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Chapter 787 The Nicholas Family
"For a better viewing experience, the audience seats are not far from the stage. If I use key number 108 from up there, I can cover the entire audience seats and take you all with me. You won't have to go through the trouble of running to the stage to meet me," Gu Mian explained to Chu Changge and 007.

"Moreover, the mad building manager thoughtfully arranged the very front seats for the Nicholas family, so I'm only a little over a hundred meters away from you all on stage." Gu Mian pointed with a small wooden stick to a line on the drawing that connected the center of the stage to the first row of audience seats, with the distance between the two marked on it.

“One hundred and fifty meters.” Chu Changge looked at the distance marked on the map.

The stage alone has a radius of 130 meters, and there is a 20-meter-wide aisle between the stage and the first row of audience seats.

The teleportation range of key number 108 is within 500 meters, so those sitting in the first few rows don't need to worry about the range at all.

“Speaking of which,” 007 then raised a question, “in this world, using Key 108 will teleport all living beings within a 500-meter radius back to the real world. Since Chu Changge and I in the audience will be teleported back, wouldn’t those upper-class people around us…”

Wouldn't those upper-class people also be transported to the real world?

As she spoke, she looked at the line on the drawing that connected the center of the stage to the outermost row of audience seats.

Because those nine rows of seats were for distinguished VIPs, the seats were set up to be very spacious and were designed to resemble the original stadium seating structure, with the seats in the back rows being built higher to ensure that the audience in the back rows could not see the exciting stage.

The variety show "Trial and Crown" will be broadcast live, and people all over the world can watch it on their TVs in real time. The organizers of the show only sell a limited number of tickets, only about four hundred, because it would not look good to record too many crowds on TV.

However, none of these are the most important things. 007 looked at the line connecting the center of the stage to the outermost row of audience seats, which was marked as 250 meters long.

In other words, if Gu Mian uses Key 108 on stage, all the upper-class people in the audience will be transported into the real world.

“That’s right, just what you think.” Gu Mian nodded to her, confirming 007’s thoughts. He didn’t have the time to tell the upper class in the audience to run before using the key, and just take them back to Earth.

That's why Gu Mian assured Dai Huanhuan that Dai Huanhuan's theft of the upper class's things would never be exposed, since the victims had all been swept away and taken back to Earth by her.

How can this not be considered a thrilling isekai adventure?
The thought of hundreds of brave, elite individuals venturing into the world is incredibly inspiring.

The upper class has absolute power in the Paradise World, but in the Earth World they are just an ordinary group of people, and might even be robbed by passersby like Mr. Green.

Thinking about Mr. Green being robbed, 007 then thought of Renle Mountain.

He has disappeared and we don’t know where he has gone. Mingliang said there were signs of someone living in the power distribution room of Lianhua Amusement Park. We must ask Mingliang in more detail after we leave, and we must also search the power distribution room carefully.

Gu Mian also thought of Mr. Green: "He came in here with us, but we haven't seen him yet."

Gu Mian wandered around the game mall several times in the past few days, but did not see Mr. Green.

And I never saw Mr. Green on NPC Street.

The two largest gathering places for NPCs in Paradise World are Game City and NPC Street. If Mr. Green isn't in either of these places, he's probably ended up in the lower-class residential area.

Since he wasn't in the ten-person group chat, Gu Mian had no way of knowing his situation. "Yesterday I asked the crazy building manager if he had seen Mr. Green, and he said he hadn't." 007 shook his head.

Coincidentally, Gu Mian also went to ask the mad building manager about someone yesterday, the fortune teller she met on NPC Street.

The crazy building manager replied, "I'm extremely busy, who cares who's on that street that's about to go out of business!"

This person led me into the sealed-off area, where I encountered carnage and triggered a world rollback, much like the old man who triggers quests at the village entrance in a game.

But Dai Huanhuan said she had never seen this person on the street before.

Gu Mian even took the dog out of the guitar bag and asked it what it was. The dog barked and cried, saying it had never heard of fortune telling and begged Gu Mian not to put it back in the bag. It didn't want to share a room with that scary saw anymore.

"Was he deliberately leading me to the restricted area? Was he someone left behind by the evil god?"

Gu Mian thought it was unlikely; the person left behind by the evil god wouldn't be secretly guiding him like this.

Although she was eager to find out the person's identity, the variety show was starting tomorrow, and Gu Mian didn't have any extra time to waste on other things.

"Next time I see the evil god, I'll ask him if he knows the old man's identity," Gu Mian thought to herself.

At this moment, Chu Changge's voice came from across the table: "There is still one delivery mission in the Paradise with the address Observation Device 1058 that I haven't done. The item to be delivered is half a bucket of leftovers. I checked the map and Observation Device 1058 is not far outside Spider Leg Street 1."

“I also found out the purpose of this ‘viewing device’ in the library. Take a look.” Chu Changge pushed an open book over from across the table.

The book's cover is made of cardboard, with the title printed in gold: "The Encyclopedia of Paradise, Helping You Understand the World Faster."

It should be an encyclopedia specifically published for NPCs who come to this world to work.

Chu Changge opened the page, which was an introduction to the "viewing device," and there was a picture of it next to it.

"It's a mobile food station specifically for the lower classes, consisting of a smart metal box and a tray. The tray has four movable wheels, and the viewing device is two meters long, one meter wide, and waist-high. There are cameras on all four sides that can broadcast the surrounding area in real time..."

007 also came over to see the introduction about the viewing device: "The upper class usually puts leftover food into a tin box and then operates the viewing device to enter the living area of ​​the lower class. The lower class people know that this means food is coming, and they usually fight each other to monopolize the food in the tin box."

"When the upper class watches a great fight through the camera, they laugh and remotely release food from the metal box via a viewing device. Of course, if the fight isn't exciting, or if they encounter an upper class member in a bad mood, the viewing device won't release food."

“There are many viewing devices in the Paradise World, named with numbers. In the past, almost every area where the lower class lived had viewing devices. However, some lower class people were ungrateful and would damage the cameras during fights, or they would be unhygienic and dirty the viewing devices, making them difficult to clean.

"The upper class removed a large number of the viewing devices, and over time only the relatively clean, tidy, and well-mannered Spider Street had them left."

Damn it, it's not even 1 a.m. yet and it's not considered the second day!