Global Collapse

Chapter 467 Tears streaming down Gu Bengbeng

June 8, 11:40 PM.

Outside the gate of Lianhua University.

The city was shrouded in darkness, and the school where the event was taking place was the darkest spot in the night. Looking through the school gate, one could only barely see the fallen statue of the trophy symbolizing victory and the shattered base of the statue.

Looking further inside, all you could see was a cloud of dust.

With twenty minutes left before the exam ended, the players outside the school held their breath, watching the students inside.

The players waiting for their teammates watched helplessly as the ground inside the school collapsed. The flying dust and thick darkness obscured their vision, making it impossible to see what was happening inside the school.

A three-meter-high automatic door blocked their way. The gate of Lianhua University had been modified for the event, and only players who had submitted their papers could come out.

Once the exam has started, latecomers will not be allowed to enter.

"What's going on inside...? There's no sound from anyone else..." Someone gasped as they looked into the school.

Just then, they suddenly saw two bright lights burst out from the darkness, followed by the roar of a car engine.

They immediately saw a dilapidated car emerge from the darkness and rush towards the school gate!
A quick-thinking player grabbed someone nearby and pulled them aside, shouting, "Get out of the way!"

Startled players quickly scrambled to both sides like a tidal wave.

Just two seconds later, the car that emerged from the darkness crashed violently into the automatic door.

They couldn't break through the car with their first attempt, and then they heard a tense voice from inside: "Doctor, it's not working! I guess it's because we haven't handed in our papers that it won't open the door for us!"

Didn't hand in your paper?
Wouldn't it be against the rules to leave before handing in the exam paper? Would the proctors let them out?

Before they could react, another voice reached their ears: "Stop babbling and sit tight."

The astonished onlookers saw the car back slightly before ramming into them again, as if to say, "I don't want to hand in my paper, but you have to open the door for me."

The player who was hiding to the side swallowed hard as he watched the car crashing wildly into the school gate.

"Is he crazy? There's a ghost in here! What if he breaks down the door and releases the ghost?"

"I guess something must have happened inside. Look, the school grounds have collapsed. They would have been doomed if they had stayed inside any longer."

While the players outside were talking, Gu Mian drove the hearse and rammed it several more times, finally splitting the automatic door in two.

He stepped on the gas, carrying a fat guy who was about to vomit, a young man with broken glasses, and a landlord who liked to screw on gas cylinders, and sped out of the school.

The hearse sped straight out of the school gate for quite a distance before finally coming to a stop after making a turn.

As soon as the car stopped, the fat man in the back seat immediately unbuckled his seatbelt, jumped out of the car, and squatted in the corner, retching. Gu Mian thought that she should take the fat man drifting a few more times in the future to help him get used to it.

Chu Changge habitually pushed up his glasses, and the broken lens cut his hand.

"One, two, three, four... four..." Gu Mian also got out of the car. He was leaning against the door, pointing out the number of people with one finger. "I think I'm missing one..."

Xiao Qiao is gone.

Liu Ruyan looked at the school gate through the open car door: "She said she had something to do so she left first and told us not to worry about her."

Oh, really.

Although Gu Mian felt that this unemployed female celebrity didn't have anything worthwhile to do, he didn't ask any more questions. What if she went to find her mother like 007... No, Xiao Qiao is an orphan.

By the way, speaking of 007, Gu Mian suddenly remembered the promise she made to her not long ago.

He was going to lend her the "cell phone that breaks down the dimensional barrier" to make a call; he remembered that he had 007 wait for him at the school gate.

Where is she?
As Gu Mian pondered this, he turned to look around. The first thing he saw was a group of players silently watching from the direction of the school gate.

Even though it was pitch black at night, Gu Mian could see the strange, frightened expressions on their faces, as if they had seen a ghost in broad daylight.

The hearse collision must have been a significant blow to them.

007 was jogging over from that direction, running right up to Gu Mian: "Those guys at the school gate are all players waiting for their teammates... Can I ask you, do you think they'll still be able to get anyone...?"

This is a tactful inquiry into the deaths that occurred during the event.

Gu Mian looked towards the school gate and saw that the people outside glanced at her a few times before looking longingly into the school, as if hoping someone would come out.

But after a long while, only a few people rushed out. As soon as they did, they collapsed to the ground, and one of them even cried out.

At that moment, the fat man who had been dry heaving in the corner suddenly straightened up and turned around: "You're in for a tough time!"

"Don't be in trouble," Gu Mian walked over quickly and patted his shoulder, "Give me your phone."

But 007 never got to speak with his parents.

When the phone, which breaks through the dimensional barrier, is used outside the instance, it will call the person with the strongest compatibility with the user. However, the person who answers the call is a stranger, not her parents.

It's a pity, but there's nothing we can do about it.

After returning the phone to Gu Mian, 007 thanked her and left, embarking once again on her journey to find her parents.

Gu Mian plans to settle down in Lianhua City. Since he doesn't have any specific goals at the moment, it doesn't matter where he lives. He already lives in this city, so it's more convenient for him to stay here.

At this moment, Gu Mian and the other three had already embarked on their journey home.

Before leaving, he looked back at the school gate one last time. The players there were still staring intently at the gate, but no one came out anymore.

Ninety percent of the players died in this event, and some of the remaining ten percent ran away without handing in their papers. Theoretically, you can't leave the school without handing in your paper, but that's not a big problem because Gu Mian smashed the door when she came out.

The hearse is traveling on a road without streetlights.

Gu Mian didn't own a house; the landlady of the Rebirth Inn where he stayed was Liu Ruyan.

