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Chapter 266 Gu Mian, the Match Girl

Gu Mian and her companions had just arrived at this place and were not yet familiar with the terrain.

Normally, even if they didn't know where the ticket booth was, they could leisurely stroll around and find it.

But not now.

The temperature inside the car had reached below zero.

The temperature outside the car is even more terrifying; you can't stay outside for long, or you might freeze to death.

At this moment, the fat man had already put down the quilt in his hand, and tremblingly opened the back door and jumped out.

As soon as he landed, the biting cold wind seeped in through the gaps in his clothes, caressing his entire body from head to toe, making the fat man's teeth chatter from the cold.

"Hurry...hurry up..." the fat man managed to utter with some difficulty.

As soon as you open your mouth, a cold wind will relentlessly rush into your stomach, making you feel as if a large block of ice is hanging inside you.

Xiao Hong was naturally left in the car to guard the door.

Every time Gu Mian left the hearse, she worried that Xiao Hong might be stolen.

They can't bring too many items into the dungeon, so leaving Xiao Hong to guard it is definitely the best option right now, even though that female ghost seems a bit off-track on her mind...

At this moment, the fat man who jumped out of the car first rushed towards the direction the two had just left.

His feet started to feel a little numb after standing outside for only a short while, so he needed to move around quickly to warm up.

The man and woman who left walked very quickly, and soon they disappeared from sight.

Fortunately, the ticket booth was very conspicuous.

After walking for a short while in the nearly minus twenty degrees Celsius environment, Gu Mian and the other two saw the ticket booth not far ahead. The fat man, who couldn't stand the cold, jogged over to it.

Gu Mian and Chu Changge followed behind.

When the group arrived at the ticket booth, the man and woman they had seen earlier had vanished.

It seems they went straight into the instance.

That's true, it's freezing cold even inside the ticket booth.

The door was wide open, and a fierce north wind blew directly into the house. However, it was still a little better inside than outside, since there were several walls to block the wind.

At this moment, the fat man plopped down on a chair next to the long table at the ticket booth, seemingly wanting to catch his breath.

The fat man's ears were so cold they were numb; he couldn't feel them when he pinched them.

Just as he was pinching his ear, Chu Changge next to him had already picked up the ticket.

The fat man pinched his ear again, but still couldn't feel anything.

He didn't try pinching it a few more times, but stood up directly: "Doctor, let's go inside. If I stay here any longer, I'm afraid I'll catch a cold again..."

Theoretically speaking, if a person has just caught a cold, they should not get sick again in a short period of time.

But Fatty's cold is really unusual. The cold virus seems to have been enhanced by the earth, making it very difficult to get rid of. Who knows what kind of cold virus it has become? There is a good chance that he will get sick again right after he has just recovered.

Immediately, the three began matchmaking for the dungeon.

[Matching for a dungeon, please wait]

[Matchmaking successful, currently matching teammates...]

Gu Mian had already stuffed all the medicine she got from the supermarket into the pocket of her white coat, hoping to run into a lousy teammate this time and be saved when she was in critical condition.

Saving someone might trigger hidden achievements or skills for the doctor profession.

However, your teammates can't be too bad either...

If he's too weak, by the time he arrives, he'll be nothing but a corpse, and no matter how capable Gu Mian is, she can't save him.

Just then, something changed in front of the three of them.

[Successfully matched with teammates] [Dungeon: Collapsed Fairy Tale City]

"By the way," the fat man's voice came from the side, "the name of this instance is really clever..."

Gu Mian nodded in agreement in the darkness, though the fat man next to her probably couldn't see it.

[Content: This is a city like a dream, where you will meet characters from your dreams. May the dream last forever.]

Number of players: 7

Main Quest: Escape from Fairy Tale City

The description of this copy...

A puzzled voice came from the side: "Could it be that we might run into Pleasant Goat in this instance?"

Gu Mian tugged at her guitar: "Fairytale City, we should at least encounter things from fairytales, right? Pleasant Goat doesn't seem to be a character from a fairytale. Speaking of fairytales, the things we should encounter here are..."

Alice? Mickey Mouse? Little Red Riding Hood?

Gu Mian's voice followed: "It should be something like Voldemort."

The fat man swallowed hard. It seemed that this doctor had a rather profound misunderstanding of "fairy tales".

Just as the fat man was swallowing halfway through his saliva, which got stuck in his throat, the three of them suddenly had a bright idea in their eyes.

When she came to her senses, Gu Mian was already on a lush green lawn.

Chu Changge and the fat man were no longer there.

Bright sunshine streamed down from the sky, making the dew-covered grass blades reflect light. The air was filled with the fresh scent of leaves, and a warm breeze blew by from time to time.

With her nostrils forcefully filled with the scent of grass, Gu Mian felt for a moment as if she had turned into a cow munching on grass.

The current situation is quite different from the harsh environment just now, and it took Gu Mian some time to adjust.

Green filled Gu Mian's eyes.

He shifted his head and looked around. All around him was a meadow, and not far away was a forest, from which wisps of smoke seemed to be rising slowly.

"Blue sky, white clouds, green land, forests, and cooking smoke—a scene straight out of a folktale."

"anyway……"

Gu Mian muttered to herself as she glanced around. Yes, it was a patch of grass.

"I remember this dungeon was called 'Honkai Fairy Tale City,' not 'Fairy Tale Ranch,' right..."

He would never have imagined that the surrounding meadows and the nearby forest were like a city wildlife park.

Anyway, let's head towards the direction of the smoke and see if we can find any people or NPCs.

As Gu Mian pondered this, she lifted her foot and walked towards the direction of the cooking smoke.

Speaking of fairy tales set in forests, which ones are they?

Gu Mian thought about it carefully.

Because Gu Mian's parents may have died during his childhood and were unable to tell him fairy tales to lull him to sleep, Gu Mian's understanding of fairy tales is not deep; he only knows a few of the more famous ones in the world.

"Both Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White are fairy tales that are related to the forest."

Gu Mian really couldn't think of anything else.

He carefully considered the fairy tales that might happen in the woods, and slowly walked towards the direction of the smoke.

"But even if we know the fairy tale here, what's the use? Are we supposed to save the protagonist?"

For example, the grandmother protecting Little Red Riding Hood from being eaten by the Big Bad Wolf?
He hadn't walked far when he saw a group of people.

Yes, it was a group of...

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