Everyone Passes, The Most Deadly

"Based on the clues from all floors, we can deduce the story arcs of the three individuals and then understand the relationship between the three Fierce Ghosts."

"I suspect that during the road test, the Fierce Ghost corresponding to each vehicle will appear and interfere with the players, and the solution to the road test can be found precisely from the written test."

"Ma Gang's resentment towards Yang Shuang has reached its peak, so I specifically went to the first floor to get Yang Shuang's photo from in front of his door. If the prisoner transport vehicle is chosen during the road test, Ma Gang might appear. This photo can be used to attract his hatred and stall for time."

After Chu Changge retrieved the photo from the first floor, he encountered Fatty and Xiao Qiao on the stairs. He was currently explaining his findings to them.

In the darkness, Fatty and Xiao Qiao exchanged glances, listening as if they had something unspeakable to say.

Chu Changge looked at them and asked, "Where is Gu Mian? We need to tell him this story arc quickly."

Fatty paused slightly, then hesitantly replied, "No... no need..."

Chu Changge saw immediately that something was wrong. He frowned slightly, "What's going on?"

Fatty found it difficult to speak.

I can't exactly say that Gu Mian already interrogated the ghost by the neck and forced the story arc out of it, which you risked your life, went through great hardship, and racked your brains to figure out, can I?

That would be too disheartening.

After a long while, Fatty finally stammered, "Actually... it's not that troublesome. To be honest, Doctor Gu just caught the ghost on the second floor..."

Even if Fatty didn't say the rest, Chu Changge could guess. He was someone with a very strong imagination.

Chu Changge said solemnly, "What did Gu Mian do?"

Although he asked the question, he could already imagine a bit.

Seeing this, Fatty said with some surprise, "Brother Chu, why aren't you surprised at all after hearing this?"

Fatty had almost gone mad when he saw Gu Mian dragging the ghost out from under the bed just now.

It wasn't that Chu Changge had no reaction; it was simply because he had known Gu Mian for too long and had witnessed many things beyond normal comprehension.

Moreover, Gu Mian himself was like a bug in this game. This could be seen from the fact that he could truly die in the Dungeon and that he could attack NPCs.

So, even hearing that he would attack the ghosts in the Dungeon didn't seem strange to Chu Changge.

If Gu Mian could even hit NPCs, it wasn't strange for him to attack ghosts.

Seeing that Chu Changge wasn't speaking, Fatty continued, "Doctor Gu dragged the ghost out from under the bed in front of me. It's quite strange, actually..."

"Seeing the doctor catch that ghost... I also reached out to try, but my neck was almost twisted off... I was so scared."

"Doctor Gu and us seem very different. No, we're completely different..."

Fatty spoke with a dazed expression, as if he doubted he was dreaming.

Without listening to his rambling, Chu Changge asked, "So where is Gu Mian now?"

The three of them were currently between the stairs of the second and third floors.

Fatty looked up in the direction of the upper floor, "Doctor Gu said he was going to find you, Brother Chu. We didn't see him on the second or first floor. He just went up to the third floor and told us to wait for him here. The ghost on the second floor probably won't come out again, right..."

After the previous Dungeon collapsed, Gu Mian received a threatening letter from the game System, so he was very careful in this Dungeon, trying not to damage anything.

After asking his questions, he naturally let go, and the ghost disappeared as soon as he did.

While Fatty was still speaking, the three of them suddenly heard rustling sounds from outside the stairwell below.

It sounded like something was clinging to the wall.

The three of them quickly looked towards the stairwell entrance. They saw half a pale face emerge from behind the wall, staring at them with wide, bell-like eyes.

It was back!

Fatty's mouth dropped open, and he suddenly stood up, wanting to flee.

But at that moment, there was also a noise from the stairs above.

Someone was coming down. He immediately looked up and saw the familiar white coat.

"Doctor!" Fatty's earth-shattering howl echoed throughout the entire building.

At this moment, Chu Changge turned his head to look at the stairwell entrance on the second floor.

The half-face had disappeared.

Gu Mian, dragging something, looked at Fatty, "What's wrong?"

"Ghost... there's a ghost..." Fatty trembled, pointing to the stairwell entrance on the second floor.

Gu Mian looked over. It was empty. Not to mention a ghost, there wasn't even a fly. However, there was one more person.

He looked at Chu Changge, "I thought you were out."

"No," Chu Changge shook his head slightly. "I found some clues and finally connected the relationships between the three ghosts. I was going to tell you, but it seems you don't need it."

Gu Mian always had his own way of doing things; Chu Changge knew this.

Lu Xun once said, "There are no roads in this world; they are made by walking."

But Gu Mian never followed the conventional path. He never cared if there was a road or not; he just blundered through, and yet, he always miraculously reached his destination.

He still remembered an incident when he was in kindergarten. The teacher had assigned a craft project, requiring everyone to submit a house made of paper the next day.

This stumped countless kindergarten students and parents, so much so that only Gu Mian completed the assignment the next day.

How did he accomplish it?

He went straight to a shop selling paper offerings and bought a paper villa, the kind burned for the deceased.

After that, the kindergarten teacher never assigned this kind of homework again.

Gu Mian had been an oddball since childhood, and as time went on, this oddball blossomed even more brilliantly.

So it wasn't strange at all that he took a unique approach in the dungeon, resorting to things like capturing ghosts and interrogating them.

Although the dungeon's original intent was for players to deduce clues, and normal players likely wouldn't be able to do such things to ghosts...

It was now 10:15, time for the test.

Gu Mian threw down the thing he was dragging, ready to take out the exam questions and answer them.

But Chu Changge seemed very interested in the item Gu Mian had dropped, "This is... a long-handled axe? Where did you get it?"

"Oh, that," Gu Mian glanced at the axe on the ground. "It was in the hands of the ghost on the third floor. He wanted to hit me with it, but I snatched it away."

Fatty: "..."

Chu Changge stared at the long-handled axe on the ground and reached out to pick it up. He recalled the nameplate of Ma Gang's cell he had seen on the third floor—

Ma Gang, convicted of intentional homicide, released after serving thirteen years, then used a long-handled axe to murder a woman thirteen years later.

Looking closer, there were still bloodstains on the long-handled axe. This was very likely the murder weapon used when he killed Yang Shuang!

"This axe might be useful during the road test later," Chu Changge said as he tossed the axe to Fatty. "You hold onto it for now."

Fatty caught it with a grab. "So now... can we take the test?"

"Of course," Gu Mian had already taken out a pen. "Once the road test is over, we can leave."

Fatty curled his lip. If only the road test were as simple as they said.

There were a total of seven players in this special dungeon.

Gu Mian's group had four people. One player had died by the stairs on the first floor; it was that uncle named Hao Laoshi. Normally, players who died in a dungeon didn't actually die, so the corpse was just a simulation by the dungeon.

The other two players were nowhere to be found, possibly dead as well, their bodies hidden in some room.

At this moment, the coach was standing at the entrance of the written test center, seemingly waiting to grade the papers.

The four of them lined up and handed their completed test papers to him.

The coach seemed a bit surprised, likely thinking that more people than expected had made it out alive.

He then looked down at their papers. "Even though four of you players have made it out alive, not one of you might pass the exam..."

But then, his unfinished words were choked back in his throat.

They had... all passed?