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Chapter 863 Stealing Thoughts Through a Hole in the Wall
"The first draft of the Upper Class Protection Law has been officially passed!"

"Officially approved!"

"by!"

Time slowed down, the sound was stretched out infinitely, and finally the syllables almost stopped.

In the end, Gu Mian could only hear a long "pass" sound flowing in her ears, a sound that seemed to have no beginning and no end.

In this almost still world, the game panel that Gu Mian had been longing for finally reappeared.

A rudimentary control panel appeared before Gu Mian without warning, unlike the game panels she had seen before, which had neat borders, background colors, and clean lettering.

The panel looks quite rudimentary, with only a crooked square frame around it, which looks like it was drawn casually.

The panel has no background color; it's completely transparent.

Several lines of ugly writing floated on the transparent background, appearing to be written by someone else.

The words rose and fell against the transparent background. Because the handwriting was somewhat ugly, and they kept moving, it took Gu Mian a long time to recognize what the words were.

[Achieve the ending 'Stealing from the Upper Class by Drilling a Hole in the Wall']

"Come on everyone! Once we break through this wall, we can go and take down the upper class next door. Wait, why am I the one next door?"

Abstract fonts pieced together form an abstract ending.

But at least it has an ending, and Gu Mian can finally be freed from this awkward fairy tale.

As the story came to its conclusion, like the spotlight on a stage going out, the surrounding environment slowly darkened.

It's time to take the final bow.

But Gu Mian forgot that after one performance, another performance often follows immediately.

The darkness didn't last long before the spotlights on the stage came back on, and just like the first time, a tiny point of light, about the size of a peanut, appeared in the darkness. Then, the point of light suddenly illuminated the surroundings, allowing him to see his environment.

Before he could even turn around to look around, a familiar voice reached his ears.

"With the brave warrior Gu Mian here, we will surely defeat the evil upper class!"
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"The doctor has been missing for two days, and there's still no news." In the apartment, the fat man sat on the sofa, his chin resting on his hand and his face drooping, thinking about Gu Mian, whose whereabouts were unknown.

The good news is that Gu Mian's name is still in their friend list and in the ten-person group chat, which means that Gu Mian is not dead.

The bad news is that Gu Mian cannot be contacted either from the friend list or from the [10-person group chat].

The fortune teller was sitting to the side, diligently performing divination.

The fat man asked her to divine Gu Mian's location ten times a day, and she was currently performing her fifth divination of the day.

As the divination tools in her hands began to crack, the attempt ended in failure.

The fortune teller touched the bluestone slab in his hand. This was a special item called the "Omen Slab," which could only be used by those who were professional fortune tellers.

This wasn't something she obtained that was special; it was something 007 grew from the "mysterious seed."

The Ghost Expo dungeon was considered a perfect clear. The four who left—Fatty, 007, Coco, and Xie Bian—all received the reward for finishing in the bottom four—a mysterious seed and 100 game coins.

The Mysterious Seed is used to plant in the soil, and when it matures, it will randomly drop a rare and special item.

This omen tablet is what fell from 007's mysterious seed after it matured.

Since 007's expertise was not relevant to her job, the oracle stone was of no use to her, so she gave it to the fortune teller.

The oracle tablets can answer the questions posed by the diviner, but their answers are not spoken; they are mostly expressed in words and pictures on the tablets.
The simpler the problem, the more accurate the written and pictorial representation will be. The more difficult the problem, the more vague the written and pictorial representation will be.

Each question will only be answered once by the omen tablet.

For example, if a fortune teller asks what one plus one equals, a clear and distinct "two" will appear on the stone slab. If the fortune teller asks again what one plus one equals, the stone slab will not answer again.

After obtaining the stone tablet, the fortune teller also used it to inquire about 007's parents and the movements of Renle Mountain.

The stone tablet did not answer the question about 007's parents, but the fortune teller had a pretty good idea of ​​the answer.

Regarding the movements of Renle Mountain, the stone slab provided a drawing, which only depicted a dog.

