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Chapter 768 Xiaoqiang Wants to Try to Become Joe

It really looks familiar.

Not only were the people and environment familiar, but even the wanted poster seemed familiar.

007 stared at the wanted poster in her hand for a while. A photo occupied the upper half of the poster. The photo was taken very badly, and it took her a while to determine who the person in it was. This "ugly Mr. Gu" was Gu Mian.

As she stared at the ugly yet familiar photo in her hand, she noticed out of the corner of her eye that a tall man was walking towards her in the distance.

007 looked up in that direction, his pupils contracting.

The person had a slender body, and instead of a head, it had a huge plate on its head, with something seemingly placed on it.

These strange creatures are common in Crazy Game City. There's a talking green-hatted dog handing out flyers right next to her, but for some reason, as the plate-man gets closer and closer, she suddenly has a bad feeling.

The person with the plate balanced on their neck is getting closer and closer, about to be next to 007.

Suddenly, as if possessed, she took a step back. To be honest, she didn't know why she was taking a step back. By the time she realized it, her body had already moved in advance.

After she took two steps back, the plate on the person's neck suddenly tilted, and the contents slipped off and landed with a "thud" on the spot where she had just been standing.

007 looked down and saw a huge fried egg with a layer of oil on it.

If she hadn't stepped back, that oily fried egg would have hit her on the head.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry." The person with the plate hurriedly picked up the fried egg from 007's feet, put it back on the plate, and ran away shyly, covering the plate.

This eerie sense of déjà vu.

Even the shy, fleeing figure of the plate-man felt familiar to 007.

Before entering, Gu Mian gave them a general overview of the Paradise World. This is a world that has been reverted countless times, and the current unhealthy class system is entirely due to those countless reverts.

"Won't the world revert to a previous state after they came in?" 007 wondered.

She thought the idea was absurd, but the more she thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

Clutching the wanted poster, she continued to browse the ten-person group chat, trying to see if Gu Mian and Chu Changge sensed anything amiss.

But neither of them spoke yet, and it was unclear what they were busy with.

007 didn't get to hear Gu Mian and Chu Changge speak, but instead got to hear from other people.

[Xiaoqiang wants to try to become Joe]: NG! You guys have to reshoot!
This is Xiao Qiao.

NG? 007 knows this is a common term used in film and television shooting. When the director says NG, the actors usually have to reshoot the scene.

NG (no good) and reshoots are somewhat similar to rollbacks.

Has the world really reverted to a previous state? And it seems Xiao Qiao even knows about it.

Then another message appeared in the group.

[Fatty]: Miss 007, Brother Chu, what are you doing? Why are you repeating what you said when you gave your location? Is this a special requirement of the amusement park world?

In the apartment, the fat man was driven crazy by the noise from Xiao Qiao next to him.

He had just swept up the aluminum cans that Xiaohong had scattered all over the floor and put them into the trash can, and was about to go downstairs to throw away the garbage.

Before he could even leave the house, Xiao Qiao ran upstairs shouting "NG" and "reshoot" to show him the group chat.

The fat man then realized that Chu Changge and 007 had strangely repeated their conversation when they first entered the Paradise World.

His first thought was that there was a bug in the group chat.

Although he suspected it was a bug, Fatty still cautiously sent a message in the group to ask Chu Changge and 007.

007 looked at the message the fat man sent and felt a heaviness in his heart: "Did Chu Changge and I report our locations twice? But I don't remember 'last time' at all." This world had indeed rolled back, but only we in the Paradise World were affected; the rollback did not affect the outside world.

007 was pondering when Gu Mian appeared.

[Gu Mian]: Fatty, have your group chat history been cleared?

Upon seeing Gu Mian's message, the fat man scratched his head.

He didn't know why Gu Mian would ask this question, but he still carefully scrolled up the list one by one.

He confirmed it a few minutes later.

[Fatty]: No, the records show that first Miss 007, Brother Chu, and the doctor reported their locations, then the doctor said his wanted poster was a special item and asked everyone to tear off a copy and carry it with them. He also asked if Brother Chu and 007 could see the Upside-Down City.
[Fatty]: Later, Brother Chu and Miss 007 met up at the arcade, and everyone fell silent except for me, who said a few words in the group chat. I have all the chat logs. Then Brother Chu and Miss 007 started repeatedly giving each other their locations.

007 stared at the fat man's message for a moment, stunned.

It turns out that before the rollback, she had already reunited with Chu Changge, and Gu Mian seemed to have even seen the Upside-Down City.

But this time, Gu Mian didn't report her location in the group chat, nor did she mention the Upside-Down City or the wanted poster.

Is he remembering what happened before the rollback, which is why he reacted differently than last time?

Dust still swirled in the cave where the statue stood. Gu Mian confirmed that the fat man outside was unaffected, and even the chat history in the group chat had not been deleted.

"It seems the outside world won't be affected by this world's time-lapse." Gu Mian looked at the small fragments that rolled to her feet. The robot dog next to her seemed very interested in these small fragments, and was pressing the camera against a fragment, tilting its head to observe it like a real dog, barking occasionally.

Of course, it doesn't bark; it can only repeat its unchanging lines.

Gu Mian also picked up the fragment and examined it closely; it happened to be the eye part of the statue.

"It seems that everyone in this world except me has been affected by the rollback. Even Chu Changge and 007 from the real world are not surprised. Killing has also been rolled back to another location. I wonder where he is now."

He looked down at the eye in his hand, and the feeling was strange, as if he were looking into the eyes of a lonely hero from many years ago.

For a fleeting moment, the eye seemed to come alive, and Gu Mian felt as if she could truly see the hero reaching out with his sword, but the illusion vanished in an instant. Looking at the eye in her hand again, there was no life or movement; it was just an ordinary stone.

After the fragments were picked up, the mechanical dog on the ground stared longingly at the camera. Seeing this, Gu Mian threw the fragments back to it. It looked at them for a couple of moments, then seemed to lose interest and left.

Looking at the mechanical dog at her feet, Gu Mian suddenly thought of a question: "By the way, why wasn't this dog reverted to its previous state?"

At this time, it should be sorting packages at the bird thief delivery point on NPC Street, but five world rollbacks haven't been able to revert it back.

Is it because it has something special about it? Or is it because it was brought about by itself and therefore was not affected by the rollback?

If it's the second possibility, then the delivery truck he drove should still be parked outside the forest.

Gu Mian wanted to take this dog to 007.

Her profession is beast tamer, a rather peculiar one. She has to complete a prerequisite quest to officially unlock the profession: taming a "beast."

Therefore, he specially went to the supermarket to carefully select a goose for 007.

But 007's mission has made no progress after so long, which shows that the goose hasn't been of much use. When Gu Mian encountered this dog in the Paradise World, she felt that it could barely be considered a "beast," so she planned to bring it along and give it to 007 after they met up.

Gu Mian had already thought of a name. The dog was all black, so she could call it Xiao Hei (Little Black), which would correspond perfectly to the goose's name, Xiao Bai (Little White).

However, it's unclear whether this thing qualifies as a living organism or whether it can be brought back to the real world.

Gu Mian wanted to study the little black dog in front of him, but his immediate priority was to tell Chu Changge and 007 about the time-travel incident. He also planned to go find Killer; he figured Killer probably wouldn't recognize him now.

The author has run out of ideas! He's racked his brains for a chapter title but can't come up with anything, so he'll just stick with a repetition! Everyone's probably forgotten there was a previous chapter title, so it doesn't count as a repetition! Gu Mian's chibi avatar is already on the character page; you can see it by going to the character page!

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