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007 returned to the apartment and opened his eyes to see the fortune teller almost touching his face.

The fortune teller was clearly startled by 007's sudden return. She took a few steps back, looking at 007 with lingering fear: "You guys came back very early this time."

007 first glanced around. She was still standing at the apartment entrance, the same spot she had been in before entering the instance.

The others should have returned to their original positions before entering the instance, but it's unclear whether Gu Mian has returned.

"This morning when I did a divination for myself, I got the 'Great Misfortune is Coming' sign, which meant I had to leave where I was immediately to turn bad luck into good. So I ran out right away. Do you remember when I ran out, I ran into you? But as soon as I ran out the door and looked back, you were gone. After I realized you were gone, I understood that the 'Great Misfortune is Coming' meant that a special instance was coming."

"Now that the great calamity has passed, I went back to the apartment to see how many people had been pulled into the special instance. Gu Mian, Fatty, and Chu Changge were not in the room, Liu Ruyan was not in the room, Coco was not in the room, but Xiao Qiao was in the room."

"When Xiao Qiao heard me say that Gu Mian and the others might have been pulled into a special instance, she went upstairs to check..."

007 said, "Me, Gu Mian, Coco, Fatty, and Xie Bi'an were pulled into a special instance. Since the special instance can only hold a maximum of five people, they didn't pull everyone in the building in. Chu Changge and Liu Ruyan didn't go into the special instance; they're probably outside."

As 007 was speaking, they heard the sound of something falling over coming from the direction of the stairs.

Then came the "gurgling" sound of something rolling down the stairs.

The fortune teller also heard the sound, and the two of them looked towards the stairs together, only to see a person tumbling down from there.

“Xiao Qiao?” 007 recognized the person who rolled down.

After Xiao Qiao tumbled down the stairs, she lay motionless on the ground.

"what happened?"

The two quickly reached the top of the stairs and helped Xiao Qiao up. 007 called Xiao Qiao's name twice, but she remained unresponsive with her eyes closed. She then looked up at the top of the stairs, where the platform was empty and deserted.

"It seems she's fainted." The fortune teller reached out and touched the back of Xiao Qiao's head. "There are no wounds, she wasn't knocked unconscious."

007 knew how formidable Xiao Qiao was: "No ordinary person could knock her unconscious."

"Could it be that he fainted while going down the stairs?" the fortune teller wondered.

Just as the two were wondering why Xiao Qiao had rolled down the stairs, they heard a series of rapid thumping sounds coming from above, as if someone was rushing down the stairs.

A moment later, they saw the fat man rushing down the stairs.

Upon seeing 007, Coco, and Xiao Qiao lying unconscious on the ground, the fat man was taken aback for a moment: "What happened to Miss Xiao Qiao?"

"She rolled down the stairs and seemed to have fainted." 007 remembered that Xiao Qiao had also fainted once not long ago, when something went wrong in the Ragnarok world. Xiao Qiao originally came from Ragnarok, and because that world had problems, she was also affected in the real world.

Then this time...

She thought about the scene in the Great Chamber of the Chariot before leaving the instance, and she also felt that the scene in the Great Chamber of the Chariot was somewhat similar to Ragnarok, and there might be some connection between the two.

The incident in the Jinche Chamber, in which Xiao Qiao fainted, further proves that the Jinche Chamber is related to Ragnarok.

"Has Gu Mian returned yet?" 007 looked at the fat man on the stairs, perhaps Gu Mian knew what had happened in the large room of the car.

The fat man then remembered why he came down: "Isn't the doctor down here? After I came out of the dungeon, I went back to where I entered the dungeon, but I found that the doctor wasn't there, so I came down to see if he was here."

“He’s not on the first floor.” 007 shook his head.

Just then, a door not far from the stairs was opened from the inside, and the group looked over to see Coco.

Coco looked surprised when she saw Xiao Qiao unconscious: "What happened to her?"

"He must have fainted. By the way, have you seen Gu Mian?" 007 asked.

“No,” Coco said curiously, “I was in my room when I entered the dungeon, and I went back to my room after I came out of the dungeon. Gu Mian should be in his room too, right?”

