Global Collapse-Chapter 660 - 628: A strange - has increased by _1

The outside sky had completely darkened.

Bai Lu stared at the computer with a rigid expression, not daring to look back at the bedroom door.

Gu Mian, however, seemed to have thought of something. He directly closed the video from June 3rd and opened today's surveillance footage.

Since the day hadn't completely passed yet, the recording hadn't been generated, so what played on the computer was the scene at this very moment.

They saw that the previously closed bedroom door in the screen was now wide open.

The view of the living room was unmistakable.

And in the empty living room lay two individuals who were not moving... humans?

Bai Lu looked at the surveillance footage and began to tremble uncontrollably.

She had just seen these two people five minutes ago!

They were the two men who were killed by Yuan Haotian in the video from June 3rd!

They had died and were taken to the morgue.

But now they reappeared in the real-time surveillance footage!

Appearing outside... their door.

In the footage, a bloody figure suddenly jerked a few times, and the sound of clothes rubbing against each other came from the living room.

Then, the two people awkwardly got up from the ground and, moving strangely, started to walk in a certain direction.

THUMP.

THUMP.

THUMP.

Bai Lu's scalp tingled. She heard the footsteps from the living room getting closer and closer, finally stopping.

The surveillance camera could not capture the bedroom entrance, but Bai Lu knew they were right behind her.

She felt a malicious scrutiny at her back.

Bai Lu was sweating profusely. I might die here today, she thought. What bad luck.

While thinking, she looked at the others, hoping they would have some lifeline. Yet, she found that the people next to her seemed oblivious, as if there was no ghost behind them.

The music-loving doctor was still staring at the screen, as if he were considering what to eat for dinner.

An eighteen-year-old named Lv Cha was still maintaining her weak expression next to the doctor, not paying any attention to what was happening behind her.

You guys didn't see that horrifying video just now! You have no reaction! Bai Lu thought. She really wanted to shout, but she dared not.

The ghost was right behind her. She dared not make a sound, let alone turn her head. She could only glance at the two people next to her out of the corner of her eye.

Don't you guys really know there is a ghost behind you! Bai Lu screamed silently, almost going mad.

This wasn't a pleasant feeling.

Even though they were all together, they were supposed to cling together for warmth, to be afraid together when plunged into horror.

But in the end, only she was trembling in fright while everyone else was acting as if everything was normal.

A few seconds later, Gu Mian finally seemed to hear Bai Lu's inner screaming and slightly turned his head to look back.

Bai Lu's eyes lit up. Has he finally noticed? Has he finally noticed that there is a ghost behind us?

But she saw that the doctor had no particular reaction after looking toward the entrance.

He just glanced at the doorway and turned his head back again as if nothing had happened.

Bai Lu widened her eyes.

What's going on? Was there no ghost at the entrance? But this spine-chilling feeling of being watched on my back isn't false. Could it be that I'm so scared I imagined this feeling? This doctor's expression really doesn't look like someone who has seen a ghost, and Xie Bi'an and that NPC didn't react either.

Upon thinking this, Bai Lu calmed down a bit.

"Maybe I'm just too nervous," she murmured to herself as she tried to relax and slowly turned around to take a look behind her. "Looking at everyone else's reaction, there really shouldn't be anything behind us..."

But just as she was halfway through her sentence, she saw two festering faces at the entrance.

Eyeballs filled with blood vessels stared at her, full of malice.

She staggered back two steps and plopped down onto the computer desk behind her.

Before she could react, the sound of a zipper being pulled suddenly came from beside her.

At the same time, the gloomy-faced man in a suit, the NPC, seemed to finally realize what was happening and jumped up from the bed.

Then Bai Lu heard his loud scream, "Run! Run!"

Yes! We should run, she thought.

But the two ghosts had completely blocked the entrance. Bai Lu moved her stiff neck to look at the window not far away, considering the possibility of escaping by breaking the window.

But the man in the suit had already reacted first.

Bai Lu watched with wide-open eyes as he ran towards the door, bellowing, "Run!"

"Wait!" she couldn't help but shout in protest. "Don't run there, the ghosts are that way!"

However, he seemed to ignore her, running straight for the bedroom door, approaching the two ghosts.

