Chapter 808: Chapter 772: Guide to Avoiding Dangerous Personalities (8th Edition)

Although the [Holy Disguise Item "Eight Characters" Moustache] could keep him from being recognized, after the disguise he was still just a "strange lower-class person" in the eyes of the Upper Class People.

Lower-class people could be casually grabbed and hauled off as labor.

To avoid unnecessary trouble, Gu Mian decided to split off from them and only go on stage when the judgment variety show started, then rip off the moustache and have a good old "rekindling of past feelings" moment with everyone.

The scene would definitely be quite a sight.

Thinking this, Gu Mian picked up the mechanical dog, shouldered the big pie the Evil God had drawn for him, and prepared to leave first: "If I get the chance I’ll come find you again. I hope you still remember me next time I come."

Just as Gu Mian was about to go, Slaughter suddenly called out to him: "Wait, what about the one downstairs..."

He was talking about the Fatty Gu Mian had accidentally created.

Besides the Fatty in the living room, there was still a whole crowd outside. Right now Chu Changge and Xiao Qiao and the others should still be wandering around out there; it really wouldn’t be good if they were seen by other Upper Class People.

"They won’t disappear on their own?" Gu Mian remembered that before the rollback Slaughter said he’d also created multiple Xu Xingchengs. "Those Xu Xingchengs you made, how did you make them disappear?"

Hearing this, Slaughter clearly froze for a second. He no longer remembered saying any of this to Gu Mian, but he quickly reacted and stared at Gu Mian: "As long as I want them gone, they’ll disappear... wait, you just said ’them’."

Slaughter had already forgotten there was still a whole group outside.

"There are dozens more outside, they’re all my dear friends and family."

At that, the corner of Slaughter’s brow twitched hard. Clearly he hadn’t expected Gu Mian to whip up that many at once.

But the fact that wishes could be returned was something Gu Mian hadn’t expected.

The Evil God Wish-Machine was almost too considerate.

Thinking that, he symbolically chanted a "sesame disappear" Spell to indicate he wanted everyone to disappear, and sure enough when he went back downstairs the Fatty that had been in the living room was already gone.

Slaughter was staring blankly at the spot where Fatty had been standing. Gu Mian suddenly remembered something and turned to look at him: "Right, I wanted to ask you something. Among the people around me, who do you know?"

Slaughter paused for half a second, then looked at Gu Mian thoughtfully: "How do you know I know the people around you?"

"When I came to this forest I created a group of people. At the time the outer machine guns detected people and automatically opened fire, but after a bit I heard someone seem to recognize someone and order the guns to stop shooting. Now that I think about it, that was your voice." Gu Mian gave the amnesiac Slaughter a recap of what happened when he’d first arrived in this forest.

"I do know some of the people around you. I know Chu Changge and that Fatty. They were with you when you were participating in the Slaughter game, it’d be hard not to know them. Besides that I know there’s a mentally deficient berserker around you, a stutterer who crawls out of a disc, and a girl who can drive a kiddie rocking car..."

As he said this, something came to Slaughter and he strode over to the bookshelf next to the living room sofa, feeling around. After a moment he fished out a thin book and handed it to Gu Mian: "They’re all in here."

Gu Mian was puzzled: "Someone actually published a book about them?"

He took it and glanced down. On the top of the cover was a line of big red characters: "Guide to Avoiding Dangerous Personalities." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Below were a few smaller lines.

"Still upset about bad luck turning the corner and running into Gu Mian? Still suffering persecution for failing to spot danger in time and not running fast enough?

"’Guide to Avoiding Dangerous Personalities (8th Edition)’ helps you quickly identify potential dangers around you, so you’ll never again have to worry about ’turning the corner and bumping into love’ — lovingly produced by Toy Goose Publishing Company."

Gu Mian: "..."

The cover image was an ugly photo of him lugging a chainsaw, with a person pinched in his hand. Look closely and it seemed to be Sunshine Insurance Company’s Wang Napao.

