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Chapter 365 Cat, Mouse, and Gu Mian

"Twelve people..."

Six men and six women.

The girls squatted in the first row, and the boys stood in the back.
Gu Mian frowned as she looked at the photo in her hand.

If the photo showed something else, it probably wouldn't be of much use.

At this moment, Guo Jimei spoke up: "I said, there are twelve of us playing 'Never Say Die'... and six men and six women..."

indeed.

Gu Mian continued to look at the photo in her hand by the light of the flashlight.

Although the photo has been blurred in many places due to the humid air, most of the faces are still recognizable.

He didn't recognize any of the faces in the photo.

Except for one girl in the first row.

Although the faces of the other eleven people in this photo are blurred, you can still make out what they originally looked like.

Only the girl on the far right of the first row.

Her face was as if it had been melted by water, completely devoid of any color.

“There’s time later,” Chu Changge suddenly said.

Gu Mian flipped the photo over to look at the back.

Sure enough, the date the photo was printed was printed on the back.

It was June 12, 2013.

At this moment, Chu Changge glanced at the glowing digital watch on his wrist, which displayed the current time in the copy: "The photo was taken six years ago."

A photo from six years ago.

Now I've inexplicably appeared in this place.

As Gu Mian pondered this, she turned to look at Guo Jimei beside her: "Do you remember when the school's basement was sealed off?"

Guo Jimei thought for a moment: "Probably 2013 or 2014..."

The photo in my hand is from 2013.

So this copy might be related to this photo?
Twelve people, six men and six women, perfectly reflecting their current situation.

Among these twelve people, there was a girl whose face had been melted.

As he pondered this, he stroked his chin: "This faceless person is very likely the ghost in our game."

That real ghost.

There are three ghosts among the twelve people.

Gu Mian was unaware beforehand that some of the ghosts were played by players in the dungeon, while others were real ghosts from within the dungeon.

Judging from this photo, there might only be one ghost in the original dungeon?
This could be a crucial clue to finding the ghost in the dungeon.

Gu Mian returned the photo to Chu Changge: "But if this photo is really related to ghosts, why did it brazenly throw us into this place to look for clues?"

Aren't you afraid of having your secrets exposed?

Chu Changge glanced at Gu Mian, his glasses glowing faintly in the reflection of the flashlight beam: "Perhaps even ghosts don't want us to enter this place."

It wasn't ghosts who threw them in; could it be that the instance couldn't stand it and deliberately threw them in to find clues?

Someone who spends all their time figuring out how to kill their own instance would be so kind?
Gu Mian felt that the dungeons in these games were all hoping she would die inside, but...

Thinking of this, Gu Mian suddenly remembered the "two organizers" that Chu Changge had mentioned before.

There is a conflict between the two organizers.

One side wants to nurture players through dungeons, while the other side wants to destroy players to create massive dungeons.

One wanted to kill himself, the other didn't want to die.

Perhaps the two organizers fought in this instance, which is why they were able to enter this core place where they could access information about ghosts.

"Anyway, since we can access information about ghosts here, let's search quickly. We might get out of here sometime soon," Gu Mian said.

Chu Changge and Guo Jimei did not object.

The three continued walking forward. Just as Guo Jimei had said, the basement levels of the teaching buildings were all connected. After passing through each area, there was a narrow and long passageway with no rooms on either side, which should be the passageway connecting the basement levels of different teaching buildings.

As the three of them walked down the narrow, dark corridor, Guo Jimei suddenly spoke up: "Chu Meiren, where did you find this photo?"

Chu Changge pushed up his glasses: "It's in the row of rooms in the corridor where we met."

“Oh,” Guo Jimei nodded slightly, “You were standing outside the door just now, looking inside to see if there were any clues, right?”

"Yes," Chu Changge replied.

Guo Jimei then asked, "Have you seen anyone else here besides us?"

Chu Changge said, "No."

Guo Jimei looked very worried: "It's a little scary that there are only the three of us here..."

People in dangerous situations often like to drag others down with them, even though it doesn't do them any good. However, it's always better to be scared alone than to be scared by others.

Just when Guo Jimei felt there were too few people.

Gu Mian suddenly heard footsteps coming from ahead.

The footsteps came from afar, very urgent. After running for a while, they suddenly stopped, as if they had seen them.

At the same time, Gu Mian also saw a flashlight beam appear ahead.

That is……

Before Gu Mian could even see the other person clearly, the flashlight suddenly went out, and then the person turned and ran away.

who is it?

Gu Mian certainly wouldn't let the people over there escape directly.

He immediately gave chase.

As I chased after them, I heard Guo Jimei's voice behind me: "Wait for me!"

The narrow path was pitch black. After passing through it, there was a platform with two forks in the road, both of which were corridors.

Gu Mian raised her flashlight and shone it around. It seemed that she had chased him to the basement level of another building.

The person who escaped has vanished without a trace; it's unknown which corridor they ran into.

Gu Mian looked at the two corridors in front of her for a while, then turned back to look.

Guo Jimei caught up, panting heavily, but Chu Changge was nowhere to be seen.

"He didn't catch up?" Gu Mian asked.

Guo Jimei shook her head, panting heavily: "He seems to be behind me."

Although Chu Changge doesn't allocate attribute points to stamina, he's still far from being unable to outrun a female high school student whose body hasn't been enhanced.

He deliberately lagged behind.

Gu Mian looked into the narrow passage behind her, but could not see Chu Changge or hear any footsteps.

Guo Jimei asked, somewhat puzzled, "Didn't he catch up?"

They definitely couldn't catch up.

And it seems they don't intend to catch up.

Gu Mian stood still for more than ten seconds and still couldn't see Chu Changge, so she turned around and said, "That person went into one of these two corridors. Do you dare to separate from me?"

"You want to split up?" Guo Jimei's eyes widened slightly. "I wouldn't dare."

Gu Mian couldn't just kick Guo Jimei into one of the corridors and then walk into another one himself.

He looked at the two corridors in front of him with a bit of a headache: "Then let's take the one on the right."

Guo Jimei hesitated before speaking, "Aren't we going to wait for Lady Chu?"

Gu Mian nodded and walked towards the corridor on the right.

In the darkness, Yue Nu hid in a room, leaning against the door, panting heavily.

She gently pushed open the crack in the door next to her and looked outside. Seeing that no one was following, she breathed a slight sigh of relief: "It seems they didn't catch up."

(End of this chapter)