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Chapter 564: A mountain of rubbish
"Did you do this?" Coco stared at the sign in silence for a long time before asking the person next to her.

Liu Ruyan also stared at the sign: "Do I look like that kind of person?"

This wasn't the time to agonize over a signboard, so the two stared at the words "Beng Beng's Absolutely Beautiful Harem" for a while before parting ways.

I didn't bother to find out where it came from.

Coco went out today to see if medical supplies had been restocked at the supermarket. Since the destruction of the old human world instance, all medical supplies in the supermarket had been removed from the shelves, making it difficult for her to buy medicine for her sister.

It's already the end of the month, and Gu Mian has given her a bunch of supermarket admission tickets that she can't use up, so she can go to the supermarket's medical supplies section every day, and if she goes in the morning, she can even buy a hot breakfast.

As soon as she entered the store today, she heard a salesperson complaining.

"That fat guy who was with Gu Mian called me in last night to order a signboard. I was busy all night, but I dared not say a word..."

Coco didn't listen much and quickly walked towards the medical supplies area.

The shelves in the medical supplies section were empty today. She stood in front of the empty shelves, sighed, and turned to leave.

Now I can only hope to find some medicine in the recycle bin instance.

The fortune teller has been having a very happy time these past few days.

She noticed that Xiao Qiao would occasionally go upstairs to ask Gu Mian and the others for things they "couldn't bear to feed the dog".

And every time Xiao Qiao went up there, she would inevitably run into that crazy woman.

I heard others call that crazy woman Xiao Hong.

Whenever the two meet, Xiao Hong will always reach out and scratch Xiao Qiao, and then a fight will break out.

They had a fight last night. Xiao Qiao rushed downstairs carrying two dried chickens, followed closely by a woman in red.

While running, Xiao Qiao, whose hair was scratched into a bird's nest, gave a chicken to the fortune teller who was watching the commotion. For this action, he got an extra scratch.

This madness continued until August 1st.

On August 1st, Gu Mian got up early and, after confirming that everyone else was ready, carefully filled in the name of the dungeon and the name of each player on the dungeon exchange ticket.

Today, the fortune teller finally entered this strange instance.

The dungeon quests are also quite strange...

[Instance Name: Princess Mianmian and Her Seven Sucking Knights]

Number of players: 8

[Description: This is a rather unremarkable instance. The creators were extremely perfunctory, simply piecing together a few tracks from a junkyard to form this instance.]

【Task: The instance will randomly select one player to play as 'Princess Mianmian', and the rest of the players will play as 'Simp Knights'. The princess has been captured by an evil devil and placed on a high tower. The knights need to pass through four levels to rescue the princess. Rescuing the princess will complete the task.

The demon is some distance behind the princess. The knights have a total of ten chances to make a mistake. Each time they make a mistake, the demon gets one step closer to the princess. If they make ten mistakes, the demon will be right next to the princess.
If the princess dies, the other players will be considered to have failed the mission and will leave the instance.

007 never expected to meet Gu Mian again so soon.

However, she couldn't talk to Gu Mian, because at that moment the other party was sitting on the princess's throne in a distant tower with a gloomy expression.

As the description says, this copy is extremely perfunctory.

The tower wasn't really a tower; it was just a tall, solid metal pillar topped with a platform of about a hundred square meters, without even walls. There was only a simple chair on top, where Gu Mian sat.

A track extends down from a high platform, about five meters wide, and stretches all the way to the ground. Every so often, there is a trash can that is chest-high. There are four of them, which must be the four checkpoints.

As for the demon who kidnapped the princess...

007 looked up at what was behind Gu Mian and saw a twisted black shadow standing a few meters behind him. It was completely black, like a silhouette, and its shape was almost indistinguishable. Moreover, this shadow kept twisting and changing, and at one moment it even resembled the Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood.

Although the demon king was entirely black, his facial features were still intact.

It was twisting its body and grinning maliciously at the princess's back.

It wasn't until Gu Mian glanced back that 007 noticed the devil's smile gradually fading.

Chu Changge's voice came from the side. He didn't waste time catching up: "Anyway, the purpose of our entry into the dungeon this time is to find the clown mask. Of course, we can't completely ignore the quests. We can do them while we're looking for the clown mask."

As he spoke, he glanced at the four trash cans on the tracks.

The fat guy had already trotted onto the tracks and reached the first trash can. He saw a line of text floating in the air above the can's opening: "Please fill with talking trash."

Talking garbage?

The fat man hesitated for a moment, then lifted his foot as if to run towards the next trash can.

But before he could take a step, he bumped his head hard. An invisible wall of air blocked his way. It seemed that he could only move on to the next level by filling this trash can.

The fat man clenched his fist and shouted to Gu Mian above, "Doctor, don't be afraid, I'm coming to save you!"

While the fat man was engrossed in role-playing, the others had already begun to observe their surroundings.

The ground here is metallic in color, and mountains of garbage are scattered all over the ground, some as low as two meters high, and others as high as seven or eight meters.

These mountains of garbage are colorful, with all sorts of strange colors forming small hills. 007 sees stockings, five-year college entrance exam simulations, ten-year mock exams, green hats, flattened basketballs, and the like in the pile next to him.

This place seemed endless; the endless piles of garbage blocked their view. Looking up at the sky, all they could see was a gray expanse, with no sun and no clouds.

The fortune teller knew before entering this instance that finding the clown mask might be difficult, but she didn't expect it to be this difficult.

She originally thought this instance was only the size of a few junkyards, but she didn't expect it to be so vast.

At this moment, she climbed to the top of a tall garbage mountain and looked into the distance, but could not see the end at all.

Chu Changge's voice came from below: "Let Xiao Qiao try using big data search first. If she can find it directly, that would be best. If she can't find it, at least she can get a general direction."

Xiao Qiao has diligently entered the four words "clown mask" into the big data search, seemingly eager to rescue Princess Mianmian.

This time, instead of text, two arrows appeared on the screen, pointing in two different directions.

“This way,” Xiao Qiao pointed in one direction, then turned around and pointed in another, “and this way too.”

As expected, no specific location was found.

Indeed, there's no specific location to be found here. Apart from the high platform where Gu Mian is, there are no other landmarks. You can't exactly search for something like "the clown mask is in a pile of garbage next to a pile of garbage."

Do pigeons hibernate in winter?

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