The fortune teller didn't know what the dog meant, but she saw 007 freeze when she saw it, as if she recognized the dog.

007 didn't say anything at the time, but silently returned to her own room.

During the days that Gu Mian was missing, the fortune teller also used the stone tablet to divine Gu Mian's location. If the question was too difficult, the stone tablet would refuse to answer.

The fortune teller has asked the stone slab many times these past few days, "Where is Gu Mian?"

But the slab never gave a reply. Because it never answered, the diviner could keep asking.

Perhaps it was tired of being asked the question by the fortune teller, because when the fortune teller asked it the same question again today, it cracked...

Fortunately, it wasn't a big problem; it only cracked slightly.

The fortune teller touched the cracks on the stone slab with some heartache. It seemed that he couldn't ask it any more questions about Gu Mian for a while, otherwise the stone slab might end up like the first crystal ball he bought.

"Another failure, Miss Fortune Teller?" The fat man looked dejectedly at the prophecy slab in the fortune teller's hand, which had a crack in it. "Even the fortune-telling tools have cracked this time..."

"Hmm... In the past, when I divined about Gu Mian, I mostly didn't get any answers, but not like this time, where I haven't received any information for several days in a row. I've also tried other divination methods to divine about Gu Mian these past few days, but no matter what I divine, I haven't gotten any clues."

In the past few days, he has even asked idiotic questions like "What color clothes is Gu Mian wearing today?", "Is Gu Mian's name Gu Mian?", and "Is Gu Mian male or female?".

But even with such an obvious question, no divination result was obtained.

This means that Gu Mian may be "blocked" by some kind of entity.

"By the way, wasn't the leaf brooch that allowed you to enter the Ghost Expo instance given to you by someone called Evil God? Gu Mian also buried herself in the ground after hearing his message, which is why she didn't leave the instance with you."

The fortune teller speculated, "It's highly likely that he took Gu Mian somewhere else. I heard from you that the evil god seems to have a good relationship with Gu Mian. If Gu Mian was really taken away by him, she shouldn't be in any danger."

"Brother Chu and I also think that the evil god took the doctor away," the fat man replied. "Although I also think that the doctor is not in any danger, it is always unsettling to be without any news of him, and we don't know when the doctor will be able to come back."

More than worrying about Gu Mian, the fortune tellers were actually more worried about themselves. Before teaming up with Gu Mian, they were considered the wise ones in their original team, possessing mysterious and unpredictable divination skills and a quick mind, always able to predict the ghost's next move and lead everyone out of danger in advance.

Although he faced the danger of death every moment, he managed to develop his brain to the fullest extent and escape danger with his intelligence at the most critical moment.

But ever since I teamed up with Gu Mian, my brain seems to have started to rust.

It seems like daily life has become just eating, sleeping, and mindlessly grinding through dungeons.

In the dungeon, you don't need to use your brain or experience the thrill of escaping before; you just wait to receive compensation.

Even the divination method she usually uses most often in dungeons to track ghost movements is now basically useless. Now her skills are mainly used to find things, find people, and find Gu Mian's shirt that Xiao Hong secretly hid.

Upon realizing this, the fortune teller immediately became alert.

The game's initial theme was supposed to be about evolution, but it feels like I've regressed instead of evolving since meeting Gu Mian.

Then look at the other people around you.

A fat guy who just eats and waits to die, a female celebrity who only knows how to cause violent destruction, a stoic guy who doesn't utter a sound unless a ghost is right in front of him, and a cloaked monster who only knows how to look cool in a cloak in dungeons.

Good heavens, just imagine how the old, weak, sick and disabled will survive if Gu Mian really leaves in the future.

It feels like the world would explode if Gu Mian weren't around for even a day.

Gu Mian didn't know if the people outside had exploded, but he himself was about to explode.

He finally led the lower class to overthrow the upper class, and then the game results page appeared.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the checkout page disappeared, he found that he had reopened the app.

The familiar scenes and lines are back; he has once again become Gu Mian, the warrior who started with nothing.

