Global Collapse

Chapter 498 Anyone still reading novels at this hour definitely doesn't have a partner.

The NPCs in the old world are extremely hostile to players.

Among these players, their malice towards Gu Mian was particularly strong.

To put it figuratively, it's like Gu Mian killed their parents.

No, according to Liu Ruyan, even if their parents were killed, it wouldn't make them hate Gu Mian to this extent.

Therefore, Gu Mian's idea of ​​"conducting friendly negotiations" was shattered from the start.

When the two people and the ghost arrived near the production crew, it was already five in the morning, and the sky was just beginning to lighten.

Apart from a few cameramen, the entire production crew was searching for the missing child, Gu Mian, so there were hardly any people around the production crew.

Gu Mian and her group easily sneaked into the director's room. The director lived in the best house in this dilapidated village, and all the live streaming equipment was located there.

This is a two-story cement building, painted white on the outside, which is particularly dazzling in the early morning.

There were only a few people left on the second floor. Before Gu Mian even had to lift a finger, the few remaining people were covered by her elusive brother, who covered their mouths and dragged them aside.

My brother was incredibly powerful when he was alive, and even more so after he died.

Seeing this made Gu Mian want to die and see if she could peek at the fat man taking a bath after she died.

The director was easily grabbed by Gu Mian, and until he was grabbed by the collar, he was still angrily cursing Gu Mian for running away.

He felt his collar tighten and turned around to see the person he had been cursing standing behind him.

The rope saved for next year came in handy.

Gu Mian put a loop in the rope and hung it on the ceiling fan above her head, then put the director's head inside.

The older brother patiently held the director's body down below to prevent him from actually hanging himself.

"Put me down!" The director struggled with his head in the noose, but couldn't break free.

Gu Mian sat upright in a chair to the side: "Director, what are your thoughts on our sudden return?"

The director was too busy struggling to answer these irrelevant questions.

The gray hair on the older brother's head trembled as the director struggled. He looked up at the person who was constantly struggling and loosened his grip slightly.

The rope tightened even more, causing the director to roll his eyes.

The older brother pushed upwards again, and the person whose eyes were rolling back in their head from being choked coughed a few times and took a long breath.

Gu Mian didn't waste any more words. He stood up, walked to the fan, and poked the director's slightly swollen belly with his finger: "You know we're not from this world. Since you know that, you must know something else."

As he spoke, he forcefully poked a hole in his soft belly: "When I carried Mr. Green out, a ticket seller mentioned the word 'landing' to him. At that time, I guessed that a large number of NPCs would descend into reality in the future; and now it is certain that the dungeon is in a low-dimensional world, which means that the low-dimensional world is trying to erode the high-dimensional world... Perhaps this is the reason why global games have descended to Earth."

"Leaving that aside for now," Gu Mian looked up at the director, "do you know how the lower-dimensional world plans to land? What is the relationship between the global game and the encroachment of the lower-dimensional world?"

Gu Mian noticed a moment of confusion on the director's face, clearly not understanding what he was saying.

It seems that even the director of the reality show "Transformation" didn't know the core information, and Gu Mian was already prepared for this.

This is troublesome.

Gu Mian and her companions were deep in the mountains. If even the director didn't know much, they would have no choice but to leave the mountains to find an NPC who knew the clues. They might be caught by a group of people before they even left the mountains.

After all, two fists can't beat four hands.

At this moment, Chu Changge suddenly spoke up: "Actually, if you can't find the key NPC, there is another way to leave. This method might be more difficult in other worlds, but it is simple in this world."

"What can we do?" Gu Mian asked Chu Changge.

Chu Changge pushed up his glasses: "The lower-dimensional world exists through a 'medium,' just as the secondary world depends on books to exist. The old human world must also depend on something."

If the medium upon which this world depends is destroyed, the old world will be completely destroyed.

Mediums from other worlds are hard to find, but as for the old human world...

Isn't the most prominent feature of this world the legal code that Liu Ruyan mentioned?
The law code was the faith of the people of the old world. They regarded the law code as devout believers regarded gods, which could not be violated, disobeyed, or destroyed.

This is the most likely thing to rely on.

