"Doctor, you’re really impressive." Fatty came up while Gu Mian was clearing the scene from a distance.

Gu Mian watched the direction where the Upper Class People were leaving: "It’s impressive for someone with severe leg injuries to still be able to run."

Xie Bi’an looked at Gu Mian and Fatty for a few moments, then turned and left.

Fatty remembered Xie Bi’an’s identity and, after he left, whispered to Gu Mian: "Doctor, I think he really dislikes the Upper Class People. Maybe it’s because he used to be from Paradise World..."

Xie Bi’an was a lower-class in Paradise World, probably oppressed by the Upper Class People every day.

However, unlike the majority of lower-class people in that world, he seems to harbor a grudge against the Upper Class People.

You know, even when the lower-class in Paradise are exploited and oppressed, they accept it willingly, with no untoward thoughts, believing they are destined to be like this.

But Xie Bi’an.

If Lu Yi hadn’t told Gu Mian he was lower-class, Gu Mian would never have connected Xie Bi’an with lower-class.

While Gu Mian was pondering the direction Xie Bi’an had left, Fatty suddenly shouted beside him.

"It’s him!"

Saying this, he dashed through the large doors.

The employees who hadn’t yet dispersed after watching the commotion at the door scattered in fright when Fatty suddenly rushed in, thinking the sinister Gu Mian had his henchman ready to massacre the supermarket building.

But Fatty didn’t go on a killing spree as imagined. Instead, he dashed into the crowd and grabbed someone: "Doctor, it’s him!"

Gu Mian looked over and saw Fatty holding up a sales clerk with prominent ears and a big nose.

The sales clerk struggled in terror, not knowing what was happening: "What are you doing? What do you want to do?"

The surrounding employees, seeing it wasn’t targeted at them, gathered at a distance, craning their necks to watch.

Gu Mian glanced at those employees, and they scattered again, fleeing in fear.

With no one around, Gu Mian finally walked up to Fatty.

The Big Nose in Fatty’s hand was still struggling, but when Gu Mian approached, he froze, not daring to utter a sound, hunched his shoulders and crossed his arms over his chest in a defensive posture.

Gu Mian didn’t beat around the bush, getting straight to the point: "Who told you that Paradise World is going to hold a show to judge the Upper Class People?"

Big Nose was momentarily stunned, not knowing why Gu Mian would ask such a question, nor understanding why Gu Mian would know about this matter.

But he quickly reacted and replied honestly: "It was Carnival Wharf from Paradise who called and told me, because sometimes we use their wharf for deliveries, and I’m in charge of the procurement;

"Recently, Carnival Wharf specifically called to inform me that their wharf is temporarily unavailable because Paradise World is hosting a show. All materials for setting up the venue have to go through them, so they can’t handle our requests for now."

Big Nose racked his brain, trying to remember the details of that call, fearing he might miss any detail and provoke Gu Mian’s displeasure, resulting in him being killed: "Then, I was curious and asked why that show needs so many materials. That’s when they told me about the show’s content."

Again, it’s Carnival Wharf.

Gu Mian continued to ask: "What’s the name of the person who called you?"

Big Nose shook his head in fear: "I don’t know. When we call, we just say the company name, like ’Hello, this is the Carnival Wharf office’... after all, it’s a business call, nobody cares about your name..."

That’s indeed true.

Previously, when Gu Mian had the Fortune-teller pretend to be a delivery NPC to call Paradise, the Fortune-teller only reported the company’s name.

We’ll still have to call Carnival Wharf’s office again. Luckily, he didn’t throw away the notebook with the number.

Gu Mian quickly returned to his apartment and found the notebook in the storage box.

Flipping it open, two familiar lines of text caught his eye—

"Fixed the bug where players’ clothes would disappear while repairing the game"

"Fixed the problem where multiple corpses in the same room would freeze and be immobile"

This was originally a programmer’s bug record, but it was forcibly taken by Gu Mian.

He flipped forward two more pages and soon found the page with the telephone number.

"Carnival Wharf Recruitment, Jisan 18887250" 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

The phone number was found, but the phone used to call the Low-Dimensional World was missing.

Fatty bent over and searched through the cupboard: "That’s strange, I clearly remember putting it here. Why is it missing?"

As Fatty was anxiously searching for the phone, a sob suddenly came from the bedroom.

The two of them stopped what they were doing and looked towards the bedroom.

A haunting? That was Fatty’s first thought.

But he quickly dismissed the notion, what ghost would dare haunt a doctor’s house?

Looking through the open door, they saw something green and small huddled in the corner of the room, shaking, not knowing what it was doing.

Gu Mian got up and walked towards the green object.

As he got closer, the sobbing sound became clearer, interspersed with pieces of muttered words.

"That terrible person is back... I’ve been discovered..."

"... must find a way to save me and bring me back..."

Turns out it wasn’t a haunting.

It was the green Doggie Doll secretly making a phone call.

Gu Mian grabbed Doggie Doll by the tail and shook it, causing a black phone to fall out, and a voice still emanated from inside.

"Dog, don’t worry! I will find a way to rescue you!"

The fallen phone was the one Fatty was searching for.

It seems the Doggie Doll was calling family in Paradise World, asking them to rescue it.

"No wonder we couldn’t find it, turns out it was here." Fatty quickly picked up the phone from the floor, checking if it was broken.

The person on the phone with the Doggie Doll seemed to realize something was off and hung up immediately, not giving Gu Mian a chance to speak.

Though Doggie Doll was entirely green, at that moment it vividly portrayed a deathly pale expression.

It squeezed its button eyes, trying to pretend it fainted from fear, but unfortunately, its button eyes couldn’t close.

Doggie Doll could only face everything before it with wide-open eyes.

Fortunately, Gu Mian wasn’t in the mood to deal with Doggie Doll’s issues. He took out the small notebook with the phone number and called Carnival Wharf.

"Beep, beep—" No one answered, just the sound of beeping in the call.

Fatty quietly mentioned from the side: "Doctor, aren’t you having Miss Fortune-Teller pretend to be an NPC to make the call this time?"

"No need."

Gu Mian had pretty much confirmed that Old Xu was Xu Xingcheng. There’s no need to conceal his identity when calling Xu Xingcheng. It’s not like he’d hang up in fear just hearing it’s me.

The beeping in the phone continued for a while, and it took about half a minute before someone picked up.

"Hello." Gu Mian heard a weary male voice coming from the receiver.