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"Doctor, you're really amazing." The fat man approached Gu Mian after she finished clearing the area.

Gu Mian looked in the direction the upper class had left: "No one is more impressive than someone who can run even with a serious leg injury."

Xie Bi'an glanced at Gu Mian and the fat man a few times, then turned and left.

The fat man remembered Xie Bi'an's identity and whispered to Gu Mian after he left, "Doctor, I think he particularly dislikes upper-class people. Is it because he used to be from Paradise World too..."

Xie Bi'an belongs to the lower class in the Paradise World, and is probably oppressed by the upper class every day.

However, unlike most of the lower classes in that world, he seemed to harbor hatred towards the upper classes.

You should know that the lower classes in Paradise are willing to be exploited and oppressed, without any unreasonable desires. They believe that this is how the lower classes are born.

Xie Bi'an.

If Louis hadn't told Gu Mian that he was a lower-class person, Gu Mian would never have been able to associate Xie Bi'an with such a class.

Just as Gu Mian was staring in the direction Xie Bi'an had left, deep in thought, the fat man beside her suddenly shouted.

"it's him!"

As he spoke, he dashed through the gate.

The employees who had been watching the commotion at the entrance and hadn't had time to disperse were startled by the fat man who suddenly rushed in, thinking that the evil Gu Mian was going to have this lackey massacre the supermarket building.

But instead of going on a killing spree as expected, the fat man rushed into the crowd and grabbed one of the people: "Doctor, it's him!"

Gu Mian looked over and saw a saleswoman with protruding ears and a big nose being carried by the fat man.

The sales clerk struggled in terror, not knowing what was happening: "What are you doing! What are you trying to do!"

Seeing that they weren't coming for them, the surrounding employees gathered nearby, craning their necks to look.

Gu Mian glanced at the employees, who then scattered and fled in fright.

Once everyone was out of sight, Gu Mian walked up to the fat man.

The big nose on the fat man's hand was still struggling, but when it saw Gu Mian coming over, it didn't dare to make a sound. It just shrank its neck, shrugged its shoulders, crossed its arms and hugged its chest, making a defensive posture.

Gu Mian didn't beat around the bush and went straight to the point: "Who told you that Paradise World was going to host a variety show that judges the upper class?"

Big Nose was stunned for a moment, not knowing why Gu Mian would ask such a question, nor understanding why Gu Mian knew about this.

But he immediately realized what was going on and honestly said, "It was the carnival dock at the amusement park that called me, because we sometimes use their dock to get supplies, and I'm in charge of that."

“A while ago, Carnival Pier called me to tell me that their pier was temporarily unavailable because Theme Park was going to host a variety show, and all the materials for building the venue had to come from them, so they couldn’t help us for the time being.”

Big Nose tried hard to recall the conversation from that day, afraid of missing any details that would displease Gu Mian and get hacked to death by him: "Then I wondered why a variety show needed to transport so many materials, and he told me about the content of the variety show."

It's carnival dock again.

Gu Mian continued, "What was the name of the person who called you?"

Big Nose shook his head fearfully: "I don't know, when we make a call we always mention the company, like 'Hello, this is the Carnival Wharf office'... After all, it's a work phone, people aren't interested in your name..."

This is true.

Previously, when Gu Mian asked the fortune teller to pretend to be a deliveryman NPC and call people in the amusement park, the fortune teller only gave the company name.

He still had to go back and call the Carnival Wharf office again; luckily, he hadn't thrown away the notebook with the phone number.

Gu Mian quickly returned to the apartment and found the notebook in the box where she kept odds and ends.

Opening the notebook, two familiar lines of text caught my eye—

"Fixed a bug where player clothing would disappear during gameplay." "Fixed an issue where multiple corpses would get stuck and unable to move when in the same room."

This was originally a programmer's bug logbook, but Gu Mian forcibly took it from him.

He flipped through two pages and quickly found the piece of paper with the phone number written on it.

"Recruitment office at Carnival Wharf, contact number 18887250"

The phone number was found, but the cell phone that could make calls to the lower-dimensional world was missing.

The fat man bent down and rummaged through the cupboard: "Wait a minute, I clearly remember putting it here, why is it gone?"

Just as the fat man was frantically searching for his phone, a sob suddenly came from the bedroom.

The two stopped what they were doing and looked into the bedroom together.

"Is it haunted?" That was the fat man's first reaction.

But he quickly dismissed the idea: what kind of ghost would dare to cause trouble at a doctor's house?
Through the open door, they saw what appeared to be a small, greenish creature huddled in the corner, twitching and twitching, seemingly doing something.

Gu Mian got up and walked towards the green thing.

The closer you get, the clearer the wailing sound becomes, and you can also hear intermittent voices mixed in with it.

“That horrible person is back… I… I’ve been discovered…”

"...You must find a way to get me back..."

It wasn't haunted after all.

It's the green-haired dog secretly making a phone call.

Gu Mian grabbed the dog puppet by the tail, lifted it off the ground and shook it. A black cell phone fell off the dog puppet and landed on the ground, with a sound coming from it.

"Don't worry, dog! I'll definitely find a way to get you back!"

The phone that fell out was the very one the fat man was looking for.

It seems the dog is calling its family in the amusement park, asking them to rescue it.

"No wonder I couldn't find it, it was here." The fat man quickly picked up the phone from the ground, examined it, and made sure it wasn't broken.

The person who was talking to the dog seemed to realize something was wrong and immediately hung up the phone, not giving Gu Mian a chance to speak.

Although the dog is entirely green, it vividly portrays a deathly pale face.

It squeezed its buttonhole, trying to pretend it had fainted from fright, but unfortunately, its buttonhole couldn't close.

The dog had no choice but to open its big eyes and face everything in front of it.

Fortunately, Gu Mian was not in the mood to care about the doll. He took out a booklet with phone numbers and called Carnival Wharf.

"Beep, beep—" No one answered, and the phone kept beeping.

The fat man whispered from the side, "Doctor, are we not going to let the fortune teller impersonate an NPC to make phone calls this time?"

"Need not."

Gu Mian was basically certain that Lao Xu was Xu Xingcheng. She didn't need to hide her identity when calling Xu Xingcheng, and he wouldn't be scared and hang up as soon as he heard it was her.

The phone rang for a long time, and after about half a minute, someone finally answered.

"Hello." Gu Mian heard a tired male voice come through the receiver. (End of Chapter)