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Chapter 942 Wishing everyone a Happy National Day

"It's a bit strange," Guigu said as he left the house. "This time, the instance didn't give any quest or description, and then they didn't give any announcement when they brought the character out."

Hao Laoshi hurriedly added, "Besides, we used to kick people out of the instance because Gu Mian was involved in demolition work, but this time he hasn't even started demolition work yet, and we've already kicked him out..."

"I'm curious about that too. He didn't do anything about attacking the instance back then." It was just in Le Renle Mountain, but Le Renle Mountain is neither an NPC nor a ghost, and has nothing to do with the instance.

It can't be that the game developers suddenly had a change of heart and decided that Gu Mian's act of choking people in the dungeon was immoral, so they terminated the dungeon to condemn this heinous behavior.

Thinking about Guigu, I glanced at the announcement again and didn't see any condemnation.

I don't know if Renleshan died in the end.

Forget it, I'd better go find Gu Mian and see what he has to say.

When Guigu arrived at Gu Mian's room, he could hear the fat man's voice through the door.

"I was so scared! The dungeon suddenly ended and I thought you hadn't come back yet, Doctor. I rushed up here to look for you... This dungeon is so weird. How did it suddenly pull us all out? Oh, Brother Chu, so you were here. I thought you were still outside."

Then Chu Changge's voice came from inside the door: "Just got back. You said the dungeon suddenly ended?"

"Yeah, the dungeon building started shaking for no reason. After a few shakes, I found myself back. When I came back, I saw Hao Laoshi next to me, so I knew everyone had come out. But the doctor couldn't be sure, so he rushed up to check."

There was no announcement.

"No announcement? Let me see... It seems there really isn't, not even compensation..." The fat man's voice suddenly turned sad. "What's going on? Doctor, please check your emails for any compensation."

Gu Mian's voice then rang out: "No."

Hearing Gu Mian's voice, Gui Gu felt a little relieved.

He knocked on the door while the people inside were talking.

The door was immediately opened from the inside, and it was Fatty who opened it. Seeing him and Hao Laoshi, he pulled them both inside: "You've come at the right time. We were just discussing the sudden end of this dungeon. We were kicked out for no reason. Neither the doctor nor I saw the announcement or any compensation. You should check if you've received your compensation yet."

Guigu and Hao Laoshi had discussed this matter before they came up.

"Neither do we." The two shook their heads together.

Chu Changge seemed quite interested in this instance, and then asked from the side, "What was Gu Mian doing back then?"

They clearly regarded Gu Mian as the culprit for the sudden end of the instance.

Although there are group chats inside and outside the instance to exchange information, group chats cannot be broadcast in real time. The situation inside the instance has to be posted in the group chat by the people inside so that people outside can know.

After asking how to deal with Renleshan, no one sent any more messages in the group chat.

Therefore, Chu Changge only knew that Gu Mian and the others had captured Renle Mountain, but did not know what happened after the capture.

Understanding Chu Changge's meaning, the fat man quickly clarified for Gu Mian: "This time it really wasn't the doctor's fault. When the dungeon was about to collapse, the doctor didn't do anything; he was just choking people."

It's just strangling someone's neck...

Guigu repeated the sentence in his mind, while the fat man spoke of the murder and arson as casually as "the moon is so big today."

Chu Changge seemed unfazed, his expression remaining unchanged as he calmly inquired, "A ghost? Or an NPC?"

“From Renle Mountain,” Gu Mian said.

"Oh?" Chu Changge's glasses reflected the light. "The instance suddenly ended after attacking him?"

“Yes,” the fat man nodded, “but I don’t think this has anything to do with him. It’s just a coincidence. It just so happened that the copy collapsed when the doctor was choking him… Doctor, do you think Ren Leshan is dead?”

Even the fat man couldn't be sure if Ren Leshan was still alive; the dungeon ended too hastily to give them a chance to confirm.

Gu Mian rubbed her hands together, recalling the feeling from just now: "It's hard to say since the person wasn't hard."