Liu Ruyan was quite an oddball, giving her hotel such a name that it scared everyone away, fearing they would "die" as soon as they checked in.

It turns out that staying at the Rebirth Inn was not very peaceful. Several brave people stayed there for a while, but they were all frightened by the strange things that happened there.

Sometimes the power would suddenly go out while taking a shower at night, and sometimes the water pipes would inexplicably burst and flood the room with water, scaring the tenants into leaving with their money back.

But they didn't know that it was all because of Gu Mian's bad luck, which also brought bad luck to the surrounding tenants. In short, anyone who lived with Gu Mian could not expect to be safe and sound.

Chu Changge, who met Gu Mian at the orphanage, suffered even more hardships, but fortunately, he was not impatient and did not care much about those hardships.

At midnight, Gu Mian's dilapidated hearse was already parked downstairs at the Rebirth Inn.

He opened the car door and got out, gazing into the darkness at his dilapidated hearse.

"Should I consider getting a new car?" he muttered to himself, looking at the shattered windshield.

At this moment, the thrifty and hardworking fat man also jumped out of the car: "No, doctor, a 998 car is not cheap. We can talk to the manufacturer and ask them to fix it for us."

Gu Mian stroked her chin: "I don't remember there being any mention of warranty when I bought the car..."

"But it didn't say it wouldn't be covered by warranty."

That's truly reasonable, well-founded, and convincing.

Just then, the fat man noticed that an announcement had been updated on the game panel. It was updated at 23:50 PM yesterday, and that's when he saw it.

At this moment, Gu Mian had already stepped into the "Rebirth Inn" in front of her.

He had to go see what his room had become of his brother and Xiao Hong, so Chu Changge stepped inside.

The fat man was standing in front of the hearse, looking at the announcement.

[Announcement (June 8, 23:50)]

[According to official game monitoring, a strong earthquake occurred at the location where the "College Entrance Examination" event was held. The event has been closed early. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused to players.]

[Compensation will be provided to all players who survived the event. Please check your in-game mailbox.]

"All surviving players..." the fat man muttered, "I'm afraid there are no more than a hundred left."

The apartment building has seven floors. Gu Mian lives on the sixth floor, in a two-bedroom apartment. Someone had previously wanted to share the apartment with him, but they were scared away. Since Gu Mian was too lazy to move, he decided to live there by himself.

He was already standing in front of the security door of his house. He had replaced the door himself and had a spare key.

He reached into his pocket, pulled out a spare key, inserted it into the lock, and then turned it.

The door clicked open.

The room was pitch black, and I couldn't see what was inside. There was no electricity because I didn't insert the power card.

The electricity card is currently with the fat man.

Gu Mian opened the door and took a few steps inside. The room was quiet, as if no one was there. He looked around at the darkness with some puzzlement: "Where are those two ghosts?"

Why is there no sound at all? Could it be that we went to someone's house by mistake?
"Xiao Hong?" Gu Mian called again, but there was no answer.

"Here he comes!" Just as Gu Mian was wondering, the fat man's voice came from the stairwell. He had lived here for a while, so he knew exactly where Gu Mian lived.

The fat man ran up the stairs, grabbed the electricity card, jogged to the door, inserted it into the slot, and then turned on the light switch.

The overhead lights instantly turned on.

Gu Mian blinked a few times before her eyes adjusted to the sudden light.

He blinked a few times and then looked up into the room.

Both ghosts are present.

but……

Little Red was standing furtively on the sofa, trying her best to tear off the photo stuck on the wall without making a sound.

That's a photo of Gu Mian when she was a child, being hit on the head by a basketball that suddenly flew from the sky, and crying loudly.

He silently followed Xiao Hong's hand and looked around. He saw that the wall was covered with photos of him when he was a child. Some were of him crying, some were of him overjoyed but sad, and most of them were of him taking pictures of the moments when accidents happened. Back then, the director of their orphanage liked to take random pictures with his camera.

Even the ground was littered with photos, and the empty photo albums were carelessly tossed aside—clearly their handiwork.

Xiao Hong was clearly afraid of being exposed, so she didn't dare to say anything and just wanted to take the opportunity to tear off a few more sheets.

Unfortunately, the truth eventually came out.

After silently glancing at the photos filling the room, Gu Mian finally raised an eyebrow and said, "Tear them all down!"

It was past one o'clock when he finished cleaning up the photos that filled the room. The fat man had sorted and put the photos back into the album. The photos taken at the same time were put together, which could almost recreate the story back then. At this moment, he looked at the thick album in his hand with loving eyes.

The fat man is currently looking at a photo of Gu Mian having lunch one of her previous meals.

In the first picture, Gu Mian is sitting quietly at the table eating the rice in her bowl. Today's dish is seaweed and egg drop soup. At this moment, everything is peaceful and the days are quiet.

In the second photo, a woman in a dress appears in the frame, holding a bowl of soup in her hands.

Seeing this fat man, I could already guess what was going to happen next.

Looking down further, it was indeed the case.

In the third picture, the woman in the dress accidentally fell to the ground, spilling soup all over Gu Mian's head. Gu Mian continued eating quietly, as if it were nothing new.

Looking further down, you'll find other series.

The fat man looked at the photo in his hand, his face turning red from trying not to laugh: "Doctor, who threw soup in your face? That's so unethical!"

At that moment, Chu Changge's soft voice came from beside him: "It's me."

Thank you to Bo Yan for being the leader.

Thank you to the leader of the Tail Alliance.

Thank you for the 10,000 rewards from Mi Mo. (づ￣3￣)づ╭～
I...I'll update like crazy tomorrow! [A typical "procrastination" statement]

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(End of this chapter)