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Chapter 771 Evil God Figurine
Gu Mian dragged Sha Lu up the stairs, and after running for an unknown amount of time, she finally saw the end of the stairs.

The end was also dimly lit, with two flickering wall lamps attached to the wall at the end of the stairs, illuminating the hinged door above.

Once you climb over that hinged door, you'll be safe.

For some reason, those ominous talk of killing haven't come true yet, and the two of them are still safe and sound—as long as nothing unexpected happens on the way from here to the hinged door.

Killer also seemed somewhat confused, his brow furrowed in puzzlement, as if wondering why his wish hadn't come true this time.

"Are they going to deliver the final blow? Will the hinged door be stuck? Or will it explode and blow us all down with it?"—This thought flashed through his mind for a moment. He knew he shouldn't be thinking about these things, so he immediately controlled himself and tried his best not to think about such unlucky things, instead trying to think about other things to distract himself.

He subconsciously thought of the people he knew, their faces swirling in his mind—faces of Xu Xingcheng, upper-class people, and lower-class people.

At this moment, Gu Mian had already quickly led him to the door of the loose-leaf door.

The hinged door led to the stairs, which Gu Mian could reach with a simple reach. He reached out, touched the door, and pushed it upwards.

Killing came to his senses and reached into his pocket, but the hinged door in front of him opened slightly as soon as he put his hand in.

Killer stared at the hinged door that Gu Mian had pushed open, his expression stiffening for a moment.

"Let's go," Gu Mian said, pulling Sha Lu towards the door. She tried to pull him but couldn't budge him. Turning back, she saw him staring blankly at the hinged door. "What's wrong?"

"It's alright." Sha Lu immediately composed himself and quickly climbed out with Gu Mian.

After climbing up the hinged door, they returned to the living room on the second floor. As soon as they came up, they looked back at the hinged door and saw that it had slowly closed by itself again.

As the hinged door slowly closed, Killer's expression became somewhat complicated.

Gu Mian felt that today was the luckiest day of her life. With the double blessing of the evil god statue and her own bad luck buff, she was able to return from underground unharmed.

Thinking about it, he looked at the hinged door behind him.

There was no sound from under the hinged door, and the stairs below haven't collapsed yet.

"Where are my keys? Where are my keys? Where are my keys?"

He had only looked at the hinged door for a few seconds when he heard a familiar voice.

This sentence, this voice...

He looked in the direction of the sound and saw the fat man he had conjured earlier still standing in the living room, rummaging in his pocket for his missing key.

This fat guy was accidentally created by Gu Mian before the world was reverted. She didn't expect that even after the world was reverted, the fat guy she created would still be there.

"Won't the fulfilled wish disappear when the game is rolled back...?" Gu Mian wondered, watching the fat man looking for the key.

Gu Mian wanted to ask Sha Lu, but then she thought that Sha Lu didn't know the answer to this question either. Sha Lu couldn't retain the memories before the save file was saved, so he naturally didn't know if the wish that was fulfilled would disappear when the save file was reverted.

"Are you Gu Mian?" Sha Lu quickly calmed himself down, pushed the fat man standing in the middle of the living room aside, and turned to look at Gu Mian.

Although it was said to be an inquiry, the tone was very certain.

He had asked this question once before underground, but Gu Mian was too busy running uphill to answer it.

"You seem to have a lot of feelings for me, recognizing me twice in a row." Gu Mian dusted off the dust on her collar.

After hearing Gu Mian's words, Killer paused for a moment: "How did we meet last time?" He could now basically guess that Gu Mian was brought underground by him, but that part of the memory was no longer in his mind.

"I met you when I was delivering packages on my tricycle. We hit it off immediately, had drinks together, and you even made a will saying you'd leave all your inheritance to me. Unfortunately, the will you made before the world went back in time is gone. Why don't you make another one?" Gu Mian said briefly, also wanting to take away the legacy of the killings.

Upon hearing this, Killer's eyebrows twitched involuntarily, clearly indicating that he did not believe Gu Mian's subsequent nonsense.

Before he could retort, Gu Mian immediately asked, "How did you know the world had rolled back? Judging from the timeline, it seems you noticed the rollback as soon as it happened and rushed underground."

Just as Shalu was about to call Gu Mian shameless, he also had many questions for her.

But the interruption brought his thoughts back to what Gu Mian had said: "It seems I didn't tell you last time that I have a way to identify world rollbacks within a certain period of time."

"any solution?"

"I'll see when I get up there. There's something like a calendar that can help me tell the time," Killer said, lifting his foot to walk up the stairs to the second floor.

Gu Mianlai then saw the stairs leading to the second floor, but he didn't go up. It turned out there was a magical calendar up there.

Gu Mian followed the carnage.

As he walked upwards, Killer said, "Ever since they learned that the world could revert to its previous state, the upper class has become very sensitive about it. The fact that the world can revert to its previous state without people's knowledge is terrifying to them, so they have tried many methods to record the world's reversion."

Gu Mian guessed that the "calendar" he mentioned was probably made from scraps of the evil god statue, since the evil god statue was the only thing in this world that was unaffected by rollbacks.

Sure enough, Killing continued: "People realized that the statues were in the 'uncontrollable range' of the rollback and would not roll back due to the rollback, so they used the statue fragments to make stone slabs and engraved the date on them every day."

"If one day we discover that the latest date on the screen is not today but in the future, then it means the world has gone backwards."

They had carved the future into these stone tablets, but unfortunately, after the rollback, those futures could only be preserved on stone tablets made from fragments.

"But those stone slabs were too heavy and inconvenient to carve each time. The upper class came up with an even simpler way: to make the fragments into numbers from zero to nine, and to record the date by arranging these numbers."

At this moment, Gu Mian had followed Sha Lu to the second floor, and he also saw the "stone number" that Sha Lu had mentioned.

Compared to the first floor, the second floor is smaller, with only one room, and the room is much simpler.

Inside, there was a bed, a desk, and a string of stone numbers on the desk.

Gu Mian took a few steps forward and saw the string of numbers on the table.

"974, 12, 10"

These stone numbers, each about the size of a palm, are neatly arranged in a transparent box on the table, with two sections in the middle forming three groups of numbers.

"Is it the date?"

“It’s the date.” Killer also came up behind Gu Mian and looked at the string of stone numbers on the table. “It represents December 10th, 974 in the previous calendar.”

Gu Mian guessed that "Shangli" was a name that the upper class came up with, and the name's temperament matched theirs.

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