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Chapter 160 Eve of the Event
Night fell quickly.

Not long after, the sun set and night fell, and people gradually returned to the tent area below.

It's already late at night.

The streetlights were on all the time, and there was no sign of a power outage.

Troops occasionally came and went outside, patrolling the surroundings.

A large section of the road in the vicinity had been cleared, and Gu Mian had seen several ambulances speeding past her window during the day.

This place is a melting pot of people, and even with a large army suppressing the unrest, friction will still occur.

Where there are people, there will be conflicts, much like the saying that wherever there are people, there will be conflicts.

The people in the ambulance are most likely soldiers injured while maintaining order, given the current shortage of medical resources, which can only accommodate a very small number of people.

Several rooms in the hotel had their lights on at night, indicating that there were quite a few wealthy people there.

Besides entering dungeons, there are many other ways to obtain in-game currency, such as buying and selling rare and special items, or by robbing others.

"There should be quite a few private organizations in the world now," Chu Changge said, leaning against the doorframe. "Members of lower-level organizations pay game currency to those above them, so the richest people right now should be the leaders of those organizations."

Gu Mian noticed that the people in one of the rooms might have moved in earlier than them.

The fat man once suspected that it was the hotel owner's room.

But after asking his boss, he discovered that things weren't like that.

The fat man also quietly crept up to the door.

The hotel door had a peephole, and he was peering through it into the hallway outside. "Doctor, have you noticed? The person who's been living here for a long time, just like us, hasn't shown up at all."

The man lived on the floor above them, diagonally opposite, and they could see his room door through the peephole.

Every day as darkness fell, the three of them would see the light come on in the room across the street, but they never saw anyone come out of that room.

The fat man then said slyly, "I asked the boss, and he said that room wasn't his. It belonged to a man who moved in a long time ago... about ten days before us..."

Gu Mian was sitting on the sofa fiddling with the fat man's camera.

The camera saves all the photos it takes, and he is currently zooming in on the photo with the ghostly face until the terrifying face fills the entire screen.

Gu Mian carefully examined the face.

The nights here seem exceptionally dark; looking out, you can barely see into the distance, only darkness as far as the eye can see.

The hotel room was dimly lit, which would hurt your eyes if you read under such lights, but Gu Mian was looking at ghost faces.

The fat man was still muttering at the door, "The boss said the person living across from us seems to be a man..."

Gu Mian looked up: "It looks like it?"

What's with this strange adjective?

The fat man nodded: "The boss said that when the man came to rent the house, he was wearing something like a cloak, with his hood pulled down really low, and he was also wearing gloves. His whole body was covered, and you couldn't see his face either. He was quite mysterious."

He paused for a moment to recall, "But the voice sounded like a man's. The boss said it was the first time in his life he'd heard such a pleasant voice, just a little hoarse. But it seems that the man never came out of the room after he went in..."

The fat man frowned: "He didn't starve to death in there, did he?"

"You'd be better off spending this time taking care of yourself," Chu Changge said. "Tomorrow is the start of the event."

“2019年2月19日晚19:00——24:00”顾眠记得这是活动时间。

This massive global event will officially begin tomorrow night at 7 p.m.

The event is called the 'Lantern Festival'.

The content is similar to guessing riddles, and you'll get a reward if you guess correctly. However, the event details also say that this thing is like a lottery, and you might even win a pile of shit.

Gu Mian felt the probability of her pulling out some poop wasn't low. At this moment, the fat man had already pulled his head off the door panel and was reaching for the camera in Gu Mian's hand.

Chu Changge walked towards the window: "The closer we get to the event, the more anxious those who haven't gotten their dungeon entry tickets will become."

"So, will someone take advantage of this tonight?" The fat man looked a little doubtful.

Chu Changge shook his head: "The most dangerous time should not be tonight, but before entering tomorrow. At that time, everyone will crowd into the activity area, and with so many people, something is bound to happen."

And it seems that some people have already targeted them.

As Chu Changge spoke, he glanced down out the window.

It was the same location and the same tent as during the day, but the people were different.

During the day, Gu Mian stared at the man in front of the tent for a long time, which scared the man so much that he scalped up and crawled back into the tent.

So it seems that man is too afraid to come out tonight.

A middle-aged man with dark skin was put on night watch. He was not tall and had many wrinkles on his face. Even in the dark, it was clear that his skin was much darker than that of an average person.

This middle-aged man was much more assertive than the one during the day; he seemed to be their leader.

The fat man wandered around outside all day, had changed many jobs, and met many people. He could tell at a glance that this man was different.

"Hey doctor, did you see that man down there?" The fat man looked at Gu Mian somewhat guiltily.

Upon hearing this, Gu Mian stood up, walked to the window, and looked down. He saw that the person next to the tent that had caught his attention during the day had changed.

At that moment, the middle-aged man next to the tent looked up and met Gu Mian's gaze.

When the middle-aged man saw that someone was looking over, he not only did not avoid their gaze, but instead stared at the window with even greater intensity, looking at the three of them with a sarcastic expression.

His face held a somewhat disdainful expression, along with a malicious smile.

The fat man's voice came from the side: "He's obviously the kind of guy who can't handle hardship, loves to brag, and usually idles away his time. By 'usually,' I mean before this stupid game even started."

"These kinds of people are usually lazy and can't find a job. They're always dirty and stay at home sponging off their parents. Otherwise, they loiter around drinking with a bunch of shady friends. They're in their thirties and still can't find a partner, but when they see a pretty girl on the street, they practically want to stick their eyes to her..."

The man below was still staring at them with a smug look.

Even though it was late at night, Gu Mian could see the light in the man's eyes.

He seemed quite confident, probably wanting to avenge his companion who had been targeted by Gu Mian and forced into the tent earlier that day, so he kept his eyes fixed on this side.

Gu Mian and the others lived on the third floor, so the people below couldn't hear them talking.

The fat man openly spoke ill of the other person in front of them.

"I don't know if you have relatives who borrow money and don't pay it back, and when you go to ask for it back, they shamelessly refuse to pay. The man downstairs looks like that kind of person."

Gu Mian pondered for a moment: "I don't think I have any relatives."

Chu Changge's voice came from the side: "Me too."

Fatty: "..."

Below, a dark-skinned middle-aged man was watching Gu Mian and the others above with an almost amused look.

Of course, he mainly focused his attention on Gu Mian.

The chubby boy chimed in from the side, "Doctor, is he having a competition with you? The kind where whoever looks away first loses when you make eye contact?"

Gu Mian secretly pulled out the fat man's camera and turned on the flash: "Then he's doomed to lose."

Ninety chapters are owed. I'll write them down in my notebook first...

Thank you to Ranxuzhi, Erdouxiaoya, and book lovers with the last three digits of their IDs (づ￣3￣)づ╭～
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