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Chapter 646 Intermittent Resurrection, Never Delivers a Meal
"Can anyone tell me what happened?!"

Before the dimly lit forest, a male player named "Song Tang" stared in disbelief at his surroundings.

Just seconds before, he and two friends had stepped out of the supermarket and then found themselves in this eerie place.

It seems like it's only recently nightfall, and the surrounding light is quite dim.

Behind them was a dark, dense forest, and ahead was a winding path. Continuing along the path, they could vaguely see buildings hidden in the darkness not far away.

There seems to be a small town ahead.

But he wasn't in the mood to look at the town over there; he just stared wide-eyed and asked, "Where is this? Why did we suddenly end up here? Is there any hint in your game interface?"

As Song Tang spoke, he turned to look at the other people around him. He didn't know who to ask, so he could only look at the people next to him aimlessly.

“No,” the female player with the nickname “One String, One Pillar, Yearning for Bygone Years” said, her face ashen, “I was dragged here completely out of the blue, without any notification whatsoever…”

As she spoke, her gaze was fixed on the empty space in front of her, as if trying to see the panel for issuing tasks.

“Me too. There are no dungeon prompts, no quest prompts, and I don’t even… know how to leave this place,” the male player next to Si Huanian said.

His expression was equally unpleasant, but thankfully he remained relatively calm. He glanced at his two friends, then turned his gaze to the four people opposite him: "Didn't you guys receive any hints either?"

He noticed that one of the four people opposite him was a popular actress, but in the current situation, who had the mind to care about that? He just wanted to figure out what was going on.

007 glanced at the man nicknamed "August 15th," then turned to the three people who had come in with him, his eyes questioning them.

The fortune teller turned pale; "I don't have any prompts on the panel either."

She never expected to enter a place of certain death so quickly, especially with Xiao Qiao and the others.

Chu Changge gently shook his head, the meaning of which was obvious.

Xiao Qiao was staring blankly around, seemingly not expecting to return to this world. Only after receiving a questioning look from 007 did she snap out of her daze and simply replied, "I don't see the panel."

007 frowned: "It seems none of us received the warning."

"Is this a special instance?" Si Huanian suddenly asked, her voice tinged with urgency. "It is a special instance, right? But why didn't we receive any instance notifications? There haven't even been any quests issued, how are we supposed to leave here?"

007 knows this isn't a dungeon.

It was the Earth that chose this desperate situation for them.

Earth doesn't need them to leave, so it naturally won't issue any missions.

The fortune teller knew this too, and she looked at Chu Changge with a pale face: "We're trapped here, aren't we? Without a mission, we'll never be able to leave."

As she spoke, her eyes kept scanning her surroundings, trying to spot Gu Mian.

Unfortunately, the view from all sides was completely unobstructed.

There were only the seven of them on this silent land; there was no one else.

Am I really going to die here like this...?

Forever trapped in this vast and desolate world, from which even death cannot escape.

Song Tang was quite agitated: "How could this be! How is this possible!"

"Calm down first," August patted Song Tang on the shoulder. "The game shouldn't be killing players like this without any reason. I guess we did enter a special instance, but the game system may have malfunctioned, so it hasn't given us any missions yet."

007 knew that wasn't the truth, but she didn't reveal it, because the truth would cause these three people to have an emotional breakdown.

This explanation calmed Song Tang down a bit. He looked up blankly and asked, "You mean there's a bug in the game?"

“That’s right,” August nodded. “We can wait a bit. Maybe the panel will appear soon… If the panel doesn’t appear, then we can try exploring this dungeon. Maybe the dungeon’s quest will only appear if we trigger it.”

Both Si Huanian and Song Tang accepted this explanation.

“That’s right, this might be a special instance, and we’ll need to find the quest ourselves.” Si Huanian nodded.

Just as Si Huanian opened her mouth, wanting to continue discussing the next steps, the sharp-eared fortune teller suddenly heard a "click" behind her.

It was the sound of footsteps crunching on fallen leaves. She suddenly turned around and looked back, only to be met with a deep, dense forest.

In the dim light of night, the dense forest was pitch black with extremely low visibility, making it impossible to see anything inside.

The others also heard the same sound and turned to look.

"Could there be other players?" August stared warily at the dense forest that exuded a dangerous aura. This instance was full of eeriness, and he didn't even dare to breathe loudly.

Normally, players would turn and run when they hear unknown footsteps.

But in August, he didn't know how many players had entered this place. He hoped that the footsteps came from another player, because in this strange situation, one more person meant one more source of strength.

The fortune teller also harbors the same expectation.

She hoped that Gu Mian would emerge from the dense forest.

She hoped to see Gu Mian walking out while brushing the leaves that had fallen on her shoulders, muttering under her breath what a stupid place this was.

007 is also looking forward to it.

If it were Gu Mian, perhaps there would be hope of rewriting the ending.

Footsteps sounded again, this time closer.

Song Tang and Si Huanian unconsciously took a few steps back, afraid of the sound of footsteps.

But the others remained standing firm, gazing into the dense forest as if waiting for something.

The fortune teller looked at the dense forest with a mixture of anticipation and fear.

Will it be?
Could it be him?

Will this sound bring hope?

Just then, Chu Changge suddenly saw something under a tree in front of him.

He stared at the thing for two seconds, then his pupils contracted.

"run"

007 heard Chu Changge's voice coming from the side.

"Run!"

Then, 007 saw a pale face emerge from the dark forest.

At the same time, Liu Ruyan, who was in the hotel, suddenly sensed something and turned to look in the direction of the supermarket.

Xie Bi'an, who was upstairs talking to me about the coming year, also paused for a moment, then looked in a certain direction.

"Doctor," the fat man said, propping his head up on the sofa, "I haven't seen Brother Chu much these past few days. Ever since he started listening to the radio, he's been disappearing and coming out of nowhere, I don't know what he's secretly up to."

Gu Mian thought for a moment: "I haven't seen him these past few days. Could he have run away from home?"

The fat man paused for half a second: "Even if Xiao Hong ran away from home, Brother Chu wouldn't run away from home."

Xiao Hong, who was crawling around on Gu Mian's bed, stopped when she heard her name called, and then continued to ravage the sheets and blankets.

"We need to ask Brother Chu where he's been these past few days. If he goes missing in the future, we can post missing person notices to give him a clue that he's 'often seen at xx location'."

The fat man opened the panel, then looked at Gu Mian as if he had just thought of something: "By the way, Doctor, let's add the fortune teller and Miss 007 to the group chat as well. In case they really get into that dungeon in the future, they can ask us for help from outside the game."

"Let Xiao Qiao do it, she's the group admin," Gu Mian said, tossing Xiao Hong off the bed. "Anyway, there are still plenty of empty seats in the group."

The fat man then turned to look at his own control panel.

Then his expression became somewhat strange, which then faded into shock and panic.

"Doctor," Gu Mian heard the fat man's trembling voice coming from the living room, "the group chat... is gone."

No more today, I've been feeling sleepy these past two days. Gugu is so tired, Auntie has kidney deficiency, Gugu's going to sleep now.
I hope there are no pigeons in my dreams.
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(End of this chapter)