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Chapter 276 Black Sugar Princess and the Five Dwarfs and Gu Mian

007 never imagined that she would feel the cold night wind blowing on her face again.

A sharp pain came from my back shoulder.

When she woke up, she first looked at her arms. She saw that her arms were hanging down, but they were tightly wrapped in bandages, with an ugly bow tied at the end. She looked at the bow and couldn't help but smile, even though it was a bit ugly.

Bright red blood seeped into the bandage, but not much.

The pain in her shoulder was particularly noticeable; she remembered that the garment had also fused with part of her back shoulder, indicating that it had been removed as well.

But my arm, which should have been in excruciating pain, seemed to feel nothing...

007 then looked at the person who was turning his back to him.

It's him.

The doctor carrying the guitar case—007 had seen him twice. She remembered that he was either pretending to be a ghost at the edge of the forest or busking on the street…

Selling lighters might not be considered performing arts.

Gu Mian sensed the movement behind him. He turned his head to look at 007's face resting on his shoulder. He saw that she was already awake, with her eyes wide open.

"Awake?" Gu Mian weighed 007 in her hand again.

The girl was so light that Gu Mian felt she was only a few pounds heavier than her chainsaw when she carried her.

“Hmm,” 007 lowered his head slightly and said softly, “Thank you.”

Although she didn't know what happened while she was unconscious, she knew it certainly wasn't something like "a comatose girl being forcibly skinned by a perverted doctor."

If it weren't for this white coat, she might still be silently waiting for death in the forest, or she might have already been assimilated by this instance...

But now I am still alive.

The nights are exceptionally long in this instance.

007 didn't know how long she had been unconscious, but when she woke up, she saw the forest at night.

The moonlight enveloped the entire forest, casting a white glow on the tall trees, making them appear as if they were covered in frost.

Even though the cold wind was still howling, 007 felt an unprecedented warmth. His previously frozen body seemed to come back to life, and a warm current spread through him, like hope.

Gu Mian didn't say much, and 007 seemed a little flustered.

She was carried by Gu Mian for quite a while before she spoke, "Did you give me painkillers? I'll give you the money..."

"No, I severed the nerves in your arm."

007:"……"

Out of professional ethics as a doctor, Gu Mian asked again, "Does your shoulder hurt?"

007 shook his head, holding back tears.

Although it still hurts, it's much better than before.

The throbbing muscles and blood vessels were still vivid in her mind, and just thinking about them made her uncomfortable. 007 couldn't imagine how much courage she had to peel off her own skin back then.

She paused for a moment, then continued, "You gave me some hemostatic medicine, right?"

Otherwise, the amount of bleeding in the arm would not have been so small.

Gu Mian nodded slightly.

To be honest, the girl's way of speaking made him quite uncomfortable. He had been in so many dungeons, but this was the first time he had encountered someone who was so polite to him, using "you" in every way, which made him feel like he was an uncle.

Gu Mian had actually intended to chop off 007's two arms to save trouble, but she didn't do it in the end. However, she still felt a little guilty being addressed with such respect.

He bought five [Copy Type D-Blood Clotting] potions, which, when injected near a wound, can cause the blood in the wound to clot briefly, lasting for two minutes.

Gu Mian's current skill duration is ten minutes.

But 007's two bare arms don't even qualify as "wounds".

If she had suffered a fatal wound like a slit in the throat, Gu Mian could have given her an injection to stop the bleeding, but even twenty injections wouldn't have helped with her two arms that had lost all their skin; the area was too large.

Fortunately, Gu Mian also carried a hemostatic spray with her, and the spray bottle was printed with the words "Produced by the Evil God, Guaranteed to be of the highest quality".

This thing was given to me by Mr. Green, who said someone asked him to give it to Gu Mian.

As soon as Gu Mian got her hands on it, she sprayed half a bottle. She had used it to stop a boy's bleeding at the last event, and it seemed like she had wasted quite a bit of it...

