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Chapter 473 The Old World

"Given this woman's past record of climbing out of windows, I think she'll fall hard to the ground this time too..."

Before Gu Mian could finish saying "up," Xiao Hong, who had been pushed halfway by the fat man, slipped and fell.

Immediately afterwards, Gu Mian heard a "bang," like someone jumping off a building and hitting the ground.

Indeed, someone did fall to the ground.

Gu Mian stood up after a two-second silence and walked to the fat man's side. At that moment, the fat man was leaning against the window looking down with an indescribable expression.

Gu Mian deduced from his expression that "rotten wood cannot be carved."

Xingluo, who was sitting on the living room sofa on the fourth floor, was startled by the loud thud.

Having gone through the college entrance exam, he felt threatened by any sound he heard.

"What's going on?" Two girls also ran out of their dimly lit room.

This is a two-bedroom apartment. If a couple were to stay together, it would be difficult to assign them rooms, so rooms were assigned directly based on gender.

"It sounds like something fell down... The sound is somewhat like a person..."

Xingluo felt a little uneasy, and he subconsciously looked at the wall clock next to him.

But the clock had long since stopped ticking because it ran out of power.

"Don't we have tenants upstairs too?" I quickly walked to the window. "Could they have thrown something down there?"

As she spoke, she leaned forward and looked down.

The streets were pitch black without streetlights, and looking down from the window, all you could see was deep darkness.

The thud made the already somber group even more agitated, and they began to panic.

What kind of people live upstairs?

Before Gu Mian and the others could set off to look for Xiao Hong, who had accidentally fallen to the ground, there was a knock on the door.

Did Xiaohong climb up by herself?

The fat man jogged to the door and looked through the peephole, where he saw Liu Ruyan standing outside.

"Miss Liu..." the fat man opened the door, "What brings you here so late?"

"I just wanted to ask if you guys threw this down." Liu Ruyan said as she reached out and pulled out Xiao Hong, who was hiding to the side. "She fell pretty badly. It's strange, every time I run into her at the hotel, she falls down from upstairs."

At this point, Liu Ruyan paused as if recalling something: "Last time, I also landed face-first."

Gu Mian suddenly understood why Xiao Hong was so ugly.

The last time Xiao Hong fell from the building was during the Lantern Festival. At that time, she climbed out of the window looking for Gu Mian but went to the wrong room and found Liu Ruyan. According to Liu Ruyan, Xiao Hong's [mind speaker] on her neck shouted "Wrong room, wrong room!" and then she fell down with a "thud".

Gu Mian didn't observe whether Xiao Hong's face had become flatter, but instead looked at Liu Ruyan in front of her: "By the way, I happen to have something I want to ask you."

It's about the low-dimensional world that Chu Changge talked about.

Chu Changge comes from the second world. According to Chu Changge's description, the second world is similar to Earth in terms of background, except that for some reason, there are only yellow people in the second world. Liu Ruyan and Chu Changge are not from the same hometown, and Gu Mian wants to know what Liu Ruyan's world is like.

As if sensing something, Liu Ruyan stepped in and asked, "What is it?"

"About where you're from," Gu Mian asked, staring at her.

Gu Mian once used the [Book of Prophecy] to see all of Liu Ruyan's identities from childhood to adulthood, and to this day he is still very curious about the identities of "wanted criminal" and "murderer".

Gu Mian had initially doubted how Liu Ruyan had escaped the notice, but if she came from another world, then everything would make sense.

Even if you commit many evils in this world, you can still become an honest and law-abiding citizen in another world.

But Gu Mian remembered that Liu Ruyan was only twenty-two years old this year. Although she looked older than her age, she was indeed not very old.

Gu Mian was surprised that someone only twenty-two years old could have so much experience. She subconsciously felt that Liu Ruyan's world couldn't be simple; at the very least, it couldn't be a society governed by the rule of law. To be honest, finding someone of similar age to Liu Ruyan with more experience would be quite difficult.

Just then, the fat guy suddenly came over and started wiping the strawberry jam that Xiao Hong had stuck to the door.

No, it seems there's someone here with even more experience than Liu Ruyan.

