Global Collapse

Chapter 185 The Organizer's Secret
Since spending money won't work, then I'll just have to spend my life.

The fat man was momentarily dazed, thinking that perhaps this event could be renamed, instead of "Lantern Festival," it could be called "Life-or-Death Event."

At this moment, the noise outside grew louder and louder, and screams from players in the distance rose and fell one after another.

The fat man was horrified.

There seemed to be quite a few voices coming from in front of their door, along with hurried footsteps, which must have been Mr. Green's voice.

It seemed as if something was lingering outside the door. Mr. Green was probably trying to persuade someone, but some discordant voices were still heard outside.

The fat man shuddered: "Those ghosts outside are getting stronger and stronger... They shouldn't be so easy to get rid of, right?"

He's right.

Every now and then, malicious noises reached their ears, followed by Mr. Green's hurried voice.

It seems like there's some kind of supernatural thing guarding the outside.

The fat man was shivering.

Chu Changge looked towards the door, adjusted his glasses, and said, "Let me continue what happened earlier..."

Even though he spoke very softly, the fat man was still scared.

"We are now facing several issues. First, some players have died and their bodies have disappeared; second, the ghosts have become stronger; third, the ghosts in this event are probably not specifically designed for this event, but are most likely ghosts from other dungeons."

At this point, the fat man suddenly interrupted him, "Wait, Brother Chu..."

Chu Changge stopped and looked at the fat man.

The fat man swallowed hard and continued, "I have no objection to the first two points, but the fact that the ghosts in this event weren't specifically designed for this event..."

Although the female ghost who emerged from the mirror was indeed someone we encountered in the dungeon before, this was just an isolated case and does not represent the whole picture.

Chu Changge lowered his voice even further: "I remember Mr. Green mentioned his purpose for coming to this event, right?"

Gu Mian thought for a moment and said, "He wants to use this event to return to the instance."

Gu Mian didn't quite remember the exact words, but the gist was that when the event ended, a passage between the instance and the real world would open, and Mr. Green could then take the opportunity to go back.

"That's the question. When the event ends, a channel connecting the instance to the real world will be opened. What do you think this channel is for?" Chu Changge asked.

Gu Mian stroked her chin: "It's to send the ghosts from the event back into the instance."

Chu Changge's eyes flashed: "Yes, and these ghosts that were originally in the dungeon have already been strengthened once by this event."

Gu Mian frowned: "According to this explanation, these activities seem to be providing benefits to players, but their real purpose is to use players' lives to strengthen the monsters, and then send the strengthened monsters back to the dungeon, which will increase the difficulty of the dungeon accordingly..."

"In other words... every time a large-scale event is held in the future, the difficulty of the dungeons will increase by one level." Gu Mian stroked his chin: "However, an event cannot include all the monsters in all the dungeons, so each event should only strengthen a small part of the dungeons."

The fat man slapped his thigh: "So that's why the difficulty page disappeared in the dungeons we entered later! Turns out they were secretly changing it!"

“It’s normal for this game to have some changes,” Chu Changge said. “Most games have beta versions, but our global game starts directly, so there are bound to be some oversights at the beginning. The game system may be redefining the difficulty levels of dungeons right now.” “I think there might be a beta version,” Gu Mian said. “But we’re not lucky beta testers, so we don’t know.”

The fat man blurted out instinctively, "If I'm invited to join the closed beta... will a pop-up window appear on my computer with 'yes' or 'no' options?"

Chu Changge then spoke up: "Alright, let's get back to the topic..."

"If our hypothesis is correct, there is a contradiction here."

"Do you remember why this global game started?" Chu Changge asked Gu Mian and the other person.

Gu Mian shrugged: "To help humanity evolve."

“That’s right,” Chu Changge nodded. “The purpose of the Global Game is to help humanity evolve; but the significance of this event is exactly the opposite of that purpose.”

"The activity we are participating in is the opposite of what we call 'evolution of demons'—it sacrifices humans to make them evolve."

The fat man suddenly realized, and then subconsciously asked, "Could it be some kind of conspiracy on Earth?"

"No," Chu Changge shook his head, "I don't think so. Actually, I have another guess."

"I think there are more than one organizer of this game, perhaps even multiple ones, and they have some conflicting goals, which are reflected in the game..."

The fat man opened his mouth in astonishment.

Chu Changge wanted to say something more, but just then, hurried footsteps came from outside.

Immediately afterwards, the three of them saw a green thing push open the door from the outside.

Mr. Green, panting, looked at the people inside: "Five minutes have passed, you guys need to hurry up... These ghosts are too powerful, I won't be able to stop them after a few more waves!"

Chu Changge shut his mouth and stopped talking.

He seemed to be intentionally avoiding Mr. Green. This NPC in the instance had revealed more than once that he was a high-level creature, although Gu Mian didn't know exactly how high-level he was.

"Okay." Seeing that Chu Changge stopped talking, Gu Mian agreed and walked out.

Mr. Green, panting, strode over to Gu Mian's side: "I just kept an eye out for you. Someone told me there's a green house not far in that direction, but I don't know if there's a little girl inside who'll let you tie your hair in pigtails."

With Mr. Green's hint, Gu Mian and the others quickly found the green house in the riddle.

They encountered many other players along the way. Mr. Green was hiding in the shadows with the female ghost and lantern, so Gu Mian and her companions didn't attract much attention this time.

At this moment, Gu Mian and the other two were standing in front of the green house, looking up at the small, dilapidated house.

"I sincerely hope that little girl's hair will still be there in a while," the fat man remarked.

Thank you

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(End of this chapter)