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Chapter 788 Wishing everyone a Happy Qixi Festival!
"The footage recorded by these viewing cameras is being broadcast live on one of the upper-class people's television channels." As 007 read this part of the encyclopedia, Chu Changge, sitting across the long table, suddenly pulled out a remote control.

It's a TV remote.

He pressed a button on the television hanging above the library wall, and the television immediately displayed a picture.

In fact, Gu Mian noticed the TV hanging on the wall when he first entered the library. He didn't quite understand why there would be a TV in the library, but he didn't ask any questions. What if it was just the librarian's personal preference?
As she spoke, Gu Mian looked at the librarian by the counter at the entrance.

The library should be a quiet place, but Gu Mian and her two companions were loudly plotting about the trial of the variety show. The librarian was furious but dared not speak out and could only suppress his anger.

Now, Chu Changge has gone even further and turned on the television, which has fueled the librarian's anger even more, but he can only pretend not to see it.

“There will be live recordings of these devices on the viewing platform.” Chu Changge operated the remote control and skillfully switched to the viewing platform channel. He explained to Gu Mian, “I have been observing these devices here for the past few days. I found that they wait outside the lower-class residential area before 10 a.m. every day to be loaded with food, and they will enter their respective lower-class residential area on time at 10 a.m..”

The viewing platform is composed of countless small screens, resembling a series of surveillance cameras seen in a monitoring control room.

At the very top, there is a numbered selection area. Chu Changge used the remote control to select the area above: "In order to make it easier for viewers to find the viewing screen they want to see, the upper class has specially divided the area into layers of numbers."

Chu Changge first clicked into the range of "viewer 1000 to 2000".

Next, click on the "Viewer 1000 to 1500" range.

Finally, click into the "Viewer 1000 to 1100" range.

They quickly found the live stream on viewer 1058.

It is 9:05 a.m., and these viewing devices are not loaded with food and have not yet started working.

"After observing for the past few days, I've found that the work area of ​​Viewer 1058 is exactly Spider Leg Street No. 1, where you, Gu Mian, belong with your lowly status. The variety show starts tomorrow, so you need to go to Spider Leg Street No. 1 today. That'll be perfect for completing Viewer 1058's delivery task." Chu Changge had already planned it out for Gu Mian.

"It's decided then. It's already 9:05. The viewing device will be working soon, so we need to hurry up and deliver the half-bucket of leftovers to No. 1058." Gu Mian had originally planned to go to Spider Leg Street to lie in wait today.

He told Chu Changge and 007 to stay at the game center until the third stage of the variety show started, and then they could enter the venue with the upper-class audience.

However, Spider Leg Street is different from Mantis Street and Rat Street. It is a relatively strict residential area for the lower classes, and the lower classes cannot come and go freely. So, to get in, the mad building manager has to send Gu Mian in.

Of course, the crazy building manager was more than willing to do this; he had been waiting for this day for a long time.

"Really! You're leaving today!" When Gu Mian found him on the first floor, the crazy building manager's eyes lit up with hope, and his gloomy expression vanished.

"Then let's go quickly!" Before Gu Mian could answer, the crazy building manager grabbed Gu Mian's hand impatiently and rushed towards the building entrance. "Although I'm very reluctant, my car is already waiting at the door!"

As he was leaving, he even put on an act with Gu Mian, saying things like "I'm reluctant to leave" and "I feel so attached," but he never said "I'll come again next time."

People in the surrounding shops also heard the conversation between the two and peeked out to see Gu Mian off with expectant eyes. These past few days, Gu Mian's stay at Crazy Game City had made customers afraid to come here, and the shop managers, who had no income, sighed every day and dreamed about when Gu Mian would leave.

Some people are happy, while others are reluctant to part with it.

Standing by the railing on the second floor, Dai Huanhuan watched Gu Mian leave with the crazy building manager, feeling uneasy.

Gu Mian told him to go outside the venue after the third stage of the variety show started and steal all the wealth of the upper-class audience members. There were storage lockers outside the variety show venue where the audience members' valuables would be stored to prevent them from being lost in the audience.

Although Gu Mian assured Dai Huanhuan that he would not be held accountable afterward, Dai Huanhuan remained skeptical.

He was unaware that Gu Mian planned to take everyone in the audience with her, which made him somewhat conflicted.

“This place is wonderful…” came a voice from the side.

