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Chapter 252, "My Cell Prison," is super good!
Unfortunately, this paper figure is too flat, so it's impossible to deduce its dimensions from it.

Back in the day, Ziliang also had a virtual wife, but now, no matter what, he can't treat the virtual character Gu Mian in the game as his wife.

"I'm saying..." Ziliang swallowed hard, looking at the chainsaw-wielding figure on the screen, "Isn't this the 30,000 game coins?"

It refers, of course, to Gu Mian, who was running wildly on the phone screen.

The fat man was staring intently at the screen when he heard this, and turned around and said, "I've discovered that you really love giving people nicknames."

However, this nickname is quite accurate...

If you're lucky, you could get 30,000 for stabbing someone. Any normal person would want to rush up and stab Gu Mian a few times.

Sometimes Gu Mian would suddenly have the thought of "killing myself", but his reason would not allow him to do so.

At this moment, Ziliang was still looking at Gu Mian's figure in confusion.

He didn't know how the green doctor got into the game, nor did he know why this thing could pull out a chainsaw and chase after the ghost after entering the game.

He is now in a deep state of confusion.

Just then, Ziliang suddenly heard a sound coming from the corridor ahead.

He looked up blankly and saw a familiar figure slowly walking towards him.

It's Chu Changge!

The bespectacled man was slowly walking towards them, pushing up his glasses. His face was expressionless, and he seemed completely unaware that he was in a terrifying scenario.

Ziliang remembered that this person had entered the art museum with the frail willow, and he should be inside the art museum now. Why did he come out?
Could it be that they've already explored the entire art museum? Is that why they came out to look for them?

But if that's the case, where does the frail willow go?
Ziliang looked behind Chu Changge in confusion as he pondered, but there was nothing there.

At this moment, the fat man next to him asked in confusion, "Brother Chu, where's the person who was with you?"

Chu Changge lowered his hand and shook his head slightly: "I don't know."

Ziliang was dumbfounded, not knowing what it meant.
Chu Changge continued, "We split up in the art museum, but then she disappeared."

Upon hearing this, Ziliang didn't press the matter further and kept quiet.

But he noticed that the fat man next to him seemed a little off, as if he had thought of something.

Before Ziliang could carefully examine the fat man's expression, Chu Changge suddenly spoke up: "I found a few paintings in the art museum with some clues on them, but they were too troublesome to bring here. However, I memorized the contents of those paintings."

He seemed completely oblivious to the fact that his teammate was missing.

Hearing this, Ziliang felt a chill run down his spine. He wondered if Fatty would also be so heartless as to forget him if he disappeared.

Chu Changge continued, "The paintings I saw were all painted by someone named Chu Hang. It seems that some students went missing because of playing this game, and Chu Hang's paintings appear to depict those students who went missing because of this game..."

“There are often two identical people in the painting, one chasing and the other running away… I’m asking you, do you already know something?” Chu Changge suddenly stopped speaking and turned to look at the two fat men.

The fat man's expression remained unchanged, as if he already knew something.

Ziliang, however, still looked somewhat dazed, as if he were thinking about something else.

Neither of them were paying attention to what Chu Changge was saying.

The fat man realized what was happening and nodded: "Yes... Just now, we discovered that the character we registered wasn't actually the character we registered!"

His words were somewhat convoluted.

But Chu Changge still understood his meaning and nodded: "That's right. Based on my deduction, of the two little figures chasing and fleeing, the one on the run is probably one of us players, while the one chasing is one of our registered characters... Perhaps these characters already existed and weren't registered by us."

"Moreover, these ghosts disguised as characters would follow us and then strike when the opportunity arose, which is why we mistakenly believed that these ghosts were directly related to us."

“Speaking of which,” Chu Changge pushed up his glasses, “since you already know that the characters in the game are ghosts, then you must have been chased by them, right?”

