Global Collapse-Chapter 683 - 648: Happy Joint Burial_1
[Wildlife Protection Law]
[Introduction: "The moment it is stuffed into your mouth, the Wildlife Protection Law becomes effective!"]
[Function: Fill in the player's name under the 'wildlife' section of this law. That player will immediately be added to the wildlife protection list. Under the effects of the "Wildlife Protection Law," all pursuit and harm directed at that player will be restricted for a short period. Each player's name can only be entered once.]
[Supplement: The player who enters another's name is the Legislator. The higher the Legislator's deterrence, the stronger the effect of the "Wildlife Protection Law" and the longer its duration.]
There are a total of ten slots in the "wildlife" section.
You can fill in the names of ten people at once. Once all ten slots are used, this item becomes useless.
Gu Mian had already written their names when he discovered that Chu Changge and the others had been pulled into the instance.
At this moment, he was standing by the window on the fifth floor of a building, discerning his direction.
"This should be the Seventh World, shouldn't it?" Gu Mian said, holding his guitar case.
He had been dragged in here before he could use his Dungeon Entry Ticket. Gu Mian initially thought Earth had gone mad and pulled him into another special instance. However, to his surprise, after arriving, he found that this place strongly resembled the descriptions of the Twilight Gods World.
As for why I ended up here...
The Fortune-teller had once made Gu Mian a long string of Xingyuns. Adhering to his principle of not letting anything go to waste, Gu Mian also folded the secondary ticket of the Dungeon Entry Ticket into a Xingyun for the Fortune-teller.
Later, he brought the long string of Xingyuns back for the others in the house to choose from. Fatty chose the most colorful one and gave it to Chu Changge, saying it was to save his luck from being "tainted by bad influences."
Thus, the secondary ticket that could pull players into an instance ended up in Chu Changge's hands.
Gu Mian guessed that Chu Changge had used the secondary ticket not long after entering this instance.
Probably thinking that four people were too lonely, so he summoned me to join them for a group burial.
"This secondary ticket is so unreliable!" Gu Mian muttered, straining his eyes to look into the distance, trying to locate Chu Changge and the others. "Instead of landing me next to the user, it dropped me in this godforsaken place. There's not even a ghost of a person around."
But soon enough, he would see a ghost.
Gu Mian spent several minutes by the window without spotting anyone, so he decided to go downstairs and search along the road.
But as soon as he turned his head, he locked eyes with a pair of vicious eyes behind him.
A woman was hanging from a ceiling beam, her eyes bulging grotesquely from the pressure of the noose.
Her head, caught in the noose, was tilted slightly downward, her bulging eyes full of venomous hatred, fixed on Gu Mian.
Gu Mian silently raised his head and met her gaze.
A few seconds later, he pulled her down from the noose.
「A few minutes later」
A figure in a white coat, dragging a long-haired woman, walked slowly along the rugged path.
The scene, set against the backdrop of the surrounding environment, seemed somewhat eerie.
With the addition of the woman's shrill screams, the picture became even more bizarre.
Gu Mian, dragging a ghost, slowed his pace. He quite liked this ghost's piercing screams, so he decided to bring her along.
The female ghost's voice was piercing; her miserable shrieks could be heard from eight hundred meters away.
These screams seemed to be constantly signaling to others: "Gu Mian is here!"
"Chu Changge and the other three must be able to hear this signal too," Gu Mian said, looking confidently at the female ghost he was holding. "They'll be able to find me if they follow this sound."
He muttered to himself while tugging at the poor female ghost's hair, "Scream louder."
A few strands of the female ghost's hair were yanked out, and the miserable cries in the area immediately grew sharper.
Gu Mian looked with satisfaction at the female ghost being dragged along the ground. "Looks like she can scream for a long time. Excellent. It only costs one female ghost to transmit information for two hours."
When this ghost stops making noise, I'll just find a new one.
Thinking this, Gu Mian continued along the road.
Perhaps because the female ghost's screams were too horrifying, no other ghosts came to bother Gu Mian for the time being.
"I wonder where the four of them are," Gu Mian said, looking around. "And what kind of sh*tty instance is this? They didn't even give us a name or the instance's objectives upon entry, and no rewards either. So stingy."
The sky was dark here, and there were no streetlights.
Surrounded by dilapidated buildings of varying heights, it was clearly a dead city. Aside from the female ghost's screams, the silent city was devoid of any other sound.
There was not a single light in the dead city.
Gu Mian had arrived in a hurry and hadn't brought a flashlight, so he couldn't see the road ahead clearly.
This bumpy dirt road hadn't been repaired in a long time. Knee-high weeds had grown on both sides, dense and forming large, interconnected patches, looking as if four burly men might leap out from them at any moment.
Gu Mian rather hoped Chu Changge and the other three would jump out from there.
But that seemed a bit out of character for them.
"I'm not sure how Xiao Qiao has managed to survive in such a shabby place," Gu Mian said, looking at the dilapidated buildings around him. "Or is she living in a relatively safer area? But then again, is there really any safe place in this world?"
Dragging the female ghost, who was still dutifully transmitting the "Gu Mian is here" signal, he mused, "Speaking of which, this world really doesn't seem to have time. I didn't find any clocks in that building earlier."
Xiao Qiao once said this world was on the verge of collapse. Is that related to this absence of time?
And Mr. Green seemed very concerned about the Seventh World. Is this world really that important?
How important can a world on the brink of collapse be?
Gu Mian continued walking forward silently, thinking, "If Mr. Green values this world so much, why did he help me get in touch with the train instance?"
Isn't he afraid this world will collapse directly under the influence of my bad luck?
The female ghost was still diligently sending out signals.
But everything around remained silent.
No one was drawn by her voice.
It seems Chu Changge and the others aren't nearby. Gu Mian stared into the darkness ahead. Where on earth did those guys run off to...?
Just then, he spotted something in the middle of the dim road ahead.
Gu Mian dragged the ghost in his hand forward a couple of steps until he was in front of the object.
He bent over slightly to look at the thing at his feet—
A bloodstained finger—an index finger.
It appeared fairly fresh.
He reached out and picked up the solitary finger lying on the dirt road.
Gu Mian examined the severed end of the finger.
The severed surface was uneven, with a section of finger bone protruding from the flesh. The flesh on the exposed bone had already air-dried and didn't look too gruesome.
The finger seemed to have been severed by a blunt instrument; the bone had been forcibly shattered.
One could only imagine how bloody the scene must have been when this finger was severed.
What's going on?
He frowned, pinching the severed finger. It was already somewhat stiff; it had probably been cut off a few days ago.
The owner of this finger was clearly a living person.
What in the world is happening?
Gu Mian couldn't figure it out. "Weren't there supposed to be no living people left in the Twilight Gods World? Could this have been left behind by other players? Did Earth pull other players into here before?"
He stared at the now-stiff index finger in his hand, a peculiar feeling welling up inside him.
Gu Mian hesitated for a few seconds, then stuffed the blood-stained severed finger into his pocket. "This might be some kind of clue."
A dead city, a living person, a severed finger—everything here reeked of the bizarre.
"I need to find those four soon," Gu Mian thought as he continued walking. "I wonder how long the effects of the Wildlife Protection Law will last."
This thing can only protect a person once; names can't be entered repeatedly.
Thinking this, Gu Mian quickened his pace.
But at that moment, a sound came from the road ahead.
Even though the female ghost was still shrieking at high decibels, Gu Mian still heard a rustling sound from the darkness ahead.
Who is it? A ghost or a human?
He quickly took a few steps forward but only saw a black shadow flit past.
Gu Mian stared in the direction the black shadow had vanished, momentarily stunned.
