Global Collapse

For some reason, Gu Mian sensed a sense of satisfaction from the mad building manager's tone, as if he had finally gotten his revenge.

Before he could turn around, the crazy building manager walked up to him and plopped down next to Gu Mian.

He then pushed aside the obstructing plates on the table and laid out several cards in a row.

"Your identity cards have been received."

Gu Mian looked down at the identity card on the table.

They look somewhat like playing cards, with six cards in total, five of which depict people wearing crowns and resembling kings.

The remaining card depicts a gaunt slave in shackles.

Their identity is quite clear.

The five kings are the upper class cards, and the remaining slave card is the lower class card.

“There are five of you in total, but to avoid any accidents, I purchased six identity tags from the Toy Goose Special Items Factory.”

The crazy building manager has included Dai Huanhuan in his calculations.

In fact, Gu Mian did not intend to take Dai Huanhuan to the inner area. Dai Huanhuan only needed to steal some things outside to sell and pay off her debts.

Gu Mian reached out and touched one of the identity plaques depicting a king. The moment she touched it, an information panel appeared in front of her.

[The Most Popular Person in Paradise World Identity Card (In-App Purchase Version)]

[Introduction: It's exhausting. There are always NPCs who think the amusement park is fun and want to go there to experience life, but everyone's appearance would make them look like lower-class people there. So I created this identity card. If you carry it with you, you can fool everyone and your appearance and identity will become legitimate upper-class people.]

[Function: The moment you carry it with you, you become the superior Nicholas Zhao Si. You will naturally disguise yourself as a superior person in the Paradise World. The disguise disappears when the identity card leaves your side (can be reused)]

The in-app purchase version should be a special item that is exclusively available for purchase by NPCs in the lower-dimensional world.

Perhaps because these items were sold to their own people, the product descriptions were extremely rudimentary, just like the staff meals, which were full of perfunctory attitude.

Gu Mian then looked at the descriptions of the other four upper-class identity cards in turn; apart from the names, the other contents were the same.

"Nicholas Zhao Si, Nicholas Wang Er, Nicholas Chen Wu..." What a huge Nicholas family!

The description of the only lower-class identity card was even more outrageous.

[The Spider's Leg Street No. 1 Lower Class Identity Card (In-App Purchase Version)]

[Introduction: To be honest, I really don't know why I made this. If you throw everyone's appearance into the amusement park world, they'll look like the lowest of the low. Why bother with these identity cards to disguise ourselves? I bet they'll be discontinued soon.]

【Function: The moment you carry it with you, you become a lower-class person. No one will pay attention to the name of a lower-class person. You can choose whatever name you want. The disguise disappears when the ID card leaves your possession (can be reused)】

The number of upper-class and lower-class identity cards is not equal. The mad building manager took the initiative to explain to Gu Mian: "I don't recommend that anyone other than you use the lower-class identity card. This is for the sake of your companions. Using a lower-class identity to participate in variety shows will expose you to many dangers, and you don't want your companions to get hurt, do you..."

Having spent a considerable amount of time in this world, he naturally knew how lowly the status of the lower classes in Paradise was—worse than that of pigs and dogs.

Of course, there was another reason why there was only one Lower Class Identity Card. The crazy building manager coughed awkwardly twice: "The Lower Class Identity Card was discontinued a long time ago because of poor sales. I managed to get this one for you with great difficulty."

Gu Mian knew that the crazy building manager wouldn't be so considerate; sure enough, the reason below was the main one.

It is worth mentioning that the lower-class identity card also came with an additional item—a vaccination certificate.

It was a simple, green-covered booklet printed with the words "Spider Legs No. 1 Street Lower Class Vaccine Certificate".

It's somewhat like the vaccination certificate that owners give their pets before a global game starts.

“The lower-class people selected to participate in the variety show are not chosen randomly. In order to make the show more entertaining, the upper-class people will select the lower-class people from relatively clean residential areas. Spider Leg No. 1 Street is within the selection range.

"Furthermore, to avoid the selection of lower-class individuals who may carry infectious diseases and infect the audience, only those with complete vaccination records are eligible to participate. I've already prepared your vaccination record; I'll help you sneak in, but whether you get selected is entirely up to you."

Gu Mian opened the vaccination record book.

There were no names, no genders, no information about the person, only a few lines of vaccine records.

[Plague vaccine has been administered]

[Black blood disease vaccine has been administered]

[Distortion fever vaccine has been administered]

Even if they had a vaccination record book, the upper class wouldn't bother registering the names of the lower and upper classes on it.

"So you can leave now, right?" The mad building manager had provided everything he could, and now he was just hoping that Gu Mian and the others could leave this place as soon as possible.

Gu Mian shook her head at his longing gaze and pointed to the flyer on the table: "Not yet, the variety show is still six days away from starting."

And so began the nightmarish week for the crazy building manager.

These past few days, Gu Mian and his cronies have been wandering around his game store, frightening countless customers who came there to buy things.

Over the course of a few days, the number of customers in the arcade decreased significantly, but the number of complaint letters in the "building manager's mailbox" increased dramatically. The small mailbox was completely full every day, and it was almost impossible to send any new complaint letters.

Many people have complained that Gu Mian is loitering in the game center and hope that the building manager can give him a just punishment.

What's even more infuriating is that one of these complaint letters was written by Gu Mian.

They complained that there were no shops selling picture frames and chin implants in the game arcade, and urged the "crazy building manager" to open one as soon as possible.

Not only that, Gu Mian would go into each store every day, asking if they had stocked picture frames and chin implants that day.

The store managers were in a terrible state and went to complain to the crazy building manager.

The crazy building manager had no choice but to personally find the things Gu Mian wanted and hand them to him, hoping that he would behave himself.

With the upper-class identity card, they also had packages to deliver.

The delivery missions for the ten picture frames from the Xiapin Sightseeing Garden and the five chin implants from the Kuangxiang Plastic Surgery Hospital were completed without any obstacles.

"Tomorrow is the start date of the variety show. The upper class will definitely go to Spider Leg Street No. 1 to select the lower class participants. Gu Mian, you can go today." In a bookstore, Gu Mian, Chu Changge, and 007 sat at a long table discussing the upcoming variety show schedule.

These past few days, Gu Mian has learned about the setup and general process of the variety show stage from the crazy building manager.

“This is the map of the variety show venue that the crazy building manager gave me.” Gu Mian spread out a site structure diagram on the table. “This used to be a stadium, but it was abandoned and then converted into the variety show venue by the upper class.”

Even though it has been renovated, it still retains its original general outline.

“The original venue was roughly oval-shaped, and the stage was right here, in the middle.” Gu Mian pointed to the center of the construction diagram with a small wooden stick, and then pointed to the surrounding ovals. “Surrounding the stage is an oval-shaped audience seating area.”

"However, the original audience seats were too many and the venue was too large, so people at the back could not see the stage in the middle. Therefore, the upper class demolished the original audience seats and built nine rings of seats right next to the stage in the middle."

He pulled the small wooden stick out of his pocket out of nowhere. It looked like the tool the fortune teller had used to ask for directions at the food processing plant. He didn't know why it ended up in his pocket. Gu Mian guessed that Xiao Hong had probably stolen it and stuffed it in.

It works quite well, though.

Gu Mian skillfully used the fortune teller's stick to tap around on the drawing.

Meanwhile, the fortune teller in the apartment was turning over the pockets of his clothes one by one: "Strange, where did my fortune telling slips go? I clearly remember putting them in my pocket..." (End of this chapter)