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Chapter 778 "A Guide to Avoiding Dangerous Individuals (8th Edition)"

"Thorn-"

The screeching sound of brakes echoed through the street.

Dai Huanhuan, who was behind, didn't notice and bumped her head into Gu Mian's back, which hurt a lot.

He reached up and rubbed his forehead, dissatisfied but not daring to question, and could only ask in a low voice, "Why did you suddenly stop?"

"Are you sure there's never been a fortune teller on your street?" Gu Mian turned to look at him.

Dai Huanhuan nodded quickly: "I'm sure. I moved out of a street in the original sealed-off area. I was there when the street was built, and there have never been any fortune tellers here."

Gu Mian fell into deep thought.

The last time he came here, he ran into the NPC who ran the fortune-telling stall. He even kindly pointed out the direction of the forbidden zone for him. Thanks to him, he was able to find the killing and evil god statues in the forbidden zone.

But now Dai Huanhuan says there have never been any fortune tellers on this street?

The man wasn't from this street, yet he lied about his identity and gave directions to Gu Mian, as if he had come here specifically to wait for him.

Who is he? Why did he do this?
Gu Mian had many questions in her mind.

Just then, the mechanical dog, Xiao Hei, poked its head out from the large tank behind it and uttered its classic line, "Are you happy?"

Dai Huanhuan turned around and looked at the large vat behind her.

He'd wanted to complain about this cylinder for a long time. Putting a cylinder on the back of a motorcycle, what kind of design is that?

Moreover, there was a dog in the jar, but he dared not question Gu Mian's aesthetic sense and could only swallow his great doubts alone.

correct.

Gu Mian recalled that when she met the fortune teller at his stall, Xiao Hei was very rude, calling him "Hey" repeatedly. At the time, she wondered why, but now it seemed there might be some hidden story behind it.
"Do you know him?" Gu Mian looked at Xiao Hei's dog head.

It's called a dog head, but it's actually just a camera.

Unfortunately, like his brother, Xiao Hei only knows how to utter that one sentence.

Gu Mian couldn't get anything out of it, and could only lament why all the creatures around her seemed to stutter.

"According to the schedule, I should meet him tomorrow afternoon. If I wait here until tomorrow afternoon, I might run into him again, but it's not certain. He might not come this time."

Gu Mian looked up at the upside-down city in the sky behind her—didn't this happen last time?

This shows that things don't always go according to plan.

Moreover, Louis was to be executed in seven days, so he had no time to waste here.

Thinking of this, Gu Mian took another deep look at the location of the fortune-telling stall from last time, then got back on her motorcycle and continued driving towards the game center.

With Dai Huanhuan as her handy navigator, Gu Mian took shortcuts to avoid various upper-class and lower-class areas, and saw the game city building before dawn.

Because the game arcade was not located in the area frequented by the upper class, Chu Changge and 007 were not afraid of being arrested while they were in the vicinity. Gu Mian saw the two of them outside the gate of the game arcade from a distance while riding her bicycle.

His oddly shaped motorcycle attracted the attention of many NPCs around him, but since the people here all looked rather abstract, it didn't cause much of a stir.

When he stopped his motorcycle in front of Chu Changge and 007, 007 looked at the four-wheeled motorcycle with a water tank and gave him a complicated expression: "What is this vehicle of yours...?"

“I made it myself,” Gu Mian said, getting out of the car and going to the water tank in the back seat. She scooped the mechanical dog, Xiao Hei, out of the tank and shoved it into 007’s arms. “I found this dog on the roadside and named it Xiao Hei. I thought since you’re an animal trainer, it might be useful to you.” 007 and the dog in his arms stared at each other, speechless for a moment.

At this moment, Dai Huanhuan got out of the back seat awkwardly, nodded to Chu Changge and 007, and introduced herself in a low voice: "Hello, I'm Dai Huanhuan..."

He had seen these two people in "A Guide to Avoiding Dangerous People (8th Edition)". They were both Gu Mian's cronies. If you are lucky enough to meet one of them in your own instance, then congratulations, your promising career of working for someone who is bankrupt is about to begin.

Seeing the three of them gathered together, Dai Huanhuan's head was buzzing, and she felt a sense that she was about to die.

Chu Changge looked him up and down a few times, then turned her gaze to Gu Mian: "You also brought a useless NPC with you."

Upon hearing this, Dai Huanhuan lowered his head even further, realizing that he wasn't so useless after all.

"Didn't you bring someone with you too?" Gu Mian looked behind Chu Changge and 007, where a man dressed in tattered clothes and with a nervous expression was standing.

Gu Mian recognized him.

"Bright?"

His full name should be "A Man Who Is Bright But Not Dazzling".

The first time I saw him was in the Blizzard Mountain, Mirror World dungeon. He was very flamboyant at the time, and he had a love interest named a charming but unassuming woman by his side.

At that time, Gu Mian kindly named the two of them Mingliang and Xiao Zhang.

They didn't see each other again for a long time after that.

The second time we met was on Earth. By then, Mingliang had lost his former flamboyance and become taciturn and cautious. His hunched and timid figure didn't even seem like that of a young man.

Xiao Zhang also disappeared, no longer sticking to his side like before.

That time, Mingliang recognized them at the supermarket entrance but didn't dare to approach them and turned away.

I never expected to run into him for the third time so soon.

"Wait, how did you get in?"

When Gu Mian entered the Paradise World using Key No. 108 from the mysterious world, she made a special check to make sure there were no irrelevant people around.

“I asked him. He was in the amusement park at the time, not far from the main entrance. When you went to check the gate, he hid far away. After you finished checking and left, he ran back to the gate to peek. That’s how he got in. He even landed in the same area as me.”

Chu Changge had already sorted out the situation and was now reporting it with a straight face and no expression.

Gu Mian remembered that after she informed Chu Changge and 007 World of the time-lapse in the group chat, Chu Changge asked Gu Mian if he had mentioned anyone he had encountered last time.

Gu Mian's answer was no.

It seems that Chu Changge did not encounter Mingliang when he first entered this world. After the time rewind, Chu Changge may have spent more time considering some things, and the time difference led to the difference in events, which resulted in him encountering Mingliang, who had also entered this world.

At this moment, Mingliang rubbed his dirty hands and explained, "I'm sorry, I couldn't find a place to stay outside. When I saw the amusement park, I thought I'd find a ticket booth to stay at for the night. I thought as long as I had a roof and wouldn't get wet in the rain, that would be fine."

"But I unexpectedly discovered that the meter room in the amusement park... the kind of room with lots of meters, seemed to have been lived in by someone. They left soft mattresses there... I haven't felt the comfort of sleeping on a mattress in so long, so I wanted to stay a few more days."
"I never expected to see you at the gate, and I never expected something like this to happen when I got close..."

The meter room at Lianhua Amusement Park? Gu Mian knew he was probably referring to the power distribution room, where someone had lived before.
He thought of Ren Leshan, who had recently slipped away from the apartment.

007 had the same thought as him, and his expression faltered slightly.

Perhaps Gugu should publish a guide to avoiding dangerous Gugu, so that everyone can open the book and find it full of Gugu.