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Chapter 896 Memory Kill
Compared to the hatred between 007 and Renle Mountain, the friction between the fortune teller and Anzhi Tinglan was indeed not a big deal, Fatty thought to himself.

Seeing the nonchalant expression on the fat man's face, An Zhitinglan's heart sank slowly.

Don't these people care that their companion was almost killed? Actually, she had a pretty good idea of ​​their nature. What kind of good people could someone like Gu Mian be hanging out with?

Most of them are like me, people who don't care about the lives of other players, or even the lives of their own teammates.

"A group of vicious thugs," Anzhi Tinglan thought to herself.

Of course, she herself also fits the characteristics of the vicious criminals in her mind, and if it weren't for their different stances from the beginning, she believes she would have been happy to team up with this group.

By this time, she had finished observing the view outside the window and realized that the building must be on the fifth floor or higher, making it impossible to escape by jumping out of the window.

It was her first time here, and even if she managed to take out her weapon and fight seven people at once to escape the house, she wouldn't know where the stairs were.

She had just counted the people in the house. There were four groups of chess players and pieces in the living room, as well as another piece from one group. In addition, there was a fat man, an albino man, and the fortune teller who had almost been killed by her in the dating reality show segment.

There are six people.

The bedroom door next door was open, and through the open door she could see a desk in the bedroom, with a man wearing glasses sitting in front of it.

The man was sitting there doing nothing; he hadn't even glanced in their direction from the beginning, seemingly unconcerned about what was happening.

Although she wasn't sure if the man would join the fight, Anzhi Tinglan was prepared for the worst—she would have to fight all seven people in the room to have a chance to escape.

After counting the number of people in the room, Anzhitinglan had given up on the idea of ​​taking out weapons.

It seems the only option is to use that special item...

While retrieving the special item, she observed the expressions of everyone in the room.

When the fat man said that killing to silence a witness was a minor matter, Hao Laoshi looked surprised. The disfigured man in his group, missing three fingers, also showed a slight surprise. This was the normal reaction.

In contrast, the people who were supposed to be Gu Mian's companions didn't react much, seemingly not finding anything wrong with what the fat man said.

A dog that bites doesn't bark; Anzhi Tinglan understands this principle well.

She understood that these people might not show anything on their faces now, but they could pull out a knife from behind and slash her at any moment.

All the calm is just a facade, merely the calm before the storm, a way to lower the prey's guard before they are killed.

Just as Anzhi Tinglan was thinking this, she saw the fierce-looking fat man sitting directly opposite her suddenly move and reach his hand behind his back!
Anzhi Tinglan knew that if she didn't act soon, she would probably be met with a cleaver coming straight at her.

The fat man, whose butt was itchy, saw Anzhi Tinglan across the way suddenly raise a small figure wearing blue overalls and a red hat.

Schrödinger's Mario (Disposable)

[Introduction: A diligent sewer cleaner always works late into the night, so engrossed that he falls asleep in the sewers. He never knows which section of the pipe he will fall asleep in before a sweet dream begins.]

[Function: After using this item, the user will immediately fall asleep and be teleported to a nearby random sewer pipe. The duration of the sleep depends on the user's physical condition.]

A few seconds after Anzhi Tinglan picked up the little figure in the red hat and blue overalls, she disappeared from the living room.

The fat man stopped scratching himself, his mouth agape, momentarily unable to process what had happened.

Hao Laoshi, standing next to him, also opened his mouth: "Did she use a special item to escape just now?"

"She disappeared too quickly. I only saw her holding a Mario toy, and it seemed like there was a 'one-time use' label on the back." Liu Ruyan walked around from behind the sofa and plopped down in the spot where An Zhitinglan had just been sitting. "It's all your fault for being so fierce, making her willing to use a one-time use item to escape."

“We’re not some fierce demons,” the fat man shouted. “We just calmly told her that what happened between her and the fortune teller wasn’t a big deal. When we caught Ren Leshan, we didn’t kill him on the spot, so this girl is even less of a threat. I was originally planning to play peacemaker and let this girl shake hands with the fortune teller, have a drink, and then send her away.”

Unexpectedly, they skipped the usual handshake and toasts, pulled out their precious train ticket, and ran off overnight with the train.

