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Chapter 652 Anyone reading novels on Qixi Festival must be single!
Sihua died.

It even turned into a ghost.

People who die in this world will immediately become ghosts and may even attack other players.

The four of them quickly accepted the arrangement.

The fortune teller stared in the direction Si Huanian had left, remaining silent.

She had just seen Si Huanian's body, which was mutilated as if it had been gnawed on. The expression on his face seemed to be frozen in the moment of his death, full of shock and resentment.

"Was that the shadowy figure you just saw her?" the fortune teller asked 007, turning to him.

007 closed his eyes, his expression full of worry: "No, it's someone else, not those three players."

"Let's leave here first," Chu Changge said, looking in the direction Si Huanian had gone. "Keep moving forward and find Gu Mian as soon as possible."

As he spoke, he lifted his foot and walked forward along the road.

The fortune teller followed, clutching his long strip of cloth.

007 still clutched the slightly rotten finger in her hand. She looked around at the pitch-black surroundings, which seemed like a monster with its mouth wide open, ready to devour them.

She didn't look for long before pulling Xiao Qiao along and walking forward.

"This world is so strange. Players who die here actually turn into ghosts. I've never seen anything like this before, even though I've been to so many dungeons." The fortune teller gripped the strip of cloth tightly in his hand.

"And you also saw people you used to know." As she spoke, she looked at Chu Changge and 007. She noticed that 007's face was full of worry, an expression that 007 rarely showed before.

Although Chu Changge had that unchanging expressionless face, his hurried steps betrayed him.

“We’d better hurry,” Chu Changge said again, “I think the protection law is gradually losing its effectiveness.”

The fortune teller turned to look at Chu Changge, only to find that Chu Changge was staring at her wrist.

The fortune teller followed his gaze and looked down, discovering five purplish-blue finger marks on the spot where Si Huanian had just touched him.

Looking at the fingerprints on her wrist, she felt a chill run down her spine.

“This world has no concept of time,” Chu Changge looked up at the sky. Although they had been here for several hours, the sky had not changed and remained the same as when they entered the instance. “I guess the protection law will be weakened in this world, and its duration may be affected.”

Upon hearing this, the group quickened their pace.

The fortune teller covered the fingerprint on his wrist, feeling a tingling sensation in that area.

Previously, thanks to the protection law, those ghosts couldn't harm them, but this time Si Huanian left a fingerprint on her wrist.

This means that the protective laws are gradually losing their effectiveness.

If they haven't found Gu Mian by the time the protection law completely disappears, they might really lose their lives on the spot.

In this world teeming with ghosts, it would be a miracle to survive even half an hour without any external protection.

“If the protection law fails, we can’t keep roaming outside. We’ll be sitting ducks.” 007 looked around. “It would be best to find a slightly higher place to hide and wait for Gu Mian to come looking for us. The view from above is better, and if Gu Mian is nearby, we can easily spot her.”

The fortune teller nodded in agreement: "I have some special items on me. If we hide in a high place and are discovered by the ghost, they can hold it off and give us time to escape."

007 knew Chu Changge's usual style, and she knew that under these circumstances, he would most likely choose to continue.

He gives the impression of not valuing life much.

But to their surprise, Chu Changge agreed with their suggestion: "Okay."

007 was stunned for a moment, not expecting that Chu Changge still wanted to live.

With permission granted, the diviner began to observe the nearby buildings.

The tallest building in sight is that towering skyscraper with more than ten stories in the distance.

But that place was too far away, so the fortune teller had to choose the nearest one.

She tossed the stick aside hastily and said, "How about the building on the left? It's nine stories high, and there's no access control downstairs."

As she was speaking, she suddenly felt something strange on her shoulder. She instinctively turned her head and looked up to meet a pair of blood-red eyes.

"Run!" 007 grabbed the fortune teller and ran forward.

Now we don't need to go to the high-rise building the fortune teller chose; we need to get rid of this ghost first.

Fortunately, the Wildlife Protection Law has not completely failed, otherwise the fortune teller might have died on the spot.

The group ran wildly until they were sure the ghost wasn't chasing them, then they stopped to rest.

"Don't stand here," the fortune teller said, perking up and walking toward the nearest high-rise building. "Let's find a place to hide first."

The other three also quickly approached the high-rise building.

Just as the fortune teller was about five meters away from the building, he suddenly saw something on the ground in front of the building.

007 and Chu Changge, who were behind them, obviously also saw that thing.

"Don't go over there!" came the two urgent voices at the same time.

Then the fortune teller was pulled back quickly by 007.

As she was being pulled backward, she saw two charred figures standing behind a window of the tall building in front of her. She stared blankly at the two figures behind the window, so shocked she almost couldn't breathe.

