Global Collapse

Chapter 754 Startled awake by the gurgling sounds, another short and weak update.

Lockdown zone...

That's right. The southwestern area on the map is a hazy gray, and there's a note below explaining that this area is a restricted zone.

The man continued talking to himself: "Back when the killing game was still being held, Gu Mian was matched into it—of course, the upper class didn't know his name, and the wanted poster still said he was the number nine fugitive in the restricted area."
"We've gone off on a tangent. After Gu Mian was matched in, she did something that caused the restricted area to collapse, releasing the monsters inside. The upper classes of this world spent a considerable amount of effort to contain those monsters in one area. You see, it's that dark area on the map, near the original restricted area."

That's right. Gu Mian found the address of "Mining City" in the sealed-off area. This was the city that was originally in the restricted area.

At this point, the man suddenly sighed.

Gu Mian looked up at him. If she wasn't mistaken, the man was about to start telling a story.

It's like an NPC with a question mark above their head in an online game; if you click on them, they'll give you a quest.

Sure enough, two seconds after sighing, the man began to explain—

“Originally, this street wasn’t here. It was in the Valley of the Evil East that you mentioned. But that wretched Gu Mian demolished the forbidden zone, and the monsters roaming there migrated to our area. We had no choice but to move the entire street here. Because we left in such a hurry, we left a lot of our property behind.” The man said, a pained expression on his face.

No wonder he set up a roadside stall here; it turns out he couldn't afford to rent a place.

“Everyone on this street is in the same boat as me. We didn’t bring much with us, and now we can’t even afford the rent, so we’ve all gone to the Crazy Game City to look for work.” The man said, pointing to a toy store. “There are more than a dozen employees in that store, but because they can’t afford the rent, they have to hand out flyers at the game city.”

Gu Mian looked over and saw that the toy shop was called "Twelve Twelve Happy Dolls".

He awkwardly turned his head away, letting out two forced laughs to express his sympathy.

"The five locations I mentioned aren't far from here, right?" After a couple of seconds of embarrassment, Gu Mian got back to the important matter.

It doesn't look far on the map, but considering it's a restricted area, getting there might be some obstacles.

Maybe six days will pass by in a flash, and you'll still be delivering packages while your dear Louis has already kicked the bucket.

Oh wait, there are only five days left.

"It's very close. You can drive that car back and forth between here and there more than ten times a day. It's not difficult to get in either. It's said that the upper class is blocked by a few statues pieced together. There are no walls or anything. You can just walk in, or you can run in."

A statue pieced together.

It should be a broken and reassembled evil god statue. Louis mentioned it to him in the circus instance last time. The upper class found countless fragments of the same evil god statue and a complete evil god statue in a cave in a forest.

The world's higher-ups also deduced from these fragments that this world had undergone countless save/load operations.

Last time, due to time constraints, Louis didn't mention the location of the complete evil god statue.

"Oh, by the way, that secret forest you asked about earlier, there's supposedly a complete, undamaged statue inside. When the monsters invaded, I heard the upper class tried to move the statue out, but for some reason, they failed. The monsters in the sealed-off area don't dare approach the vicinity of the secret forest either, probably out of fear of that statue." The man, like a diligent plot driver, began to advance the story.

Gu Mian paused, staring at the man in front of her for a long while.

The man felt a little guilty under her gaze, touched his chin, and took a few steps back: "What are you doing... why are you making that face all of a sudden..."

The robot dog next to the man was still making impolite "hello" sounds at him.

Gu Mian put the puppy back in the shed and looked at the man again: "It's nothing, it's just that you seem to really want me to go to the restricted area."

"That's utter nonsense. I'm packing up now, no more talking to you." The man grabbed the flag next to him that read "three long and two short" and hurriedly ran off, glancing back at Gu Mian a few times as if she were a lunatic.

The sun had already set, and Gu Mian looked at the map and made some plans.

If all goes well, we can reach the lockdown area in half an hour. The five delivery addresses are very close together, and we can deliver all five packages within half an hour of arriving at the lockdown area. But right now, the most important thing is not the packages.

The man just now said that the complete statue of the evil god was in the secret forest, and that was what Gu Mian cared about most.

A complete statue of an evil god...

This is unlike any of the counterfeit or inferior ones I've seen before. It can withstand the world's rewinding. When the whole world returns to the past, the statue is still steadfastly moving towards the future.

The Seventh World is now teetering on the brink of collapse, and its luck could end at any moment.

After the Seventh World completely collapses, the curse of Earth will spread from there and reach all worlds.

At that time, Chu Changge, Xiao Qiao, Xiao Hong, and Liu Ruyan will all be finished.

Gu Mian began to imagine the fat man crying his heart out in front of the grave, but this time he was crying in front of a row of tombstones.

The evil god statue can ignore the world's rollback, so it might also be able to stop the spread of the Earth's curse—though that's unlikely.

If the statue is really that useful, then I'd be lucky enough to steal it from the amusement park.

In short, such an impressive statue must have some purpose.

Gu Mian decided to go to the secret forest to see if there would be any surprises there.

Time was of the essence, so Gu Mian picked up the compass and looked at it before driving southwest, where the restricted area was located.

There must be a lot of monsters in the restricted area; luckily, he brought the chainsaw with him this time.

The robot dog, which had just been stuffed back into the shed, struggled to stick its head out again and started conducting a questionnaire survey.

As dusk fell, Gu Mian, hearing the repeated calls of "Are you happy?", accelerated wildly towards the desolate wilderness.

[Fatty]: Brother Chu and 007 have met up, but the doctor hasn't come out to say a word. The doctor hasn't spoken for a day and a night. Is he in danger?
In the ten-person group chat, the fat guy was making a lot of noise.

Chu Changge and 007, who had already met up at the game center, ignored the fat guy in the group chat and were focused on studying the flyer.

As Chu Changge looked at the flyers, he said, "These are flyers I got from the upper-class residential area."

"You've entered the upper-class residential area?" 007 asked, somewhat surprised.

"Use this." Chu Changge pointed to his chest, where a school badge was pinned.

This school badge changes Chu Changge's player nickname to "Chu Beauty" and can also change the user's appearance, but the appearance can only be changed once a day, and each time it lasts for thirty minutes.

Chu Changge disguised himself as an upper-class person and wandered around the upper-class residential area, eventually obtaining the flyer in his hand.

It's about that variety show.

007 looked at the large headline at the very top of the flyer—

"The first installment of 'Trial and Crown' is about to make a stunning debut."

GuGu secretly browsed the comment sections of other pigeons and found them being mercilessly attacked. Feeling extremely ashamed and uncomfortable, GuGu turned on their computer, resolved to work harder, and thoroughly mocked the other pigeons.

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