Global Collapse

Hearing the harsh words, Gu Mian thought of Xiao Qiao.

Xiao Qiao was sculpted by "Lucky" from the Seventh World, modeled after herself.

The two even had identical voices, but Lucky's voice sounded much smarter than Xiao Qiao's, since it would be hard to find someone more foolish than Xiao Qiao in the world.

Speaking of which...

Gu Mian recalled the scene of the collapse that she saw in the Great Chamber of the Seventh World, which represented the Seventh World, at the Ghost Expo.

Last time something happened in the Seventh World, Xiao Qiao fell asleep immediately. I wonder how Xiao Qiao is doing this time.

The game panel wouldn't open, and Gu Mian couldn't find out what was happening outside through the ten-person group chat, nor did she know how much time had passed outside.

If a year and a half had passed outside by now, the fat man would probably have starved to death.

I still need to get out of here soon. Thinking this, Gu Mian turned her head to look at the doorway. The screen outside was still flashing, but the settlement panel had not yet appeared.

This time, because everyone has become a slave, the evolution speed has slowed down considerably.

Gu Mian turned to look at Ku Xing and continued, "You two are the highest-ranking people in the Paradise World, right? So who ordered you to send the Guardians into the real world?"

Ku Xing made no attempt to hide anything: "I don't know that person's specific name, nor does he have any specific position. But since you Earthlings regard our lower-dimensional world as a 'game,' then he's probably the mastermind behind it all."

"He may have a physical form, or he may not. When he wants to talk to someone, his voice will naturally appear in that person's mind. We are almost like people made of data, and he can directly insert the data he wants into us;
“He knows everything in the lower-dimensional world, knows what is happening in the world every second, and nothing escapes his eyes, including our conversation right now.”

As he spoke, Ku Xing leaned back in his chair, looking completely indifferent, and said, "Originally, I shouldn't have told you about the Guardian, nor should I have told you about him. These are all strictly forbidden, but I don't care anymore anyway."

Gu Mian was prepared for Ku Xing to be the riddle teller, since most of the NPCs she encountered would stammer and evade the question. She didn't expect Ku Xing to actually spill out all the things he knew.

Ku Xing crossed his hands behind his head, looking completely nonchalant: "You don't need to ask me about that 'game planner' thing, because I don't know anything about it either. I've already told you everything I know."

Gu Mian nodded: "Since he knows everything that happens in this world, he must also know where the evil god is now."

As he spoke, he clasped his hands together, looked up, and began to make a wish: "Dear game planner, I hope you can send the evil god to me."

Gu Mian himself also has the ability to make wishes. In these reincarnations, he has tried to wish to bring the evil god to him, but his wishing ability is not perfect, and he has failed to make a wish even once.

Now that she knew there was an even more powerful wish-granting machine in the lower-dimensional world, Gu Mian tried to make a wish directly to it.

Ku Xing choked as he looked at Gu Mian clasping her hands together in a wish.

For a player from Earth, the first reaction upon learning that there is a "chief planner" in this global game would probably be how to defeat him.

After all, we're on opposite sides.

Just like in the script they had previously devised, the opposing lower class and upper class would kill each other until one side completely suppressed the other.

But after Gu Mian learned that there was a god-like "mastermind" in the opposing side's low-dimensional world, she naturally and simply made a wish.

The planner clearly did not respond to Gu Mian's wish; instead of the evil god appearing in front of the three, a hand-drawn panel of the evil god appeared.

This time it wasn't a results screen, but a cutscene.

Although it's called "transition animation," the panel only has distorted handwritten text that floats up and down, pretending to be animation.

[A long, long time later, the slave owner Gu Mian, a warrior, died of old age...]

Gu Mian, who was dying of old age, twitched her forehead and continued looking down.

He knew that after this settlement, he probably wouldn't be able to leave this place and would most likely have to come back again.

Long after slave owner Gu Mian died, the conflict between the former upper and lower classes, who were originally slaves, reignited and the struggle continued.

After several years of war, the upper class emerged victorious.

At this point, ghostly figures began to move back and forth in the hall again.

This time, it's the upper class dressed in suits.

Without even looking, I know they're drafting some kind of document or regulation to elevate the status of the upper class and enslave the lower class.

Although it took a while, the "Upper Class Protection Law" eventually reappeared before Gu Mian's eyes.

This part of the story has finally come to an end.

[The ending is 'unable to cope alone']

"Having only one Gu Mian is useless; after all, one Gu Mian can't keep an eye on everyone in the world."

Then it went dark again.

Gu Mian returned to the stage after the curtain fell, and just like countless times before, a point of light appeared in front of her, then suddenly shone brightly, illuminating the surroundings.

Then the familiar scene repeated itself. Gu Mian took a deep breath; his patience had reached its limit.

