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Chapter 869 Collapse, a lifelong enemy
As Gu Mian expected, Chu Changge shook his head.

Gu Mian suspected that even if he remembered something, he wouldn't say it, after all, the biggest enigma around her was Chu Changge.

Having received no answer from Chu Changge, Gu Mian then looked at Xiao Qiao.

Xiao Qiao is offline again; the little bit of cleverness she had just mustered has vanished without a trace.

Okay, I knew it wouldn't matter whether I asked Xiao Qiao or not.

Now, besides the three of them, the only remaining surviving guardian is Xie Bi'an, who is still inside the house. Xie Bi'an seems intelligent, but unfortunately, he is still unconscious and cannot be questioned.

"Have you ever seen a tree?" Gu Mian pondered for a moment before asking the three people in front of her.

"Trees? What trees?" Liu Ruyan was tired of standing and casually sat down on the fabric sofa in Xie Bi'an's living room. "If you mean those in the green belt outside, then I see them every day."

"Mmm." Xiao Qiao nodded in agreement after hearing Liu Ruyan's words.

"Never seen it before." Chu Changge probably knew that the tree Gu Mian was asking about was no ordinary tree, so he gave a direct negative answer.

Well, it seems none of the guardians have ever seen that giant tree.

What exactly is that tree? And what are those densely packed fruits on it? Gu Mian was completely baffled. If he had the chance, he would like to take another look, but he didn't know how he could see that giant tree again.

Gu Mian's intuition told him that the tree must have a very important connection with the lower-dimensional world. When the Paradise World appeared in his hand as a seed, the tree appeared.

Perhaps only when a world disappears from its original location will the tree reappear?

Gu Mian looked at the seed that the Paradise World had turned into in his hand.

"Don't you plan to plant it and give it a try?" Liu Ruyan had an expression that suggested she was enjoying the drama. "This is a seed that was transformed from a world. Perhaps after it's planted, the Paradise World will grow out of the soil and directly devour the real world."

Gu Mian had also considered this possibility, so he did not act rashly.

"Speaking of which, everyone who went into the Ghost Expo instance with you received a seed after they came out. Of course, it wasn't the same as the one you have; they just received an ordinary special item," Liu Ruyan continued.

Gu Mian knows this.

The rater mentioned in the instance that the person who scores first will receive special items: a "Perfect Score Report Card" and a "Flowering Calendar," as well as two Mysterious Seeds and 500 Game Coins.

Players ranked after first place will each receive a mysterious seed and 100 game coins.

Although there were some issues with the Ghost Expo instance at the end, they still managed to complete the instance mission and receive the rewards.

The seed that Liu Ruyan mentioned was a reward offered at the Ghost Expo.

But isn't it a bit of a coincidence? The reward from the Ghost Expo instance is a seed, and the Paradise World has also turned into a seed.

Moreover, the Ghost Expo's instance seems to connect multiple lower-dimensional worlds; burying oneself underground in the greenhouse allows direct access to other worlds.

Although I don't know the principle behind it, it works very well and is much better than that train that breaks down all the time.

This instance is crucial; if I have the chance, I must go back and take another look, and try burying myself in other greenhouses.

Speaking of which...

"Where's my reward?" Gu Mian wondered, realizing that her first-place reward hadn't been given out yet.

After leaving the instance, he went directly to Paradise World, which was completely isolated from the outside world. Even the game panel could not be summoned within it.

He searched all his pockets but couldn't find his reward.

Then he opened the game panel and found the rewards lying in his email.

Perhaps fearing that Gu Mian might return to the Ghost Expo instance to complain because he hadn't received the rewards, the game thoughtfully sent the unclaimed rewards to Gu Mian's in-game mailbox.

Gu Mian retrieved the reward from the email.

[Perfect Score Report Card]

[Introduction: "Look at so-and-so next door, they got a perfect score on their exam again. And look at you! I don't even want to talk to you!"]

[Function: A perfect report card can trigger a ghost's childhood trauma. If you hand it to the ghost that is currently chasing you, there is a 50% chance that the ghost will stand there and cry its heart out for three minutes; there is also a 50% chance that it will be completely enraged and regard you as its lifelong enemy.]

It's a special item that requires luck, and Gu Mian felt that she would definitely make an enemy every time she used it.

There is a line of supplementary information below.

[Additional information: It appears to be a potential upgrade item for other special items.]

It can be used as an upgrade item for the [Mom Summoner]. However, Gu Mian did not bring the Mom Summoner with her. The Mom Summoner is a special item that looks like a walkie-talkie and is a bit large, so it is inconvenient to carry around all the time.

He's left the summoner in his room for now; he'll upgrade it when he gets back.

Gu Mian thought she should continue looking down; the next special item was a flower season calendar.

Flowering Calendar

[Introduction: I am a calendar that can predict your fortune for the next 24 hours. The first cell shows your fortune at midnight, and all 24 cells show your fortune for each hour of the next 24 hours. The calendar updates every calendar month. Come and see how your fortune is today!] [Features: A calendar that can predict the holder's fortune for the day. Red flowers in the calendar represent good luck, black flowers represent bad luck, and white flowers represent neutral luck.]

This is a cardboard calendar about the size of a notebook, with twenty-four squares drawn on it. Each square contains a flower that represents good luck, bad luck, or a period of normalcy.

