The viewers never expected that after Gu Mian kicked over his own cara, he would appear in soone else’s fra.
The mont they recognized Gu Mian, they subconsciously assud he had been brought back by the program crew.
But after witnessing Gu Mian land a punch straight to a man’s jaw, dislocating it, the viewers gradually realized that he most likely returned on his own.
Had he returned just to dislocate soone’s jaw?
Gu Mian initially hadn’t planned to do anything. Unexpectedly, as soon as the n saw him, they reached out towards him. Had they added the line, "Co keep your lord and master company," they would have seed like a gang of vicious thugs intent on kidnapping innocent won.
Naturally, Gu Mian wouldn’t allow himself to be kidnapped. He imdiately extended his own fist of justice.
The people in this village could only bully the old, weak, sick, and disabled. They surely couldn’t defeat soone like Gu Mian, who had been undergoing extre sports training since birth. In no ti, the few of them were knocked to the ground.
Gu Mian contemptuously kicked at the people on the ground, clearing a space for him to stand. He then leaned over to look inside through the window, only to find Accompany next year with an expression as though she had seen a ghost.
He rotated his neck to scan the surroundings. Not finding Chu Changge, he instead spotted a few caran in a corner of the room.
At that mont, their expressions were not much different from Accompany next year’s—they all looked as if they had seen a ghost.
"Ah," Gu Mian exclaid in surprise, "I didn’t notice you guys just now."
Imdiately, he climbed in through the window and, one by one, kicked over their caras.
Several caran tried to gang up on Gu Mian, but when a huge chainsaw was revealed, they all fell silent. The night beca quiet, punctuated only by occasional screams.
Having swiftly dealt with the group of caran, Gu Mian looked at Accompany next year, who still had a strange expression on her face. "Where are the other two?"
Accompany next year quickly replied, glancing at the caran lying neatly on the floor, "They didn’t co back today."
Gu Mian rembered that Chu Changge was assigned cleaning duties. This run-down village wasn’t small; if it needed cleaning, it was certainly enough work to wear soone out.
Thinking back to Su Xiaocha’s experience, could Chu Changge now be forced to clean latrines?
"That being said," Gu Mian took a step back, distancing himself from Accompany next year. "Why do you sll so bad?"
Accompany next year had spent the day wading around in a stinking ditch and hadn’t changed her clothes. The program crew probably didn’t let her change into clean clothes just to laugh at them.
A hint of envy was discernible in her glance towards Gu Mian. "Of course you wouldn’t understand our hardships since you ran away before you could experience them..."
It wasn’t that Gu Mian was unaware of everyone’s suffering. He rembered Su Xiaocha’s ordeal with the "Curry Rice" quite clearly.
"I’m not wasting any more ti talking to you. I need to find the others. See you later." Saying this, Gu Mian turned towards the door. The caran had just fild him, so it wouldn’t be long before the program crew arrived with a large group to capture him.
Gu Mian worried that if an entire company of people were to arrive, he might be crushed.
At this mont, Accompany next year, who was behind him, suddenly spoke up, "Aren’t you afraid that once you run away, you won’t be able to get out? Or are you prepared to commit suicide?"
Gu Mian’s eyebrows twitched. Commit suicide? What a joke! If I died by suicide, I’d really be dead.
Accompany next year didn’t know the rule that the first-place winner of each previous term would be kept in this instance. As Gu Mian headed towards the door, he explained to her, "According to reliable information, this instance keeps the champion of each term in this world. Suicide won’t let you leave either."
By now, he had opened the door. The night breeze slowly blew into the room from outside. The thatch on the eaves swayed, making a rustling sound.
In the dim night, Accompany next year’s eyes widened. "How is that possible!"
She had wholeheartedly believed in the ga’s chanics; the rules had explicitly stated that death within an instance had no connection to reality! It was never ntioned that an instance could detain players! At the very least, all the instances she had previously experienced strictly adhered to these two rules.
After hearing what Gu Mian had to say, the faint glimr of hope in her heart dimd sowhat.
Gu Mian stepped outside. "Whether you believe it or not, we’ve already experienced an instance that devoured players, and another that disabled the death protection chanism. We’ve had a really unlucky streak."
The night wind chilled Accompany next year, and though his words were hard to believe, she instinctively felt he wasn’t lying.
This bizarre global ga had been shrouded in mystery from the start. She had a hunch that it wouldn’t be long before this secret would be discovered by more players.
If more and more instances were to cancel their protection chanisms, then these instances...
Would they turn into a feast of death?
And when she thought about the terrifyingly high death rate of the instances, Accompany next year felt a chill in her heart.
Just as Gu Mian had taken a few steps out the door, Accompany next year’s voice, sowhat hesitant, ca from behind him again: "Aren’t you afraid of being trapped in this world forever?"
Gu Mian turned around and t her doubtful gaze.
Accompany next year didn’t believe anyone would willingly stay in this world full of malice.
She watched as the man who had already stepped outside paused, seemingly pondering sothing. A few seconds later, he asked with genuine seriousness, "Why be afraid?"
His tone was genuinely earnest, without a hint of pretense.
Of course, it’s fear of what might happen to you in the next second! Fear of what disgusting ideas those malicious people will co up with next!
Accompany next year’s mouth twitched violently. She felt deeply unlucky to have such an obtuse teammate. Do people this dense really exist in the world? Is he sure he didn’t escape from a ntal hospital?
This guy would probably ask his teammates, "Why are you running?" even if he encountered a ghost in a normal instance.
"Forget it, just run," Accompany next year said, suddenly standing up. "Damn it, I’m running too. Let’s split up."
As she spoke, she picked a longer piece from the remaining scraps of cloth and stuffed it into her pocket. "I need to find a place to hang myself while it’s deep in the night and quiet. You’re on your own."
In the end, the two of them went their separate ways.
Gu Mian didn’t try to stop his makeshift teammate from running off to find a place to die. As he watched Accompany next year leave, he also checked on Chu Changge’s whereabouts. He learned that Chu Changge was currently pinned down by a box of rats.
"Rat torture: you put rats in a box open at one end. Then, you secure the open end against the person’s abdon. Next, you heat the top of the box, raising the temperature inside. To escape the heat, the rats will continuously dig downwards, burrowing holes into the person and entering their body. Most people are still alive when the rats burrow in, able to clearly feel how the rats move through their intestines," Chu Changge narrated, watching the rats in the transparent glass box on his own body.
A short distance away, a few children were starting a fire with dry twigs. "This guy is so stoic. Do you think he’ll scream in pain later?"
"If he screams loud enough, we’ll let him go. Anyway, they’ll only dig for a bit; it won’t kill him. Let’s see how miserably he screams!"
The scene was filled with caran, their lenses mostly focused on the rats in the transparent box.
Reading the ssages in the cheat group, Gu Mian sucked in a sharp breath. He typed back, "Sounds pretty terrifying. Don’t worry, I’ll go eat those rats in a bit."
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