Chapter 905: Chapter 868: Bang Bang, A Lifelong Nemesis
As Gu Mian expected, Chu Changge shook his head.
Gu Mian suspected that even if he remembered something, he wouldn’t say it. After all, the biggest mystery person around him was Chu Changge.
Since his inquiry with Chu Changge was fruitless, Gu Mian turned his gaze to Xiao Qiao.
Xiao Qiao was offline again, and the rare moment of cleverness she had just shown had vanished without a trace.
Alright, he knew asking Xiao Qiao wouldn’t make a difference anyway.
Besides the three of them, the only other living Guardian was Xie Bi’an, who was lying unconscious and could not be questioned.
"Have you ever seen a tree?" Gu Mian pondered for a moment and asked the three people in front of him.
"Tree? What tree?" Liu Ruyan, tired of standing, casually sat on the fabric sofa in Xie Bi’an’s living room. "If you’re talking about those in the green belt outside, then I see them every day."
"Mm-hmm." Xiao Qiao nodded along with Liu Ruyan’s words.
"Haven’t seen it." Chu Changge probably knew that the tree Gu Mian was asking about wasn’t an ordinary one, so he directly gave a negative answer.
Alright, it seemed like the Guardians had never seen that giant tree.
What exactly was that tree? What were those densely packed fruits on it? Gu Mian racked his brain to no avail. If he had the chance, he wanted to see it again, but he didn’t know how to encounter that giant tree again.
Gu Mian’s instincts told him that tree must have a significant connection to the Low-Dimensional World. When the Paradise World turned into a seed in his hand, that tree appeared.
Maybe only when a world disappears from its original place will that tree become visible?
Gu Mian looked at the seed that the Paradise World had turned into in his hand.
"Aren’t you going to try planting it?" Liu Ruyan had a look of schadenfreude. "This seed was transformed from a world. Maybe if you plant it, the Paradise World will grow from the ground and swallow up the real world."
Gu Mian had also thought of this possibility, so he didn’t act recklessly.
"By the way, everyone who went into the Fierce Ghost Exhibition instance with you received a seed after coming out. But it’s not like the seed in your hand. They only got an ordinary special item." Liu Ruyan continued.
Gu Mian was aware of this.
The evaluator in the instance mentioned that the first-ranked person would receive special items like the [Perfect Score Transcript], [Flower Calendar], along with two Mysterious Seeds and five hundred Game Coins.
Those who ranked below first would each receive one Mysterious Seed and one hundred Game Coins.
Even though there was an issue at the end of the Fierce Ghost Exhibition instance, they eventually completed the instance task and received rewards.
The seeds Liu Ruyan talked about were rewards from the Fierce Ghost Exhibition.
But isn’t it a bit coincidental? The reward from the Fierce Ghost Exhibition instance is a seed, and the Paradise World also turned into a seed.
Moreover, it seemed like the Fierce Ghost Exhibition instance connected to multiple Low-Dimensional Worlds, and one could directly travel to other worlds underground in the greenhouse.
Although the principle behind this was unknown, it was very effective, much better than that constantly malfunctioning train.
This instance was crucial; if he had the chance, he must return to see it again and try burying in other greenhouses.
Speaking of which...
"Where’s my reward?" Gu Mian realized he hadn’t received his first-place reward.
After leaving the instance, he directly entered the Paradise World, which severed all connections to the outside world, including the game panel that couldn’t be summoned there.
He searched all his pockets but couldn’t find his reward.
Then he opened the game panel and found the rewards lying in his email.
Probably fearing that Gu Mian might return to the Fierce Ghost Exhibition instance to demand an explanation due to unclaimed rewards, the game thoughtfully sent his unclaimed rewards to his inbox.
Gu Mian retrieved the rewards from his email.
[Perfect Score Transcript]
[Introduction: "Look at so-and-so from next door, they got a perfect score in the exam again. Now look at you! I don’t even want to say anything about you!"]
[Function: The Perfect Score Transcript can trigger a ghost’s childhood trauma. When handed to a ghost chasing you, there’s a fifty percent chance the ghost will collapse in tears, crying for three minutes, and another fifty percent chance it will become thoroughly enraged and view you as its lifelong enemy.]
It’s a special item that involves gambling luck. Gu Mian thought that using it would surely make him an enemy.
There was a line of additional information below.
[Addition: It can seemingly be used as an upgrade item for other special items]
It can be used as an upgrade item for the [Mother Summoner], but Gu Mian currently didn’t have the Mother Summoner with him. The Mother Summoner is a walkie-talkie-shaped special item, slightly bulky and inconvenient to carry at all times.
Currently, the summoner is placed in his room. He planned to upgrade it when he returned to his room.
Gu Mian continued to look further, and the next special item was the Flower Calendar.
[Flower Calendar]
[Introduction: I am a calendar capable of predicting your fortune for the next twenty-four hours. The first square shows your fortune at midnight, and all twenty-four squares depict your hourly fortune from midnight onward. The calendar updates once per natural day, so check out your fortune for today.]
[Function: A calendar that can predict the holder’s fortune for the day. The red flower in the calendar represents good luck, the black flower represents bad luck, and the white flower represents average luck.]
