Global Collapse

Chapter 727 Gugu is leaving
“We should be on the eighth floor,” 007 said, looking at the grid screen on the wall in front of him. “There’s an opening in the floor of this room that leads downstairs, but I just looked closely at the room downstairs, and it doesn’t lead to the floor below that.”

"So we can only move around on the eighth floor and the seventh floor below, right?" Coco, who was squatting on the ground examining the corpse, looked up. "It seems like there are only the three of us on this floor. Gu Mian and the others are probably on other floors. Judging from the grid on the screen, this building should have eight floors. If we can only move around on the seventh and eighth floors, then the others can probably only move around on two floors as well."

The corpse at Coco's feet was bluish-purple, its bulging eyes were bloodshot, and a long tongue was sticking out of its mouth. Several loops of hemp rope were tightly wrapped around its neck; the person had been strangled.

The fat man looked at the gruesome corpse on the ground and took a few steps back: "The doctor and Brother Chu aren't on the same floor as us. I wonder if they're together... Speaking of which, I saw eight people enter this instance just now. Besides the three of us, there's the doctor and Brother Chu. Who are the other three?"

When the special instance appears, neither Xiao Qiao nor Liu Ruyan are at home; they are not in this instance.

007 paused for a few seconds before speaking: "They are the three locked in the storage room on the first floor. I was in the storage room when the special instance appeared. Since I came in, the three of them should have come in as well."

The fat man suddenly realized: "Oh right, I almost forgot about the three of them. That makes a total of eight people."

I wonder if those three people are on the same floor as Doctor Chu.

Fatty tried to open the group chat (10 people) to contact Gu Mian, but the group chat wouldn't open.

This instance disables all special items, including Xiao Qiao's [10-player group chat].

"We can't get in touch with the doctor, and we don't know which floor he's on," the fat man said, looking up with a worried expression.

007 looked down at the corpse on the ground: "The dungeon is called Corpse Elimination Game. The task is for us to connect and eliminate corpses of the same type. I see a corpse that was drowned in a water tank in the next room, 802. I think the 'corpses of the same type' mentioned in the dungeon probably refers to how the corpses died."

Coco chimed in, "It's like a match-3 game. If we drag three or more corpses that died the same way into a row of adjacent rooms, those identical corpses will be eliminated. Let's figure out the types of corpses on the seventh and eighth floors first."

As Coco spoke, she glanced at the countdown on the screen next to her: "We only have five hours, time is of the essence and we can't waste any."

Upon hearing this, the fat man quickly pulled out paper and pen from his pocket: "I'll draw a diagram to record it."

The three of them immediately made the most of their time, moving around the room. The fat man even drew an identical grid on a piece of paper, based on the large screen next to him, and recorded the types of corpses in the seven or eight layers of the grid.

It took the three of them about twenty minutes to find all the corpses on the two floors.

The countdown has now reached 4:35:29, with four hours and thirty-five minutes remaining.

The three members of 007 were gathered in room 701, looking at the record chart in the fat man's hand.

The fat man analyzed the paper in his hand: "In these two floors, there are three people who were strangled, three who were burned to a crisp, three who were headless, three who died from overeating, three who drowned, and one who was dismembered."

“There’s only one dismembered body on our floor that can’t be eliminated. We can only cooperate with the people on the floors below.” 007’s finger stopped on room 708 on the paper, which was the room where the dismembered body was located. “Have the floors below place a dismembered body in rooms 508 and 608. That way, the body in our room 708 will be the same type as the bodies in the two rooms below, forming a vertical line to be eliminated together.”

“But the people on the lower floors don’t know the situation of the bodies on our floor, they don’t know that we have a dismembered body left over.” Coco frowned.

“Yeah,” the fat man pursed his lips, “we need to let the people on the lower floors know what we need.” 007 looked at the grid screen on the opposite wall: “So we have to complete the missions that the dungeon releases irregularly. Right now there’s nothing in these grids. I guess every time we complete a mission, the location of one or more corpses will appear in the grid.”

The fat man was very troubled: "Then we have to reveal all the corpses on these two floors so that the people on the lower floors will know that we have a dismembered corpse here."

“It seems that people on different floors need to help each other. Corpses that cannot be eliminated on one floor need to be eliminated by adjacent floors. So it’s best to do tasks to unlock all the corpse locations on the grid.” Coco let out a long sigh. “Only by seeing the big picture can we make the right decision.”

“It’s quite a coincidence that we have three bodies on this floor,” the fat man said, scratching his head. “Except for the dismembered one, all the bodies on these two floors are in groups of three. Can we eliminate all the other three-body groups and leave only the dismembered one to be eliminated along with the bodies on the floors below?”

Coco looked at the table drawn by the fat man: "No, the extra dismembered corpse on our seventh and eighth floors must be combined with the three corpses on the floors below to be eliminated. The fifth and sixth floors below will also likely have extra corpses, which may need to be combined with a certain type of corpse on our floors to be eliminated."
"If we eliminate all the corpses that can be eliminated as soon as we come up, then the people on the lower floors will be in trouble, because they won't be able to eliminate the extra corpses that need to be connected to us."

At this moment, 007's expression suddenly turned grim: "I thought of a problem. If there are three or more corpses of the same type on a certain floor, they can all be eliminated. After he discovered this, he immediately eliminated all the corpses on the floor."

"Then the extra corpses on the adjacent floors cannot be linked to and eliminated from the corpses on this person's floor, because the floor where this person is located is already empty."

The fat man's eyes widened: "Like that dismembered corpse on our floor, it needs to be connected with three identical corpses on the fifth or sixth floor below it to be eliminated. But if all the corpses on the lower floors have already been eliminated, then we can't do anything about this dismembered corpse. We can only stare helplessly and wait for it to turn into a ghost!"

So vicious!

This dungeon is too vicious!

In this situation, you can rest easy as long as you eliminate all the corpses on your floor. The description says that the vengeful ghosts that turn into corpses cannot penetrate the walls, and ghosts from other floors cannot come to your floor.

If a normal person finds that all the corpses on their floor can be eliminated, their first reaction would probably be to clear the floor and wait for the countdown to end, which would cut off the chance of survival for players on the adjacent floors above and below.

Meanwhile, Gu Mian, who was on the fifth or sixth floor, had already searched two floors.

He was surprised to find that he was particularly lucky this time. On the fifth or sixth floor where he was, there were three people who had been strangled, three who had been burned to death, three who had died from overeating, three who were soaking in a vat, and four whose bodies were in very dismembered state.

The sixteen corpses on these two levels can be eliminated by themselves. After all the corpses are eliminated, he can lie down and sleep until the dungeon ends.

But Gu Mian didn't move the body immediately; instead, she stared at the screen on the wall with an 8x8 grid drawn on it.

He was the only one on the fifth or sixth floor; the others had been assigned to other floors.

He didn't think that the corpses on other floors could be eliminated by themselves. If everyone did that, there would be no point in having this dungeon. They could just give the completion rewards to them directly without even entering the dungeon.

Thank you Fox Snake for the generous donation (づ￣3￣)づ╭～ I worked hard today and wrote two chapters to post together. I'm so proud of myself!

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