They're all lower-class people; Sky City is full of lower-class inhabitants.

The buildings overhead are too tightly packed; Gu Mian can't catch a glimpse of the whole of Sky City through the pitifully narrow gap, but within his view, there isn't a single upper-class person in sight.

No pale faces with flamboyant expressions, everyone in the city is lower-class.

The city above should be the City of Pleasure mentioned by Manager Jin. Seeing it in person is even more spectacular than imagined. The city looks like a massive flying saucer; if Gu Mian didn't already know the situation here, he might have thought aliens were attacking Paradise World.

Lu Yi's Circus is also in the City of Pleasure, and upper-class people reside within this city as well. But in the visible range, it's all lower-class people. Could it be that when this city flipped upside down, there was a population filtration? Did they filter out all the upper-class people?

If so, how considerate of the lower-class people.

[Fatty]: Doctor Brother Chu Miss 007, I observed with binoculars that you disappeared; you should've entered Paradise World by now, right? Did anyone get transmitted together?

[Fatty]: Why is no one speaking? Doctor, say something quickly!

Fatty started howling in the ten-person group chat.

Gu Mian had forbidden him from entering Paradise World. During the transmission, Fatty had to stay two miles away with binoculars to observe the situation while stalling Xiao Hong, who wanted to stick to Gu Mian.

The key given by the Evil God was a shoddy product. Although the introduction claimed it would only bring creatures within 500 meters into Paradise World, there was a possibility of malfunction pulling people from within two miles.

To be safe, Gu Mian had Fatty bid them farewell from two miles away.

Seeing Fatty's message in the group chat, Gu Mian realized he hadn't surveyed his surroundings yet.

He turned to look on both sides.

Just two steps away to his left was the entrance of a household.

This was evidently a lower-class residential area. The house on the left looked like it was built with mud, some places already cracked, with straw stuffed and glued with mud into the cracks. The mud-coated walls visibly slanted, even the door frame tilted into a parallelogram.

In this situation, the door couldn't possibly close; it was half-open with a crack, the wind pushing it against the frame, but the fragile door panel just creaked and flapped feebly outside the frame.

A sticker on the parallelogram doorframe caught Gu Mian's attention.

Gu Mian speculated that it had been there for quite some time. The paper's original yellow color had almost entirely faded, and dozens of tiny slits crisscrossed it, indicating it had faced countless windy and rainy days.

It didn't take long for him to understand what this paper was — a wanted poster, his own.

At the very top of the wanted poster was, first, a photo of him.

The background was a mine, seemingly taken in the restricted zone. In the photo, he was baring his teeth and climbing over the tip of a mine cart, next to a chubby arm that must have belonged to Fatty.

At this moment, [Fatty] was still performing his summoning ritual in the ten-person group chat, but nobody paid him any attention.

Gu Mian looked at the photo on the wanted poster, quickly retrieving the corresponding memory from the image.

It was in the Slaughter Game instance. At the time, he and Fatty were in a mine cart, with Chu Changge driving at the front, pursued by the Order Guard sent by the upper-class people behind them.

There was a bomb set to explode in the cart. To evade it urgently, Gu Mian and Fatty were desperately climbing onto the cart top, the photo taken by the No.9 follow camera tracking them during that scene.

Gu Mian silently stared at his photo.

His expression wasn't flattering at all, evident that the upper-class people had a deep-seated bias against him. Clearly, they could have chosen a better-looking photo, yet they insisted on this ugly one. What a decline in societal standards and morals!

Gu Mian averted his eyes from the photo, moving them to the text area below.

[Wanted Person: No.9 Sinner of the Restricted Zone, Former Circus Fugitive]

The people of Paradise didn't know his name and had to use another title instead. As for why they called him No.9 Sinner, it was probably because the camera following him in the restricted zone was No.9.

The next few lines highlighted Gu Mian's illustrious 'achievements.'

[Crime: Blowing up the Order Guard in the Restricted Zone, damaging Kuangcheng City Mines, blowing up the original Circus grounds, damaging follow cameras, kidnapping, blackmail (according to clues provided by the victim Mr. Slaughter to the insurance company, the wanted person conspired with the traitor Lu Yi to kidnap and extort his 144 Gold Coins)]

Seeing the last charge, Gu Mian fell silent.

When did he ever rob Mr. Slaughter of his money? Could this guy be committing insurance fraud?

Continuing downward, the last section was the reward.

[Bounty: 20 kilograms of coarse flour]

Alright, so it's that cheap, huh? 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

His wanted bounty outside was already up to 100,000 Game Coins. He didn't expect that in Paradise World, he was worth only 20 kilograms of coarse flour.

But it was understandable; this wanted poster was plastered in a lower-class living area, evidently aimed at lower-class people.

For the lower-class, 20 kilograms of coarse flour was already a fortune.

Luckily, he had attached the Holy Disguise Item "Eight Characters" Moustache before entering; otherwise, he would've been caught and exchanged for flour by the lower-class people. Gu Mian touched the "Eight Characters" Moustache affixed to his forehead's hairline.

The photo on the wanted poster was too ugly, damaging his image. Gu Mian reached out to take it down, but the interface popped up the moment his hand touched the wanted poster.

It turned out to be a special item.

[The Wanted Poster of the Ugly Mr. Gu]

[Creator: Doggie Doll (Green Limited Edition)]

[Description: The creator painstakingly managed to capture Gu's ugliest photo in frame-by-frame images, a photo that fully expresses the author's homesickness]

[Function: "Can such an ugly person exist in this world!" When being chased, showing it to the pursuer will scare them off for three seconds]

[Supplement: "It's just a photo; I won't be scared again" This item is effective only once per individual]

As Gu Mian silently read the words "Can such an ugly person exist in this world!" in front of him, there was finally some activity in the ten-person group chat.

It was 007.

[007]: I was transported to the Crazy Game City, not far from Carnival Wharf

007 was lucky. Mr. Jin had mentioned that Crazy Game City was filled with NPCs from other worlds, with no upper-class people around; her situation was relatively safe.

A few seconds later, Chu Changge also sent a message.

[Chu Changge]: I'm at Rathead Alley, a lower-class residential area.

The street name itself suggested it was a lower-class neighborhood.

Gu Mian still didn't know where he was.

He walked down the narrow alley, moving forward, also a lower-class residential area, where several homeless lower-class people lay on the ground. They lay on sacks filled with who-knows-what, covered with dirty tarps.

A half-piece of moldy hard bread peeked out from under the pillow of one of the lower-class people.

Perhaps it couldn't be called a pillow, just something propped under his head, a headless doll.

A dirty hand sneakily reached for the bread, it was a child. Clearly, he was well-practiced in petty theft, rapidly escaping once successful, while the unsuspecting bread owner snored away.

Several lower-class individuals, with matted hair, sat by the street, eyeing Gu Mian viciously.

Compared to them, Gu Mian was too clean, and the large pack on his back made it hard not to suspect he was carrying something valuable.