“That’s right,” the fat man swallowed, “Just now, they almost caught us and tore us to pieces.”

Chu Changge glanced at the fat man, then at Ziliang who was still in a daze: "But judging from your current appearance, it seems that you feel you have no worries anymore. What about the two ghosts who are with you?"

The fat man sniffed: "Brother Chu, you have sharp eyes! That's right, we saw the doctor when we were running like crazy... but it was in the game..."

As he spoke, he pointed to his phone screen: "Right here, the doctor turned into a paper doll!"

Chu Changge could roughly guess what happened next without Fatty having to say more.

It's nothing more than Gu Mian, now a producer, running into two ghosts and pulling out a chainsaw...

That's why the two people in front of them can now leisurely sit here and daydream.

“I also saw these two paintings in the art museum,” Chu Changge paused here, “Someone was pulled into a door by a hand, and after being pulled in, the door closed, and blood seeped out from the crack in the door.”

Once inside, it's all about "death."

The fat man nodded silently: "The door in the painting you saw should be the door to the dormitory the doctor is looking for. We both guessed that opening that door would lead to something bad, and the doctor probably opened it..."

Then she was pulled inside the door, but there was no blood.

No, there might be bleeding later, but it definitely won't be the doctor who bleeds, the fat man thought to himself.

Just then, Chu Changge continued, "I guess that door should be the boundary between the real world and this 'disappearance game'. People who played this game before have all disappeared, and no one has ever seen their bodies. So I guess the people who disappeared before were all pulled into this pixel game and passed through this door."

Of course, you're still alive when you're pulled into this pixel game, but once you're in, you're basically doomed.

Later, those who were pulled into the game also became ghosts, continuing to pull in later players.

The fat man asked thoughtfully, "Since the people who went missing before were pulled into the game, will we players also be pulled into the game if something happens to us?"

At this moment, Gu Mian, who was a player in the instance, was indeed in the game, but she shouldn't have been pulled in... Chu Changge shook his head: "That's unlikely, because I saw the corpse of one of our players in a very remote place."

The fat man touched his nose: "Brother Chu, didn't you come directly from the art museum?"

Chu Changge did not answer, but continued, "Obviously, the ghosts in this game also know that we are different. I guess the ghosts kill people in order to inject a constant stream of fresh ghosts into this game, because even if we players die in the dungeon, we can be resurrected in the real world, so it is impossible for us to become ghosts in the dungeon... Of course, we can also be pulled into that door, but we will not become ghosts after we die, so it is of no use to the ghosts in the game."

The fat man thought to himself, "So if I'm going to kill someone, I'll just kill them directly..."

Chu Changge then steered the conversation back to the topic: "Theoretically speaking, if we were pulled into that door, we would be killed by the ghost on the spot."

At this moment, Zi Liang suddenly spoke up: "But Gu Mian isn't dead!"

Chu Changge glanced at him sideways, then turned to look at the fat man, as if silently asking something.

The fat man, of course, knew what Chu Changge meant. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "When the doctor turned into a pixelated figure and passed by us just now, his own name was displayed above his head..."

That's why Ziliang knew Gu Mian's name.

Gu Mian's name has always been a taboo subject. Fatty and Chu Changge both intentionally avoided mentioning his name in front of others. They never expected that this would happen in the end.

Meanwhile, Gu Mian was still running around in the game using her own name.

"No way!" the fat man slapped his thigh. "We can't let the doctor run around with his name on his head. I have to stop him! It wouldn't be good if someone saw him!"

At this moment, Chu Changge suddenly grabbed the fat man and pressed him down: "Now, besides him..."

As Chu Changge spoke, he looked at Ziliang beside him and said, "Apart from him, all the other 'others' are dead."

Upon hearing this, Ziliang felt a sudden chill run down his spine.

These words sound terrifying at first glance, but they are even more terrifying upon closer inspection. They seem to imply that the speaker is trying to kill himself.

