Free Web NovelChapter 884: Chapter 848: Money Can Make Ghosts Push the Mill
"I’m just trying to help you all, what did I do wrong!"
"I’m really a good person, don’t drive me away..."
Amid the reviewer’s wails, Gu Mian tied him up and sent him to the second floor.
Who would have thought that before the ghosts matured, this rope would be used on the reviewer. His screams were a bit noisy, so Gu Mian casually stuffed the light bulb that had fallen from his pocket into his mouth, bringing peace to the world.
The reviewer could only shed tears and make muffled sounds, being mercilessly abandoned by Gu Mian at the warehouse door on the second floor.
When Gu Mian finished discarding the reviewer and returned to the first floor, Fatty had already laid out a few other floor mats. The greenhouse door was tightly closed by him, invisible from outside, and likewise, those inside couldn’t see outside.
Seeing Gu Mian come down, Fatty whispered to him, "Doctor, I specially closed the door for you, lest the ghosts inside get scared and run away at the sight of you."
Fatty had already imagined all fifty seeds planted by Gu Mian fleeing underground, leaving the greenhouse full of big pits.
"Outside, we can secretly lean on the door to eavesdrop, just like this." Fatty said as he pressed his ear against the greenhouse door, looking very sneaky, "When the ghosts mature and land, there should be some noise, right? Close to the door, it should be audible."
"Those seeds grow quickly; once planted, they sprout. I guess it won’t take long for them to fully mature." 007 looked at Gu Mian and asked, "Have you figured out the purpose of Evil God bringing you to this instance?"
Gu Mian looked up at the door of the Jinche Room in front of him, then turned to look at the four other doors in the hall: "Seems like I’ve figured out something."
was silent for a moment and said, "The phrase Lu Yi brought was ’grow like a ghost,’ and the ghosts in this instance must be buried to grow. I remember the Fortune-teller did a divination for you a few days ago."
The Fortune-teller always liked to look for people around the apartment to predict their fate and then widely publicize the results. She especially liked predicting Gu Mian’s fate. In the past, during the first divination she did for Gu Mian in the instance, the expensive crystal ball bought for divination exploded.
Afterwards, the Fortune-teller became wiser, using cheap tools for every prediction since then, so even if they exploded, it wasn’t heartache.
A few days ago, using a draw-lot divination method, the Fortune-teller predicted that Gu Mian’s life was soon ending, and he would be buried peacefully.
She immediately spread this divination result to everyone in the apartment, enthusiastically preparing for Gu Mian’s final arrangements.
"Buried peacefully..." Gu Mian recalled the result predicted by the Fortune-teller.
After entering this instance, receiving the Ghost Seed, and seeing the greenhouse, Gu Ming had figured something out.
He thought if he dug a hole in the greenhouse and buried himself, he might get some clues.
thought the same: "Don’t plan to try digging a pit?"
Gu Mian shook his head: "Not burying now, let’s cultivate some mature ghosts first."
The Evil God is always unpredictable. Digging a pit to bury himself may not lead to anything.
Gu Mian thought of the series of keys to the otherworldly invented by the Evil God.
He recently used the key numbered 108 from the Mysterious World, which could transport beings within a 500-meter radius to the Paradise World and vice versa. However, after one use, it was depleted.
Aside from the key number 108, he had seen other players with key number 3 from the Mysterious World, which also served as transport but could only send the user to a random nearby location.
The Evil God created so many transport-related special items that Gu Mian worried if he dug a pit and buried himself now he might be inexplicably transported somewhere, like the plastic human head flushed away by a toilet.
What if he got flushed away right after being buried?
He certainly couldn’t leave Fatty and the others in such a ghostly environment.
He decided it’s best to first cultivate some mature ghosts, play some thrilling games with them, tie them up, and then dig a pit to bury himself.
That way, even if he gets transported away, the remaining people can use the tied-up ghosts to make an appearance.
Of course, being buried in earth doesn’t necessarily mean being transported away; Gu Mian was only doing it for safety’s sake.
Suddenly, a loud rumbling sound came from one of the greenhouses, like thunder, emitting from the Detachment Room.
The rumbling sound overshadowed the originally joyful music of the Detachment Room. Gu Mian came to the Detachment Room’s door and opened a crack to look inside.
As expected, it was raining inside.
The sky above had turned into thick dark clouds, rolling like surging rivers, occasionally streaked by lightning.
Massive raindrops fell from the sky, and the streamers from above were soaked, stiffly dropping to the ground.
Fatty peeked from behind Gu Mian, observing the scene in the Detachment Room: "Looks like the other greenhouses aren’t raining, only this one is, as if each greenhouse is in a different world."
Indeed, they weren’t in the same world; Gu Mian had long discovered this.
