Global Collapse

Chapter 90 The Hand of Sin
Gu Mian still remembers that the main quest of this dungeon is to obtain "Golden Amber's Redemption".

He originally thought Jin Hu was a miner who was victimized in that incident, but the reality was not quite what he imagined.

The photo of the golden tiger was placed at the very top, as if it were sitting at the top of a pyramid.

The people at the top of this pyramid are different from those at the bottom.

Jin Hu has thick hair, no strange coastline on his head, and even his skin color is different from the others below.

The people below all looked like they had albinism, their skin so white it was as if they had never seen the sun since birth, while Jin Hu had a normal skin color.

“According to the theory that all upper-class people are albino patients…” Gu Mian stared at the photo and stroked her chin: “This Jin Hu should be a so-called lower-class person.”

As mentioned in the dungeon description, this is a world with relatively underdeveloped medical conditions, so hospitals should be extremely rare.

Hospitals are rare, and doctors are even rarer.

Logically speaking, such a rare profession should not be reserved for lower-class people, let alone the head of a department.

Gu Mian looked at Jin Hu's photo.

He was around forty years old, which is considered quite young and successful.

This person had dark skin, but his large eyes were bright and piercing. His face was somewhat square, appearing rectangular at first glance, and his brows exuded an air of confidence.

Judging from the photo, this person seems to be very ambitious, and their hair follicles are well-developed.

Gu Mian glanced at the photos a few times before turning her gaze to the door of an office next to her.

The door was tightly closed, and he thought the dull sound he had just heard seemed to have come from inside it.

The overhead lights were still shining brightly; the electrical circuits on the twelfth floor were very stable, and the atmosphere of a bar and disco hadn't been created like it had been on the stairs earlier.

Gu Mian stood in front of the door and pushed the office door open.

The door was locked from the inside and couldn't be opened from the outside.

Then he heard a sound coming from it again. The sound was very soft, but because he was standing close to the door, he could hear it clearly.

It sounded like someone was making a whimpering sound coming from inside, the sound coming directly from the throat, as if the mouth was being gagged.

Then came a very faint fluttering sound.

The person who made the sound immediately seemed to be held down by something and could no longer struggle.

But the whimpering sound coming from the throat did not stop. Even though it was only a few simple syllables, you could hear the despair and fear in the person making the sound.

Gu Mian had watched many movies before this global game even started, and this voice sounded like that of a hostage who had been kidnapped by villains.

He pondered the next development: "Should I kick down the door and play the hero to save the damsel in distress at this moment?"

Gu Mian's hands are always faster than her brain.

The moment the phrase "hero saves the beauty" popped into his mind, his body began to move on its own.

This was a conditioned reflex that Gu Mian had developed through years of training in life, and this reflex had saved him many times.

At this moment, he had already kicked the office door shut.

Gu Mian was prepared to ram the door with all her might, but unexpectedly, the door in front of her was kicked open very easily.

With just one kick, the door, which appeared to be in disrepair, opened with a thud.

At the same time, he heard a sound from behind the door, like something falling to the ground, followed by a faint, indistinct curse. Gu Mian lost his balance and crashed into the suddenly opened door.

Logically, one would expect to find some bloody and terrifying scene behind such a door, but that's not the case at all.

This is an office that is spotless, so spotless that there is nothing superfluous in the entire room except for a huge operating table placed in the middle. There is no beautiful woman who needs his help, or perhaps the beautiful woman has been hidden away.

The office window was large and faced the main entrance. As soon as Gu Mian entered, she saw this rather large window. The window had a small gap, just big enough for a person to jump out.

Looking out the window, he saw the moon hanging high in the sky, but it seemed as if there was something between him and the moon, giving it a hazy, beautiful appearance.

"Who are you?" he heard a man's voice coming from somewhere in the room.

Gu Mian scanned the room again before finally finding the source of the sound.

A man in a white coat was squatting by the window, looking quite shocked, and was watching Gu Mian warily.

Gu Mian looked at the man squatting by the window.

This is no ordinary man; this is clearly a main quest character!

"Mr. Jin Hu," Gu Mian looked at him and said, "I recognize you. You're the director of the respiratory department at the Mining City Hospital. But none of that matters. I'm here today to rescue you."

The main quest is to obtain Jin Hu's redemption.

The mission wasn't "to save Jin Hu," but Gu Mian really couldn't think of any other explanation for it.

The current situation is that Jin Hu, the head of the respiratory department, is hiding fearfully in a hospital fraught with danger.

Given this context, Gu Mian felt that "Jin Hu's Redemption" in this mission could be translated as "Rescue Jin Hu from the hospital".

Of course, this was just his conjecture. Gu Mian actually thought the conjecture was quite unreliable. If the conjecture were true, then there would be no need to make such a large restricted area in this instance. They could just put a hospital for players to rescue people.

Clearly, the task is not that simple.

But he learned a saying when he studied history: "Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth."

Regardless of whether the conjecture is correct or not, it's better to put it into practice than for the two of us to just stare at each other blankly. All clues are discovered through practice. In short, let's catch the golden tiger first.

Thinking of this, Gu Mian stretched out his sinful hands, trying to grab the main quest that was huddled by the window.

But just then, the man by the window suddenly shouted, "Wait! I have a task that I need you to complete. If you can complete the task for me, you can get the reward you want!"

Gu Mian withdrew her hand upon hearing this.

What's with this tone, like a game NPC? Although the thing in front of him is indeed an NPC, he shouldn't know anything about it.

Seeing Gu Mian withdraw her hand, Jin Hu felt somewhat relieved. He then stood up along the wall and began to speak.

"As you can see, I am a doctor at this hospital, the head of the respiratory department," Jin Hu said, glancing at Gu Mian as if observing his expression.

Seeing this, Gu Mian made an exaggerated expression: "You're really amazing!"

Insincere praise.

Jin Hu's face twitched, then he continued, "I am a lower-class person. You know how difficult it is for a lower-class person to make a living in this world."

"To be honest, I had a miserable childhood, so my dream has always been to eliminate discrimination against the lower class by the upper class, which is why I worked so hard to climb to where I am today."

"But the good times didn't last long..."

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