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Chapter 695 Oh no, I forgot yesterday was a special day!

Xia Yutong quickly sent a reply.

[Xia Yutong]: I'm not as pretty as you say. Your compliment makes me a little shy.

[Xia Yutong]: I hadn't received a reply from you, and I thought you didn't like me. I was worried for a long time. My mood is just like yours, as bright as the sky today.

Xia Yutong also sent a photo.

The photo shows a clear blue sky with a few white clouds floating in it.

Apart from the sky, there is no other information in the photo.

Gu Mian started typing seductively again: "What are you doing outside? Did you come out just to take pictures of the sky for me?"

[Xia Yutong]: I'm on my way to the cafeteria to have lunch. After lunch, I still need to work on my thesis, so I'll have to talk to you later.

[Xia Yutong]: Goodbye, my dear boyfriend.

That's a really creepy name.

Gu Mian ran back to the internet cafe, searched for affectionate nicknames for girlfriends, learned them on the spot, and replied to Xia Yutong: "Okay, silly girl."

At that moment, a pale hand reached out from his pocket and slapped the phone away.

Fortunately, Gu Mian caught it quickly, otherwise Chu Changge's girlfriend would have been gone.

Coco felt numb all over, especially after Gu Mian typed "little idiot".

"Chu Changge, use the computer to check what schools are nearby. Coco, give me your phone." Gu Mian casually put Chu Changge's girlfriend in his pocket, then reached out his wicked hand to Coco.

"Do you want to chat with Ai Zitao?" Coco took out her phone and handed it to Gu Mian.

She remembered that Chu Changge's girlfriend, Xia Yutong, was a fanatical cuckold, but now it seemed that Gu Mian was even more so.

He was chatting with three romantic partners at the same time, and he didn't care whether they were male or female, which was extremely abnormal.

Coco suspected that if a player could choose multiple romantic partners, Gu Mian would definitely choose all five characters at once.

"I didn't get any information from Xia Yutong, and Zhao Tiankuo is busy and won't chat with me, so I can only try to get information from Ai Zitao." Gu Mian took Coco's phone.

Coco and Ai Zitao each sent a simple "hello".

Neither of them seemed particularly interested in chatting.

Gu Mian remembered that Ai Zitao's introduction described him as a taciturn and rigid office worker, so it was not appropriate to be too enthusiastic.

He thought about it for a while and started typing: "You haven't been talking to me, do you not like me?"

This tone actually fits Coco's delicate and manipulative persona quite well.

But Ai Zitao doesn't seem to buy into that.

Gu Mian held her phone and waited for a long time, but he didn't reply.

As expected, people who wear glasses and have an aloof demeanor are difficult to communicate with.

At this moment, Chu Changge, who was wearing glasses, spoke up: "We've searched. There are two high schools and a university nearby. The university is called Zhao'an University, and it's about five kilometers away from us." "Let's go there and take a look. Xia Yutong is a university student. Maybe we can run into her there." Gu Mian also put Ai Zitao into her pocket.

Coco asked, "Are these romantic partners real people?"

"It's not certain yet," Gu Mian said, walking towards the entrance of the internet cafe. "So I need to go check it out."

Coco felt a headache coming on. She rubbed her temples and said, "If this dungeon were to be played normally, players should be constantly trying to find out the ghost's location through chat, and then quickly move away once they know the ghost's exact location."

But things are now developing in an unpredictable direction.

Gu Mian couldn't wait to meet the ghost in person.

The other two players in the instance also entered the game as a team.

These two people were thinking like normal people; they were racking their brains to figure out information about the ghost and trying to avoid contact with it as much as possible.

In a bustling shopping mall, Yue Luo Wu Ti frowned as he looked at his phone: "Do you think these people are real? Or are they just a set of data in an app?"

"You can't expect a set of data to crawl out of a phone and kill someone, can you?" Feng Chui Pipi Liang chuckled bitterly. "I think they must really exist."

“In that case, we need to find out where they are and then get away from there,” Moonfall Crow Cries said with downcast eyes. “But my chat partner isn’t talking to me anymore. He said he needs to take a nap, otherwise he’ll be sleepy in class this afternoon.”

Fengchui Pipiliang was also chatting with her boyfriend: "Song Meng also said that she is going to work to earn money to pay for her tuition."

"She wouldn't be working at this mall, would she?"

"Let's leave here first." Feng Chui Pipiliang immediately stood up uneasy.

The two found a quiet square and sat on a bench to continue their discussion.

“Besides the two of us, there are three other players in this instance. I think we should find them. There’s strength in numbers, and we can discuss how to survive the instance,” Moonfall Crow Cries suggested.

Feng Chui said bitterly, "I want to too, but I don't know where those three people are. Searching aimlessly will definitely not lead to anything. It's better to spend some time chatting with virtual people. Maybe we can get some clues."

"But neither of our virtual characters is talking anymore." At this point, Moonfall Crow Cry seemed to remember something. "It's quite strange, really. Our virtual characters only exchange a few words with us and then stop. Is it because the instance just started?"

"Perhaps the way out of the dungeon is hidden in the chat messages? We need to chat with them more to find a way out?"

As the wind chilled her bottom, she sent Song Meng another message: "It must be tiring to study and work at the same time, right?"

The other party did not reply.

He couldn't force people to reply to his messages with a harsh tone, so he could only wait idly.

“I remember Song Meng is short of money, right?” Yue Luo Wu Ti suddenly spoke up. “She’s not chatting with you because she’s working to earn money. I just checked, this app has a red envelope function. If you send her money, will she chat with you more?”

"Huh?" Fengchuipiliang examined the software and found that it did indeed have a function to send red envelopes.

"Do I need to top up first?" He looked again but couldn't find the top-up option.

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