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Chapter 902 The Screaming Evil God's Little Finger
Xu Xingcheng was very curious about the mechanical dog. He picked up the mechanical dog that was fighting with the dog puppet on the ground and observed it carefully.

Just moments ago, the mechanical dog was asking "Are you happy?" when he picked it up, but then the voice system malfunctioned and started making "Huh?" "Huh?" "Huh?"

"This is your world's mechanical dog. What, does it feel like meeting an old friend in a foreign land?" Gu Mian walked up and patted the mechanical dog whose voice system was malfunctioning.

Xu Xingcheng seemed somewhat surprised: "There are dogs in Paradise World that ask people if they are happy?"

Gu Mian also felt that this thing was unnecessary.

In the amusement park world, if you randomly grab an upper-class person and ask them, "Are you happy?" their answer will definitely be yes.

If you randomly grab someone from the lower class and ask them, "Are you happy?" their answer will definitely be no.

Sending this happiness survey robot to the streets to ask questions is really unnecessary, just like interviewing people on the train returning home for the Spring Festival to see if they bought tickets.

The game city's building manager told Gu Mian that all the happiness survey robots were gathered in the lower-class residential area, so they probably weren't deployed by the upper-class people, because the upper-class people wouldn't care about whether the lower-class people were happy or not.

"You don't know these mechanical dogs?" Gu Mian asked.

"These?" Xu Xingcheng asked in return.

"These are happiness survey robots. I don't know who put them into the lower-class residential area. There are a lot of them."

"Investigating the happiness level of the lower class?" Xu Xingcheng chuckled. "The upper class would never do such a boring thing; there's no fun in it at all."

At this point, he turned to stare at the mechanical dog, a somewhat enigmatic expression on his face: "I haven't paid attention to things in the Paradise World for too long. I can confirm that such a thing did not exist in the hundreds or thousands of reincarnations I experienced before."

"What what what..." The mechanical dog, Xiao Hei, was still making noises.

Xu Xingcheng looked at Xiao Hei for a while, then put it in his pocket as if he was going to study it carefully next.

"You're so fickle, Dr. Gu. You generously arranged rooms for the two new hires who just came in, but when it comes to me, you're all hesitant and won't give me a room. Are you planning to ask me all your questions, squeeze out the last drop of value from me, and then kick me out of here?" As she spoke, Xu Xingchen used one hand to wipe away non-existent tears from under her eyes. "You only see the new ones laughing, but never the old ones crying."

Gu Mian's forehead twitched twice. She suppressed the urge to strangle the person in front of her and walked towards the door: "I'll arrange a room for you myself."

Gu Mian planned to arrange for Xu Xingcheng and Xie Bi'an to be on the same floor. After all, they both came from Paradise World, so being together should give them a feeling of meeting fellow countrymen.

When the two of them meet and discuss it, they might come up with some new clues about the Paradise World. Thinking about it this way, the apartment has exactly seven floors, so if people from other worlds come out in the future, they can live on different floors according to their world.

"What...what..."

Amidst Xiao Hei's noisy chatter, Gu Mian led Xu Xingcheng downhill.

The fortune teller was heading back to her room on the first floor, so she followed her down the stairs. As she went down, she whispered to Gu Mian, "Hey? Didn't you tell me you saw a giant tree on your way back from Paradise World? This person is a high-ranking figure, you should ask him. Maybe he'll know what's going on with that tree."

Gu Mian had originally planned to ask, but this time he seemed to have been pulled back into the dark environment he had been in before entering the Paradise World last time. However, after the Paradise World turned into a seed last time, that place was no longer dark, but turned into a giant tree.

But it was still dark there this time, and Gu Mian didn't see any giant trees.

"What tree?" Xu Xingcheng had excellent hearing and overheard the fortune teller's words.

Well, Gu Mian knew it was hopeless as soon as she saw the question he asked. If Xu Xingcheng had seen that tree, he wouldn't have asked that question.

But Gu Mian still spoke up, adhering to the principle of "better to kill a thousand innocent people than let one guilty person go free": "Last time, before I entered the Paradise World from the Ghost Expo instance, I floated in darkness for quite a while..."

"Oh, that's the void outside the lower-dimensional world. It's like a dark box with a few small balls inside. Those small balls are the lower-dimensional world, but the empty space is the void. Last time, you went to the Paradise World by passing through the void outside the lower-dimensional world. How come you saw some saplings in the void?" Xu Xingcheng said, then realized he had said something funny and laughed.

Gu Mian shook her head.

"Of course I know you can't possibly see any saplings inside, after all, the void is called the void because there's nothing inside..."

"I saw a large sapling laden with fruit, right after the Paradise World turned into a seed."

As she spoke, Gu Mian stretched out her arms to show her size: "It's even bigger than this."

Xu Xingcheng choked, looking at Gu Mian's outstretched arms: "You mean you saw a giant tree, more than two meters thick and bearing fruit, in the void outside the lower-dimensional world?"

