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The door that Xiao Qiao had carefully avoided damaging was finally kicked open by Gu Mian.

It's worth mentioning that when Gu Mian was carrying Xiao Qiao upstairs, she ran into Lai Nian who was coming out. She immediately saw Xiao Qiao's face and was speechless: "You...you...this...this is that celebrity?"

She recognized Xiao Qiao at a glance; after all, she was a household name and a big star.

Judging from Nian's expression, Gu Mian suspected that Nian had already imagined a scenario where "the world is going to the dogs! A bully in the dungeon forcibly robs a popular celebrity on the street."

She did indeed have that suspicion the following year. She even suspected that Xiao Qiao had been knocked unconscious by Gu Mian and taken back, after all, Gu Mian had a history of taking her hanging rope.

Just as Lin Nian was awkwardly wondering whether she should speak up for justice, she saw Xiao Qiao in Gu Mian's arms suddenly open her eyes. She stared at Gu Mian's jawline for a while before fainting back to sleep.

Next year, her mouth slightly agape, it didn't look like it had been forcibly taken back. Did these two know each other before?

Incredible.

While she remained speechless with astonishment, Gu Mian had already stepped over her and started walking upstairs.

Just as Gu Mian's figure was about to disappear from sight, she suddenly heard the person who was going up the stairs stop and ask, "How is Xie Bi'an?"

Lai Nian didn't understand why Gu Mian asked this, so she answered truthfully: "Just like before, he's always in his room, and we don't know what he's doing."

Then the following year, she heard Gu Mian reply with an "Oh" and then disappear from her sight.

The fat man was woken up by Gu Mian while he was asleep.

The fat man woke up instantly the moment his body separated from the bed, and he subconsciously wiped his mouth.

Before the fat man could even realize he was drooling, a dull thud rang in his ears. He snapped back to reality and saw that the thud was coming from Xiao Qiao, who was currently on his bed.

The fat man realized that Gu Mian had picked him up and then placed the wet Xiao Qiao on the bed.

The fat man's mind never went to the most crucial points. He didn't investigate why Xiao Qiao was wet, where she came from, or how long it would take for a wet mattress to dry. Instead, he pondered a more profound question.

The fat man, with tears welling up in his eyes, said to Gu Mian, "Why don't you go and get Brother Chu?"

Because Chu Changge was sleeping on the sofa.

Chu Changge was also awakened by Gu Mian's noise.

In the end, things turned into the three men and two ghosts standing neatly by the bed looking at the wet Xiao Qiao on the bed, while the fat man was mostly looking at his own wet sheets and mattress.

"Because no one answered the door, I waited downstairs all night," Gu Mian succinctly explained the cause of the incident.

He reached out and touched Xiao Qiao's forehead; it was still burning hot. Gu Mian had already pinched her nose and forced her to take the fever medicine.

The fat man's eyelids twitched as he watched Gu Mian administer the medicine, as if he was afraid Gu Mian would pinch Xiao Qiao's nose off.

"But she can't keep wearing those clothes, can she?" the fat man said with a righteous look. "We should help her change! Doctor, you're not a man, so you go ahead. This is the perfect opportunity to develop the plot!"

Gu Mian, whose gender was a question mark, slapped the fat man's head to the side.

Of all those present, only Xiao Hong was capable of changing Xiao Qiao's clothes.

But the strange fat man then questioned Xiao Hong's gender: "Speaking of which, Xiao Hong doesn't look gender-neutral. We think she's a female ghost just because she has long hair and likes to wear skirts, right? What if she's a male ghost? After all, boys also like to wear skirts."

As he spoke, he glanced at Chu Changge beside him.

Chu Changge's glasses reflected the light, as if he hadn't heard those words.

Gu Mian hadn't really considered this. He recalled that when Xiao Hong was on his back, he didn't seem to feel any female characteristics.

Xiao Hong, standing to the side, had already puffed out her chest indignantly, as if trying to prove something.

Seeing Xiao Hong's eagerness to prove herself, Gu Mian was certain she was a female ghost. "Alright, everyone get out." Gu Mian grabbed the brother who was shamelessly calling her "sister" with one hand and the fat man who was questioning Xiao Hong's gender with the other, leading the man and the ghost to the bedroom door.

Chu Changge followed Gu Mian out and closed the door behind her.

The two people, the ghost, and the fat man crowded onto the living room sofa, creating a rather lively scene.

The fat man picked up the cold water on the coffee table and took a sip: "Thanks to Miss Qiao, we were able to find out that the first place winner of the Metamorphosis competition cannot leave the dungeon. I didn't expect that she would faint at our door before we could even thank her."

If the fat man hadn't known that Xiao Qiao's head was different from ordinary people's, he would have thought she was faking fainting to extort money.

“Oh, right,” the fat man suddenly remembered something, “Doctor, after you fell asleep last night, you accompanied me through the New Year.”

Gu Mian looked at the fat man holding the glass: "What's she doing here?"

"They said they came to express their gratitude on behalf of Su Xiaochai. Su Xiaochai was too deeply hurt and became weak as soon as she left the dungeon, so she could only send someone to accompany me next year to express her gratitude."

Su Xiaochai was left to "pickle" in a cesspool for an entire period of time; she wouldn't have been able to get out if Gu Mian hadn't destroyed the instance.

The fat man lowered his voice and said, "Doctor, the group of people downstairs should have recognized you by now."

During the reality show "Transformation," the host always referred to Gu Mian by his real name, which revealed his identity long ago. Only Ban Wo Lai Nian and Su Xiaochai, who couldn't watch TV in the village, were unaware of this.

But now they probably know too.

Dungeon crashes are not a common occurrence. Although no compensation list was posted this time, we can guess pretty accurately.

Fatty was actually a little worried that Gu Mian would be assassinated, but he felt much more at ease after seeing Xiao Hong's ugly face and her brother sticking to Gu Mian's side.

Chu Changge picked up those few pages from the second world again. He always liked to stare at these pages when he had nothing to do.

The fat man curiously approached Chu Changge: "Brother Chu, since this is a fragment from the second world, doesn't that mean the book has been torn apart?"

Thinking that Gu Mian caused such a huge upheaval by simply tearing apart a fake in the old world, now that the real second world has been fragmented, how can that world still survive?
Chu Changge spoke up: "The truly intelligent world knows how to conceal itself. Perhaps the Second World existed in the form of a book before, but when Earth discovered the clues and took action, it racked its brains to escape and changed its form of existence."

That would be difficult.

I can't even find the books, let alone the fact that the second world has become something else entirely.

If they turned into a pile of shit in the toilet, would they really go to the outhouse to shovel shit?

Chu Changge continued, "But changing the means of transport is difficult. I suppose the Second World only recently replaced books with other means of transport."

The fat man asked curiously, "Brother Chu, how can you be sure that the second world recently changed its vessel?"

Chu Changge pushed up his glasses and turned to look at the fat man.

The fat man felt a strange chill as he looked at Chu Changge.

Then he heard Chu Changge speak: "Earth's pursuit of the lower-dimensional world will definitely be all-out and massive. The prototype of the second world is books, and Earth will spare no effort to eradicate the lower-dimensional worlds hidden within them. You can now recall the major changes in history related to books."

Upon hearing this, the fat man immediately thought of the Renaissance, but then shook his head, reasoning that to eradicate the Second World, Earth would inevitably be devastated...

Suddenly, he thought of something, and the hairs on the back of his head twitched violently, making his scalp tingle.

He suddenly thought of a piece of history that everyone was familiar with.

Burning books and burying scholars alive.

Auntie's title is in big red text at the very top of the draft page in the background. You wouldn't expect that, would you!

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