Global Collapse

Chapter 777 The future is bright
"Come on, why aren't you going?" Gu Mian pulled the man and warmly invited him to ride on her motorcycle.

To everyone's surprise, the man who had just been lying on the ground, unable to move even a little, suddenly became much better.

He opened his eyes wide and forced a healthy smile: "Ah! I suddenly feel fine, I'm okay, I'm healthy! You can go now, don't worry about me!"

The other person, who wasn't held back by Gu Mian, had already scrambled to their feet and fled the scene of the crime.

The three onlookers realized something was wrong as soon as the beard fell down, and they quickly left, staring at the night sky and saying things like "The sun is so bright today."

Seeing his companions leaving him, the man's healthy smile almost crumbled. He raised his hand, wanting to push Gu Mian away and escape when she wasn't looking, but he didn't dare.

In the end, all he could do was keep repeating, "I'm fine, I'm okay, I'm really okay, I'm fine..."

Gu Mian looked at the man in front of her, shook her head and sighed, "His head is so badly injured, I have to take responsibility."

The man could no longer maintain his smile, and his expression turned as if he had lost his parents.

Gu Mian bent down, picked up the mustache from the ground, slapped it on her face, and then pulled the man toward her motorcycle.

The man was a head shorter than Gu Mian and was thin. Even if he was unwilling, he couldn't resist and could only let Gu Mian pull him to the car.

It was only then that Gu Mian realized that her motorcycle had changed at some point, with two more wheels growing out from the sides of the rear wheel.

He suddenly remembered that when he was sprinting earlier, he felt that the motorcycle wasn't fast enough and wished it could have two more wheels.

After this idea came to mind, the car's speed did indeed increase. Could it be that those two wheels grew out at that time?
But he's on NPC Street now, which is far from the Secret Forest. Even at this distance, how could the evil god still hear his wish?

Gu Mian sensed that something was wrong.

He glanced at the upside-down city in the sky behind him, then turned back and grabbed the man who was trying to sneak away, forcibly pressing him into the back seat: "Behave yourself."

Then Gu Mian got back on the four-wheeled motorcycle, accelerated, and continued heading south.

As Gu Mian passed the truck full of luggage, she saw four other NPCs hurriedly loading their luggage onto it. When they saw Gu Mian riding over, they quickly hid behind the truck, afraid of being caught in the crossfire.

The man sitting behind Gu Mian craned his neck, staring longingly at the four people behind the truck, as if hoping one of them would step forward and say a few words to him.

But before his longing gaze could be seen, the motorcycle sped past, leaving only a trail of dust in its wake.

The man desperately pulled his neck back, feeling that his future was bleak.

"Do you know which way to Crazy Game City?" Just as the man was imagining his future despair, Gu Mian, who was in front of him, suddenly asked him.

Are you going to wreak havoc on the arcade?

The man initially wanted to righteously refuse outright, but then he thought that if Gu Mian had other goals, she might let him go. However, giving an immediate answer would make him seem too eager.

So he pretended to hesitate for a while, as if he were fighting with his own heart, and finally gritted his teeth and made a reluctant look: "It's only an hour's walk southeast."

He thought he had concealed it well, but Gu Mian had already seen the corners of his mouth turn up in the rearview mirror because he couldn't control himself.

Just then, the voice of the mechanical dog suddenly came from behind: "Are you happy?"

The man was startled and turned around to look.

Suddenly, a camera popped out of the large vat behind him and was pointed directly at him.

Upon closer inspection, he exclaimed, "Isn't this the delivery handling machine from Bird Thief Express?" The mechanical dog was indeed something Gu Mian had smuggled from Bird Thief Express. When passing by the delivery shed, Gu Mian had taken a special look and discovered that the tricycle he had driven away earlier had returned to its original position due to the rewind function.

"This thing was originally a happiness survey robot on the street, but the bird thief courier shop owner stole it and modified it into her delivery worker;" Perhaps because he felt a sense of familiarity upon seeing something familiar, the man became more talkative, "However, it often malfunctions and comes to my shop to cause damage at least three days a week."

"Your shop?" To be honest, Gu Mian didn't know the name or purpose of the man behind her.

The man remained silent for a moment, reluctant to tell Gu Mian too much about himself, but fearing she might do something monstrous to him in a fit of anger, he could only reluctantly say, "My shop is right next to Bird Thief Express, it's called 'Loan-to-Loan'."

"What was your name?" Gu Mian didn't hear clearly.

The man raised his voice again, bringing his mouth close to Gu Mian's ear: "Call it 'Loan-to-Pass-On'!"

"It doesn't sound like a legitimate store."

"I'm in the loan business. Lately, all industries are in a slump, and everyone's short of cash, so a lot of people are coming to me for loans;" the man said, his face contorted with disgust. "But most people can't pay it back, so I had to hire thugs to collect on my behalf. But then my own cash flow dried up, so I borrowed from other shops that offered loans..."

Even without being told, Gu Mian could already imagine what would happen next.

"Even so, I can't get the loans back, and I can't pay back the money I owe. I can only try to find a place to work to earn money and pay off the loans at the same time." The man's tone revealed a hint of grievance as he said this.

He originally came back today to pack his bags and then go to Crazy Game City to find a job.

Unexpectedly, a motorcycle suddenly appeared and hit him.

Although he was not seriously injured at the time, he suddenly had a good idea to make money and wanted to get more money from the perpetrator.

Now he wishes he could slap his past self to death. Not only has he failed to make any money, but he's probably doomed too.

Thinking of this, he couldn't hold back, and tears of regret welled up in his eyes.

Gu Mian still felt somewhat guilty towards the victim: "It's okay, stay with me and I'll help you find a solution."

Since participating in the variety show to save Louis would involve harming many upper-class people anyway, it might as well rob them of their money and give to the poor while he's harming them.

"Really?" The man wiped away the tears that were about to spill, feeling that Gu Mian's image in front of him suddenly became tall and majestic.

"Really?" Gu Mian asked while plotting how to exploit the upper class, "I still don't know your name."

"My name is Dai Huanhuan."

I never expected that this man with the sour face would have such a cheerful name.

At this moment, Gu Mian suddenly remembered the fortune teller she had met on the NPC street before the rollback. Come to think of it, she didn't even know the man's name, but at least he had given her directions.

"What's the name of that fortune teller on the street with the three dashes and two short lines on his flag?" Gu Mian asked.

"What?" Dai Huanhuan seemed not to have heard clearly.

"Isn't there a fortune teller on your street? What's his name?"

After hearing Gu Mian's question, Dai Huanhuan stared at the back of his head with a strange look for a while before speaking: "There have never been any fortune tellers on our street."

If you don't work hard when you're young, you'll regret it when you're old.

Previously, I wouldn't update my manuscripts and my hands would break from coding.