Global Collapse-Chapter 486 - 459: Thank You_1

Gu Mian looked at the sticky soup that had been pushed in front of him.

The yellow, sour-smelling, viscous liquid in the bowl, which had two chips, contained no meat and looked like the product of someone with a bad stomach who had consumed too much fruit.

Not convinced, Gu Mian took a sniff. Yes, even the smell is similar to that stuff.

"It doesn’t look very appetizing," Gu Mian said, pushing the bowl back in disgust. "This is false advertising."

Then he quickly realized his test paper might have some kind of twisted sense of humor.

Because he saw a new option appearing in the blank space under the multiple-choice question:

[Mixed Meat Soup on the third floor of the restaurant ()]

[A. Delicious] [B. Not Delicious]

Anyone could tell A wasn’t the right choice for this thing.

Gu Mian felt conflicted.

Logically, since both options existed, it meant there was a possibility—however small—that the mixed meat soup could actually taste good.

But he really didn’t want to eat this shit-like substance.

Looking at the human figure behind the window, Gu Mian had a clever idea. "You..."

Just as he uttered a word, he suddenly heard a voice from behind him.

"You’re here for the mixed meat soup too?"

Gu Mian turned, shining his flashlight behind him, and saw three young men standing there. The one in the lead, who looked quite refined, had the nickname "Liu Xuan." 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

The two following Liu Xuan were named Feng Zitao and Wang Longxiang, respectively.

The trio stared at Gu Mian together in the dim light.

Just as Liu Xuan was about to say something more, Gu Mian suddenly exclaimed excitedly, "Great! Why don’t we do this together?"

The third floor fell silent for a few seconds.

Then Gu Mian saw Liu Xuan give a strange smile. "Alright."

Immediately, the four of them each picked up a bowl and sat down together on the dark third floor.

"GULP. GULP." Liu Xuan excitedly grabbed his bowl, brought it to his mouth, and began to devour its contents frantically.

The viscous yellow slurry scrambled to pour into his widely stretched-open mouth. He barely chewed as it slid down his throat.

The other two were the same; all three wore crazed expressions as they swallowed the contents of their bowls, making strange gurgling sounds in the darkness, as if oblivious to the foul stench.

Yellow liquid trickled down Liu Xuan’s chin. The contents of his bowl were nearly gone, about to be entirely gulped down his throat.

Just then, he suddenly heard an eerie voice by his ear, "Is it tasty?"

He turned his head and saw a face pressed close to his, its unblinking eyes fixed on him. "Is it tasty?"

Liu Xuan’s mouth hung open, unable to utter a word.

The face before him drew even closer and, with an urgent, eerie, and bizarre expression, repeated, "Is it tasty?!"

Why am I not dead? Why am I not dead? Why do those ghosts have nicknames? Mingyue kept repeating these questions to herself as she fled the fourth floor.

But there were no answers, only the image of Li Xueqi’s head swirling in her mind.

She never got an answer to her questions, but thankfully, the looping staircase had finally stopped. Standing in the dim stairwell, Mingyue looked at the "Third Floor" sign before her. "I made it down, I finally made it down..."

Just then, she thought she heard voices coming from the third floor.

Players?

She instinctively glanced through the doorway of the third floor. A single look was enough to scare her out of her wits—the three ghosts from before were here too!

But...

She saw the ghost that had ruthlessly killed Li Xueqi now being held by the neck, forcefully pressed against a table by someone, and relentlessly interrogated, "Is it tasty?" "Is it tasty?" "Quick, say it!"

"My heavens!" Mingyue instantly recognized the person in the white coat. Her breath hitched for a moment, then she immediately turned and fled.

Perverts! They’re all perverts!

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Meanwhile, Fatty and Xiao Qiao were observing the restaurant from a dark grove.

Gu Mian had said in the cheating group that he had arrived at the restaurant. Since the two of them were not far away, they decided to wait for him outside.

The small grove was pitch black at night, with only a faint light visible from the streetlamp at the restaurant’s entrance. Players whose test location wasn’t here would definitely not come to this place seeking trouble.

Fatty actually didn’t want to wait for Gu Mian here either; after all, dark groves at night were notorious hotspots for supernatural occurrences.

But considering his nickname often appeared alongside "Gu Mian," he worried that if they loitered in crowded places, others might spot them and use them to track down Gu Mian. So, Fatty, shivering, hid in the dark grove.

"Luckily, it’s early June, so there aren’t many mosquitoes yet," Fatty said, simultaneously counting the players he had seen enter the restaurant. "But we’ve been staking this place out for over ten minutes, and in that time, I’ve counted more than thirty players going in..."

But not a single one had come out.

Not one.

The massive restaurant was like a giant beast crouching in the darkness; everyone who went in never returned.

They didn’t even know what Gu Mian was up to, as he hadn’t sent them any messages.

"If we don’t hear from the Doctor in another ten minutes," Fatty glanced at the time—it was 7:55 PM, "then let’s go in and take a look?"

"Okay." Although Xiao Qiao rarely voiced her opinions, she was generally responsive to requests.

Fatty remembered how a few days ago, he couldn’t crack a walnut and asked Xiao Qiao for help. Without a word, she had taken the walnut from his hand and crushed it to bits.

Of course, it ended up inedible...

"But Brother Chu and Liu Ruyan haven’t sent any messages either," Fatty said, checking the cheating group again.

Chu Changge had only said one thing, and Liu Ruyan hadn’t made a peep.