiao Qiao was brought back by Gu Mian and her clothes were changed, Liu Ruyan still didn't make a move.

If she wakes up, she'll probably go find Xiao Qiao as soon as she sees the message in the group chat.

In Gu Mian's memory, Liu Ruyan rarely slept. Sometimes when he came back at two o'clock in the morning, he would see Liu Ruyan sitting in front of the counter. When he left at seven o'clock in the morning, she was still sitting there, as if she hadn't moved at all.

This time I slept for a long time.

Chu Changge pushed up her glasses: "The old world was her world, so it's normal for her to be moved by the scenery."

Gu Mian didn't think Liu Ruyan would be sentimental about the old times: "I guess she'll come and take Xiao Qiao away when she wakes up, and she might even fight with Xiao Hong over Xiao Qiao's dress..."

Fatty's breakfast was prepared quickly: sweet porridge and vegetable egg rolls.

Oh, and they even thoughtfully prepared a bowl for each of the two ghosts, even though one of the ghosts could only call her "little sister" and the other only stared at the bowl in Gu Mian's hand.

"Doctor, the game will be shut down for half a month. What are you planning to do during this time?" the fat man asked while holding up a spoon.

They returned to Lianhua City, but due to the change in the secondary world's possession, the clues to the lower-dimensional world were cut off, and they were unable to enter the instance again this month.

The fat guy is currently bored out of his mind.

Gu Mian felt that there were many things she could do.

The event at Lianhua University collapsed; you could take a stroll there to look for clues.

The orphanage that was forced to close down by its own efforts was not demolished, so people can go in and reminisce about their childhood.

There's an amusement park in the west of the city where you can relax when you have some free time.

Of course, there is another very important thing right now.

We need to buy a bed, otherwise someone will always have to sleep on the sofa.

Below is a description of the protagonist of "I'm Really Not Her Disciple"... I mean, Yishan Jin, who has become the disciple of the first fairy, Bai Zirou. The author is a serious person who doesn't know when to stop.

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