Global Collapse

Chapter 168 A Tragic Man
Meanwhile, Gu Mian and Chu Changge had arrived at the second floor of a building.

Because it's an antique-style building, the tallest building here is only on the second floor.

Gu Mian felt that the building looked very familiar.

After thinking about it for a while, he realized that many brothels in TV dramas were filmed here.

"There should be mirrors or something in a brothel, right?" he thought to himself as he looked at the row of rooms along the corridor.

In fact, this brothel-style building was basically empty; it was deserted as far as the eye could see, and some rooms even looked like unfinished, bare shells.

Even though the place was desolate, Gu Mian still spotted a green hat behind a half-open door at a glance.

He took two steps forward and pulled open the door.

Sure enough, there was a terrified face behind them.

"Mr. Green?" Gu Mian frowned. "What are you doing here?"

The host of the Crazy Guessing Words instance was accidentally taken out of the instance by Gu Mian and has been working hard to find a way back to the instance.

Gu Mian thought he had already gone back, but she never expected to see him in a place like this.

"Why can't I be here?" Mr. Green asked somewhat guiltily as Gu Mian grabbed him, but then, as if remembering something, he became self-righteous again: "Isn't it all because of you!"

What's wrong with me again... Gu Mian touched her chin.

The green hat he saw in the flower bed earlier probably belonged to Mr. Green.

But this guy ran really fast, and in no time he was at the brothel.

As Gu Mian pondered this, she became puzzled: "Running so fast, you must have some other special items on you, right?"

Upon hearing this, Mr. Green immediately reached out and covered his pocket: "There's nothing there!"

Gu Mian looked at the pocket he was covering, realizing it was a classic case of protesting too much.

"I'm not going to argue with you." Gu Mian looked away and glanced at the time. There were still seven minutes before the ghost would reappear. "What exactly do you want from this event? And why do you seem to be following me?"

Mr. Green began to argue: "There's no road out there, I can go whichever way I want, how can that be called following you..."

But under the watchful eyes of Gu Mian and Chu Changge, he became less and less confident as he spoke, and finally had to lower his head somewhat dejectedly: "Okay, I am following you, but I didn't follow you the whole time. I only followed you after I saw you in this event."

Gu Mian asked curiously, "Why did you come to this event?"

Could it be that after being taken out of the dungeon, they felt that the human world wasn't so bad, so they wanted to run a few dungeons and participate in a few events to have some fun?
"Of course it's to go back," Mr. Green suddenly declared righteously. "Otherwise, do you think I wanted to come to this godforsaken place? It's full of inferior creatures..."

Chu Changge pushed up his glasses: "You seem to particularly enjoy showing us how different you are from us."

Mr. Green coughed a few times upon hearing this, then covered up his misunderstanding by saying, "Anyway, I'm doing this so I can go back. A reliable person told me that everything here will be recycled after the event, and I can take advantage of the loopholes to go back."

Gu Mian didn't intend to discuss how to exploit loopholes with him. He glanced at the hat on Mr. Green's head and asked, "Then why are you following me?"

"Of course I'm scared!" Mr. Green's voice suddenly rose.

But after saying only a few words, he lowered his voice and muttered softly, "Of course I'm afraid something might go wrong with this event... You have to understand that if this event collapses, then the things here can't be recovered and will just end up scattered elsewhere. You understand what I mean?"

Gu Mian nodded: "An irretrievable ghost has descended into the human world. From now on, ghosts will exist not only in the dungeon but also in the real world, but that's not the most important thing..."

As Gu Mian spoke, she bent down and said, "The most important thing is that if the event isn't reclaimed, you won't be able to use this to get back, right?"

Mr. Green's face flushed slightly, and then he said, "Anyway, I'm here to keep an eye on you and prevent you from causing trouble." "But the last word-guessing game copy seems to have disappeared right under your nose," Gu Mian stated the facts, "So there's no point in you keeping an eye on me."

Mr. Green was momentarily speechless, seemingly unsure of what to say, but he still stubbornly followed Gu Mian.

It was as if he wouldn't cause trouble as long as he followed behind Gu Mian.

Gu Mian had no intention of doing anything about the event.

As he walked forward, he explained to Mr. Green behind him, "Actually, the destruction of the previous instances wasn't my intention. I had no intention of destroying the instances at all..."

Chu Changge listened to him from the side, her face expressionless.

Mr. Green adopted a skeptical expression.

Gu Mian then asked, "By the way, how much compensation can I get if the event fails?"

Mr. Green's hair stood on end, almost pushing his hat up: "Your worth will double! No, several times over!"

It probably refers to the bounty amount on Gu Mian's wanted list.

Seemingly worried that Gu Mian might do something rash, Mr. Green continued, "Don't think about doing anything to this event. Shift your attention to other players!"

"Why?" Gu Mian asked, somewhat curious.

Mr. Green then spoke up, seemingly trying to divert Gu Mian's attention: "The players participating in this event are no pushovers; some of them are here specifically for you."

He spoke in a low voice, as if he were doing something wrong.

Gu Mian asked, "Who?"

Mr. Green hesitated for a moment: "A tragic man."

At this moment, the fat man was carrying a boy in military uniform on his back, his face covered in sweat.

They had been hiding in the closet, but the female ghost who entered the room rushed towards them.

The fat man saw that the boy had used some special item to suddenly drop a black cloth from the sky and cover them up, but the tattered cloth didn't last long.

When he came to his senses, he saw a ghostly hand stuck in the boy's stomach. The fat man was horrified and raised the pot to smash it, but the ghostly hand suddenly disappeared.

The ghost in front of him disappeared, but the hole in the boy's stomach remained.

The fat man didn't know how to bandage a wound, so he just roughly tied it up with his clothes, then carried him on his back and ran.

After carrying the boy on his back, the fat man realized that his calf was in pain. He looked down and saw that there was a hole in his calf, from which blood was gushing out.

The night wind blew by, making the fat man feel a chill in his heart.

"Young man, don't fall asleep! Wake up, I'll take you to see a doctor." The fat man looked around anxiously, trying to find the figure in the white coat.

The boy, clinging to the fat man's back, still gripped his gun tightly, his voice weak: "Where are you going to find a doctor? Doctors are a rare commodity these days, they're not easy to find at all."

The fat man said urgently, "Of course I can find a doctor. The doctor I know is amazing. Hang in there!"

I'm so frustrated, I can't concentrate...

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(End of this chapter)