Dai Huanhuan's attention was drawn to the man beside her.

The person next to him was Mingliang, who had been accidentally brought into this world by Gu Mian. When he came in, his clothes were dirty and messy, and his hair was so long that it was tangled. He looked exactly like a beggar.

These past few days, Gu Mian entrusted him to Dai Huanhuan, who then took Mingliang to get a haircut, a bath, and a clean set of clothes.

Mingliang finally revealed his true colors. He was a young man in his early twenties, but his face bore the marks of vicissitudes that did not match his age.

Mingliang didn't notice Gu Mian leaving below; instead, he was marveling at the safe and warm gaming city.

In the real world, he was starving and freezing, and could only get a few meager resources by entering terrifying dungeons. His girlfriend also died in one of these dungeons.

However, the resources obtained from entering a dungeon once cannot sustain one's basic needs for long. One must repeatedly enter, repeatedly escape, and repeatedly fight against the ghosts in order to survive.

He no longer wanted to recall how many instances he had experienced; the thought of what he had gone through filled him with deep fear. Mingliang had originally thought he would spend his entire life like this, until he died in an instance or starved to death in the real world.

But now he has found a pure land, a paradise!
There are no ghosts here, and no danger.

Although there were some oddly shaped people, they were not hostile towards me.

I wish I could stay here forever.

He no longer wants to return to the real world.

Thinking of Mingliang, he turned to look at Dai Huanhuan across from him, hesitant to speak.

He wanted to ask someone to let him stay, but he didn't know who to ask.

Dai Huanhuan saw the longing in his eyes and asked, "Do you want to stay here?"

His bright eyes lit up, and he nodded expectantly.

“No,” Dai Huanhuan rejected Liang Ming’s idea.

He knew that Mingliang was from the real world, and the NPCs here didn't actually like him. The only reason they weren't bothering Mingliang was because of Gu Mian's intimidation. After all, this person had come with Gu Mian, and no one wanted to be courting death.

But once Gu Mian leaves the paradise, Mingliang will probably be thrown into the lower-class crowd by the NPCs here, since their lower-dimensional world and Earth are mortal enemies.

Mingliang was unaware of the status of the lower class in this world, and did not know what it meant to be a lower class.

but……

What was Dai Huanhuan thinking?

Is risking your life to enter a dungeon on Earth really better than staying in this world as a lowly person?

He couldn't immediately decide which was worse, so the choice was still in Mingliang's hands.

He knew that if Mingliang wanted to stay, Gu Mian wouldn't force him to leave.

“Let’s wait and see,” Dai Huanhuan said to Mingliang, “Let’s wait for the variety show that’s starting tomorrow.”

It's not too late to let Mingliang clearly understand the plight of the lower classes in this world before making a choice.

Qixi Festival is here, and a fortune teller has set up a small stall in an apartment, selling "red threads of love at first sight".

According to the fortune teller, if you tie a red thread to someone's body tonight, they will never be separated.

Of course, that sounds nice, but whether it's actually effective is another matter...

Xiao Qiao, who was passing by first, spotted the stall, immediately unfurled a three-meter-long red string, and shouted, "Gu Mian, I have something good for you!" before leaving.

Chu Changge, the second person to pass by the stall, ignored the childish stall and walked straight away.

The fat man who came to watch the commotion stood in front of the stall and pondered: "If I were to tie my doctor, Brother Chu, Miss 007, Miss Xiao Qiao, Miss Xiao Hong, Miss Fortune Teller, and my brother together, wouldn't we be together forever?"

Upon hearing his name called, the fortune teller silently took a step back.

Just then, a ruthless bandit in red suddenly jumped out, swept away all the red thread on the stall, and then leaped away.

The fortune teller and the fat man were left standing there dumbfounded.

Because there were no couples in the apartment, the night of Qixi Festival was very quiet. Gu Mian covered herself with the blanket in the quiet night: "Today is another peaceful day."

But this peace did not last long. In the middle of the night, Gu Mian tried to turn over but could not move.

He woke up uneasily, looking in confusion at his unable-to-move body.

Immediately, an angry voice shattered the tranquility of the Qixi Festival night—

"Who tied me up like a dumpling!"

Welcome everyone to Auntie's Qixi Festival Mini-Theater! But as a writer, I can only write 500 words! Oh my god, I'm out of words! It's so rushed! So rushed!