Global Collapse

Chapter 408 You're the Younger Brother
Gu Mian's body stiffened slightly.

He paused for a moment under the gaze of the three people and the ghost, somewhat irritated, before turning around to look.

A gray-haired, brown-eyed man appeared in Gu Mian's line of sight. His fair face was somewhat thin, and he was looking at Gu Mian with a gentle smile.

Gu Mian recognized the face; not long ago, it was the face of an NPC in the game, the saintess's brother.

But now...

Is this the minor issue the goddess was referring to?

The goddess's brother was cruelly abandoned, and the honest player successfully took over.

That's a really small problem.

Gu Mian smoothed out the wrinkles in her coat and stared at the man in front of her: "What did you just call me?"

The hearse was small, not big enough for a person to stand up. The gray-haired man was kneeling before Gu Mian. He bent slightly closer, and Gu Mian heard the man, whose lips were always curved in a smile, repeat what he had just said—

"younger sister"

Gu Mian exploded.

This global game has been going on for months, but this is the first time he's had this eerie feeling.

It's one thing for the goddess to entrust her relatives to him, but why does this relative keep calling him "sister"?
Gu Mian took a deep breath. "I don't mind if you call me 007 or Little Red Sister, or even Chu Changge or Fatty Sister, but what's with calling me that? Even though my gender is a question mark."

007, who was huddled under the covers, saw Gu Mian looking like she was about to drag her out for a family reunion, and couldn't help but curl up under the covers and shrink back.

She turned her head to look to the side and saw that Chu Changge had already turned his gaze back and was looking down at her. Also looking down at her was the woman in red who had been leaning against the back window.

At this moment, 007 finally saw the woman's true face, and anyone who saw it would exclaim... "Terrifying!"

Chu Changge said in a steady voice, "This is Xiao Hong."

Under the gaze of the two men, 007 nodded with difficulty: "Hmm, it looks... very presumptuous."

At this moment, Gu Mian was pinching his brow with his index finger and thumb, feeling somewhat helpless. It was probably because he had played the game as the Saintess that the person in front of him judged his identity in this way.

The brown-eyed man stared at him intently, his eyes filled with tenderness, as if Gu Mian were truly related to him by blood.

After pinching her forehead for a while, Gu Mian finally raised her head and stared at the person in front of her: "Listen, I'm not your sister, but I've played games with your sister. You can't mistake a thief for your sister."

"I'm using your sister to play games?" the fat man by the car door muttered to himself, uttering a suggestive statement.

However, Gu Mian's words were like casting pearls before swine. The person in front of him did not change his expression after hearing his words. He smiled and looked at Gu Mian with gentle eyes: "Little sister."

Gu Mian: "..."

"I'm going to go have some peace and quiet."

As he spoke, he grabbed the guitar case from the side and got off the hearse, then walked quickly into the distance under the watchful eyes of the fat man outside the door.

At that moment, 007 looked out the car window at Gu Mian's retreating figure and asked, "Where is he going?"

The fat man made an irresponsible guess: "Maybe he's going to the toilet to confirm his gender?"

"Speaking of which, doctors are rarely driven to this state by ghosts, right? By the way, you're a ghost, aren't you?" The fat man muttered to himself as he looked at his gray-haired, brown-eyed brother who was still sitting in the same spot. Gu Mian had placed the human disc in the car, and his brother couldn't stray too far from it.

He was watching Gu Mian's departing figure, and his expression made the fat man want to recite a poem: "A mother's thread in her hand, a traveler's clothes on his back; before his departure, she sews them carefully, fearing his return will be delayed..."

"No, what am I thinking!" The fat man shook his head violently and turned his gaze back to his brother, only to find that he had already looked away and was now looking at him.

The fat man took a small step back in fright: "I'm not your sister."

The older brother smiled and shook his head without saying a word.

“It’s a ghost,” Chu Changge’s voice came at this moment. He pushed up his glasses. “It’s the brother in the diary that 007 read. He’s been dead for a long time.”

007 glanced at the drool around Xiao Hong's mouth and nodded slightly: "Although I don't know how he got out... Gu Mian told us this morning about the three memories he saw. This older brother must hit pretty hard."

If it was so terrifying when it was human, it must be even more terrifying when it becomes a ghost.

The fat man was somewhat relieved, as this meant Gu Mian's life was now secure, and she wouldn't have to worry about assassination attempts by other players even in the real world.

If there were another big event, no one would expect that a seemingly weak doctor would suddenly unleash two ghosts—ghosts that would terrify anyone who saw them! It would be a massive cheating incident.

Although both of these ghosts are quite abnormal...

As the fat man pondered this, he glanced at his brother, who was still smiling to himself, and at Little Red, who was being caught by 007 and was reluctantly wiping her drool.

this is too scary.

And the older brother can be brought into the dungeon, since he's a ghost possessing a special item.

Doesn't this mean...

At this moment, the fat man already had a picture in his mind.

If the doctor encounters a ghost in the dungeon again, his brother, with a motherly smile, might suddenly appear and kill the ghost before he can even pull out his saw.