Hearing this, the fat man subconsciously poked himself with his finger to feel his own hardness. "The dungeon ended abruptly without any outrageous behavior, and there was no announcement or compensation afterward. This shows that dungeons are becoming increasingly unprofessional." Chu Changge had no interest in Ren Leshan's life; he was more concerned about the dungeon.

"Not formal?" The fat man was poking his belly with his hand, leaving a dent with each poke, when he heard Chu Changge say this and asked curiously.

Guigu looked over as well, waiting to hear what he would say next.

"The game cannot freely control the dungeons. Dungeons that escape control become chaotic, just like the claw machine dungeon you entered today. There are no quests, no introductions, and no endings."

"We've seen quite a few dungeons without an ending..." the fat man muttered under his breath.

"This means that the organizers have less control over the dungeons, and it seems that this weakening is continuing. In the future, there will be more and more dungeons that the organizers cannot control. If the organizers' control weakens to a certain extent, the game will likely collapse."

"What happens if the game crashes?" Guigu immediately asked the question he wanted to ask. Looking at the expressions of the fat man and Hao Laoshi next to him, he knew that the two of them had the same question.

"The world will return to normal when the game crashes"—that's the answer he wanted to hear.

But Chu Changge's reply silenced his joyful heart.

"I don't know," Chu Changge said.

"The world may become more chaotic, with uncontrolled dungeons everywhere, and people will find that they have no reward after going through all the trouble to complete them, making survival even more difficult."
"Reality might be swallowed up by the instance world, and all the living people would become part of the instance..."

The fat man turned his finger and quietly poked Chu Changge's waist, tearing a piece off his neatly arranged clothes.

Chu Changge turned to look at him and saw that the fat man was gesturing for him to look at Guigu Hao Laoshi and the other man.

The two looked terrible; the taste of the lick on their faces was probably comparable to that of a bitter melon.

After poking Chu Changge, the fat man winked at him. Because the fat man had a lot of fat on his face, it was difficult for him to make the movements. His face twitched after only a couple of winks.

Chu Changge paused for two seconds, and finally, amidst the fat man's winking and gesturing, uttered a happy ending: "Oh, the world might return to normal."

Hearing this, Guigu and Hao Laoshi relaxed a little.

Chu Changge walked to the window and looked at the huge floating island in the distance: "There are changes in the real world, and now the instance world is also changing. This is not a good thing. We don't have much time left."

Just as Chu Changge was speaking, everyone present received a notification.

The game has released a new announcement.

Gu Mian clicked on it and found that it was not an announcement about the crash of the claw machine instance, but a notification about changes to the instance mechanism.

"Starting today, the ticket hall will no longer have a matchmaking entrance for dungeons. All dungeons will appear randomly. Please take note." The announcement was very short; the fat man finished reading it in just two sentences.

After reading it aloud, he smacked his lips twice, savoring the announcement.

"Does this mean we won't be able to actively enter dungeons anymore, and we'll just have to wait for dungeons to come to us?" The fat man thought for a moment, "Isn't this just like special dungeons, where people are randomly summoned anytime, anywhere?"

"It seems to be just like what this young man Chu said. The game can't control the start and end of the dungeon, so they closed the channel for us to enter the dungeon on our own..." Hao Laoshi expressed his concern about his future, "Will I still be able to go back to Hulu Gorge? What if the game changes again halfway there and introduces some other rules?"

"Where is Xu Xingcheng?" Gu Mian thought of him.

Xu Xingcheng knows more about the world of games.

You can ask him about any issues with the copy.

Gu Mian remembered that he was still here when he was pulled into the instance, but now he didn't know where he was.

"He came downstairs with me before we entered the dungeon, he might be back in his room now?" Fatty recalled what happened before he was pulled into the dungeon. "Let's go downstairs and look for him."

"No need." A voice came from the doorway.

Looking over there, I saw Xu Xingcheng leaning against the door frame, looking into the room: "I heard you coming upstairs when I was inside, and when I came up, I saw that you had indeed returned."

Happy National Day everyone! (′‵) On the first day of October, I'm determined to be a good little goose!