He didn't realize it at the time, but now he finds it really useful.

[Hemostatic Spray] can be applied to a very large area. For large areas of bleeding like 007's, spraying it a few times and then bandaging it is almost enough to stop the bleeding. Gu Mian noticed that supermarkets don't carry spray-type hemostatic medicines, nor do they seem to carry medicines for large-area hemostasis, so this bottle of medicine is quite rare.

Just then, 007, who was perched on Gu Mian's back, suddenly spoke up: "Sir, you've noticed too, haven't you? This instance is different from the ones we've entered before. So, were you wearing that little girl's clothes because you didn't want to leave the instance too soon?"

She wasn't unaware of Gu Mian's nickname.

Gu Mian's nickname was rather strange. She couldn't call Gu Mian "the green doctor," so she had to call him "sir" for now.

Gu Mian himself deeply resented this title that made him sound old, but now he couldn't very well force a pitiful patient to call him "brother" or anything like that.

He suddenly asked, "How old are you this year?"

007 was surprised that Gu Mian would suddenly ask this, so he subconsciously answered, "I'm twenty this year..."

twenty?

Gu Mian asked, "Still in school?"

007 suddenly stiffened, and after a long pause, whispered, "No..."

After she finished speaking, she fell silent.

Gu Mian didn't say anything, but continued to walk forward carrying 007.

He was looking for the NPCs in this instance.

Chu Changge had told him to pay more attention to special items related to ghosts in the dungeon, and also to interact more with NPCs.

Gu Mian's data is very strange, and there seems to be some connection between these game instances. Perhaps she can get some information about the anomalies in her data from the NPCs.

But Gu Mian's dream was shattered.

He failed in this instance, finding the NPCs there very strange and unable to get any useful information out of them.

The hunched little dwarfs, and the suspicious-looking Black Sugar Princess.

Previously, Princess Brown Sugar claimed that when she came to the forest, the dwarves were already living in wooden houses, and the larger furniture in her house was all newly purchased later.

But Gu Mian noticed that the furniture in Princess Brown Sugar's room was also very old. If it was newly purchased, shouldn't it have been replaced?

Moreover, the dwarves' furniture was very strange, with traces of cutting, as if it were small pieces of furniture that had been sawed and pieced together from other pieces of furniture, so they were not very regular in shape.

Gu Mian had played many jigsaw puzzles, and he discovered that if he disassembled and reassembled the dwarfs' small furniture, he could create larger pieces of furniture.

The large furniture set is a matching set with the Black Sugar Princess's room.

This means that a long time ago, the wooden house was filled with large furniture, furniture intended for people of normal size.

But later, the normal people inside gradually became hunched over, shrunk, and assimilated until they became dwarfs.

That's why large furniture was broken down and made into smaller pieces suitable for those hunchbacked dwarfs.

Those dwarfs were also players before, players of normal size.

Including Princess Brown Sugar, she may very well have been a player before, but an NPC who had been assimilated for a long time and developed some intelligence.

Gu Mian had no doubt that if she drank that bowl of meat soup in that dilapidated little wooden house, she would gradually become hunched over and shrink.

Players who have drunk the soup will be unable to leave the instance unless they immediately cut open their stomachs...

There is no doubt that there must be an "Origin" in this instance.

An origin NPC tricked the first players to enter this instance.

This Origin NPC plays a crucial role in this instance, and could even be considered the core of the instance. Perhaps we can get some information about the data anomalies from this core.

"Because we don't have any money," the person on his back suddenly said in a muffled voice.

Gu Mian thought for a while before she realized that she was talking about something that happened when she was in school.

What a strange person...

Gu Mian took a few more steps forward, hoping to find the next NPC and uncover some clues by following the trail.

Just then, a deafening scream suddenly rang out from not far ahead.

Gu Mian recognized it; it sounded like the fat man's scream.

Thank you... I'll thank you all in the next chapter! (I forgot to say thank you!)

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(End of this chapter)