Global Collapse-Chapter 394 - 377: The Fatty’s Boxed Meal is Really Fragrant_1
Gu Mian had just seen it clearly.
The item Guo Jimei had picked up was a movie ticket, which, coincidentally, was identical to one of the special items Chu Changge owned.
Chu Changge had many special items, but since he rarely used them, Gu Mian had forgotten how many he actually possessed.
Still, if one were presented before him, Gu Mian would recognize it. That ticket belonged to Chu Changge, and he had purposefully let Guo Jimei find it.
From Guo Jimei’s expression, it appeared she knew it was a special item.
Theoretically, apart from high-ranking NPCs like Mr. Green, most NPCs couldn’t recognize special items and would discard them as trash.
So, there were only two possibilities in this situation.
First, Guo Jimei was a high-ranking NPC. That seemed improbable.
Second, regardless of whether Guo Jimei was human or ghost, she had begun to playerize, though she seemed oblivious to it.
The so-called playerization meant gradually developing towards becoming a player, possibly even detaching from her original instance self to enter the real world. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
This possibility wasn’t small; Fairy Tale City had previously provided an example for Gu Mian, aptly demonstrating that "you players could also be trapped inside an instance, unable to leave."
And this instance might be capable of sending NPCs out of the instance world.
What a headache.
Just then, Gu Mian remembered Xu Xingcheng, the NPC who had mysteriously appeared from another instance; his behavior had also been peculiar.
This indicated that there were connections between instances, but Gu Mian couldn’t figure them out.
What exactly was the relationship between different instances, between instances and the overall game, between instances and NPCs, and between instances and himself?
Gu Mian fell into deep thought.
Just then, Keke, who had already run over, spoke up. She leaned close to Gu Mian’s ear, seemingly afraid of being overheard by Li Yibai nearby, "I have something I hope you can help me with... You’re a doctor, right?"
Gu Mian looked down at her. "Do you want my help with an injection? Or an amputation?"
Keke stared blankly for a moment before she shook her head urgently, "No... Let’s talk about it another time..."
With that, she promptly turned and ran back toward Guo Jimei.
Gu Mian was quite confused; this teammate he had been matched with twice was acting very strangely.
They found the phone very quickly.
Gu Mian had been watching by the window for less than five minutes when Pan Yue and the others found the phone and returned to the academic building.
During this time, Chu Changge and Yuan Qinghua exchanged a few words in the back.
They climbed the stairs quickly, and soon after, Gu Mian heard Pan Yue’s voice.
"We found the phone, but it’s broken. I took out the memory card, though; it should still be usable." When Pan Yue and the others returned, Li Yibai was still huddled on the floor, looking utterly despondent.
Pan Yue glanced at the unmoving Li Yibai. "It’s already past three o’clock. Do you guys need to rest?"
Gu Mian could endure, and the other players probably could too, but the NPCs likely couldn’t.
Having not slept for two days, Li Yibai was immersed in sorrow and probably not in the mood to sleep. Guo Jimei and Yuan Qinghua, on the other hand, were exhausted.
Keke also yawned softly. "I haven’t slept in two days. I’m afraid I won’t have any strength tomorrow."
The girls went to sleep. Guo Jimei deliberately pulled Keke to sleep as far away from Yuan Qinghua as possible.
Pan Yue had probably slept during the day, so she wasn’t sleeping now; instead, she leaned against the door, lost in thought.
Li Yibai still sat with his head buried, unmoving.
Chu Changge was next to Gu Mian. Gu Mian glanced at him and asked quietly, "You threw something away today?"
"Mm," Chu Changge nodded silently. "This instance isn’t normal. I suspect it’s somewhat similar to the Fairy Tale City instance. Fortunately..."
Fortunately what?
"Fortunately, Fatty knew the identities of all the ghosts before he died."
Gu Mian wasn’t surprised.
Before Fatty died, he had gone to the restroom once. His purpose wasn’t to relieve himself but because he had misspoken.
Gu Mian remembered the words Fatty almost blurted out—"Right, I have that little..."
Fatty had a special item he had snatched from Gu Mian.
It was called the [Small Notebook].
[Function: Fill in a time period and a person, and the notebook will automatically generate that person’s actions during that period.]
It could be used once a week. The larger the time range entered, the more concise the generated actions would be; conversely, a smaller range would yield more detailed actions.
Moreover, it could only record actions that had already occurred.
When Fatty was in the restroom, Gu Mian guessed he had already used this notebook, together with Chu Changge.
Although only one person could be entered at a time, the notebook could show who was around the specified person.
For example, if "Gu Mian" was entered as the person, and the time was set to the short period when they had just encountered 007 in this instance, the content displayed on the notebook might be something like this—
[Gu Mian encountered Lin Qi (Identity: Ghost)]
[Lin Qi took out a piece of paper with twelve signatures on it.]
[Gu Mian (Identity: *), Meiren Chu (Identity: *), Wang Pan (Identity: *)... Li Yibai (Identity: *)]
Of course, the "*" was Gu Mian’s speculation, as the identities of certain individuals were still uncertain at present.
"You’ve thought of it too, haven’t you? Fatty learned everyone’s identity through that notebook. He could have announced it immediately," Chu Changge continued, "but he didn’t inform the others."
Fatty’s role was civilian.
The reason he concealed the ghosts’ identities was solely to help cover for them.
And in this instance, the only ones who could make Fatty go to such lengths to shield those ghosts’ identities were those two.
