Global Collapse

Chapter 127 Your friend Gu Mian has withdrawn from the battlefield

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.

Following Gu Mian's successive destruction of two instances late at night, fireworks were set off in the direction of Hengdian.

Of course, this is not to celebrate the destruction of the copy.

I don't know if it was placed there by players or by the military.

Although the hearse was broken, it could still be used as a motorhome. At this moment, the fat man was leaning against the car window, staring wide-eyed at the fireworks in the distant sky, holding a red envelope in his hand.

The weather was bad today; it was gloomy all day and pitch black at night, making the flashing fireworks all the more dazzling.

The fireworks only flashed for a short while before the sky darkened.

Once the corner of his eye had completely disappeared, the fat man clutched the red envelope and looked away: "Doctor, what do you think will happen to the world in the future?"

Gu Mian glanced at him: "With global evolution, the hierarchy of humans at different evolutionary levels is clearly defined, and their treatment varies accordingly..."

The fat man looked bewildered.

Gu Mian continued, "Human levels are divided into three categories: Battle Qi, Battle Warrior, Battle Master..."

The fat man's expression immediately returned to normal: "Wait? Where did you copy this class division from? Why does it sound so familiar?"

Gu Mian nodded: "That's right, if we follow the formula of Qidian, this will become a fantasy novel."

"Never mind," the fat man swallowed, "Doctor, why don't you tell me a bedtime story instead... about how you came out of the mirror?"

Gu Mian was the only player in the previous instance who came out of the Mirror World on her own.

Who knows how he got out—and perhaps only a ghost would know.

Gu Mian stroked her chin: "Well, it's a long story, but actually it's not that long."

"I remember that when Zhao Lei's second personality killed people, he preferred to separate them and kill them one by one. Of course, this is a common trait of ghosts in horror movies and supernatural novels."

Gu Mian had seen countless horror movies since she was a child, but no matter how bad the horror movie was, none of them could wipe out a group of people with a snap of a finger like a ghost.

If that were the case, it wouldn't be a horror movie; it would be more like a science fiction movie.

"The ghosts in the dungeon are happy to kill people separately, which isn't without reason. It's to create a terrifying atmosphere, and it also doesn't want Zhao Lei to see its true identity, so it separates the people."

"But if he wanted to kill people separately, he could have easily separated them in the mirror world. In the mirror world, he has the ability to prevent Zhao Lei from seeing him. And Chu Changge, you said that the ghost is greatly restricted in the real world, right?"

Chu Changge nodded: "I came out early, so I don't know much about the world inside the mirror, but the world outside the mirror is definitely restricted."

Gu Mian nodded in agreement: "They are clearly severely restricted in the world outside the mirror, yet they insist on dragging people out to kill them. What kind of logic is that?"

The fat man hesitated for a moment: "But Doctor, you were in the mirror world at that time, so you shouldn't know that ghosts are weaker in the outside world."

Gu Mian took out a cell phone, a black one she obtained in the Horror Manor instance, a special item.

This thing is called a phone that breaks through the dimensional barrier, but it's just a mirror image. In the dungeon, you can call NPCs, and in the real world, you can call other players with the highest match rate.

"Chu Changge called me using the phone itself." The world in the mirror and the world outside the mirror are not exactly the same, but there are some overlaps.

Some things were originally designed to allow players to communicate.

For example, in two worlds, the clock in the mirror world cannot affect the clock outside the mirror world, but the player outside the mirror world can move the clock hands, which will affect the clock in the mirror world. Messages can be transmitted using passwords, provided that both parties understand the password.

The same is true for the two phones; they look exactly alike, but their functions are completely opposite.

Gu Mian obtained a mirror phone that can be taken out of the instance because it can be copied at any time. Its function is to make phone calls to NPCs in the instance or to other players in reality.

The mobile phone outside the mirror cannot be taken out of the instance. It has only one function: to communicate with other players in the instance, and can only be called by players who have mobile phones.

It just so happens that Gu Mian is the only player alive in that instance who has a mobile phone.

The fat man was a little puzzled: "When did you guys get in touch?"

Chu Changge looked up: "Just as you were being pulled out and yelled."

Fatty: "...So that's why you were hiding in the toilet back then. That's not a good place to hide people. Turns out you were touching a corpse."

"Alright, let's get back to the main topic," Gu Mian steered the conversation back on track: "Since ghosts are relatively weak in the real world, why would they go to such lengths to drag people into the real world and then kill them?"

"I suspect that staying in the mirror world might be detrimental to it, so it always rushes into the mirror world and then rushes away."

At this point, Gu Mian suddenly changed the subject: "The longest the ghost stayed in the mirror world was when Mingliang was killed, right?"

Chu Changge nodded: "It seems that Mingliang died directly in the mirror world."

"Where were we then? In Chu Changge's room. Everyone's attention was completely drawn to the suddenly slammed door and the loud screams, leaving no time to notice anything else."

"Then I thought about it, and realized that ghosts wouldn't dare linger in the mirror world for too long. If they had to stay, they would have used something else to attract attention, as if they didn't want to be discovered."

"What doesn't it want to be discovered? It doesn't want players to discover the real way to escape the haunted manor."

“When Chu Changge called me, I already knew I was in the mirror world, but I couldn't leave through the mirror. So when he mentioned that ghosts are weaker outside the mirror, that's when I realized this.”

"When the ghost is present in the mirror world, players can leave the mirror world by using all reflective objects."

"Oh," the fat man's tone changed: "So Chu Changge saving me was also something you all planned, closing the toilet door and then leading the ghost into the mirror world so that the doctor could come out?"

"No," Gu Mian shook her head: "Saving you is the most important thing. I just came out on the side."

"And you guys had already planned which room the doctor would come out of, right?" The fat man's face twitched.
"That's why Brother Chu led me into the room with the big closet without hesitation, why he didn't care even when the door was locked, and why he stood far away as if watching a show when I was grabbed by the ghost. So Brother Chu, you knew the doctor was in the closet all along! You two deliberately lured the ghost into that room!"

But then the fat man became confused again: "In that case, the doctor ghost should come out after you, right? It won't be able to see you when it comes out?"

Gu Mian said matter-of-factly, "I endured so much to hide myself, I covered myself with several layers of clothes. Luckily I covered myself thickly, otherwise the ghost would have discovered my handsome face."

Fatty: "A handsome face?"

Thank you Fangtianhuaji (ted) and Jinyuncheng for the donations. (づ￣3￣)づ╭～


(End of this chapter)