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Chapter 623 Bring it to you
When Chu Changge arrived at Gu Mian's courtroom, she was met with a scene of utter chaos—

Gu Mian raised the small gavel unique to judges, as if she wanted to deliver a verdict.

Coco clung tightly to his arm, trying to calm him down.

Xie Bi'an sat to the side, looking up at Gu Mian, as if he were making a mocking smile from under his black robe.

Another unfamiliar female player stood up, supporting herself on the table with both hands, seemingly considering whether to hug Gu Mian around the waist.

The judge's bench was in chaos, but the prisoners sat quietly behind the table, seemingly unconcerned about their verdict.

Gu Mian was using a small hammer to nudge Coco next to her when she heard Chu Changge's voice from behind her: "What are you doing?"

He turned around and saw that Chu Changge had somehow gotten up and was standing in front of the small door next to the judge's bench, silently watching them.

Behind Chu Changge stood three other people, two men and one woman, who appeared to be his teammates.

At this moment, these people were looking at Gu Mian and Keke with strange eyes, as if they suspected that they had been matched with two lunatics in this instance.

Before Gu Mian could speak, Bai Lu called out to the person at the door, "Chu Chu!"

Good heavens, is this calling Chu Changge?
Then Gu Mian saw Bai Lu run to the side of a woman behind Chu Changge: "Chu Chu, you really are nearby."

So it wasn't Chu Changge after all.

Gu Mian glanced at the female player's nickname.

"Qiao Chuchu's Snowy Mountain Temple"

This name...is it from a fan of Xiao Qiao?

He then glanced at the nicknames of the other two male players: "Wild Goose in Pairs" and "Leaving the Plains."

Looking at the mess on Gu Mian's side of the judge's bench, Chu Changge suddenly pushed up his glasses as if he had just thought of something: "You didn't guide the NPCs?"

"What guide NPC?" Bai Lu looked at Chu Changge in surprise. There was such a thing?

Chu Changge glanced at her: "The NPC who tells you about the case and gives you the case files, it seems you haven't seen him."

Upon hearing this, Bailu looked at Chuchu beside her with a surprised expression: "Does your group have something like this?"

Chu Chu's expression was also a little strange: "Don't you have any in your group?"

Yes, there is. Gu Mian silently put down the hammer in her hand, but ran away in a flash.

Fortunately, Chu Changge didn't share the hardships with Gu Mian. He pulled out a small notebook and handed it to Gu Mian: "After discovering that we were not in the same group, I imagined that you would be in this situation, so I wrote down a few points that the NPC said. However, you will still need to find your own files."

What a great teammate.

Gu Mian picked up the pink cartoon book in Chu Changge's hand and guessed that this aesthetic must have been the work of the fat man.

He reached out and opened the cover, which was printed with small white flowers, and saw neat handwriting.

Gu Mian read it aloud softly:
"Within three days, the judge must conduct a trial on the prisoner and declare him guilty or not guilty. After the judge conducts the trial and leaves the courtroom, the group of players will be considered to have completed the mission and will leave the instance."

Players can go out to find evidence of a prisoner's guilt or innocence, and the judge can make a judgment based on the evidence. Only the judge can make a judgment.
"Judges can disregard evidence and render a verdict; if a judge finds someone guilty, they are guilty; if a judge finds someone not guilty, they are not guilty."

"During the instance, players can enter and exit the courtroom at any time and return to the courtroom at any time to make a judgment."

The amount of information is a bit overwhelming.

Gu Mian held the pink floral notebook in her hand: "Only the judge can make a judgment, and after the judgment, one can leave the notebook. Does this mean that the judge will definitely survive to the end?"

He felt that the game wouldn't be so kind to him.

There is another possibility.

"Or perhaps the 'Judge' role in the instance is designed to drive players into a dead end. Once the ghost kills the 'Judge,' the group of players who lost the 'Judge' will directly enter a dead end, and no one can make a judgment. When the time is up, everyone will fail the mission and die." Chu Changge offered another possibility.

Bai Lu felt a chill run down her spine. If that were the case, the ghost only needed to kill one judge, and the remaining three people would also perish.

As she thought about it, she looked at the doctor with the green hair on his head, determined to protect him.

"Of course, this is just speculation. We've only just entered the instance and haven't gotten many clues yet," Chu Changge said, adjusting his glasses.

Bai Lu sensed a strong familiarity in their tone of voice. She looked at Gu Mian, then at Chu Changge, and asked, "Have you known each other for a long time?"

