Global Collapse

Chapter 641: Intermittent Resurrection - One Dungeon Completed in a Week

The man outside the door didn't seem to expect to run into anyone else either.

He looked at Gu Mian and her group as they walked out of the elevator, then at the person Gu Mian was carrying, who was radiating malice.

Then he understood something, put away his knife, took a few steps back, and bowed deeply to Gu Mian and the others.

The man didn't say anything.

He paused for several seconds with his back bent, and finally straightened up and walked into the elevator in silence.

Bai Lu watched as the elevator doors slowly closed until the people inside could no longer be seen.

"He was expressing his gratitude to us because he couldn't thank the judge who tried him in person... so he thanked us, who were also judges;

"He's holding a knife, is he going to kill someone?"

She didn't know the person's story, but she knew it was a story that could make a group of people willingly give and sacrifice for it.

"He must be a tragic person," Bailu thought, looking at the tightly closed elevator doors.

But before she could dwell on it for long, a chilling aura swept over her and pulled her back to reality.

Why is it suddenly so cold?
She turned her head slightly and then discovered why the surroundings had suddenly become cold.

Before I knew it, the corridor ahead was filled with ghosts.

They were pale-faced, dressed in school uniforms, and stood in a row in the middle of the corridor, their bulging eyes fixed on Gu Mian and the others.

Behind these ghosts were two familiar figures.

Cao Deren and Zhang Shengli were right behind these ghosts. With their numerical advantage, the two ghosts became bolder and grinned menacingly at Gu Mian.

"Wait a minute..." Coco tugged at Gu Mian's sleeve, "Aren't those students in front the ghosts in our case?"

Gu Mian stroked her chin: "They must have come with that man from earlier, but now they seem to be quite hostile towards us as well."

"They must have seen that man thank us earlier," Bailu said, her teeth chattering. It was the first time she had ever seen so many ghosts at once. In a normal dungeon, facing so many ghosts face to face would probably mean being killed any second. "These ghosts are taking their anger out on us!"

That's true.

At this moment, several ghosts in the corridor approached them, radiating malice.

The gift book held in Gu Mian's hand let out a loud laugh: "I told you they were already waiting for you here, hahaha, now we've got something to see. Even the other ghosts hate you busybodies..."

Before he could finish speaking, the student in the lead had already stretched out his twisted arm to grab Gu Mian.

Its face was filled with endless malice, as if it were saying, "Die! Die! Die!"

But before it could grab Gu Mian, another pale hand suddenly appeared and seized the twisted arm.

The laughter from the book of rites abruptly stopped.

He stared wide-eyed as a pale hand emerged from the judge's white coat pocket.

Then a lifeless face emerged, followed by the torso and legs.

He watched as a ghost crawled out of the man's pocket!
The appearance of this ghost made the surrounding chill even stronger than before, causing people to shiver.

What's going on with this ghost? Li Shu saw that the newly appeared ghost simply tugged at the student's arm and it was torn off.

The wails of ghosts instantly filled the entire corridor.

The egret was fortunate enough to witness the vengeful ghost fleeing once again.

This time it's ghost chasing ghost.

Li Shu's mouth was wide open, as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

But that's the reality. The scene in the corridor was horrific, with severed limbs flying everywhere. The incredibly powerful older brother ended the battle with minimal effort.

No, it might not even be considered a battle; it was a one-sided massacre.

Bai Lu stared at Gu Mian in shock; she hadn't expected that a player could possess a vengeful ghost.

This was the first time she had ever seen a ghost that would protect the player.

Gu Mian's image in her mind instantly grew taller, until the ghost that had crawled out of the pocket returned, rubbed against their judge, and called out "Little sister."

Upon hearing the word "sister," Bailu felt that the judge's lofty image had crumbled once again.

A passing NPC was carrying a stack of papers as he came out of a room. He turned around and saw a bloody scene all over the corridor, and almost fainted on the spot.

Gu Mian, holding the book of rites, was stunned as she watched her two roommates being "murdered."

Just as he was staring blankly at Cao Deren's arm on the ground, Gu Mian's eerie voice rang in his ear: "I'm so scared. If I don't do what you want, you won't call your two best friends to beat me up, will you?"

Li Shu withdrew her gaze from Cao Deren's arm, looked up at Gu Mian, and saw a sly, malicious face.

He looked at that face and shuddered violently.

As soon as Coach Che arrived with his team, he saw Gu Mian with a face full of twisted villainous expressions.

"Quick!" Coach Che immediately sensed something was terribly wrong. "Quickly, before he does anything, notify the higher-ups to stop this game!"

Upon hearing this, an NPC hurriedly left.

The driving instructor was still loudly instructing, "Also, protect the case files; some cases haven't even started being judged yet!"

He knew that Gu Mian would never obediently accept the verdict and leave, so now he could only hope that the higher-ups would close this case soon.

Seeing the driving instructor suddenly appear, Gu Mian didn't linger any longer.

He looked down at Li Shu with loving eyes, reaching out to pat the other's head: "Why aren't you smiling anymore? Where did your bravado go? Weren't you the one shouting 'You wouldn't dare' in the hospital? I'll show you what 'you wouldn't dare' really means in a moment."

Looking at Gu Mian's loving expression, Li Shu trembled like a leaf.

He didn't know why the judge, who had just been radiating saintly brilliance, had suddenly turned into a pervert.

This shouldn't be happening, this shouldn't be happening!
At this moment, Gu Mian was instructing Keke to bring Yuan Haotian out of the courtroom.

Coco nodded and ran into the courtroom, stepping over the broken limbs scattered on the ground.

