Global Collapse

Chapter 872 Escaping to Do Business

Now that her identity has been recognized, Gu Mian no longer needs to hide it.

He asked directly and bluntly, "Hey, I want to ask what happened in Paradise World."

"My name is Nan Tao..."

"Okay, virgin peach, can you tell me what happened in Paradise World?"

The other person was silent for a moment before giving up struggling, and then said in a muffled voice, "Didn't you take me away?"

"Of course I know I took it away. I just want to ask if the other lower-dimensional worlds have been affected after I took the Paradise World away, and what the original people in the Paradise World are like now. If you know the current situation in the Paradise World, please tell me."

"The disappearance of the Paradise World did not affect our world; the NPCs from it were scattered to the two worlds closest to the Paradise World."

"What about everyone else besides the NPCs?" Gu Mian thought of the killing and torture.

"They will certainly remain in their own world, and they will return when Paradise reappears."

"Reappear?" Gu Mian asked.

"You've already taken it into the real world, haven't you? It will reappear in the real world when the time is right."

"Is this what you lower-dimensional worlds call 'landing'? When will the time be right?"

"I don't know about that, but you have to be fair and let us explore all the remaining worlds first."

They were so enthusiastic, it sounded like they wished Gu Mian could come to their world right away.

Is becoming a seed something to be happy about? It feels like the other person is also eagerly hoping their world will become a seed.

"How do I get to your world?" Gu Mian paused and asked, "Do I enter other worlds again through the Ghost Expo instance?"

When he left the Ghost Expo instance, it was still shaking. He didn't know if the instance was still there.

Even if he were there, he wouldn't have any extra tickets to enter the Ghost Expo.

“No need. Haven’t you already gained the ability to make your wishes come true?” Man Peach said. “Things will be much easier from now on. I look forward to your arrival in our world soon.”

He sent out invitations.

At this moment, Gu Mian noticed that the sound coming from Nan Tao's side was getting softer and softer, and it was getting farther and farther away. There was a hissing sound in the microphone, as if the signal was starting to fail.

The call was automatically disconnected just seconds after the other party finished speaking their last sentence.

Gu Mian frowned and dialed back, but this time no one answered and there was only a busy tone on the phone.

"Did Earth realize something was interfering with the call?" Gu Mian listened thoughtfully to the busy tone coming from the receiver.

The fat man and Mr. Green, who were standing nearby, listened to the entire phone call.

Mr. Green wore a strange expression: "Strange, how did he know it was you calling right away? You called using my phone. And what did you mean by saying you took the world with you?"

Gu Mian looked at Mr. Green with a pitying gaze.

The refugee office had planned to send Mr. Green into the real world long ago, and they knew that Mr. Green's phone would be confiscated. The moment Mr. Green arrived in the real world, in their minds, that phone number no longer belonged to Mr. Green, but to Gu Mian.

The refugee office is the core organization in the exiled world, and it appears that they orchestrated Mr. Green's entry into the real world.

However, while the refugee office knows about the change of ownership of the phone number, other NPCs may not.

Gu Mian then called the remaining two numbers out of the three, asking Mr. Green to inquire about Paradise World.

The two NPCs revealed a lot to Mr. Green without any reservations.

They knew very little, only that the paradise had suddenly disappeared for some unknown reason, but it had not affected their world.

After speaking with the two people, Mr. Green realized what had happened.

"They said a world disappeared... Wait, you took that disappeared world with you?" Mr. Green felt like his world had collapsed. He had been longing to return to the lower-dimensional world, but unexpectedly, one of the lower-dimensional worlds was brought out by Gu Mian without his notice, just like his pitiful self. "You can't do this! Give that world back!"

Mr. Green was clearly unaware that the lower-dimensional world was quite pleased with Gu Mian's actions. He had projected himself into that pitiful lower-dimensional world that Gu Mian had brought out, and felt that being brought out was not a good thing.

Mr. Green's noisy chatter hurt Gu Mian's ears. He pulled Xiao Hong out of his blanket and instructed her, "Take Mr. Green out to play."

Xiao Hong glanced at Gu Mian a few times with reluctance, then happily grabbed Mr. Green and took him out to play.