Once they were taken to another secluded spot, the fortune teller finally came to her senses. She looked at 007 with her mouth slightly agape: "People who die in this instance will become ghosts, right?"

At this moment, Gu Mian was dragging a smaller ghost along the road.

The female ghost from before lost her voice and could no longer make a sound.

So he spent some time finding a smaller ghost, so that it wouldn't be too strenuous to drag it along.

This is a minor ghost.

Kids are full of energy; a couple of punches to the face and they'll scream for two hours straight.

The sound was even louder than the female ghost from before.

He saw a tall building of more than ten stories in the distance and thought about going up to take a look.

From a high-rise building of more than ten stories, one can see very far, and perhaps spot Chu Changge and his group.

Thinking of that figure from just now, Gu Mian quickened her pace.

Just then, he suddenly heard a discordant sound.

It was the roar of a car engine.

He heard the sound of tires rolling over the ground getting closer and closer, and in the blink of an eye it was behind him from a distance, followed by the screech of brakes.

What the hell?

Ghosts can't drive, can they?

Is it Chu Changge and the others? They found them so quickly?

But Gu Mian remembered that she had never seen a vehicle in this place.

He turned around in surprise, but before he could see who was behind him, he heard a familiar voice calling out, "Doctor!"

Gu Mian thought she must be hallucinating.

Otherwise, how could I hear the fat man's voice here?

At this moment, he had turned around completely, and what came into view was a fat man who had gotten out of the car with a kitchen knife in his hand and was running towards him with tears streaming down his face.

"Doctor!" The fat man ran over, sobbing. "I thought you'd been pulled into another instance. I was worried no one would come to rescue Brother Chu and the others, so I gritted my teeth, filled in my own name on the instance ticket, and entered the train instance. I wanted to find them. I even thought, if I die here, I'd appreciate it if the doctor could dig a couple of holes for me and Brother Chu as a token gesture, but don't dig them too big so as not to tire us doctors out..."

Gu Mian silently turned her head and looked at the driver, who was sitting in the driver's seat with a face full of despair: "So you met the driver, who was looking for a new job, in the train dungeon."

Between sobs, the fat man couldn't help but praise Gu Mian: "The doctor is indeed a prophet. I begged the driving instructor for a long time, but he wouldn't agree to come with me."

How did he end up here?
The fat man continued, "After the train stopped at the station, the conductor kicked him out, saying something like, 'You unlucky thing, don't stay in my train!'"

"I asked the driving instructor to drive his hearse to find Brother Chu and the others. I had borrowed Miss Qiao's 'big data search' to find the clothes that Xiao Hong had hidden, but I forgot to return it to her. After I came in, I used the big data search to search for Brother Chu and found that he was in this direction, so I started looking this way."

"When I found the area, I suddenly heard ghostly cries. I thought maybe the doctor was here, so I rushed over to check. I didn't expect to find you here, doctor."

Big data search is a special item for Xiao Qiao; Fatty often borrows it to find Gu Mian's missing clothes.

"Is the train station very close to here?" Gu Mian grasped the key point, otherwise the fat man wouldn't have been able to get here in just a few hours.

The fat man shook his head: "It's not very close. We floored the gas pedal and it took us two hours to get here. Luckily there were no traffic police here, or we would have gotten a car full of tickets."

“Coco and Miss Liu Ruyan also wanted to come with me,” the fat man said, waving the kitchen knife in his hand. “But I have a Joker card, and Jokers usually don’t notice me. I was afraid they would be in danger if they came in, and that others would end up losing money instead of helping them, so I didn’t write their names on the card.”

"What a good fat man," Gu Mian said, affectionately patting the fat man's head.

"Doctor," the fat man who had his head patted said with a serious expression, "there's something I need to tell you."

As he spoke, he took out something that looked very much like a mobile phone, which was Xiao Qiao's special item: [Big Data Search].

The fat man frowned deeply: "I filled in Brother Chu's name here... Doctor, you know this thing doesn't give specific directions, it only gives you an arrow to find in that direction. After I filled in Brother Chu's name... Doctor, you should still take a look yourself."

As he spoke, he handed the big data search engine in his hand to Gu Mian.

Gu Mian took it and looked at the screen.

At the bottom of the screen is a name field, where Chu Changge's name was entered.

The map above has arrows.

When you use it to find something unique, only one arrow will appear on the screen, indicating the direction to find the item.

Searching for Chu Changge should only result in one arrow appearing.

But Gu Mian saw it on the screen.

It was covered with a dense array of arrows.

This is the third year that GuGu has persisted in his mockery. (Tactical overreach)

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