“But the medium the old world relied on must not be in this world,” Gu Mian stroked his chin. “The second world is created by books in the real world, and the old world must also be created by something in the real world. Its object is in the real world.” Attacking the code in the old world may not be effective. Only by finding that “code” in the real world can the old world be truly destroyed.

Chu Changge glanced at the director whose head was in the noose: "Even if the code in the old world is not a direct medium, it is of the same origin as the code in reality. Your actions in the lower-dimensional world can affect the real code. Even if the old world cannot be destroyed, this copy will definitely collapse to protect itself."

Chu Changge's words were very abstract. The director, trapped in the rope, listened to their conversation with wide eyes, and it took him a while to understand what they were talking about.

The director, realizing what was happening, struggled violently: "Are you trying to defile the legal code?"

In this world, people value the legal code more than their own biological parents.

It is worth mentioning that over a million copies of the law were printed and reproduced in the past, and people treated each copy with utmost respect, placing them on a high altar for worship.

Gu Mian has no way of finding the original version of the code, so she can only start with the photocopies.

The frustrating thing is that it's probably impossible to find even a copy now.

“I saw a law code in the village school, enshrined in the middle room on the second floor,” Chu Changge said, adjusting his glasses.

A copy of the code is available, but destroying this copy is not so easy.

If destroying a copy of a legal code would cause the system to collapse, that would be terrible.
Accidents always happen. Every year in this world, some legal codes perish in fires, and some are accidentally stained, but the old world still exists.

Additional forces are needed to cause the instance to crash.

Gu Mian looked at Chu Changge: "That pen."

The pen I got during the dragon boat event.

Chu Changge understood and took out the [Supernatural Editor Simulator]

You can alter reality within your capabilities; if you write "disappear" on a bed, the bed will disappear; if you write "open" on a locked door, it will open by itself.

Using a pen to amend the legal code is most appropriate.

Gu Mian looked at the pen in Chu Changge's hand: "Then it'll be up to you..."

But before he could finish speaking, Chu Changge shook his head and handed the pen to Gu Mian: "I think it's more effective if you do this kind of thing."

But Gu Mian knew that many special items were useless in her hands.

Never mind, let's try anything. If it doesn't work out on me, I'll just let Chu Changge scribble on it.

Gu Mian stuffed the pen into her pocket and glanced out the window out of the corner of her eye.

This sight made him stop turning his head. He looked out the window and saw that the place had been surrounded by people.

Most of them were villagers with eyes gleaming with greed, mixed with a few staff members who rushed back.

It seems that someone realized the director had been kidnapped and gathered a group of people to kill Gu Mian.

“In that case, it’s unlikely we can reach the school peacefully,” Gu Mian said, looking at the people gradually gathering outside the window. “Chu Changge, you didn’t bring a hearse, did you?”

Chu Changge shook his head: "No."

That's a pity. If there were a car right now, Gu Mian definitely wouldn't have been stopped by this group of people.

Chu Changge's voice came from the side: "But the production crew's car is parked downstairs."

Upon hearing this, Gu Mian looked at the director who was still hanging in the rope loop. He reached over and groped around for a while before finally finding a set of car keys in his pocket.

"That makes it easier."

Gu Mian looked at the crowd approaching downstairs, grabbed a video camera from the table and shoved it into her brother's arms: "Such a wonderful escape from the old human world needs more people to watch it to resonate with it."

The older brother, who had been shoved with a camera, instinctively clutched the thing in his arms. Without support, the director was caught in a tight grip around the neck and was struggling desperately.

Gu Mian didn't know how to adjust the live streaming equipment, but even if he hadn't eaten pork, he had seen pigs run. He randomly switched a few control buttons and finally switched the screen to the camera that his brother was holding.

So the viewers in the old neighborhood who got up early to see if Gu Mian had been caught, turned on the TV and saw the director hanging from the fan, his face as red as a pig's liver.

Then, they saw the camera pan to reveal a smiling face on the screen.

The person on the screen opened their mouth and spoke: "Welcome everyone to the First General Assembly for the Amendment of the Old Human Code!"

Wishing everyone a lonely Qixi Festival!


(End of this chapter)