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Chapter 412 I think I'm late again

[Successfully matched with the 'Death' instance]

[Matching you with teammates, please wait...]

[Number of players in the instance: 9]

Main Mission: Survive for 48 Hours

This instance has no content; it only gives you a quest.

Just as Gu Mian was looking at the panel and pondering this mission, a strange feeling suddenly surged up, and the panel in front of her gradually blurred until it completely disappeared into the darkness.

He suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, like the kind of discomfort that comes from being forced to open your eyes to see the world even after being given a bottle of sleeping pills.

Gu Mian moved her body in the darkness, only to find that she seemed to be lying on the bed. Her brain was thinking rapidly, but her body was somewhat out of control, like being paralyzed by a ghost.

He moved around a bit more and finally regained control of his body.

Gu Mian took a deep breath and suddenly sat up in bed.

They must have entered the instance.

But where is this place?
But it was still pitch black all around. Beneath her was a soft bed, and it took Gu Mian several seconds to adjust to the darkness.

There seemed to be a window beside him, but two curtains blocked it, leaving only a gap less than a hand's width in the middle through which a faint light shone.

Gu Mian reached out to pull back the curtains, but just then, he suddenly felt as if something was watching him in the darkness, a gaze that seemed to be filled with malice.

He immediately turned around, but all he saw was darkness.

At the same time, his hands were not idle. He quickly pulled open the curtains in front of him. Outside the glass was the city, which was still shining. The colorful neon lights on the buildings were flashing and intertwining. The streetlights on the roadside emitted dazzling light. Every now and then, a few cars sped past on the empty road. It looked like a fairly normal world.

The light from outside illuminated the room.

Gu Mian immediately looked in the direction she had just come from, using the light to see that there was a door, but it was slightly ajar in the darkness, and the light from outside the window could not reveal what was outside that gap.

At this moment, Gu Mian had already quickly surveyed the interior of the room.

This place looks like a dormitory, but it seems to be a staff dormitory. There is a large table in the middle of the room, and on the table is an alarm clock that keeps spinning. Gu Mian looked at it in the dim light and saw that it was 12:20 a.m.

There are four more beds in this room, which is about 30 square meters, and people are fast asleep in them.

Gu Mian looked in the direction of the loudest snoring and was shocked to see the fat man drooling next to her.

It seems that players who enter this instance are forced to "sleep".

Fortunately, I was still wearing my clothes, so they didn't take them off.

Gu Mian sighed as he looked at the fat man drooling on the bed next to him. He bent down slightly and patted the fat man's fleshy cheeks, making the fat man's face jiggle. "Get up."

The people on the other two beds were too far away for him to be sure if they were players.

At that moment, Gu Mian felt his white coat pocket move. He looked down and saw a slender hand suddenly reach out from inside, and the image looked like Sadako crawling out of the television.

To prevent the saintess's brother from running around while she was away, Gu Mian put the CD in her pocket and brought it into the instance.

He was trying to climb out at that moment.

Without thinking, Gu Mian pressed the hand back down.

After Gu Mian pressed down on him, the brother in the CD finally quieted down and stopped moving.

At this moment, the fat man was groggily reaching out to touch his face, and of course, the first thing he touched was his hand covered in drool. He slurped a couple of times, opened his sleepy eyes, and looked at Gu Mian: "Ah... Doctor, we're not..."

"Keep your voice down," Gu Mian interrupted him softly, "There are other people in the room."

The fat man shook his head and got out of bed to look around the room. He saw the other two people sleeping on the other two beds, and was somewhat disappointed when he didn't see Chu Changge.

He slightly opened his mouth and asked Gu Mian in a low voice, "Are these two players?"

At this moment, Gu Mian had already gotten out of bed and gently stepped to the two people's bedside. She couldn't open the player information, so it seemed that these two people were not players.

Gu Mian turned around and shook her head at the fat man.