Although she had long anticipated the possibility of reopening, Gu Mian still couldn't help but feel irritable when it actually reopened.

Fortunately, this time the evil god thoughtfully erased everyone's memories, making people forget everything that happened before.

Gu Mian thought that the reason why the "stealing from the wall to the upper class" ending was achieved last time was largely due to the fact that the lower class people retained their past memories. This time, the memories have been erased, but everyone still retains their beautiful hearts, so the ending should be different.

In this storyline, the lower-class people are no longer timid and hesitant as they were at the beginning last time. They are full of enthusiasm and confidence, and genuinely believe that Gu Mian Warrior can lead them to victory.

Just like last time, the fight scenes in this script are still like child's play, and there is even a famous scene where Gu Mian throws a stone and knocks down dozens of upper-class people.

In short, after two days of effort, Gu Mian finally arrived outside the City of Joy once again.

Slaughter and torture awaited him here once again.

Judging from their tired expressions, the two of them probably hadn't forgotten what happened before the timeline went back.

Exhausted, the three put on another ridiculously fake show, just like last time. In the end, Gu Mian grabbed the killing with one hand and the torture with the other, claiming that he had successfully defeated the two founders of the upper class and that the era of the upper class was over.

The lower classes cheered again, just like last time.

Gu Mian led the two people back into the conference hall behind them, waiting for the settlement to take place soon.

He didn't think this was the final settlement.

Upon entering the conference room, Gu Mian didn't speak to the two people next to her. Instead, she sat down on the bench in the center of the room and rubbed her temples, which were throbbing with pain.

“We are repeating his previous experience.” At this moment, Killer also came up and sat down next to Gu Mian. His eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like he hadn’t slept well for the past few days.

“This time, both the upper and lower classes have lost their previous memories, so the outcome will probably be different from last time.” Gu Mian gave the order to find Xu Xingcheng from the beginning, but they still haven’t found the person they are looking for.

"After this... will it start again?" Killer hesitated. This ending was more perfect than the last one. Everyone had lost their original memories, and no one had yet witnessed the ugliness of the world that would follow. Their hearts had not yet been corrupted.

The outcome this time should be different from the last one.

"What's different from before?" the torturer beside him spoke up. "What's so precious about something gained in just two days? The lower classes only think it's their due, their confidence and vanity will swell infinitely, they'll greedily devour the whole world, even faster and more ruthlessly than the upper classes;"

"What's the difference between the victory of the inferior and the initial victory of the superior? It's just that whoever wins is the superior. Don't you understand? This world has been corrupted from the root, and no matter how many times it starts over, the ending will be pretty much the same."

He was a true prophet.

Time began to speed up again, and the phantoms moved back and forth in the conference room. This time, the lower-class people changed their names to upper-class people even faster, and even erased their previous humiliating history.

They felt ashamed of their past as "inferior people" and tried to erase all traces of their existence from the very beginning.

It's as if the lower classes were originally the upper classes, and the upper classes were originally the lower classes.

Gu Mian almost burst out laughing as she watched the plot unfold.

He didn't even know what expression to wear as he watched all this.

The former upper class was reduced to slaves, even lower than the previous lower class. This time, they didn't even have a place to live. The lower class people believed that the lowly and ugly slaves were not worthy of living on the ground, so they simply dug a hole for them and drove them all in.

After a long wait, Gu Mian finally saw the settlement panel.

[Achieve the ending 'Repeating the Same Mistakes (Part 1)']

【Huh? You're asking why there's a 'one' at the end? Well, it's because there's a series of 'two, three, four, five, six' after that!】

Oh shit.

This is infuriating.

If the evil god were in front of him right now, Gu Mian was sure he would punch him to death.

But his fists had nowhere to strike, and he could only watch as the curtain fell on the stage, only to be lifted again.

It's a familiar recipe, and it's a familiar taste.

He heard that familiar phrase again.

"With the brave warrior Gu Mian here, we will surely defeat the evil upper class!"

Gugu, this chapter is almost four thousand words long! Gugu is really amazing!