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Chapter 635 Oh, isn't this Chu Changge? I haven't seen him in several dungeons, and he's gotten so bad?

Does the judge named Chu Meiren know the NPCs in the dungeon?

Wang Youcai looked back. Could it be that this student had run into Chu Meiren's group before encountering them?
Xu Xingcheng also looked up in the direction from which the sound came.

He saw a person standing in the darkness not far away.

It was Chu Changge, and at this moment, the judge surnamed Chu was staring at him with a steady gaze.

Xu Xingcheng raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything.

Wang Youcai looked at the two people standing opposite each other not far away and asked Chu Changge, "Do you know him?"

Chu Changge pushed up his glasses: "The name is on the school badge."

Oh yes.

Wang Youcai remembered that the student's school badge did indeed have "Xu Xingcheng" written on it.

"I thought you knew..." The three letters NPC were left unsaid; it was indeed quite awkward to call someone an NPC in front of an unsuspecting student.

Ye Weiwei, who was standing next to Chu Changge, was the first to notice something strange about him: "Where are your teammates?"

At this moment, Chu Changge stood alone in the darkness; his three teammates had long since disappeared.

"Let's split up; that way we can be more efficient." Chu Changge's glasses gleamed a few times in the darkness.

Ye Weiwei frowned and said, "It's best not to split up in this situation. We were just together..."

She stopped halfway through her sentence, as there was a local student from the instance standing next to her, and she couldn't directly talk about seeing ghosts.

“Since there’s nothing else, we’ll be leaving now,” Wang Youcai said. “You guys be careful too, it’s… dangerous here.”

After saying that, he left with the other two.

Watching the three figures disappear, Xu Xingcheng, who had been silent all along, finally laughed: "Yo, isn't this Chu Changge? Haven't seen him in several dungeons, gotten so lame?"

Chu Changge silently looked at Xu Xingcheng not far away.

Including this time, this NPC has appeared three times in total.

The first time was in the "Hidden Spirits in the School Ghost Stories" game instance, and the second time was in the "Close Your Eyes When It Gets Dark" instance.

It's worth mentioning that this NPC died in the "When Darkness Falls" instance, but now he's reappeared in this instance, always as a student.

The first two times this person seemed normal, but this time he seemed to have awakened some extraordinary attribute, and his tone and expression changed completely.

And judging from his words, he clearly remembered what happened in the previous instance.

What happened? Xu Xingcheng went from a cannon fodder NPC to a high-level NPC with dungeon memories?
Chu Changge had never heard of such a claim before.

"Who are you?" Chu Changge frowned as she looked at him.

Xu Xingcheng doesn't seem to be an ordinary NPC.

Although he has appeared in three instances, he is different from the car instructor who works odd jobs.

In the first two instances, he was just a minor supporting character and didn't even realize that he was an NPC.

But now it seems like he's suddenly become clever.

"I came here to spy on Gu Mian," Xu Xingcheng plopped down on a stone bench in the pavilion, resting his chin on his hand, "and if I'm unfortunately discovered, I'll discuss with him my compensation for emotional distress, oh, and the matter of compensation for the statue."

Upon hearing this, Chu Changge instantly recognized the other party's identity: "Killing".

A few seconds later, he narrowed his eyes slightly: "A clone?"

“Of course it’s a clone, a stupid clone,” Xu Xingcheng said as he stood up and spun around. “After all, my original body isn’t in this world, so the clone I put here is a bit dim-witted. I had completely lost my memory when I came here, and it wasn’t until I died and was resurrected that I remembered the important things.”

Speaking of this, Xu Xingcheng thought of something: "Gu Mian might not like this clone of me. But it doesn't matter, since I don't have a gender anyway. Next time, I'll create a beautiful woman to seduce him, then he won't be willing to cut me down, right?"

Chu Changge didn't want to listen to his nonsense and changed the subject directly: "What you just told Wang Youcai and the others was all true?"

"Of course it's true. Although I'm an avatar of a big shot, I'm also dutifully playing the role of an NPC... Speaking of which, it's all thanks to my brooch, otherwise it would have been really hard to find Gu Mian. But does he have another anchor on him? I can sense it."

Chu Changge recalled the gray-haired man who only called her "sister": "He is the anchor of the Doctrine Goddess."

“So it was that Saintess,” Xu Xingcheng said, sitting on the stone bench for a moment. “Is Gu Mian working on another case?”

Chu Changge nodded.

"Anyway, he doesn't need me to remind him, so I won't go near him, lest he pull out his precious chainsaw and chop me up. You probably don't need me to remind you either, right?" Xu Xingcheng tilted his head and looked at Chu Changge.

Chu Changge let out a few rare cold laughs: "Heh heh."

Gu Mian, on the other side, was unaware that Chu Changge was beaming with joy. He was squatting across from the pumpkin jewelry shop, explaining the tricks and traps of the gift book to Bai Lu. "He's been deceiving us from the very beginning, and he cleverly used another lie to attract our attention."

Bai Lu thought about what Li Shu had said in the hospital room: "You mean... his unnatural expression when he talked about the video was something he deliberately showed to us?"

