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Chapter 752 Doctor, how can we live without you!

In the brightly lit arcade, 007 held a wanted poster for the "Ugly Mr. Gu" in his hand.

The photo printed on it showed Gu Mian making a fierce gesture; well, she was indeed quite different from usual.

She was just about to subtly tell Gu Mian about the arrest warrant when she realized he already knew.

But he probably doesn't know what the person who created this wanted poster looks like...

As 007 pondered this, he glanced at the doll beside him, who was gritting its teeth and handing out wanted posters to passersby.

That's right, the maker, Dog Doll, is a doll, and it's alive.

It's about the size of a Chihuahua, and except for its belly, it's all green. The word "Limited Edition" is embroidered in gold thread on its forehead, truly befitting its green limited edition status.

The little dog carries a stack of wanted posters in its mouth and hands them out to everyone. Every time it hands out a poster covered in drool, the dog grits its teeth and repeats, "It's a big bad guy, this person is a big bad guy."

It seemed as if he had a blood feud with Gu Mian, as if he had killed his father and stolen his wife.

The puppy's final reduplicated word wasn't intentionally cute. 007 has observed that this dog occasionally utters reduplicated words when it speaks; it's probably the default setting.

This game city is a circular shopping mall with an open central section, allowing you to see the floors below from the railings on higher floors.

The ceiling at the very top is made entirely of glass—or so it seems.

Its unique shape resembles a large glass bowl inverted on top of the building, allowing 007 to see the sky above him when he looks up.

She looked up at the sky, which was a clear, bright blue.

[007]: I can't see any upside-down city from here.

As she replied, she thought about the game event called "Upside-Down City". Coco said that there was also an upside-down city in this world. Was Gu Mian teleported to the vicinity of that city?

Coco said what that upside-down city was called again.

Oh, right, the City of Joy.

007 thought for a moment and then looked away from the ceiling, turning to look at the city map sign standing in front of him.

"Gu Mian is on Mantis Tail Street, which should be near the City of Joy." 007 quickly searched for Mantis Tail Street and Rat Head Alley on the map.

She soon found the two of them.

[007]: Rat Head Alley is right north of the game city, very close, extremely close. My location and Chu Changge's location on the map are almost touching.
[007]: But Gu Mian's location is quite far, in the northwest direction of the game city, about forty kilometers away from us as the crow flies.

"Forty kilometers." Gu Mian looked at the message sent by 007 in the group chat.

If there were a means of transportation, forty kilometers wouldn't be a big problem, but it's unthinkable that there would be a means of transportation in this world that the lower classes could ride.

In this way, they can only rely on themselves. If they don't want to walk, they have to break into the upper-class area to steal transportation, and then be chased by a group of upper-class people with guns, screaming and dying heroically before the variety show even starts.

In the end, the fat man built a cenotaph for himself, and he and Chu Changge embraced and wept bitterly in front of the tombstone with small red teeth marks.

"Doctor, how will we live without you!"

Gu Mian shook her head, banishing the fat man's howling that was lingering in her mind.

The variety show doesn't start for another six days. Even if they're going to kill someone and steal their car, they can't do it this early. Gu Mian doesn't want to be chased by upper-class people with guns for six days.

Let's make arrangements for Chu Changge and 007 first.

[Gu Mian]: 007, is it dangerous at the arcade?

007 looked at Gu Mian's message in the group chat, subconsciously shook his head, and then started typing: "Not dangerous..."

Before she could even type the third word, a tall man with a giant plate growing out of his neck walked past her, and a giant fried egg from the plate slid down and hit 007 on the head.

"Oh, I'm so sorry!" came the panicked voice from the plate. The plate hurriedly flipped the fried egg off 007's head and left in shame, its surface still red.

Watching the man with the plate leave, 007 wiped the oil off his head, silently deleted the two words in the chat box, and retyped them.

[007]: There are some oddly shaped people, but they are not very dangerous.
The arcade wasn't dangerous, so Chu Changge and 007 could stay there for six days until the variety show started, then they could go to the show together. Gu Mian immediately told Chu Changge in the group chat to go to Crazy Arcade. He wasn't far from the arcade, so 007 shouldn't need to pick him up.

I should have taken 007's rocking car and used it myself.

Of course, Gu Mian was just thinking about it. He didn't have an inventory, so he couldn't carry the rocking car around all the time.

A few minutes later, Chu Changge replied with a single word, "Okay," in the group chat. He seemed to be doing something and couldn't reply immediately.

Gu Mian wasn't worried about the other person's safety. Before entering the dungeon, he gave his brother's CD to Chu Changge.

He turned to the group chat and asked 007 to look for "Jumping Stadium".

The fortune teller asked Old Xu at Carnival Wharf where the variety show would be held, and the answer he got was that the show would be held in a place called Jumping Stadium near the game city.

However, the stadium had been abandoned for many years, and this time it was demolished and used as a variety show venue.

007 sent a message very quickly.

[007] Found it, it's not far, in the northwest direction from here.
In that case, I can just head straight towards the game center, meet up with 007 Chu Changge there first, and then go to the variety show with them.

Speaking of variety shows, they all need to have a name. He still doesn't know what the variety show that tried Louis was called.

Previously, I asked the fortune teller to inquire with Old Xu at the dock, but Old Xu said he didn't know, as he was only involved in personal matters and had no interest in the activities of the upper class.

Anyway, there are still six days left, which is enough time for him to get a feel for the variety show.

As Gu Mian pondered this, he asked 007 to dictate a map to him so that he could plan a route from here to the game city, preferably without passing through the upper-class residential area.

With 007's lackluster description, Gu Mian managed to draw a rudimentary city map on the booklet in her hand.

He was located on Mantis Tail Street, which was directly connected to Mantis Belly Street and Mantis Head Street to the north.

It really is a complete praying mantis.

A short distance to the north of the Mantis City was the former City of Pleasure, but now that city has gone up into the sky.

007 said that the upper class has sealed off the area near the City of Pleasure, preventing anyone from entering.

If you leave the mantis area and keep walking south, you will reach the fruit fly area.

The fruit fly area has four sections: eyes, head, wings, and legs.

Further south is a sealed-off area, strictly off-limits, as it is said that monsters roam there.

Gu Mian guessed that those were monsters he had released from the forbidden zone. Before Jin Hu died, he had hoped that these monsters could destroy the world, but now it seemed that his hopes had been dashed.

To the east of the fruit fly zone is "NPC Shop Street".

According to 007, this NPC street belongs neither to the upper class nor the lower class; it's a commercial street built by people from the outside world, somewhat similar to a game city.

After passing through this NPC street and then through a spider area, you'll be almost at Crazy Game City.

"What a difficult trip," Gu Mian thought, looking down at the booklet in her hand.

You need to pass through three lower-class areas and one NPC area.

There should be quite a few NPCs in the NPC area, which gave Gu Mian some psychological comfort.

Perhaps when he passes by, a friendly NPC will be willing to give him a vehicle.

As Gu Mian pondered this, she resigned herself to her fate and began her journey.

Before setting off, he smeared some wall plaster on his face to make himself look dirtier, so that he wouldn't repeat the same scene of a lowly person robbing someone and then showing off in front of others every time he arrived at a new neighborhood.

This kind of act is definitely reserved for variety shows. Once he's on stage and meets Louis, he'll simply remove his receding mustache. Gu Mian could almost picture the disgusted looks on the faces of the upper-class people when they saw him again.

Brave coo, unafraid of difficulties! I'm going to laugh at the other pigeons and make them ashamed!

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