Global Collapse-Chapter 397 - 380: Zhang San’s Head, Like a Football【Three More】_1
Upon hearing this, Guo Jimei also shivered. She hesitated for a moment before saying, "Actually..."
But just as these two words left her mouth, she spotted a familiar figure not too far away.
"Keke?" Guo Jimei looked, somewhat surprised, at Keke in the distance. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖
It wasn’t that she was surprised to see her here, as their search areas already overlapped. What Guo Jimei found strange was that Keke was alone; Li Yibai was nowhere to be found.
Just then, Keke also noticed Guo Jimei and Pan Yue. With a panicked look on her face, she wove through the crowd and hurried towards them.
"What happened?" Pan Yue, also noticing Keke, stood up and walked towards her.
In just a few steps, they gathered.
The first words Keke blurted out were, "I got separated from Li Yibai!"
"Separated?" Pan Yue was taken aback. "That’s right, considering Li Yibai’s barely alive state... But where did you get separated? Nearby?"
Keke shook her head. "No, I was walking ahead looking for the address. When I turned my head, he was gone. I haven’t found him since. Can you help me look for him?"
"Alright," Guo Jimei nodded. "Anyway, most of the addresses we found were wrong, so there’s no need to continue with that. We’ll help you find Li Yibai."
Upon hearing this, Keke looked shocked. "Your addresses were incorrect too? Ours were as well, even the telephone numbers were wrong. What’s going on?"
Guo Jimei shook her head. "We don’t know either."
Keke wanted to say something else but was interrupted by Pan Yue.
"We can walk and talk," Pan Yue said, pulling Keke. "Where did you get separated from Li Yibai?"
Keke started walking in one direction. "Near the school, not far from here."
At this point, Guo Jimei also quickly followed. "Now, it’s just the three of us girls. I trust you, so I’ll tell you something as we walk..."
The other two turned their gaze towards her.
Guo Jimei took a deep breath and started, "Actually, I’ve noticed that some items in this game can be used."
"Items?" Pan Yue looked very confused.
Guo Jimei immediately pulled out two items. "These I found in the classroom on the day we were assigned our identities. This notebook is called the ’Prophecy Book’ and can be used twice. It can predict all the identities a person has had throughout their life. I’ve already used it once. This other item I got last night while I was sleeping is called ’Decision Right,’ and it can directly determine the voting result. Remember when I screamed? It was because I saw this... Actually, I found one more thing, but it’s not useful for us."
Pan Yue looked somewhat puzzled.
Keke stared at these two items in shock. Of course, she recognized them; they were special items! Only instance players can use special items. Why could Guo Jimei use them?
Keke stared closely at the items in Guo Jimei’s hands and asked, "Can I touch them?"
Guo Jimei nodded.
Keke slowly reached her hand out.
[Prophecy Book]
[Introduction: Produced by the ’Close Your Eyes’ instance. Close Your Eyes production, quality guaranteed!]
[Function: Write down a player’s name to learn all the identities they have had from birth until now. Can be used twice.]
[Example: Enter ’Zhang San’, and you might get: ’Student, Murderer, Fugitive, Gigolo, Freelancer, Convict, Patient, Ghost’]
If Gu Mian were here, he would definitely sigh at how rich and tumultuous Zhang San’s life had been, and then proceed to take out a saw to cut off Zhang San’s head.
And the other one...
[Decision Right (One-time use)]
[Introduction: An essential tool for elections.]
[Function: Use during voting to directly decide the outcome in favor of the chosen candidate.]
Meaning, if someone possessed this item before a certain overseas presidential election, the final winner might end up being a dog. But all of this was unimportant. The important thing was that Guo Jimei could use special items! Why was this happening?!
Keke took a deep breath, her mind in chaos as she retracted her hand.
Pan Yue also touched the items. "There’s nothing special about them. How did you know these items had these functions?"
Guo Jimei blinked. "You can’t see it?"
She must be referring to the panel that introduces special items.
Keke exhaled, not pressing further. "See what?"
Guo Jimei shook her head. "Nothing really. But with these two things in hand, the ghost will definitely not win! As long as I have this Decision Right, no matter how many votes others cast, I’ll be the one to make the final decision on who is eliminated."
"You all know I’m close with Yuan Qinghua, so the day I got the Prophecy Book, I tried it out on Yuan Qinghua’s identity, and it said ghost!" Guo Jimei said, flipping open her small notebook as she spoke.
