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Chapter 515 Gu Mian and the Untold Relationship with Shit

Based on her memory, Gu Mian arrived at the staff apartment building. It was a residential area that had been built for about five or six years. It was neither old nor new. Because of its poor location, not many people lived there, and the housing prices were relatively low.

Most of the employees in their company are from other places, so the boss bought dozens of adjacent houses in this community to use as employee apartments to attract job seekers.

Even though the housing prices in this community are slightly lower, they are still much better than the employee dormitories of other companies. Most employee dormitories are just regular dormitories with bunk beds and desks underneath, or bunk beds with one person per room.

It just goes to show that this boss is young and hasn't fully grasped the exploitative system in contemporary society...

Without spending too much time on the young boss, Gu Mian stepped into the unit: "Everyone lives here. Even if we are scattered when entering the dungeon, we will most likely meet here. Moreover, Zhao Shuang has been resting in the staff dormitory since she was found. The amnesia refers to her... Smart players will definitely go to find Zhao Shuang first."

Given her current net worth of 100,000 game coins, Gu Mian decided to make some preparations before appearing in the sight of other players.

The elevator was right inside the building entrance. He stepped into the elevator and pressed the button for the fifth floor. Because "Gu Mian" had picked up a package for Zhao Shuang before, he knew her apartment number.

This residential building has seven floors and a basement parking lot, which can be accessed directly by elevator.

Gu Mian opened the guitar case in the cramped elevator and took out a sharp, gleaming chainsaw.

After all, he's quite wealthy, and if other players were to attack him right away, things wouldn't look good.

To prevent this from happening, he decided to pull out an even more frightening knife first, to achieve a deterrent effect.

If an innocent passerby were to try to take the elevator at this moment, they would surely be terrified by the sight inside.

Fortunately, there weren't many people using the elevator at that time, and Gu Mian safely ascended to the fifth floor. The elevator stopped, and the fifth-floor button went dark.

Then came the sound of the elevator doors opening. Gu Mian looked outside and saw that the corridor outside was dark and had an inexplicable eeriness.

Ignoring the slightly eerie hallway, he quickly walked a few steps towards Zhao Shuang's dormitory, carrying his rather frightening-looking large knife. It was a six-unit-per-floor layout, with six apartments on each floor. Before long, Gu Mian stood in front of room 504 and knocked on the door.

Just as Cang Yue and the others were about to exchange clues, they heard a knock on the door.

Coco immediately ran to the door and looked out through the peephole. Two seconds later, she turned back to look at the three people behind her: "It looks like another player."

The three of them immediately looked at each other in bewilderment.

Gu Mian is famous for her beauty. As soon as people see the name Gu Mian, they think of the person on the wanted list, but it is not yet certain whether the other person is that Gu Mian.

Wang Chuan, who didn't want candy, thought for half a second and said, "Open the door, what do you guys think?"

After all, he might be someone on the wanted list, so we have to consider the danger this person poses.

Coco didn't object: "He doesn't look like a bad person, and he's not dangerous either."

The others nodded in agreement.

So Coco turned her head, nestled against the doorknob, and turned it downwards. The door creaked open.

The other three then saw Gu Mian standing outside the door.

He was wearing a white coat, the kind doctors usually wear, with a light gray plain shirt underneath. The shirt clung smoothly to his body, and the hem was tucked into his trousers.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing was the huge chainsaw with an orange-yellow handle in his hand.

Cang Yue was dumbfounded. This is what you, Coco, meant by not being dangerous?

Before they could react, Gu Mian stepped across the threshold and blocked the doorway, revealing a friendly expression: "Ah, everyone's here. Looks like I'm the last one to arrive."

He muttered to himself as he stepped into the living room: "It's all the taxi driver's fault for dawdling and insisting on telling me stories about what happened when he was climbing the mountain..." Cang Yue and the other two subconsciously took a step back, trying to get away from the bright orange chainsaw.

“This…sir…” Cang Yue clearly hesitated for a moment before opening her mouth, “What is this…”

As she spoke, she glanced at the menacing saw in Gu Mian's hand.

In the current dungeon, death is real. Although they want to make a move on Gu Mian, they can only do so if they can ensure their own safety.

Judging from the imposing manner of the people in front of them, their wishful thinking would probably be thwarted before it even came to fruition.

Gu Mian took a step forward and closed the door: "There are always troublemakers who want to... I mean, I'm just unlucky. I always run into robbers on the way. A fortune teller suggested that I carry a saw with me, and sure enough, I've encountered fewer robbers since then."

As Gu Mian spoke, she took a step forward, while the three people behind Coco all took a big step back in unison.

The dream of winning 100,000 game coins was shattered before it even began.

Finally, Coco broke the eerie atmosphere: "Zhao Shuang is still sleeping, and we don't know when she'll wake up. Let's exchange some useful clues first..."

After seeing the murder weapon in Gu Mian's hand, the group's thoughts were mostly put aside.

Forget about stabbing Gu Mian to death; judging by Gu Mian's attitude, it would be a blessing if she didn't stab them to death.

Their dream of punishing evil and promoting good has been shattered. They can only focus on dealing with the dungeon. The dungeon's death protection mechanism has been turned off, so they must now be on high alert to find a way out.

Just as the group was lost in their fantasies, Gu Mian glanced at Zhao Shuang, who was sleeping soundly in the bedroom. She was the protagonist of the "amnesia" story and was also likely the core of the story.

Cangyue and the other two accepted Coco's suggestion without much objection, and the five players were temporarily bound together on one ship, forming a precarious and shaky alliance.

Since it was Coco who made the suggestion, she spoke first: "Zhao Shuang is asleep in the room. Well, actually, she woke up once before the three of you came."

She spoke softly, afraid of waking Zhao Shuang in the bedroom: "She woke up once before you came, saying that she dreamed that her deceased colleagues resented her. Besides today, she had the same nightmares for the past few days. She was awakened by such nightmares every day."

Xia Jianren and Wang Chuan nodded thoughtfully, as if they were pondering something.

After a while, Xia Jianren also spoke up: "Actually, we also found it in our own room. Wang Chuan and I are roommates. The reason we didn't go to the team building event is because we had a conflict with Zhao Shuang not long ago and didn't want to see her again and cause further conflict. But we don't know what the conflict was about yet."

As he spoke, he took out his phone to show the others, and the screen displayed his chat history with Zhao Shuang.

Gu Mian glanced through the messages; there were only a few, all started by Zhao Shuang.

Zhao Shuang: Xia Jianren, did you and Wang Chuan already know about this?

Zhao Shuang: What do you mean by keeping this from me?

Zhao Shuang: Are you guys sick?
Zhao Shuang: You're too scared to speak, huh? Fine, you just wait.
The chat message contained only a few lines, and Xia Jianren didn't reply to a single one, as if he had really done something wrong.

Seeing this, Cang Yue couldn't help but wonder what Zhao Shuang was being kept in the dark about, and whether he still remembered the conflict with Xia Jianren and Wang Chuan.

"We've only found this much information, and we still don't know what happened..." Xia Jianren's voice trailed off as he spoke, then he glanced at Gu Mian with a slightly guilty look, as if to say, "I've finished speaking, now it's your turn to talk."

Gu Mian, who was always good at reading comprehension, understood what Xia Jianren meant. He gripped the saw handle with one hand and stroked his chin with the other: "When I first arrived, I was on the main road next to the mountain, the one where everyone had the accident..."

Actually, he really wanted to complain about the name. Having a team building activity on this mountain is like going into a latrine with a lantern in hand—it's practically suicide.

Ugh, that title is disgusting.

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