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Chapter 258 Chu Changge's Flirting
However, it seems that the 10,000 game coins were snatched away by some cute little devil as soon as they were released.

As Gu Mian pondered this, she put her hand in her pocket, rubbed it for a while, and then took out a piece of paper that was already crumpled.

It's an IOU.

A huge IOU

[Description: A huge IOU that reads, 'The player holding this IOU owes Nine-Headed Infant 10,000 game coins. This IOU is non-transferable.']

Before the debt is paid off, players may face the wrath of the Nine-Headed Insect at any time; if the debt is paid off, they will gain the Nine-Headed Insect's favor.

Speaking of which, the game currency that was eaten by the Nine-Headed Infant in the dungeon just now was exactly 10,000.

By now, this IOU should have become "Nine-Headed Infant's Appreciation," right?
But as it turns out, Gu Mian had a far too high opinion of the world.

This tattered IOU hasn't changed at all.

Gu Mian looked at it from left to right, from top to bottom, over and over again.

There was no change whatsoever. It didn't evolve from an IOU into "the appreciation of the Nine-Headed Infant." Not a single word was changed, no, not a single punctuation mark was changed.

At this moment, the fat man, who had already hidden the miniature notebook, leaned closer and asked, "Doctor, what are you looking at?"

Gu Mian glanced at his crotch: "In the dungeon, the Nine-Headed Infant swallowed the 10,000 game coins I just opened, but this IOU didn't transform."

The fat man clutched his pants: "By the way... Doctor, did you get the money back then?"

Gu Mian was slightly taken aback.

No.

He didn't receive the money at that time; the person who received the money was the character he registered, [Gu Gu].

Theoretically speaking, items held by a character cannot be considered the player's property, because the items held by the character are only distributed to the player at the very end of the dungeon.

So the Nine-Headed Infant is stealing money right under his nose!

How desperate for money must someone be to be so shameless...?

Gu Mian sullenly put the IOU back in her pocket. She vowed to give the nine-headed baby a good beating the next time she saw him.

He put his hands on the steering wheel as he thought about it.

They were still stopped in the middle of the road. The city's roads had been cleared, but for some reason, not many people were driving on them.

Even if there are no cars on the road, it is still unethical to occupy the road; the car must be moved first.

Just then, the fat man's voice suddenly came from the side: "Hey doctor, don't you think something's missing?"

It seems like something is missing.

The scent of Pantene shampoo is gone, along with the beautiful hair by the car window; oh right, it seems they left Little Red here alone when they went into the special instance...

Where is she?
As Gu Mian opened the car door, a blast of cold wind rushed in, making the fat man next to her shiver.

He pulled his blue coat tighter around himself: "This weather is so weird! It doesn't seem like it's getting warmer at all."

It's getting colder and colder.

At this moment, Chu Changge also looked out the window, seemingly lost in thought.

Gu Mian had already gotten out of the car. He was wearing low-cut boots to prevent the cold wind from seeping in through his trouser legs. Although Gu Mian wasn't particularly afraid of the cold, she still refused to be passionately caressed by the cold wind.

As soon as he got out of the car, his pair of low-top boots, which were tightly tucked into his trouser legs, stepped on something.

Gu Mian looked down and saw a head of beautiful hair, exuding the fragrance of shampoo.

The beautiful hair cascaded out from under the car, making it look like a scene from a car accident where a beautiful woman was crushed under a vehicle by a heartless driver.

He paused for a moment, then squatted down and looked inside the car through the floorboards.

Then I was faced with a face that was incredibly ugly.

Xiao Hong seemed to have known that Gu Mian was going to look down at her. At this moment, she was grinning foolishly at him, and the [telepathic communication device] hanging around her neck was dangling to the ground, making a "hehehe" sound.

I've never seen such a dazed ghost. Gu Mian laboriously reached under the car floor and pulled Xiao Hong out, then stuffed her into the car.

We can't keep her on the roof of the car forever; it's just too conspicuous.

Between opening and closing the door, the fat man's nose was constantly running.

Even Chu Changge noticed that after the typhoon last night, the temperature seemed to have dropped to a terrifying level, which is why there were hardly any people on the streets today.

Even if you were wrapped in two layers of quilts, you'd probably freeze through the cold if you went out now.

"It's so cold," the fat man pulled out a tissue and rubbed his nose hard. "The coldest time is long over, right? But why do I feel like it's colder than the coldest winter I've ever experienced?"

He seemed to have caught a cold, which is not a good thing at a time like this.

But this is not something the fat man can control.

I'm afraid quite a few people have already started to get sick, and some may even have developed the flu, since the weather is just too cold.

If you are sick, it is best to take medicine, especially for a disease like the flu.

Chu Changge glanced at Xiao Hong, who was clinging to the car window, and then at the fat man who was constantly wiping his nose with tissues: "When we go to the supermarket later, we should buy a thermometer and some medicine."

The fat man nodded in complete agreement.

Gu Mian stroked her chin: "The medicines in hospitals and pharmacies should have been taken into control by the military. If a large-scale flu outbreak occurs, will they be distributed to lower levels?"

The supermarket sells medicine, but it's very expensive.

Chu Changge said, "Theoretically speaking, it's definitely possible, but I suspect there's a very high chance of an accident. As for what that accident might be, we'll only know when the time comes."

He looked out the window as he spoke.

I fear that a severe shortage of medicines will soon occur.

At this moment, Liu Ruyan's voice suddenly came: "Did you know that most of the original resources on Earth before the game seem to have disappeared?"

The fat man looked at her in confusion, not quite understanding what she meant.

"The road has been cleared, but there are still very few vehicles. As far as I know, it's because all the gasoline fuel has evaporated... well, not exactly evaporated, it's simply disappeared. If nothing unexpected happens, there won't be a single drop of fuel left in the gas tanks of either gas stations or the broken-down cars on the roadside. Of course, some may have survived, but very few."

"As far as I know, the crops are the same; they've basically all died, so it's best not to have any hope for medicine or anything like that."

The fat man fell silent.

The cold wind was still howling, and just hearing it made people shiver.

Gu Mian had already stepped on the gas, and the hearse began to move.

He glanced at Liu Ruyan sitting in the back in the rearview mirror: "Get out when we get to the supermarket. I don't want you to keep turning on my gas cylinder."

Although Liu Ruyan wasn't turning on a gas cylinder back then, and such a thing couldn't be placed in a hearse.

However, Liu Ruyan did not refute: "To be honest, your gas cylinder is really hard to turn on..."

She paused here, not continuing from where she left off, but instead changed the subject: "Okay, goodbye."

They were not far from the supermarket, and they arrived in no time.

Liu Ruyan didn't linger. Instead, she immediately opened the car door and left, heading in the opposite direction from the supermarket. As the car door opened and closed, the fat man sneezed again.

He pressed his nose: "This damn weather."

"Speaking of which," the fat man said, holding a tissue and watching Liu Ruyan's departing figure, "it seems like she didn't do anything meaningful on this trip with us..."

No, the fat girl stopped; she was flirting with Brother Chu.

He remembered that before entering that special instance, Chu Changge and Liu Ruyan had talked for a while, but he didn't know what they were talking about.

"Are they discussing the shape of the gas cylinder in the doctor's house?" the fat man muttered to himself.

Thank you Xie Yuwei for the reward (づ￣3￣)づ╭～
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(End of this chapter)