Global Collapse

Chapter 466 Honkai Impact 3rd Around the World
Although she wanted to reach the end as soon as possible, Gu Mian slowed down, considering that the fat man's butt was being bullied.

The hearse's headlights illuminated the way ahead, and the stairs beneath their feet stretched into the darkness. However, it wasn't long before the two of them smelled a strange odor.

The smell was like the odor of feces that had been carefully fermented for three years.

The smell permeated the hearse and filled the fat man's nostrils. He felt as if he were lying on a toilet half-filled with excrement, the stench emanating from the very tip of his nose.

He felt like he was about to vomit some excrement.

The fat man is now filled with regret, deep regret for hitting on Gu Mian's ride when she drove into this place.

Gu Mian carefully sniffed the scent in the darkness: "The deeper we go, the stronger the scent becomes. We shouldn't be far from our destination."

He had a feeling that this underground place held a great secret, perhaps even related to the core of the game, but it was unlikely that they could approach the core without any obstacles.

Just then, Gu Mian suddenly noticed the stairs below vibrate.

The tremor was so strong that even the fat man felt it. He covered his mouth and stared wide-eyed out the window, but could only see a short distance in front of the hearse.

Then the fat man noticed that something had changed in front of him; it was no longer a downward staircase, but... a cage?
The densely packed cages almost filled their field of vision. These cages, like dog cages for large dogs, were mostly rusted and covered with a thick layer of dust. They were crowded together haphazardly, but left a path in the middle so that they could continue forward, as if this path would lead to an important place.

At this moment, Gu Mian had already driven the hearse onto this road.

The fat man finally realized where the foul smell came from.

The car headlights illuminated the surroundings, revealing that these rusty, moldy cages were filled with rotting corpses. It was impossible to tell how long they had been dead; their last movements were struggles and twists, as if they were desperately trying to escape.

The fat man looked under the light and saw that all the cages had signs hanging on them. Although the signs were covered by a thick layer of dust, you could still make out some details if you looked closely.

The signs had different long strings of numbers on them.

Is it a serial number? The fat man covered his mouth as he pondered.

Gu Mian continued to move forward at full speed along this road.

Then they felt the vibration again, this time even the dust on the dog cage was shaken off.

"This place is going to collapse." Gu Mian glanced at the messy cages around her and said something that sent chills down the fat man's spine.

But they were almost there—Gu Mian had this feeling that if they went forward just a little further, they would see the secret hidden underground.

At this moment, the vibrations from the surroundings became more pronounced, causing the hearse to sway slightly.

The fat man finally suppressed his nausea and shouted, "Doctor, if we're trapped here, can you make a hole to get us to the surface?"

“I’m not a groundhog,” Gu Mian said, gripping the steering wheel. “If you still had the groundhog you first pulled out, maybe it could do it.”

"Ah," looking at the cage outside that was still shaking, "dying in a hearse, underground, no need to even dig a pit, Doctor, we've really saved Brother Chu a lot of trouble. I'll appear in his dream another day and ask him to burn more paper money for us, it's cold underground, don't let us doctors get cold because we can't buy new clothes..."

He looked like he was about to burst into tears.

Gu Mian floored the accelerator: "Shut your mouth, we're almost there."

The fat man, who was pretending to wipe away tears, looked up and saw that the cages around him were gradually becoming sparse, and there were only a handful of dog cages left next to them.

We could already see a huge, unusual cage about 100 meters ahead, blocking the middle of the road, as if it had been waiting for someone.

The strangest thing is that there was no corpse in the cage.

It was mostly rusted, and at the bottom of the cage was a file folder almost completely covered in dust.

"That's it!" Gu Mian stepped on the gas and sped off.

At this moment, the surrounding tremors became even stronger, and even the ground could feel the tremors.

The bright moon was at the entrance of her examination room.

Not long ago, she saw Gu Mian drive into the underground, and then she saw Xiao Qiao and Liu Ruyan, and heard their conversation, but she was discovered almost immediately.

Mingyue immediately ran back to her exam room in a panic. In her mind, the exam room was the safest place, at least the invigilator wouldn't come in.

She had heard what Chu Changge said. Fortunately, although she had done the problems with others, they were her own problems, so only Li Xueqi died.

Knowing this, Mingyue originally wanted to stay at the event a little longer, but unexpectedly she ran into Xiao Qiao.

As she thought to herself, she stepped into the exam room: "I'd better hand in my paper and leave quickly, I really don't want to run into them..."

There were two players in her exam room who had just finished handing in their papers and were about to leave.

Mingyue quickly took two steps, placed the test paper in her hand on the podium, pressed it down with the pointer, and then turned to walk out. Just then, the three of them felt the ground shake.

"What's going on? Is it an earthquake?" The person next to him stared wide-eyed at the ceiling, where the chandelier was swaying, and the swaying was getting stronger and stronger.

