Global Collapse

Chapter 789 Everyone cried sadly upon hearing that Gu Mian had left.
A dilapidated van was parked outside Crazy Game City.

This van looks all sorts of different things, covered in colorful paint, with a huge advertisement painted in various colors on the side: Crazy Game City welcomes you.

This is probably a vehicle used by the arcade for business operations, but it has clearly been in a major accident.

Its door was dented, the front paint was chipped, and one of its taillights was damaged.

The dilapidated car stood in stark contrast to the arcade behind it, which exuded an atmosphere of commerce and money.

Gu Mian glanced at the broken-down car in front of her, then at the crazy building manager beside her.

He must have put in a lot of effort to find such a dilapidated car.

The crazy building manager pretended not to see Gu Mian's gaze on his face, and coughed twice to cover his embarrassment: "The half bucket of rice you needed has been prepared for you, it's in the trunk of the car..."

As he spoke, he became a little embarrassed and turned his face away from Gu Mian: "Don't look at me like that. Everyone has heard about your luck. How could I bear to give you a new car?"

Even a brand new car would probably end up in the junkyard after carrying Gu Mian just once.

The three hearses in the driver's license test center are a perfect example; I heard they were all thrown into the junkyard instance.

Gu Mian has already caused considerable losses to the game city in the past few days, and the crazy building manager really couldn't bear to lose another car, so he had no choice but to bring out this old, unused car from the garage.

Time was tight, so Gu Mian didn't cry and make a scene demanding that the crazy building manager change cars.

He just doubted whether the car could safely reach its destination.

We don't want the wheels to fall off before we even get there.

At that moment, the car in front of me suddenly swayed a few times, and the left rear wheel twisted and made a creaking sound.

The crazy building manager opened his eyes wide and hurriedly tried to cover it up: "Haha, although my car looks shabby on the outside, it's the sturdiest of all the cars. I specially brought this sturdiest car out of the garage just to take you, my jinx! Alright, let's get in the car!"

Gu Mian's thoughts were interrupted, thus saving the car's wheels from damage.

The crazy building manager enthusiastically shoved Gu Mian into the back seat of the car and personally fastened his seatbelt.

However, this seatbelt had broken before, and the broken part was tied back together with a knot.

Gu Mian looked down silently at the knot in her chest: "Is this the sturdiest car of all your vehicles?"

The crazy building manager pretended not to hear, quickly climbed into the front door of the car, sat in the driver's seat, and stepped on the gas.

The van struggled to start and drove away, carrying the two of them.

Before she had driven far, Gu Mian heard a series of noises coming from behind the car. Gu Mian turned around curiously and saw the gate of Crazy Game City not far behind her.

The car looked rickety from the outside, and the situation inside was just as precarious.

Even though the crazy building manager had floored the accelerator, the car's speed was still not very impressive.

The car hadn't gone very far, and Gu Mian could still clearly see the scene at the entrance of the game center.

There, a group of people had gathered. Gu Mian had been wandering around the game mall all day and recognized that they were the managers of various shops in the game mall.

They were setting off firecrackers to celebrate, some even weeping with joy, and embracing each other tightly.

The mad dormitory manager coughed awkwardly a few more times and explained, "They're expressing their reluctance to part with you. Look, some people are even crying." Gu Mian: "..."

He decided that next time he comes to Paradise World, he must stay at the arcade for a few more days to give everyone a surprise.

Spider Legs Street 1 wasn't far from the arcade, and the van arrived at its destination without any unexpected incidents.

When the mad building manager in the driver's seat saw Spider Leg No. 1 Street in the distance, he obviously breathed a sigh of relief.

He slammed on the brakes and pointed to a street ahead: "See those buildings up ahead? That's Spider's Foot Street 1."

Gu Mian looked in the direction he was pointing and saw several dilapidated buildings standing in the distance. However, a high wall blocked Gu Mian's way, preventing him from passing directly.

“Spider Legs Street No. 1 is a relatively closed-off lower-class residential area; you’ll have to go in with them.” The mad building manager then turned his gaze aside.

Gu Mian followed his gaze and saw a long row of viewing devices made of tin boxes and trays, neatly arranged along the wall.

Chu Changge showed Gu Mian photos of the viewing devices, and Gu Mian recognized them immediately.

At that moment, a long line of mechanical dogs carried buckets or basins to the row of viewing devices. The buckets and basins contained leftover food, indicating that the mechanical dogs were replenishing the viewing devices with resources.

The mad building manager explained, "The upper class disdains doing this kind of work, so these happiness survey robot dogs do it for them. Once they have replenished enough food in the viewing device, they will follow the viewing device into the lower class's residential area to conduct happiness surveys."

Conducting a happiness survey in a suburban area?
The first mechanical dog Gu Mian saw was Xiao Hei, on the NPC street.

The old fortune teller had told Gu Mian that Xiao Hei was originally a mechanical dog that conducted happiness surveys.

He originally thought Xiao Hei was conducting a happiness survey in the upper-class area, but he didn't expect him to be working in the lower-class area.

Gu Mian watched the group of mechanical dogs feeding the viewing device. They looked exactly like Xiao Hei, with a large camera on their mechanical bodies serving as their heads.

They carry buckets or basins on their backs, using one forelimb to brace themselves for balance, and the remaining three mechanical legs for walking.

No wonder the bird-thief delivery company was able to transform Little Black into a package sorter; it turns out it used to do the same kind of work carrying things.

However, these mechanical dogs in front of them were clearly not as human-like as Xiao Hei. They were genuine machines and did not have any extra emotions, unlike Xiao Hei, which had feelings such as fear and happiness.

Did the owner of Bird Thief Express add an emotion module to Little Black when she modified it?

"Do the upper class even care about the happiness of the lower class?" Gu Mian asked the mad building manager in the driver's seat.

These mechanical dogs couldn't have been created by lower-class people to conduct happiness surveys for themselves; in the Paradise World, only upper-class people have the capability to create such a large number of mechanical dogs.

But what upper-class person would make something like this if they had nothing better to do?

The mad building manager said he didn't know either: "I don't know any of those upper-class people. Besides, when I came to this world, there were already these happiness survey mechanical dogs in the lower-class residential area. Didn't you come to this world to save that upper-class traitor Louis? You can ask him, maybe he will know."

I heard the mad building manager talking about Louis.

Gu Mian thought that this idle, upper-class person might be him; Louis was an anomaly in Paradise.

But not necessarily.

What if there are other superior beings or oddities in this world?

Haha, Gugu is back! Lightning retreat! Lightning counterattack! Gugu is a very fast Gugu!