The fat man felt a chill run down his spine at the thought.

This is terrifying! At this moment, 007 released Little Red from his grasp and turned his gaze to the direction Gu Mian had left in: "Aren't you really going to go look for Gu Mian?"

Chu Changge shook his head slightly. He went to his brother and picked up the Human World CD that Gu Mian had placed on the car seat. His face was reflected on the back of the CD: "He won't go too far, there's no need to worry."

The fat man, holding the pot in both hands, said, "Then I'll continue cooking..."

Gu Mian deliberately stopped in a sparsely populated area, surrounded by almost unfinished buildings. Before the game started, only construction workers and vehicles would pass by here. After the game started, there were even fewer people. However, the recent virus outbreak caused many people to leave the city for less populated areas, but there were still very few people here.

At that moment, the fat man was frying a few slices of ham in the pot.

This is something 007 took out from her special items. It's worth mentioning that supermarket food is not normally allowed in the inventory, but she managed to get a special item that can store food—a mini-fridge.

The fat man muttered to himself as he pulled out a few eggs: "This stuff is great. We don't have to go to the supermarket to buy new ingredients every time we cook. We can buy a lot of food and store it on the way back to 007... Let's make a beef and egg omelet today."

The fat man forked the fried egg into a disposable plate, then took out a steak, coated it with seasoning, and started frying it.

Next to it was a pot of simmering porridge.

When Gu Mian returned, she saw that Fatty had already laid out a square tablecloth on the ground—it was pink with white dots.

It was very ceremonial.

At this moment, he carefully placed a pot of steaming hot porridge in the center of the tablecloth, then arranged four bowls, and finally brought out four plates of fragrant beef and fried eggs.

As for why Gu Mian could smell the fragrance from so far away, it was because he saw 007 sticking his head out of the car door and constantly sniffing.

"Doctor, you're back!" The fat man directly opposite Gu Mian was the first to see her.

Gu Mian nodded slightly and walked forward.

Sure enough, his older brother got out of the car and was standing to the side waiting for him.

Gu Mian looked at the slightly thinner man in front of her and sighed.

He returned to the hearse, took the CD off the seat, turned around and handed it to the person behind him: "If you like, take this thing around with you."

He's the goddess's brother, after all. Although the human CD is indeed a life-saving tool, Gu Mian basically doesn't need it. Moreover, if the CD is used once in the real world, it will be destroyed, and the goddess's brother will also disappear.

Although the goddess didn't mean for him to help raise his brother, the brother was practically begging him to be his relative, so Gu Mian felt bad about just killing him.

The older brother took the CD, seemingly a little confused, but that didn't stop him from continuing to call out to Gu Mian: "Little sister."

"You only know how to call me 'little sister'?" Gu Mian was a little annoyed. "Never mind, whatever makes you happy."

Just like Xiaohong can't speak, her brother can only call her "sister".

Just pretend it's a kitten meowing.

Later, we can take the "mind-speaker" off Little Red's neck and let her brother wear it to see if he wants to say something.

He sat down irritably on the tablecloth that the fat man had laid out. At that moment, 007 also climbed out of the car. She looked up at Xiao Hong on the back window and then pressed her face back against it: "Isn't she going to eat?"

007 was unaware of Xiao Hong's identity.

The fat man didn't know how to persuade a ghost to eat a fried egg. He choked for a moment before finally saying, "She's not hungry."

"Is that so?" 007 nodded without asking any further questions.

The fat man felt a little ashamed. Before sending 007 home, they didn't know how many more meals they would have to eat, and Xiao Hong couldn't possibly skip a single one.

But directly telling 007 that Little Red is a ghost is a bit...

Gu Mian picked up a fried egg, took a bite, and then another, until the entire fried egg was stuffed into his mouth.

However, something new soon caught Gu Mian's attention.

The four players sitting on the tablecloth received the game announcement at the same time.

The fat man opened the game panel with a puzzled look: "Wait a minute, didn't the announcement for the last dungeon's collapse already come out a while ago?"

Gu Mian also opened the panel, but he saw that this time it was not a collapse announcement, but a new event preview.

Following the Lantern Festival riddle event which resulted in an unusually long announcement about the dungeon's collapse, this is the first such incident in the game since then.

The world's second major event, dragon boat racing, is about to arrive on Earth.

[Event Location: See event ticket for details. To maintain fairness between game event areas in the future, the ticket will have a teleportation function, allowing ticket holders to be teleported to the event location during the event period.]

【活动举行时间：2019年6月7日7:00——24:00】

Content: Five players form a team and compete in a dragon boat race against multiple other teams;
Rankings will be arranged according to the time of arrival at the finish line, and prizes will be awarded in order of ranking.

Terrifying ghosts will exist in the waters of the competition area; interference between players will not be considered a foul.

Please participate with caution. Deaths during the event are considered real deaths.

[Participation Requirements: The event area will be closed off during the event period. Only those with tickets obtained from the premium ticket booths are allowed entry.]

Look, Gugu exploded!
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