Mingyue stared in shock at the swaying chandelier above her head. Almost immediately, she thought of Gu Mian rushing into the basement: "Could it be him...?"

Fortunately, the violent tremor only lasted a few seconds before stopping, and the three people in the examination room breathed a sigh of relief. "I think the tremor was related to the car we saw plunge into the ground."

"Wasn't that an NPC that rushed in? Maybe it was an NPC giving out some special quest..."

Mingyue heard two players behind her whispering as they walked away.

At this moment, she remembered when she was killed in the Death Image instance. At that time, she was eavesdropping on Gu Mian's conversation with the ghost, but she was killed by Xiao Qiao who suddenly appeared behind her when she heard the crucial moment.

Xiao Qiao killed her because she didn't want her to hear Gu Mian's secret... Although she had little chance of revenge, Gu Mian's identity...

Thinking of this, she suddenly turned around with a vengeful look: "He's not an NPC, that person is also a player."

"Players? How could that be?"

“He is indeed a player. I went into the same instance with him. Although his nickname was covered up, I still recognized his real identity. You would never guess who he is,” Mingyue noticed the strange expressions on the two people's faces. She smiled and leaned closer to them, whispering, “He is…”

"Thud" - that's the sound of a sharp blade piercing into a body.

Mingyue opened her mouth wide and looked down. A thin, flesh-stained wooden board emerged from her throat and was then pulled out.

The strange expressions on the faces of the two people in front of Mingyue turned into horror. They stiffened their necks and looked behind Mingyue, where they saw a familiar face.

That was a pretty face that frequently appeared on television screens.

The ground suddenly started shaking again, and the entire building began to sway violently. Twenty seconds, thirty seconds, a full minute passed and the shaking did not stop, as if it would not be satisfied until the entire school collapsed.

The two players stared blankly at the fallen Mingyue, who was desperately clutching her bleeding neck. The person standing in front of them wiped the pointer in her hand with her clothes. Her face, which was always expressionless, was now splattered with blood, making her look incredibly horrifying.

"The success or failure of things in this world is never judged by a person's character." — They saw this face and lowered their heads, looking at the corpse on the ground.

"Click"

Cracks appeared in the ground, the tremors grew stronger, and the nearby school building swayed constantly as if it would collapse at any moment.

"They haven't come out yet." Liu Ruyan stood not far from the statue, looking at the cave leading underground.

Chu Changge was about ten meters behind her.

"Boom"

A sudden collapse of the ground startled a nearby student who was running away. He stared at the ground sinking into an insurmountable abyss: "What is down there?! And why is it hollow?!"

When the tremors first started, the students ran desperately toward the school gate. All the surviving students rushed out of the building, but very few remained.

The ground continued to collapse; some sections of the ground only slightly caved in, while others fell directly underground and disappeared without a trace.

Within minutes, a small portion of the school grounds had collapsed.

Even the statue at the entrance collapsed with a crash, lying across the dark entrance and smashing a small patch of ground.

Another minute passed, and the ground collapse had extended to the entrance. The surrounding ground had all sunk in, and dust filled the air, making it almost impossible to see anything around us.

“It seems we can’t get up here,” Liu Ruyan said, looking at the completely collapsed entrance. “In that case…”

Suddenly a voice appeared and drowned out hers.

It was the roar of a car engine.

Immediately afterwards, she saw two bright lights shooting out from the flying dust, followed by a roaring sound that grew closer and closer. Three seconds later, she saw a wrecked car come into view, and through the broken windshield, she could see a doctor sitting in the driver's seat.

"Where did all this dirt come from!" Gu Mian coughed violently as she gripped the steering wheel. The hearse was still moving at full speed; they had to use the vehicle to break through the obstacles at the entrance to get out.

The fat man sneezed while clutching the file folder in the back seat: "Expensive things are indeed better. No wonder it's a 998 hearse; the quality is top-notch. Looks like we'll have to ask Brother Chu to dig our graves next time we die..."

"Hey, doctor!" Gu Mian heard the fat man's voice coming from behind, "Look, Brother Chu and that other guy are right up there!"

Gu Mian responded and looked over.

At this moment, the ground had almost completely collapsed, but the two people stood there motionless like wooden stakes, waiting to die.

Gu Mian quickly turned the steering wheel: "The ground is about to collapse, there's no time to stop the car, open the door and pull them out!"

The fat man quickly opened the back door.

When Chu Changge was pulled out of the water, his head hit the roof of the car, and then he was bounced off the roof and hit the car seat.

The fat man, feeling guilty for using too much force, looked at Chu Changge, who was slowly getting up, and said, "Ah, sorry..."

Chu Changge pushed up his broken glasses: "It's nothing."

Thank you... Oh, it's too late, I'll thank you tomorrow!

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