Global Collapse

Chapter 381 Gu Bengbeng, the Messenger of Justice
Gu Mian was still holding the driving instructor's flimsy collar in her hand.

Coach Che paused for a moment after saying this, and then continued, "Although you'll find out sooner or later, if I tell you now, my head will probably turn into a kebab in the crematorium."

He seems to have a deep obsession with crematoriums and roasted lamb skewers.

Gu Mian raised an eyebrow and loosened his collar: "So everything in this instance is normal right now?"

The coach nodded silently: "Although I don't know how you got this file, theoretically players shouldn't have access to these."

At this point, he suddenly frowned: "How did you get your hands on these student files?"

Gu Mian glanced at him and said matter-of-factly, "Of course it was stolen. You should know that one of the NPCs in this instance is the class monitor."

Upon hearing this, the coach's face twitched slightly, and then he sighed.

Before he could even catch his breath, Gu Mian's next words left Coach Che speechless.

"So it's standard practice for NPCs in this dungeon to be able to use special items?"

The driving instructor's brows furrowed so deeply they looked like twisted knots: "What did you say?"

“Some NPCs can use special items,” Gu Mian said, looking directly at the driving instructor. “Judging from your expression, this must be an accident.”

The instructor paused for three seconds, then decisively said, "You have to leave this instance quickly, don't ask why... I'm running now."

Gu Mian watched as Professor Che suddenly took out something and squeezed it hard.

Immediately afterwards, the living person in front of her completely disappeared, leaving Gu Mian standing there alone with her guitar on her back.

Fortunately, no students are watching now, otherwise it might leave a huge psychological scar.

Gu Mian looked at the spot where Coach Che had just stood and said, "Let me leave the instance quickly."

As we all know, there is only one way to take a shortcut and leave the instance directly – make it appear in the announcement.

But this time, the dungeon left him at a loss.

Furthermore, Gu Mian didn't quite understand why Coach Che had said those words earlier, and why he had run so fast, as if the instance was about to explode at any moment.

Meanwhile, Coco and her friends still haven't found the missing Li Yibai.

They searched for several hours until it got dark but still couldn't find it. Instead, they ran into Chu Changge and Yuan Qinghua.

The two of them were also wandering around the school.

Yuan Qinghua was the first to see Coco and her two companions. She immediately ran over and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Guo Jimei and Pan Yue both subconsciously took a half step back, because Guo Jimei had already revealed Yuan Qinghua's identity.

Only Coco asked anxiously, "Li Yibai has disappeared. Have you seen him?"

Upon hearing this, Yuan Qinghua's expression turned somewhat strange. She hesitated for a moment before speaking, "Not long ago, we saw a group of people gathered near that unfinished building next to the school. We heard that someone had committed suicide by jumping off the building, so we went to take a look..."

She paused for a moment before continuing, "It's Li Yibai."

"What!" Guo Jimei suddenly took a big step forward. "Li Yibai committed suicide?"

“Hmm,” Yuan Qinghua nodded hesitantly, “People on the street said that when the police went upstairs to check, there was a woman’s corpse there. She died a gruesome death, and from the description, it sounded like Lin Qi…”

Pan Yue's eyes widened as well: "Could it be that Li Yibai jumped off the building because he saw Lin Qi's body? But why would he go up to a building that hasn't been topped out yet?"

"I don't believe it!" Guo Jimei glared fiercely at Yuan Qinghua. "Wherever it is, I want to go and see it too."

Yuan Qinghua silently pointed in a direction: "It's over there."

Guo Jimei and the others immediately ran in that direction.

The sun was setting in the west, and the group of them hadn't run far when they saw a crowd gathered in front of them.

The sunlight shone down from the direction close to the horizon, casting long shadows of the group of dark figures.

"Make way, make way..." Guo Jimei immediately struggled to squeeze into the crowd.

Coco and Pan Yue followed closely behind. Then a mangled corpse appeared before them—it was Li Yibai.

The group of people were stunned.

He collapsed alone in the crowd, ending his short life.

A sigh reached their ears.

"Such a fine young man, it's such a pity he died like this."

"I heard there was a little girl up there, and apparently she died a very tragic death."

After an unknown amount of time, Guo Jimei heard Chu Changge's voice behind her: "Let's go back."

Guo Jimei raised her head slightly, looking at the orange sky in the distance: "I finally understand why you voted for Yuan Qinghua last night."

Gu Mian had been sitting in the classroom for several hours at this point.

He watched helplessly as the sky changed from light blue to orange and then to dark blue-black, while the students outside went back to get out of class and even ate dinner.

It is 6:50 PM now.

So much time has passed, and the others still haven't returned.

The only companions in the entire classroom were the two corpses of Yue women; they were truly kind and understanding Yue women.

Feeling utterly bored, Gu Mian turned her attention to the hands of one of the corpses. She noticed that her hands seemed to be clutching something at the moment of her death.

Gu Mian knew that what she was holding at the time was probably a cell phone.

After the ghost killed her, someone took Yue Nu's phone and sent the video to Pan Yue, which led to 007 being directly voted out.

Ghosts would never do such a thing, so the identity of the person who posted the video remains a mystery.

This should have been a completely absurd thing, but Gu Mian understood it perfectly.

Just as he was still staring at Yue Nu's hand, a series of footsteps suddenly came from the corridor, and he looked up.

Looking up, I saw Guo Jimei push open the door and enter, her face expressionless.

Behind them were Pan Yue with a strange expression and Coco, who looked somewhat frightened.

Finally, there were Chu Changge and Yuan Qinghua.

Five people.

Gu Mian looked up at them: "Where's Li Yibai?"

Coco bit her lip: "He committed suicide..."

But before she could finish speaking, Pan Yue interrupted, "Suicide! How could Li Yibai just randomly end up in an unfinished building? I think someone tricked him there and pushed him off. It must have been done by a ghost!"

Coco comforted her, "Don't be like that. Ghosts can't kill people during this time... Li Yibai couldn't have been killed by someone else."

Just then, Guo Jimei suddenly spoke up: "Alright, another civilian is gone today. So, out of the seven of us, there are now two ghosts and five civilians."

"We can't contact Zhang Pingfan at all. Even if he's a commoner, someone who can't be contacted is useless. So, if we count, there are only two ghosts and four commoners left who are useful."

"If we're lucky, we might be able to vote for two ghosts in the last two rounds and still have a chance to survive; but if we can't contact Zhang Pingfan and make another wrong vote... then we're doomed, because if we make another wrong vote in the next two rounds, by the fifth round of voting, there will be only one ghost and one civilian left."

"Let me be frank, Beauty Chu, I finally understand why you forced Li Yibai to make a choice yesterday. It's because as long as we can use Lin Qi to provoke Li Yibai into committing suicide, the rest of the situation will be almost entirely in Gui's control!"

"You and Yuan Qinghua are the two remaining ghosts!"

The classroom fell silent. Gu Mian clicked her tongue in amazement, marveling at the ingenious logic.

"Gu Mian, Coco, and Pan Yue, tonight the four of us will vote out Yuan Qinghua first, and then vote out Chu Meiren in the second round! That way, three of us will survive in the end, otherwise none of us will survive!"

Gu Mian gave a righteous look: "I agree."

(End of this chapter)