The fat man nodded blankly, then looked around. He also looked out the window and saw that this place seemed to be on the third or fourth floor, right next to a road, with rows of shops below.

The clock on the table had already struck 12:30. The fat man tiptoed off the bed and came to Gu Mian's side: "This time, they didn't introduce the dungeon. They said there were nine players, but we don't know who the other four are. We also don't know where Brother Chu has gone."

The fat man paused to glance at the other two sleeping in the bed as he spoke, "So, what are we now...?"

Gu Mian tiptoed around the room and noticed something resembling a class schedule pasted on the slightly ajar door. He went over to take a look and saw that it was a "duty roster."

This isn't a cleaning duty roster, but rather a work schedule.

However, the timing is a little strange...

【周一】8:00-12:00杨子文；12:00-4:00刘杰；4:00-20:00顾眠。

[Tuesday] Yang Ziwen all day.

【周三】8:00-14:00杨子文；14:00-20:00刘杰。

[Thursday] Liu Jie all day.

【周五】8:00-14:00顾眠；14:00-20:00刘杰。

【周六】8:00-14:00杨子文；14:00-20:00顾眠。

[Sunday] Gu Mian all day.

This copy indeed maliciously used his real name again.

However, Gu Mian wasn't concerned about any of that. What he was interested in was the strange work schedule, which seemed to be his job in the instance.

They're probably restaurant servers or something, but looking at these time slots, it seems like only one person is needed at any given time, which feels a bit shady.

And I don't know why the fat man's name wasn't on it.

Furthermore, Gu Mian couldn't be sure whether Liu Jie and Yang Ziwen were the two people who were fast asleep or the names of other players, but since they lived in the same dormitory, they must know each other.

We can't just shake those two people up and ask them, "What's your name?"

At this moment, Gu Mian gently opened the door. This place was very similar to the dormitory she lived in when she was in school. There was a long corridor outside, but you could tell at a glance that this was where the adults lived.

Cardboard boxes and wooden boards were piled up in the stairwell, and there were also several bags of garbage piled up at the door.

When Gu Mian opened the door, it seemed to startle a mouse that was foraging in the dark, as a rustling sound could be heard along the corner of the wall.

He remembered that the time he saw when he opened his eyes was 12:20, and he could leave the instance in just 48 hours;

Time was of the essence—for ghosts. “Doctor, what do we do?” the fat man whispered, huddled behind Gu Mian. He hadn’t figured out what this instance was trying to do, but since they only had forty-eight hours to leave, it meant there was danger at any moment during that short period.

Gu Mian stared thoughtfully down the corridor.

He had just sensed an evil gaze, but it vanished instantly.

Perhaps the ghosts have already set their sights on them.

Thinking of this, Gu Mian turned to look at the fat man: "Are you sleepy?"

The fat man was taken aback for a moment, then answered truthfully, "Sleepy."

He had forced himself to wake up after falling asleep, and now he was incredibly sleepy.

"Then go to sleep first, I'll keep an eye on things," Gu Mian said as she walked towards her bed.

The fat man followed, somewhat puzzled, and whispered, "No, there are only forty-eight hours left. We brought nine people into the dungeon, and on average, the ghost kills one person every five hours or so. It might not be safe tonight..."

No, others may not be safe tonight, but I should be quite safe with the doctor by my side.

Thinking this, the fat man sat back on the bed with a clear conscience: "Then doctor, shouldn't we go find Brother Chu and the others?"

As he spoke, he lay down and reached out to grab a corner of Gu Mian's clothes, as if that would make him feel safer.

Gu Mian shook her head: "They might not be anywhere. We might not find them by searching blindly. Let's go to their workplace tomorrow and take a look."

Gu Mian glanced at the time next to the duty roster; today was Friday.

The duty roster for Friday is that Gu Mian works from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM, and Liu Jie works from 2:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

Although Gu Mian didn't know who Liu Jie was or where he worked, she could ask him when the other two woke up tomorrow, but she couldn't ask him openly.

