Global Collapse

Chapter 867 The Understanding Translator
Xie Bi'an fainted, and it was only after Liu Ruyan took out the spare key to Xie Bi'an's room that she was able to open the door and carry him inside.

The task of moving people was naturally left to Fatty. As he hurriedly carried Xie Bi'an into the room, he said to Liu Ruyan, who was standing to the side, "Luckily, Miss Liu Ruyan has a spare key, otherwise we would have had to break down the door to get in."

Liu Ruyan chuckled and said, "Don't worry that I'll use the spare key to enter your rooms and do something. I've given you all the spare keys to the other rooms. Only Xie Bi'an doesn't care about this kind of thing, so his spare key is still with me."

Gu Mian wasn't worried that Liu Ruyan had a spare key to her house.

Even before the global gaming era arrived, Liu Ruyan enjoyed using her spare key to open his door and then going inside to turn on his gas cylinder.

After a while, Gu Mian finally couldn't take it anymore and paid for a super sturdy security door to replace it, but she didn't give the key to the new door to Liu Ruyan.

After that, Liu Ruyan was never allowed to enter his house again.

By this time, the fat man had already put Xie Bi'an back on his bed.

Gu Mian followed the fat man into Xie Bian's room. His room was a one-bedroom apartment with very simple furnishings, showing that it hadn't been decorated much.

The living room contained only a fabric sofa and a transparent coffee table; there was nothing else. It was truly a bare-bones home.

The bedroom was even more outrageous, with only a single bed that looked extremely simple, and the sheets, blankets and pillowcases were all a plain gray.

Gu Mian remembered that this bed was part of the apartment's "initial decor."

When I first rented this place, there was a single bed like this in the room, but I replaced it later.

“He specifically asked for this room. Most of the other rooms in this apartment have been rented out, and the tenants have replaced them with better furniture. Only this one is small and poorly lit, so it has never been able to be rented out before. But after he came, he insisted on having this most basic room. It’s really funny. I’m not going to charge him rent. He explained that he just likes it to be more spacious,” Liu Ruyan said from the side.

She stood at the doorway, blocking Chu Changge from behind, leaving Chu Changge only able to stand in the living room and look inside.

Xie Bian was not a tenant here before the global game started; he arrived some time after the game began.

“He even took down the light bulbs and replaced them,” Liu Ruyan said, looking up at the ceiling.

Gu Mian also looked up.

The light fixture is an incandescent bulb. Nowadays, most homes have decorative lampshades over their lights, so it's rare to see a large bulb placed on the ceiling like this.

Liu Ruyan liked the beautifully designed chandeliers. When Gu Mian moved in, the initial furniture in the apartment was very simple, but the chandelier on the ceiling was very gorgeous, with a kind of retro court style.

This magnificent chandelier has been hanging precariously above Gu Mian's head for many years, and it still stands firm.

Xie Bi'an seemed to dislike ornate things, replacing the chandelier with a simple light bulb.

Gu Mian and the others found nothing in Xie Bi'an's house, not even a cabinet, a box, or a wardrobe.

Gu Mian looked at the cloak covering Xie Bi'an and thought to herself, no wonder he always wore this outfit when she saw him; he probably didn't have any other clothes to change into.

The fat man hesitated by Xie Bi'an's bedside, saying, "Doctor, should we take off his hat? It feels like he might have trouble breathing with the hat pressing down on his face."

If it were anyone else lying in bed, Fatty would have already pulled down their hood. But since it was Xie Bi'an lying in bed, Fatty thought of Xie Bi'an's exposed face in the Ghost Expo instance and felt it wouldn't be appropriate to pull down his hood in public.

Just as disabled people don't want others to see their prosthetics, Xie Bi'an, whose face was burned, naturally didn't want others to see his face either.

"His face has been hidden under his cloak the whole time. Aren't you curious about what he looks like?" Liu Ruyan's tone was quite provocative, as if she wanted to provoke the fat man into lifting Xie Bi'an's hood.

The fat man hesitated for a moment: "We've already met in the Ghost Expo instance..."

It's not something to boast about when someone's skin is burned in a fire, so after leaving the Ghost Expo instance, Fatty and his friends didn't spread the word about Xie Bi'an to unsuspecting people.

Just like now, Fatty only told Liu Ruyan that they had seen Xie Bi'an's true face in the dungeon, without mentioning that Xie Bi'an's face was burned.

Upon hearing this, Liu Ruyan was taken aback: "You all saw it?"

The fat man was taken aback by Liu Ruyan's tone. It seemed she knew what Xie Bi'an looked like under his hood. He looked at her questioningly, "Miss Liu Ruyan, do you also know what Xie Bi'an looks like?"

“I know.” Liu Ruyan raised one eyebrow. “After all, we’re all colleagues, there’s nothing to hide, right, Chu Changge?”

As she spoke, she turned her head to look at Chu Changge behind her.

Chu Changge let out a barely audible chuckle through his nose, neither confirming nor denying.

