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Chapter 713 A Bloodbath Caused by a Pot of Meatball Soup

"Fatty, Fatty?" Gu Mian had already returned to the apartment and was rummaging through something. When she couldn't find what she was looking for, she called out to Fatty everywhere.

Upon hearing the noise, the fat man hurriedly ran upstairs carrying a basin: "Doctor, you're back, Doctor!"

Xiao Hong also used both her hands and feet to follow the fat man up the stairs.

As soon as she saw Gu Mian, she rushed over to give him a big hug. Gu Mian skillfully dodged to the side, and Xiao Hong's iron head shoved into Chu Changge's chest, causing him to stumble back two steps and hit his back against the wall.

The fat man hurriedly put down the basin he was holding: "Doctors, you guys came out quite early. I just finished hanging up the laundry and haven't had time to go grocery shopping yet. What would you like to eat tonight? I'll go to the supermarket to buy some."

Gu Mian waved her hand: "There's no rush to eat. Didn't I snatch something from Mr. Green a while ago that looked like a cell phone and a walkie-talkie at the same time? Do you remember where you put it?"

Previously, Mr. Green was using that thing that looked like a cell phone to contact people in the instance. Gu Mian thought it was a good thing and snatched it away. Because of this, Mr. Green even made a fuss about running away from home.

“That thing,” the fat man recalled, “I remember you spent the whole afternoon fiddling with that thing but couldn’t figure out how to use it, so you just put it aside and I never saw that phone again.”

"Speaking of which, why did you suddenly look for that thing, Doctor?" the fat man asked curiously.

Before leaving the instance, Zhao Tiankuo retrieved the contact information of several NPCs in the amusement park—a few strings of numbers, presumably phone numbers.

Gu Mian took out the booklet containing those strings of numbers, wanting to see if he could dial them using Mr. Green's phone.

Seeing these strings of numbers, the fat man guessed what Gu Mian was planning. He thought to himself, "Could it be that Mr. Green secretly took it back? Why don't you ask Mr. Green, Doctor?"

Come to think of it, I haven't seen Mr. Green since I got back. I don't know where he went.

Actually, if you want to know about Paradise World, it's more convenient to ask Xie Bi'an directly, since he came from Paradise World.

However, this person seems unreliable and probably won't tell me the truth.

Chu Changge seemed to have seen through Gu Mian's thoughts and suddenly said, "Don't trust Xie Bi'an."

It seems there's a deep conflict between them. After all, they're colleagues, so it's hard to understand how they could get along like this.

Mr. Green had disappeared and did not return until it was already dark.

When he returned, Fatty was cooking dinner. Xiao Qiao, who was there to freeload, had already prepared her bowl at the table, eagerly waiting for Fatty to bring the food up.

Mr. Green returned home dejectedly and was startled to see Gu Mian in the living room.

"You...you came out so quickly?" Mr. Green instinctively jumped back a big step and covered his chest when he saw Gu Mian.

But the thought that he had nothing left to lose to Gu Mian made him dejectedly lower his hands.

Last time he ran away from home, he encountered robbers who robbed him of everything, leaving him with nothing but his clothes.

His iconic green suit and green hat were also lost in that robbery. Mr. Green is now wearing the clothes Gu Mian wore when she was a child, and they fit her perfectly.

He then tore off a piece of green cloth from somewhere and wrapped it around his head, barely managing to use it as a hat.

Seeing that Mr. Green had taken several steps back and was almost outside the door, Gu Mian stepped forward and pulled him back.

"What do you want to do!" Mr. Green stared at him with wide eyes, not feeling that there was anything more he could gain from him.

Gu Mian didn't mince words: "Did you steal that phone back?"

Upon hearing this, Mr. Green's expression changed immediately, from fear to panic, and finally to some dejection.

It seems the fat man was right.

Mr. Green shrank back, making him appear even shorter than he already was. "I took it." "Where did you hide it?"

“It was stolen.” Mr. Green looked even more frustrated as he said this. “I stole the phone back the very night you took it. After I took it, I tried to sneak away, but I ran into a bunch of ruthless people who robbed me of everything! They even stole the phone.”

It turns out that Mr. Green took the phone back that same evening.

NPCs in dungeons have a protection mechanism that prevents them from being attacked by players, but Earth isn't Mr. Green's territory; this is the players' domain. Poor Mr. Green, dressed so green and so short, is a conspicuous weakling; no wonder he got robbed.

If it gets stolen by another player, that would be a problem.

There are many people in Lianhua City, so it will be difficult to find the player who robbed Mr. Green.

Just then, the fat man came out carrying a pot of meatball soup: "Doctor, it's time to eat."

Gu Mian, forgetting about her meal, continued to ask Mr. Green, "Where were you robbed?"

Mr. Green sniffed: "Right in front of that supermarket nearby, I was shouting and yelling as loudly as I could, but not a single employee came out to help me. They were all from the same hometown, they were just too inhuman..."

When he got emotional, Mr. Green even reached out and wiped away a tear.

Right now, only Mr. Green's phone can contact the people inside the instance.

Gu Mian does have a cell phone that transcends the dimensional barrier, but it cannot make targeted calls to specific phone numbers.

“If you were robbed at the supermarket entrance, then the group that robbed you will most likely go to the supermarket regularly to replenish their supplies, and they may also frequently wait near the supermarket to rob other players. We can go to the supermarket entrance and stake out that group of people.” Chu Changge walked over and looked down at Mr. Green. “Do you remember what the group of players who robbed you looked like?”

Mr. Green gritted his teeth and said, "I could recognize him even if he were ashes!"

According to Mr. Green's testimony, there were three people who robbed him, all of them middle-aged men.

After robbing the supermarket, the three men headed north of it, presumably because they lived there.

The only way to contact the NPCs in the park is to retrieve that phone.

Gu Mian stroked her chin: "Starting tomorrow, we'll take turns with Mr. Green to guard the supermarket entrance and see if those people will come again."

"If necessary, we can throw him out as bait." Chu Changge looked Mr. Green up and down.

Mr. Green flinched and glared at Chu Changge with a fierce look.

Just then, the sounds of fighting came from behind Gu Mian.

The incident started when Xiao Hong reached into Xiao Qiao's bowl to grab some meatballs, and Xiao Qiao punched her.

Then the two started fighting.

The table was overturned and the soup was spilled.

The fat man, with a head full of vegetable leaves, was still trying to break up the fight, but he got scratched twice by Xiao Hong and kicked twice by Xiao Qiao.

The sounds of fighting alerted the other residents in the apartment building.

When Coco and 007 came up, they saw Gu Mian carrying two disheveled women and kicking them out the door.

When will GuGu reach 10,000 views a day? Humph, today you ignore GuGu, tomorrow you'll look at GuGu with newfound respect. Welcome to today's legal talk show: GuGu's Comeback Story.

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