In fact, Gu Xinghe's current description of being "half-baked" is not just a metaphor.
After all, Annie was clearly not in her complete form; she had previously been immersed in the blood pool.
With the container still half full, Annie is indeed only half full now.
...
After carrying Mia back to the location of the castle.
Before Gu Xinghe could even consider whether he needed to forcefully break down the door.
The butler, Fils, who had been keeping an eye on things outside, had already opened the door for him, like an elder constantly worrying about a junior who hadn't come home at night.
But even though he had looked worried when he opened the door for Gu Xinghe earlier, he didn't ask about what had happened to them.
She was simply guiding Gu Xinghe, watching him carry Mia to her bed in her room and then cover her with a blanket.
At this moment, Gu Xinghe realized that he was an elder who had always accompanied Mia as she grew up.
Even if the butler, Fils, didn't fully understand the truth, he probably already knew more or less about the strange things happening to Mia.
After enjoying a late-night snack thoughtfully prepared for him by the butler, Fils, Gu Xinghe spent the night in the castle.
The beds in the castle rooms are obviously much more comfortable and spacious than the single beds in the hotel.
But Gu Xinghe, who was already quite tired tonight, didn't pay much attention to it and fell into a deep sleep shortly after lying down in bed.
Perhaps it was for this reason that he had a rare dream tonight.
Just like the dream I had back in Dawn Boarding School—
This dream is being experienced from his own personal perspective, but he is unable to change what is happening before his eyes.
However, if he were to actually put himself in that situation, he would make the same choice.
The scene before him seemed to be the same as what he had seen in his previous life.
Perhaps it was because he had merged with the tentacles that had been separated from him but were extensions of his own body after he lost his mind, and through this he experienced his past life in a dream.
That is why he is now in contact with people he knew from his previous life.
This encounter will become a medium, triggering his past life experiences with this person again.
At this moment, Gu Xinghe also discovered that when he opened his eyes, the first building he saw was the ancient castle where he was now.
At the same time, unlike his teammates in this current instance who appear to be weak and sickly, with various injuries on their bodies.
In his previous life, his teammates were clearly "old-timers" who had successfully survived in this world for a long time.
He didn't look "old, weak, sick, or disabled" at all; in fact, there was even a hint of ruthlessness in his eyes.
The contrast between the two is quite obvious.
Therefore, it seems that their roles at the beginning of the instance may not have been the same.
Soon, the butler, Fils, who welcomed them into the castle, confirmed his suspicions—
In this life, he is outwardly an "underground intelligence agent" but in reality, he is a decoy.
In the present dream, in their past life, they were assigned by Fils to be security personnel at an art exhibition.
There was no arrangement of "one overt and one covert" security personnel.
From the outset, the butler, Fils, explained to them in detail why they had been asked to serve as security for the art exhibition—
At this crucial juncture, with Mia's art exhibition about to take place.
Some time ago, they received a "pre-announcement letter" that someone was going to steal the paintings from the art exhibition.
For players entering this instance, their job is to patrol and guard the paintings that will be exhibited at the art exhibition.
During this process, Gu Xinghe inadvertently discovered that a young girl would appear every day, secretly observing the progress of the art exhibition setup in the art museum.
At first, he thought this was a fan of the painter Mia, who organized the art exhibition, and who looked forward to checking on the progress of the exhibition setup every day.
But she didn't seem particularly excited.
And then he thought of Mia, the seemingly mysterious genius painter who had never appeared in public.
Gu Xinghe had another guess forming in his mind.
As the two spent more and more time together, he also discovered—
The girl's personality and speech seemed to change at times, but Gu Xinghe didn't pay much attention to it.
This wasn't because he was carefree or indifferent, but because he was also keenly aware of—
In the most essential aspects of a young girl's personality, her caring and considerate nature, coupled with a touch of playfulness, has never changed.
Perhaps it's simply because it's in an artist's nature.
Gu Xinghe, who was guessing that the girl in front of him was the painter Mia, thought so at the time.
The anomaly occurred on the last day before the art exhibition opened.
In this life, I was only informed of the painting's theft on the second day.
In his previous life, Gu Xinghe, working as a security guard, experienced the first-person perspective of confronting the art thief Angel.
Perhaps after so many days of preparation, Angell finally appeared on this last day.
After being stabbed in the body by that blood-sucking blade, Gu Xinghe personally experienced the adequacy of this preparation.
But just as he was helplessly experiencing the coldness of the blood draining from his body, Mia suddenly appeared.
She gripped the dagger that was embedded in Gu Xinghe's body tightly.
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