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Chapter 17 Welcoming 1,000 Favorites

The room is about 20 square meters, roughly the size of a slightly larger bedroom.

In the very center stood a coffin, surrounded by wreaths, with elegiac couplets hanging above it.

"With deepest condolences on the passing of Mr. Liu, respectfully offered by Zhang Han."

Above the coffin, right in the center of the wall, hung a huge black-and-white photograph; the man in the photo was staring at them and smiling.

"That's a bit scary." Fireworks Easily Cold shuddered.

Gu Mian took out the test questions to look at, then looked up at the mourning hall. The two seemed to have nothing to do with each other.

He pondered, "Could it be that we should lift the coffin lid and take a look?"

The only possible clue now is inside the coffin, but the coffin is clearly made of solid wood, and the coffin boards are very heavy and cannot be easily pushed open.

Never mind, Gu Mian rolled up her sleeves: "Who can help me push this coffin lid open?"

"Push it away?" Fireworks Fade Easily took three steps back instantly, as if doubting his own ears.

Gu Mian repeated: "Yes, push it away if you want to pass."

You need to score 80 points to pass the written exam, so getting 80 points on this kind of exam is really not easy.

The fat man trembled a few times, rubbed his hands together, and moved closer to the coffin.

Chu Changge also moved over.

Fireworks Fade Easily, having already retreated outside the door, said, "I'm a little scared. You guys push it, I'll watch from here."

Uncle Hao Laoshi and the freckled girl, Meteor Princess, also shrank to the doorway, seemingly very scared.

Oh well, I never intended to rely on these people anyway.

Just as the three of them rolled up their sleeves, preparing to do something disrespectful to their ancestors, Xiao Qiao suddenly walked over.

"Let me try too," she said, reaching out and giving a strong push. "I'm strong."

How much strength can you have with such a small frame?

However, Gu Mian didn't kick her out. There's a saying that goes, "Many hands make light work," right?
Even if that statement is wrong, there's still the saying that working together as a team makes the work easier, right?

"I'll count to three and then we'll all pull together." Gu Mian placed her hand on the coffin lid.

The others all nodded.

It has to be said that Xiao Qiao is indeed very strong. The three big men didn't even have to exert much force, and she pushed the coffin lid off by herself.

The fat man was so shocked by the sight that he couldn't close his mouth: "Girl, did you put all your attribute points into strength?"

Xiao Qiao laughed heartily: "I was born with great strength."

At this moment, Gu Mian had already peeked out and examined the inside of the coffin.

There was nothing inside.

There was no body, nothing else; it was like the coffin lid had been pushed up in vain.

The fat man was a little discouraged: "How about we go check out another room?"

also.

Gu Mian walked out of the room while thinking about it.

He then noticed that the light in the center of the hall had been turned off at some point, with only a faint glow illuminating the table in the middle. The round clock showed that it was now 6:20.

Just a few steps to the side, and you'll find the next door.

A portrait of a deceased person was also hung on the door, about the height of a person, which looked quite frightening.

Gu Mian reached out and pushed open the door.

The scene behind the door was no different from the room we had just been in.

All of them were huge portraits, huge coffins, clusters of wreaths, and elegiac couplets hanging on the wreaths.

However, the elegiac couplets are different, since the deceased's names are all different. It's estimated that all the rooms on this floor have the same couplets; I wonder if the second and third floors are the same.

Gu Mian looked at the face in the portrait and rubbed her forehead: "I guess the answer we're looking for is in the coffin, but we have to find the right coffin first."

Pushing open the coffins one by one is obviously impractical. Their answering time is from 10:00 to 12:00, which means they can no longer answer questions after 12:00.

If we were to push them one by one, there simply wouldn't be enough time.

Gu Mian glanced at her driving test questions: "My test said there's a ghost on each of the three floors. We need to find the one on the first floor first."

But finding it is a big problem.

To be honest, before this game came along, Gu Mian had imagined countless scenarios of the apocalypse.

He fantasized about alien invasions of Earth, zombie virus outbreaks, ghostly energy resurgence, and global nuclear leaks creating countless monsters, but no matter how he imagined it, in the end it was nothing more than a chase.

The monster chased him, and he fled.

Or perhaps he chased, and the monster fled.

But things are different now. The vengeful ghost on the first floor is hiding very well. Let alone chasing it, it would be difficult to even catch a glimpse of it.

Now he has to rack his brains to find this ghost; ideals and reality are indeed very different.

Feeling a little tired, Gu Mian found a wreath, spread it on the ground, and plopped down on it. The wreath made a fragile cracking sound. "Let's make a plan," she said.

The Ghost Hunt Plan.

"First, we need to split up. Don't ask me whose heads you'll split up; you guys figure it out yourselves."

"Secondly, to complete the exam, we must find these ghosts. In fact, each of our exam questions contains clues about these ghosts."

"The clues I can glean from my test questions are... there are three vengeful ghosts in this building, one on each floor."

"Among them, there was only one male. The three ghosts were surnamed Ma, Yang, and Zhao respectively. One of the ghosts was a long-tongued ghost, and another was a pregnant woman ghost."

"That's all I can glean from my test questions for now. How about yours?"

Gu Mian looked up at the others.

Chu Changge was the first to speak.

"The clues I could find on my test were similar to yours, but there was one extra thing: the problem-solving question on my test was..."

"Given that there are three vengeful ghosts in the building, who knew each other in their previous lives, find the car that corresponds to each of the three ghosts."

Finally, there's a question directly related to the driver's license exam.

There were three vehicles parked on the side of the road outside: a prison van, an ambulance, and a hearse. The meaning of the question is self-evident.

Each of the three ghosts corresponds to one car.

I asked a few other people, and they all had pretty much the same clues on the test questions, nothing special.

"Alright," Gu Mian patted the floral wreath under her bottom and stood up, "Back to the first topic, let's go our separate ways."

"Using the clues provided in the test questions, we can eliminate most of the funeral parlors on this floor."

"There are only three vengeful ghosts in the building, surnamed Ma, Yang, and Zhao. Now we need to find the mourning halls of these three surnames. You've all seen the funeral couplets, haven't you?"

As he spoke, he tore down the funeral banner above his head.

Everyone else had stiff expressions; they had never seen anyone treat their ancestors so casually.

"With deepest condolences for the passing of Mr. Jiang, respectfully offered by Liu Qiangfeng, a humble man in his later years," Gu Mian read through the elegiac couplet in his hand.

"You can tell the deceased's surname from the funeral couplets. I don't need to tell you what to do next, right?"

The thin, sharp-looking man, Yan Hua Yi Leng, hesitated before asking, "What if we see a ghost?"

"If you see a ghost, just run away. If you can't outrun it, just get eliminated. Didn't you see a ghost in the last dungeon? It's not like you're going to die anyway."

Even though I'm really dead, I haven't said anything, so why are you so timid?
Ah, life! (ο｀*)))

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