Global Collapse-Chapter 400 - 383: Abandoning Wife and Child for Gu Bingbing【Third Update】_1
Everyone thought Zhang Pingfan was a player!
During the first round of voting, eight people voted, and three abstained.
Li Wentao himself received seven votes, while he cast his own vote for Pan Yue.
That way, there were exactly eight votes cast.
However, Yue Nu claimed the next day that she had voted for Zhang Pingfan.
But if Yue Nu’s vote was counted, there would have been nine votes, yet the game stated there were only eight voters.
They never understood what was happening until Pan Yue met Xu Xingcheng today.
Since Zhang Pingfan wasn’t a player, Yue Nu’s vote for him was useless and was treated as an abstention!
It turned out there had only been eight actual voters all along!
Although it was a huge misunderstanding, they had finally connected with this civilian who had always been on the outside.
Enthusiastically, Pan Yue grabbed Xu Xingcheng. "It’s okay! I’ll take you to Guo Jimei and the others. With you, we’ll have one more vote, and our chances of survival will be even greater!"
The two of them started to search the massive construction site, but after a long time, they still hadn’t found a trace of the others.
After some time had passed, Pan Yue stopped to take a break.
At that moment, Xu Xingcheng suddenly looked behind Pan Yue and asked in surprise, "Hey, Yuan Qinghua, when did you get here?"
Pan Yue’s face instantly stiffened. Yuan Qinghua?
She rigidly turned her neck to look behind her.
Yuan Qinghua had appeared behind her at some unknown point. She wasn’t holding a flashlight and stood rigidly in the darkness, a smile on her face. "Where are you going?"
Xu Xingcheng started to answer, "We’re going to—"
"Wait!" Pan Yue interrupted Xu Xingcheng. She nervously stared at Yuan Qinghua. "Yuan Qinghua, I know you might not be the ghost. Besides, a ghost definitely wouldn’t kill when two people are together; that would undoubtedly expose their identity."
Xu Xingcheng looked at Pan Yue, puzzled.
Then, the same voice came again.
"Where are you going?"
Xu Xingcheng looked in surprise at Yuan Qinghua, who still stood motionless, that smile fixed on her face.
"Where are you going?"
"Where are you going?"
"Where are you going?"
What... what’s happening...?
Staring at the figure before him, Xu Xingcheng shivered violently as immense fear gripped his entire body.
"Run!" Pan Yue suddenly yelled, then turned and fled.
Xu Xingcheng hastily stumbled after her.
But that demonic voice seemed to be right behind them!
They sprinted down the uneven dirt road in the darkness. Suddenly, Pan Yue tripped over something.
Xu Xingcheng immediately stopped to help her up.
Just as he paused and looked back, he came face-to-face with a deathly pale visage.
"Where are you going?"
CRACK! The sound of breaking bone echoed.
Pan Yue looked up in astonishment. She saw Xu Xingcheng’s neck snap to one side before his entire body crumpled to the ground.
Yuan Qinghua stood before him, still upright, her face now an ashen, deathly pale.
Pan Yue’s eyes widened, and she struggled to move backward. "You... You really are the ghost... But you can’t kill anymore! You’ve killed one person. If you kill again, you’ll die too!"
She scrambled backward, trying to get up and run.
But the pale face before her offered no such chance.
Pan Yue saw the figure slowly bend down, and then she felt a pair of icy hands encircle her neck.
Her breath caught in her throat. Pan Yue opened her mouth to scream, but no sound escaped.
Why? Why?! If you kill me, you’ll die too!
But these words remained unvoiced. Within seconds, Pan Yue too became a cold corpse.
Under the moonlight, the ghostly woman slowly collapsed after murdering the second person. A distinct sound emanated from her body—the crunching of breaking bones.
She had killed two people and was now being eliminated by the game’s rules.
This was the fate for all those punished by the game’s rules.
Just like Li Wentao, who had been voted out earlier, her body and organs shattered. Blood oozed from Yuan Qinghua’s contorted form.
At this moment, Gu Mian emerged from a corner, holding a gleaming saw.
He first glanced at the two corpses on the ground, then at the dying Yuan Qinghua. "What a mess."
He had initially been following Yuan Qinghua to observe her, not expecting her to put on such a dramatic show for him.
Gu Mian felt he ought to go over and greet this "colleague" who had so selflessly performed.
Saw in hand, he squatted down beside Yuan Qinghua, about to say something.
But before he could utter a word, Yuan Qinghua’s pale hand shot out and grabbed his clothes—just the fabric, nothing more.
Gu Mian frowned, looking at the hand clutching him tightly.
Then, a faint voice escaped her lips: "You promised me..."
Just like in countless melodramatic TV shows, her dying words were cut short, leaving Gu Mian alone beside three corpses to contemplate life.
What did I promise her? he wondered, looking at the corpse before him. He couldn’t recall having much interaction with Yuan Qinghua.
Unfortunately, Yuan Qinghua could no longer provide an answer.
Gu Mian even began to wonder if he’d ever done something like abandoning a wife and children in the past, but try as he might, he couldn’t recall anything of the sort.
「Elsewhere」
Guo Jimei and Keke had stuck together.
They too were wandering the massive construction site but hadn’t encountered anyone else. At least they hadn’t been separated like before.
This round, Guo Jimei was more careful; she had bought a watch before leaving school and wore it constantly.
Keke was still leading Guo Jimei around the construction site.
Guo Jimei asked, a little puzzled, "Keke, why do I feel like you’re leading me in circles? I think we’ve been here before."
Keke turned back, a bewildered expression on her face. "Ah, have we? Actually, I’m not very good with directions. Sorry about that."
As she spoke, she glanced at Guo Jimei’s wristwatch. "What time is it now?"
Guo Jimei raised her wrist to check. "It’s already two-thirty. In half an hour, we can vote. Strange, I thought the ghost would come for me today. Did it kill someone else instead?"
"I don’t know," Keke said, then suddenly stopped and pointed to the tallest building in the distance. "Why don’t we go check over there? I don’t think we’ve been there yet."
Guo Jimei nodded.
When the two of them reached the foot of this tallest building, three corpses and Gu Mian came into view.
In the dim light, Guo Jimei gasped, staring in shock at Yuan Qinghua’s utterly pale form on the ground. "What happened?!"
Gu Mian, standing to one side, shrugged. "Just as you see. Yuan Qinghua killed two people and then got herself penalized by the rules."
Why? Guo Jimei stared at the ground, stunned. Why would Yuan Qinghua do such a thing? Killing two people... meant she would also die instantly. Wouldn’t this put the remaining ghost in the worst possible position?
