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Chapter 580 Gu Bengbeng is astonishing

Rows of low cages were haphazardly placed on the muddy ground, and the people inside each cage also looked disorganized.

The sky was dark, and Gu Mian could only make out the attire of a few people around her.

They wore brightly colored masks of various styles, some resembling clown masks. The huge masks covered their entire faces, leaving only two large holes for their eyes.

Beneath the mask was a tattered single garment, its color a dull, grayish hue, with clearly visible patches on the thin fabric.

Their clothes didn't fit well; most were too short. Their thin trousers rode up quite a bit because of their bent legs, exposing most of their calves.

The huddled people could only cover their bare calves and ankles with their hands, trying to retain some warmth.

It was still dark, a time when people should be sleeping, but the people in the low cages woke up because of the cold. Some opened their eyes and hugged themselves, while others shivered with their eyes closed, seemingly forcing themselves to fall back asleep.

Dozens of low cages were placed on this muddy open space, and not far away was a large red and yellow tent.

These tents resemble Mongolian yurts and are quite large, each tent being about half the size of a playground.

Gu Mian had seen these before; real-world circuses also have these red and yellow buildings.

Three yurt-style tents surrounded the low-ceilinged group of people, and several searchlights stood to the side, providing the light for the area.

Gu Mian quickly figured out the current situation.

"This is the circus instance. Judging from the current situation, I'm still a lowly person, locked in a cage... It seems like they're going to make us perform on stage."

Gu Mian knew that circus animals were kept in these low cages, and now that this cage had locked him up, it meant that their status was now equivalent to that of animals in a real-world circus, and the audience was watching their performance.

As he thought about it, he quickly looked around but didn't see 007.

As he looked around, he saw that the eastern sky was turning slightly gray, perhaps it was almost morning.

Gu Mian has been a troublemaker since he was a child; trying to force him to stay in one place is harder than climbing to heaven.

When they were in elementary school, the kids always loved to play pranks. Once, a few boys locked Gu Mian alone in the equipment room to scare him. Unexpectedly, Gu Mian, who was as strong as an ox, kicked open the dilapidated door of the equipment room. Two boys outside couldn't dodge in time and had half of their front teeth broken.

For a considerable period afterward, those people would feel a toothache whenever they saw Gu Mian, and then burst into tears.

Therefore, it's impossible for a broken cage to stop Gu Mian.

Moreover, he brought a chainsaw with him.

This time, the copy did not confiscate his tools of the crime.

But Gu Mian soon discovered that a chainsaw wasn't needed to break the cage. The rusty cage wasn't locked, and the door could be pushed open with a gentle push; in fact, it didn't even need to be pushed, as a slightly stronger breeze would blow the door open a crack.

Gu Mian curiously pushed open the door and came out. He glanced at the iron cages next to him and saw that none of the cages were locked, but none of the people inside seemed to want to escape.

Those who heard the commotion looked up at Gu Mian a few times, then lowered their heads again without reacting.

The circus cages that Gu Mian had ever seen were all locked tightly to prevent the animals from escaping.

This circus was different from the real world; the cages weren't locked, and the people inside didn't seem to be trying to escape, probably because they felt they couldn't get away even if they tried.

Gu Mian certainly didn't come out to escape.

We need to find 007 first and ask her to help put away the chainsaw, otherwise such a big thing will easily attract the attention of the circus NPCs.

Moreover, he still remembered the dungeon quest—to gain 'Louis's approval'. This Louis was most likely in the circus, so Gu Mian had to stay here to find Louis.

Mr. Green had mentioned that the circus instance contained a key NPC for the entire game, and Gu Mian needed to find this NPC to ask him some questions. He wandered through the cluttered cluster of low cages as he pondered this.

The rain showed no signs of letting up, and soon his clothes and hair were soaked through, and the wind made it especially cold.

The people in the low cage were in a much worse condition than Gu Mian; they had been soaked in the rain all night and their bodies were trembling violently.

These are all lower-class people, without human rights.

There were no guards or patrols around, and the cages were not locked, yet these lower-class people did not try to escape.

Gu Mian remembered that in the killing game instance, the lower-class people would bravely kidnap the mine owner, but here they seemed to have lost all fighting spirit and couldn't even run away.

Did the upper class become even more perverted after the destruction of the forbidden zone?
Just as Gu Mian was pondering, a soft call reached his ears; it was 007's voice.

He looked in the direction of the sound and saw a person wearing a clown mask and covered in mud squatting in a low cage, waving his arms at him in a small manner.

Even though the other person was wearing a mask, Gu Mian immediately recognized that it was 007.

He quickly walked two steps to the cage in front of 007 and squatted down. He saw that 007's hands were covered in mud, and her body was also covered in mud. There was a mud pit at her feet, which looked like she had dug it herself.

Gu Mian silently looked at the nest 007 had created, then at her unlocked low cage, and casually opened the door: "Are you trying to dig a hole and crawl out from under the cage?"

“I’m not blind,” 007 wiped his muddy hands on his pants. “My clothes don’t match theirs, so smearing some mud on them can help cover it up.”

"They" refers to the lower-class people in the surrounding cages.

Indeed, Gu Mian and her companion's clothes looked quite out of place among this group of people, but after 007 did this, the sense of incongruity was greatly reduced.

“I almost didn’t recognize you just now because you were wearing a mask. Luckily, this white coat is very distinctive.” 007 squatted in the cage, looking at Gu Mian’s rain-soaked coat.

“It is indeed quite distinctive. An enemy can spot me from 800 miles away,” Gu Mian said, taking off the white coat stained red with rust and handing it to 007. “Put it in your inventory. I have an enemy in this instance, and he can recognize me as soon as he sees this thing.”

Gu Mian was referring to the Killing Teacher, the host of the Killing Game, who was watching the forbidden zone collapse.

I wonder if Teacher Killer ever missed Gu Mian after he left, I wonder if I'll see Teacher Killer again in this instance, and I wonder what expression Teacher Killer will have on his face when he sees Gu Mian again.

007 looked a little puzzled, but still took the clothes from Gu Mian's hands.

Then Gu Mian handed the chainsaw to her, and 007 mechanically repeated the action she had just performed.

When she first entered the instance, 007 was cautious and didn't move around. She only dared to crawl out of the cage after she saw Gu Mian.

The two men's actions caused the lower-class people around them to turn their heads and glance at them a few times, but they quickly looked away again.

"What should we do next?" 007 glanced around hesitantly, not quite understanding the situation.

She was already a little confused when she first saw the dungeon background, and now this scene made her even more confused. This dungeon seemed quite different from any she had experienced before.

“The mission is to gain ‘Louis’s approval,’ so we need to find this Louis,” Gu Mian said.

007 began, "Find him and gain his approval?"

“No,” Gu Mian said, walking toward one of the red and yellow tents. “Try not to gain his approval yet.”

Gu Mian came to this instance to find a key NPC and ask him some questions. Imagine if Louis had encountered them right away, been amazed by Gu Mian's stunning good looks, immediately accepted him, and kicked him out of the instance—that would have been disastrous.

The second day of being human this year

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