Global Collapse

Chapter 519 You're something else!
Cang Yue and the others felt a chill run down their spines.

They didn't leave this building! They're still here!

"Don't open the door!" Cang Yue raised her voice slightly to remind Xia Jianren that as long as the ghost was still in the building, they were not safe.

Opening the door and going out in this situation would undoubtedly be suicidal.

Without Cang Yue's instruction, Xia Jianren had already withdrawn his hand and even took several steps back away from the gate.

He looked up at the ceiling in a panic: "But we can't stay here forever. I guess they'll come back to this room sooner or later... But the ghosts didn't come into the room just now. Is it because they can't get in?"

Cang Yue said softly, "The dungeon has only just started. Of course, the ghosts won't kill all the players within half an hour of the dungeon starting. Previous dungeons have always followed a pattern."

In other words, there's not enough time yet; it's not time for people to die.

As Cang Yue said this, she glanced at the clock. It was already eight o'clock, and it was pitch black outside the window.

Upon hearing this, Xia Jianren also became very anxious: "Then we..."

But before he could finish speaking, everything suddenly went black before their eyes.

power cut.

The sudden darkness touched Zhao Shuang's fragile nerves. She opened her mouth in fear and screamed, but Cang Yue, who strode over, covered her mouth.

"Don't shout!" Cang Yue covered Zhao Shuang's mouth tightly to prevent her from doing anything stupid again.

The other players were also startled, but they quickly calmed down and made no other noise except for trembling a few times.

The group of people noticed that when the power went out, the footsteps upstairs also stopped, and the room fell into an eerie silence.

The sudden darkness made Coco unable to see anything around her. Before her eyes could adjust, a jumble of sounds entered her ears, like the sharp sound of tires rubbing against the ground, the noisy screams of many people, and the sound of something falling to the ground and rolling around.

And beyond these sounds... there seemed to be many people coming downstairs.

They had all clearly heard the sound. Coco felt Xia Jianren trembling beside her and heard his faint voice: "Have those things up there come down?"

The screams, seemingly coming from nowhere, grew louder and louder, filling the entire room with heart-wrenching cries. No one was in the mood to answer his question anymore; everyone was pale-faced, covering their ears, their heads throbbing from the deafening noise.

During this long and agonizing ordeal, Xia Jianren seemed to hear the sound of people coming downstairs stop, stopping at their door.

At the same time, another piercing sound suddenly rang out.

It's a telephone ringing.

The employee dormitory is equipped with a company phone, and there is no charge for internal connections.

There was no caller ID on the phone; the small screen only flickered on and off, looking particularly eerie in the darkness.

It didn't sound like a human calling; it sounded like a ghost calling.

Cang Yue stared wide-eyed at the small screen that was the only light source in the room, bit her lip, and looked at Zhao Shuang: "You answer it."

She knew the call was most likely directed at Zhao Shuang.

Zhao Shuang's hand trembled as she reached for the constantly ringing phone, and she picked up the receiver and held it to her ear.

All that could be heard from the other side was a chilling statement, like the hollow voices of a group of people gathered together: "We're back."

It is 8:30 now.

The weather wasn't good today; dark clouds covered most of the sky, leaving only a dim moon peeking out.

Gu Mian was studying a phone booth at the entrance of the residential area.

This phone booth is no different from a real-world phone booth; it has glass panels on all four sides and a landline phone inside.

The only difference is that there is a "call a car" button in the lower left corner of the phone.

These phone booths are very common. Gu Mian saw one on the roadside as soon as he entered the instance; he used it to call a taxi at the beginning. It has to be said, this thing looks and sounds very familiar.

If you press the "Call a Taxi" button in the lower left corner, a sweet female voice will appear: "Hello, this is Sunshine Taxi..."

Gu Mian arrived in a hurry and didn't examine the phone booth carefully.

Now that he finally had some free time, he stood in the transparent pavilion, staring intently at the landline phone in front of him, deep in thought.

After thinking for a while, Gu Mian picked up the phone and pressed the "call a car" button in the lower left corner.

It's the same familiar voice, the same familiar Sunshine Taxi.

"Hello, this is Sunshine Taxi."

"I need to call a car."

"Okay, I've noted down your address. Please wait a moment..."

The same familiar lines were uttered, without any inquiry about Gu Mian's location.

“Wait,” Gu Mian suddenly interrupted the woman’s voice, “I have a question to ask.”

"Excuse me."

"Is the Antarctic chemical plant far from here?"

There was a silence on the other end for several seconds, as if they were thinking about where this place was.

After a while, the woman's voice came again: "Excuse me, sir, there doesn't seem to be a place called Antarctic Chemical Plant nearby."

What about Shichahai?

"nor."

"Crazy Game City?"

"I'm sorry, there's no such place here."

Gu Mian searched her memory for locations and asked again, "Is there a Sweet Manor?"

The customer service representative's tone was already a bit strange, as if she thought she had encountered a lunatic, but she still patiently answered, "There seems to be a place called Sweet Manor in the next city. Do you want to go there? Now?"

As soon as Cang Yue and the others rushed out of the community gate, they saw the doctor, who had long since left the staff dormitory, idly sitting in the phone booth, seemingly making a phone call to someone.

He looked completely relaxed, a stark contrast to the players who were desperately trying to escape the staff dormitory.

After they answered the phone, they discovered that the door had been opened at some point.

Terrified, they immediately rushed out, not daring to take the elevator, and ran down the stairs directly, only daring to stop and catch their breath after running out of the community gate.

Unexpectedly, I ran into Gu Mian.

"I thought he was dead. Could he have been making phone calls here the whole time?" Xia Jianren had obviously also seen Gu Mian standing in the phone booth. "He left the dormitory just to make phone calls here? But who could he be calling in this dungeon?"

Panting, Cang Yue walked quickly to the phone booth.

The pavilion wasn't very soundproof, and Gu Mian's voice was drifting out from inside.

"No, I don't plan to go to that place in the middle of the night. Um... Miss, I also wanted to ask if you've ever watched a variety show called Crazy Guessing Words... So, what about Sweet Lovers?"

Cang Yue stood in front of the phone booth, her eyes wide open.

They barely escaped from the staff dormitory, their hearts pounding with fear, barely daring to breathe. And here he was, in a phone booth, calling some woman to ask if she had watched any variety shows.
"You're really something!" Cang Yue said.

Today was another thrilling day.
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(End of this chapter)