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Chapter 979 How to Protect Yourself
The space inside the wooden door was so large that it completely exceeded Gu Hao's imagination. He had entered the so-called virtual space before, but this was the first time he encountered such a real, spacious, and boundless space... As Gu Hao entered, the wooden door behind him disappeared, as if it had never appeared.

After feeling the wooden door disappear, Gu Hao turned back nervously, only to hear Zhu Long, who was walking in front of him, say in a deep voice, "Don't worry... As long as you want to go out, it will appear at any time."

Gu Hao heard Zhu Long talking to him as if he was an old friend they had known for many years. He even felt that he was just visiting a friend's house when he brought him into this space. But Gu Hao was not a fool. Although he did not know the other party's identity yet, he was sure that he was someone he could not afford to offend...

Thinking of this, Gu Hao followed Zhu Long's words and said, "Really? I can go out anytime I want?"

"Of course..." Zhu Long nodded.

"What about my friend? Can I take him out with me?" Gu Hao continued to ask.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Long changed his attitude this time and said, "Whether your friend can go out or not does not depend on you or me, but on himself..."

After hearing this mysterious answer, Gu Hao didn't know what to say for a moment, because he felt that although every time he asked a question, there was a response, it was not the answer he wanted, so he had to pull the question back to himself and asked, "Why did you bring me in?"

Zhu Long thought for a moment, then raised his eyebrows and said, "Because you are very special in my eyes, right? How should I put it? You are a person who lives very clearly and knows what you want from the beginning to the end. At the same time, you are also a courageous person. When facing fate, you know how to seize opportunities and have the courage to resist... To be honest, it is rare to find people who live soberly like you, because most of the people I have seen are forced by the general trend to make some choices and get something. As for why they made such a choice, whether it was out of instinct or influenced by the outside world, they all don't want to think too much. They don't even know if everything they have now is what they really want! But you are different from them."

Gu Hao smiled and shook his head after hearing this and said, "Brother, I haven't read any books, and I don't know much about philosophy. What you said is too complicated and too profound. The reason why you think I am different from them is just that I have lived a few more years and experienced more things than them. Life experience and experience can be slowly precipitated and accumulated over the years. In fact, compared with these experienced people, I prefer the ignorance of young people, because ignorant people are fearless."

Zhu Long seemed to agree with Gu Hao's point of view. He smiled and said, "You are right... The longer you live, the more timid you will be. In fact, there is another reason why I brought you in. Among those who came in before, some accidentally touched the entrance and fell in, while others broke in knowing the existence of this space. Although you are also one of them, you are the only mortal who came in voluntarily."

What Zhu Long said was true. Xiaotian, needless to say, became a demigod by following Yang Jian. Although Song Jiang's body was mortal, he had already been occupied by Qinglong's spirit. However, Gu Hao didn't know this, so he was a little puzzled after hearing it and said, "Where did you get this from? My friend is just an ordinary person, and his skills are not even as good as mine... Although I don't know who you are, I can see that you won't make things difficult for an ordinary person."

Zhu Long smiled and shook his head after hearing this and said, "Don't rush to flatter me. You will know who your friend is sooner or later... But there is one thing I have to make clear in advance. I am not the one who can hurt him here. I can bring you in, but whether you have the ability to take him out from that thing is another question."

Seeing that Zhu Long was always beating around the bush when talking, Gu Hao asked directly, "Then can you tell me, where exactly is this place? Why does it look like an empty office building?" Upon hearing this, Zhu Long called out to Gu Hao, "Let's go, let's talk while we walk..."

Afterwards, Zhu Long told Gu Hao that this space was real and everything that happened here was real, so injuries or deaths here were irreversible, so the first thing people who fell in had to learn was how to protect themselves...

Gu Hao was a little surprised when he heard this, "Self-protection? Are you saying there are man-eating monsters in this space?"

Zhu Long said calmly, "Of course... To be exact, the existence of this space is to imprison the man-eating monster. Over the past few hundred years, countless living people have fallen into it, but most of them never came back because the monster was hungry."

After hearing what Zhu Long said, Gu Hao shuddered for no reason. He knew that Zhu Long, who could come and go freely, was either the one who imprisoned the monster or the owner of the monster. But no matter which identity he was, he should be more terrifying than the monster. Thinking of this, Gu Hao said in a deep voice, "If that's the case, can I still get out?"

"Of course, since I brought you in, I can naturally take you out." Zhu Long pointed at the surrounding environment and said, "As for why the layout here is like this, it depends on where the wooden door you walked in appears."

Gu Hao seemed to understand Zhu Long's meaning a little bit, and asked in a deep voice, "You mean, if wooden doors appear in a department store, the space here will become a shopping mall without goods? If wooden doors appear in a hospital, this will become a hospital building without patients and doctors?"

Zhu Long smiled and nodded after hearing this, "Yes, that's what I mean!"

Unexpectedly, Gu Hao continued to ask, "So where exactly this door appears depends on you, right?"

Zhu Long smiled and said, "You are really smart..." But when he said this, he suddenly changed the subject and said, "Don't hang out with those guys outside. They won't help you gain eternal life in the end. Why don't you follow me?"

Gu Hao couldn't guess for a moment whether the other party was testing him with words, so he said helplessly, "Eternal life...? I don't want to live such a tiring life. If I could choose, I hope I could be reincarnated as a human and start a brand new life. The reason why I have come to this point today is because I have no choice."

After hearing this, Zhu Long said seriously, "Now that you meet me, you have a choice... You are only seeking temporary protection from Baihu. He can protect you temporarily, but he can't protect you from changing your body next time."