“That’s right,” Gu Mian nodded. “That way we’ll focus our attention on the video and have high expectations that it will prove he’s the murderer. Isn’t that what you were thinking back then?”

Bai Lu pursed her lips and nodded awkwardly: "That's exactly what I thought at the time."

When Bailu saw that Lishu was trying to hide the video from them, his first thought was that the video contained evidence that was very detrimental to him and could directly prove that he was the murderer.

"But after watching the video, our expectations will be dashed. We will find that we have misunderstood him. We will find that he just abandoned his friends and ran away. Compared with murder, this is just a small mistake."

"Then we might feel a little guilty, guilty for misunderstanding Li Shu, and at the same time let go of our doubts about him;
"You might think he's lying just to cover up a small mistake, thus overlooking the fact that there might be other lies in Li Shu's words. That's the shift in focus."

Bai Lu looked at Gu Mian: "Yes, after I found out that Li Shu had just abandoned his friends and run away, I never suspected that there were other lies in his words... But how did you find out that he was lying?"

“The security camera opposite the entrance of Lishu Home Decoration,” Gu Mian said. “You should know that in addition to its surveillance function, the camera has another purpose.”

"What?" Bai Lu looked at Gu Mian.

“A warning,” Gu Mian held up a finger, “that burglars usually stop when they see a security camera at the front door. It’s a warning to them, ‘I’m watching you, don’t do anything rash.’”

"The camera in Li Shu's house was installed directly opposite the door, which was practically prepared to capture the scene inside the house on the day of the incident. This shows that Li Shu and the others knew that Yuan Haotian might take action, so they specially used a camera to warn Yuan Haotian not to act rashly."
"And did you notice that when Li Shu's neighbor rushed into his house and subdued Yuan Haotian in the video, Yuan Haotian didn't accidentally hurt anyone? Even though he was holding a knife, he was easily subdued by his neighbor who was holding various cleaning tools."

“I don’t think a person who has gone mad would do such a thing. He probably discovered some evidence of arson, or even got Li Shu and the others to admit it themselves, which is why he broke into their house and did that.”

"You mean that Li Shu and the other two were not only the arsonists, but also went to Yuan Haotian to show off after setting the fire?" Bai Lu felt a fire start up from the soles of her feet.

“That’s right,” Gu Mian nodded. “They were careful and left no evidence. But after the incident, they would buy the exact same things as Yuan Haotian’s house to provoke him. If investigated, they would say, ‘These aren’t from Yuan Haotian’s house; I just bought them myself. It’s just a coincidence.’”

"By the way, do you remember the friend that Li Shu mentioned?"

Bai Lu nodded: "Chen Yao?"

"Yes, according to Li Shu, his first two meetings with Yuan Haotian were both because of Chen Yao. The first time was when Chen Yao invited them to a gathering, and the second time was when Chen Yao asked them if they wanted to buy travel tickets. But if my guess is correct, it shouldn't be Chen Yao who took the initiative, but Li Shu and the others."

"The first time was when Li Shu heard that Yuan Haotian would be at Chen Yao's gathering, so he volunteered to go. The second time was when Li Shu and his group heard that Yuan Haotian's company had travel packages available, so they volunteered to buy them. As long as we find that Chen Yao, we can verify whether our guess is correct."

Bai Lu felt the fire burning up to his head: "If my guess is correct, then Li Shu and the other two are freaks? Just how much hatred did Yuan Haotian have for them to treat him like this?"

Gu Mian crossed her arms and rested her chin on them: "There is no logic in the world of the perverts. They often do whatever they think of, regardless of whether they have a grudge or not."

"When did you realize that something was wrong with the Book of Gifts?" Xie Bi'an suddenly asked from the side.

Gu Mian glanced at him sideways: "It was discovered in the hospital."

So early? The egret looked puzzled.

“That book, the one about the missing murderer,” Gu Mian said.

"Just because he reads those kinds of books, does that mean he's a pervert?" Bai Lu felt that this was a bit far-fetched.

“No,” Gu Mian shook her head, “It was when he looked at that book in front of us, and then brazenly pushed it in front of us that I felt a sense of familiarity.”

"How does it feel?" Bai Lu looked at Gu Mian.

"A feeling of 'I am the murderer, but what can you do to me?'"

"I once encountered a pervert in a taxi game, who also had a 'I'm the murderer, but you can't do anything about it' look on his face."

Of course, it's also because Gu Mian has experienced many perverted kidnappings since childhood, so his radar for detecting perverts is extremely sensitive.

As Bai Lu listened to Gu Mian's explanation, her anger flared up.

She wished she could rush back to the courtroom immediately, snatch Gu Mian's hammer, and acquit him.

But before the hammer could fall as she had imagined, she saw the judge, who was resting his chin on his hand, suddenly reach out and grab the cloaked man beside him.

"Here we go again," she heard Gu Mian say.

Then the egret felt a chill run down its spine.

She mechanically twisted her neck and turned her head, only to be met with the face of a half-dead person.

Dig a hole! Bury it.

Dig a hole and bury it!

Oh no, Gugu has forgotten how many holes she dug.

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