The flimsy little notebook only had two pages. The first page had "Yuan Qinghua" written on it, followed by just three identities:
"Student, Patient, Ghost."
It seemed her life was very short.
"But nothing happened at the time, so I just thought it was a normal game... Then you told me that Li Wentao and Wang Pan were dead. I still didn’t believe it, not until the next day during P.E. class when I saw Yuan Qinghua turn into a ghost..."
Keke frowned. No wonder Guo Jimei had been so adamant about Yuan Qinghua from the beginning.
"Although I don’t quite understand," Pan Yue interjected, "Guo Jimei, what you’re saying sounds like a tall tale. How do we know if it’s true or false?"
Upon hearing this, Guo Jimei immediately took out a pen. "Alright, I’ll use my second chance now so you can see... I find Meiren Chu and Gu Mian very suspicious. The last ghost must be one of them..."
She considered for half a second. "I’ll write Gu Mian’s name. You watch."
But just then, Keke suddenly reached out and stopped her. "Wait!"
What’s wrong? Guo Jimei looked up in confusion.
Keke said, "Don’t write yet. The ghost might kill again tonight. If the person whose name you write dies, wouldn’t that be a waste of the chance?"
That’s true. Guo Jimei silently nodded, then put away her pen. "Let’s go find Li Yibai first."
「Meanwhile」
Gu Mian was also experiencing some bizarre events.
Visiting the homes of those two classmates had taken some time. By the time he returned, it was already the last class period of the morning.
As he reached the office door, he ran into someone coming out.
He actually recognized this person—someone who absolutely should not have been in this instance.
This was terrible. Of course, not terrible for Gu Mian.
The man seemed puzzled as to why a student would be loitering outside. Two seconds after his gaze fell on Gu Mian’s face, he exclaimed— "Why the hell are you—"
But before he could finish, Gu Mian swiftly grabbed the man by the collar. "Well, well, if it isn’t the dapper-looking but vile-hearted, notoriously treacherous Coach Che? What brings you to this godforsaken corner of the world? Hasn’t your driver’s license instance been fixed yet, leaving you stranded here?"
He’d always found this instance incredibly bizarre, but he never expected to run into an acquaintance. This was too strange!
Coach Che stared at Gu Mian, his eyes wide with disbelief. "What kind of ridiculous adjectives are those? Don’t think I don’t understand idioms! Let me go!"
"I can let you go," Gu Mian remarked, "but the look on your face clearly says, ’The moment you release me, I’m bolting.’"
"Isn’t that obvious?!" Coach Che retorted. "I swear, if those three cars in my instance could grow legs, they’d take one look at you and run for their lives! They’d be so terrified, they’d crash into a wall and keep going without a second thought!"
Coach Che’s words reminded Gu Mian of the three Spirit Cars he had wrecked.
But now was not the time to reminisce.
Gu Mian frowned. "Let me ask you, how did you end up in this instance?"
"I’m not supposed to be in this instance! If I’d known you were here, I’d rather have gone to the crematorium and had my head roasted like a shish kebab than come to this godforsaken place!" Coach Che retorted.
Gu Mian raised an eyebrow. "Are you working here?"
"Duh! Isn’t it all because of you? You joined one event and caused about twenty or thirty instances to crash simultaneously! Now the organizers don’t dare start the next event. I’m here to fix the instances!"
As Coach Che spoke, he glanced at the file in Gu Mian’s hand. "You’ve read this file, right? It’s completely different from the actual facts, isn’t it? It’s all messed up because of you! We’re still in the process of correcting it!"
Gu Mian remembered that, indeed, a large number of instances had crashed after the Lantern Festival riddles event. Later, there was even an exceptionally long list of suspended instances.
One of them was called "Close Your Eyes (Low-Quality Version)".
And the instance they were currently in was called "Close Your Eyes (High-Quality Version)".
They had even joked about it when they first entered.
"But why do you have a guitar now?" Coach Che glanced behind Gu Mian.
Gu Mian kept a straight face. "Because I love music."
"Let me ask you," Gu Mian said, ignoring the banter and tightening his grip on Coach Che’s collar, "why can I encounter NPCs from other instances within this instance?"
Coach Che rolled his eyes. "Duh, it’s because we’re all in the same—"
His voice suddenly trailed off.
