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Chapter 546 I've made up my mind!

This is a newly built residential area with very complete facilities.

Gu Mian wandered around the neighborhood for a while before finding a convenience store.

It was not even eight o'clock yet, and the convenience store had just opened, so there weren't many people inside.

Gu Mian strolled inside and immediately spotted the pink-packaged lychee soda prominently displayed.

This is Xiaohong's favorite drink.

"Lychee soda in this instance too?" Gu Mian recalled the soda packaging design she had seen in the previous amnesia instance.

It seems that these two instances are in the same world.

Gu Mian grabbed a can of soda, paid the shop owner who seemed half-asleep, and then walked out of the convenience store.
He picked up the can and examined the production address printed on it. It also said "Toy Goose Food Factory," the same place as the soda they bought from the supermarket.

He frowned: "This toy goose appears a bit too often."

Gu Mian remembered that the description of the special item, "The Cellphone That Breaks Through Dimensional Barriers," stated that it was developed by Toy Goose Company.

The special item, "A tube of failed experimental reagent," is also produced by Toy Goose.

There's also the [Toy Goose Brand Flu Medicine] obtained in the Sweet Lovers instance. It doesn't even need an introduction; you can tell where it's from just by looking at the name.

Just now, Gu Mian saw the name "Toy Goose" in the newspaper again.

Just now, there was a news report that made people laugh – "Employees at a toy goose food factory called the police saying an alien had fallen into the warehouse and was walking around."

Gu Mian recalled the number of times the "toy goose" had appeared, while thinking of taking out her phone to search for the company.

He had just reached into his pocket when he suddenly remembered that this game didn't provide him with a cell phone.

“I was careless,” Gu Mian withdrew her hand. “I should have borrowed a phone from another player first.”

After withdrawing his hand, he looked around: "I wonder if any passersby would be willing to lend their phones to a poor doctor."

Just then, he suddenly noticed a woman running past in a hurry, holding her phone, not far ahead. She seemed out of place with her surroundings.

Gu Mian opened her mouth to call out to her, but the person ran too fast and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

He watched the woman leave in the direction she went: "Like a player."

A person's aura is a very mysterious thing.

Players blending in with NPCs are like robbers infiltrating a bank, silkworms infiltrating a maggot swarm, and Gu Mian blending in with normal people—she can be easily identified.

Gu Mian recalled the list on Bai Wu's phone.

There was only one player on the list he hadn't seen before, named "Yu Ji Suicides," so he figured the one who had rushed past earlier must be that player.

The player who just rushed past was indeed the one named Yu Ji who committed suicide.

At that moment, she was holding her ID card and checking the map on her phone, looking for the nearest station.

When Yu Ji first entered the instance, she was in the toilet of the school dormitory.

There was a huge plush toy in front of her, which had been gutted and the cut-out parts were crookedly sewn back together with red thread.

Yu Ji didn't waste much time in the dormitory. She immediately ran out of the school and tried to get as far away from the dormitory as possible.

During this time, Bai Wu, who had entered the instance with her, called her. After explaining their situation, they hung up without asking each other's location.

Yu Ji didn't tell Bai Wu that she planned to go to the train station.

She didn't know where Bai Wu was going.

"We're not far from the station now..." Yu Ji looked at the station's location on the map while glancing at the time on her phone in the upper right corner.

It's 7:55 now, and there are five minutes left before the game of hide-and-seek officially begins.

She quickened her pace.

Now she needs to get as far away from that doll as possible. Fortunately, this instance doesn't have any area restrictions, so she can easily get in a car and fly away.

"As long as I run fast enough, the ghosts can't catch me"—Yu Ji arrived at the train station with this belief in mind.

The electronic display screen shows the departure time of each train.

She glanced at it briefly and went straight to the counter to buy a ticket for the next train that was about to depart.

There were only two or three people queuing in front of the paper counter. After a few minutes, Yu Ji reached the counter: "I want to buy a ticket to Songwen."

The ticket seller behind the window lazily looked up at her and said, "ID card."

Yu Ji hesitated for a moment, then reached out and handed over her ID card.

The ticket seller was very quick, pushing a ticket in front of Yu Ji in half a minute.

Yu Ji quickly took the ticket and ID card, and after passing the inspection, she strode into the waiting hall.

