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Chapter 728 Physical Mediation
Others would need the assistance of those on adjacent floors to completely remove the bodies from their own floor. If he only focuses on clearing the bodies from his own floor, then there might be extra bodies left on the floors adjacent to him.

Gu Mian gestured on the squares on the screen as she thought about it.

He was on the fifth or sixth floor, with four floors below and two floors above. Other people should be able to move between two adjacent floors, just like him.

He thought of dividing the large table into four parts from bottom to top.

The first and second floors are part of it, and there is a group of people inside.

The third and fourth floors are part of it, and there are also a group of people inside.

The fifth and sixth floors are part of it; I'm here.

There was another group of people on the top seven or eight floors.

There were eight people in the instance. Gu Mian guessed that in addition to herself, Fatty Chu Changge, and Coco, the people living in 007 should also be in, as well as the three men locked in the storage room on the first floor.

That makes exactly eight people.

Special items cannot be used in this instance, and Gu Mian cannot communicate with others through group chat.

I don't know which floor they are on.

Gu Mian himself wasn't in a hurry to eliminate the corpses. Even if the corpses on his floor turned into ghosts, they would most likely just stare at him blankly. Did they think that a dozen or so ghosts could surround him and beat him up?
He entered the instance suddenly this time and didn't bring his chainsaw in.

Fortunately, in order to make it clear to players how they died, the dungeon specifically left the tools that caused the death in the room.

The room where the drowned person was kept in a large water tank; the room where the person who ate too much had a long table covered with delicious food; the room where the person who was strangled had several loops of rope around their neck; and the room next to the person who was burned was filled with a can of gasoline and a lighter.

The dismembered body was quite gruesome; arms and legs were scattered haphazardly in the room, and a bloodstained axe leaned against the corner.

Gu Mian simply grabbed a large axe from one of the rooms and used it, thinking that if the corpses here turned into ghosts and came to beat him up in five hours, the axe in his hand could at least help to stop the fight.

The countdown is now down to four hours and twenty-nine minutes, but Gu Mian still hasn't seen a trace of the mission.

"We need to complete tasks to find out the location of the corpses on other floors, and we need to know which corpses are on other floors to help them." Gu Mian frowned as she looked at the table on the screen that only showed room numbers.

It was said that the dungeon would release quests at random times, but half an hour has passed and he hasn't seen a trace of a quest yet. Does he have to trigger it himself?

Thinking of this, Gu Mian looked at the corpse on the ground, whose belly was bulging as if it had been stuffed with a washbasin.

This is the corpse of someone who died from overeating.

It was originally dying comfortably on the chair next to the dining table, until Gu Mian noticed the seat under its bottom.

After searching two floors, Gu Mian wanted to find a place to sit down and rest, so she came here and violently pushed the poor, overstuffed ghost off the chair, then plopped down on it herself.

"Perhaps the mission was issued by these corpses, and I need to interact with them to trigger it?" Gu Mian pondered.

Thinking of this, he went to the bloated ghost on the ground and pondered how to interact with it.

The corpse was still holding food in its hand before it died. It wanted to eat even in death. If I stuff all the food on the table into its mouth, it will definitely be moved and give me a mission.

As Gu Mian pondered this, she turned her head to look at a large watermelon on the table.

Just as he rolled up his sleeves to get to work, the large screen on the wall next to him suddenly flickered a few times, and then a line of text appeared on the screen—

[The lady in room 608 has been a bit agitated lately. I heard she lost a silver necklace with a strawberry pendant. She hopes you can help her find it. In return, she's willing to reveal the location of two corpses in the building.] Gu Mian stopped her hand, which was about to commit the crime, and stood up to look at the display screen where the subtitles had suddenly appeared.

Is this the kind of task that is released randomly in the instance?
Helping a ghost find its necklace seems like a pretty routine task.

Gu Mian remembered that there was a blackened corpse in room 608. The outer layer was burned away, and it was impossible to tell whether it was male or female. She didn't expect that it was still so beautiful that it was still thinking about her necklace even after being burned like this.

Completing this task will unlock the locations of two corpses in the form. Gu Mian glanced at the big screen again, then looked away.

Half an hour had passed since the countdown began before the first mission was released. Completing it would only unlock two corpse locations. At this rate, they wouldn't be able to unlock all the corpse locations in the building in five hours.

Gu Mian walked towards room 608 while thinking, and soon he arrived at his destination.

The charred corpse was right in the middle of the room floor, with a half-empty bucket of gasoline and a lighter nearby.

Gu Mian crouched down to look at the corpse on the ground; this must be the woman who issued the mission.

He observed the corpse at his feet for a while, then reached out and lifted it up to feel the ground beneath it—first to see if the necklace had been pinned down by itself.

After confirming that the necklace was not trapped, Gu Mian searched the body from top to bottom again to see if she had secretly hidden the necklace herself.

The body was charred on the outside and crumbled at the slightest touch. There was nowhere on her body to hide anything, so Gu Mian found nothing.

He then searched the entire 608 room, even the gasoline cans, but still couldn't find the silver necklace.

Since they're not here, they're probably in the room with the other corpses.

The necklace might have been stolen by other corpses.

The ghost in this dungeon has terrible character. It stole someone's necklace even though that person was burned to a crisp. That's so immoral.

Gu Mian immediately set off for other rooms, intending to find the body that had stolen the items.

He searched through the rooms and soon found the necklace.

It was placed around the neck of the corpse in room 605, who unfortunately had drowned and was submerged in a huge water tank, where it had sunk to the bottom.

Gu Mian examined the necklace around the corpse's neck through the water tank. It was indeed a strawberry pendant. It seemed that the corpse in the water tank had stolen the necklace and put it around its own neck.

The body had sunk to the bottom; to retrieve the necklace from its neck, one would have to jump into the vat and pick it off.

Gu Mian didn't think he'd encounter anything good after jumping in. Maybe the corpse inside would suddenly reach out and scratch him, and he wouldn't be able to fight back while he was in the vat.

So Gu Mian followed Sima Guang's example and swung his axe to smash the transparent fiberglass in front of him.

Gu Mian used all her strength, and a crisp sound of shattering glass rang out in the room. The glass tank was smashed, and shards fell to the ground with a clatter, only to be washed away by the water gushing from the crack.

The water level quickly reached the bottom.

Gu Mian pounded around the opening a couple more times, making it even bigger, and then reached out to drag the bloated corpse out.

Good, good, good, good, good! It's not even one o'clock yet! Auntie hasn't stopped updating!

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