Gu Mian shook her head again: "What I mean is that it's thicker than this building."

Xu Xingcheng was completely speechless. He looked Gu Mian up and down with a puzzled expression, as if trying to determine if Gu Mian was making fun of him.

Seeing that Gu Mian's expression didn't seem fake, he raised an eyebrow: "After you brought the Paradise World out, its original location became a void. The place where we met in the lower-dimensional world this time is the void that was added after the Paradise World disappeared. This time... did you see the tree too?"

"No." Perhaps because Xu Xingcheng was nearby this time, the tree did not appear.

Is it perhaps a shy tree, too embarrassed to come out when other people are present?

“I’ve never seen a giant tree that’s thicker than a building,” Xu Xingcheng thought for a moment and continued, “My clones are all over the lower-dimensional worlds, but I’ve never heard of any giant tree that bears fruit. Did you see what was growing on that tree?”

"I didn't get a good look last time before I returned to the real world; all I saw was that it was quite full of hanging things."

After listening to Gu Mian's words, Xu Xingcheng remained silent for a while before speaking: "The giant tree in the void of the world, or perhaps it is something special that only you can see, like the wishing function on the statue, reserved specifically for you."

Xu Xingcheng was still concerned about what Gu Mian said about the "fourth person." The statue and flesh were very likely left by him. However, Xu Xingcheng had no memory of this person and could not judge whether Gu Mian's speculation was true.

"Should I have such a big tree?" Gu Mian thought about the tree. Even if he had such a big tree, he wouldn't have anywhere to plant it.

As they spoke, the group arrived at Xie Bi'an's floor. The fortune teller bid them farewell and continued downstairs; her room was on the first floor.

Gu Mian led Xu Xingcheng to the door of the room next to Xie Bi'an's: "You can stay in this room. Your fellow villager is next door. He is a guardian from the Paradise World. You two can chat when you have time, but not now. Your fellow villager just fainted and hit his head and is still recovering."

Speaking of Xie Bi'an, Gu Mian asked Xu Xingcheng, "Do you know anything about this guardian from your world?"

Xu Xingcheng glanced at the door next door: "I don't know anything about him. Everything he did was done through killing and torture. I only know that such a person exists."

Just then, Xie Bi'an's door suddenly opened.

Gu Mian saw a chubby figure come out from inside; it was Fatty.

"Ah, doctor." The fat man who came out of Xie Bi'an's house also saw Gu Mian and Xu Xingcheng. He scratched his head and took a few steps forward to the two of them. "Have you come to visit Mr. Xie Bi'an as well?"

Shuo and the fat man nodded thoughtfully: "Right, the evil god and Xie Bi'an are both from the Paradise World, which is why they couldn't wait to recognize each other on this cold Earth." Seeing the fat man's wonderful expression, Gu Mian was sure that he had already imagined a heartwarming drama in his mind: "I encountered other transmigrators in a cold alien world."

Gu Mian glanced at Xie Bi'an: "Come and choose a room he likes. It just so happens that Xie Bi'an and I are both from Paradise World, so I arranged for him to stay on this floor."

The fat man nodded: "Oh, I see. By the way, Miss Liu Ruyan and I arranged for Teacher Hao and Guigu to stay on the first floor. We originally wanted them to stay on this floor so they could look after each other with Mr. Xie Bi'an, but we thought Mr. Xie Bi'an probably doesn't like being disturbed, so we gave up on that idea. After Miss Liu Ruyan arranged the rooms for Guigu and the others, she also asked me to check on Xie Bi'an when I came up."

"When you go up, also check if Xie Bi'an has been murdered to silence him"—these are Liu Ruyan's exact words.

The fat man was very puzzled. Who in the apartment, besides the doctor, would commit murder to cover it up?

Although puzzled, the fat man still obediently came up to check on Xie Bi'an, and only left after seeing that the other party was alright.

When I went out, I saw Gu Mian and Xu Xingcheng.

"By the way, Lord Evil God." At this moment, the fat man suddenly changed the subject to Xu Xingcheng.

Being addressed with such respect, Xu Xingcheng didn't react at first and looked at the fat man suspiciously.

Gu Mian looked at him strangely. Although the fat man was usually very polite when addressing people, often adding titles like "Mr" or "Miss" after their names, this was the first time he had called someone "Sir."

This is clearly a way of addressing someone who wants something from you.

Sure enough, the fat man, who seemed to have a favor to ask, continued, "Lord Evil God, I have seen many special items made by you, and they are all extremely powerful!"

"You're not going to ask me to make some special items for you next, are you?" Xu Xingcheng had already guessed what the fat man was going to say next.

The fat man smiled sheepishly: "As expected of the Evil God, you are truly prescient. But since we have this ability, why not make use of it, right, Doctor?"

Did Xu Xingcheng retain his abilities after coming to Earth from a lower-dimensional world? Gu Mian thought that Xu Xingcheng's abilities would disappear after coming to Earth, since people from lower-dimensional worlds should be suppressed by Earth.

