[Instance: Terror Manor]
[Number of Participants: 6]
[Instance Introduction: You are six mountain climbers. However, an accident occurs during one of your climbs. Due to heavy snow and blocked paths, you’re trapped on the mountain, your only option to seek refuge in the sole manor on the mountain.]
[Instance Mission: Escape Terror Manor]
[Instance Reward: Ga Coin*200, a Surprise Lottery Wheel Spin]
Gu Mian pondered over the ga rewards, "What’s this Surprise Lottery Wheel Spin about?"
Past lotteries were straightforward, without the ’full of surprises’ descriptor.
Fatty analyzed, "I guess it’s like drawing cards in a ga. This lottery wheel probably has a high chance of yielding rare items."
That made sense.
Gu Mian looked again at the mission panel.
The mission itself seed quite plain. To escape the manor... If they just stepped inside and then imdiately jumped back out, would that count as escaping?
Suddenly, the scenery around the three of them changed. Evidently, they had entered the instance.
Before Gu Mian had ti to take in his surroundings, a biting wind buffeted them, freezing the tips of their noses.
"So cold..." Gu Mian wrapped his thin white coat tighter around himself.
Fatty was also shivering, his layers of fat quaking.
They were clearly on a mountain, with white snow everywhere. Leafless trees stood nearby, their branches laden with a substantial layer of snow.
Startled birds fluttered away, squawking discordantly as they flew across the grey sky.
The freezing wind whistled through the bare tree trunks, unerringly finding them. It was cold enough to freeze a person solid.
Gu Mian managed to get a good look at the other three players.
There was a couple among them, which Gu Mian noticed imdiately.
Not that these two were especially intimate, but their usernas were awfully flirty:
[A Man Bright but not Dazzling], [A Woman Alluring but not Ostentatious]
Fatty gulped as he too gawked at the couple’s eye-catching usernas.
And the last player’s nickna was quite outstanding. Though just a string of digits, it exuded an air of high-class elegance:
[10086]
Gu Mian tightened his coat against the chill. This batch of teammates was indeed peculiar.
The other three appeared to be examining each other’s ga information. Even a cursory glance at usernas and ga IDs helped determine how to address each other.
After a while, having sized each other up, they finally made eye contact.
Everyone present had rather excellent nicknas. They probably hadn’t yet figured out how to address each other.
Gu Mian was adept at this. Looking at 10086, he said, "I’ll call you Brother Mobile from now on."
Fatty’s lips twitched a bit, finding no fault with it.
The man called Brother Mobile appeared to hesitate, intending to say sothing, but Gu Mian had already diverted his attention to the couple.
"You," Gu Mian eyed the man with the userna [A Man Bright but not Dazzling]. "I’ll just call you Mingliang."
"Such a corny na!" Fatty exclaid.
Mingliang’s mouth fell slightly open; he seed unable to accept it.
However, Gu Mian didn’t care. He directly switched his gaze to the woman with the userna [A Woman Alluring but not Ostentatious].
Looking at that na, Gu Mian frowned. Going by how ’Mingliang’ was nicknad, this girl should be called ’Alluring.’
The woman seed to approve of the moniker ’Alluring’ and was expectantly waiting for Gu Mian to speak.
Contrary to her expectations, he hesitated for a bit, then finally ca up with a na, "I’ll just call you Xiao Zhang."
From [A Woman Alluring but not Ostentatious]—he’d carefully picked the ’Zhang’ from the middle.
Fatty nearly burst out laughing; Gu Mian had painstakingly selected the plainest na possible.
Chu Changge’s calm voice intervened, "Wait till he starts calling you ’Old Wang,’ then we’ll see if you’re still laughing."
Fatty’s laughter abruptly ceased.
No one was particularly bothered about nicknas. After all, they were in a terror instance; it would be ridiculous to start an argunt over nas now.
Brother Mobile was the first to speak, "You three...know each other?"
He glanced at Chu Changge’s and Fatty’s usernas, his expression reflecting surprise.
Then he glanced at Gu Mian’s userna, and his expression beca even more complex.
"Yes."
"No."
All three of them answered simultaneously. The solo "yes" was, of course, from the naive Fatty. And the two "no’s" ca from Gu Mian and Chu Changge.
Brother Mobile’s expression further complicated.
Fatty was initially puzzled, but soon understood why Gu Mian and Chu Changge would deny it.
The couple—Mingliang and Xiao Zhang—looked at them in surprise, "Fat Kid Surnad Wang, Chu Changge... I rember seeing those two nas in the announcents several tis."
When Gu Mian crashed instances, these two were usually involved, so their nas naturally appeared in the public announcents.
Naturally, those who paid attention to the announcents also knew sothing else.
Mingliang asked hesitantly, "I rember you two... usually team up with that Gu Mian, right?"
As he spoke, he glanced subconsciously at Gu Mian’s nickna, only to see a bright green ’Doctor.’
These people had never encountered the class system, so they had no idea why Gu Mian’s na was green. They just assud his userna had undergone so kind of mutation.
Seeing their confusion, Gu Mian had no intention of explaining. Was he supposed to lie and say, ’I used color codes when I typed my userna’?
Brother Mobile fixed his gaze on the trio, "So do you know each other or not?"
Fatty responded quickly, "We just ran into each other at the ticket booth, so it’s a sort of acquaintance."
Brother Mobile pressed on, "Judging by your nicknas, you must know that Gu Mian person too, right?"
The trio wasn’t called the ’Blast Team’ for nothing. A saying had spread among the players: whenever these three gathered, an instance was sure to be wrecked.
A truly fitting na: Blast Team.
At this thought, Brother Mobile breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, that Gu Mian wasn’t here. Otherwise, they would probably have a hard ti surviving this instance.
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