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Chapter 671 At this moment, a pigeon who aspired to write 10,000 words a day put down his keyboard.

“I’ve seen it,” Yu Ji raised her hand. “I remember the male lead in the movie was haunted by a ghost. Every time he took a picture, he would find a ghostly figure behind him that was constantly getting closer to him.”

“I think this copy should be the same. We might also find…ghosts in the photos.” Wen Qin Tanjiu flipped through the photos in her hand.

“If this conjecture is correct, we need to find the ghost in the photo quickly and then analyze the way out.” He put the photo he had looked at on the other side. “Of course, this conjecture may also be wrong. Perhaps these photos are just copies that mislead us, making us focus on the photos and thus ignore the real clues.”

Just as he was speaking, Lemon Not Sour suddenly said, "Strange, isn't this place different from before...?"

She had been staring at the photo in her hand for a long time, and the more she looked, the more something seemed off.

Upon hearing this, the others also peered into the photo in her hand.

Lemon Not Sour was holding the group photo they had taken after they arrived. Wen Qin and the others had seen the photo before, so they could see the difference between the previous and current photos.

"It seems... quite different from before." Tonight White, who was holding a Polaroid camera, frowned as she looked at the photo.

He pointed to the background behind the nine people in the photo: "We took this group photo in front of the stone tablet that says 'Taiying Mountain'. I remember the trees next to the stone tablet weren't this dark."

Gu Mian looked at the photo in her hand, which wasn't sour about lemons.

He hadn't seen what the photo looked like before, so naturally he couldn't see the difference.

Gu Mian felt that the trees behind them looked somewhat eerie.

Wen Qin nodded, "It is indeed different from before. I wonder if it's because of the photographic paper..."

Polaroid photos are completely white when they are first taken, and you can't see anything.

It takes a few seconds for the image to gradually appear, and the colors in the photo will gradually deepen over time. The image will only settle after a period of time.

“Let’s pick this one out and put it aside first,” Wen Qin said, placing the suspicious photo on the seat next to her and weighing it down with a tightly screwed water bottle to prevent it from drifting away. “We’ll continue looking at the other photos and find out which ones are problematic.”

The car had already descended the mountain and was driving smoothly on the road.

Wen Qin and the other three continued searching through the pile of photos.

Most of these photos were taken from the car, showing the scenery along the way; there aren't many photos with people in them.

Gu Mian did not join them, but instead turned to look at Xu Xingcheng beside her.

He hadn't even had a chance to say a few more words to this evil god.

While the other players' attention was focused on the photo, Gu Mian pulled Xu Xingcheng closer and reached out to touch his pocket.

Hmm, there's nothing there.

He wanted to squeeze some money out of this top-tier NPC, but he didn't expect the guy to be so poor and have nothing.

"You're even harvesting the leeks of evil gods." Xu Xingcheng saw through Gu Mian's thoughts and reached out to cover his pocket, even though it was empty.

Gu Mian looked down at the leaf brooch hanging on her chest. The main reason was that the things given by the evil god were so useful that she couldn't help but cut them.

As he pondered this, he put away his ugly, exploitative demeanor: "I heard you've been looking for me all over the world. Is there something you need?"

Don't tell me you want him to pay for the damage to the statue.

Upon hearing this, Xu Xingcheng was slightly taken aback, and then his expression became somewhat strange.

"What's with that expression?" Gu Mian asked, puzzled by Xu Xingcheng's expression.

The evil god hesitated for a moment before speaking, "In fact, I don't know why I'm looking for you."

Gu Mian: "..."

are you kidding me?
Chu Changge's voice rang out from the side: "He is an avatar, not only is he weak, but he has also lost some of the original body's memories."

“That’s right,” Xu Xingcheng readily admitted his weakness. “I remember my original body was in the Fourth World. You know which world is the Fourth World, right? It’s the world where a group of albino patients roam around.”

He was referring to the upper class in Paradise World.

Gu Mian glanced at the player behind her who was intently examining the photo, and then said, "I know."

“Recently, the lower-dimensional worlds have been quite unstable. My main body is unable to leave the fourth world, and it’s all of us clones that have come out,” Xu Xingcheng said, spreading his hands. “Because my main body and I are not in the same world, we have been greatly weakened.”

Looking at the person in front of him, Gu Mian felt that this evil god's clone was indeed quite weak, as if he could be knocked down with a single finger.

