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Chapter 694 You rascal, I'm a man!

Chu Changge has a connection with his own world, so he knows this is not the second world.

Gu Mian guessed that this was probably a world of exile.

The Exile World is the second of the seven worlds. It is not highly alienated and is quite similar to Earth.

The brother the saintess gave him belonged to this world.

Gu Mian brought her brother in this time, but unfortunately he could only call her "little sister" and couldn't get any information out of him.

At this moment, the older brother peeked out from the CD to look at Gu Mian's phone screen, somewhat like a parent checking if their child was having an early romance.

Gu Mian reached out and pressed him back down.

Gu Mian's boyfriend hasn't messaged him yet. Chu Changge's phone, on the other hand, keeps ringing; it's his chat partner sending him messages.

So Coco and Gu Mian both crowded around him to look at his phone screen.

[Xia Yutong]: Hello, are you Chu Changge? It's nice to meet you, I'm Xia Yutong.

[Xia Yutong]: From today onwards, I am your girlfriend. If you have any worries, you can tell me, and I will help you solve them.

[Xia Yutong]: Of course, I'll share anything fun I happen with you, and I hope you'll be happy.

[Xia Yutong]: Why aren't you replying? Are you not here? I'll chat with you again later.

Is this Xia Yutong, the hat maker? She certainly seems very enthusiastic; she must be actively preparing a hat for Chu Changge.

Chu Changge did not reply immediately, but stared at his phone screen, thinking about something.

Coco checked her phone; her boyfriend hadn't messaged her yet: "The dungeon quest is to have a three-day romance with virtual characters. These virtual characters must be ghosts, but I wonder how they kill people."

"I don't know if these people are fictional characters or real people." Gu Mian opened her phone and tapped, trying to exit the dating app, but she couldn't.

It's impossible to log out; it seems the only function of this phone is to help them find love.

“This world is still relatively normal; there should be internet. We can find a computer and search for the five people on the software,” Gu Mian said, scanning the room with her eyes.

There was nothing he wanted in the room.

He searched the desk drawer again and found some loose change.

“Let’s go out and find an internet cafe first,” Gu Mian glanced at the clock on the living room wall; it was 12:07 PM. “Let’s see if we can find any information about these five people.”

They lived in an old neighborhood.

The group wandered around the neighborhood for a while before finally finding the main gate. Outside the gate was a road, and across the road were several shops. It was clear that these shops had been open for many years, as even their signs had faded.

Even now, Zhao Tiankuo, the domestic abuser, has not sent any messages to Gu Mian.

Coco's virtual object, however, showed some activity.

[Ai Zitao]: Hello.

He sent two words and then nothing more.

The game describes Ai Zitao as "a rigid office worker, indecisive, who likes gardening and never initiates conversation. It's said that this type of person is most prone to mental illness."

Judging from the introduction, he's a man of few words.

Unlike Chu Changge, Coco didn't dare to ignore the message. She immediately replied with a "Hello" after receiving it.

But after she replied, Ai Zitao didn't send any new messages for a long time.

Seeing that there was no response from the other side, Coco didn't take the initiative to talk to him. Too much talk would only lead to mistakes, so it was better to find out more about these people first.

“Speaking of which, besides the three of us, there were two other players in this dungeon, right?” Coco said, holding her phone. “I think one of them was called ‘Wind Blows My Butt’ and the other was called ‘Moon Sets and Crows Cry’.”

These two, I don't know where they are, but they're choosing their partners very quickly. "They're probably like us, wanting to look up information about these people online," Gu Mian thought. "Their birthplaces shouldn't be too far from us."

Just as Gu Mian was speaking, his phone suddenly rang. It was a message from Zhao Tiankuo.

He looked down at his phone and was startled to see a strange name—

"Hey little girl, why don't you take the initiative to talk to me?"

Gu Mian: "..."

It seems Zhao Tiankuo thought he was a woman.

Gu Mian immediately typed a righteous and stern clarification: "You rascal, I'm a man."

Coco watched him send messages, and when she saw the words Gu Mian typed, she fell silent.

A few seconds later, the other party sent a new message.

[Zhao Tiankuo]: Hehe, little girl, you really know how to joke.

[Zhao Tiankuo]: I have to talk to you now, I have something to do, I'll come find you later.

Looks like this guy's busy; he's probably stealing money on the street again.

"There's an internet cafe up ahead," Chu Changge's voice came from ahead.

Gu Mian looked up and saw a "Longteng Internet Cafe" across the street. The shop was small and looked a bit dilapidated.

Gu Mian stopped chatting with the dead ghost and they quickly went to the internet cafe and turned on a computer.

There were quite a few people inside, and the place reeked of smoke as soon as you entered, which made Coco cough a few times.

“The five characters in this dating game are Song Meng, Zhao Tiankuo, Ai Zitao, Xia Yutong, and Feng Cheng. Right now, we only know their names, and with just names, we probably won't find anything useful.” As Gu Mian spoke, she opened the computer's search engine and entered Song Meng's name into the search box.

Sure enough, the search revealed a bunch of random people.

There are so many people in the world with the same name, Song Meng, there are at least eight hundred or a thousand.

Search engines yield numerous results for Song Meng, ranging from eighty-year-old men to thirteen-year-old children.

He searched for the remaining four names again, but found absolutely no useful information.

“We can’t tell if they’re real people just by their names. We need to get more information out of them.” Gu Mian looked at Chu Changge. “Your girlfriend is the most enthusiastic and is more likely to reveal information. You should chat with her.”

Chu Changge remained silent for a few seconds, then quietly took out his phone.

Gu Mian watched as he started typing: "Where do you live? What's the name of your school? What are some landmarks near you?"

Coco fell silent again as she looked at the words Chu Changge had typed.

Seeing that things were not going well, Gu Mian snatched Chu Changge's phone away: "I forgot you don't know how to date."

He still remembered when he was in school, a girl confessed her feelings to Chu Changge in a cryptic way. Chu Changge didn't understand at all and immediately started explaining the law to her.

Thinking of this, Gu Mian stopped relying on him and took matters into her own hands.

He deleted all the text Chu Changge had typed before and started editing the message again.

"I'm so sorry, Xiaotong, it took me so long to reply to your message. I didn't mean to delay, I just didn't know how to reply to you;
"I've seen your photos. You're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. You're so beautiful that it makes me a little nervous. When you took the initiative to chat with me, I felt a little flustered and didn't know what to say for a moment."
"I hesitated for a long time before I mustered up the courage to reply to this message. I'm so glad you can be my girlfriend."

After sending the message, Gu Mian went outside the internet cafe, took a picture of the sky, and sent it over.

My mood is as bright as the weather today. Is yours too?

The little goose is scared! (Image of the little goose shrinking its head)
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(End of this chapter)