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Chapter 866 We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Those born on stage know no escape; their entire lives are drama.

Even knowing they are on stage, they cannot find a way out, let alone change the stage that traps them.

But Gu Mian is different.

He can come off the stage and onto the stage, he can leave the stage, and he can even destroy the stage.

Thinking about this, he realized something: "So that's how it is. Every time I start over, I'm repeating the 'going on stage' step. I understand..."

"What are you saying?" Killer couldn't understand Gu Mian's words.

"I'm saying, I can save you, I can save this world." Gu Mian looked at the distant, blurry figures of the crowd.

Through countless struggles, one side of the group has seized control of the world's narrative. They appear happy and carefree, needing no one else's "saving" whatsoever.

But Gu Mian didn't care what they thought.

Whether or not they need to be saved is not up to them to decide.

Killer seemed to understand what Gu Mian wanted to do, and he took a deep breath.

"Can you do it?" He didn't look at Gu Mian, but only at the distant, jubilant crowd.

“I have stepped on and off the stage countless times, and I have been able to do it many times. But back then I didn’t know what was in front of me, but now I do.”

“It should have been like this a long time ago.” The tortured man lying on the ground spoke. The grass beneath him had turned into desert. He stared at the sky, motionless, half of his body buried in the desert. “This damn world should have been kicked out long ago. I don’t want to stay here for another second.”

As they spoke, the settlement panel in front of the three of them began to gradually become transparent.

The surroundings began to darken again.

Gu Mian watched as the faces of killing and torture around her gradually disappeared, and the cheers of the crowd in the distance grew fainter and fainter until they vanished completely.

Surrounded by darkness, Gu Mian knew this was a prelude to the story beginning again.

He knew he had now left the stage.

The familiar light spot lit up in front of Gu Mian again; this was a step she had to go through before each new beginning.

Gu Mian didn't know what it was before, but now he does.

He had heard cheers coming from this point of light; it was the sound of the world, the sound of the characters on stage.

This is Paradise World.

Although I don't know why it looks like this from the outside, I can't think about that now.

In a little while, it will draw back the curtain of light and envelop Gu Mian in the stage.

This time, Gu Mian didn't give it a chance to pull back the curtain.

The moment the point of light appeared, Gu Mian reached out and grabbed it tightly. He felt the point of light in his hand wanting to expand, to stretch, to devour him.

But Gu Mian held it tightly, not giving it any chance to bring people onto the stage.

Without light, Gu Mian was in boundless darkness.

He heard a cracking sound in the darkness, coming from his own hand.

He saw the shattered light spilling out from between his fingers, and he heard soft music coming from his hands, but gradually the light became dimmer and the music became softer.

He felt the world in his hands getting smaller and smaller, until it seemed to solidify into a physical entity.

After a long time, when Gu Mian was sure that the world in his hand had completely calmed down, he opened his hand and looked at it.

In my hand lay a… seed?
Wait, there's light?

I can see what I'm holding now.

Where did the light come from? Gu Mian looked up and around, but only saw an old tree trunk.

The tree trunk was enormous; the grooves on it were almost as wide as an arm.

Gu Mian didn't understand why a tree had suddenly appeared in front of him. He tried to take a few steps back to look at the trunk, but suddenly a feeling of weightlessness washed over him, and he felt as if he was falling.

The surrounding scenery kept changing before finally freezing in time.

"Doctor!" A voice that made my ears ring came from the fat man.

Gu Mian turned his head and looked around. He was in his room; he had returned to Earth. The fat man cried out in despair, "Doctor, you're finally back! Doctor, do you know how I've spent these past three years?"

Gu Mian turned to look at the calendar hanging on the wall. It was specially bought by Fatty to record the birthdays of the people in the apartment. Fatty carefully circled each person's birthday and wrote their name next to it so that he could remember everyone's birthday.

"Three years? Isn't it only three days?" Gu Mian looked at the calendar, which showed that only a few days had passed.

