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Chapter 895 Rebirth Apartment: Utilities Free, Rent Half Off
"Is it one group of chess players or four groups of chess players?" An Zhitinglan analyzed the identity of the person in the darkness in her mind.

She thought that the male and female voices that had been talking about Gu Mian earlier must have been chess pieces from Group 1 and Group 4, because these two pieces spent a small amount of time together on the chessboard, which is why they got to know each other and were able to act together so confidently after darkness fell.

By eliminating those who have died and those whose identities have been confirmed, only the players from Groups 1 and 4 whose identities have not yet been confirmed remain.

The players we're encountering now and the ones we encountered before should be from groups one and four, respectively. Putting everything else aside, these two groups of players are remarkably similar in their approach: they are both so cautious and discreet, making no sound in the dark and completely concealing their positions.

Of course, so is she.

Anzhi Tinglan smiled silently in the darkness. It seemed that all the players who could play chess had common advantages, except for the one in Group Two.

It's unclear how long this stalemate will last. Wild animals in the forest generally don't fight with other animals unless they're fighting for food, because they know that once they're injured, they'll have no chance to hunt for food in this harsh environment, and they'll only face death.

The same principle applies to people.

Aside from rule-breakers like Gu Mian, normal people wouldn't suddenly stab someone in the back without any conflict of interest.

The person on the other end is intelligent; they won't do anything pointless.

Just then, Anzhi Tinglan suddenly heard a sound coming from the other side—footsteps.

They're gone? She listened in confusion to the fading footsteps, not expecting the other party to reveal their location and leave so easily.

"She's a smart woman I don't know," 007 thought as he left.

Although he didn't explicitly ask what would happen if Gu Mian stayed in a room for more than ten minutes, 007 was already prepared for any unforeseen events.

I originally thought it would be an earthquake or a dungeon that would kick them out, but I didn't expect this to happen.

Not only did the light disappear, but the walls separating the room and the ghosts inside also vanished, leaving only a vast expanse of darkness.

007 was originally heading towards the three initial rooms. She was very concerned about who the three players were and wanted to find out if it was Ren Leshan.

But as she walked, she bumped into a woman, a quiet and intelligent woman who knew how to hide her voice in the dark so as not to attract the attention of other players. After bumping into her, she remained calm and did not make a sound.

"Not from Group Two"—this is the judgment 007 made immediately after determining the other party's style of doing things.

Because of the group chat, she knew quite a bit of information. Gu Mian happened to know all four groups of chess players and the surviving chess piece in the fourth group. They were two men, so these two were excluded.

It wasn't Liu Ruyan either. She and Liu Ruyan were quite familiar with each other, but the person she had just encountered was completely different from Liu Ruyan in terms of both physique and manner of doing things.

After excluding Liu Ruyan, Group Two, Group Four, and the deceased, the only person standing in front of 007 is likely the chess player from Group Three.

The third group of chess players was a woman, not Ren Leshan...

After figuring this out, 007 sighed inwardly and then left without looking back.

"Huh?" The fat man who had been monitoring the group chat in the apartment suddenly made a puzzled sound.

"What's wrong?" came the fortune teller's voice from the sofa next to us.

Louis also turned to look over.

After Gu Mian, Liu Ruyan, and 007 were pulled into the instance, Louis stayed there waiting for them to return.

The fat man did go downstairs to check on Xie Bi'an as Gu Mian had instructed. When he went to find Xie Bi'an, he also ran into Chu Changge.

Before the fat man arrived, Xie Bi'an and Chu Changge had a conversation, and the atmosphere between them was a bit tense, as if they were about to jump up and start fighting at any moment.

The fat man thought to himself, "This won't do. Although Brother Chu isn't some kind of body-training fanatic, Xie Bi'an is still a patient and his body is very weak. If he takes two more punches, he might just die."

Thinking of this, the fat man quickly laughed and persuaded Chu Changge to go back upstairs. He also managed to lure the fortune teller up and ask him to help Gu Mian in the instance to divine the location of the evil god.

The fortune teller said that he and Gu Mian were separated by death, and it was truly a case of "a skilled cook cannot make a meal without rice," but he could pray for Gu Mian in his heart.

Seeing that the fortune teller was of no use, the fat man continued to diligently observe the group chat.

