Global Collapse-Chapter 430 - 407: Recognizing Gu as a Sister_2
At this point, she suddenly stopped speaking.
What? Gu Mian stared intently at the person before him.
"I guess you haven’t used it many times."
"I used half each time, so twice and it was almost gone." Gu Mian remembered he indeed hadn’t used it much. Once, he had used it on a boy during an event, and another time on 007 in the Fairy Tale City instance.
Since then, the Evil God spray bottle had been left with barely half its contents, shaking forlornly, never to be favored again.
The Goddess seemed a bit troubled after hearing this. "If you receive strange gifts again, it’s better not to use them in the real world. You can try them out a few times in some instances... like this one I’m giving you."
Before Gu Mian could fully grasp the meaning of her words, she raised her hand. "I’m giving you this instance right now."
What?
Gu Mian saw a light as bright as the sun emanate from the Goddess’s hand, and a storm suddenly erupted. He could feel the wind rushing in from all directions.
Then he saw cracks appearing in the sky, and it began to collapse. The distant, continuous mountain ranges twisted into bizarre shapes and steadily moved toward them. The surrounding houses, as if drawn by an immense suction force, started to disintegrate into tiny fragments, then rushed toward the Goddess’s hand.
All things were moving toward her, as if congregating.
Gu Mian, frowning in the strong wind, spoke up, "Then my friends..."
"They will be fine."
Debris and dust obscured Gu Mian’s vision, but he could still hear the person before him speaking, "I have compressed this instance into an object called the ’Human CD’. Whenever and wherever you are in danger, as long as you use it, you can immediately enter the world inside the CD. Anyone in physical contact with you at that moment will also be drawn into this world. In here, you can avoid all dangers... However, if you use it in the real world, it will be destroyed immediately after a single use. If you use it inside an instance, I don’t know how many times it can be used. It might be only once, or perhaps a few times..."
She’s being rather reckless!
The world was gradually blurring. Huge rifts tore open in the sky and on the ground. Gu Mian thought he could see the library’s ceiling and the rows of bookshelves to one side. The compression of this instance was nearly complete!
"But there’s just one tiny problem with this thing..." Gu Mian faintly heard the Goddess’s sheepish voice.
He tried to listen carefully, but it was already too late.
The tumultuous storm suddenly ceased, and the swirling bricks and rubble vanished completely. Bright light replaced the previous darkness. Gu Mian looked up and saw the library’s magnificent chandelier. He had returned.
Nearby stood the clueless Fatty, the silent Chu Changge, and 007, who was coughing. According to Fatty, she had nearly suffocated from burning an entire room’s worth of flooring in the instance. This was likely an aftereffect.
It was already broad daylight outside. Gu Mian looked down and saw the book *Second World* still lying intact on the ground. However, there was now a disc on top of it—presumably the Human CD the Goddess had mentioned.
Gu Mian picked up the book and the CD, but the CD didn’t trigger a special item prompt.
No wonder the Goddess explained how to use it, he thought, staring at the CD in his hand. Turns out this thing doesn’t come with instructions.
"What just happened?" Fatty was the first to come to his senses. He looked around, a bit confused.
Before anyone else could speak, he seemed to recall something and scurried to the library door, pulling the power card from its slot.
Chu Changge adjusted his glasses and looked at Gu Mian. "Just before the instance ended, a strange wind surged up. I saw the sky and the ground collapsing, and we were kicked out of the instance even before the rewards were settled."
Hearing this, Gu Mian sighed and shook his head. This Goddess is really something else. We cleared the instance but got no rewards. It feels like we did all the work and got nothing in return.
Just then, Fatty trotted back, looking sheepish. He glanced at the guitar case next to Gu Mian. "Doctor, was it something you did? Near the end, I suddenly couldn’t see you anymore."
Gu Mian raised his hands. "It really wasn’t me this time."
But evidently, his claim wasn’t very convincing.
Because 007 was looking at the latest game announcement.
[Announcement]
[The special instance ’Angel Redemption’ has mysteriously disappeared. Reason unknown. All players will no longer be able to match with this instance in the future.]
"By the way," 007 looked at Fatty, "what was the name of the instance we just entered?"
Fatty was also looking at the announcement on his panel. "I remember it was called Angel Redemption..."
The two of them looked up at Gu Mian.
Gu Mian said, "...I’m kind of hungry. Let’s go get something to eat."
Xiao Hong was still dutifully guarding the Spirit Car. If she didn’t always press herself against the car window, leaving a sheet of drool, Gu Mian would have liked her more.
Meanwhile, 007, who hadn’t slept for days and nights, lay in the Spirit Car covered with a blanket. Gu Mian sat near 007, his back to the windshield, studying the CD in his hands. Chu Changge was prying Xiao Hong off the rear window to prevent a drool deluge, while Fatty squatted beside the Spirit Car, pot in hand, contemplating the menu.
"007, what do you want to eat?" Fatty, peering through the open car door, asked 007 just as she was closing her eyes.
The young woman had no choice but to force open her eyelids, which felt almost glued shut. She mumbled groggily, "I want to sleep..."
Gu Mian was still studying the CD in his hand. Its front was plain white and looked unremarkable—not like the Black Cat Sheriff discs from his childhood, nor like an adult film.
He was still recalling the Goddess’s last words:
"But there’s just one tiny problem with this thing..."
A small problem?
Unfortunately, before she could finish, Gu Mian had already left the instance, and the Goddess had vanished along with it. What could this ’small problem’ be?
Just then, Gu Mian suddenly noticed that Xiao Hong, who had been plastered to the rear window, had stopped drooling. She had turned around at some point and was now staring intently at him with that apologetic face of hers, as if scrutinizing some exotic species.
Beside her, Chu Changge was also looking over with a perplexed expression.
Fatty, outside the car door, looked as if his neck had gone rigid; he too had swiveled his head in their direction, his expression unreadable.
Even 007, nestled in her blanket, had her eyes wide open, craning her neck to stare fixedly at him.
Gu Mian paused, noticing everyone was looking at him...
What happened?
And just then, he felt a pair of hands encircle his shoulders from behind. Next, a voice, soft as a whisper, spoke right beside his ear—
"Sister."
