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Chapter 780 A Warm Welcome to Mr. Beng's Arrival at the Game City
At this moment, Dai Huanhuan, who was leading the way, stopped and said, "We're here."

arrive?

Gu Mian gathered her thoughts and looked up.

I found myself standing in front of a shop with a large sign above it that read "Shangjiutian Zhuobie Photo Studio".

However, the photo studio was closed at the moment, and looking through the glass door, you could see that the main door was locked from the inside.

Inside, there was only a counter, a sofa, and a small door with the words "Workshop" written on it.

Gu Mian remained silent for a few seconds.

The killing led him to seek help from the photo studio manager, who must have already notified him, but the manager locked the shop from the inside.

Surely they didn't know I was coming from the killing and locked the door on purpose?
007 also noticed the lock hanging inside the glass door. She glanced back at Gu Mian's expression, then shifted her gaze to the guitar case behind Gu Mian: "The door is locked from the inside. There should be someone in the store."

Gu Mian understood what she meant.

If all else fails, you can use a chainsaw to pick the lock.

Just as he was pondering whether to knock politely or force his way in, a tall figure suddenly appeared in the shop. The man was hurriedly carrying a display screen out of the work area, not immediately noticing the customers waiting outside the door.

Seeing that the people inside hadn't noticed her, Gu Mian decided to kindly call out to remind them, "Hello."

Unexpectedly, Gu Mian's "hello" was very powerful. The person inside was so frightened that they trembled as if they had heard a ghost's cry, and their hand almost dropped the monitor to the ground.

He exclaimed "Ouch!" twice and quickly placed the screen on the counter in the store. Then he immediately turned around to look at Gu Mian and the others gathered outside the door.

The tall man's gaze first lingered on Chu Changge, then swept over him before revealing a look of despair, as if to say, "Just as I thought." It seemed he had recognized Chu Changge's identity.

Then his gaze fell on 007, and he looked around at him, his expression becoming even more desperate.

Both Chu Changge and 007's portraits are in "A Guide to Avoiding Dangerous People (8th Edition)," so it's not surprising that they can be recognized.

Gu Mian still had the disguise of a mustache on his face, and the shopkeeper couldn't tell which of the remaining people was him for a moment.

"Is that you, Gu Mian?" He looked at Dai Huanhuan, who was at the front. He thought the person in front looked shifty and suspicious.

Dai Huanhuan silently retreated to the back.

"No?" He then looked at the bright light at the very back. "Is it you? Gu Mian?"

Mingliang was looking around at the bustling second floor and all sorts of strange creatures when he was suddenly called upon. He looked up at the people in the shop with a somewhat bewildered expression.

“It’s not this one either…” Finally, the shop manager’s gaze fell on the little black dog at 007’s feet. “Then it must be you, Gu Mian.”

Xiao Hei tilted the camera and asked, "Are you happy?"

Gu Mian finally couldn't stand it anymore. She stepped forward and stood right next to the door, removing the mustache that was part of her disguise: "I'm here."

The tall man, as if suddenly realizing there was another person there, was so startled that he took a step back.

But he wasn't shocked for long.

After confirming that the person in front of him was indeed Gu Mian, the tall man inside immediately unlocked the door, pushed it open, and then pulled Gu Mian inside.

Gu Mian had never been treated so warmly by an NPC before, and she was completely stunned when she was suddenly pulled inside.

Seeing Gu Mian being pulled inside, 007 took a few steps forward, wanting to follow, but before he could reach the door, the tall man slammed the door shut: "You guys wait outside."

Then he locked the door again and drew the curtain from the inside to block out all sight, as if he and Gu Mian were about to do something shady inside. 007, her raised foot dangling in mid-air, turned back to Chu Changge, somewhat puzzled: "What is he doing…?"

To be honest, this was the first time she had ever seen an NPC so enthusiastic towards Gu Mian, turning them away and eager to be alone with Gu Mian.

“They probably have something they don’t want us to hear,” Chu Changge didn’t react much. “Anyway, it’s others who are in danger being alone with Gu Mian, so don’t worry.”

007 nodded, agreeing with Chu Changge's point.

Besides, Ju Zi went in with Gu Mian, so if something bad happens, Gu Mian will have someone to help.

Meanwhile, in the photo studio just a door away, Gu Mian, who hadn't yet figured out what was going on, was suddenly pushed onto the sofa.

He looked up at the photo studio owner in front of him.

The man was tall and slender, older than average, with a few strands of white hair mixed in with his meticulously combed hair.

He was dressed in suit trousers and a white shirt, with a brown plaid vest over them. He looked quite presentable, mature and composed, but the expression on his face told a different story.

He already had a few wrinkles on his face, but now those wrinkles became even deeper because of his tightly furrowed brows.

Gu Mian also saw large beads of sweat sliding down his forehead, flowing down along the deep wrinkles, and flowing to the crow's feet that were also pinched up.

Only then did Gu Mian notice that his eyes were fixed on her.

"You should have realized the problem by now, right?" the man suddenly said to Gu Mian out of the blue.

Gu Mian sat on the sofa, shifting her weight slightly back to avoid getting sweat on her: "I noticed something's not quite right."

Although the question seemed absurd, Gu Mian almost immediately understood what he was asking.

The man was asking about making wishes. Since he knew about the killing, he probably knew that the evil god statue was a wish-granting machine.

Theoretically, when he arrived at the NPC street, he had already left the wishing area of ​​the evil god statue, but at that time, the motorcycle was still turned into a four-wheeled vehicle at his strong request.

"I suspect the evil god statue may have come out with me."

His biggest suspect now is the new leaf brooch that Killer gave him, since this is the only thing he brought out from Killer.

Upon hearing this, the man pursed his lips, said nothing, and simply took a few steps back to the photo studio counter.

The monitor he had just put up stood on the counter.

He reached out and touched the side of the screen, then turned it on, seemingly to show Gu Mian something.

Gu Mian stared at the screen curiously, wondering what he was going to show her.

There are things that can't be described verbally, so they have to bring out a special screen and keep everyone else out of the room to watch.

It must be a very important document, like something like "Paradise World Five-Star Confidential Document" or "Secret Collection of Killings".

In an instant, countless earth-shattering secrets flashed through Gu Mian's mind.

So when the cartoon started playing on the screen, he was speechless.

"So you kept them outside and went to all the trouble of setting up a screen here just to show me cartoons?"

He was so shocked to sit up on the first day of August that he stopped updating his blog—a truly despicable, intermittent resurrection!