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Chapter 870 Tell my fortune, or I'll kill you.
The fat man turned his head and reached out to touch the spot on the sofa that was pressing against his butt. Then he pulled out a... little bird from the crevice of the sofa cushion?
It's a little bird toy.

The little bird was stuck in the gap between two sofa cushions, with only its hard beak sticking out. The fat man had just sat right on its beak.

"What is this?" The fat man asked curiously, holding the toy bird in his hand with two fingers. The bird's feathers were a bit messy, and a tuft of feathers had been plucked from its tail. "Is this Mr. Xie Bian'an's doll? He doesn't seem like the kind of person who would like this kind of thing."

“It’s a cat toy,” Gu Mian said.

"Huh?" The fat man turned to look at Gu Mian. "How did the doctor know? Did the doctor used to own a cat?"

Gu Mian has had bad luck since childhood, and this misfortune manifests in every aspect of her life.

I remember when I was in school and living in the dormitory, rats were frequent visitors to Gu Mian's dormitory. They would not disturb the surrounding dormitories, but they loved to sneak into Gu Mian's dormitory.

At that time, one of his roommates, who had a cat at home, would bring his cat into the dormitory to catch mice. Sometimes he would also bring some cat toys to play with the cat. Over time, Gu Mian got to know some cat toys.

“My roommate in middle school kept one,” Gu Mian replied.

So much time has passed that he has long forgotten which roommate owned the cat, but he still remembers the cat toys.

"Does Mr. Xie Bi'an still keep cats?" The fat man glanced around Xie Bi'an's living room again, but didn't find any other living creatures. There wasn't even a cockroach, let alone a cat.

Liu Ruyan crossed her arms and hugged them to her chest: "That was probably his pet before. Didn't Xie Bi'an's house catch a big fire? Maybe the cat was gone after that."

Chu Changge and Xiao Qiao had told Gu Mian about the fire at Xie Bi'an's house.

It was said that Xie Bi'an's house caught fire, and the report said there were no survivors. Afterwards, the two assumed that Xie Bi'an had died in the fire. Unexpectedly, he reappeared after the global game started, but he always appeared in a cloak.

Speaking of which, both Chu Changge and Xiao Qiao had seen what Xie Bi'an looked like before.

Gu Mian asked Liu Ruyan curiously, "Have you seen what Xie Bi'an looked like before?"

Judging from her tone, she and Xie Bi'an seemed to know each other before.

“Of course we’ve met, all of us have. Back then he was quite familiar with us, unlike now where he’s so cold and distant, right, Chu Changge?” Liu Ruyan called out Chu Changge’s name again.

Gu Mian noticed that Liu Ruyan frequently mentioned Chu Changge's name when discussing Xie Bi'an. Gu Mian had previously noticed that Chu Changge and Xie Bi'an seemed to have a grudge, and it seemed that Liu Ruyan was aware of this conflict.

“Yes, we’ve all seen him,” Xiao Qiao chimed in. “He’s good-looking.”

Chu Changge ignored Liu Ruyan's words. He took the phone that could contact the lower-dimensional world from the fat man and handed it to Gu Mian: "Try calling again. If you still can't get through, go find Mr. Green. Mr. Green should know how to contact NPCs in other lower-dimensional worlds. As long as you can contact NPCs in other worlds, you can probably find out what is happening in Paradise World."

What an awkward way to change the subject.

It was rare for Chu Changge to be so eager to change the subject.

Gu Mian took the phone and notebook from Chu Changge. The notebook contained the contact information of three NPCs in the Paradise World.

"Rabbit Doll of the Game City, Manager Jin of the Game City, Ji San of the Carnival Wharf Recruitment Office..."

Gu Mian decided to call the Carnival Wharf recruitment office first. The first two times she called the Carnival Wharf recruitment office, a man named Lao Xu answered the phone. Gu Mian strongly suspected that Lao Xu was Xu Xingcheng.

When Gu Mian called Carnival Wharf last time, the person on the other end said that Lao Xu had already resigned. Without knowing that the person on the other end of the phone was Gu Mian, he loudly denounced him to his colleagues. After realizing that it was Gu Mian on the other end of the phone, he quickly hung up.

Now that we know the phone number belongs to Gu Mian, even if the other party can still answer the phone, there's a high probability they won't.

After a two-minute wait, the busy tone on the microphone was automatically cut off.

I did not answer.

Gu Mian tried calling Rabbit Doll and Manager Jin at the game store, but neither of them answered.

I wonder what the situation is like for the NPCs in the park right now.

"Oh, right, doctor," the fat man suddenly remembered something and slapped his forehead, saying to Gu Mian, "Doctor, didn't you say that the Upside-Down City appeared in the Paradise World after you came back last time? This time, the Paradise World has become a seed. Did the Upside-Down City in it also get compressed into the seed?"

Are the upside-down cities, Earth's masterpiece, also compressed into the seeds?
Gu Mian looked at the seed in her hand, thinking that there might be fragments of the Earth inside.

Oh, and Louis too.

Thinking of Louis, Gu Mian turned to look at the others: "Where's Louis?"

The Paradise World disappeared completely; it's unknown whether this affected people like Louis who came to the real world from the Paradise World.

"Ever since Mr. Louis came to our Earth, he's been curious about everything. He's never in his apartment and prefers to wander around outside," the fat man said, thinking to himself. "Doctor, are you worried that the disappearance of Paradise World might have some impact on Mr. Louis?"