She then looked at the fat man who had just come down the stairs: "I saw him with you a few minutes before we left the instance. It looked like you were... burying him?"

The fat man said worriedly, "Yes, it was the doctor's request. He asked me to bury him. While I was burying him, I was worried that the doctor might suffocate down there. Do you think the doctor really died from being buried?"

As he spoke, his face fell, as if he was about to cry. "Why did he want you to bury him?" Coco asked, puzzled.

The fat man shook his head vigorously: "I don't know either, the doctor didn't tell me."

007 thought about the words Louis had brought: "Because of the words Louis brought."

"Grow like a ghost?" The fat man repeated the words the mysterious person in the amusement park had Louis deliver to Gu Mian. Then he slapped his forehead. "Right, the way the ghosts in this Ghost Expo instance grow is by being planted in the soil. That's probably why the doctor wanted me to try planting him in the soil. But I don't know if planting him in the soil will work. Anyway, the doctor has disappeared now..."

The fortune teller unconsciously recalled the fortune she had given Gu Mian some time ago, which was "to be buried in peace." The fortune teller's results were usually accurate when she divined for others, but she was not so sure about the fortune she was giving for Gu Mian.

Although the divination at the time indicated that she would be buried in peace, she didn't really believe it in her heart.

I never expected that Gu Mian would be laid to rest, and in the literal sense at that.

However, even if they were buried in the ground, they wouldn't necessarily die.

"Didn't Xie Bi'an go into the instance with you? Why don't we go check with Xie Bi'an? It's possible that Gu Mian will be with him after she comes out," the fortune teller suggested.

When Xie Bi'an is mentioned, 007 thinks of the way he looked under his cloak when Gu Mian knocked him down in the hall; he had suffered severe burns.

As they were talking, Xie Bi'an appeared on the stairs.

He came down from upstairs and seemed to have overheard their conversation: "I didn't see him."

That's strange, where could Gu Mian have gone?

Gu Mian also wanted to ask, where would she go?
The feeling of being buried in the soil was strange. The moment his whole body was buried, he felt as if he had become a seed, as if roots were growing out of his body and spreading out to the surrounding land. A strange feeling arose in his heart, as if the roots were closely connecting him with the world around him.

He felt himself growing upwards, like a seed sprouting from the soil.

The pit he and the fat man dug wasn't deep; theoretically, it wouldn't be long before he could break through the soil and see the light.

But the light did not come for a long time, and he continued to climb upwards.

Although he could not see anything in the darkness, he could hear hidden sounds coming from the darkness.

He seemed to hear cheers, prayers, and chanting coming from an unknown direction. The chanting was somewhat muffled, as if it were reciting some trivial clauses.

Gradually, the other sounds grew fainter and farther away, while the joyful shouts became clearer and clearer, as if I were getting closer and closer to where the sound came from.

The final cheers almost drowned out all other sounds, leaving Gu Mian with only this one sound in her ears.

The noise around her was too loud, and Gu Mian found the cheers noisy.

Amidst the cacophony of cheers, Gu Mian suddenly noticed a tiny light ahead, about the size of a peanut. The closer she got, the clearer the cheers became.

Where did the sound come from?
Gu Mian got closer and closer to the light, wanting to examine the peanut.

But just as he slowly approached, almost touching the light, it suddenly burst forth with intense light, enveloping Gu Mian within it.

In an instant, the surroundings were no longer completely dark, but filled with light, turning into a stark white expanse.

Gu Mian heard sounds coming from the pale white surroundings. It was the cheers from before, along with the sound of cannons being lit and fireworks exploding in the sky.

Then he heard more sounds, and a cacophony of voices surged from the pale surroundings.

Gu Mian heard things like heroes, warriors, and hope.

At first, the voices of those people were not clear, as if there was a barrier between me and them.

But then the pale light around us began to fade, gradually revealing the outside world. It seemed like an unfamiliar environment had appeared, and the voices of those people gradually became clearer.

Finally, he heard the first words spoken after arriving here.

"With the brave warrior Gu Mian here, we will surely defeat the evil upper class!" (End of Chapter)