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Chapter 756 Gu Bengbeng Pulls Up the Minivan

There are quite a few monsters in the locked-down area.

Beside the delivery truck, Gu Mian grabbed her guitar case and swung it at the humanoid monster in front of her. This was the fifth monster she had encountered since entering the area.

They all ran out of the restricted area.

There was nothing unusual when Gu Mian first passed the statue and walked this way, but as she went deeper, the number of monsters gradually increased.

The sealed-off area contains both upper-class and lower-class residential areas, as well as some public facilities, such as the huge museum next door.

Gu Mian didn't know what this used to be, but it was now completely empty, with a few strange shadows flashing by every now and then, suggesting that some monsters had set up camp inside.

He didn't come to Paradise World to fight monsters and level up. As long as the other party wasn't blocking his way, he had no intention of provoking them.

Thinking about it, Gu Mian swung her hand back and sent another monster that was pouncing from behind flying.

The robot dog on the vehicle clearly realized something was wrong. Instead of chasing after them to conduct a happiness survey, it simply tucked the camera deep into its neck, looking terrified.

Gu Mian took a moment to pull out the map from the front of the car to determine the location.

This place has become a deserted city, with abandoned buildings everywhere you look, and even the moonlight is dimmer than in places where people live.

Gu Mian crouched down and used the light from the car headlights next to her to determine her location.

“There’s a museum nearby, and the museum is surrounded by a ring of upper-class residential areas…” He searched on the small map and soon found something.

"Found it. This is the residential area of ​​the Ring of Gods. The museum next door is called the 'Miracle Museum.' It's another half hour's drive from here to the Secret Forest." Gu Mian's gaze lingered on the area marked as the Secret Forest on the map for a moment, then turned to the "Prisoner's Cave" within the Secret Forest area.

The map was drawn in a simplified way, and he remembered Louis telling him in the circus copy that the statue of the evil god was unearthed by the upper class when they were digging a tunnel.

At the time, someone wanted to build a cave in the forest to imprison the lower classes. As they dug down, they suddenly unearthed a large space and then discovered a statue of an evil god.

Thinking about it this way, the place where the evil god statue is located is practically a tomb. If the upper class hadn't happened to be digging a hole there, they wouldn't have discovered it.

Prisoner's Cave, Prisoner's Cave, Gu Mian murmured the name of the cave twice. It matched Louis's words, so the evil god statue should be in this cave.

He found this rather strange.

Gu Mian put away the map and stood up, the pale moonlight shining through the clouds onto his shoulders.

He stood still and opened the prerequisite quest for the "Postman" profession instance.

Among the ninety-nine delivery addresses, "Secret Forest" and "Prisoner's Cave" were prominently listed.

The gift is very simple.

A forest needs a branch, a cave needs a stone; you can use whatever you have on hand.

The other three delivery addresses in the locked-down area also had similarly simple items to deliver.

Compared to other deliveries that were like "two fresh bird droppings three meters off the ground" or "a magnificent chandelier that has been stepped over by a hundred different people," these five packages in the locked-down area were incredibly simple, and the five addresses were almost next to each other.

It was as if five human traffickers were enthusiastically pulling Gu Mian along, trying to get him to come and play in their van.

That old man who was injured just now was also very suspicious; it was as if he had "I want you to go to the restricted area" written all over his face.

Suspicious, highly suspicious.

But the allure of the evil god was too great, and Gu Mian couldn't resist going to take a look.

Moreover, this is a low-dimensional world. Logically speaking, if a low-dimensional world is being so attentive, it should be eager to give me equipment.

Thinking of this, he eagerly got back into the car and drove with all his might towards the secret forest. He didn't know how long he drove; Gu Mian didn't have a watch and couldn't determine the time. He only knew that the moon was getting higher and higher in the sky, and that there were more and more monsters nearby.

The monsters were just like the ones we saw in the restricted area last time; they were not human-shaped and would rush at anything that moved.

Gu Mian also dealt with several monsters wearing gas masks along the way.

Judging from their attire, they were the Order Guards who chased him down in the mine last time. It's likely that their bodies turned into monsters after they died in the restricted area.

It's actually quite a fantastical story.

In the hospital, Jin Hu told Gu Mian that the residents of the restricted area had inexplicably turned into monsters. At that time, Gu Mian did not know about the lower-dimensional world and thought it was just a background that the game made up to increase the difficulty.

Thinking about it now, it's really a bit eerie; the situation is somewhat similar to the Seventh World.

The Seventh World was originally a near-perfect world, but it was cursed by Earth and became filled with negative emotions, eventually turning everyone in it into monsters.

There are people in this world who turn into monsters. Could it be that this place is also cursed by the Earth?

But the situation here is much better than in the Seventh World. Only the people in the forbidden area have turned into monsters. Could it be that the Paradise World found a way to seal the curse before it even had a chance to spread?

Gu Mian recalled the evil god statue she had seen in Jin Hu Hospital. Could the statue really have blocked the spread of the curse?
If it really comes in handy, he'll steal a few statues from here and see if he can transport them to the Seventh World's fortune.

Of course, he was just thinking about it. Now all the passages between the worlds are cut off, so not only can things not be transported, but people can't even travel.

As Gu Mian thought about it, a huge building appeared before her eyes.

It was very dark there, but the building was so large that he could see it from a great distance.

No, that probably can't be called architecture.

Gu Mian silently gazed at the massive "wall" several hundred meters ahead.

"The Valley of Absolute Evil in the East?"

It was a solitary cliff rising abruptly from the ground, stretching continuously from north to south. The cliff face was uneven, and one could vaguely see protrusions on the wall.

Gu Mian looked down at the map. The man was right. The original NPC street was built here.

He looked around but couldn't find it.

It's very spacious here, and the street is quite abstract; if there were something conspicuous nearby, it would definitely be spotted at a glance.

Gu Mian searched again, unwilling to give up. The man said they left in a hurry and left a lot of their belongings here, so maybe she could find something good by going in and rummaging around.

Weird.

He looked down at the cliff for half a minute but didn't see any buildings nearby.

At that moment, he noticed that the mechanical dog had jumped onto the front of the car and was raising the camera to gaze at the distant cliff.

Gu Mian followed its gaze and quickly noticed the anomaly.

The large, protruding rocks on the cliff face were arranged in a very regular pattern. They were almost at the same height, with a protrusion at regular intervals. Upon closer inspection, it seemed that there was a rope connecting the protruding rocks together.

As he looked around, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

No, these aren't stones and ropes; they're clearly structures built on the cliff face and walkways connecting them!

Whew, that was close! I almost missed an update today. No, I need to be a diligent updater, not a lazy one!
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