At this moment, Xu Xingcheng noticed Gu Mian's expression: "What's with that disbelieving look on your face? You don't think I can't make any reliable special items, do you? Fine, I'll demonstrate how to make special items right now. But theoretically, Gu Mian, you can actually make special items yourself using your wishing system."

As Xu Xingcheng spoke, he put the mechanical dog in his arms on the ground, then raised his left hand and bent his right hand onto his left little finger.

Then Gu Mian heard a "click" sound.

The result was obvious: Xu Xingcheng broke his left little finger by his own hand.

The poor little finger was bent towards the back of the hand, swaying back and forth with Xu Xingcheng's movements.

The fat man seemed to feel the pain just by looking at it, and he kept gasping for breath.

Gu Mian stared at his dangling little finger for a few seconds, but it didn't turn into anything special. So she looked up at Xu Xingcheng behind the finger and asked, "Is this the special item you just created? The screaming evil god's little finger?"

"What doctor? You heard that finger scream?" the fat man asked, puzzled.

Xu Xingcheng's confusion was no less than that of the fat man. He stared at his left little finger, which he had forcefully broken off, for a moment, then tried again.

Then, the screaming evil god's ring finger, screaming evil god's middle finger, and screaming evil god's index finger were all created.

If Gu Mian hadn't stopped him, Xu Xingcheng's last finger on his left hand would have been injured as well.

"Your method of creating special items is to break off fingers?" Gu Mian looked at the claw of the evil god in front of her. At this moment, the four fingers on the claw had been bent towards the back of the hand. When Xu Xingcheng moved, the four fingers swayed like wind chimes hanging on the windowsill, which was very strange.

"Even if you break it, you still can't make it," the fat man added from the side.

"After absorbing the flesh from the underground cave, I gained the ability to create things. I can take off a part of my body and use that part to create clones or special items. The parts that are taken off my body can quickly grow back. Because fingers are easy to obtain, I used to just break them off, but this time I can't take them off." Xu Xingcheng said, shaking his hand, puzzled by the current situation. "Before, I could just break off these fingers with a snap, and use them immediately."

The fat man hissed as he watched Xu Xingcheng's waving fingers, and he thought the same thing as Gu Mian: "It should be that the ability has failed. After all, you are a person from a low-dimensional world and you obtained the ability in a low-dimensional world. It is normal for the ability to disappear when you come to the higher-level Earth."

Xu Xingcheng pointed at Gu Mian with his pitifully mangled left hand: "But we obtained our abilities in the same place, yet his wish-granting ability remained after we came to Earth, and I sensed that my ability hadn't disappeared..."

He suddenly stopped speaking, as if he had just remembered something, and leaned close to Gu Mian, almost touching her face: "You missed me?"

Why did he suddenly say such a line? Gu Mian remembered that similar lines often appeared in the "domineering CEO falls in love with me" dramas that Fatty liked to watch.

Xu Xingcheng, completely oblivious to his newfound "domineering CEO" persona, continued to press, "What have you been thinking about since you came out?"

Gu Mian understood now.

“Yes, I think you come from a lower-dimensional world, and your abilities will probably disappear after you come to Earth.” Gu Mian glanced at Xu Xingcheng’s four wagging fingers, then looked away with a slightly guilty expression.

"Then can you now imagine that the great evil god descended to Earth from a lower-dimensional world, and his abilities have been qualitatively enhanced, and everything you thought before was just your own misunderstanding?"

Gu Mian went through Xu Xingcheng's words in her mind three or four times before saying, "I've finished thinking about it."

Xu Xingcheng's fingers were still twisted and hanging on the back of his hand, unchanged.

Gu Mian glanced at his finger: "But it doesn't seem to work."

The fat man, acting as a plot commentator, said: "Ah! It's because after the doctor came out, he subconsciously felt that the evil god came from a lower-dimensional world and would become a useless cripple after arriving on Earth. He made this wish unconsciously and then the wish came true, right?"

The useless idiot glared at the fat man, but had to admit that his explanation was correct.

"It is your power that has suppressed my power. I can feel that my power has not disappeared, but it has been suppressed by your wish and cannot be manifested."

The fat man scratched his head: "So we have to ask the doctor to make another wish to unlock your ability? That would be difficult. The conditions for the doctor's wish-granting ability to fulfill wishes are very strict. It's unlikely that wishes made intentionally will come true. Only wishes made subconsciously or with strong desires will be fulfilled."

"Haha," Gu Mian laughed like the ratings officer in the Ghost Expo instance, "I think your hand will be crippled if it's not treated soon. Go inside and wait for me while I come down with my tools to treat your hand."

After saying that, he quickly left the scene of the crime.

Seeing that things were not going well, the fat man chuckled and quickly followed Gu Mian away, leaving only the victim and the mechanical dog at the victim's feet in the corridor.

The most tragic thing is that Xu Xingcheng discovered that Gu Mian had never given him the key to the room.

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