Bai Lu averted her gaze, unable to bear what she thought would be a gruesome sight.

But the scene she had imagined did not occur. Instead, the man in the suit stopped when he reached the two ghosts. Then, stretching out an arm, he pushed them forcefully and shouted, "Run!"

Bai Lu: "?"

The two ghosts were bewilderingly pushed out of the door.

Then, Coach Che firmly shut the door and spread his arms in front of it, as if afraid that the people inside the house might chase after them.

His expression was like that of a minor character in a post-apocalyptic film, sacrificing himself to let his friends escape.

Looking at Coach Che tightly protecting the door, Bai Lu felt dizzy again.

This defies logic! The script of this Mysterious Dungeon isn't supposed to be like this! What on earth happened? Bai Lu asked herself, but there was no answer.

The room fell into an eerie silence.

After a while, a clear zip sound broke the silence.

Bai Lu turned her attention to the source of the sound.

It was the doctor nearby, zipping up his guitar case. She noticed a fleeting glimmer through the closing seam of the zipper.

"Um…" she hesitated before speaking. "Can someone explain what just happened…"

While speaking, she turned her gaze towards the man in the suit who was blocking the door, her expression full of inquiry.

"As you saw," Gu Mian said, hoisting his guitar case onto his back again, "just now, our brave Coach Che chased off two ghosts, buying us a chance to live."

Coach Che? What an odd name. Why would an NPC in a court instance be named Coach Che? It sounds more like the name of an NPC in a driving school instance, she thought.

Not lingering on the oddity of Coach Che's name for long, Bai Lu spoke again, "Is... is that so…"

That NPC was clearly trying to help the two ghosts get away, not 'courageously chasing them off.' Why would Coach Che let them run? Could there be something in this room more terrifying than ghosts? Bai Lu wondered.

As for Gu Mian's explanation, she wanted to say, "Really? I don't believe it," but the words died on her lips.

She started to understand. These players have secrets, secrets they don't want me to know.

"Anyway, let's keep analyzing the case," Keke said, taking a step forward and awkwardly changing the subject. "Bai Lu, what's that in your hand? I saw you holding it earlier."

Bai Lu was not one to insist on getting to the bottom of things. Upon hearing Keke's words, she was glad to go along with the change in subject. "I found it in Cao Deren's room."

As she spoke, she opened her hand to reveal a pink butterfly hairpin encrusted with pearls that she had been clutching.

"I found it in Cao Deren's room. The room was entirely filled with men's belongings, but there was this pink hairpin. I thought it was unusual, so I picked it up."

Gu Mian examined the item in Bai Lu's hand carefully.

This pink butterfly hairpin looked brand new, as though it was recently purchased.

"I found a receipt," Bai Lu said, rummaging through her pocket. "When I found the hairpin, this receipt was tucked into a book lying next to it."

It must not have been easy for her to find a receipt tucked into someone's book, Gu Mian thought.

Gu Mian took the receipt and began to read it.

[Pumpkin Jewelry Store]

[Product: Butterfly jewelry hairpin x1]

[Price: 18]

[Receipt printing date: May 31]

It was purchased three days before Cao Deren's murder. No wonder it looked so new.

"I don't know why he, a grown man, would buy this," Bai Lu said, playing with the pink bow. "I guess he intended to give it to his girlfriend? But if it was a gift for his girlfriend, there would be no need to keep the receipt, let alone hide it so well in a book…"

Gu Mian mused over the receipt in his hand.

Keke softly interjected from the side, "It's getting late. Should we continue the investigation or rest a bit…"

Sleeping is the best way to rest.

However, to sleep in a Mysterious Dungeon is tantamount to suicide.

But if the players enter an instance of a long duration, like a week or half a month, they would need to sleep.

Gu Mian's current instance was at most three days long. They could power through without sleep if they really tried, but they would still need some rest in between.

Of course, it didn't matter to Gu Mian.

He felt he could go on without any rest. Whether to rest or not depended on what the others thought.

Bai Lu was the first to oppose strongly. "I don't want to rest in such a haunted place!"

She whimpered as she nervously looked towards the door, where not long ago, two ghosts had been standing.

Even though I don't know what powerful being made an NPC help chase away those two ghosts, I still don't feel safe staying here, she thought.