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Chapter 657

Gu Mian was very familiar with the voice.

Xiao Qiao is good at nothing else, but she's number one at nagging.

She would often repeat in a literary tone what she had seen or heard somewhere, and Gu Mian was often tormented by her emotionless recitation.

The more you hear it, the deeper the impression becomes.

So Gu Mian recognized Xiao Qiao's voice almost instantly.

But Xiao Qiao wouldn't speak in such a clever tone.

"Who are you?" Gu Mian asked after a few seconds of pause.

Calling someone and then asking who they are is truly the act of an idiot.

The person on the other end seemed taken aback by his confident question. After a moment of silence, the voice spoke: "I am the only person in this world. In your words, I am the most important NPC here. Since you have called me, you should already know my identity."

indeed.

Mr. Green had already told Gu Mian about this person's existence.

But Gu Mian didn't expect that this NPC would have such a close connection with Xiao Qiao.

The two voices were exactly the same, so Gu Mian reasonably suspected that Xiao Qiao was a clone that this NPC had forcibly separated from his body. However, this NPC may have made some mistakes when creating the clone, so he created a person with a low IQ.

Gu Mian didn't ask about her relationship with Xiao Qiao; finding the four lost people was the most important thing right now.

He asked directly, "Are they still alive?"

Since she is the most important NPC in this world, she most likely knows about Chu Changge and the others.

Even if they don't know how others are doing, they should still be able to sense Xiao Qiao's presence.

“Alive,” the high-level NPCs in the low-dimensional world were unusually easy to talk to, even providing more information by drawing inferences from one instance to another, “but one of them doesn’t seem to be doing so well.”

Gu Mian didn't ask who was dying: "Are they still together?"

"There are three people together, and another person is looking for you. That person is not far from you."

"In which direction?"

"Straight ahead, there are four people right in front of us. Keep going straight along this road, and you'll see them soon."

Gu Mian immediately instructed the driving instructor to drive the car forward.

This high-level NPC is like an old man in a game's beginner village, answering any question you ask.

Her appearance seemed solely to answer Gu Mian's question.

The ghost being dragged behind the car was still screaming and howling. Gu Mian looked up at the rugged road ahead and said, "I have a question. This world is constantly reincarnating to prevent itself from destroying itself, right? The reincarnation will start a few minutes after the alarm sounds. Do you know how long it will be before the alarm sounds again?"

He must find someone before reincarnation.

The person on the other end of the phone wasn't surprised that Gu Mian had already guessed the secret of the world's cycle. She replied, "Less than ten minutes."

Gu Mian didn't expect it to happen so quickly.

Time is of the essence.

"At your current pace, it will take at least ten minutes to meet those three people. There isn't enough time," the NPC thoughtfully calculated for him.

Gu Mian reached out and grabbed the driving instructor's neck, trying to make him feel more pressured.

The driving instructor shouted as he pressed the accelerator, "It's all the way down! It's all the way down!"

A car that looked like it was about to take off was driving on a dark road, with a loudspeaker for minors hanging from its back.

The scene was somewhat eerie.

The fat man shouted from behind Gu Mian's head, "Doctor, if we still haven't found Brother Chu and the others by the time this world reincarnates, won't we be facing Brother Chu in the next reincarnation? Will Brother Chu in the next reincarnation still be our Brother Chu?" Just as the fat man was shouting, a voice came from the other end of the phone: "Haven't you noticed?"

what?
The same voice that sounded exactly like Xiao Qiao's continued through the receiver: "The cycle of reincarnation stopped the moment you entered this world."

Gu Mian was stunned for a moment.

Has the cycle of reincarnation stopped?
This means that no new people will appear in this world, and the world will return to normal time and face its own destruction.

Is the Seventh World destined to perish like this?
"Because the cycle of reincarnation in this world cannot interfere with your existence, its reincarnation process ceased the moment you entered here." The person on the other end of the phone spoke to himself, not giving Gu Mian a chance to interrupt. "Actually, I initiated this cycle of reincarnation myself to prevent the world's destruction. But do you know why my world has become like this today? It's because we were cursed by a higher dimension."

"This used to be a normal world like Earth, but under the influence of the curse, countless negative factors have appeared in this world;

"People became irritable and easily angered, and the slightest provocation could incite them to fight. Gradually, there were more and more conflicts and contradictions, evil bred in every corner of the world, and crime became commonplace... Soon the world was filled with negativity."

"The population is decreasing precipitously every day, until the world becomes a container filled with negative factors. In the intense negative factors, all living things are polluted and die one after another, and even in death they cannot find peace."

"This is a low-dimensional world, a world derived from people's aspirations or creations. Similarly, maintaining this world requires emotional support. When there is nothing left to support this low-dimensional world, it means that this world is about to die."

"But I am lucky. Before I die in this world, I have found a way to sustain this world, and that is reincarnation."

Gu Mian listened intently to the other person's long-winded explanation while keeping her eyes fixed on the front.

"The process is very complicated, and it would take an hour to explain in detail. You can think of it as me setting up a program that makes the world repeat a short period of time before its destruction, so that it will never reach the point of destruction."
"But I never expected Earth to throw people in, and this time even you came in. You should know your own special status; to me, you're a bug. The reincarnation program I set up is completely useless against you. Your arrival caused the program I set up to collapse directly, and time in this world has started moving forward in a straight line..."

“This time, even I’m in.” Gu Mian grasped the key point. “According to you, I didn’t participate in the previous cycles of reincarnation, right? This is my first time entering this world.”

"Yes."

Strange. Gu Mian frowned.

Did Chu Changge, who entered this world before, not have any secondary entry tickets for the dungeon?

"This time, it was Chu Changge from the First World who used a special item to pull you in, right?" the person on the other end of the phone said. "Chu Changge who came to this world before didn't have that kind of thing."

There really wasn't one.

What went wrong?

Why does Chu Changge in this timeline have a secondary voucher, while the previous Chu Changges did not?

Just then, the fat man in the back seat suddenly shouted, "Doctor! I think I saw Miss 007, right up ahead! With a dog..."

Gu Mian also looked up.

The car headlights shone far into the distance, and Gu Mian saw a large, spirited dog dragging a corpse-like person as it sped toward them.

Judging by his clothes, he's definitely 007.

The driving instructor braked the car just in time.

Although 007 was dragged around like a corpse, its head was still stubbornly tilted back. Gu Mian saw its lips move as if it were saying something, and the dog stopped steadily next to the car.

Gu Mian quickly scooped 007 and the dog into the car, and then went to put pressure on the driving instructor.

The driving instructor immediately turned pale and floored the accelerator, leading the group forward.

“The direction I came from…they are all in the direction I came from,” 007 said with difficulty.

She hadn't slept for many days, and now she'd been dragged along by a dog the whole way; 007 felt like she was going to faint on the spot.

But she still dutifully told Gu Mian and Chu Changge the direction before collapsing to the ground.

The fat man looked at 007 lying in the car, his arms chafed raw: "Now I understand how that ghost felt when the doctor was hanging behind the car."

The person on the other end of the phone was still talking to Gu Mian: "The person I was talking about who's about to die isn't her."

Is there anyone worse off than 007?
Gu Mian frowned as she looked at the unconscious 007.

Look at the title of this chapter, how poetic it is!
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