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Chapter 400 The World in Exile
The fact that you can only save fifteen times already makes this game very difficult, but now Gu Mian is facing an even bigger problem in this already difficult game...

He stopped what he was doing, staring at the health bar in the upper left corner, which was less than half full, and muttered to himself, "I can't die... I can't die."

If a character dies once, a player will definitely die at the save point.

This means that all three save points are completely unusable, and he must complete the game in one life.

The intense light from the hearth fire behind her cast the saint's shadow onto the dilapidated wall. The dark shadow swayed with the flickering fire, like a demon emerging from hell.

To make matters worse, the demon controlled by Gu Mian is unable to use these special items.

[Incomplete Information on the Goddess of Doctrine]

The goddess has never truly perished;
New souls will be born from the burning black books;
The flesh and blood of the living will give the goddess a new body.

(Note: Some have said that the goddess's resurrection methods are like those of a demon, but the line between demon and angel is often very thin.)

Chu Changge's fingers traced over these lines of text, then he snapped the book shut.

The brown hardcover book had several gold letters embossed on it: "Excerpts from the World of Exiles".

He looked up at the clock opposite him; it was 9:25, and Gu Mian still hadn't appeared.

The wind, with its peculiar sound, whistled through the door frame. Collapsed buildings lay piled up in the dark night, and roadside weeds were flattened by the wind. It was a rather strange scene: in an eerie, bizarre, abandoned village surrounded by mountains, three intact buildings still stood, as if waiting for something, anticipating something.

Chu Changge didn't see the woman with a haggard face and thin figure. Instead, a phone rang, interrupting his wait.

"Hey, Brother Chu?" The fat man's anxious voice came through the receiver. "It's been an hour, and I still haven't seen the doctor. 007 hasn't seen anything either... Where do you think the doctor could be now?"

Chu Changge remained silent for a moment after hearing his voice before speaking: "When was the last time you saw him?"

"It's what I told you when I called earlier about the doctor discovering..."

"The last time." Chu Changge interrupted him before he could finish speaking.

Then, there was silence on the other end of the microphone.

For a moment, only the howling wind could be heard from outside the door and from the microphone. After a long while, the fat man finally spoke in a somewhat guilty voice: "You know?"

"Gu Mian hasn't appeared since he saw you again after passing by 007. He hasn't come to my place since then. Maybe he went back and forth. If Gu Mian mysteriously disappears in a certain place, then you have the highest probability of witnessing him. Your tone just now has already betrayed you."

The fat man on the other side was silent for a few seconds: "That's right, I did see the doctor again afterward. He left with a woman, a woman with hair like a bird's nest... Just now I saw that woman walk past me with a few men, and that's why I wanted to tell you about this."

Chu Changge spoke in a deep voice: "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Brother Chu, I've noticed... are you planning to do something to 007?"

Before I last saw the doctor, you said you hadn't found any clues; after I last saw the doctor, you called to ask me when the doctor last came to my place to file records. Later I learned that you also asked 007 and found out that Gu Mian last filed records with her.

Perhaps the more clues you have, the sooner death will come.
And I think the doctors are working hard right now to keep us all alive.

Chu Changge didn't speak; he heard the fat man continue speaking into the microphone.

"I still don't understand how we should leave this instance, but Brother Chu, I have a strong feeling that you want to trick her, and tricking her will not help this instance at all. This is an instance where you will really die. I would not have any opinion on doing these things in previous instances, but only in this instance... My father told me that everyone has the right to live."

The fat man fell silent at this point, and his voice disappeared from the microphone.

The silence lasted for a long time before the fat man's voice finally came through the phone again: "Perhaps I can ask you why you did this." "Your father probably also told you that the more you know, the faster you die."

The fat man on the other end choked for a moment, then finally opened his mouth again: "As a save point, we can't contact the doctor. I know that even if I told you that the doctor left with that woman, it wouldn't help. But the instance shouldn't put all the initiative in the doctor's hands."

The three of us definitely possess some power... perhaps the ability to leave this instance by killing the doctor before being destroyed. The only way to save ourselves is to kill those who might kill us first; it's a struggle between two sides. Previous instances have been of this type.

Chu Changge fell silent.

After a long pause, he finally spoke: "We all know that when a character dies in a game, the game reloads. But what if a player is playing a character in the late game and dies, only to find that all their save data has suddenly disappeared?"

The fat man hesitated before speaking, "Then the only option is to end the game and start over... But can this game really be started over? And how could the save file suddenly disappear?"

The fat man looked at the three black-covered books stacked on his table; those were Gu Mian's three save files. "Actually, I did consider this possibility, but there's nothing in the house that can destroy the save files. If we just rely on brute force..."

The fat man tried to force open the black-covered cardboard book, but he couldn't even leave a mark on it.

Just then, Chu Changge's voice came through the microphone: "Stand on the table and face the direction of the pendulum clock."

The fat man frowned.

He turned his head to look at the table beside him, and then at the pendulum clock directly opposite the table.

Without hesitation, he immediately lifted his leg and climbed onto the table.

The fat man was not short to begin with, and after climbing onto the table, he was even closer to the ceiling. As he straightened up and breathed in the air above him, looking towards the clock, he was shocked to find that the chandelier hanging from the ceiling was almost at the same level as his head, and on the chandelier, which was often swaying in the wind, was a metal lighter placed neatly.

The fat man stared in astonishment, his mouth agape.

He heard Chu Changge's voice slowly come from the microphone at his feet again: "Moreover, the danger we face is probably not just being destroyed."

How can I complete the game without dying even once?

That's almost impossible.

By this time, Gu Mian had already left the cave illuminated by the furnace fire with several stacks of unusable special items.

He wasted no time and immediately turned left at the fork in the road.

That's the village chief's room. Since everyone's room is covered by a tattered curtain, the key found on the butcher wasn't for opening the door. This key should work on other locks.

It seems the little bird hasn't returned yet.

The village chief's room was far from the people on the other side of the well, and there should only be a few people or one person inside.

The saintess had already arrived at the village chief's door with a blood-stained kitchen knife. No one would have expected the frail saintess to act like this.

This naturally startled the person who suddenly lifted the curtain and came out.

The person who suddenly lifted the curtain also startled Gu Mian, who was gathering her emotions.

I recommend a book called "I Begin My Immortal Cultivation Era"—it's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!

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(End of this chapter)