Mr. Green's heartbroken cries echoed throughout the apartment until Little Red led him far away, at which point his voice completely disappeared.

Gu Mian sat on the bed, recalling what Nan Tao had just said to her.

His statement about "gaining the ability to make one's wishes come true" clearly refers to the wish-granting system given by an evil god.

So the evil god gave him this wish-granting system so that the main storyline could proceed better later on? Going into dungeons aimlessly like before was indeed inefficient.

Perhaps in the next few instances, I'll be able to enter the remaining six lower-dimensional worlds and take them all...

Gu Mian had already begun to make a wish in her heart.

However, he was already very sleepy, and he hadn't even fallen asleep when the fat man woke him up.

Now that everything is done, Gu Mian can finally get some rest.

He was lying in bed, half asleep and half awake, when he heard the fat man say that he had found Louis outside a ticket hall, but Louis said that he had something to do and would come to find him after he returned to his apartment.

Gu Mian drifted off to sleep amidst the fat man's incessant chatter.

When Gu Mian woke up again, it was already noon the next day. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw 007 sitting in the living room. She was back.

Chu Changge had returned sometime earlier and was sitting on the sofa in the living room with 007, both of them silent. When Gu Mian woke up, Fatty was carrying a flowerpot into the room, one in each hand: "The two seeds the doctor got in the dungeon haven't been planted yet. The seeds the doctor planted must be extraordinary; they might grow into some prehistoric behemoth. We need two big flowerpots... Doctor, you're awake?"

As he was talking to himself, the fat man saw Gu Mian, who had already gotten up.

Gu Mian stared silently at the two flowerpots in the fat man's arms. Each of the two flowerpots was the size of a washbasin, and it was really hard for the fat man to be able to carry them both up together.

"These are for the doctor to plant the mysterious seeds," the fat man explained. "Doctor, we've already planted all our seeds. I specially picked out two of the biggest flowerpots for you. Hurry up and plant your two seeds."

Gu Mian took the two mysterious seeds out of her pocket and casually pressed them into the flowerpot.

The fat man quickly placed the flowerpot on the ground and began carefully adding soil. After finishing, he looked around for a watering can to water the seeds.

While looking for the kettle, the fat man remembered the people in the living room, "Oh right, Miss 007 heard that you were looking for her, Doctor, so she came over early this morning."

Gu Mian entered the living room, and 007 stood up: "The fortune teller said you wanted to see me."

"Have you been playing dungeons these past few days?" Gu Mian asked directly.

007 was taken aback, not expecting Gu Mian to ask so directly. After a while, she nodded and said, "Yes."

The fat man next to her gaped in disbelief. He came over to Gu Mian with the water bottle in his arms and said, "I've only seen Miss 007 two or three times in the past few days at the apartment. Could it be that Miss 007 has been in the dungeon the whole time she's not at the apartment?"

007 gave a wry smile: "Yes, I've entered three dungeons in the past few days."

"How much?" The fat man doubted his ears.

“Because we seem to know the location of Renle Mountain now, we want to find him, but it might be a bit far, so we need a lot of game currency.” 007 seemed a little dazed, and it was clear that he hadn’t rested much in the past few days. “Gu Mian, you hadn’t come back before, and I was planning to wait until you came back before saying goodbye to you. Now that you’re back, I think it’s time for me to leave.”

She paused for a moment before continuing, "I'll probably set off tonight."

Just as 007 was speaking, there was a knock at the door.

It's Louis.

“Your fat brother told me yesterday that you were looking for me. I didn’t bother you when I came back last night because you were already resting. Is there something you need?” Louis leaned against the door frame and looked at the people in the room.

His deathly pale skin was particularly glaring under the sunlight. Gu Mian squinted and said, "Can you feel it? Your world has disappeared."

Louis shrugged: "I know about this, but I didn't have any particular feeling about it myself. I heard it from the ticket seller in the copy. I was outside the ticket booth when I saw the ticket seller inside suddenly start going crazy, saying something..."