However, now is not the time to discuss who has more experience. Gu Mian continued to stare at Liu Ruyan in front of her.

She seemed to have anticipated Gu Mian's question, so her expression didn't change much: "As expected, Chu Changge already told you..."

Gu Mian stroked her chin and asked, "So, can you tell me about your world?"

"My world..." Liu Ruyan's tone was somewhat resigned, "Anyway, Chu Changge has already told you about this, so I'll be honest with you too. The development level of my world is similar to the real world decades ago. People are quite friendly, neighbors often visit each other, and strangers greet each other kindly when they meet on the street; besides that, the whole world consists only of people of Asian descent, but I must say it's a rather morbid world, almost indescribable in words..."

"If I had to describe it... people in this world live for only two things: to eat and to be watched..."

"Our world has a fairly perfect code of law. Everyone memorizes the contents of this code and acts entirely in accordance with its contents. If anyone crosses the line even slightly, they will be doomed. I mean truly doomed."

Liu Ruyan laughed as she said this: "That was excitement and madness... You would never guess what this person did."

She paused for a moment and looked at Gu Mian: "He lied to his parents about his salary and left some money to buy a loaf of bread for a starving child on the street."

“In our world, deceiving one’s elders is a grave offense, and the consequences of breaking the rules are severe; no one can resist.” Liu Ruyan seemed to dislike recalling these things, and her expression was somewhat unusual.

Gu Mian said thoughtfully, "Oh, then it's a good thing I'm an orphan."

It was as if he didn't feel how miserable the world was.

Liu Ruyan glanced at Gu Mian silently: "Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if you appeared in our world."

The fat man, who had just finished wiping the strawberry jam, leaned over and said, "That's bound to be quite exciting. You'll be punching your parents and kicking the crowd. You might even tear up the law."

Let alone stripping her clothes, Fatty felt that those people wouldn't even be able to remove a single hair from Gu Mian's head.

“Yes,” Liu Ruyan leaned against the wall, her expression suddenly turning wistful, “If Gu Mian had appeared in our world back then, perhaps everything would have been different… The most terrifying thing in our world is not the insurmountable legal code, but the human heart.”

"No one thinks it's morbid; on the contrary, they're proud of it."

"So, in your own world, you're considered a normal person..." The fat man looked at Liu Ruyan curiously.

Liu Ruyan smiled and said, "If I had been living in this world from the beginning, I would probably be a normal person now."

"But Doctor, it seems we haven't entered Miss Liu Ruyan's world yet," the fat man thought carefully in his mind, "It feels like there isn't a dungeon that matches this world's worldview."

In terms of world-building, the world of the killing game is somewhat similar to that of Liu Ruyan's dungeon.

The worldview of the killing game is also quite morbid, but it is different from Liu Ruyan's world. Liu Ruyan's world is peaceful on the surface, and everyone is kind and lovely. At first glance, it is a good world of peace and prosperity. Only by going deeper can you know the madness of this world.

The worldview of killing games is different. As soon as Gu Mian entered the dungeon, she could see the morbid class antagonism in this world. The higher race looked down on the lower race as if they were wild beasts in a fighting cage, or perhaps even worse than wild beasts.

At least wild beasts can bring them ultimate pleasure when they go crazy, while in that world, there are very few, almost none, lower races who can go crazy.

They don't know how to resist. In this respect, they are somewhat similar to Liu Ruyan's world; perhaps these two worlds are closely related.

If you calculate it that way, there are at least three worlds.

Chu Changge's second world, the name of the killing game world, is unknown, while Liu Ruyan's world...

As Gu Mian pondered this, she looked at Liu Ruyan and asked, "Every world has a name, right? What's the name of your world?"

Liu Ruyan clenched her fist and tapped the wall lightly. After hesitating for two seconds, she spoke: "The old world."

Gugu is feeling weak today, but Gugu will update like crazy tomorrow! Gugu has even given up the game to practice!

Thank you so much to the "Mother of Zombies Urging Updates" for the generous reward! (づ￣3￣)づ╭～
This name has a slightly ominous feel to it...

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