"I was weakened and also lost some of my memories," Xu Xingcheng admitted. "In fact, I only know that the original body gave the order to find you, and I don't know anything else. Actually, I only remembered that I was a clone not long ago."

What a weak and ignorant clone. Gu Mian looked at Xu Xingcheng's player nickname above his head: "How did you get yourself on the player panel?"

"Although it has been greatly weakened, it has retained some abilities." Xu Xingcheng smiled slightly. "The ability to disguise myself as a player is my innate ability. It was awakened after I remembered my clone. Other clones may have other abilities."

"Do the other clones look just like you?" Gu Mian scrutinized Xu Xingcheng's face.

“I don’t know, after all, our memories aren’t shared.” Xu Xingcheng pondered, “Their mission might not be to find you, otherwise other clones would have found you before me.”

A strange evil god splits into strange clones and issues strange missions.

Gu Mian asked him a few questions about the low-dimensional world and its key figures.

This strange clone knew nothing when asked, making him even more mentally challenged than Xiao Qiao.

Gu Mian stared at Xu Xingcheng for a while longer before finally accepting reality.

This guy is basically a mascot.

It looks nice when displayed.

Xu Xingcheng has neither memory nor ability, but he insists on sticking to him for the sake of the mission. As for why he sticks to him, Xu Xingcheng himself doesn't know.

Gu Mian looked at Chu Changge and whispered, "This guy is useless. Let's saw him off and throw him by the roadside."

Before Chu Changge could speak, Xu Xingcheng puffed out his chest: "I'm definitely useful! Because of the limitations of different worlds, my memories were erased. Once you break a few more instances and make these worlds more unstable, I'll be able to recover more memories from the loopholes."

I'd rather go to the Fourth World and have a face-to-face chat with the true form of the evil god than waste my time helping you find your memories.

Gu Mian asked directly, "Where in the Fourth World is your original body?"

Xu Xingcheng looked up: "I really didn't know that."

Gu Mian really wanted to grab this person and put him on a train to the Fourth World to learn the way, but unfortunately, the train that could travel between worlds broke down after Gu Mian rode it once, and it would be a long time before it was repaired.

"Speaking of which," Gu Mian thought of the Judge instance, "Chu Changge met you in the Judge instance, and that instance is also in this world?"

“No, that’s not it.” Xu Xingcheng looked at the leaf brooch on Gu Mian’s chest. “This is an anchor. After I awaken, I can sense you directly through this. I don’t need to take a car; I can teleport directly to your vicinity.”

So that's how this thing found me. Gu Mian also looked down at the leaf brooch on her chest, not expecting it to be a teleportation array.

"In short, the more instances you break, the more memories I can recover," Xu Xingcheng said. "Then I won't be completely clueless anymore."

Is this really an NPC from a lower-dimensional world?
Gu Mian began to wonder why he was so enthusiastic about ruining the dungeon.

During the time the two were talking, the four people behind Wen Qin and Tan Jiu had also finished looking at the photos.

“There’s nothing wrong with these photos.” Lemon Not Sour looked at a photo taken on the roadside in her hand. “There are no ghosts or anything else unusual.”

Tonight, Bai is examining the Polaroid camera, pondering its uses.

Wen Qin turned to look at the group photo that was being covered by a water bottle while talking about wine.

At this moment, the bus came to a traffic light intersection and suddenly stopped.

The water bottle that was pressing down on the group photo tipped over due to the brakes, and Wen Qintan quickly moved the water bottle away.

Fortunately, the bottle was tightly sealed, and no water spilled on the photo.

He looked closely at the background of the photo in his hand, then noticed something was wrong: "Hey? Look."

He handed the photo to Jin Yebai next to him: "Weren't those trees in the background quite dark just now? Now they seem normal again."

Others also peered in.

“Yes,” Yu Ji said, looking closely at the photos in Wen Qin Tanjiu’s hand, “the lighting on these trees is normal again.”

Just as the three of them were staring at the trees in the background of the photo in confusion, Lemon Not Sour, who had peeked over from the side, suddenly turned pale and slumped back into her seat.

What's wrong? The three of them were startled and turned to look at her.

Lemon, her face pale, pointed to a crucial, overlooked part of the photo: "Look, behind us... isn't there an extra person?"

I almost forgot to write a short essay.
I don't want to work hard this month. I'll try to update 500,000 words next month. (Leaving in a dream)

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