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Chapter 726 Gugu is here!
Congratulations on triggering the special dungeon 'Corpse Elimination Game'!

[Number of copies: 8 person]

[Introduction: This is a building filled with corpses in various dead states. When three or more corpses of the same type are connected in a horizontal or vertical line, the corpses in that line will be cleared (diagonal lines are not included). Eight players will be randomly assigned to different floors. During the game, the instance will release multiple tasks at irregular intervals. Each time a task is completed, all players will share a certain number of clues about the location of the corpses.]

[Instance Mission: Eliminate the corpses in the building within the time limit. If the time limit is exceeded, the uneliminated corpses will turn into vengeful ghosts and wander for ten minutes (the vengeful ghosts cannot pass through walls). The instance ends after the vengeful ghosts have finished wandering.]

[Note: All special items are disabled in this instance.]

[Players have been assigned floors and are about to enter the instance.]

"Huh?" The fat man was dumbfounded. They were just discussing going into Paradise World to save Louis, but they were pulled into a special instance in the blink of an eye. By the time they came out of this instance, Louis's body would be cold.

Now we just need to finish this dungeon as quickly as possible. Maybe the healer will just blow it up as soon as he comes in?

The fat man recalled that during last year's Spring Festival, a special instance of a bus was directly run over and killed by Gu Mian driving a hearse, without even getting inside.

What was that instance called again? I think it was called the 444 Bus Instance.

However, the description of this match-3 puzzle game sounds terrifying; it's full of corpses...

The fat man pondered for a while, but the surroundings were still completely dark. He wondered, "Why haven't we gone in yet?"

Just as he was wondering about it, a new prompt suddenly appeared on the game panel in front of him.

[Reassigning players to new floors, please wait]

The fat man was stunned for a moment. Didn't they just say that the allocation was completed? Why do they need to redistribute it now?

The allocation was quick this time; shortly after the new prompt appeared, the surrounding darkness receded like a tide.

His vision instantly brightened, and the fat man could see the situation in front of him clearly—

A face with bulging eyes and a bluish-purple complexion suddenly appeared in his line of sight.

Caught off guard, the fat man screamed and stumbled backward. Then he suddenly felt as if he had bumped into someone.

The fat man immediately turned around and saw Coco with a rather unpleasant expression behind him, and next to Coco was 007 with an equally unpleasant expression.

She was a little surprised to see 007 Fatty; she hadn't expected to be dragged into this too.

Gu Mian's situation was similar.

At this moment, Gu Mian was watching Zhang Pao's swollen face float up and down in front of her. His face was as big as a watermelon.

Gu Mian took a few steps back, moving further away from the watermelon.

Only when he stood further away could he see the situation clearly. In front of him was a huge transparent water tank, and a bloated corpse was floating up and down inside the tank.

This must be the corpse mentioned in the dungeon description.

Their task was to eliminate these corpses like a match-3 puzzle.

The corpse in front of him looked like it had drowned. Gu Mian guessed that the "same type of corpse" mentioned in the description meant that the corpses died in the same way. He estimated that he needed to find two other corpses that had also drowned and make the three of them line up in a straight line to eliminate them.

The description states that "when three or more corpses of the same type are connected in a horizontal or vertical line, the corpses in that line will be removed."

To line up the corpses in a straight line... does that mean we have to fish them out, straighten them, head to head and foot to foot, to eliminate the problem?

Gu Mian thought for a moment and then looked around. She saw that she was in a room. On the wall to the left of the water tank, three numbers "601" were printed in red. Each number was the size of an A4 sheet of paper. This seemed to be the room number, indicating that this room was 601. On the wall opposite the number "601", there was a huge display screen with a large grid on it.

There are eight grids in each direction.

Each cell has a corresponding room number. The bottom row, from left to right, is 101, 102, 103, and so on up to 108 on the far right.

The second row from the bottom, from left to right, is 201, 202, 203, and the rightmost row is 208, and so on.

Gu Mian's room, 601, is the sixth row from the bottom and the first cell from the left.

This is somewhat like a hotel room number.

Considering the dungeon's name is "Corpse Elimination Game," Gu Mian guessed that the large grid might be the framework of a "match-3" game, with each square representing a room, and the corpses in the rooms being the "blocks" that can be eliminated.

The building they were in was like a giant "match-3" puzzle game.

However, the grid on the screen is not currently displaying "squares".

There is a countdown timer at the top of the screen. It initially showed 5:00:00, but now it has changed to 4:57:31. This should be the countdown timer. The last set of numbers is a description. In the blink of an eye, the number of seconds jumped from 31 to 30.

They had to remove all the bodies inside the building within five hours.

Gu Mian continued to observe the room and noticed a door on the wall behind the water tank.

He took a few steps toward the door and looked outside. Instead of a corridor, he saw another room. Inside, too, was a huge water tank containing a bloated corpse. The wall of this room was marked "602," and on the wall opposite the number hung a grid display screen; it seemed every room had one.

At this moment, there was a square opening in the floor of the room he was in, which seemed to lead downstairs.

Gu Mian took a few steps to the opening in the floor, where she saw a ladder below the opening, which she could climb down.

He didn't rush downstairs, but instead squatted down and peered through the opening to look downstairs.

Below is another room, with a long table full of food in the middle of the room, and a person sitting next to the table.

As Gu Mian had expected, the person was already dead; he was a corpse.

He sat with his lower body on the chair, while his upper body was slumped over the plate in front of him. From Gu Mian's angle, she could see his face; his cheeks were bulging, probably stuffed with a lot of food, and he was tightly clutching a pork knuckle in one hand, which had several teeth marks on it. He had clearly died from overeating.

The room number below is 501, and there is also a screen displaying a grid on the wall opposite the room number.

Gu Mian carefully observed the room below through the opening for a while, only to find that there was no opening in the floor of the room below, so it seemed that it was impossible to go from 501 to 401.

As he thought about it, he stood up and looked up at the ceiling of his room. There was no opening in the ceiling, so he couldn't go upstairs.

He could only move around on these two floors, and there were no corridors in the building; it was just one room leading to another.

Speaking of special dungeons, they usually pull a small area of ​​players into the dungeon together. So Chu Changge and Fatty should have entered the dungeon as well, along with Coco who opened the door and explained Xiao Qiao's whereabouts to them.

Gu Mian then looked at the large screen on the wall next to her. The 8x8 grid on the screen should represent the building they were in, and each square on it represented a room.

Judging from this, the building has eight floors, and I can only move around on the fifth or sixth floor.

Not knowing if anyone else had been assigned to the same floor as her, Gu Mian decided to search the fifth and sixth floors to see if she could run into anyone and also find out about the situation on those two floors.

There were eight people in the instance, and it's unknown which floor the others are on.

(End of this chapter)