At this point, Louis recalled the scene and mimicked the sharp tone of the ticket seller he had encountered: "My God, how could so many instances suddenly go offline! My God, it seems like an entire world of instances has disappeared! My God, it seems like that world has vanished too!"

Louis exclaimed "Good heavens!" three times in a row.

The fat man could sense the ticket seller's panic from his tone.

“When I heard the ticket seller say that, I realized that a world had disappeared. After I came back, I asked the other people in the apartment and found out that it was my own world that had disappeared.” Louis chuckled self-deprecatingly. “My ‘kind’ also disappeared, didn’t they? I never thought that the group of upper-class people you brought out would become the survivors.”

"What are you doing at the ticket booth?" Gu Mian asked an unexpected question.

The fat man was completely captivated by Louis's three "Oh my God" exclamations and thought Gu Mian would continue talking about the Paradise World. Unexpectedly, Gu Mian changed the subject and asked this kind of question.

The fat man looked at Gu Mian with some confusion, not understanding why Gu Mian would ask this question.

Unlike the fat man's puzzled expression, Louis's expression froze for a moment before he showed a knowing look: "Really perceptive."

007, standing to the side, also sighed, a hint of helplessness on his face.

Seeing the changing expressions on everyone's faces, the fat man became increasingly puzzled, feeling as if he was not on the same wavelength as the others.

“A beast tamer cannot place her hopes on others, nor can she rely on others. She must have enough ability to intimidate the ‘beasts’. If she always relies on others, she will never be able to be independent. In the eyes of other ‘beasts’, she is just a ‘beast’ kept by a more powerful being,” Louis said slowly.

“It was my suggestion that 007 go into the dungeon alone. Her class already dictated that she had to be alone.” Louis glanced at 007 as he spoke. “You still haven’t completed the prerequisite quests to unlock your class, have you?”

007 nodded slightly: "Yes, I'm not a true beast tamer yet."

I almost forgot that the Beastmaster class dungeon quest is to "gain Louis's approval".

Theoretically speaking, Louis was the first generation of animal trainer. Now that Gu Mian has brought him into the real world, he can give 007 a "master lesson" face-to-face.

Gu Mian knew that the Beast Tamer profession in 007 had a prerequisite quest, which required taming a "beast" before the Beast Tamer profession could be officially unlocked.

The fat man also knew about this task. He thought of the goose that Gu Mian bought for 007 at the supermarket: "By the way, Miss 007 needs to complete a prerequisite task to unlock her profession. She has to tame an animal. The doctor even went to the supermarket to buy Miss 007 a goose and brought out a mechanical dog and a fluffy toy dog ​​from the Paradise World, but Miss 007 has not yet completed the prerequisite task."

“That’s where the problem lies,” Louis said, looking at Gu Mian. “You gave her all those things. In their eyes, you are their master. They follow 007 just to do what you tell them.”

The fat man gave a look of sudden realization: "Does that mean Miss 007 needs to go to the supermarket to buy the goose herself?"

Louis wore a rare expression of speechlessness. He continued, "There needs to be a sense of oppression, a sense of intimidation. Buying it only grants ownership; if you can't intimidate it, it can't be considered 'tamed.'"

"Do you know what deterrence is? It's like the superior to the inferior, like... like Gu Mian to a ghost."

Unable to find a suitable example, he simply used Gu Mian, who was standing next to him, as an example.

The fat man then truly realized: "So, the profession of animal trainer should be more suitable for a doctor."

"That means there will be beasts everywhere," the fat man thought to himself.

"That's why I told her to act alone. If she's with Gu Mian, she'll never become a true beast tamer, because there's someone with a stronger sense of pressure around her."

“But the feeling of oppression has nothing to do with Miss 007.” The fat man defended 007, “Miss 007 is clearly kind and approachable, not scary at all.”

“It’s not scary.” Louis felt that this fat man was hopeless. “If the ‘beast’ is not convinced, you have to cut off its hope, throw it into the endless darkness, give it false hope and then let it be shattered. Repeat this until its belief completely collapses. When you reappear, you will be the only light in its heart. Only then will it be tamed.”

Haha, Gugu is here! It was almost tomorrow, thank goodness!