"She's an acquaintance of the doctor, after all. I was wondering if she found any clues about the doctor after the chessboard instance went dark. I saw it in the group chat. These three groups of chess players are particularly clever; maybe they can find something."

Liu Ruyan glanced at Guiguzi and Hao Laoshi, then said to the fat man, "Gu Mian disappeared immediately after the dungeon went dark. How could she have found any clues when she was so far away from Gu Mian?"

Hao Laoshi, who was standing next to her, originally thought that after An Zhitinglan escaped, this group of people would jump up to catch her, but to his surprise, everyone remained calmly sitting in their original positions, without any intention of catching her.

He's a ruthless character who almost killed someone, are you just going to leave him like this?

He then discovered that the group of people not only remained unmoved, but also started a new topic, as if Anzhi Tinglan had never existed.

Hao Laoshi listened to them talk about Gu Mian with a puzzled expression. To be honest, he still didn't know why Gu Mian had suddenly disappeared in the dungeon. He opened his mouth as if to ask the question in his heart, but Guiguzi next to him pressed his hand down, signaling him not to ask any more questions.

Although they knew each other before, their relationship was limited to just knowing each other.

Guigu knew that he and Hao Laoshi were not yet close enough to Gu Mian to ask her about her secrets.

With two outsiders present, the fat man consciously refrained from revealing anything about the evil god: "I just checked my friend list. The doctor's nickname is still grayed out, so he should still be... in the dungeon. But Miss 007's nickname is lit up, so she should have come out."

At this point, the fat man looked around and asked, "Why don't I see Miss 007?"

He had just asked 007 about his whereabouts in the group chat, but 007 hadn't replied yet. As for Gu Mian, Fatty wasn't too worried; he knew Gu Mian had definitely been taken away by the evil god and wouldn't be in any danger.

“007 is the player in your group, right?” Guigu looked at Liu Ruyan at this moment.

Hao Laoshi, standing next to him, nodded first: "Yes, that's the name of the player in Gu Mian's group."

Because Hao Laoshi spent part of the time on the chessboard listening to Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan's conversation, he knew 007's name.

Guigu pondered, "When the instance teleported us players out, there was a glitch, and it teleported a few of us who weren't originally here to this place. Your friend named 007 might have been teleported to another place as well."

"They might have teleported to the location where Group 2, Group 3, and your group were before entering the instance." Liu Ruyan tapped the table in front of her. "However, 007 hasn't replied with his location in the group chat yet."

Group chat? Guigu was taken aback. He had previously learned from the real-time repeater that Gu Mian and the others had a group chat that could be used in the dungeon. Now that he thought about it, this group chat should not only allow players in the dungeon to communicate, but also allow players in the dungeon to communicate with players outside the dungeon.

So when he was teleported here from the dungeon, the fat man was surprised but didn't overreact. He seemed to think it was understandable that he was here and didn't ask questions like "How did you get here?"

Gu Mian must have already told Fatty in the group chat that he was also in the instance.

There are even group chats where you can communicate with people in the real world within the instance.

Players can send messages through the friend system, but only to individual friends in the real world. Once inside a dungeon, the friend page turns gray and becomes unusable, so you can't send messages even if you're in the same dungeon as your friends.

With group chat, you don't have to worry about losing contact with others even if you're scattered in a dungeon, and you can leave your last words to your friends outside the dungeon even if you're about to die.

Not knowing where Group Two and Group Three were before entering the dungeon, Liu Ruyan had to first determine Group Four's location before entering the dungeon: "Where were you before entering the dungeon?"

"Huh?" Hao Laoshi raised his head and thought for a moment. "It's called... Huluwa, that's the name, right?"

That wasn't Hao Laoshi's hometown; he went there later. He always felt the name was a bit hard to pronounce and couldn't remember it, so he equated the name with the cartoon in his memory, and that's how he finally remembered it.

Guigu corrected: "It's Hulu Gorge."

"Hulu Gorge?" Liu Ruyan had never heard of this place name, but the all-knowing fat man did.

He patted his head: "I know, I passed through there before when I was driving long distances. That place is hundreds of kilometers away from here!"

