Global Collapse-Chapter 584 - 552: A Pigeon Gu Mian_1
When Huai Xin Zhen Yue received the call from Liu Yiji, it was already four in the afternoon.
Luckily, the ghost had not found him yet, allowing him to go unscathed for most of the day.
During his idle time, Huai Xin Zhen Yue even began to question the difficulty of this instance.
Liu Yiji's call came in just when he was bored, and he casually answered it.
After the call was connected, there was no sound from the other end.
For a moment, Huai Xin Zhen Yue suspected that Liu Yiji had been killed, and he suspected that it was the ghost who was currently calling him.
Just as he was wondering whether to hang up, a voice finally came from the other end, "Zhen Yue, are you still alive?"
Hearing Liu Yiji's voice, Huai Xin Zhen Yue responded, "I'm alive. You're also alive, aren't you?"
Although this was indeed Liu Yiji's voice, he couldn't confirm whether this was the ghost imitating him.
He heard no background noise from Liu Yiji's end, suggesting there was no one around him.
"I'm alive," Liu Yiji said. "Bai Wu just died."
Huai Xin Zhen Yue had not seen any new death announcements, so he asked in doubt, "How do you know?"
"She found the way to survive. She rushed over and saved me just now, but then she was caught by the ghost, and I couldn't catch up."
"The ghost ran off with her, and you chased after the ghost?" Huai Xin Zhen Yue felt a buzzing in his head, thinking there was something wrong with the other party's mind.
"That's the path to survival. One-on-one hide-and-seek is only viable between one person and one ghost. The ghost assigned to you can only catch you, but I can interfere with the ghost trying to catch you. You can come to me. I'm in Times Square. If you're found by the ghost, I can help distract it."
Upon hearing him reveal his location just like that, Huai Xin Zhen Yue asked in confusion, "You just gave me your address without confirming my identity? What if I'm actually a ghost?"
"My ghost will no longer come after me. I'm not afraid."
Of course, Huai Xin Zhen Yue did not believe him.
In his eyes, this was clearly a ghost using Liu Yiji's phone trying to lure him over.
So he asked a series of questions, including "What's the name of your high school head teacher?", "How many subjects did you fail in the first semester of your freshman year?", and "What color is your girlfriend's underwear?"
The other party answered all the questions fluently.
Only then did Huai Xin Zhen Yue partly believe him.
He hesitated for a moment. If he went to find Liu Yiji as suggested, there was a risk of being discovered by the ghost on the way. He had been hiding well here; going out and being caught by the ghost would be a net loss, wouldn't it? But if he told Liu Yiji his location, he wasn't sure either. Although the other party answered all the questions correctly, Huai Xin Zhen Yue still had doubts. Even if the other party was really Liu Yiji, it didn't guarantee there were no ghosts nearby. If he revealed his location and it was overheard by a ghost near Liu Yiji, it would still be a net loss.
Huai Xin Zhen Yue thought deeply for a moment and finally made up his mind. "My hiding spot is very concealed; the ghost hasn't found me. There's no need to take an unnecessary risk."
Liu Yiji sounded very worried. "Being found by a ghost can happen in an instant. Just now, I'd been hiding well for several hours when the ghost suddenly appeared behind me."
Huai Xin Zhen Yue pursed his lips. "You're too far from me. I would take a big risk if I were to go there. If I tell you my location, you also can't guarantee that there are no ghosts eavesdropping around you, right?"
That's true. Liu Yiji fell silent.
Huai Xin Zhen Yue continued, "Don't worry, the ghost hasn't found me. I'm hiding in a very concealed place... Actually, I have some doubts about the difficulty of this instance. Is it because this is our first time entering an instance after the death protection mechanism was turned off, so the difficulty has been reduced?"
It was too easy.
Huai Xin Zhen Yue had been safe for most of the day, which made him feel that this instance was simpler than the previous ones.
But Liu Yiji, who had already witnessed the ghost's power, didn't think so. He sighed. "Then hide well. Don't let the ghost catch you. The ghost in this instance is really dangerous."
Huai Xin Zhen Yue agreed.
What the two of them didn't know was that in the room where they had stayed together, a tightly bound toy bear was hanging outside the window.
The bear's face was facing the window of the neighbor downstairs. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚
The neighbor was startled when he looked out of his window.
"Who hung this here..." The man downstairs stared at the toy bear for a long time, then opened his window and muttered to himself, "Could it have fallen when someone upstairs was airing out dolls?"
He reached out to untie the knot on the toy bear's body, wanting to pull it into the room.
But he fumbled the grab, and the huge doll fell.
He immediately leaned over and looked down, but the toy bear that had just fallen was nowhere to be seen.
"That's strange..." he muttered.
On the other side, Gu Mian was pulling the Fortune-teller at a brisk pace, moving between the shelves.
His other hand was also dragging that toy bear, which had a deathly expression on its face.
"Hurry," Gu Mian urged, glancing at the nearby window as he walked. "The sun is already setting, and it won't be long before it goes down. Once the sun sets, I have to leave the instance."
The Fortune-teller was still very puzzled by Gu Mian's appearance. "How on earth did you get in here?!"
She had no idea that Gu Mian was still in another instance. She just thought he had exploited some bug and ended up making a cameo appearance here.
"Alright, just start divining," Gu Mian said, ignoring her question and instead pointing to the small wooden stick in her hand.
The Fortune-teller reluctantly raised the wooden stick in her hand and tossed it to the ground.
"That way," she said, pointing in the direction the stick indicated.
This was the Fortune-teller's peculiar ability: she could divine the direction of certain items or locations.
Gu Mian was using this ability to find the NPC's office.
During this time, the Fortune-teller had tossed the stick many times, but the office was proving extremely hard to find, and they had gone around in circles.
This was the third time the two of them had passed this spot.
It appeared they had just made another perfect loop.
Having used her divination ability multiple times, the Fortune-teller was exhausted. She felt as if her energy had been completely drained. "Anyway, it's definitely on this floor, but I really can't find out exactly where."
Her face was pale; she was clearly overexerted.
Meanwhile, Gu Mian was staring at the small wooden stick on the ground, deep in thought.
They had circled this area three times already. There were no walls nearby, so naturally, there was no door to an office.
Gu Mian turned around on the spot and looked up at the ceiling.
The entire ceiling was a vast expanse of white, without a single crack or seam.
Then he looked down at the ground.
There were quite a few shelves nearby, obscuring parts of the ground.
Without hesitation, Gu Mian quickly walked over to a nearby shelf and, before the astonished Fortune-teller's eyes, kicked it over.
Like dominoes, one falling shelf knocked over another, and a whole row of shelves collapsed thunderously in front of them. The Fortune-teller, watching from the side, blurted out, "WTF!"
The bases of the shelves, which had previously obscured the ground, were now tilted upwards, with only their bottom edges touching the floor.
Gu Mian crouched down and looked at the previously concealed patch of ground. "Finally found it."
At that moment, Coach Che, who had been anxiously scratching his head downstairs, finally kicked the door open. As soon as he entered, he heard a violent crash from the third floor.
Hearing this sound, Coach Che cried out, "Oh no, we're doomed!" and then bolted up the staircase.
His expression and movements were identical to those of a player being chased by a ghost.
