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Chapter 382 Poaching Gu Bengbeng

Upon hearing Gu Mian's voice, Guo Jimei turned her head to look at him, hesitated for a moment, and then took out a small notebook: "I have this prop called the Book of Prophecy. It can verify the identities of two people. I gave the first spot to Yuan Qinghua."

As she spoke, she looked at the Yuan blue-and-white porcelain: "It turns out she was a ghost!"

“I originally wanted to choose between Gu Mian and Chu Meiren for the second spot… but now it seems that it’s a fact that Chu Meiren is a ghost. Do you have anything to say?” Guo Jimei said, looking at Chu Changge.

Gu Mian also looked at him.

Chu Changge pushed up his glasses and said, "Of course I'm not a ghost. Even if you use that tool you mentioned to verify my identity, you won't get any results."

“Fine,” Guo Jimei laughed angrily, “then I’ll fill in your name now…”

As she spoke, she took out a pen, seemingly wanting to write her name.

But Coco suddenly grabbed her and said, "Calm down. Chu Meiren is only highly suspicious but her identity hasn't been confirmed. Gu Mian is also very suspicious. Why don't we discuss this first? Otherwise, we'll just be wasting a spot."

Gu Mian straightened her back when she was suddenly called out.

Upon hearing this, Guo Jimei took a deep breath: "You're right."

As she spoke, she looked at Chu Changge: "Chu Meiren, let me ask you, since you say your identity isn't that of a ghost, then why were you behind Yue Nu when Pan Yue saw her putting down the phone in the video? Later, Yue Nu was killed when she went to get the phone, but only you knew that she had put the phone there!"

Coco said, "Yeah, I remember we all went after Zhang Pingfan who suddenly appeared. Why were you in that classroom, Chu Meiren?"

Gu Mian heard Chu Changge give a very official explanation: "I was indeed following Yue Nu, but at the time I just thought she was suspicious. I just wanted to end this game as soon as possible."

Upon hearing this, Gu Mian suddenly remembered what her driving instructor had told her earlier that day.

He also told himself to leave the instance as soon as possible.

His expression at that time didn't seem fake, and the coach himself actually fled the place, as if staying even a second longer might be dangerous.

Is Coach Che's decision to leave the instance as soon as possible related to Guo Jimei's unusual behavior?
Gu Mian glanced at Guo Jimei as she thought about it.

If you want to take a shortcut out, the only way is to mess up the instance completely.

Actually, this mess is pretty easy to break; just make sure none of the NPCs present are killed.

But it may be subject to sanctions.

To be on the safe side, Gu Mian felt it would be better to think of other methods, such as winning directly.

But how can I win this round without dying?
Guo Jimei was still talking.

"Pan Yue also told me during the day that everything started to go wrong after Li Wentao died."

"Pan Yue and Ke Ke saw Li Wentao, who seemed to be a ghost, but he was clearly a civilian. Li Wentao's death in the first round was entirely due to someone's manipulation, and in the end, an extra vote inexplicably appeared."

"In the second round, the ghost directly killed Yue Nu, who was of great help to us. Yue Nu's video led to Lin Qi; which resulted in Li Yibai being forced to vote in the final round. Lin Qi was eliminated because a mysterious person cast four votes. What's strange is that I remember Lin Qi wasn't surprised at all when he saw us watching the video, as if he already knew what was going to happen to him."

"Then Lin Qi's death directly led to Li Yibai's suicide, putting civilians in grave danger... So, in this way, sacrificing one ghost eliminated four civilians. What a brilliant arrangement, one thing leading to another."

“I even suspect…” Guo Jimei said, glancing at Chu Changge, “that your appearance in the video was also part of the plan.” Pan Yue asked, somewhat puzzled, “What do you mean by having an extra vote inexplicably in the first round?”

Pan Yue ran away after the first round, without listening to Gu Mian and the others' analysis, and without investigating the voting herself, so she was unaware of the matter.

Coco whispered an explanation to her.

At this moment, Guo Jimei paused for a minute, seemingly gathering her emotions. Then she opened her mouth as if she wanted to point out something, but before Gu Mian could hear her voice, everything went black.

It's eight o'clock, and the third night has begun.

Just like the previous two times, it was still pitch black this time, but Gu Mian could see the moon hanging in the sky.

He took out a flashlight and shone it around.

This time, it was in a construction site, which should be some unfinished residential area. Many buildings under construction stood around, and huge cranes were parked motionless on the open ground.

The surrounding roads were all unpaved dirt roads, and Gu Mian felt a bit uncomfortable after taking a few steps.

We need to find someone else.

As he walked forward, he was lost in thought. The construction site was located on the edge of the mountain, so it covered a very large area.

He didn't know how long he had walked when he suddenly heard human voices ahead.

Pan Yue didn't have the flashlights provided by the group, so she had to grope her way through the dark road: "Damn it, I should have brought a flashlight from home!"

Just as she was talking to herself, she suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from ahead.
"Who!" Pan Yue opened her eyes wide and looked ahead.

A figure appeared ahead, stiffened for a moment, and then uttered a weak voice: "It's me..."

Pan Yue immediately recognized the voice: "Xu Xingcheng?"

She quickly stepped forward and, sure enough, it was Xu Xingcheng. He stood there nervously, his eyes darting around, and fine beads of sweat on his forehead.

Pan Yue frowned: "What are you doing here?"

“You might not believe it…” Xu Xingcheng stammered, “When you guys were playing that game ‘When Darkness Falls,’ there was a power outage, right? Zhang Pingfan was so scared that he ran away and happened to run into me, so he asked me to play in his place.”

I agreed at the time, and I wanted to go to the classroom to get my ID, but when I got there you had already left. I used my smartwatch to look at the desk and saw the ID slip left by Zhang Pingfan..."

Pan Yue's eyes widened: "So Zhang Pingfan didn't play this game at all, it was you all along!"

“It’s…it’s me,” Xu Xingcheng said somewhat embarrassedly, “but I didn’t expect things to turn out like this. I heard that someone died? Last night I was inexplicably sent to a basement…and today I’m inexplicably here again.”

Upon hearing this, Pan Yue looked at him cautiously: "What is your identity?"

"The note said 'commoner'... I heard Zhang Pingfan say that you all destroy the note after checking the identity, but I was afraid he might suddenly want to play around again, so I stuffed the note into my watch case... But my watch disappeared a few days ago..."

Hearing Xu Xingcheng say this, Pan Yue suddenly remembered something. No wonder there was an extra vote inexplicably during the first round of voting!
GuGu never stops updating! [Feeling guilty]

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