"Yes……"

Gu Mian swiftly and decisively knocked down the lower-class man who was about to give his opening remarks.

The evil god is right. One Gu Mian is useless; one person can't control the whole world. In that case, wouldn't it be better if everyone in the world died? That way, there would be no more people, and no distinction between upper and lower classes.

Thinking of Gu Mian, he put his plan into action.

Anyone who frequently commits murder knows that it's an exhausting job. Fortunately, with the added advantage of the "Evil God" script, killing becomes incredibly easy for Gu Mian.

Usually, all Gu Mian has to do is point a finger at someone, and that person will scream and fall to the ground, leaving behind their last words, "Ah, I'm dead."

Then he fell to the ground and lay motionless, becoming a corpse in the script.

But this time the workload is too great. The goal this time is not to enjoy the capital of pleasure, but to wipe out all the people in the world.

There are more than just these few upper-class residential areas in the world, and there are also quite a few villages for the lower classes. It would be too slow for Gu Mian to just point around with one finger.

Even if you were dealing with hundreds of thousands of ants, poking each one individually would be exhausting, let alone the fact that he was facing more than just hundreds of thousands.

So Gu Mian used the script to create a world-destroying bomb. When the bomb was detonated, everyone in the world would die except for the protagonist. As for why the protagonist wouldn't be killed, that's because it's part of the script.

Gu Mian detonated the bomb without hesitation.

The story ended a day after it began; everyone was wiped out by a bomb, and time accelerated again. Simultaneously, slaughter and torture began to occur around Gu Mian, the two clearly unaware of why they were there.

"What? Do we all have to look at the settlement together every time?" This wasn't a meeting room, and there were no chairs around, so Ku Xing simply lay down on the grass at his feet and looked up at the flickering sky above. "Did you kill everyone this time?"

Gu Mian nodded: "I thought you two would die too."

Ku Xing laughed: "We two are also protagonists. How can protagonists die in their own stories?"

Slaughter also looked up at the sky. Time accelerated too fast, and several days and nights passed in an instant. He saw the stars above his head rotating in one direction, as if the sky was rotating or as if the ground beneath their feet was rotating.

The surrounding environment is also constantly changing.

Gu Mian detonated the bomb on a plain. At first, they were standing on grass and surrounded by mountains.

Later, it was as if the wind blew away the tops of the mountains, and they gradually became shorter, eventually even sinking into the ground.

Then water appeared in the hollows of the mountains, and the originally undulating mountains turned into a large river.

Gu Mian sensed that something was wrong.

His eyebrows twitched involuntarily a few times: "Is the evil god going to demonstrate evolution to me?"

He guessed correctly.

As the sky and mountains and rivers change, the creatures on the earth also continue to reproduce and evolve.

Finally, humanity reappeared.

When Gu Mian saw humans reappear, she knew it was all over again.

As expected, friction inevitably arose among the newly emerged people. Initially, they were divided into several factions, but as the fighting continued, only the two strongest groups remained.

This time, people didn't differentiate by skin color, but they had their own set of standards, such as height, weight, eye size, and finger length.

In short, people are naturally divided, and then they fight.

Soon one side will be victorious, and the story will reach its clichéd ending.

Looking at the flickering sky, Ku Xing said, "This world has long been corrupted. Even if we kill everyone, the newborns will naturally fight each other. You should understand now, the root of the problem is not in people, but in the world."

Gu Mian understood, completely understood.

Killing everyone is useless; the newborn will still follow in the footsteps of their predecessors. Those are footprints that have been laid long ago, and with each rewind, those footprints have been deeply etched into this world. People are born to be seduced by those footprints, and even without the guidance of others, they will gradually walk towards their predetermined fate.

"Are these endings... all things he tried before?" Killer stared at the ever-changing phantom in the distance.

“Yes.” Gu Mian also looked in the direction that Sha Lu was looking with a blank expression. “He probably tried all the options and finally came up with a way to save the world.”

Slaughter was taken aback: "He found a way to save the world?"

“They found it and even told me,” Gu Mian said.

The evil god placed him in the paradise world and used repeated failures to tell him that it was useless to overthrow the upper class, useless to enslave everyone, and even useless to annihilate everyone.

The root of the problem lies not in people, but in the world itself.

Ultimately, the evil god found a way to save the world, but he couldn't do it.

Therefore, the evil god placed Gu Mian here, to let him witness one ending after another, to let him understand where the root of the problem lies, and to let him end it all.

"Can't he... do it himself? He knows the way to save the world but can't do it?" The murderous look in his eyes held a suspicion.

“It’s impossible,” Gu Mian said firmly. “It’s like a person in a fairy tale who can’t escape the book that confines him, or a warrior in an ancient legend who can only exist in people’s mouths. He can’t escape his birthplace and the place where he is imprisoned.”

"But I can." (End of Chapter)