Global Collapse

Chapter 198 Common People and Local Officials
The fat man had no idea what would happen to the skeleton, because he had just glanced at the pool when Gu Mian pushed him into the cabinet next to it.

The cabinet was really cramped; he felt so confined inside that he almost suffocated and couldn't breathe.

The others quickly hid in the closet as well.

Chu Changge was placed next to the fat man, next to a chainsaw that Gu Mian had entrusted to him for safekeeping. At this moment, he pushed the door open a crack and looked out.

Gu Mian was seen swaying the skeleton by the pool, seemingly trying to position it in a suitable way.

Not long after, they saw Gu Mian get into position by the water, then put the skeleton on her back, and leap into the bath.

Just as Gu Mian jumped into the bath, the fat man suddenly felt a tremor beneath his feet.

In the darkness, he looked at Chu Changge beside him with some confusion.

Chu Changge also showed a strange expression, clearly indicating that he had also felt that strange tremor just now.

'This event can't just have an earthquake suddenly occur just to kill the doctor. If this tower collapses, the heart of the event will be gone,' the fat man thought to himself.

At this moment, Chu Changge was frowning, as if he was considering something.

He opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but then some noise came from the pool, so he stopped talking and turned to look at the pool.

At the same time, the people in the cabinet heard footsteps coming from outside the door, and it seemed that the people chasing them had started to go up the stairs.

At this rate, it won't be long before that group of people enters the room.

To be honest, Gu Mian had never seen such a deep bath before.

Because the top of the bath is covered with a layer of white water vapor, you can't see the depth from above; you can only feel it when you get down there.

This puddle is at least three or four meters high. He's sure that if someone were to use it as a bathtub, there's a very high chance they'd drown while taking a bath.

For a moment, he began to doubt the structure of the tower. What kind of tall building could have a pool three or four meters deep inside its rooms?

But after only a brief moment of doubt, Gu Mian turned her attention elsewhere.

The skeleton behind Gu Mian was pressed tightly against her back. Perhaps due to psychological reasons, the skeleton seemed to stick even tighter after entering the water, and it didn't look as dry as before; it seemed to have become fuller.

The riddle was about observing the changes in the skeleton after the person jumped down carrying it.

So Gu Mian had to pull the thing off her back to see what changes it had undergone.

As Gu Mian was thinking, he reached out to pull something from behind him, but just then, he suddenly noticed something at the bottom of the bathtub.

The room was pitch black, and it was even darker underwater, but Gu Mian still managed to see what was underwater thanks to her excellent eyesight.

There seemed to be a glittering, ring-sized object there, which even illuminated a small area around it.

Gu Mian looked in that direction for a few seconds, and then discovered something else terrifying.

There is……

He stared intently at the bottom of the bathtub, which looked very rough, as if it were full of pits and bumps.

Upon closer inspection, one can even see some other colorful things, but the colors of these things are already quite dull, and they have almost blended into the bottom of the bathtub, making them virtually undetectable without careful observation.

Those look like... clothes?
People's clothes.

Immediately afterwards, Gu Mian saw a terrifying face, a gray-black face, almost the same color as the bottom of the bathtub.

It lived at the bottom of the water, its eyes wide open and mouth agape, as if trying to make a sound of resentment. Unfortunately, its face had become like a clay sculpture, and it could no longer make a sound.

Around this face are densely packed human figure sculptures.

It has a missing half of an arm, twisted legs, and a hideous head.

If Gu Mian hadn't braided that little girl's hair, he might have complained about who was so bored as to carve something like that underwater. But he had braided that little girl's hair and had been inside that green house that digested corpses.

Gu Mian knew that the bottom of the water was densely packed with the corpses of players.

How...did they die here?
Just then, he suddenly noticed another sensation on his back, and seemed to hear the sound of flesh and blood growing.

At the same time, a pair of bloody, fleshy arms wrapped around his neck from behind. Immediately afterwards, Gu Mian felt a bone-chilling cold come from behind, instantly engulfing his entire body.

At the same time, a cold voice came from behind: "The twenty-fourth."

……

At this moment, Chu Changge and the others were huddled inside the cabinet, staring intently at the direction of the bathtub.

They seemed to have heard some sounds coming from over there, but then they disappeared, and the room fell into an eerie silence, with only the sound of footsteps outside being particularly clear.

Rose Night was placed in the corner of the cabinet. Guigu didn't dare to crowd him and was trying his best to create a small space for the wounded man.

Han Shan, however, still had the leisure to talk to Chu Changge: "You guys always seem to like making this doctor do dangerous things."

In the darkness, Chu Changge glanced at him: "Perhaps what you consider dangerous may not be dangerous to others."

As soon as the two finished speaking, the footsteps outside grew louder, and then the group seemed to quicken their pace, making a 'thump-thump' sound on the stairs.

The people in the cabinet fell silent.

Before long, the 'tap tap' sound came to their door, accompanied by the voices of several people talking, but the voices were too soft to be heard at all.

The fat man held his breath and stared intently at the doorway through the crack.

Sure enough, the people outside didn't let the room go. With a "bang," the door opened and more than a dozen people rushed in.

Whether it was his imagination or not, the fat man felt as if the ground shook a few times when these people kicked the door open.

He couldn't help but start to consider the possibility of this "heart" collapsing.

This time, the people inside the cabinet were finally able to hear their conversation.

“They must be hiding in these rooms. Just search them one by one,” a burly man said.

The fat man estimated the size of the big man, then estimated his own size, and figured he probably couldn't beat him, so he shrank back.

These people searched very thoroughly, not even letting go of anything under the table, they were almost ready to lift up the floorboards to take a look.

The cabinet they were hiding in was in a corner, but it was no use. Before long, the group had searched the surrounding area.

Pipon instructed a few people: "You, you, and you, go and check over there."

He was pointing in the direction of the cabinet.

The fat man couldn't help but worry and began to consider the feasibility of four people taking care of a sick person to fight against more than a dozen people.

Watching the others search the cabinets, Pi Peng didn't stay idle either. He stopped by the bathtub in the middle of the room, frowning as he stared at it: "Could it be hidden in here?"

At this moment, the burly man next to him walked over: "There must be something haunted in this house with a bathtub like this. It's probably the execution site for some riddle-solving game, and there might even be water ghosts. We'd better get away from here..."

Pipeng nodded in agreement: "Yes, you make a good point."

He hesitated for a moment before adding, "But what if someone really is hiding down there?"

“Then let’s wait here for a while,” the big man said. “If they’re really down there, they’ll suffocate if they don’t come out. Let’s get away from here for now. I think this place is so gloomy, there’s definitely nothing good inside.”

Pipon nodded in agreement: "Okay, then we'll wait here for a while."

As he spoke, he took two steps back, seemingly wary that a ghost might suddenly crawl out from inside.

Meanwhile, the search team was getting closer and closer to the cabinet where Chu Changge and the others were hiding.

The fat man was still worried about Gu Mian. He stared at the bathtub, hoping that the doctor would not show his face at this moment.

Guigu, who was struggling to maintain a small space, glared at him, as if to say that he should worry about himself instead of wasting his time.

Thank you

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