"It feels like three autumns have passed since I last saw you," the fat man quickly retorted.

Then he started circling around Gu Mian, looking her up and down: "Doctor, where have you been these past few days? We were terrified when we found you missing after we came out of the Ghost Expo instance."

"They went to the amusement park to play house."

"Playing house?" the fat man asked, puzzled. "How did the doctor get there? Did burying someone in the ground allow them to go to Paradise World?"

Gu Mian didn't know how he got to Paradise World. After being buried in the ground, he seemed to be floating in darkness until he touched the light of Paradise World.

The theme park is no longer in the same place.

Gu Mian looked down at her palm. Had it turned into a seed and been brought into the real world by her?

To be honest, he didn't quite understand why the world would turn into a seed, and he felt that something magical would happen after planting this seed.

Will the Paradise World grow directly in the real world after the seed is planted?

I wonder how the NPCs and people in the park are doing now.

Also, what was that tree he saw before returning to the real world? He hadn't seen the whole tree, only its old bark. Before he could even see himself clearly, he started falling, as if he had fallen from the tree.

On his way down, he seemed to see something hanging on the tree, densely packed, but before Gu Mian could figure it out, he returned to the real world.

Gu Mian has many questions, but no one can answer them for him now.

Just then, hurried footsteps sounded outside, followed by the fortune teller's voice: "That guy in the cloak was walking in front of me when he suddenly twisted his ankle, hit his head against the wall, and passed out. I tried to drag him into his room, but I couldn't move him by myself..."

The fortune teller rushed into the room and immediately saw Gu Mian sitting on the bed.

She was stunned for several seconds before she reacted: "When did you get back?"

"Just now," Gu Mian asked, "who did you say hit a wall?"

"The one with 'Anonymous' above his head, who says his name is Xie Bi'an." Xie Bi'an doesn't usually interact with other people, and the big red "Anonymous" on his head makes it take the fortune teller a few seconds to remember his name.

It's probably because he brought the Paradise World into the real world. Last time Ragnarok had a problem, Xiao Qiao fell into a coma, and this time when the Paradise World had a problem, Xie Bi'an also fell into a coma.

"He probably didn't faint because he hit his head on the wall." Gu Mian added in her mind, "He must have fainted and then hit his head on the wall."

He then recalled the scene in the large room of the chariot at the end of the Ghost Expo instance: "Is something wrong with Xiao Qiao?"

"There was a small problem." The fat man nodded. "Miss Qiao fainted and fell down the stairs, but she woke up yesterday and is now lively and energetic."

It seems the problems during Ragnarok aren't too serious, and they can hold on.

When Ragnarok happened last time, the guardians from other worlds also sensed it. I wonder if they sensed it this time.

Thinking of this, Gu Mian looked around the room but couldn't find Chu Changge: "Where is Chu Changge?"

"I'm here." A voice came from outside the gate.

Gu Mian looked towards the door and saw Chu Changge standing outside the apartment, with Liu Ruyan following behind him.

At this moment, Liu Ruyan was looking at Gu Mian with a hesitant expression. After several seconds, she finally spoke: "I feel like there's something wrong with Paradise World... No, I feel like I can't sense Paradise World anymore. You went to Paradise World during the days you disappeared, didn't you?"

Can Liu Ruyan no longer feel the world of paradise?

Gu Mian knew that there were certain connections between lower-dimensional worlds, but she didn't know if the disappearance of Paradise World had affected other worlds.

Suddenly, the fat man shouted, "The game has released a new announcement!"

Even without looking at Gu Mian's profile, one could guess what the new announcement would be.

The amusement park world is gone, and its dungeons have naturally disappeared as well. The new announcement is nothing more than a long list of dungeons that are no longer in operation.

Sure enough, the announcement listed a long string of amusement park-style dungeon names and told players that these dungeons would no longer be available due to a data error.

The last line included a very official apology: "We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you."

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