Hmm... no, that's not right.

Gu Mian looked down at the calendar in her hand; to be precise, each square was filled with a flower representing misfortune.

He looked down at the twenty-four neatly arranged black flowers on the calendar and fell into deep thought.

"Haha, this must be a counterfeit product." Who has bad luck every single day of the year?
Still unwilling to give up, he handed the calendar in his hand to Chu Changge: "You give it a try."

The calendar now belongs to Chu Changge instead of Gu Mian, and later we see that the color of the flowers on it changes the moment Chu Changge takes it over.

The calendar displayed in Chu Changge's works is basically the same color, which is white, representing a peaceful period.

As you can see, Chu Changge's fortune was unremarkable throughout the day, only turning red once in the thirteenth square.

The thirteenth square has a red flower, and it's one o'clock in the afternoon, which is right now—Gu Mian glanced at the wall clock in the bedroom when she came back, and it showed that it was a little past one o'clock in the afternoon.

Liu Ruyan looked through the window at the flower calendar in Chu Changge's hand: "It seems to be a genuine product that can change color."

"You should try it too." Gu Mian handed the calendar to Liu Ruyan.

Liu Ruyan's luck is also average today, all white.

"I'll try it too." Xiao Qiao excitedly took the calendar from Liu Ruyan's hand. As soon as the calendar was in her hand, it changed color, and the bright red flowers made Gu Mian's eyes almost squint.

All of them are red flowers, all of them.

It seems like when I sculpted Xiao Qiao, I also sculpted my own luck for her!
Gu Mian twitched her eyebrows and decided to stop looking at this sad thing. Instead, she turned to look at the two new seeds she had obtained.

【Mysterious Seed】

[Introduction: A mysterious seed; you never know what will grow from it.]

[Function: Plant a seed; once the seed matures, it can produce a random rare or special item]

[Note: Different seeds have different growth times; please wait patiently for the seeds to mature.]

Chu Changge, who was standing to the side, said, "007, Fatty, and Coco's seeds have all been planted. Now only 007's seed has matured. She obtained a special item from the seed called the Omen Tablet. That thing can answer questions asked by people, but a question can only be answered once."

Gu Mian pondered, "So, the first time I asked Stone Slab Fatty what color underwear he was wearing today, Stone Slab would tell me the answer, but when I asked Stone Slab the same question a second time, it wouldn't give me an answer anymore, right?"

“Yes,” Chu Changge nodded, “even if the fat man wore underwear of a different color the second time.”

"This is a good thing. Perhaps I can ask it what the current situation is in Paradise World, where the evil god is, what that mysterious giant tree is, and about my own identity."

However, Gu Mian didn't expect the stone slab to actually answer all his questions. He felt that the tree was like something from a horror story that couldn't be looked at or named. He wondered if it would explode if he asked the stone slab such a question, just like the crystal ball the fortune teller had used.

"The Omen Tablet is a special item that only diviners can use. It is currently in the hands of a diviner, but it cannot answer all questions. During the days you were missing, the diviner kept asking the tablet about your location, but the tablet never answered. The last time the question was asked, it even cracked."

Ok……

Gu Mian felt that the question of her background was probably out of the question as well.

"By the way, I haven't seen Coco and 007 since I got back. Where did they go?"

"Coco is probably in her room. Her seed hasn't matured yet, and she's been busy taking care of that wretched seed these past few days." Liu Ruyan had a clear understanding of the people's movements in the apartment. "These past few days, the fortune teller used a stone slab to divine the location of Renle Mountain for 007, and the divination result was a dog. After seeing it, 007 was absent-minded and has been out these past few days doing who-knows-what. Sometimes he goes upstairs to see if you've come back."

dog?
"Is it Little Black or a puppy?"

"It's an ordinary dog, not a mechanical dog whose neck and joints crack when it walks, nor a toy dog ​​with button eyes, an embroidered mouth, and green fur all over its body." Liu Ruyan's summary of the two dogs was very accurate.

Gu Mian remembered that 007 had mentioned that she had once owned a dog, but she wondered if the fortune teller had predicted that it was the same dog.

Speaking of 007's profession, she is an animal trainer. The fortune teller divined for her and found out that she had a dog, which is quite in line with her professional image.

Gu Mian plans to go see a fortune teller later.

Even if they can't divine their own identity or the question about that giant tree, they can surely divine the question about the evil god.

Now that he has taken over the entire Paradise World, he wonders what happened to the Evil God. Was he also compressed into the seed along with him?

Just as Gu Mian was thinking, the fat man's voice suddenly came from outside.

"Doctor, I can't get in touch with anyone from Paradise World. I've called all three phone numbers, but no one answers." The fat man rushed in, panting, holding a black cell phone in one hand and a booklet of phone numbers in the other.

You could tell he was running very fast when he came this way; he was almost out of breath.

As he spoke, the fat man plopped down on the sofa in Xie Bian's living room: "Doctor, I brought the cell phone that can call the lower-dimensional world and the notebook with the phone numbers written down. Do you want to try it yourself... Ouch, what is this hard?"

The fat man's butt bounced up again as soon as it touched the sofa, as if something had pricked his butt.

Look, everyone! This chapter is almost four thousand words long, which means I've written eight thousand words today!