Global Collapse

Chapter 537 Welcome to Night City... Sorry, wrong set.
At this moment, Gu Mian and Keke were walking in the dense forest.

Although it's already October, small insects still fly around in places with lots of plants, and they occasionally land on their faces and collars, but now is not the time to worry about that.

Coco looked at the ground as she moved forward: "Zhao Shuang must have become a ghost after regaining her memories. I guess there are important clues that can stimulate Zhao Shuang's memories on the other side where Cang Yue and the others went."

The two are now heading in that direction.

Gu Mian nodded slightly in front: "Zhao Shuang probably saw his own corpse directly."

Nothing is more stimulating to the memory than seeing one's own corpse.

Coco nodded in agreement.

“The dungeon is indeed very malicious towards players,” her voice came from behind. “From the very beginning, it misled us into thinking that killing Zhao Shuang was the way out, but if Cang Yue had really stabbed her back then, Zhao Shuang would have immediately realized that she wouldn’t die from being stabbed.”

"Then, helping her regain her memories was also a dead end. It can be said that from the moment we entered this instance, our direction has never been correct," Coco said solemnly.

This is an extremely deceptive instance designed to wipe out all players in one fell swoop.

Coco continued, "Now I'm even more suspicious of the true purpose of this global game..."

She guessed that many players were starting to have doubts now.

This global game claims to promote human evolution, but it hasn't actually done anything substantial to advance human progress.

From the cold wave and plague of last winter, to events that resulted in real death, to the pitifully small amount of resources given after clearing dungeons, to the current closure of the dungeon death protection mechanism.

“I think this is a human extermination plan.” Coco said, looking up at the back of Gu Mian’s head.

She knew that Gu Mian was special in this game.

Special people are bound to carry important missions or enormous conspiracies.

“Indeed,” Gu Mian, who was walking ahead, said, “I suppose after a while, a few months, or half a year or a year, this game will be exposed, and someone will discover the truth.”

The only sound in the silent forest was the crunching of shoes on the grass.

No one answered him.

With a series of monotonous footsteps, Gu Mian stopped, and the only sound in the woods disappeared.

He looked back and saw nothing but empty space behind him, only branches swaying slightly in the wind and weeds that had been trampled and were trying to recover.

Cocoa disappeared.

"Tick-tick" "Tick-tick" "Tick-tick"

All I could see was darkness, and I could hear the sound of water dripping.

Coco opened her eyes wide.

She didn't get used to it for a while.

Just moments ago, everything was bright in front of her, and the back of Gu Mian's head was less than two meters in front of her.

Suddenly everything went black, her nose was filled with a damp, musty smell, and she could hear the sound of water dripping. The cold enveloped her, and Coco shivered.

What is this place?
She calmed herself down, took out a flashlight, wrapped the light-emitting end with her clothes, several layers of clothing, before carefully pressing the flashlight switch.

The flashlight, now covered by clothing, was much dimmer, illuminating only a distance of half a meter.

Coco held the modified flashlight and shone it to the side, where she saw damp earthen walls on both sides and above her head.

She seemed to be in a cave. The spot where Coco was standing wasn't narrow; a person could stand upright there. The cave was about a meter wide.

She took the flashlight and walked a few steps forward and backward.

As you walk backward, the tunnel becomes narrower and lower, while as you walk forward, the passage becomes wider and the ceiling gradually rises.

After taking a few steps, she was certain.

Gu Mian didn't come with her when she arrived here alone.

Coco understood that this was the ghost's doing; the ghost had found her.

She stood there for a few seconds, then slowly walked forward. The cave became more and more open as she walked, and the sound of dripping water came from ahead.

As Coco quietly made her way forward in the darkness, she suddenly saw a pair of shoes facing her in the darkness ahead, illuminated by her flashlight.

She abruptly turned off her flashlight, but the other person had already seen her.

"Coco?" Wang Chuan's voice came from the darkness.

Wang Chuan? Is that him?
Before Coco could speak, her vision lit up; Wang Chuan had turned on his flashlight.

She saw Wang Chuan's face appear in front of her.

Coco instinctively checked his player panel first, and only breathed a sigh of relief when she found that the player panel could be opened.

Meanwhile, Wang Chuan on the other side kept glancing at the top of her head, clearly trying to open Coco's player panel as well.

Fortunately, both of their player panels could be opened normally.

