Chapter 803: Chapter 767: Xiao Qiang Strives to Become Qiao

It really looks familiar.

Not only do the people and environment around look familiar, but this wanted notice also seems to have been seen somewhere before.

stared at the wanted notice in her hand for a while. A photo occupied the upper part of the notice, but the photo was captured in an ugly way. She spent some time to identify who it was—the "Ugly Mr. Gu" is Gu Mian.

While she was staring at the ugly yet familiar photo in her hand, she noticed out of the corner of her eye that a tall figure was approaching from afar.

looked in that direction, her pupils constricting.

The person had a long and slender body, with a large platter instead of a head on top, and it seemed to be holding something.

In Crazy Game City, all sorts of bizarre creatures are common, like a green-hat dog distributing flyers nearby. But for some reason, as the platter person got closer, she suddenly felt uneasy.

The person with a platter on their neck was getting closer, almost next to 007.

At this moment, she inexplicably stepped back a step. To be honest, she didn’t even know why she stepped back, but her body moved ahead of her mind.

After stepping back two steps, the platter on the person’s neck suddenly tilted, and the content inside slipped off, slamming down on the spot she just stood with a "bang".

glanced down, it was a giant fried egg with an oily sheen on top.

If she hadn’t stepped back, this oily fried egg would have hit her head.

"I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry." The platter person hurriedly picked up the fried egg beside 007’s foot and put it back in the platter, covering it as they shyly ran away.

This eerie déjà vu.

Even the platter person’s shy retreating silhouette felt familiar to 007.

Before entering here, Gu Mian had briefly discussed the situation in Paradise World with them. This was a world that had been archived countless times, and the unhealthy class system was due to these countless resets.

Would this world reset upon us entering it? 007 wondered.

Though she thought the idea was absurd, the more she pondered, the more likely it seemed.

She clutched the wanted notice and continued to look at the group chat for ten people to see if Gu Mian and Chu Changge had noticed something odd.

But neither had spoken yet, and it was unclear what they were busy with.

didn’t wait for Gu Mian and Chu Changge’s comments, but instead, other people responded.

[Xiao Qiao Needs To Work Hard]: NG! You guys reshot it.

This is Xiao Qiao.

NG? 007 knew it was a common term used in film and TV shooting, where an NG required actors to reshoot a scene.

NG, reshoot, were somewhat similar to resetting.

Could it be the world had indeed reset? And Xiao Qiao seemed to know.

At this point, a new message appeared in the group.

[Fatty]: Miss 007, Brother Chu, what are you doing? Why are you repeating what you said earlier about reporting your location? Is this a special requirement of Paradise World?

In the apartment, Fatty had a splitting headache due to Xiao Qiao’s noise.

He had just cleaned up the floor full of cans thrown by Xiao Hong into the trash bin and planned to take out the garbage downstairs.

Unexpectedly, just as he approached the door, Xiao Qiao ran upstairs, shouting "NG", "reshoot" and asked him to check the group chat.

Only then did Fatty realize that Chu Changge and 007 had eerily repeated their conversation as they entered Paradise World.

His first reaction was that the group chat had encountered a bug.

Despite suspecting a bug, Fatty cautiously sent a message in the group inquiring with Chu Changge and 007.

read Fatty’s message, her heart sinking: "Did I and Chu Changge report our positions twice? But in my memory, there was no ’last time’.

This world indeed reset, but only those of us in Paradise World were affected. The reset didn’t impact the outside world.

contemplated, then Gu Mian appeared.

[Gu Mian]: Fatty, have your chat records in the group been deleted?

Seeing Gu Mian’s message, Fatty scratched his head.

He wasn’t sure why Gu Mian asked that, but he carefully scrolled back through the messages one by one.

A few minutes later, he confirmed.

[Fatty]: No, at first, Miss 007, Brother Chu, and you, the doctor, reported your positions. Then, you said the wanted notice was a special item and asked everyone to rip one off. You also asked if Brother Chu and 007 could see the Inverted City.

[Fatty]: Later, Brother Chu and Miss 007 met in Game City, and everyone stopped talking. Only I said a few words in the group chat. Those chat records are still there. Below that is where Brother Chu and Miss 007 started repeating position reporting.

looked at Fatty’s message, stunned for a moment.

It turned out that before the reset, she had already met with Chu Changge, and Gu Mian seemed to have seen the Inverted City.

But this time, Gu Mian didn’t report his position in the group chat, nor mentioned the Inverted City and the wanted notice.

Did he remember what happened before the reset and reacted differently than the last time?

In the cave with statues, dust was still flying as Gu Mian confirmed the outside Fatty was unaffected, and even the chat records remained intact.

"It seems the outside world won’t be impacted by this world’s reset," Gu Mian observed the small fragments that rolled to his feet. Beside him, the mechanical dog seemed interested in these fragments, moving its camera close to a piece like a real dog, tilting its head to observe it, and occasionally barking.

Of course, it couldn’t bark like a real dog, only repeatedly using its consistent phrase.

Gu Mian also picked up a fragment to examine it. It happened to be from the statue’s eye area.

"It seems that besides me, everyone else was impacted by the reset, even the reality-bound Chu Changge and 007, but Slaughter was reset elsewhere. I have no idea where he is now."

Looking down at the eye fragment, Gu Mian experienced a peculiar sensation as if he was looking into the eyes of a lone hero from years past.

For an instant, the eye seemed lively as Gu Mian vividly imagined the hero reaching out with a sword, but the illusion vanished quickly. Upon looking again at the eye fragment in his hand, it was merely an ordinary stone.

After Gu Mian picked up the fragment, the mechanical dog eagerly raised its camera to look at him, prompting Gu Mian to toss the fragment back to it. It inspected a lot closely before losing interest and moving away.

Watching the mechanical dog before him, Gu Mian suddenly thought, "Why hadn’t this dog been impacted by the resets?"

By now, it should be sorting parcels at Bird Bandit Express on NPC Street, yet the world reset five times, and it wasn’t affected.

Does it have some unique feature, or is it because it was brought by me, thus unaffected by the reset?

If it were the second possibility, the courier vehicle he drove should still be parked outside the forest.

Gu Mian intended to take this dog to 007.

Her profession is a Beast Tamer, a delicate role requiring a prerequisite task to officially start the career, the task being to tame a "beast".

To this end, he carefully selected a large goose from the supermarket for 007.

But all this time, 007’s task had made no progress, indicating that the goose was of no use. Upon entering Paradise World, Gu Mian felt this dog might barely qualify as a "beast", so he planned to bring it and give it to her after they met.

Gu Mian even thought of a name for it: Xiao Hei—since it’s all black, it matches the goose’s name, Xiao Bai.

However, it’s uncertain whether this thing counts as a creature and can be taken into the real world.

Gu Mian wanted to study Xiao Hei before him first, but he needed to inform Chu Changge and 007 about the world’s reset. In addition, he planned to go up and find Slaughter, thinking Slaughter might not recognize him now.