Finally, the fat man dismissed everyone from the bedroom, then quickly pulled off Xie Bi'an's cloak while apologizing in a low voice, and ran out of the bedroom to close the door. Watching the fat man's actions, Liu Ruyan laughed: "Actually, he won't know what you do while he's unconscious, even if you poop on his bed."

Gu Mian felt that Liu Ruyan had become increasingly manic since the start of the global game; she would never have said such things before.

Just then, Xiao Qiao suddenly rushed in from outside.

This was the first time Gu Mian had seen Xiao Qiao since leaving the Paradise World.

She rushed in, seemingly looking for someone. Her eyes darted around, and she kept saying, "It's gone, it's gone."

At that moment, she noticed Gu Mian standing at the bedroom door. Xiao Qiao's eyes, which had been wandering around, immediately fixed on Gu Mian and remained still: "You're alive."

They're talking as if he'd died before.

Gu Mian nodded: "Yes, I survived."

Xiao Qiao was happy for a moment, but then she remembered the purpose of her visit and her eyes continued to search around: "Where is Jiang Yang?"

Compared to Xie Bi'an, Jiang Yang's name is simpler and easier to remember, and Xiao Qiao prefers to call him by the simpler name.

“He fainted,” the fat man pointed to the bedroom door. “He’s resting inside. Don’t disturb him.”

“He fainted, just like me…” Xiao Qiao thought for a moment, then looked at Gu Mian, “He’s gone.”

"What's gone?" The fat man couldn't understand what Xiao Qiao was saying.

“He said the world Xie Bi’an was born in is gone,” Gu Mian translated.

"Is it Paradise World? By the way, I just heard Miss Liu Ruyan say that she can't sense the existence of Paradise World anymore. Doctor, what did you do in Paradise World this time? Is Paradise really gone?" The fat man scratched his head.

Gu Mian had previously told Fatty that he had played house in the amusement park, but anyone with a brain would know that things weren't as simple as Gu Mian made them out to be.

Anyway, there are no outsiders here. All four guardians who are still alive are here, although one of them is still unconscious.

Gu Mian briefly mentioned what had happened in the Paradise World and showed them the seed that Paradise had become.

"That's amazing, Doctor." The fat man looked curiously at the thing in Gu Mian's palm. It was a tiny, pure white seed, only the size of a mung bean. If you didn't look closely, you couldn't even tell it was a seed; it looked more like a small white sugar pill.

The fat man leaned closer to the seed in Gu Mian's hand: "Doctor, is the whole world inside? The upper and lower classes, oh right, and the NPCs too?"

At this point, he suddenly remembered something and his eyes widened: "And what about Bright? Wasn't he left in Paradise World? Is he still in this seed?"

Gu Mian didn't know either.

Logically, when Paradise World turned into a seed, there should have been other players in the world doing dungeons. Were those players also enveloped in the seed?
"Isn't there a phone number for the NPCs in Paradise World? We can just call them and ask." Gu Mian thought of the three phone numbers in the programmer's booklet, all of which belonged to NPCs in Paradise World.

"Oh yeah." The fat man nodded. "I'll go back and call them to try it out." With that, he happily ran out of the room and upstairs.

Gu Mian and Xie Bi'an did not live on the same floor; he lived upstairs.

At this moment, Liu Ruyan, who was standing next to her, spoke up thoughtfully: "The lower-dimensional worlds are all interconnected. Just like when you caused a ruckus in my world, it affected other worlds as well. But this time, you took the Paradise World away and it seems that it didn't affect the other worlds at all."

Whether other worlds have been affected can be determined by looking at the corresponding guardians.

Currently, only Xie Bi'an from the Paradise World is unconscious, while Chu Changge, Liu Ruyan, and Xiao Qiao are all still alive and kicking.

These three were not affected at all.

Gu Mian pondered, could it be self-salvation in a lower-dimensional world? Did they prevent their worlds from interfering with each other? If so, even if Ragnarok completely collapsed, it wouldn't affect the worlds in front of them.

Liu Ruyan seemed to see what Gu Mian was thinking: "It's hard to say. If the lower-dimensional world had this ability, then there would be no need to place all our hopes on you. Although I don't know exactly what happened, I think this time it was simply because of you that the changes in the Paradise World did not affect other worlds."

"It seems my profession is correct. Not only can I save people, but I can also save other worlds." Gu Mian chuckled. "However, last time, it was I who caused a great disturbance in the old world and almost destroyed it. The other worlds were greatly affected that time."

“It’s different.” Liu Ruyan looked at the pure white seed in Gu Mian’s hand. “That time you wanted to destroy the whole world, but this time you took the whole world with you.”

Actually, Gu Mian originally intended to destroy it, she thought to herself.

It's November! Oh no, I was planning to write 10,000 words a day this month, but I failed miserably before I even got started. Well, I'll try again tomorrow (slumped over).
The "Gugu Soup" event is back! It will be released once it's approved.