Gu Mian nodded slightly: "Yes, the four of us entered the instance together."

He then looked down at the booklet in his hand: "If the judge finds someone guilty, they are guilty; if the judge finds someone innocent, they are innocent. The judge can sentence a prisoner at any time. This means that the judge can make a judgment as soon as he enters the copy. If he is right, everyone continues to suffer; if he is wrong, everyone can die with a smile on their face."

Hearing Gu Mian's words, Coco paused for a moment. It's true that most people are suffering in their lives these days.

Chu Changge hummed in agreement, offering no comment on Gu Mian's two idioms: "It seems that's correct now. Players need to make the right judgment; a wrong judgment will likely result in the entire group's death." Hearing this, Gu Mian picked up the small hammer again.

Bai Lu was really afraid that the doctor would shout out the famous host Lu's line, "I don't believe it," and then strike with a hammer.

Fortunately, he didn't.

Gu Mian thought of the driving instructor who was still at large, so she put down the hammer again.

"So what we need to do now is find out the truth of the case, right?" Li Yuan, a male player in Chu Changge's group, stepped forward. "If the prisoner is innocent, we will give him justice; if the prisoner deserves his punishment, we will convict him."

“Theoretically speaking, that’s how it is,” Chu Changge summarized again, “Finding the truth and making a correct judgment means living, otherwise it means dying.”

"By the way, are you the judge for your group?" Gu Mian handed the notebook back to Chu Changge.

Chu Changge reached out and took it: "Yes."

How did you find our courthouse?

“After the NPC left, we were free to explore. We discovered that there were quite a few courtrooms on this floor, and I guessed that you might be in one of them, so we went in one by one to take a look.” Chu Changge put the pink notebook back into his pocket.

Gu Mian looked at the corner of the pink cover peeking out of Chu Changge's pocket: "Didn't you see the other set?"

“We found your group first, and there are still many courtrooms we haven’t been to.” Chu Changge didn’t seem to have any intention of looking for another group.

It was the two male players in his group who spoke up.

The player named Yan Shuangfei stepped forward: "Li Yuan and I entered the instance together. There was another male player with us named... 'Twist Your Head.' He should be in another group. We want to go find him."

Twist off your head... Gu Mian felt that this name was violent and had its own style, and he liked it very much.

Chu Changge didn't care much about his team members. He glanced at the two of them and said, "Do as you please."

Yan Shuangfei and Li Yuan exchanged a glance, then asked, "Aren't you two going together?"

You can actually die in dungeons now.

They were hesitant to act alone.

What if they run into a ghost and it kills them as soon as they part ways?
Chu Changge ignored the two of them and turned to look at the prisoners in the middle of the courtroom.

The two looked somewhat embarrassed, then glanced at the others present. Bai Lu and Chu Chu had already gathered together, showing little interest in finding other teammates.

Xie Bi'an kept his head covered and rarely made a sound.

Coco doesn't plan to leave Gu Mian, as this will greatly increase her chances of survival.

Gu Mian was speaking to Chu Changge in a low voice: "Have you seen Coach Che?"

Chu Changge realized something: "He's the guiding NPC for your court?"

Gu Mian nodded slightly.

“No wonder,” Chu Changge looked up. “I don’t think you could scare an NPC away like that, but it’s understandable if it’s him, since you’ve hurt him many times before.”

“Our case files are in his hands, he took them and ran away,” Gu Mian frowned. “Keke and the others are here, I can’t make a random judgment.”

I don't know how the death mechanism works in this instance. If it's a ghost killing people, that's fine. But if it's a wrong judgment that forcibly eliminates someone, that's not good.

"Let's go find the driving instructor first; he shouldn't be leaving this building," Chu Changge said softly.

The driving instructor didn't leave; he's hiding in a toilet.

He had long been traumatized by Gu Mian, so much so that he would subconsciously feel afraid whenever he saw a doctor, someone with the surname Gu, or a guitar.

Who would have thought that this instance would directly throw Gu Mian at him, causing him to completely lose his temper.

At that moment, he was huddled in a corner, clutching the files, imagining his next job.

Gu Mian has always been good at finding traces of ghosts in dungeons.

He knew that ghosts often lurked in toilets, and the driving instructor might have the same habit, so he first searched the toilets.

Unexpectedly, they found the target huddled in the last cubicle, trembling with fear.

When Gu Mian lifted him off the toilet, Coach Che clutched the case file and let out a desperate wail: "Does she have to force me like this?!"

Oh no, a strong wind is about to blow here!

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