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Chapter 65: Thank you to Tian Shi Sanren for the generous donation!

"If you were simply carried out... perhaps we could try having this player carry you back?" the ticket seller suggested a bold idea.

But this idea obviously won't work.

Because the game doesn't seem to have a design that allows NPCs to travel from the real world to the instance.

"If all else fails, please stay with me for now. I'll report the situation and see if there's any way to help..." the ticket seller said somewhat awkwardly.

The host nodded, adjusting his tall green hat, but Gu Mian suddenly reached out and grabbed him: "Wait, I remember you came out as my game reward."

How could I possibly leave my prize at the ticket booth?

This kind of behavior, which is considered a threat to NPCs, is something that most players wouldn't do, but Gu Mian is different.

The host struggled for a moment, but found he couldn't break free.

The ticket seller glanced at Gu Mian, then at the green-clad host, seemingly wanting to mediate, but held back: "Mr. Green, you'd better stay here and wait... I think even if we can open a route to take you back, it will probably only be temporary. If you miss it..."

Upon hearing this, the host paused for a moment, then said after considering it seriously, "Alright, Gu Mian, I know what you're up to. Here's the watch, just let me go!"

Losing the watch is less of a loss than not being able to return to the instance.

Gu Mian then loosened her grip slightly: "Actually, I still lost out. I could have gotten two things out, but now I only have a watch."

The host pulled out a 20-centimeter-long digital watch from somewhere and shoved it at Gu Mian, rolling his eyes and saying, "You've hit the jackpot!"

Gu Mian looked down at the thing in her hand; its attributes had now been revealed.

It turns out that it wasn't a watch at all; the host just used it to keep track of time because there was no timer in the copy.

[Archiver]

[Description: Originally intended to be a high-tech product, the designer's taste seems somewhat questionable. From the outside, it looks no different from a digital watch that emits a green glow. Of course, you can also use it as a digital watch.]

【Function: Save. Press the green button to save the user's current health status, and press the red button to load the save and restore the user's state at the time of the save.】
This saver can only save once a month. If the save is not loaded after one month, it will be destroyed. If the user who saved the save dies, the save will be destroyed and cannot be used to revive.

This thing is pretty powerful.

As long as you have a breath left, you can use this to return to your saved state.

This is equivalent to having two lives every month. Of course, if you die instantly and there's no time to reload, there's nothing you can do.

"Brilliant!" Gu Mian stroked her chin. "With this, my chances of surviving in this cold world have greatly increased."

As he thought about it, he reached out and pressed the bright green save button.

The saver panel has undergone some changes.

[Recording, please wait...]

However, this saver didn't seem to work as well as Gu Mian had imagined—

[WARNING! You are incompatible with this item. Please abandon the current attempt!]

Gu Mian: "..."

Is this a fake?
He looked at the host in front of him.

The host took a slight step back: "Don't you understand why your name is on the wanted list?"

"Because I'm incompatible with the saver?"

"..." What kind of IQ is that?
The host seemed unwilling to continue the conversation with Gu Mian: "I've given you the saver, so stop loitering around me and get out of here." Gu Mian didn't linger either. Chu Changge and Fatty hadn't come out yet, probably waiting for the dungeon crash compensation. With the host gone, the dungeon would likely become abnormal immediately.

Gu Mian didn't know when the two would come out. He had originally planned to wait for them here, but the host didn't seem to want to see him.

He had no choice but to take the saver back and study it first.

As Gu Mian's figure receded into the distance, the host turned to the ticket seller and asked, "Have you contacted the organizers yet?"

The ticket seller nodded slightly: "It's been reported, but there hasn't been a reply yet... Mr. Green, I remember two other people on your side complained about this player before, but it seems like you're the unluckiest one..."

“That’s right,” the host said, rubbing his forehead. “When I saw him, I thought I would only be on a long vacation, but it seems that’s not the case. However, I’m the unluckiest now, but it might not be in the future.”

There is no such thing as the worst luck in the world, only worse luck.

Both of them fell silent.

After a while, the ticket seller at the window suddenly called out, "Mr. Green, I've received a notification..."

"What? You mean you can send me back?"

"No... it's a game announcement saying your instance is temporarily offline due to lack of maintenance..."

"..." This is exactly the good news that I expected.

When Gu Mian got home, it was already noon. He was a little hungry, so he made two packets of Lao Tan pickled cabbage and beef noodles.

He wouldn't cook in a kitchen where accidents happen so often.

When Gu Mian was halfway through eating his instant noodles, he heard the door open. He looked up and saw that Chu Changge and Fatty had indeed returned.

"The word guessing game is temporarily suspended due to a host vacancy," Chu Changge said as soon as he returned, getting straight to the point: "Fatty and I each received a thousand in compensation, and you're finally not on the compensation list this time."

Since the instance hadn't collapsed when Gu Mian left, he was not entitled to any compensation.

But we still made a profit.

At the very least, the saver I got was pretty amazing.

Gu Mian tossed the saver next to the bowl to the two of them: "You guys study this, I can't use it."

Not only is it unusable, but it's also hard to carry around; it's like a brick.

"This is..." the fat man said in surprise, "Isn't it the host's? He's willing to give it to you?"

“Of course,” Gu Mian said, “because I was kind and considerate, and he gave this to me to repay me.”

The fat man looked at Chu Changge with some confusion: "Why do I feel like the host didn't mean that?"

Chu Changge also looked at him: "The host definitely didn't intend for someone to take him out of the instance."

"Dr. Gu has misunderstood?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Changge suddenly fell silent for a few seconds before continuing, "To put it simply, Gu Mian usually gets full marks in reading comprehension during exams."

The fat man was completely confused: "What do you mean?"

"It means he was pretending to be ignorant and deliberately carrying people out."

I've noted down everyone's donations. I'll update like crazy once it's released. Before it's released, I need to save up chapters and wait for recommendations (although I haven't saved up any yet).
Thank you to Tian Shi Sanren for the generous donation of 10,000 coins.
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