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Chapter 248 Purple Shorts and Game Coins
Gu Mian lingered there for a moment, and then a pair of bright purple underwear came to her door.

"Hey," said the woman in purple, putting her hand on Gu Mian's shoulder, "Hey classmate, aren't you hot wearing so many layers in the middle of summer?"

Gu Mian was still wearing her school uniform. Since everyone was basically shirtless or wearing tank tops, her school uniform made her stand out in the dormitory.

There was no air conditioning in the dormitory, and with people coming and going, the temperature wasn't ideal.

Gu Mian, who considered herself less alluring than him, merely shifted her shoulder without saying a word.

"Look at this dorm room," said Sao Zise, glancing at room 4473 not far from Gu Mian. "This dorm room was locked up like that a long time ago, supposedly to be used as a small storage room."

As he spoke, he chuckled to himself twice: "Nobody would believe that. Nobody's ever used this house in all these years, and it's even sealed off..."

When Sao Zise got to this point, she glanced at Gu Mian and said, "By the way, buddy, do you want to go in?"

Gu Mian glanced at him. Theoretically speaking, this flashy purple color belonged to an NPC in the dungeon, but this NPC was a bit too flashy.

This person seemed to be very outgoing. Since Gu Mian didn't speak, he continued to ramble on.

"I've heard people say that a night patrol teacher once found this door open by itself during a dormitory check, and the person who went in never came out again, but that's just a rumor..."

Gu Mian was still listening attentively when a voice suddenly interrupted Zhao Zi: "Zhao Zi, aren't you going to play ball later? Hurry up and come back and put on your clothes to cover up your filthy underwear!"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Zi immediately gave an awkward laugh, then covered her underwear and ran towards the dormitory.

There was hardly anyone around Gu Mian at this moment.

Watching Zhao Zi, dressed in a vibrant purple, run towards the dormitory and disappear through the door, Gu Mian took a step forward and looked at the seal on the door of dormitory 4473.

The school must have put up the seal themselves.

"A patrolling teacher went in and then disappeared?" Gu Mian stroked her chin. "Although the ending for most students who download this disappearance game is that they disappear, the teacher who went missing shouldn't be a player of this game, right?"

He muttered to himself as he looked at the gate in front of him.

Perhaps this is a trap, and once you go in, you're doomed.

Further clues are needed to determine the danger posed by this door.

Just then, Gu Mian suddenly noticed something at the edge of his phone screen. He took two steps toward it and discovered what appeared to be a treasure chest.

Without hesitation, Gu Mian directly manipulated the little figure to the treasure chest and then opened it.

[10000 Game Coins]

One, ten, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand...

Gu Mian counted carefully, and it was indeed 10,000 game coins.

As expected of a special instance, they're so generous with the in-game currency. With resources in the real world becoming increasingly scarce and in-game currency becoming more and more sought after, instances should adjust their in-game currency output accordingly.

But giving someone 10,000 game coins at once is still...

Just as Gu Mian was marveling at the generosity of the special instance, he suddenly noticed something else appearing on his phone screen.

A green baby, huddled in a corner...?
Gu Mian glanced at the screen, then looked up at the area in the corridor where the baby should have been, but there was nothing there.

And just as he looked down at the screen again, the baby moved.

Suddenly, it leaped up from the ground, leaving a trail of afterimages.

Gu Mian didn't really understand how pixelated games created the ghosting effects.

The baby in the game went straight for the treasure chest. It darted past [Gu Gu] and pounced on it. Immediately afterward, the [Game Coins * 10000] icon disappeared.

Gu Mian: "..."

Let this thing eat it?

How strange! A baby that eats money! Look at how anxious it is, as if it owes the baby eight million...

and many more?

Upon seeing this, Gu Mian suddenly thought of something, frowned, and stared at her phone screen.

Baby, IOU?
Thinking of this, he frowned: "Nine-Headed Infant?"

Is that the creditor from the IOU he pulled out? How come he's in this game too?
As Gu Mian pondered this, she glanced at the door of room 4473 not far away.

"How could a nine-headed infant appear in this pixelated game? Theoretically, it shouldn't be like that..."

Meanwhile, in the art museum, several paintings that seemed quite strange had been discovered.

Without exception, all these paintings were created by "Chu Hang". The paintings on the third floor were of a much higher quality, at least you could make out some facial features.

The frail willow was holding two paintings, observing them carefully.

Both paintings were done by Chu Hang and have similar content. Both paintings depict two people fleeing down a long corridor.

It's not quite like a flight of horses; the scene looks more like the people in front are running away while the people behind are chasing.

It's worth mentioning that the two people chasing and fleeing in each painting seem to be exactly the same, like two twins playing around.

The frail girl nervously clutched the painting in her arms. The thirty minutes she had agreed upon with Chu Changge were almost up, and since there was no clock on the third floor, she had no idea how much time was left.

"Anyway, it's never a bad thing to be early..." The frail willow thought to herself as she walked toward the corridor where Chu Changge was.

She was so nervous that she almost started running.

But after running about half a lap, she realized something was wrong.

The frail girl, clutching the painting in her hands, swallowed hard as she looked at the empty corridor. "Wait a minute, I've been running for so long, I should be able to see people by now..."

But there was no trace of Chu Changge here, as if he had already left this floor.

The weak willow called out softly twice, "Brother Chu? Chu Changge? Brother Chu?"

There was no response at all.

The corridor on the third floor was eerily quiet, with only the sound of her own footsteps and breathing.

Ruo Liu clutched the things in her hands tightly: "Although my voice is soft, there's only one corridor, so people in this corridor should be able to hear my voice."

Did they really go downstairs?
As she pondered this, she decided to go downstairs to take a look.

But just then, she suddenly noticed that the door to an office ahead had a crack that had appeared out of nowhere.

There are many offices on the third floor. I tried to open them, but they were all locked and I couldn't open them at all.

But ahead was an open office door, and that office was within Chu Changge's search area.

Could it be that they didn't hear it from inside?
As Ruo Liu pondered this, she took two steps forward, intending to walk to the office door.

(End of this chapter)