Global Collapse-Chapter 640 - 608: The Production Principle of Xiao Qiao_1

"Don't believe me?" Lu Yi gazed at the cheering audience below. "I also met another friend of yours in the hospital, a person from the First World, on the ninth floor."

Indeed. Gu Mian had entered the hospital with Chu Changge. They parted ways on the ninth floor, and they didn't see each other again until they left the instance. Lu Yi was not lying; he was indeed in Jin Hu's hospital at that time. Let's put these matters aside for now.

"What the heck is the First World?"

It was quite funny. Gu Mian had initially thought Chu Changge was a little girl until he glimpsed the truth under her skirt and learned that this person was actually male. Male, so be it. At least he was an Earthling. Then, after the global game started, Gu Mian realized Chu Changge wasn't an Earthling… Chu Changge claimed to have come from an instance world called the "Second World"; he was a person from an instance. A paper person, so be it. But from Lu Yi's words, it seemed Chu Changge didn't come from the Second World, but from a place called the First World.

"You don't know?" Lu Yi glanced at Gu Mian, and after confirming he really didn't know, he explained, "Our worlds are ranked. Your friend is from the world ranked number one. Following the sequence, we call it the First World. Of course, it has other names, but I don't know them."

Advanced NPCs really are advanced. He even knew about the existence of multiple Low-Dimensional Worlds in the game.

Teacher Slaughter, whose mouth was gagged, listened in utter confusion, having no idea what the two were talking about.

"How many worlds do you know?" Gu Mian asked keenly.

"The First World, the Seventh World. Of course, I don't know their names. By the way, the world I'm from is ranked fourth; it's the Fourth World."

Including his own, Lu Yi only knew about three worlds. Since even the Seventh World had appeared, there must be at least seven worlds in the instance.

This NPC was surprisingly forthcoming and answered all of Gu Mian's questions. Gu Mian seized the opportunity: "How are these worlds ranked? By strength?"

Lu Yi shook his head. "No, actually, I don't know. But I do know one thing: the ranking order of the worlds is very important. It seems to be related to the core of all worlds."

"Sequence... Core..." Gu Mian muttered, noting down this important clue.

845 certainly didn't lie to me! The advanced NPCs in this instance really knew a lot, and this one even seemed rather gentle and easy to talk to.

Like a child with a million questions, Gu Mian continued. It had been a while since he'd asked so many. "Why were you in the Slaughter game's hospital back then?"

Apparently, Teacher Slaughter also wanted to know the answer to this question.

Gu Mian noticed that Teacher Slaughter, who was tied to a chair nearby, perked up his ears, waiting for Lu Yi's answer.

"Sometimes I deliver goods," Lu Yi said, his brow furrowing for a moment before smoothing out. "You saw it yourself—that room full of people."

He was referring to the room where the Evil God Statue was kept.

Gu Mian still remembered the scene in that room: densely packed corpses pinned to the walls and the floor. Jin Hu had said they were all offerings to the Evil God.

"The Slaughter game sends plenty of people into the forbidden zone each round. There's no need for you to deliver goods personally, is there?" And he'd done it so secretively. Teacher Slaughter was clearly unaware of this "delivery"; a strange expression was dawning on his face.

Lu Yi blew out a smoke ring. "Indeed, there's no need. But you saw the situation in that room. If you could send your enemies there, wouldn't you find it satisfying? I'm an Upper Class person with status, and Jin Hu is more than willing to do me that favor."

Great. So this one was a pervert too.

So much for Upper Class People being gentle and easy to talk to; it was all a lie. This Circus Ringmaster, to deliver his enemies as sacrifices, had risked entering the forbidden zone alone, infiltrated the hospital, and climbed all the way to the twelfth floor. As for how he managed to reach the twelfth floor safely… Gu Mian glanced at the little ghost girl on the windowsill. Could it be because of her?

If so, this Circus Ringmaster must know his dead daughter had become a ghost. That would explain why he dared to enter the forbidden zone hospital alone.

Gu Mian suddenly felt something was off. Is there really such a thing as familial affection among the Upper Class People of this world? He had encountered those five Upper Class children. Gu Mian surmised that if those five were to become ghosts, they would only return to seek revenge on him, not do something like returning to their families to protect them. Is this girl an exception?

Gu Mian glanced at the ghost girl on the windowsill, then looked back at Lu Yi sitting beside him.

Lu Yi was gazing at the smoke in the air as if he couldn't see the ghost girl on the windowsill.

Gu Mian paused for a moment, then asked, "Do you know…"

"I do." Seeming to know what Gu Mian was about to ask, Lu Yi answered directly.

Gu Mian stroked his chin. "Can you see her?" 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Lu Yi shook his head slightly. "No, I can't."

Teacher Slaughter, off to the side, had no idea what cryptic game the two were playing; he could only sit there staring.

Seeing that Lu Yi didn't want to discuss this further, Gu Mian moved on to the question he'd wanted to ask earlier: "How did you meet him?"

Lu Yi knew Gu Mian was asking about Chu Changge. "All the Lower Class People thrown into the Slaughter game have trackers. The audience can watch the live feed through these trackers. At the time, I was in Jin Hu's office and heard someone outside the door, so I figured someone had come up. I was very curious who could have made it to the twelfth floor of the hospital, but time was tight, so I didn't dwell on it."

He exhaled another smoke ring as he spoke. "I went to the forbidden zone hospital secretly; I couldn't be discovered. If you had entered with your tracker, the audience would have seen me, so I jumped from the building."

"The miserable wailing I heard in the corridor wasn't you, was it?" Gu Mian didn't think Lu Yi could produce such an... abstract sound.

"It was the offering," Lu Yi said, cigarette between his fingers. "Before you came in, I threw him out the window, then jumped myself."

That was the twelfth floor!

"There was a rope. You probably didn't see it. There's a hole on the outer window ledge. I tied the rope there, held onto it, and jumped. The ninth-floor window was open, so I jumped straight in."

Gu Mian understood now. No wonder Jin Hu had stopped him from approaching the window back then with the excuse of "help me complete a task."

He recalled, "After you jumped, you cursed, didn't you?"

Lu Yi cracked a smile. "You even heard that? Yes, as soon as I got into the ninth floor and saw a figure nearby, I couldn't help but cry out."

So that's when he saw Chu Changge. To think he had that kind of effect on people. Come to think of it, when Chu Changge had just come out of the Slaughter game instance, his eyes had indeed flashed with an eerie light. Gu Mian had assumed it was because of Fatty.

Lu Yi continued, "He is a person from the First World. I recognized him at first glance."

Come to think of it, Xiao Qiao also had a similar ability. During the Dragon Boat event, Xiao Qiao could identify the real Chu Changge at a glance. And Lu Yi could recognize someone from the First World at a glance. What was the principle behind this?