Just now, he noticed that the nicknames of Gu Mian, Liu Ruyan, and 007 in the group chat had turned gray.

He then exited and checked his friends list, only to find that the nicknames of the three people in the list had also turned gray.

This is the same situation as when Gu Mian was pulled into the Paradise World before; her name turned gray, but she was still there.

Having experienced this many times, the fat man was no longer greatly disturbed. He knew that this was probably the evil god inviting everyone to some kind of class reunion.

But as the fat man was scrolling through his friends list, he noticed that another person's nickname had turned gray.

"He angered Guiguzi." He met this person at the Lantern Festival. The fat man still remembered him and recalled that there was a man with a similar temperament to Chu Changge next to him, named Hanshan.

At the time, Fatty added the two people, along with their teammates, to his friend list. However, when Fatty checked his friend list recently, he found that the name "Hanshan" had disappeared from the list, and he knew that the other person must be dead.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out that only Guiguzi's name remained among Hanshan's group.

Fatty had already seen in the group chat that Gu Mian had encountered Hao Laoshi and Guiguzi in the dungeon, so it wasn't surprising to see Guiguzi's name turn gray now.

He couldn't help but marvel at the incredible coincidences in the world; he never expected that Gu Mian would run into two acquaintances in the dungeon.

The fat man sighed at the thought of Guiguzi, thinking that this man must be in a terrible situation, with all his friends dead.

As he thought about it, the fat man seemed to see Guiguzi's face. He thought he had forgotten what the other looked like, but he didn't expect that the image of Guiguzi would be so vivid when he recalled it.

Until Louis's confused voice came from the sofa: "Who is this?"

what?
The fat man looked up in Louis's direction, only to suddenly realize that there were several more people in the room.

"Did the doctor come out of the dungeon?" the fat man thought with a hint of surprise.

But he soon discovered that things weren't like that. "Hao Laoshi?" The fat man stared wide-eyed at the man next to Louis who also had wide eyes. He recognized Hao Laoshi from the game "Driving Instructor."

Fatty knew that Hao Laoshi and Gu Mian had entered the same instance, but he didn't expect Hao Laoshi to appear here.

"You guys finished the dungeon?" The fat man craned his neck to look for Gu Mian, but couldn't find her.

"You...you're Gu Mian's chubby friend..." Hao Laoshi was clearly in shock as well. He stared at the fat man for a long while, then turned his head and looked around. "Where am I?!"

"There might have been a mistake when the instance teleported us out. We should be with Gu Mian now," the fat man heard Guiguzi say in front of him.

Only then did he seriously look at Guiguzi in front of him.

You wouldn't believe it until you see it; Guigu had a large burn scar on the left side of his forehead, which extended all the way to his left eye socket.

His eyelids looked like they had been burned, and the edges were somewhat irregular.

At this moment, Guigu took out a pair of glasses with the right lens removed and put them on his face. Only then did the fat man realize that he was missing three fingers on his left hand.

Guigu's left thumb, index finger, and middle finger have completely disappeared, along with a small part of his palm connecting these three fingers, as if this part had been chopped off. He can only use his remaining little finger and ring finger to hold the glasses frame and put it on his ear.

He seemed quite adept at using only two fingers and didn't seem to care about the fat man's strange expression. He calmly said, "Long time no see. Looks like you still remember me."

Upon hearing Guiguzi speak like that, the fat man was momentarily dazed.

The Guiguzi he remembered was not like this. When he first met Guiguzi, the other party was a loud and impulsive young man, but now he seemed like a stranger.

The fat man didn't know what to say for a moment, and only replied dryly, "Yes, I remember you."

Although he was curious about why Guigu had become like this, Fatty was more concerned about Gu Mian's whereabouts: "Now that we're out, the dungeon must be over, right? Do you know where the doctor went?"

Guigu nodded: "It should be over. When we were halfway through, the entire instance was plunged into darkness. That's when we found that we could move around freely, and that's when we ran into Hao Laoshi and your friend Liu Ruyan."

When they met Liu Ruyan, the player panel was no longer accessible, and they couldn't see anything in the darkness. However, Hao Lao was honest and offered to introduce them to her.