"What!" Hao Laoshi exclaimed anxiously. "So far? My family is all in Hulu Gorge. How am I supposed to get back from so far away!"

When he first arrived here after leaving the instance, he was worried about what would happen to his family who were still in the camp after being teleported away. But then he thought that although the instance did not teleport them back to their original place, it should not have teleported them too far away. However, he did not expect that this time the difference would be hundreds of kilometers.

"Hundreds of kilometers?" Guigu frowned. "Where is this? I haven't had a chance to ask where this place is since I came out."

"Lianhua." As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a steady voice behind him.

This sound...

Guigu paused for a moment before slowly turning around to look at the person who had made the sound.

It was Chu Changge. After so long, he had seen Chu Changge again.

The other party hadn't changed at all. Guigu moved the only two fingers left on his left hand, but he himself had become more powerful.

Chu Changge and Han Shan had similar temperaments. In a daze, Guigu felt as if he saw Han Shan, who had died long ago, standing in front of him. His vision in his left eye, which was already blurry, became even more blurred.

While Guigu was reminiscing about the past while looking at the objects, Hao Laoshi next to him was in a completely different situation.

Hao Laoshi still remembers the psychological trauma Chu Changge left on him during the hearse driver's license test. When he saw Chu Changge again, he immediately jumped up and hid behind the sofa like a mouse seeing a cat, only showing the upper half of his face as he nervously looked at him.

"What's wrong with you?" The fat man looked at Hao Laoshi, who was hiding behind the sofa, with a strange expression. "What, do you two have a grudge against each other?"

Hao Laoshi stammered, "There was no hatred involved; it was just normal friction within the instance."

The fortune teller next to him felt that the sentence sounded familiar.

Guigu stared at Chu Changge for a while before finally looking away and exclaiming, "Long time no see."

Then, as if suddenly remembering something, he frowned again: "Where is this?"

He seemed not to have clearly heard the place name Chu Changge had mentioned earlier.

"Lianhua," Chu Changge said again.

Upon hearing this name, Guigu thought of a certain person.

"Captain Feng of the Chengdong Police Station in Lianhua City" is his full name. He was also Guigu's former teammate. He went through many dungeons with Guigu and the others, and finally died in the Ghost Expo.

Guigu still remembers that in the Ghost Expo instance, when Hanshan proposed the method of sending a single person to their death, Captain Feng was the first to stand up and ask to be the first one.

Being the first to plant a ghost also means being the first to die; it's extremely dangerous.

Therefore, the first person to plant the ghost should never be the smartest person in the team. The smartest person in the team is extremely valuable and may even be able to help the person who planted the ghost solve problems if they are ranked later. It would be a great loss if the smartest person died first.

The first person can't be too stupid. We can't be like him back then. In that situation, sending the dumbest person first was no different from sending him to his death.

Therefore, the most moderate Captain Feng stepped forward.

His mind wasn't as sharp as Han Shan's, but it was still quick-witted. Gui Gu remembered that there were many times in the dungeon when he was almost caught by ghosts, and it was only because Captain Feng had quick thinking and made noise to distract the ghosts that he was able to survive.

Afterwards, Guigu would always ask Captain Feng why he would rather expose his own position than let the ghost go away. In fact, whether the ghost chased him or the ghost chased Captain Feng, it was the same. Someone would always be chased, and there was no need for one person to take the place of another.

At this point, Captain Feng would pat him on the head and say, "Your little brain isn't very quick, and you're the slowest runner among us. If you were chased by a ghost, you'd definitely come out on your own. I'm different. I'm smarter and stronger than you. If a ghost chases me, it might not be able to catch me. Look at me now, I'm fine. If Hanshan had encountered a ghost, I would have been in the same situation. His brain is the most valuable asset among us. Someone like me, who's neither the best nor the worst, should naturally protect those above and take care of those below. If anything happens, it's always the most mediocre person like me, who has some ability, can handle things, and doesn't care if I die, who steps up first."

He did it.

In the Ghost Expo instance, he was the first to step forward, protecting those who were pitiful, capable, and vulnerable.

Guigu wanted to tell him that in his heart he was not the most mediocre, at least not now he was the greatest.

I wanted to tell him that his death would break many people's hearts.

But by then he could no longer hear.

Everyone has a bright future!