Not long after, she pulled Yuan Haotian, who was wearing handcuffs and leg irons, out of the room.

Because he was wearing shackles, Yuan Haotian's movements were not convenient. He stumbled along the corridor, looking at the messy floor with confusion, not quite understanding what had happened.

Seeing Yuan Haotian being brought out, Li Shu suddenly realized something and looked sharply at Gu Mian: "You wouldn't...you wouldn't want to..."

“That’s right,” Gu Mian bent down and smiled at him, revealing her snow-white teeth. “Don’t you hate him, despise him, and wish he would die right now? Don’t you enjoy seeing his desperate and helpless expression of madness? Don’t you love watching the impotent rage of the people you hate?”

"Imagine you struggling to die in front of someone you hate, or showing a desperate and helpless expression in front of the person you despise most. Doesn't that make you feel nauseous? It's pathetic. You thought everything was under your control, and you were happily waiting for the weak person you hated to be sentenced to death, but the ending was the opposite of what you imagined."

Are you angry? Are you furious? But what can you do?

Gu Mian smiled as she lifted Li Shu's increasingly contorted face: "You can't do anything about it. Look at this helpless rage, it's really amusing."

Grass.

The egret uttered another vulgar word.

This time she kept her distance from Gu Mian.

"Then let's witness Li Shu's final glory together." Gu Mian said as she pulled the person by the hand and walked in one direction.

Li Shu struggled, his face contorted, trying to beg for mercy, but he shut his mouth when he saw Yuan Haotian beside him.

A psychopath killed a man's entire family and took pleasure in the man's suffering. He even brazenly told the man, "I am the murderer, but you can't do anything about it."

Such a pervert felt that he was always above his victims, and he would never allow himself to show any vulnerability in front of them.

But her trembling body betrayed the letter.

Anyone could see that he was terrified.

Yuan Haotian also noticed it. He looked at Li Shu, who was trembling, and curled the corners of his mouth into a mocking smile.

This is the victim trampling on the killer's soul.

This is the weak's desperate counterattack against the strong.

This is an absolute reversal of status and position.

Seeing this smile, Li Shu went completely insane.

At this moment, Gu Mian had stopped at the door of a room.

The driving instructor looked at where Gu Mian had stopped and exclaimed in alarm, "Who told him that the files room was there?!"

His response was a loud bang; Gu Mian had already kicked the door open.

The room is small, only about 20 square meters, but it is packed full.

Stacks of old files were piled up on the floor, reaching a height of two meters. On a table not far from the door were several stacks of fresh A4 paper with printed contents, presumably case files for cases that had not yet been investigated.

"Is there a fire?" Li Shu heard Gu Mian's voice coming from above.

Coco readily offered a lighter.

The egret moved further away from them.

Gu Mian took the lighter, lit it, and then threw it into the files room.

The fire spread rapidly among the flammable paper, and within seconds the entire room was engulfed in flames.

Thick smoke billowed out of the doorway.

The driving instructor, who was not far away, rolled his eyes and fainted again.

"You want to burn me alive! You want to burn me alive!" Li Shu struggled frantically.

Most people who die in fires are first suffocated by the thick smoke, and then burned to a crisp, so they die without much pain.

But the room was full of fire.

Once inside, you can feel the flames licking your skin, and even smell the aroma emanating from your charred body before you die.

“That’s right,” Gu Mian nodded honestly. “Not only that, we’ll also be listening outside. All the people you hate will be listening to your struggles, your desperate cries, your painful roars, and your impotent rage. Are you happy? Don’t you love seeing people in their impotent rage?”

Upon hearing this, he suddenly reached out and grabbed Gu Mian: "Since that's the case, then I'll take someone down with me even if I die!"

But he couldn't grab it at all, because a pale hand had already lifted him up and thrown him into that hellish room.

At the same time, she thoughtfully closed the door.

A violent wail came from inside the room.

It also contained the curse, "I will haunt you even as a ghost."

The people inside kept banging on the door, trying to rush out.

But it was no use; the older brother blocked the doorway, and no one could get out.

As time went by, the sounds inside grew fainter and fainter, and the crashing sounds gradually disappeared.

During this time, Coach Che woke up once, learned from other NPCs that the dungeon had some kind of malfunction and could not be shut down for the time being, and then fainted again.

The sounds in the room had completely disappeared. The older brother moved away from the door and moved back to Gu Mian's side.

Gu Mian feigned sadness: "He was perfectly fine just now, how could he be gone so quickly... Now that things are over here, I'll go back to the courtroom for trial."

He spoke as he walked toward the courthouse.

Just then, an untimely creaking sound suddenly rang out in the corridor.

The egret not far away felt a chill run down its spine and stiffly turned its head to look at the door behind Gu Mian.

The door was pushed open a crack from the inside, and a charred arm reached out, gripping Gu Mian's ankle with endless resentment.

The Book of Rites... has become a ghost.

Gu Mian looked back along the charred arm and saw a twisted, gloating face peeking out from the crack in the door.

The charred lips opened and closed, emitting a grating sound: "I told you... even as a ghost... I will not let you go."

Gu Mian looked at that ugly face and silently opened her guitar bag.

That day, the egret saw the gleaming light of the chainsaw once again.

That day, she witnessed another use for the chainsaw besides unlocking locks.

She saw the poor book of rites, just reborn from the ashes, scream and die again under that sacred light.

He must have been extremely regretful when he died.

As the charred head rolled to the egret's feet, she read intense remorse in its charred face.

That's great! That's really good, three thousand words!


(End of this chapter)