"The dungeon stopped abruptly shortly after the three of us met. There was no warning this time. One second we were in the dark, and the next we found ourselves here." Guigu adapted quickly and recounted his experience in detail. "I never met Gu Mian from beginning to end. To be honest, Gu Mian disappeared as soon as the dungeon went dark. Your friend surnamed Liu was near Gu Mian at the time. You can ask her."

The fat man quickly turned his gaze to Liu Ruyan: "Miss Liu Ruyan, do you know where the doctor went, and Miss 007 isn't here either... Hey? Are you leaving?"

Liu Ruyan appeared in the living room with Guiguzi and Hao Laoshi. When she appeared, she was sitting sideways on the ground next to the door with her head down. At that time, Fatty was attracted by Hao Laoshi and Guiguzi and did not pay attention to her.

When they looked at her again, they found that she hadn't gotten up yet. Instead, she was still bent over and sneaking towards the door with her back to them.

At this moment, the fat man suddenly realized that although the hair was about the same length, the clothes this person was wearing seemed to be quite different from Liu Ruyan's.

"It's really disheartening. I've waived your rent for so long, and after all this time, you still can't recognize me? Are you judging who Liu Ruyan is based on the length of her hair?" Liu Ruyan's sarcastic voice came from outside the door.

The group turned to look and saw Liu Ruyan standing outside the door, leaning against the doorframe looking heartbroken, blocking the woman who was sneaking out.

The woman realized that Liu Ruyan was deliberately blocking her way, and knew that she had been exposed. She stopped pretending to be in plain clothes and raised her arm to give Liu Ruyan an elbow strike.

But Liu Ruyan was prepared. She lightly pressed down on the other person's raised arm, led him into the living room, and then slammed the door shut behind them.

Only then did the fortune teller on the sofa get a clear look at the woman's face.

She stood up abruptly: "It's you?"

"The third group of players, An Zhi Ting Lan." After a series of friendly exchanges with Liu Ru Yan, An Zhi Ting Lan sat expressionlessly in the living room, introducing herself.

However, this introduction was clearly given to the other players who went through the dungeon together.

The fortune teller, who was unfamiliar with the rules of the instance, couldn't understand what she was introducing. All she knew was that this woman was ruthless and had almost killed her in the dating reality show instance.

Liu Ruyan looked her over with interest: "You're the third group of chess players. I thought you were some Renle Mountain player."

Who is Ren Leshan? An Zhitinglan raised her eyebrows but did not show her doubt.

"Miss fortune teller, do you have a grudge against her?" the fat man asked, looking at the fortune teller. "Like Miss 007 and Ren Leshan?"

Upon hearing this, An Zhitinglan also looked up at the fortune teller. She remembered this person. In the dating reality show segment, when her identity as "Dong'er" was discovered, she tried to kill the fortune teller to silence her, but Gu Mian suddenly crawled out from under the bed in the room and interrupted her attempt to silence her.

Anzhi Tinglan stared at the diviner, already prepared.

She clearly had a grudge against the fortune teller.

This is clearly the "fortune teller's" territory. As soon as she mentions the hatred between them, the group of people in the house will come up and restrain her.

Even without a grudge, the plot might still develop this way. Anzhitinglan has seen many similar things since the global game started.

Players often obtain their most lucrative loot from other lone individuals.

Anzhi Tinglan had no intention of becoming a prisoner; she still had weapons in her inventory and opportunities to use them.

She truly hadn't expected to be sent to someone else's territory after leaving the instance, nor had she expected that the chess pieces and players from the other four groups who were also sent there would happen to be acquainted with Gu Mian and her group. If they weren't acquainted, she might have been able to stir up trouble and create a chaotic situation, giving her a chance to escape.

Just as Anzhi Tinglan was looking out the window, wondering which floor it was and whether jumping out would result in her death, the fortune teller on the other side of the sofa shook his head: "There is no hatred. It's just normal friction in the dungeon. It's just that I exposed her identity in the dungeon and she wanted to kill me to silence me, but Gu Mian stopped her."

Anzhi Tinglan couldn't reconcile the words "normal friction" and "silencing" together; she suspected the other person was being sarcastic.

What the fat man said next was even harder for her to understand.

"Oh, that's actually quite normal."

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