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Chapter 550 I only lived for a short time

Therefore, the fortune teller did not blindly change the ingredients he represented.

As she searched for a way out, she also looked for patterns in the tasks the food factory issued.

The food factory has a very complex structure. There is a locked iron door on the stairs of each floor. The fortune teller group of players entered the instance on the top floor. If they want to escape, they must open all the iron doors below.

Jumping off the building is not an option; all the windows are fitted with security bars, allowing only one finger to be extended.

Breaking the locks was also not an option; they discovered they couldn't do anything to the doors.

They could only leave by finding the key, which was easy for the fortune teller.

The trouble is that while looking for the key, you also have to be careful not to get yourself sent to a food processing area.

If she could transform into an ingredient that wouldn't be used for several hours, she could focus on searching for the keys to each floor and escape from here in one fell swoop.

Just as the fortune teller was carefully looking at the work notes left by the employees next to a shelf, a rustling sound suddenly came from not far away.

This instance is rather special; you won't find a ghost behind you when you turn around. She just assumed it was a player nearby and turned to look in the direction the sound came from.

Turning my head, I saw that the locked door had been opened at some point, and a head slowly peeked in from the outside.

Upon seeing the head, the fortune teller froze, his expression as if struck by lightning.

She didn't think about how the door was opened; instead, she was shocked that this person was there.

"Gu Mian?" The fortune teller raised his voice in disbelief, staring wide-eyed at the person who had suddenly appeared. "What are you doing here? Are you a ghost?!"

There were ten players in total entering the instance this time, and Gu Mian was definitely not among them!
She was somewhat frantic, completely baffled.

She didn't understand why Gu Mian would enter this instance halfway through.

"A fortune teller?" Gu Mian was also somewhat surprised to see the fortune teller.

He didn't expect to run into the other person here.

Upon seeing the fortune teller, Gu Mian dragged her teddy bear out from behind the door: "This is indeed a dungeon."

The fortune teller's mind went blank; he could barely think anymore.

She shook her head vigorously to find her voice: "What do you mean? You didn't know this was a dungeon before you came in? Didn't you get in through the ticket booth? And... what's that ugly-looking doll in your hand?"

After being asked so many questions, Gu Mian didn't answer any of them. Instead, she asked in return, "You got matched into a dungeon, right?"

The fortune teller nodded stiffly.

What is the name of the instance?

"A wondrous adventure in a food factory..."

"Where's the mission?"

"Escape the food factory before you die..."

As he finished answering, the fortune teller belatedly realized something: "How did you get up here?"

According to the map of the building, each floor has a door that cannot be forcibly opened.

Seeing the fortune teller's doubt, Gu Mian replied, "Theoretically speaking, I could also saw the door open with a saw, but when I came in, I ran into an old friend who had the keys to all the doors of the food factory, so I just took them."

As he spoke, he raised his hand, and sure enough, a bunch of shiny keys was hanging on his finger.

"So... you opened all the doors on the floors below?" the fortune teller asked, stunned.

Gu Mian nodded: "Yes, they're all open."

Very good!
The fortune teller temporarily put aside her shock at encountering Gu Mian here. All the doors on the floors below were open, so she could run away!
Then Gu Mian heard the fortune teller in front of her sincerely praise, "You are such a good person! Thank you!"

After saying that, she took off running towards the door, seemingly wanting to run straight out of the building. But just as the fortune teller passed by Gu Mian, he grabbed her arm.

Gu Mian certainly wasn't bothered by the fortune teller giving him a "friend zone" treatment. He pulled the fortune teller aside for a moment to think: "How long have you been in this instance?"

The fortune teller was suddenly stopped by Gu Mian and looked a little flustered: "It's been more than an hour, what's wrong?"

"Are you familiar with the terrain?"

"I did carefully survey the terrain in order to escape from here, and I remember it pretty much."

Hearing this, Gu Mian smiled and said, "You're such a good person!"

After saying that, he forcibly dragged the fortune teller, whom he had given the "friend zone" card to, towards the door.

"Wait!" The fortune teller cried out, struggling as the stairs receded into the distance. "Where are you taking me?"

Since there's a food factory, there must be NPCs operating behind the scenes, such as the food factory manager.

Furthermore, the driving instructor seemed to have been arguing with someone, but when Gu Mian approached, she couldn't see the person he was arguing with; it was as if the person had suddenly disappeared. Gu Mian guessed that the person who suddenly disappeared might be a core NPC in this food factory.

The toy goose factory is located all over the world in the second world and is a supplier to supermarkets in the real world, so the company must have a high status in the second world.

The NPCs in this factory must know quite a lot.

I need to find him and ask him about the dungeon and the game.

As for the driving instructor?
He was a truck driver, and a temporary worker at that.

Of course, he knew nothing.

When Gu Mian entered the building, he was still following behind her like he was mourning. Gu Mian found him annoying, so she simply closed the building door and locked him outside.

I bet he's wailing at the building entrance right now.

After Gu Mian came in, she could still hear the driving instructor outside wailing and saying things like "What a terrible thing!" and "I've never seen such a shameless person." The atmosphere inside and outside the gate was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Gu Mian pulled the struggling fortune teller through the shelves: "Have you seen any offices or anything like that here?"

The fortune teller, thrashing about, replied, "This godforsaken place is all shelves, there's no office here!"

It shouldn't be.

Gu Mian looked at the keys in her hand.

This food processing plant has many buildings, and the driving instructor also has many sets of keys on him.

But one of the keychains in this building was different; it was engraved with "Office Key Only".

Theoretically speaking, the office should be in this building.

"Can your divination skills be used to find things?" Gu Mian asked the diviner.

The fortune teller glared at Gu Mian resentfully: "What are you looking for?"

"Find out where the office is."

Meanwhile, Bai Wu had long since shaken off the ghost following her and was now hiding in a fitting room in a clothing store.

She didn't understand why the ghost behind her stopped following her after she walked through a street full of snacks.

After realizing that the ghost was no longer following him, Bai Wu immediately hid in a clothing store, as wandering on the street would be too easy to expose him.

The clothing market looked like it was about to go out of business. There were hardly any people inside, except for a few sales clerks whose children were running around the mall, chattering away and occasionally screaming, scaring Bai Wu half to death in the fitting room.

Draft: I only lived for a short time.

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