Global Collapse

Chapter 834 The Honkai Impact 3rd Wish System: You Deserve It
“Yes, I knew Gu Mian would come to save me. A superior person told me.” Louis spread his hands, no longer bothering to hide it.

"After you were imprisoned as a traitor, the upper-class people who could access you must be of high status." Chu Changge adjusted his glasses.

Louis shook his head: "Logically speaking, that's true, but unfortunately, I don't know him."

He looked up and recalled the situation: "After being captured, I was kept in the underground prison of the City of Pleasure. I don't understand why there is such a prison under the City of Pleasure. In our world, unless there is a special case like mine, the upper class will not be imprisoned."
"Only a few lower-class people who violate the protection laws for the upper class are caught and imprisoned, but it has been a long time since any lower-class person has violated the protection laws..."

At this point, Louis turned and glanced at Gu Mian.

When Gu Mian rescued him, he was inside the stage and couldn't see the situation outside clearly.

But the blood-stained chainsaw in Gu Mian's hand and the several severed limbs at the opening told him what had happened up there.

Strictly speaking, Gu Mian is not considered a lower-class person, and attacking a higher-class person does not violate the protection law for the upper class.

“Even if there are lower-class people who violate the protection law, they will be imprisoned far away from the upper-class area. The upper-class people are unwilling to lock up the filthy lower-class people in their residential area.”

Gu Mian remembered Louis mentioning to her during the Circus instance that the cave in the Secret Forest was originally a dungeon dug by the upper class for the lower class, and it was indeed far from the upper class area, but they dug up a statue of an evil god.

"So the dungeon beneath Pleasure City is practically useless. The upper class there doesn't understand why it was ever built. I heard it was decided by the two founders of the upper class. Do you know the two founders of the upper class in our world?" Louis looked at Gu Mian.

“One is called slaughter, the other is called torture,” Chu Changge said.

Gu Mian has seen the killing before.

Gu Mian had already heard his story of the first half of his life in the secret forest. As for the torture, it probably involved killing his companion who had taken a sulfuric acid bath, Gu Mian thought to himself.

He began to understand why the two of them had built that dungeon in the first place.

Initially, the two used Huanyu Tiandu as their base, hoping that Xu Xingcheng, as a warrior, could lead the lower class to defeat them. However, they couldn't kill all the defeated upper class members—leaving a group of upper class members to repent would make the ending of the story more worthy of promotion.

They probably feared that there would be nowhere to imprison the defeated upper class, so they built a dungeon below the city of Pleasure, so that warriors wouldn't have to travel far and wide to imprison prisoners.

It was a truly thorough preparation, taking into account everything the Warriors needed.

Unfortunately, no warriors appeared, so the dungeon remained unused until the arrival of the upper-class traitor Louis.

Louis was essentially a member of the upper class, and locking him up in a cell for the lower class was a disgrace to the upper class.

"I was the only one locked in the cell, so the guards were very tight. You couldn't see the outside sky from the dungeon. I didn't know day or night, or how long I had been locked up, until one day when I was sleeping, I suddenly heard someone calling me from outside the door;
"When I woke up, I looked outside and saw a stranger of the upper class standing there. He told me that a man named Gu Mian would come to rescue me and asked me to give you a message."

Louis stopped there.

The three people next to him listened attentively, waiting for his next words.

Even the fat man, who wasn't in the living room, perked up his ears, anxious to know what the other person had said.

Louis frowned, his face showing confusion: "He said, 'Grow like a ghost.'"

"What?" 007 wondered if he had misheard.

“Grow like a ghost,” Louis repeated.

Gu Mian was completely baffled by these nonsensical words and didn't understand what they meant. Did they want him to have a second growth spurt, and to grow like a ghost? How was he supposed to know how ghosts grew? Maybe he could ask Xiao Hong or his brother?

However, one of these two people is a stutterer who can only call out "sister," and the other is an echo chamber with an underdeveloped language center, so asking them probably wouldn't be of any use.

That upper-class person is quite strange. Why did he make it clearer and less concise when relaying the message? Was he afraid that others would overhear what he was saying?
Gu Mian also frowned, pondering the meaning of Louis's words.

"What does that upper-class man look like?" he asked Louis.

"It's very ordinary."

Have you ever seen what two founders of superior character look like?

Louis knew what Gu Mian meant, and he said, "Their photos are everywhere—in books, newspapers, and on television. The people I saw were not the two founders."

He was unaware of Gu Mian's experiences in the secret forest and wondered why Gu Mian was involved with the two founders.

Chu Changge turned to Gu Mian and said, "The other party must have confirmed that you knew about the variety show before they could deduce that you would enter the Paradise World to save Louis."

It's possible that the information about Louis's trial was originally leaked to Gu Mian by that person.

Chu Changge didn't continue speaking, but instead looked at the fat man not far away.

The chubby guy was the one who brought up the variety show idea first.

The fat man understood what Chu Changge meant. He straightened his back and said, "I heard it from the sales clerk at the supermarket. I even remember what he looked like: short, with protruding ears and a big nose..."

He spoke while gesturing to prove his innocence.

It seems I'll have to go to the supermarket tomorrow to find that big-nosed guy and ask him who told him this. Gu Mian glanced out the window; it was already completely dark, so it wasn't a good time to go out.

That armed security force has also arrived in this world; encountering them in the dark might put you at a disadvantage.

"And there's that guy named Lao Xu at Carnival Wharf. The first time he called, he kept bringing up the matter of building a variety show stage, as if he was trying to steer the conversation toward a trial and crown variety show." Gu Mian recalled the few phone calls the fortune teller made for him before he entered the Paradise World.

Moreover, the other party's surname is Xu.

It inevitably reminds one of a certain person.

The NPC's hints about the trial and the crown variety show, the paradise admission ticket given by the evil god, and the fact that five of the ninety-nine delivery missions are near the secret forest—Gu Mian believes that the evil god had long ago arranged for her to go to the secret forest and see the statue.

Even the riot of the lower classes at the circus long ago may have been orchestrated by an evil god.

It's highly likely that the one who entrusted Louis with the message was also an evil god.

But all that effort he put in was to install an immature wish-granting system on himself. Gu Mian will have to be careful when she sleeps from now on to avoid having dreams of destroying the world.

Speaking of the wishing system.

Gu Mian looked at Louis: "You mentioned the evil god statue in the underground cave to me. It can resist the world's rewind, but did you know it has other uses?"

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