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Chapter 243 A Key Pulled Out of the Poop Pit

Chu Changge pushed up his glasses and said, "Logically speaking, since it's already this close to you, what we're seeing now shouldn't be a living person."

"I really am alive!" Ziliang squeezed his hands, then pinched his face hard. "Look, I'm still warm!"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, as if wanting everyone present to feel it.

Of course, Chu Changge wouldn't pinch him to see if he was hot.

The fat man stared at Ziliang's hand for several moments, then went up and squeezed it hard, finally concluding, "It's really hot."

Ziliang was sweating profusely, probably because he was too nervous, and his hands were sticky.

At this point, Chu Changge changed the subject: "We made some discoveries in the restroom just now, would you like to come and take a look?"

Ziliang didn't really want to stay in this ghostly experimental building for too long, but he was still sweating from fright and couldn't run around much, so he nodded in agreement with Chu Changge's suggestion.

Gu Mian was holding her phone at that moment.

Ziliang noticed that Gu Mian and the other two's phones had some differences from his own screen.

Three options appeared on each of their phones.

Gu Mian explained, "Because the three of us searched three different places in the restroom, the choices that were triggered were also different."

Ziliang first looked at Chu Changge's phone screen.

Chu Changge diligently searched for 'broken mop handle'.

The broken part of the mop handle appears to have been carved with a knife; such knives are only found in art museums.

[Should we visit the art museum?]

Once you give up, you will not be able to explore again.

Next up is the fat guy's screen.

Fatty Wang carefully searched the 'dirty floor and walls'.

There was an unidentified yellow liquid sprayed on the wall, and it also appeared to be chalk writing. Could the chalk have been brought out of the classroom?

Should we proceed to the classroom?

Once you give up, you will not be able to explore again.

Finally, it's the chainsaw doctor's turn.

The chainsaw doctor's page is more unreliable than anyone else's.

Gu Gu carefully searched for 'the latrines on the ground'.

A key was pulled out of the latrine hole. It was covered with some yellow solid, and the key had '4473' written on it, so it seemed to be a dormitory key.

Should we go to the dormitory?

Once you give up, you will not be able to explore again.

“I can tolerate the rest…” Ziliang pursed his lips, but in the end he couldn’t hold back: “Doctor, what’s going on here? Pulling a key out of the toilet is really something.”

He also remembered that the characters in the game followed the actions of real-life players.

Gu Mian said very sincerely, "I just clicked on the search for the toilet, and the key was something the character in the game had to retrieve himself."

This little guy is really quite intelligent.

Ziliang swallowed.

"Now we have three directions," Chu Changge suddenly spoke up, "My suggestion is to take all three directions."

Ziliang nodded: "The higher-ups did say that if we give up, we can't explore anymore, so we have to split up and act separately?"

Gu Mian suddenly spoke up: "Of course, if everyone here can divide themselves into three parts, then we won't need to split up." Zi Liang chuckled, seemingly finding the joke a bit lame.

Chu Changge continued, "Our mission in this instance is to survive for four days. Since the instance is based on time, it's easy to imagine that the longer the time goes on, the more dangers we will encounter. Therefore, it's best to resolve this instance as soon as possible, preferably tonight."

Solve it? Ziliang silently touched his ear. Did he just say the word "solve it"?

I've always seen dungeons solve problems for players, never for players to solve dungeons.

No... he seems to have seen players solve dungeons before, but he only saw it mentioned in the dungeon announcements.

Thinking about this, Ziliang suddenly realized that Fatty and Chu Changge's nicknames sounded somewhat familiar.

But before he could think any further, Chu Changge's voice interrupted his thoughts: "Of course, the three of us will go to these three different places separately."

Ziliang noticed that the fat man's expression had become listless again, like a student who had finally gotten two days off and was now back at school.

"What are your plans, you two?" Chu Changge glanced at Ziliang and Ruoliubufeng.

Ziliang shifted his feet, his legs no longer as weak as before: "Of course we can't do nothing, doing nothing is tantamount to courting death... I'll stick with Fatty!"

The fat guy seems to be the most reliable of the three.

Ziliang always suspected that the doctor with the chainsaw would suddenly go crazy and start hacking around.

She also suspected that Chu Changge was a monster in human form, but the fat man seemed more reassuring, especially since the two of them had spent some time getting to know each other, although that time only lasted about an hour.

The frail willow beside it clearly didn't want to sit there and wait to die.

Between the seemingly unreliable doctor and the seemingly reliable bespectacled young man, she would naturally choose the latter.

Gu Mian will have to develop on her own again.

"I'm so miserable, really..." Gu Mian sighed as she glanced at the time on the blackboard; it was already 1:40.

After checking the time, he turned around and said, "Let's go downstairs first."

Ziliang, of course, couldn't wait to leave this laboratory building.

But for some reason, the three people who came out of the toilet walked downstairs very slowly, almost as if they were taking a leisurely stroll in the laboratory building.

The fat man kept looking at his phone, further slowing down the group's pace as they descended the stairs.

Fortunately, nothing went wrong in the middle; the female ghost banging her head on the ground, the male ghost in the toilet, and the white-faced ghost on the window did not appear.

By the time the group arrived at the building entrance, it was almost two o'clock.

Gu Mian had already cut the iron chain at the door with a chainsaw. Although the lock was from the inside of the laboratory building, Gu Mian could still reach her chainsaw in from the outside.

Fortunately, the old gatekeeper didn't come over during this time, otherwise Gu Mian, carrying a chainsaw, would have been detained long ago.

Ziliang hurriedly ran out of the laboratory building and into the bright sunshine.

The summer sun was scorching, but Ziliang felt incredibly comfortable, as if basking in the sunlight could drive away all demons and monsters.

Gu Mian glanced at her phone screen; the option was still there.

Similarly, Chu Changge and the fat man did not make a choice immediately.

In the sunlight, Ziliang saw that the three of them seemed to talk for a while before pressing the option on the screen together.

At the same time, the screens of the three people also showed different changes.

[Chu Changge: There seems to have been a fierce fight in the restroom. There are marks from a utility knife on the mop handle. Maybe I should go check it out.]

Thanks to silicon tetrachloride, sodium oxide, sodium hydroxide, platelets, white blood cells...

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