Greenie! Is That You, Greenie!

It didn't take Gu Mian long to find his own house, number 98.

A crooked sign was stuck in front of a slightly raised mound of earth. The number "98" was written on it.

Looking more closely, he could see a low hole in the mound serving as a door, along with several air vents on the side that were easy to miss if you weren't paying attention.

It was a house.

Looking through the doorway, which had no door, he saw that some space had been dug out at the bottom of the mound, enough for someone to stand inside.

But the floor inside was at a different level from the threshold. To get in, he had to jump down, and to get out, he had to climb back up.

Gu Mian jumped inside and looked around. The tiny earthen house contained only a dirt bed and a yellowed rectangular rug.

It was small, but at least he didn't have to "share a rental" with anyone else.

There were plenty of lower-class people on Spider Leg Street No. 1. The slightly larger houses usually housed three to five of them together.

He walked around the little earthen house a few times, then crawled back out through the doorway. It was hard to breathe in there.

Gu Mian stood by the entrance and took a couple of deep breaths of fresh air, then looked up at the sky. The City of Inverted Sky was visible from Spider Leg Street No. 1, too, though it wasn't the one near NPC Street. It was the city he had first seen when he entered this world.

On Mantis Tail Street, he had been able to clearly see the expressions on the people's faces in the City of Inverted Sky. But not here.

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