The waiting hall was bustling with people, many of whom were dragging suitcases. Some people sat on the seats in the waiting area, idly scrolling through their phones.

Without pausing, Yu Ji quickly went to the ticket gate, where the train she was on had already begun boarding.

She glanced at the time again; it was 8:05, and the safe time had passed.

The doll has set off!

Yu Ji nervously scanned the waiting hall.

She was so afraid that a teddy bear might suddenly appear out of nowhere that she stared intently at the doll keychain on her backpack for a long time. Fortunately, she passed through the ticket check soon enough.

Yu Ji ran all the way to the platform, but the train had not yet arrived.

She waited anxiously, and whenever someone passed by, she would reflexively dodge, attracting strange looks from others.

Soon after, the train arrived with a thunderous roar.

Yu Ji quickly ran to carriage number seven, which was written on her ticket, startling the train attendant who had just opened the door.

The passengers in the carriage had not yet disembarked, and they all looked at Yu Ji who rushed in with astonishment.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." Yu Ji apologized as she squeezed into the carriage.

Her seat was in the first row, and she found it quickly without being crowded. Once she was seated, she felt a little relieved.

Although she knew that having a lot of people in a horror game wouldn't be of much use, she still felt a sense of relief watching the passengers pour into the carriage.

After the passengers were seated in the carriages, the train slowly began to move.

It's normal that no one was sitting next to Yu Ji; there are often empty seats on trains.

She looked down at the train ticket in her hand.

The train journey takes five and a half hours and ends in Songwen City. Of course, she can also choose to get off at a stop along the way.

Yu Ji planned to get off at any stop along the way, so that not only would the ghosts not know where she was, but even she herself wouldn't know where she was.

She took out her phone and checked the time; it was 8:20.

The ghost has been moving for twenty minutes now; I wonder how the other players are doing.

She knew there were seven players entering this special instance, but there were no other players around when she first entered, so she had been acting alone.

As Yu Ji pondered this, she opened her phone book. Her gaze lingered on Bai Wu's name for a moment before she abandoned her plan to call him.

"We just spoke recently, I'll ask her about her situation again later," Yu Ji muttered to herself. In this instance, she only knew Bai Wu.

"But..." she muttered to herself as she swiped her phone screen, "It says there are seven players, but I should have six phone numbers in my address book. Why are there only five?"

Furthermore, she noticed that the name "Chu Meiren" seemed to appear frequently in instance crash announcements.

Gu Mian, who was worth 100,000 game coins, often appeared with Chu Meiren.

However, all she wanted to do now was save her life; she didn't want to investigate whether it was 100,000 or not.

She then turned her attention to the "anonymous" section below.

"This person has a rather unusual name." She glanced at the name a few more times, then turned off the screen and put her phone back in her pocket.

Just then, she suddenly realized that something was wrong.

It was quiet all around; there wasn't a sound.

She had taken the high-speed rail many times before, and the train was mostly filled with the noise of children shouting or the corny ringtones from middle-aged men's phones.

But this time, she heard nothing.

Upon closer reflection, it seems that once the train started moving, there was no sound coming from the surroundings.

Her scalp tingled, and she stiffly turned her neck to look back.

There was no one behind.

She stood up, slightly opening her mouth as she looked at the large carriage.

She is the only one here.

How can it be!

Yu Ji stared wide-eyed at the empty carriage: "I clearly saw... I clearly saw so many people get on the train together!"

She turned around in alarm to look at the carriages in front and behind her, only to find that they were also empty.

Everyone vanished without a trace.

Yu Ji understood.

The ghost found her.

Just then, I heard the sound of something being dragged behind me, like the sound of a heavy, sharp weapon scraping the ground.

run!
The thought of escaping filled her mind, and she ran forward recklessly, trying to shake off the sounds behind her.

But the sound didn't move away; instead, it grew closer and closer...

Finally, when they reached carriage number one, there was no road ahead.

A solid door suddenly blocked her way; it was the cockpit door.

Yu Ji rushed up and frantically pounded on the door, but no one responded.

At that moment, the dragging sound stopped.

She turned around, trembling, and saw a life-sized teddy bear standing in front of her, dragging a huge axe and giving her a sinister smile.

I've made up my mind! I'm going to write five chapters a day, so I can have three chapters saved up every day, ninety chapters saved up in a month, and finish writing and start a new book in three months!

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