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Chapter 778 - 742: Haha, Here Comes the Boxed Lunch
"Brother, have you really thought of a way to eliminate those two corpses?" At this point, there are only five minutes left in the countdown, and Qi Tian is panting heavily while moving corpses with Renle Mountain.
"I have my ways," Renle Mountain said as he looked at Qi Tian's back. "After you eliminate this drowned corpse and the other two, we'll go move the strangled bodies."
Qi Tian dragged the drowned body and struggled to move towards the room ahead. He had already positioned the other two drowned bodies in a neighboring room, and once he dragged this one to the front room, he could eliminate them together.
Once these three drowned bodies were eliminated, the only ones left on these two floors would be the strangled corpses.
Soon, Qi Tian dragged the corpse exhibiting the giant view into the designated room, and the three corpses disappeared in an instant.
After finishing his task, Qi Tian bent over, holding his legs and gasping for air. Renle Mountain had him eliminate drowned and overstuffed bodies, which were hard to move, and it took him quite an effort to deal with them.
Only the two strangled corpses were left now.
"Let's go," Renle Mountain's voice came from above, "Let's head to room 105 and move the corpse inside to room 203."
One corpse was in room 105 and the other in room 202; they needed to be placed in adjacent rooms.
Time was running out, so Qi Tian dared not delay and quickly rushed to room 105, lifted the corpse in the room, and climbed up the ladder.
Renle Mountain helped hold the corpse on Qi Tian's back from behind to prevent it from falling.
As Qi Tian climbed up, he said, "Hey, brother, the rope around this corpse's neck seems to be missing."
Renle Mountain's deep voice came from below, "It must have accidentally come off while moving other corpses, don't worry about it. There's only three minutes left, hurry up."
Time was scarce! Hearing this, Qi Tian mustered all his strength and quickly climbed up to the second floor.
Then, he jogged towards room 203 with the corpse on his back.
When he placed the corpse in room 203, the countdown had only two minutes left.
He felt anxious as Renle Mountain hadn't mentioned any method to eliminate these two corpses.
In two minutes, they'd turn into Evil Ghosts!
He panted heavily, looked back anxiously at Renle Mountain, and said, "Brother, what's the solution you have in mind? There's only two minutes left now."
But Renle Mountain just stared at him intensely, "I have a way, I have a way..."
And suddenly came close.
Qi Tian widened his eyes, finally understanding Renle Mountain's method.
During the final few seconds of the countdown, Gu Mian saw on the screen that the two strangled figures on the first and second floors had disappeared.
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"Doctor, how do you think Renle Mountain managed to eliminate those two corpses in the end?" Fatty was sitting in Gu Mian's living room, stuffing buns into his mouth, and persistently asking Gu Mian. He didn't stop there and turned to Chu Changge beside him, "Brother Chu, do you know?"
Chu Changge sat silently on one side.
At this point, they had left the instance, and the group was doing a review at Gu Mian's house.
After exiting the special game instance, Gu Mian immediately checked the room where Renle Mountain was locked.
The lock on the utility room door was still fine, but the person inside was gone.
He probably escaped during the instance, and during the transmission out, he took the chance to flee.
Gu Mian didn't expect an escape method like this.
"Also Doctor, where did that headless corpse in your room come from," Fatty said, struggling to swallow the bun in his mouth, speculating, "Did someone cut off another corpse's head?"
"And when the countdown ended and the corpses were resurrected for ten minutes, we saw on the screen that all the ghosts in your room ran off to the corner room, but one drowned ghost didn't follow. Not long after, we received alerts about system loopholes and escaped convicts. Doctor, please tell us what happened, I've been dying of curiosity." Fatty seemed to have endless questions, and before Gu Mian could answer the previous one, he asked another string of questions.
Others seemed equally curious about this.
Keke seemed ready to hear the explanation, and Xiao Qiao beside him perked up his ears. Although he didn't enter the Match Three instance, he still eagerly followed Keke up.
Gu Mian remembered before entering the instance, he planned to borrow something from Xiao Qiao.
Fatty was already scratching his head impatiently, so Gu Mian set aside the borrowing issue and began recalling the ten minutes after the countdown ended when all the corpses were resurrected.
Gu Mian certainly hadn't eliminated the corpses on his own level, so when the countdown ended, all the corpses on the floor became ghosts.
In theory, they should have roamed those two floors for about ten minutes, killing anyone they saw without hesitation.
But maybe they thought the task was too daunting, so they all rushed to the most secluded room to slack off.
When Gu Mian went to check, he found these ghosts were in the room, hugging each other fearfully, probably because of the cold.
Meanwhile, Xu Xingcheng's corpse finally resurrected after half a day.
Before Gu Mian went to find him, Xu Xingcheng had already started eagerly searching for Gu Mian.
"Where's Gu Mian? Where's Gu Mian gone?" — Just a few seconds after the countdown ended, Gu Mian heard these words from Xu Xingcheng's room.
The corpse replica of the Evil God must have come alive, but why does this replica have an accent?
Gu Mian thought as he quickly walked to room 605, where Xu Xingcheng's corpse was.
When Gu Mian entered the room, he saw the soaked Xu Xingcheng dragging his enormous body, and his head, swollen like a balloon, kept twitching, his eyes glanced around.
Soon, his mushy eyes spotted Gu Mian.
The soaked Xu Xingcheng excitedly approached Gu Mian, "I finally found you."
It was only upon getting closer that Gu Mian realized this figure wasn't accented; its swollen neck probably affected its speech.
"I've sent so many game consoles to your home, finally someone came." he said, making Gu Mian recall that right before entering the instance, Fatty had bought Xiao Hong a bare-bones game console, which was indeed simplistic, only playing simple pixel games.
This seemingly included Match Three.
The methods of triggering special game instances are varied.
Back in the slaughter game, the instance was triggered by a unique item, Metamorphosis instance was activated just by mentioning the word "Metamorphosis," while the Circus instance required wearing a specific clown mask.
Likely, the trigger condition for the Match Three instance was playing the Match Three game on the console.
Unexpectedly, this time the instance was meticulously arranged by Xu Xingcheng to bring them in.
Indeed, this Evil God really trusts that they're fearless of dying in the special instance.
"So we're in the Match Three instance because of him," Fatty said, thoroughly engrossed in the story, "But why would he drag us in?"
"Because of this." Gu Mian extended his hand; in his palm lay a palm-sized door frame.