“I’m worried he’ll die too,” Gu Mian said truthfully.

Liu Ruyan said he has the ability to bring people, objects, and even worlds from lower dimensions into reality, and to bring them completely into the real world, unlike those shadows.

Louis was brought into the real world by Gu Mian, so the disappearance of the Paradise World shouldn't affect him.

But I can only feel at ease when I see him. I don't know where Louis has gone.

"Don't worry, doctor, I'll go find Mr. Louis right away," the fat man said as he jogged towards the door.

"By the way, is Mr. Green in his apartment?" Gu Mian asked. Just as Chu Changge said, Mr. Green should know how to contact NPCs in other lower-dimensional worlds. Since they couldn't contact the NPCs in the Paradise World, they might as well try contacting people in other lower-dimensional worlds to ask about the situation.

The fat man, who was heading towards the door, stopped and shook his head: "Mr. Green isn't in the apartment. I saw Little Red take him out to play this morning."

Gu Mian: "..."

"When you go out to find Louis, you should also look for Little Red and Mr. Green." Gu Mian only hoped that Little Red wouldn't take her old employer too far.

The fat man agreed and left.

Liu Ruyan didn't stay in Xie Bi'an's room any longer and left with Xiao Qiao, heading downstairs.

Gu Mian had something to discuss with the fortune teller downstairs, so she followed the two of them downstairs.

In the end, only Chu Changge stood at the door of Xie Bi'an's apartment, watching them leave.

When Gu Mian reached the stairwell, she glanced back and saw Chu Changge standing at the door staring at them. He only looked away when he saw her turn around.

After going down one floor, Chu Changge's figure completely disappeared from sight.

Gu Mian turned to look at Liu Ruyan, who was coming downstairs with him: "Do you know a lot about Chu Changge and Xie Bi'an?"

“Not much.” Liu Ruyan seemed to have known what he wanted to ask all along, and answered directly, “As I said before, I came here when I was fourteen years old. Not long after I came, Xie Bi’an ‘died’. Although I said that I was very familiar with him, we were only familiar for a few months.”

As Liu Ruyan spoke, she looked at Gu Mian, seemingly ready to answer his next question.

But Gu Mian stopped herself in time and didn't ask any more questions: "We've arrived."

As they spoke, the group arrived at the door of the fortune teller's room on the first floor.

"How interesting." Seeing that Gu Mian had no intention of asking any further questions, Liu Ruyan left with a cryptic remark.

Xiao Qiao, who was standing next to her, followed suit and said, "That's really interesting," before turning around and leaving with Liu Ruyan.

Gu Mian watched the two leave, then turned around and knocked on the fortune teller's door.

There was a sound of something falling to the ground from inside the door, as if the fortune teller inside was performing a divination and was startled by the knocking.

A few seconds later, Gu Mian heard footsteps coming towards the door, and then the door creaked open.

The fortune teller paused for a moment when he saw it was Gu Mian: "Have you settled the cloaked man in?"

She was the first to see Xie Bi'an faint and hit his head against the wall, but when she carried Xie Bi'an upstairs, the fortune teller felt that she couldn't help much, so she returned to her room to continue her fortune telling business.

"It's all settled." Gu Mian nodded and walked naturally into the house. "There are some things I'd like you to divine."

Considering that the divination might damage the diviner's beloved tools, Gu Mian spoke very politely.

The fortune teller frowned, also noticing that Gu Mian's tone was too polite.

Gu Mian's handling of the ghost in the dungeon left a deep impression on her. In the fortune teller's mind, Gu Mian shouldn't be so polite. He should be the kind of person who carries a chainsaw, kills her at her door, picks her up, and yells in her ear, "Tell my fortune, or I'll kill you."

Before you know it, you've been put into the ghost's perspective.

The fortune teller snapped out of his awkward reverie and looked at Gu Mian sitting across from him: "What would you like to have divined?"

Gu Mian decided to start with a light divination.

"I want to know where the evil gods in the Paradise World are."

The fortune teller hesitated for a moment, thinking that Gu Mian was overestimating herself. Did she really want to divine such a difficult question? Gu Mian was a god in the Paradise World.

But with the atmosphere already set, the fortune teller still went ahead with it, even though he was hesitant.

She took out the divination tablet and gave Gu Mian a heads-up before starting the divination: "It's not guaranteed that it will be able to predict anything. This tablet often doesn't give answers." She added in her mind that the tablet hadn't given an answer when she tried to divine your location before.

"It's nothing," Gu Mian said.

He didn't place all his hopes on the fortune teller; if all else failed, he would cast a wide net and catch as many fish as possible.

The evil god has so many clones, if I keep going into the dungeon, I'll eventually run into him... But Gu Mian has never been good at this kind of luck-based thing.

At this point, the diviner was already somewhat nervous as he began to perform divination on the stone slab.

She hadn't expected the stone slab to give her an answer, but the moment she finished asking her question, four words appeared on the slab.

"The next instance?" The diviner read out the four words given on the stone tablet. It wasn't some obscure metaphor; it simply and clearly provided the answer.

The name of this stone tablet is the "Omen Tablet," so it can naturally predict what will happen in the future. It says that the evil god will be in the next instance, so there is a high probability that the evil god will be in the next instance.

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