He took a deep breath and looked at Chu Changge in front of him. How could this person speak so terrifyingly? And how did he know that 'others' were all dead?
Thinking of this, Ziliang subconsciously glanced at his phone screen.

He held his phone tightly in his hand the whole time. Even though he knew he was probably completely safe, Ziliang still didn't dare to put the phone down.

He looked at his phone screen and saw that there was nothing on the huge screen. Not only had their registered characters disappeared, but even Chu Changge's character in front of him had disappeared.

“I said…” Ziliang suddenly stammered, “Our characters disappeared because they just ran away together, but what happened to yours?”

No wonder Chu Changge has been so leisurely and unhurried since earlier. It turns out the ghost following him is long gone.

Chu Changge glanced down at Zi Liang's phone screen: "There are limitations to ghosts. I told Fatty about it, but I didn't tell anyone else because I wasn't sure if it was accurate."

"Someone else, someone else again," Ziliang sniffed slightly.

Now, the only "others" still alive in this instance are myself. What's with this feeling of "all of humanity is dead and I'm the only one left"?

As Ziliang thought about it, he looked at the fat man, who chuckled and said, "Brother Chu previously guessed that the ghosts' movements were restricted, and for a considerable period of time they had to act with us and couldn't do anything else... while for a small period of time they could act alone. Of course, these were just speculations before."

When Ziliang saw the fat man speak, Chu Changge took a few steps toward the direction behind them: "Gu Mian went this way?"

The fat man nodded and hurriedly followed.

Ziliang naturally followed in their footsteps.

As Chu Changge walked, he explained, "Let me explain next. We entered this instance while we were in class, and when class time was up, the character I registered kept urging me to go back to class."

"After meeting up with you, I learned that your situation was the same. Of course, at that time, none of us knew that the character we registered was the ghost."

"After that, I noticed that the frequency of the ghosts' appearances seemed to follow a certain pattern, basically once every forty-five minutes... so I guessed that the ghosts in this game can only act once every forty minutes."

"But when I found clues about the painting in the art museum, I realized that the characters we registered were very likely ghosts."

"Considering that the ghosts can only act once every forty minutes or so, and that the characters we registered for at the beginning of class kept urging us to go back to class, I guess these ghosts have to act with us for a considerable period of time. Whatever we do, they have to do too. But they are afraid of acting with us, which is why they are desperately urging us to stay still in the classroom and not move around."

"Do you remember the traps in this school? There are quite a few traps in this school, but we players don't dare to step on them."

The fat man nodded silently: "When we were running away just now, we realized that if those traps weren't prepared for us, then they must have been prepared for those ghosts."

Actually, the way to get rid of ghosts is very simple.
All you need is for some brave soul to jump on the trap at the start of the game.

But no one expected this, and even if they had, they probably wouldn't have dared to do it.

Gu Mian once had such a bold idea.

But valuing his life, he only thought about it in his mind; naturally, he wouldn't go up there to risk his life. And apart from Gu Mian, everyone present was a decent person, and they certainly wouldn't go up there to try and jump around...

It's worth mentioning, however, that although Gu Mian didn't try this method of courting death, she unexpectedly discovered another way to do so...

At this moment, Gu Mian, now a pixelated figure, is walking through the pixelated world carrying a chainsaw.

Gu Mian: "Damn it, when can I turn back?"

Meanwhile, Fatty and Chu Changge were on their way to Gu Mian's location.
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I recommend a book to a friend: *My Cellular Prison*.

It's so good, everyone go watch it!
This is not Python!

This is p...

Genre: Science Fiction Thriller (Cthulhu Mysticism + Steampunk + Horror Infinite Flow)

Synopsis: A scholar reborn from cells, wielding the power of the Prison Codex, arrives in a parallel world under the watchful eyes of the Old Gods.

This book is also known as "Starting from Scratch" - [Starting with a head, the rest depends on finding a way out]

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