The fat man shrank his neck and snuggled into the blanket, one hand still tightly clutching Gu Mian's clothes: "Aren't you sleepy, doctor?"

"not sleepy."

"I'm going to sleep now..."

Soon, the fat man's snoring resumed in the room.

At this moment, magical girl Usagi-maru buried her head in the blanket and dared not move. Today, she was alone in the ticket booth and was matched with this dungeon. The dungeon was completely inconsistent with her nickname and temperament. The name exuded a strange aura, which was fine, but she did not expect to see a dead person when she opened her eyes!
Her bedroom door was wide open, facing the doorway of another room. The door to the opposite room was also open, and the light from a cell phone was emanating from it. A cell phone lay face up on the floor beside the bed, its screen emitting a faint glow.

On the bed lay a woman lying on her side, the dim light illuminating her face. Her neck was twisted into an eerie arc, her face facing the door, her mouth agape, and her eyes almost bulging out of their sockets.

The face was now facing her.

Just as Usagi was huddled under the covers wondering how to get out, she suddenly heard footsteps coming from the living room.

Her body suddenly stopped, and she dared not make any other movement.

There were only a few sounds outside before the noise stopped. She huddled under the covers and waited until the sounds outside had ceased for a long time before opening a small crack to look out.

She saw a pale face staring at her from beside the bed.

The first thing the fat man said when he woke up was to ask if anything had happened last night.

"Nothing happened"—that was Gu Mian's answer.

Nothing happened. By this time, everyone else in the room was awake. They seemed to know each other well and were chatting and washing up on the balcony.

Not to mention that these two are both good-looking, they would attract a lot of attention if they walked down the street.

At this moment, Gu Mian spoke softly: "I have already asked about our work."

"Our work?" The fat man paused. "Am I involved too?"

His name was not on the duty roster.

Gu Mian nodded slightly: "They are indeed waiters, or more accurately, waiters in a coffee shop, but..."

But what? The fat man curiously moved closer to Gu Mian.

Gu Mian paused for a while before speaking: "But it requires selling your body."

The fat man frowned, tightening his clothes in fear.

“It’s not what you think. Do you know what a maid café is?” Gu Mian said. “Replacing the maids with men is our job.”

The fat man's face turned slightly red: "Does that mean we have to wear a uniform?"

Gu Mian glanced at the fat man: "You don't need to."

"Why?" the fat man asked curiously.

"Because you're the one who sweeps the floor."

"..."

The staff dormitory was very close to the workplace, and Gu Mian quickly brought the fat man to the workplace, a small coffee shop. Because there weren't many shops like this, even though it wasn't big, it still had many customers.

As soon as Gu Mian stepped inside, she saw Liu Ruyan behind the counter.

This was a very familiar scene. For a moment, Gu Mian felt as if she had returned to the time when she went home before the game started.

“What a coincidence,” Liu Ruyan said with a slight smile as she sat behind the counter. “I’m the proprietress.”

She seemed to have no intention of discussing player strategies at all, and simply pointed towards the backstage area: "The work clothes are inside, go change into them."

Looking at her eerie smile, Gu Mian felt a chill run down her spine.

"As long as it's not some weird work uniform..." Gu Mian thought to herself as she stepped into the backstage area, and the fat man followed her in.

At this moment, Gu Mian had already seen the work clothes displayed on the cabinet.

A white shirt and a tuxedo are indeed good outfits for selling one's looks.

At this point, the fat man had already covered his eyes: "Doctor, please change it, I don't want to see."

Gu Mian certainly wouldn't let a fat man with his eyes covered stay in the changing room, so he kicked the fat man out.

The fat man had no choice but to sit outside and crane his neck to wait.

Gu Mian quickly changed his clothes and came out of the room. He was fastening the last button on his wrist when he looked up at the fat man and asked, "Does it look good?"

The fat man covered his nose: "Beautiful!"

My aunt is never late!
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(End of this chapter)