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Chapter 928 It fled, he chased, it couldn't escape even with wings.
But Guigu soon realized that it wasn't Anzhi Tinglan who had come.

Because the orchids on the bank don't rustle as they walk.

"Shh—" A chilling rustling sound came from the gloomy stairwell.

Guigu's expression changed immediately. He had heard that sound not long ago; it was the sound of a ghost taking action.

Renleshan also underwent a transformation.

Of the three people present, only Hao Laoshi, who had never seen a ghost before, did not recognize the voice and was still looking suspiciously into the stairwell.

"Let's go!" Guigu immediately grabbed Hao Laoshi and ran into the darkness ahead.

Ren Leshan was faster, turning and running away before the two could even move.

Guigu had only run a few steps with Hao Laoshi when they heard something hit the door behind them.

He turned around and saw a ghostly figure hanging upside down rushing in from the stairwell.

Hao Laoshi, who was standing nearby, also saw this. At this moment, Hao Laoshi's hair stood on end and his feet were on full throttle. He didn't even need Guigu to pull him back; instead, he turned around and pulled Guigu forward as fast as he could.

Humans can't run as fast as ghosts.

But Guigu didn't expect the ghost to run so fast. In just an instant, it was almost behind them. He heard the chilling rustling sound as it approached.

Out of the corner of his eye, he even saw the figure of a ghost hanging upside down to his side and behind him.

If we don't do something soon, we'll die.

Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, and a key instantly appeared in his hand.

Key Number Three from a Mysterious World

[Description: A key with mysterious powers, seemingly from another world, bearing the number "3". Of course, it will not transform into a magic wand.]

[How to use: Twist it towards the air like opening a door]

【Function: Using this key will randomly generate an Anywhere Door. The Anywhere Door will remain for ten seconds. Passing through the Anywhere Door will transport you to a nearby location. The location is random, and the range of 'nearby' is unpredictable.】

[Note: This item has a seven-day cooldown period and can be used once every seven days.]

As he turned his wrist, a door appeared out of thin air in front of the two of them.

He immediately pulled Hao Laoshi inside. The teleportation destination should still be in this building. Although he didn't know where they would be teleported to, it was better than being caught and killed by ghosts now.

When the two entered, the ghost was already level with them. If the ghost stretched out its hand, they would not be able to enter.

Strangely, the ghost did not reach out to grab them. When Guigu entered, he saw the ghost simply walk past them, as if it were going to move forward.

However, the two entered the door too quickly and disappeared inside before they could see where the ghost had gone.

A second after Guigu and Hao Laoshi disappeared, a white figure quickly moved in from the corridor, followed by a huge, bouncing creature.

This behemoth even comes with its own voice-over!

"Doctor, slow down, I can't keep up..."

The fat man used all his strength to barely keep up with Gu Mian, who was moving almost horizontally, and he was now barely breathing.

Seeing that the fat man might really die on the spot if he kept running, Gu Mian stopped.

They came down after the ghost.

While searching for clues on the first floor, the fat man's blue searchlight shone on a person hanging upside down from the ceiling, about ten meters away.

Even the most abstract concept from a normal player wouldn't look like this; Gu Mian knew at a glance that it was a ghost.

The characteristic of an ever-burning lamp is that it can illuminate a range of twenty meters, but the light can only be seen by humans, not ghosts.

Therefore, the upside-down ghost did not notice Gu Mian and the fat man in the distance for a moment.

Gu Mian told the fat man to walk quietly, and the two of them crept closer together.

The ghost was in a shoe store, motionless, seemingly doing something. The fat man guessed it was probably buying shoes, as wearing them would grant a speed boost.
Gu Mian slapped him on the head and asked him if he wanted to go to the clothing store next door to buy a resurrection armor.

Of course, when a person moves, it's impossible for them to make no sound at all.

They were discovered as they got closer.

Fortunately, the two had already arrived at the shoe store entrance. The entrance wasn't narrow, but the fat man made him look rather thin.

In short, the two of them can completely block the doorway, leaving the ghost inside unable to call for help.

Hearing a sound behind it, the ghost turned around immediately—its body spun halfway around the ceiling like a ceiling fan. Its hideous, festering face was facing the doorway.

