"Yes, I knew Gu Mian would come to save me. An Upper Class person told me." Lu Yi spread his hands, choosing not to conceal it any longer.

"After being detained as a traitor, the Upper Class person you encountered must hold a high status." Chu Changge adjusted his glasses,

Lu Yi shook his head: "Logically, that’s true, but unfortunately, I don’t know him."

He lifted his head, recalling the situation at the time: "After being caught, I was imprisoned in the underground cells of Pleasure Heavenly City. I actually don’t understand why there’s such a cell beneath Pleasure Heavenly City. In our world, unless there’s a special situation like mine, Upper Class people aren’t imprisoned;

"Only lower-class people who violate the Upper-class Protection Law would be captured and imprisoned, but it has been a long time since any lower-class people violated the law..."

At this point, Lu Yi turned to glance at Gu Mian.

When Gu Mian rescued him, he was inside the stage, unable to clearly see the situation outside.

But at that time, the blood-stained chainsaw in Gu Mian’s hand and the severed limbs at the opening told him what happened to Shen Mian.

Strictly speaking, Gu Mian isn’t a lower-class person, and attacking Upper Class people doesn’t constitute a violation of the Upper-class Protection Law.

"Even if there are lower-class people who violate the protection law, they’d be imprisoned far away from the Upper Class area. Upper Class people wouldn’t want to imprison dirty lower-class people in their residential zone."

Gu Mian remembered Lu Yi mentioning during the Circus instance that the cave in the Secret Forest was originally dug as a dungeon for lower-class people by Upper Class people, indeed far from their area. But while digging, they stumbled upon the statue of the Evil God.

"So the dungeon beneath Pleasure Heavenly City is practically useless. The Upper Class there also don’t understand why it was built initially. It’s said that two Upper Class founders decided on its construction. Do you know the two Upper Class founders in our world?" Lu Yi looked at Gu Mian.

"One is called Slaughter, the other is Torture." Chu Changge spoke.

Gu Mian had even seen Slaughter.

Had listened to his life’s story in Secret Forest. As for Torture, it’s probably Slaughter’s accomplice who took acid baths, Gu Mian thought.

He started to understand why the two decided to construct that dungeon back then.

Initially, the two used Pleasure Heavenly City as a base, hoping Hero Xu Xingcheng could lead lower-class people to overthrow them. But they couldn’t kill all the defeated Upper Class—spare some Upper Class to reform would make the story’s ending more worth spreading.

They likely feared there’d be no place to imprison defeated Upper Class, so they built a dungeon beneath Pleasure Heavenly City, preventing the Hero from having to trek far to imprison captives.

Such thorough preparations, considering everything the Hero might need.

Unfortunately, the Hero never appeared, making the dungeon remain unused until Lu Yi, the Upper Class traitor, emerged.

Lu Yi, by nature, is still an Upper Class. Imprisoning him in a lower-class cell was indeed a loss of Upper Class dignity.

"I was the only one imprisoned inside, with tight guard naturally. In the dungeon, I couldn’t see the sky outside. Inside, I didn’t know day from night, how long I was imprisoned, until one day while sleeping, I suddenly heard someone calling me outside the door;

"I woke up, looked outside, and saw a stranger Upper Class standing there. He told me that Gu Mian would come to rescue me and asked me to bring you a message."

At this point, Lu Yi paused.

The three others were listening intently, waiting for his next words.

Even Fatty, who wasn’t in the living room, was listening keenly, anxiously wanting to know what was said.

Lu Yi furrowed his brow, looking puzzled: "He said, ’Grow like a ghost.’

"What?" 007 wondered if he heard wrong.

"Grow like a ghost." Lu Yi repeated.

With such cryptic words, Gu Mian couldn’t fathom their meaning.

Is he to undergo a second maturity, and to grow like a ghost—how would he know how ghosts grow? Maybe asking Xiao Hong or his brother might shed light?

But one is a stuttering mess who only calls for his sister, the other is a mimicker with an underdeveloped language center, so asking likely wouldn’t help.

That Upper Class person was quite strange too. Why not convey the message clearly? Was it fearing the words would be overheard?

Gu Mian also furrowed his brow, contemplating the meaning of Lu Yi’s words.

"What did that Upper Class person look like?" he asked Lu Yi.

"Very ordinary."

"Have you seen what the two Upper Class founders look like?"

Lu Yi knew Gu Mian’s implication, so he spoke: "Their photos are everywhere in books, newspapers, TV. The person I saw wasn’t the two founders."

He didn’t know what Gu Mian went through in the Secret Forest, feeling puzzled about why Gu Mian would have connections to the two founders.

Chu Changge turned to Gu Mian and said, "The person must have first confirmed you knew about the variety show before deducing you’d enter Paradise World to rescue Lu Yi."

Perhaps Lu Yi being put on trial was the information originally released by that person for Gu Mian to know.

Chu Changge didn’t continue speaking, instead, he looked towards Fatty nearby.

Fatty was the one who first mentioned the variety show.

Fatty understood Chu Changge’s implication, his back straightened: "I was at the supermarket when the sales clerk mentioned it. I remember what he looks like too, short, protruding ears, big nose..."

He explained while gesturing, proving his innocence.

Looks like tomorrow, they’ll need to go to the supermarket to find this big-nosed person to ask who told him this. Gu Mian glanced out the window; the sky had already turned completely dark, making going out unsuitable.

The armed Order Guard also arrived in this world; bumping into them in the dark could be troublesome.

"And then there’s that Old Xu at Carnival Wharf. The first time I called him, he kept talking about building variety show stages, like he’s trying to steer the topic towards the Trial and Crown variety show." Gu Mian recalled the calls the Fortune-teller made for him before entering Paradise World.

Moreover, the other party’s surname is Xu.

It inevitably makes one think of a certain person.

The NPC’s hints about Trial and Crown, the admission ticket Evil God provided to Paradise, plus five of the ninety-nine delivery tasks were near Secret Forest. Gu Mian believed Evil God had planned for him to go to Secret Forest and see the statue.

Even during the Circus lower-class uprising long ago, there might have been Evil God’s involvement.

There’s a high probability Evil God was behind the message Lu Yi was to deliver too.

But he went to such great lengths, only installing an immature Wish System on him, making Gu Mian wary of making any world-ending dreams when sleeping from now on.

Speaking of the Wish System.

Gu Mian looked at Lu Yi: "You once mentioned to me the Evil God statue in the underground cave. It can resist the world from reverting, but do you know if it has other functions?"