This is a notebook-sized hard paper calendar with twenty-four squares drawn on it, each with a flower representing good, bad, or average luck.
Hmm... something’s not right.
Gu Mian looked down at the calendar in his hand. To be precise, each square had a flower representing bad luck.
He looked down at the twenty-four neatly arranged black flowers on the calendar and fell into deep thought.
"Haha, this must be a fake." How could anyone have bad luck for twenty-four straight hours in a day?
Unwilling to give up, he handed the calendar to Chu Changge: "You give it a try."
Now the holder of the calendar changed from Gu Mian to Chu Changge, and immediately upon Chu Changge taking it, the colors of the flowers changed.
When Chu Changge held the calendar, it mostly showed the same color, white, which represents average luck.
It could be seen that Chu Changge’s fortune was unremarkable throughout the day, only showing a bit of red in the thirteenth square.
The thirteenth square had a red flower, which was at one o’clock in the afternoon, which is now — Gu Mian glanced at the wall clock in the bedroom when he returned, and the clock showed it was just after one in the afternoon.
Liu Ruyan looked through at the Flower Calendar in Chu Changge’s hand: "It doesn’t seem to be a fake product, it can change color."
"You try it too." Gu Mian handed the calendar to Liu Ruyan.
Today Liu Ruyan’s fortune was also average, a plain white.
"I want to try too." Xiao Qiao eagerly took the calendar from Liu Ruyan, and as soon as it was in her hands, the color changed, the bright red flowers were so dazzling that Gu Mian found it hard to keep his eyes open.
All were red flowers, all of them.
Xingyun must have squeezed their luck into Xiao Qiao when they squeezed her!
Gu Mian twitched his eyebrow, deciding not to look at this depressing thing anymore, and turned his attention to the two new seeds he had acquired.
[Mysterious Seeds]
[Introduction: A mysterious seed, you never know what it will grow into.]
[Function: Plant the seed, upon maturity it can yield a random rare special item.]
[Supplement: Different seeds have different growth times, please be patient and wait for the seed to mature.]
Chu Changge, standing to the side, spoke: "007, Fatty, and Keke all planted their seeds, and now only 007’s seed has matured. She got a special item from it called the Omen Tablet, which can answer the questions people ask, but each question can only be answered once."
Gu Mian pondered: "So if I ask the tablet what color underwear Fatty is wearing today for the first time, it will give me the answer. But when I ask the tablet the same question a second time, it will no longer provide an answer, right?"
"Yes," Chu Changge nodded, "even if Fatty wore a different color the second time."
"This is a good thing, maybe we can ask it the current situation in Paradise World and where the Evil God is." As well as what that mysterious giant tree is and his own identity issue.
Though Gu Mian didn’t expect the tablet to really answer all his questions; it felt like this tree was something unspeakable and unseeable from a horror story, perhaps asking such questions might make the tablet explode, just like the Fortune-teller’s Crystal Ball once did.
"The Omen Tablet is a special item only usable by the Fortune-teller profession. Right now, the tablet is with the Fortune-teller; however, it doesn’t answer all questions. During the days you were missing, the Fortune-teller kept asking the tablet about your whereabouts, but the tablet never responded, and during the last time, it even cracked when she asked."
Alright then...
Gu Mian felt that figuring out his origins was likely going to go nowhere.
"By the way, I haven’t seen the Fortune-teller or 007 since I came back. Where did they go?"
"The Fortune-teller is always in her room doing fortune-telling and divination. I don’t even see her a few times a day." Regarding the movements of the apartment inhabitants, Liu Ruyan was well-informed, "These days the Fortune-teller used the tablet to divine the location of Renle Mountain for 007. The divination result was a dog. After seeing it, 007 became absent-minded and has been outside, doing something unknown, sometimes she goes upstairs to see if you’ve returned."
A dog?
"Was it Hei or Doggie Doll?"
"It was a regular dog, not the mechanical dog whose neck and joints crack when it walks, nor the toy dog with button eyes, embroidered mouth, and covered in green fur." Liu Ruyan’s description of the two dogs was quite spot-on.
Gu Mian remembered 007 saying she once had a dog, wondering if what the Fortune-teller divined was that one.
Speaking of which, 007’s profession is Beast Tamer; the Fortune-teller divined a dog for her, which actually fits her professional image quite well.
Gu Mian planned to find the Fortune-teller to do a bit of divination himself later.
Even if it couldn’t divine his identity issues or questions about that giant tree, it should at least be able to divine questions about the Evil God, right?
Now that he had taken the whole Paradise World, he wondered what happened to the Evil God, whether he got compressed into one of those seeds as well?
While Gu Mian was pondering, Fatty’s voice suddenly came from outside.
"Doctor, I can’t get in touch with anyone from Paradise World. I’ve called all three numbers, and no one answered any of them." Fatty charged in, holding a black phone in one hand and a small notebook with phone numbers in the other, panting heavily.
It was clear that he ran here in a hurry, almost out of breath.
Fatty spoke as he plopped onto the sofa in Xie Bi’an’s living room: "Doctor, I’ve brought the phone that can call the Low-Dimensional World and the notebook with the numbers. Do you want to try personally... Ouch, what’s so hard?"
Fatty had barely sat on the sofa when he bounced right back up, as if his butt was poked by something.
