Global Collapse-Chapter 694 - 659: No Update for a Month! (Excluding Yesterday) _1

It was worth mentioning that Chu Changge's fragile skull should have been ruptured by the bite. However, with his foresight, he had quickly activated the [Supernatural Editor Simulator], which had already defined that ghost with the word "frail." This had lessened the impact of the bite on his head. Nevertheless, even a "frail" ghost had left a row of teeth marks on Chu Changge's head, and those marks were still bleeding.

Fatty was stretching out his hand to poke Chu Changge's bitten head. "Does it hurt, Brother Chu?"

Chu Changge emotionlessly pushed up his glasses. They had also been cracked by the bite and now hung askew on the bridge of his nose, looking somewhat comical. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Besides Chu Changge, Gu Mian's face was also injured. The Fortune-teller's dog ran much faster than the car. Gu Mian, having no experience riding a dog, had pitched face-first and been dragged for dozens of meters. As a result, half of his face had received an enthusiastic kiss from the ground.

Fatty moved over from Chu Changge's side and began to encourage the disfigured Gu Mian, "Doctor, although the abrasions on your face are severe, these scars add a touch of untamable, roguish charm. You look even more handsome than before."

Gu Mian completely ignored Fatty's barefaced lies.

Their injuries would heal after returning to Earth anyway. Well… others would recover, but his recovery wasn't guaranteed. Gu Mian seemed to have never been injured in an instance before, so he couldn't verify this theory.

After pondering for a moment, he took out a roll of bandages and meticulously wrapped the injured half of his face. Such a handsome face couldn't be disfigured.

Fatty started complimenting the bandage, "Oh, look, this bandage truly complements your temperament, Doctor! It makes you look even gentler and kinder…"

Gu Mian turned to look at the others in the car. 007's condition had improved; she could already sit up, supporting herself. The Fortune-teller was still half-dead, but it didn't matter; she would be lively and energetic after returning to Earth. Xiao Qiao was unconscious due to the collapse of the Seventh World.

Gu Mian figured that even after returning to Earth, Xiao Qiao wouldn't wake up for a while. But the current situation was already pretty good. At least it was much better than for those who remained in this world.

After the world collapsed, those who remained would also be swallowed by the world's collapse. This was probably a good ending for them.

Gu Mian looked towards the rear of the car. Ignoring the wailing ghost at the back of the car, the scene behind them was still quite shocking. He had seen the world shatter in the Old World, but the sheer scale of that event was ultimately no match for this vast catastrophe. He saw the sky and the ground in the distance shatter into fragments, like a painting burned to cinders. The ashes scattered and fell, revealing the endless void behind. Gu Mian saw several familiar figures being swallowed by the collapsing world, disappearing without a trace.

"You've also discovered this world's reincarnation, haven't you?" Chu Changge said, evidently having also seen those individuals being consumed.

"Mhm," Gu Mian acknowledged, looking in the direction where those people had vanished.

One thing still puzzled him. "Those Chu Changges... they didn't have replica tickets."

Chu Changge adjusted his precarious glasses with one hand. "I see. Because you didn't participate in those reincarnations, they died here."

But why would that happen? Was the appearance of the replica ticket due to an error at some point in time? The previous Chu Changges might not have even seen replica tickets. The replica ticket was something Gu Mian got from Lu Yi. The mistake was very likely on Lu Yi's part. Connecting this to the worldview of Paradise World, Gu Mian formed a conclusion.

He voiced his thoughts, "Perhaps in the past, Lu Yi didn't have the replica ticket at all. But Paradise is a world that can roll back; it can create variables on its own. I think Paradise rolled back time not long ago. After that rollback, Lu Yi, who shouldn't have possessed it, obtained the replica ticket and gave it to me. That's why I was able to enter this world this time."

Gu Mian had speculated that Paradise hadn't undergone a large-scale rollback for a long time. Lu Yi must have obtained the replica ticket after a small-scale rollback. Actually, even without the replica ticket, I could have used a Dungeon Entry Ticket to enter the train instance, and then enter this world through the train instance. But that would introduce many variables. I obtained a passive state, "Train Assassin" [Chapter 221], in the train instance. With this state, whenever I ride a train, the accident rate increases by 50%. I originally hadn't taken this passive state seriously at all; after all, it was the apocalypse, who would still ride a train? But now that I think about it, if Chu Changge hadn't had the replica ticket to pull me into the Seventh World, I would have had to enter via the train. And when I ride a train, the probability of an accident is quite high. Coupled with this fifty percent passive state, the train absolutely couldn't have transported me smoothly to the Seventh World. The train would most likely break down midway. By the time it was repaired and reached here, it would be too late. "Train Assassin" was my only passive state. When I received this during the instance settlement, I had felt a sense of incongruity because such a thing had never appeared in instance settlements before. Now it seemed all incongruities were premeditated.

Thinking of this, Gu Mian suddenly reached out and tapped Coach Che on the driving seat.

Coach Che, who was nervously driving, jolted at the tap. "What is it?"

"Can you see my passive state?" Gu Mian asked, pointing to the top of his head.

Coach Che glanced at Gu Mian. "You mean 'Train Assassin'?"

"Exactly," Gu Mian nodded. "This was a reward I got from the train instance... It could be considered a reward, for now. This wasn't issued by your Low-Dimensional World, was it?" This global game had two organizers: the Low-Dimensional World and Earth. The instance rewards were likely jointly decided by both.

"Anyone can tell it's not," Coach Che said, turning his head back to concentrate on driving. "It's the apocalypse; there are no functional trains left on Earth. You can only ride them in instances. Why would we give you this passive state to destroy our own trains? Who would be so idle as to give players something like this to wreck their own trains?"

Then it could only have been issued by Earth.

Coach Che continued, "I guess Earth gave it to you. Our game system doesn't have 'passive states.' Earth must have gone to great lengths and expended considerable effort to add this for you. It's no wonder that shortly after the train broke down, we heard about plagues and severe cold on Earth's side. Turns out they drained their vitality dealing with you!"

His tone strongly implied, 'You're truly a good person, having made significant contributions to the Low-Dimensional World.'

It was more than just that. Gu Mian remembered that after the train instance ended, Earth had immediately experienced a massive typhoon, followed by a global blackout. He had originally thought Earth wanted to force humans to develop their potential through harsh environments; he hadn't expected this layer of connection. To give me this passive state, Earth had sacrificed a lot. Presumably, at that time, Earth had already begun plotting to throw Chu Changge and the others into the Seventh World.

Chu Changge also thought of this point, adjusting his glasses. "From Earth's years-long attempts to assassinate you, it's clear it cannot kill you directly. So, it consumed an enormous amount of energy in the train instance to saddle you with a seemingly reasonable debuff. And this negative state, aside from making you seem unlucky, had no other harm."

Indeed, very reasonable. In the train instance, they gave me the "Train Assassin" debuff. At the time, I only felt it was a bit odd and didn't think much of it.

"Earth used this seemingly harmless debuff to make me lower my guard, then waited for me here," Gu Mian laughed. If I hadn't gotten the replica ticket and hadn't been pulled directly into this world by Chu Changge, I'd probably still be on that malfunctioning train right now. By the time I arrived here, everyone would be dead. If the timing was calculated just right, I might have arrived just as this world was collapsing. At that point, I would have been hundreds of thousands of miles away from Chu Changge and the other three, and with my intervention, the world couldn't reincarnate normally. The end result would be the Seventh World completely collapsing. I would have just arrived, poking my head in as the world disintegrated, and returned empty-handed. I wouldn't even be able to retrieve their corpses.