The fat man was large, so it was the first thing it saw.

Gu Mian's face lit up the moment she saw its expression. She couldn't understand how such a radiant face could be made to look so glowing.

Upon seeing the fat man, the ghost immediately moved towards him.

Seeing the ghost rushing towards him, the fat man fearfully moved closer to Gu Mian.

Only a fool would notice that there was another person standing next to this enormous figure.

The moment it saw the person standing next to it, the light on its face vanished.

Its eyes revealed a mixture of doubt, shock, and disbelief, like a circular diagram.

Then the circular diagram came into action.

It smashed through the window of the shoe store next door with a "crack" and slid away across the ceiling as if it had encountered a ghost.

Gu Mian quickly caught up.

Unexpectedly, the ghost made its way to the stairwell.

Gu Mian followed them into the stairwell, only to discover that the stairs actually went down.

The ghost ran ahead, and he chased after it.

They chased each other all the way to the next floor.

While on the stairs, he seemed to hear voices on this floor, but when he came in, he found no one there, only an empty second-floor children's playground.

The ghost ran very fast, and soon turned into a small dot, eventually disappearing completely from his sight.

The game of chasing it and it being unable to escape has ended.

The fat man was still panting heavily behind Gu Mian: "Doctor, don't worry, we looked at the map on the previous floor, right? There's only one staircase in this building. If ghosts want to go to other floors, they'll definitely have to go this way. You just stay here and wait for them to come. Catch them one by one, catch two by two, and I guarantee they won't come back alive, they'll be crying for their parents..."

"If the ghost never comes, I'll live on these stairs for the rest of my life, right?"

The fat man choked: "Sigh, it's true. If the ghost just won't come, there's nothing we can do."

Besides, Guigu and Hao Laoshi are still in the instance. If Gu Mian just sits here staring blankly waiting for the ghost, the ghost might be secretly pulling out Guigu and Hao Laoshi's heads somewhere else.

When he went downstairs just now, he saw someone's head had been pulled off by a ghost and thrown there on the stair landing. It was a head he had never seen before.

In order to save everyone's lives, Gu Mian thought it best to search the second floor first and find the people who needed to be found.

At the entrance of the staircase is a large two-story playground. Gu Mian stood on the railing and looked down. Jumping down from here would take you directly to the next floor.

But considering factors like luck, he thought he should just take the stairs when he went down.

There's a toy store next to the second-floor amusement park.

Two two-meter-high shelves were placed at the entrance of the toy store. One shelf was hung with some colorful painted cups, most of which had fallen and broken into colorful fragments.

On another shelf were some ceramic figurines, which, like the cups next door, were almost all gone.

Just then, the fat man spotted two shelves at the entrance of the toy store. He excitedly ran over, picked up a few still-unfinished cups, and examined them from all angles. Gu Mian didn't know when the fat man had become interested in these fancy things, but Xiao Qiao seemed to like them.

After looking at the colorful cups over there, the fat man strolled over to another shelf and examined a small figurine of three people together for a while.

Gu Mian was starting to suspect that these ornaments were connected to some kind of mechanism, like the kind in TV dramas where a secret passage is revealed when you turn a corner.

Otherwise, why would a fat man be so interested in these things?
Just then, the fat man came running back with an apple-shaped ceramic cup in his hands, winking at Gu Mian: "Doctor, you're quite childlike. You've made all these cups and ornaments along with the claw machine."

"What?" Gu Mian didn't quite understand what he was talking about.

Seeing that Gu Mian didn't seem to understand, the fat man held up the oddly shaped ceramic cup in his hand: "These are Miss Qiao's water cups. That time I went to the supermarket, she insisted on coming along. She wouldn't let go of anything she liked in the supermarket, so I had to buy them all, including this cup, and a lot of cups on that shelf..."

Then he pointed to the shelf with the figurines: "And the family of three figurine in Miss 007's room, those are in the dungeon, didn't you make them, Doctor?"

Gu Mian frowned: "I never went into their room."

Having never been inside their room, I naturally don't know what their tableware looks like, nor what decorations they might have in their room.

He had never seen these things before.

The Gugu Di Resurrection Armor is complete!
Although it's a bit simple, it's more than enough for one cuckoo to wear!