Upon entering the Jinche Room, he felt a peculiar déjà vu, as if the scenes in the Jinche Room had been seen somewhere before.
Immediately, he recalled that the broken scene in the Jinche Room was very similar to the Twilight Gods World he entered earlier.
And the joyful atmosphere of the Detachment Room in front of him matched the Paradise World he just left.
Gu Mian suspected that these five greenhouses corresponded to different worlds, with Jinche Room corresponding to Twilight Gods World, and Detachment Room corresponding to Paradise World.
But he hadn’t figured out which worlds the other three greenhouses correspond to.
Since this instance was closed, it meant that it was of great importance, possibly as significant as the train instance.
He wondered if he could directly reach the corresponding worlds through these greenhouses.
Unfortunately, the only NPC here had a foolish expression and couldn’t answer any questions. This was probably intentional by the organizers; if there were an all-knowing NPC here, it might have already confessed everything it knows under Gu Mian’s interrogation.
Since he couldn’t count on getting anything from that foolish scorer, Gu Mian decided to first dig a pit in the Detachment Room big enough to fit himself, and jump in when the time comes.
The Evil God originally came from Paradise World. Burying himself in the Detachment Room, which represents Paradise World, might trigger some additional effect.
Thinking this, Gu Mian picked up a shovel and started digging hard into the soil.
The Fatty didn’t know what he was doing, but seeing Gu Mian dig a pit, he also picked up a hoe and started digging with him.
The rain-soaked soil was especially heavy to dig, and Gu Mian hoped that when he buried himself, the ground would be dry, or else the weight of the mud and water mixed together could suffocate him.
Digging in the muddy water wasn’t easy. Fatty was panting heavily: "Doctor, why don’t we take that scorer down to help us dig? He seems pretty willing to work for us."
Saying this, Fatty began to miss Xiao Qiao who was far away: "If Miss Xiao Qiao were here, it would be great. Miss Xiao Qiao has endless strength all day long, and digging a pit would be a breeze for her."
Perhaps Fatty missed Xiao Qiao too much, he vaguely heard knocking sounds.
The knocking was heavy and urgent, almost like someone crashing into the door—Xiao Qiao’s typical knocking noise outside the doctor’s door.
The thunder in the sky and the music from the speaker on the ground mixed together, making the knocking sound less distinct. At first, Fatty thought he was hallucinating.
But after a few seconds, the knocking sound continued.
Fatty stopped digging and listened attentively.
Meanwhile, 007 and Keke in the hall also heard the heavy knocking. The thunder and speaker noises didn’t affect them much in the Detachment Room; they immediately found the source of the sound.
They both looked toward the greenhouse door of Jinche Room, the sound came from inside.
Has the ghost matured?
Gu Mian also stopped and looked towards Jinche Room, amazed that the ghost matured just hours after sowing, even with the significant growth rate bonus, the ghost seemed to mature too quickly.
The knocking sound kept echoing, and Gu Mian thought that the ghost here was quite polite, knowing to knock before coming out.
At this point, the other three had turned their gaze onto Gu Mian.
Gu Mian put down the shovel, picked up a rope made from bedsheets, and approached the Jinche Room door, preparing to abduct this prematurely matured ghost once he opened the door.
"Be careful, doctor." As Gu Mian was about to open the door, Fatty hid behind a ghost model.
Due to his size, Fatty picked the largest ghost model with the largest area in the hall to barely cover his figure. This ghost model was large in area but thin on the sides, like a person flattened with a rolling pin. The introduction card next to it stated it was called "Big and Small Ghost".
Under Fatty’s cautious reminder, Gu Mian slowly opened the door, only creating a small gap to prevent the ghost from escaping.
Wind mixed with dust blew out from the gap Gu Mian opened, as he peered inside, he expected to meet a ghost face, but after opening the door, Gu Mian found nothing behind the door, and the knocking sound abruptly stopped.
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Unconvinced, Gu Mian leaned his head through the gap to peek inside but didn’t see even a shadow of a ghost; instead, he saw dozens of seedlings sprouting from the soil in the greenhouse.
Most of these seedlings couldn’t be matched with the ghost models in the hall, possibly unrecorded rare species.
But those seedlings weren’t the most important thing.
"Where’s the ghost?" Gu Mian swept every corner of the greenhouse repeatedly but couldn’t find what he was looking for.
But the knocking sound earlier was real; there was definitely "something" in the Jinche Room.
He pondered for a moment before shutting the door and turning to Keke: "Do you have that ’Money Can Make Ghosts Grind’ with you?"
Keke had a special item called Money Can Make Ghosts Grind, which consumed all her Game Coins to create a large millstone, attracting all nearby ghosts to push and grind, with the grinding time extended the more Game Coins were spent.
