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According to big data search results, "Gu Mian's siblings, close friends and loved ones" should be located in this position.

At this moment, Gu Mian was in a classroom, fiddling with a device that looked like a mobile phone.

This is Xiao Qiao's big data search. Enter what you want to find, and it will automatically locate you.

This special item is very useful. When you enter "ghost" in a dungeon, this special item will mark the ghost's location, allowing players to accurately avoid danger and greatly increasing their survival rate.

However, Xiao Qiao doesn't use this thing much in dungeons. Instead, she often searches for odds and ends in the real world, such as a sock missing a sock, a game console that disappeared shortly after being put down, and occasionally she has been seen using this thing to spy on Gu Mian's whereabouts.

Later, big data search became a shared tool for finding lost items throughout the apartment, and everyone borrowed it from Xiao Qiao to find the odds and ends they couldn't find.

The big data search happened to be in Gu Mian's hands when they entered the instance.

He borrowed it to find the photos that Xiao Hong had hidden, but before he could use it, he entered this instance, and the big data search came in with him.

The moment Gu Mian was pulled in, she guessed that Chu Changge, Fatty and the others had probably entered this place as well. She planned to ask about the location of the others through Xiao Qiao's ten-person group chat, but found that the group chat could not be opened.

Fortunately, she had access to big data search. She could find people's locations by entering their names in the search bar, so Gu Mian immediately tried entering names.

However, special items always had problems with contact when they were in Gu Mian's hands, especially after the Ragnarok world, when Gu Mian's luck became even worse.

He initially entered a name, but the screen displayed a message saying "Poor signal, unable to search."

Unconvinced, Gu Mian searched for all the names and nicknames of everyone in the apartment, but all of them returned an error message saying they could not be found.

It seems this thing also stopped working with group chats of ten people.

Gu Mian had no choice but to take action and search outside to see if she could find anyone.

While wandering around the school, he also tried entering some words into big data search, including but not limited to "a sinister man with glasses" and "the mother of gas cylinders," which could describe the apartment members. However, the big data search kept showing the same message: "Poor signal, unable to search."
Until I typed in the text that appears in the search box now: "Gu Mian's siblings, close friends, and beloved family."

Big data search suddenly reacted, sparingly providing a location.

Gu Mian followed the directions and saw the teaching building.

It's worth mentioning that not far from the teaching building, the school bell suddenly rang, and then Gu Mian noticed some strange figures wandering around the school's roads and buildings, which looked like ghosts.

The ghosts appeared along with the school bell. At that time, he found that the location marked by the big data search was not far from him, so he did not investigate the strange figures that suddenly appeared. He planned to find the person first.

Following the directions provided by the big data search, Gu Mian entered the teaching building and went up the stairs.

Unexpectedly, he encountered a ghost on his way upstairs. Judging from its shape, it should be one of those eerie, wandering ghosts. This ghost blocked his way.

Gu Mian had no choice but to punch the other person twice and throw him downstairs before continuing upstairs.

When he arrived at the classroom on the second floor, he found that his location almost completely overlapped with the location given by the big data search. His relatives, friends, siblings and loved ones were most likely in the classroom in front of him.

Gu Mian glanced into the classroom but didn't see anyone.

After looking again carefully, I noticed a person sleeping on a desk in the corner against the wall, but I couldn't see their face.

Gu Mian had lived with his relatives and friends for so long that even if he were just lying on the table without showing his face, he would still recognize him.

Gu Mian immediately recognized that the person lying down was no one she knew.

If big data search shows that the destination is here, there must be a reason for it.

He pushed open the door and went in. The classroom door was no longer new, and it creaked as it was pushed open, but the noise did not wake the person who was lying on the table.

This is not the reaction a normal player should have. In such a dangerous dungeon, players should be more vigilant.

Gu Mian took two more steps forward to get closer to the person, only to find that she couldn't open the other person's player panel. Was it a ghost? Gu Mian looked at the big data search in her hand, then at the thing in front of her that seemed to be a ghost.

Is this the correct destination? Why did a ghost appear in my search for friends and family?

However, this ghost wasn't aggressive at all; even when Gu Mian walked right up to it, it didn't jump up and slap her.

After thinking for a while, Gu Mian decided to wake up this relative and friend to see what it looked like.

He reached out and shoved the ghost twice: "Hey, wake up!"

The ghost remained unmoved, as if it were deaf.

Gu Mian leaned closer to its ear and raised her voice: "Wake up."

The ghost remained motionless.

Gu Mian had no choice but to straighten up and grab the ghost by the back of its collar, trying to pull its face off the desk.

No matter how hard you try to pull it out, the ghost keeps its head stuck firmly to the desk, as if it's grown into the desk itself.

As Gu Mian was pulling up the radish, the ghost spoke: "Hey."

Gu Mian stopped what she was doing and stared at the back of the head on the table.

Then a series of "hello"s came from below.

This sound...

Gu Mian frowned, then suddenly squatted down and looked under the desk.

The sound didn't come from the ghost, but from under the desk.

As soon as Gu Mian squatted down, a strangely shaped dog came into view. It was Xiao Hei, a mechanical dog from the Paradise World.

Xiao Hei's head is a large camera. As soon as this camera head saw Gu Mian, it lit up and excitedly made a series of "hello, hello" sounds. The sound was made by it.

Gu Mian picked up the little black dog that had rushed to her feet and stared at it in thought.

Little Black was actually pulled into this instance.

You should know that in the past, special dungeons could only recruit players from Earth. Characters like Little Red, Mr. Green, and Xu Xingcheng were not considered for recruiting. As for machine-made dogs like Little Black, they should just stay away.

But now that Xiao Hei has been pulled in, it means that Xiao Hong and the others have most likely also been pulled into this instance.

Strange, could this instance be indiscriminately attacking?
As Gu Mian was thinking, Xiao Hei called out "Hey, hey" twice more, and he finally turned his attention back to Xiao Hei.

This dog isn't very bright; it usually only has the line "Are you happy?", like a broken record.

The only exception was when they met a fortune teller in the amusement park, and back then, Xiao Hei kept rudely yelling "Hey!" at him, just like now.

Is there a connection between the old man and the ghost in front of him?
Gu Mian turned her gaze to the ghost.

This ghost couldn't possibly be that old man in disguise. The ghost's figure and hair make it look like a young man, not an old man.

Gu Mian squatted by the table and looked up. From this angle, she could just see a bit of the ghost's profile buried on the edge of the table.

The ghost wouldn't look up no matter what, so Gu Mian couldn't see its face. She decided to stick her head under the table and try looking up; maybe she could see what the ghost looked like.

Thinking of this, Gu Mian lowered her body, tilted her head back, and peered under the desk, slowly bringing her neck closer to the ghost face. (End of Chapter)