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Chapter 685 I clearly wanted to update during the day
As Xu Xingcheng spoke, he pulled out three photos, the same three that Gu Mian had once pressed under his buttocks: "He gave me the group photo and these three photos, telling me to find you and tell you how to survive."

Wen Qin, her eyes glazed over, said, "It's really true... but we only have five photos left now, so this way of survival is probably not going to work."

“It’s better than nothing,” Xu Xingcheng said. “We still have an instant camera, right? We can use that to take a few more photos, and try to capture a wider area. It will be of some use.”

Lemon Not Sour is looking at the photo in Xu Xingcheng's hand.

She noticed that one of the three photos was taken by the roadside, one by an intersection, and the last one was taken while they were on the bus passing by a reservoir.

However, there's something strange about this photo of the reservoir.

She pointed to the road beside the reservoir: "Why is there a hole in this place?"

Xu Xingcheng looked at the photo: "It wasn't stored properly and got accidentally cut."

Photos taken with an instant camera are thicker than regular photos and are much harder to damage.

Lemon is not sour. He expressed doubt about his statement.

Xu Xingcheng certainly couldn't say that Gu Mian ruined the photo.

When Gu Mian saw the ghost wandering around in the photo, she took out a knife to put her idea into practice—what if the ghost could be pried off?
His idea turned out to be wrong.

They can't harm ghosts with photos.

Disinterested, Gu Mian gave all three photos to Xu Xingcheng, asking him to find someone and inform the other players of this way to survive.

At this moment, Wen Qin suddenly asked, "He gave us these three photos, but what about himself? Where is he now?"

Doesn't he need the photo to avoid being found by the ghost?

Xu Xingcheng had anticipated this question, so he told the lie he had prepared beforehand: "He said he was a doctor whose duty was to save people. He said he was going to find the ghost and hold it off to buy time for everyone. He would have no regrets even if he had to sacrifice himself."

It sounds like a speech.

Winnie the Pooh listened to her talk about wine and lemons not being sour, and they were all stunned.

They didn't realize on the bus that the doctor was such a selfless person.

Hao Laoshi, who knew the inside story, grinned, feeling a little embarrassed by what he heard.

"Why don't we go find him and ask him to help us avoid the ghost using the photos?" Lemon-Not-Sour suggested hesitantly. "Even if we players risk our lives to hold off the ghost, we can't hold it off for very long."

Hao Laoshi immediately shook his head: "We don't know where he is either, it will be very difficult to find him."

Wen Qin Tanjiu chimed in, "Yes, now that we know the way out, the most urgent thing is to go to the location in the photo and use the photo to avoid the ghosts."

Hao Laoshi suggested: "The locations where these five photos were taken are not close together. I think we should use a Polaroid camera to photograph the blank spaces between these locations."

“That’s right.” Wen Qin Tan Jiu nodded. “If we could film a closed-loop path, that would be great… then we could navigate through that closed-loop path and the ghost’s circuitous route.”

Unfortunately, they had destroyed too many photos beforehand, and the remaining three sheets of photographic paper were not enough to create a complete loop.

Lemon Not Sour looked at the Polaroid camera in her hand: "Actually, you can also shoot a long, straight path. But the path must be long, preferably including multiple intersections."

"After we finished filming, we returned to the middle of the filming route. When we found that the ghost had appeared at one end, we immediately ran to the other end and then turned around through the intersection in the middle to return to the end where the ghost appeared. By then, the ghost had also walked a distance, so it was safe for us to go around to that end."

“But we’re not in the photo’s surveillance area when we detour. What if the ghost doesn’t go straight but also turns into the intersection? That would be very dangerous for us.” “Can’t we keep watching the photo and immediately return to the straight path in the surveillance area when we see the ghost turn into the intersection?” Hao Laoshi asked.

“It will take time. From the moment we discover the ghost turning into the intersection to the moment we run back to the monitoring area, it will take some time. During this time, we won’t be able to monitor the ghost’s movements, and we might even encounter it directly,” Lemon Not Sour said worriedly.

“There is another drawback to filming long straight paths: ghosts may turn into the monitoring area from the nearest intersection, catching us off guard.”

“But this is all we can do now, there’s no other way.” Wen Qin looked at the road in front of her. “We only have three sheets of Polaroid film left, plus the three photos Xu Xingcheng brought. We can only take pictures of a straight path.”

Even if the lemon isn't sour, I've accepted reality.

She looked at the photos in Xu Xingcheng's hand: "Of these three photos, only the one taken at the intersection has a slightly larger field of view. The other two only show one side of the road. If the ghost is hiding on the other side of the road, we won't be able to see it at all."

"Is only this one usable at the intersection?" Wen Qin asked, Talking about wine.

"Hmm." Lemon Doesn't Sour nodded. "If I remember correctly, this intersection is very close to us. Let's hurry over there."

The group immediately set off for the intersection shown in the photo.

A few minutes later, they arrived at the intersection.

Lemon Not Sour stood at the intersection, looked around, and then quickly chose a path with few obstructions and pressed the shutter button.

The Polaroid camera has a decent shooting range; it managed to capture the traffic lights at the next intersection from here, though some parts in the distance are blurry.

After taking the photo, Lemon Not Sour quickly examined it and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that there were no ghosts on the road.

The others also felt a slight sense of relief.

They finally found a safe spot!

It's still a large-scale safe location.

Hao Laoshi immediately ran forward excitedly and came to the safe road: "This road is long enough. If the ghost comes from one end, we have a lot of room to escape in the middle."

“This length isn’t enough.” Lemon Doesn’t Sour shook his head. “If the ghost appears at one end of this road, it can see us in the middle of the road at a glance. We need to film surveillance footage over a longer distance.”

She spoke as she walked forward.

When she reached the next intersection, she took a few steps back. Lemon Not Sour carefully chose her angle while filming ahead, ensuring she could capture the road on both sides of the intersection.

After the flash went off, the group looked nervously at the photo.

The road in front of me was very clean, with nothing strange about it.

Lemon Not Sour looked at the photo and smiled slightly: "Just one more picture, and the distance will be far enough."

But just as she lifted her foot to continue walking forward, Xu Xingcheng suddenly grabbed her: "Wait a minute, look at this."

Lemon Not Sour turned her head and saw Xu Xingcheng staring at the photo of the intersection.

"What's wrong?" Her heart skipped a beat.

Damn it, why update at midnight? I wanted to turn on my computer and start writing during the day.

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