The picture was very blurry, a side shot, probably secretly taken by someone else while he and Wang Napao were "having a friendly exchange."

You could tell everyone didn’t seem to like him much, always snapping his worst shots.

He opened the first page, and right in his face was a full-body photo of himself. No idea which picture they’d cut it from. Next to it was a line of enlarged, bold red text: "Top-tier dangerous individual. Once you see him, run immediately, or you may meet a tragic end (see Spirit Car Examination Center’s Coach Che and Crazy Guessing Words program’s Host Green for details)."

What kind of line was that? Sure, Mr. Green was hauled into the real world by him, but he’d just brought him back here, okay?

Speaking of which, he had no idea where Mr. Green was now.

Gu Mian kept reading. He saw that every article of clothing and accessory had a helpful little line drawn out with an annotation.

On his lab coat there was a line, and at the end it said: "If you see someone who looks like they’re wearing a lab coat, don’t say anything, don’t do anything, just turn around and run. Don’t hesitate over whether the one in the lab coat is Gu Mian. Better to wrongly kill a thousand than let one slip."

Besides the lab coat, his leaf brooch, black turtleneck sweater, and guitar bag all had lines drawn out with detailed annotations.

The most over-the-top was the guitar bag, which even had a cross-section diagram drawn, exposing the chainsaw inside.

Under the character art was a large section of response recommendations. Gu Mian skimmed them; the advice boiled down to one word—"run."

He himself wasn’t much to look at, so Gu Mian flipped on to the second page. He hadn’t expected Coach Che to be on the second page.

Coach Che’s danger rating was just below his, the second most dangerous individual. According to statistics, every instance Coach Che had ever worked in had, without exception, been swept by Gu Mian. Rumor had it he was a mole planted by Gu Mian on this side, a scout specifically there to pave the way.

Flipping further were Chu Changge, Fatty, Xiao Qiao and the others. Sure enough, everyone he knew was in there; even Xiao Hong, who couldn’t enter instances, had a page to herself.

Everyone had a little character bio and outfit analysis.

On the last page was a single line: "If you run into any of the above people in an instance, it means there’s a high probability Gu Mian is nearby. Run now and you might still have a chance to escape."

After reading, Gu Mian silently closed the book, deciding to take it back and show everyone. Whether or not it counted as a special item and could actually be taken out, he wasn’t sure.

Thinking that, he rolled the book up and stuffed it into the guitar bag on his back, then turned to Slaughter: "I’m heading out. There are still people waiting for me at Game City to regroup. Oh, and turn off those automatic firing thingies outside."

Gu Mian had no desire to walk out and get turned into a sieve.

Slaughter nodded: "I’ll see you out."

With that, he looked at the round helmet resting on the living room sofa, hesitated for a moment, then went over, picked it up, and put it on.

Speaking of which, Slaughter had rushed down in such a hurry this time he’d forgotten to wear this thought-blocking helmet, but the miraculous thing was that they’d made it all the way back up without any accidents.

Gu Mian was half-suspecting that the statue collapsing five times in a row had affected its performance.

"The variety show you’re going to is called Trial and Crown. It starts in seven days. You’re going to Game City to meet up with your friends and go together, right?" By now the two of them had walked out the front door. Time had reset to when they’d just entered the instance, and it was bright outside.

"Yeah." Gu Mian looked up at the bright sky. They were now rolled back to not long after entering the instance. 007 had started off in Crazy Game City; Chu Changge probably hadn’t arrived there yet.

Thinking this, he opened the group chat and glanced at it, discovering that Chu Changge had sent a message.

[Chu Changge]: Gu Mian, did I ever mention last time who I ran into?

The message had been sent about half an hour ago; he was only seeing it now.

Chu Changge definitely hadn’t asked this in the group last time.

Did that mean he’d run into someone this time?

Gu Mian replied with a "Nope."