Global Collapse

Chapter 670 Ghost Faces Are Harmful Ghost Faces Are Harmful
There were ten people in total on this team building trip.

Nine of them were players identified by the instance.

The remaining NPC is named Liu Yin, who is their colleague and team-building driver.

After boarding the bus, the different groups sat together. Gu Mian, Chu Changge, and Xu Xingcheng sat in the seats closest to the door, which was the perfect escape spot chosen by Gu Mian.

Wen Qin and the other three sat behind them. The remaining two lone wolves, Su Lian and Hao Laoshi, sat in the front not far from the driver's seat, while Hao Laoshi tried to stay as far away from Chu Changge as possible. Not daring to stray too far from the others, he sat near Su Lian, who was also a lone wolf.

Wen Qin Tan Jiu originally wanted to gather the nine people together to discuss matters related to this instance.

But Su Lian and Hao Laoshi were sitting so far away. He wanted to call them over, but these two were very close to Liu Yin, so it would be strange to call them over to sit here.

Having no other option, he had to use his eyes and gestures to give hints.

The two men saw his hint but made no move.

Su Lian gave him a kind smile, as if she didn't understand what he meant.

Hao Laoshi glanced at him and then turned his head away, no longer looking in his direction.

"Who are these people?" Wen Qin asked, puzzled. "How have these two players, who are completely oblivious to social cues, survived until now?"
Having no other option, he had to discuss the copy with the people next door.

Gu Mian was just about to have a good discussion with Xu Xingcheng, who was sitting next to her, when she felt someone patting her from behind.

He turned around and saw Wen Qin talking about wine with a polite smile.

"Let's take this opportunity to discuss this instance."

This was probably Xu Xingcheng's first time participating in a dungeon as a player, and he became extremely interested in analyzing it. Before Gu Mian could speak, he excitedly nodded in agreement.

Wen Qin looked at the excited player and felt a little strange.

These people are all so strange.

The player whose profession is a doctor happily flashed a peace sign as soon as they entered the dungeon, and the expression of the player with the doctor was also quite abnormal.

The other player, named Chu Changge, who wore glasses, remained silent throughout the entire game, his face expressionless, as if he had a blank expression.

Wen Qin began to doubt the identities of these people as she talked about wine.

Could they be fellow patients from the same mental hospital?
Don't let your mind wander...

He forcibly suppressed the strange thoughts in his mind and said, "The mission of this instance is to survive for three days, so we must find a way out of the instance as soon as possible..."

"You've survived to this day, so you must know some of the rules of the dungeons, right?" Wen Qin said, glancing hesitantly at the three of them.

"What pattern?"—Gu Mian's face clearly showed this question.

It's no wonder he didn't know that Gu Mian never survived dungeons by relying on "patterns," so he didn't know much about that aspect.

Seeing Gu Mian's clueless attitude, Wen Qin felt a pang in her heart.

What an naive and innocent guy! How has he even survived this long?

Chu Changge, who was standing next to him, suddenly spoke up: "The path to life and the path to death. Players may find a path to life while exploring the dungeon. As long as they find the path to life and follow its instructions, they will no longer be in danger in this dungeon."
"However, you may encounter dead ends while exploring the dungeon. It may be a dead end for a single player or a dead end for the entire party."

Gu Mian does know this.

Just like in the Amnesia instance, once players help the female protagonist regain her memories, she will immediately go berserk and attack all players indiscriminately, which triggers a team wipe and a dead end.

In the recent courtroom instance, if a group of players disregarded the ghost's will and chose to acquit the criminal, it triggered a dead end. However, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the ghost would only kill that group of players, making it a somewhat solo dead end. Whether it's a solo dead end or a group wipe dead end, once triggered, it's irreversible.

The only possible ending for the player is death.

Of course, Gu Mian is an exception.

He's the kind of man who, even knowing it's a dead end, will still repeatedly jump around on it.

"If nothing unexpected happens, the period immediately after entering the dungeon is the safest time for players. As time goes on, the dungeon will become more and more dangerous, and ghosts will appear more and more frequently. In survival dungeons like this, if you want to find a way out, you should try to find one as soon as possible." Chu Changge pushed up his glasses.

Gu Mian was unaware of this.

If nothing unexpected happens, the moment a ghost tries to jump around in front of him, it will be grabbed and killed on the spot, never to return.

Therefore, Gu Mian was not clear about the frequency of ghost appearances; to him, ghosts usually only appeared once or a few times.

Wen Qin nodded in agreement as she talked about the wine, surprised that one of the three was actually a normal person.

Moreover, judging from his calm demeanor and distinctive glasses, he should be a figure similar to a "strategist".

Presumably, the other two naive girls survived thanks to the strategist's advice and planning.

He glanced at the green text above Gu Mian's head. After all, she was a healer, so it was understandable that she wasn't familiar with dungeons. Healers only needed to stay behind their teammates and buff them during dungeons; they didn't need to charge into battle.

Gu Mian was thinking that some ghosts were running too fast, and wondered if she should go to the supermarket to buy a large net to make a "ghost-catching tool" or something.

“For this kind of instance that doesn’t give a specific task, we can only guess at its clues from the name at the beginning. The name of this instance is Death Shooting… I guess it’s related to the group photo we just took.” After saying this, Wen Qin Tan Jiu gestured to Lu Cong Jin Ye Bai next to her to get the Polaroid camera and the photo.

The Polaroid camera and photos were placed in front, next to the driver's seat.

Tonight, Bai nodded, stood up, and walked to the front of the car.

He passed by Hao Laoshi and Su Lian, and came to the driver's seat.

“You want to see the photos?” Liu Yin saw Jin Yebai walking over. “They’re all here. There are four sheets of film left in the camera. You can take four more photos.”

Tonight, Bai nodded a few times to him, then took the Polaroid camera and photos from the side.

Upon seeing the photos that Jin Ye Bai had brought back, Wen Qin Tan Jiu was taken aback: "So many photos?"

Apart from that group photo, all the others were taken before they arrived.

Looking at her own face in those photos, Wen Qin felt somewhat uncomfortable.

“There must be about thirty of these,” Lemon Not Cute said, picking up a photo casually. In the photo, she was smiling at the camera, with a bus in the background. “The copy is quite intelligent; it helped us synthesize these photos.”

Meanwhile, the others had already started searching through the photos, hoping to find some clues.

Su Lian and Hao Laoshi still showed no intention of coming over; the two sat comfortably, as if their bottoms were glued to their seats.

Wen Qin Tan Jiu no longer expected these two to come and discuss the dungeon; he looked down at the photos.

“Since the dungeon is called Death Shooting, it’s probably related to these photos… Have you guys seen the Underworld?” He asked the others while flipping through the photos.

I forgot the movie's name halfway through writing this, so I searched for it online and found a whole page of scary faces that terrified me!

Mua's



(End of this chapter)