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Chapter 54 Standing at the Center of the World, Calling for Love and Justice
Looking at the scene before him, Yuwen Hao's mind went blank.

what the hell!

How could I just reach out and pin down such a terrifying ghost? Am I blind?
Qinghuan also looked like she had seen a ghost, as if she couldn't believe her eyes.

The vengeful ghost they were desperately trying to escape was being held down by a seemingly harmless doctor, who was talking to the thing he was holding down.

There's a saying that goes, "Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot."

"I'm a doctor; you can tell just by looking at my clothes. You know the medical profession is about saving lives; we do everything we can to save patients' lives."

"We save people, and we also save their minds... or to put it more nicely, we save their hearts."

"A teacher once told me that admitting one's mistakes and correcting them is the greatest virtue, and the more heinous a person is, the more moving it is when they lay down their weapons."

"To make even the most heinous criminals lay down their weapons—that's what it means to heal the heart."

Yuwen Hao stared blankly at Gu Mian, who had pinned Zhong Min down. Was this the "salvation" he was talking about?

Is Gu Mian trying to persuade Zhong Min to lay down her butcher's knife and reincarnate as soon as possible?

But what the doctor said next immediately shocked him; things were far beyond his expectations.

"What the teacher said makes a lot of sense, but I don't think it's necessary."

The world is always exceptionally harsh on good people, but incredibly forgiving of evil ones.

"Your hands are full of murder, so why do you think you can become a Buddha just by laying down your butcher's knife? You can achieve perfect merit by clapping your hands, but who will pay for the lives you've taken?"

"I'm too superficial to understand this principle, so my understanding of heart-saving might be different from what my teacher taught me..."

As Gu Mian spoke, she pulled out a chainsaw: "You don't have to lay down your weapon, but even if you did, the outcome wouldn't change."

"Sins can never be repaid, but once you're gone, the sins naturally vanish... That's how I understand it..."

Yuwen Hao stared wide-eyed as he watched Gu Mian raise and lower her hand, and Zhong Min's head fell off.

Everyone present felt their hair stand on end and flinched.

The moment Zhong Min's head hit the ground, Yuwen Hao finally understood how Gu Mian's previous experience had collapsed.

"What the hell... what kind of amazing teammates did I get matched with?!"

With a player like that involved, it's no wonder the dungeon crashed!

This instance is called the Deadly Curse, and Gu Mian cut off the head of the source of the curse!
It's like the Ring dungeon without Sadako, or the Saw dungeon without the game; it's a dungeon without a soul.

Just as Zhong Min's head fell off and rolled several times until it reached Yuwen Hao's feet, the panels of the others suddenly popped up all at once.

[WARNING! The source of the curse in the instance is missing!]

[Data analysis error! Restarting the curse source failed! This instance will soon become unusable!]

[All players in the instance will be forcibly teleported out of the instance in ten seconds. Please be aware!]

【10, 9, 8...】

"What is this thing?" Qinghuan, who had never seen anything like it before, exclaimed in shock.

"It would be a miracle if it didn't collapse!" Yuwen Hao roared, seizing the last few seconds: "It's like playing a game where the main NPC guides you through a quest, and then you impulsively kill the NPC who guided you..."

Before he could finish speaking, the countdown ended, the entire warehouse flickered a few times, and then disappeared. Before Yuwen Hao could react, his vision was plunged into darkness, and when he came to his senses, he was already in the ticket booth.

He was stunned for a long time before he came to his senses: "I'm out?"

It has indeed been released.

The NPC selling tickets behind the window was peering at him with a look that seemed to want to devour him.

"You're out!" The NPC glared angrily. "What happened? I heard that a dungeon I matched with crashed. What's going on?"

This ticket booth currently only has Yuwen Hao as a customer, so it goes without saying which instance has crashed.

Yuwen Hao shook his head blankly: "I don't know... I don't know anything. I just saw a doctor, and then he cut off the ghost's head..."

Upon hearing this, the NPC shuddered and immediately withdrew his outstretched neck: "Doctor? Don't tell me his name is Gu Mian..."

"How did you know?"

At this moment, Gu Mian returned to the ticket booth.

He was unsurprisingly kicked out, but this time there was no sign that read "Gu Mian and the Dog".

The compensation came quickly; he received an email from the game system as soon as he stepped out the door.

Because the instance crashed and was forcibly terminated, there was no penalty even though the instance was not cleared.

Just as Gu Mian was about to open the email to see the compensation, she saw a very conspicuous person not far from the roadside.

It wasn't some stunningly beautiful woman or a breathtakingly handsome man, but rather a burly middle-aged man, whose most striking feature was his uniform—a police uniform.

Gu Mian recognized that face; it was Captain Feng from the Chengdong Police Station.

Because Gu Mian has always had bad luck and often encounters all sorts of misfortunes, such as kitchen explosions or encountering perverts in taxis, he is naturally a frequent visitor to the police station.

Over time, he got to know most of the police officers at the local police station, and Captain Feng was naturally also very familiar with Gu Mian.

Gu Mian saw that Captain Feng was grabbing someone and forcefully pulling him to the side while speaking vehemently. The person being pulled was holding a megaphone, the purpose of which was unknown.

He took two steps forward and heard Feng's roar.

"What kind of love and justice are you shouting through a megaphone? Go home and stay there quietly!"

The man protested, "Why are you dragging me into this? Aren't you police doing your job right now? It's so chaotic, why aren't you sending people to quell the unrest!"

Team Leader Feng was furious: "Send what kind of bullshit! We can't contact anyone else at all, all communications are down, what the hell are you going to do, send a message?"

Moreover, at the beginning of the game, everyone was forcibly pulled into the ticket booth and scattered, making it difficult to reunite them.

The man with the megaphone retorted, "Isn't there a friend system? Just because we changed the communication method doesn't mean you police officers can't do anything. Are you just freeloaders?"

Enraged, Feng laughed: "Are you out of your mind? Do you even know someone's game nickname or game ID? You can't even add them as a friend, what are you trying to do by messaging them?"

Moreover, you can't add friends by name at all. There are countless people with the same name in the world, and some names have already been registered. Gu Mian was quick enough to grab her own name.

"Our local police finally managed to organize a few teams on their own initiative, and then someone from who-knows-where got a rocket launcher and blew up our police station. Now that police station is charred black, and you still dare to hold a megaphone and shout for love and justice in the street? Aren't you afraid of dying?"

I'm feeling a bit weak...

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