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Chapter 574 You wouldn't believe it!

These NPCs were surprised to find that the first thing they saw was a female player throwing something into a hole the size of a watermelon.

Immediately afterwards, the NPCs noticed that something was wrong.

Large areas of the ground were slightly bulging, like the lid of a can that had been left out for a long time and had become bloated.

The ground around the recycling station was normally very flat, and this unusual feature immediately drew everyone's attention.

Then, the gray-white ground suddenly bulged up very quickly in front of the stunned NPCs, and the bulge instantly became as tall as a person.

Even the ground beneath their feet began to swell slightly.

One of the inspectors stared in disbelief at the bulging ground, a bad feeling creeping into his heart: "What did you just throw in there?!"

Although he was speaking to the fat man and his group, the inspector's gaze did not leave the bulge. He saw the ground getting higher and higher, and he felt the ground rising. Looking down, he saw that the spot where he was standing had already bulged up half a meter high.

Then look at the people around you.

Those who had been voting passionately just moments before now looked ashen-faced, some even gaping in astonishment, their jaws agape as if they had dislocated.

They all realized that this instance was probably not going to work.

The bulging ground caused the garbage mountain to tilt, and bits of trash rolled down the slope, throwing the NPCs into chaos.

People started arguing.

In the chaos, the patrolman vaguely heard someone shout, "I told you, we should have gotten them out of there sooner!"

But before he could finish speaking, an even louder voice drowned out his shout.

With a loud "bang," the bulge suddenly exploded in front of them, blasting a large hole in the ground from which a huge monster emerged.

Several NPCs were unfortunately hit by shrapnel from the ground explosion, writhing on the ground while clutching their injuries.

As soon as the giant beast emerged, it rushed towards the high platform.

The group of NPCs had just come from that side, and they ended up blocking the way for the giant beast.

The conscientious patrolman remembered what he was there for. He rushed toward Chu Changge and his companions, who had just emerged from behind the pile of garbage, shouting to the surrounding NPCs as he went, "Take them under control first!"

Unexpectedly, he was knocked down by the charging beast as soon as he finished speaking, and couldn't even get up.

Chu Changge lay down beside the newly blasted crater and looked down. This rat did a good job of sorting the trash, putting all the special items of the same type together.

He quickly glanced around and soon found several colorful masks with eerie smiling faces painted on them in a corner far away from the pit.

"there!"

The moment Chu Changge found the mask, a game panel popped up in front of them simultaneously.

[WARNING! This instance has suffered significant damage and will end prematurely. All players will be kicked out of the instance in ten seconds.]

【10, 9...】

"Oh no!" the fortune teller exclaimed as she looked at the panel. She had just used up a lot of her energy and couldn't run at all, let alone jump into the pit to get the item.

Chu Changge is far from the mask and has poor motor skills, so he definitely can't get it within ten seconds.

Meanwhile, the fat man was trying to reach the human disc that was not far below him.

Xiao Qiao was quite energetic; she plunged headfirst into the crater created by the explosion, but ran in the wrong direction.

The fortune teller almost cursed as he watched Xiao Qiao run further and further away.

But just as the countdown reached the fifth second, a person suddenly rolled along the edge of the pit to the pile of masks—it was 007!

As she rolled down, she lost control of her speed and rolled quite a distance.

But she immediately got up, and after a quick assessment of the direction, she pinpointed the location of the clown mask.

007 quickly ran to the pile of masks and squatted down. The countdown had reached "4". She reached out and grabbed two masks, then stood up and swung them fiercely towards Chu Changge.

007 had good aim, and Chu Changge caught the mask she threw at him with little effort. After catching it, two more masks were thrown at him, and Chu Changge caught them one by one.

By this time, 007 had already thrown up four masks.

Just as she crouched down again to retrieve the mask and prepared to toss it upwards, the countdown timer jumped to "0".

The instance is over.

The group felt dizzy and left the instance amidst the angry curses of the NPCs and the roar of the giant beasts.

When I looked around again, it was a familiar scene.

The familiar room, the familiar coffee table, the familiar lychee soda.

The familiar Little Red, now bored out of her mind, is perched on the window in a bizarre posture, staging a scene of female ghost terror.

And of course, there's the familiar Mr. Green.

He sat on the ground with his head drooping, his face ashen, just like the NPCs in the dungeon earlier.

But nobody cared about him.

The fat man, who had just come out, was carefully blowing dust off the human disc: "Luckily, I was quick..."

Chu Changge was holding four brightly colored, grotesquely smiling masks in his hand. As soon as he left the dungeon, he looked down at the masks in his hand and began to study them.

The fortune teller first looked at the mask on Chu Changge's body, then paid attention to the game announcement.

I saw——

[Announcement (August 1, 12:51 PM)]

The "Princess Mianmian and Her Seven Simply Knights" instance has suffered extensive damage and will be shut down for maintenance. This instance will be unavailable to players for the time being. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Of course, all of the above is useless; the fortune teller went straight to looking at the compensation.

Upon seeing the 1000 game coins, she smiled with satisfaction.

Since meeting Gu Mian, she has been earning more game currency.

Gu Mian looked at Chu Changge, who was staring at the mask in his hand in deep thought: "I was far away just now, what did you do in the end that blew a big hole in the ground?"

Chu Changge then raised his head and pushed up his glasses: "We have to thank the goddess for this. We found that the clown mask was most likely dragged into the rat hole by the rats, but no one could crawl in to take a look. Finally, we thought we could put that giant beast in to test the waters. Of course, at the time we just wanted to try it out, but we didn't expect it to work so well."

The fat man stood beside him, hands clasped together, and said, "Thank you, goddess."

“But now there’s a big problem,” Chu Changge said, placing the clown masks he had obtained on the coffee table one by one. “The explosion at the end of the dungeon affected these masks, and only one of these four is intact.”

Upon hearing this, Gu Mian also looked at the clown mask on the table.

There were three [clown masks (broken)]

[Description: A mask crushed and shattered; it used to serve as an entry ticket to dungeons, but now it's only good for scaring people.]

Gu Mian: "..."

I didn't expect this thing to be so smart; the description can be updated anytime.

As he pondered this, he looked at the last intact mask.

Clown Mask

[Description: Ticket to the special dungeon 'Circus of Love and Justice', a class-specific dungeon]

[Function: Wearing it on your face will directly enter the 'Circus of Love and Justice' instance.]

Oh no, Auntie's updating again in the middle of the night!
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