After confirming each other's identities, the two breathed a sigh of relief.

"What are you doing here?" Coco frowned. Wang Chuan also looked troubled: "I don't know either. I was looking for you in the woods when everything suddenly went dark. I thought I had gone blind until I turned on my flashlight and found myself here."

It seems Wang Chuan was also brought in by a ghost. Coco looked around warily: "How long have you been in here?"

"It's been about ten minutes..."

For the past ten minutes, Wang Chuan had been carefully walking along the wall. He wanted to call Gu Mian, but perhaps because he was in a cave, his phone had no signal.

"How did you get in?" Wang Chuan asked Keke.

Coco replied, "Just like you, I just walked in suddenly."

Wang Chuan swept the surroundings with his flashlight: "I guess it was done by a ghost."

Coco nodded: "She found us."

An eerie silence fell over the cave, broken only by the distant sound of dripping water.

Wang Chuan paused for a moment: "Gu Mian, isn't he here?"

Coco looked in the direction from which the dripping water sound came: "I don't think ghosts would be that desperate."

Bringing Gu Mian in might cause this cave to collapse.

Looking around at the darkness, Wang Chuan's heart was also shrouded in gloom. He knew that the ghost had found them, and that everything he did next would probably be a desperate struggle.

A strong will to survive spurred him to action again: "Let's find an exit first."

He quickened his pace as he spoke, continuing to move forward; he didn't want to die here.

Coco followed behind Wang Chuan: "By the way, Xia Jianren's phone is off. Have you run into him?"

Wang Chuan shook his head as he walked forward: "I didn't run into anyone. I originally wanted to meet up with you guys, but I didn't expect to be brought here before I could even find you. Judging from your tone, you probably didn't see him either, right?"

His voice was hurried and soft, as if he was afraid of being overheard.

Coco nodded: "He left with Cang Yue and Zhao Shuang. Cang Yue is already dead, so I guess he's probably in grave danger too."

Wang Chuan sighed, but he didn't have time to cry for his teammates.

Now he himself is in a precarious situation.

The sound of dripping water ahead grew clearer, as if they were very close to the source of the sound.

Wang Chuan hoped that the entrance to the tunnel was ahead; running out would be much safer than being stuck in this dark tunnel.

As he thought about it, he quickened his pace, but just then, he suddenly noticed that his flashlight had started flickering, its light dimming as if it were about to run out of power.

"What's going on?" He stared in astonishment at the flashlight. He always checked the flashlight's battery level before entering a dungeon, and he would never let it run out of power halfway through.

He immediately realized that not only was his flashlight malfunctioning, but Coco's flashlight behind him was also starting to flicker.

Immediately afterwards, the two heard a loud rustling sound behind them, as if something was crawling behind them.

They immediately understood.

It's a ghost!

run!
Needless to say, the two of them took off running, and their flashlights went out after flashing a few times.

The surroundings were completely dark.

The two could only run forward, touching the wall as they went.

Since we can't see, our hearing becomes even more acute.

They could only hear a rustling sound rapidly approaching behind them!
The ground was uneven and bumpy, causing them to trip from time to time, but each time they quickly regained their balance and continued running forward.

Coco's physical strength was not as good as Wang Chuan's to begin with, and she had been walking behind him, so the distance between the two naturally grew larger and larger.

She could only hear Wang Chuan getting further and further away from her, while the crawling sound behind her was getting closer and closer, until it was almost right in front of her ear.

But just then, she suddenly heard the sound of someone falling to the ground in front of her, followed by a scream from Wang Chuan.

He seemed to trip over something and fell down.

Coco, who was behind her, didn't have time to slow down. She rushed forward and stepped on something soft and protruding. She lost her balance and fell forward.

Her forehead slammed hard against the ground, and her head was buzzing.

The flashlight slipped from his hand and rolled away with a gurgling sound.

Coco quickly came to her senses, turned around, and sat up, wanting to continue running away. Suddenly, she felt something dripping onto her face. After a moment of confusion, she heard the incredibly clear sound of dripping water, as if it were coming from above her.

Suddenly, the flashlight that had rolled to the side started shining again.

The white light illuminated the darkness, and Coco looked up in the direction the sound came from.

She saw...

Cang Yue's face was suspended above her head, staring at her with wide eyes.

Today was another happy day of writing! Once I finish it in my drafts, I can start my new book! I've already thought of the title for the book after that!
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