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Chapter 506 Wishing everyone a Happy Ghost Festival
After having breakfast, Gu Mian knocked on Liu Ruyan's door for a while, but there was no response from inside; it seemed that she was not in the house.

The door on the first floor, which Gu Mian had kicked open, was still swaying in the wind. If Liu Ruyan had left, she should have seen this dilapidated door.

The fat man next to him hesitated before speaking, "Maybe they had something urgent to attend to?"

“What urgent matter could she possibly have?” Gu Mian stared at the door. “She was very idle before the game even started, and didn’t do anything serious except for faking smiles at others.”

They didn't linger long in front of Liu Ruyan's room before leaving the hotel and heading towards the nearest supermarket.

Driving a hearse was difficult, so Gu Mian chose to walk.

Lianhua City is now more desolate than it was six months ago, with roadside weeds growing wildly, almost as tall as a person's calf. The piles of wrecked cars on the road seem to have been cleared away, with some moved to the sides of the main road. Perhaps people realized halfway through the cleanup that they would never have the chance to drive on this road again, so they stopped there, leaving only a small section of the road cleared.

Looking around, a large number of wrecked cars were lying across the middle of the road, covered in thick dust. Gu Mian saw a heart drawn with a finger on a dusty windshield, just like when they were children and loved to draw on fogged-up glass. But it was clear that this heart was also a painting from a long time ago, covered with a thin layer of dust.

The other two didn't care about the graffiti. The fat man picked a blade of grass by the roadside and put it in his mouth. Regardless of his size, he had the air of a chivalrous knight-errant.

Chu Changge looked up slightly and glanced around. When they were halfway there, Gu Mian heard him speak: "Compared to half a year ago, there are at least half fewer people here. On the way back from the college entrance exam, I observed the lights in the residential buildings, and there weren't many lights on."

This is normal; nowadays, electricity cards need to be purchased with game currency, and people don't turn on the lights at night because they're poor.

“I just took another look. From the outside, you can only see a small space around the window, but judging from the dust on the glass and the winter clothes hanging on the clothesline, most of the people died a few months ago.”

"Oh, I see." Gu Mian subconsciously put her hand in her pocket, only to find that her clothes didn't have any pockets today.

His white lab coat was still wet from washing, and today he was wearing a black hoodie with lots of gold sequins sewn on—that's the fat guy's style.

Gu Mian was initially reluctant when she saw the clothes, but surprisingly, they suited her quite well after she put them on.

Gu Mian put the chainsaw into the fat man's inventory, so today he looked like a normal person, a good-looking normal person.

So when the NPCs in the supermarket saw this handsome face, their expressions were astonished.

Gu Mian waved and walked towards the sales area: "There's no need to look so amazed."

I'm not amazed at all!
The NPC in the supermarket uniform at the checkout counter instinctively reached for a counter next to him, but found nothing. The sharp-eyed fat man remembered that there was a sign in front of that counter that read "Gu Mian and dogs are not allowed."

Although Gu Mian seemed normal today, the NPCs all recognized him.

With the dungeon shut down, players have lost their source of in-game currency. There are hardly any people in the supermarket now, just Gu Mian and her friends staring at the sales clerks.

The sales clerks clearly didn't want to see that face, but since they were already there, they didn't dare to kick him out, so they had to suppress their fear and greet him with smiles.

"What...what do you want to buy today?" Gu Mian turned his head and saw a salesperson who looked somewhat familiar standing in front of him, but Gu Mian couldn't remember who this person was.

The fat man whispered a hint: "It's the one that sells hearses, the one that sells hearses!"

"Ah." Gu Mian then remembered that the salesperson had a beaming smile on his face when he sold the first hearse.

So now the cheerful sales clerks are doing the welcoming duties, which suits their style better.

Without asking further about the saleswoman's arduous career path, Gu Mian stated her purpose: "I want to buy a bed."

The sales clerk glanced behind Gu Mian subconsciously, but not seeing any female friends, he still asked, "So, would you like a single bed or a double bed?"

Of course, a single bed is necessary.

Gu Mian wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but the supermarket seemed incredibly efficient today. The clerk had taken care of everything for her in less than ten minutes. Meanwhile, the fat guy had rolled around on the bed a few times, so Gu Mian could simply carry the bed away. But now there's a problem…

As a household item, the bed cannot be placed in the inventory.

In other words, Gu Mian and the others had to carry the two-meter-long bed back.

The NPCs who had chosen a bed for Gu Mian were all relieved, but the man suddenly stopped and made a troubled expression.

"Is there a problem?" the sales clerk asked in a low voice.

“I didn’t drive here,” Gu Mian said. “Why don’t we leave this bed here for a while, and I’ll drive here next time…”

Before Gu Mian could finish speaking, the sales clerk interrupted him with a strange expression: "It's okay, we have a home delivery service, we can help you send it back."

Gu Mian wondered, "Are supermarkets this attentive to service these days?"

The fat man nodded vigorously: "When I came to repair the hearse last time, everyone was very welcoming and gave us a brand new car instead."

Chu Changge's soft voice drifted over: "I think they just want you to finish shopping and get out of here."

Ignoring Chu Changge's words, Gu Mian readily accepted the free door-to-door service.

He bought a modular bed. The NPCs disassembled the bed into four parts, and eight salespeople carried the parts behind Gu Mian.

The fat man had never seen a salesperson leave a supermarket before; today was quite an eye-opener for him.

And it wasn't just the fat guy who had his eyes opened today...

Since leaving the game, Su Xiaochai, whose heart was wounded, has often been depressed and looked out the window, and this time is no exception.

As she stared blankly out the window, she suddenly noticed something new in her line of sight.

Three people walked towards them from a distance, followed by a group of neatly dressed people carrying something on their shoulders.

She stared in confusion in that direction, only to see that the three people were walking towards her. After a while, she suddenly realized that the man in the lead, wearing a black hoodie with gold sequins, looked somewhat familiar.

It didn't take Su Xiaochai long to recognize Gu Mian. Not long after recognizing Gu Mian, she also figured out the identities of the group of people behind her.

Those neat clothes are the uniforms of the sales clerks in the game supermarket!

Su Xiaochai opened her mouth wide and stared blankly for two seconds before calling out to her friends, "Come and see!"

"What's going on? There are sows lining up to jump into the ditch?" Zhiwo Yousi walked to the window with his head down and glanced outside. He saw a scene even more bizarre than the sows jumping into the ditch.

So Yousi began calling out to her friends: "Come and see!"

I glanced at the two of them as I looked up in the next year and asked, "What's wrong? Are there ghosts lining up to jump into the sea?"

As she spoke, she walked to the window and glanced outside.

When Gu Mian led the sales staff back to the hotel, they saw three people gathered at the entrance.

It's Ghost Festival! Gugu's off to catch ghosts. Goodbye!

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(End of this chapter)