Chapter 896: Chapter 860: Evil Goo Goo, I Will Destroy You!
When Gu Mian came out from the resting place the next day, he saw this scene——
A group of lower-class people with swollen bellies lay on the street, their faces wearing smiles of happiness. Nearby, in the vicinity of these large-bellied lower-class people, there lay piles of clothes stacked into small hills, and only upon getting closer could one see the limbs protruding from beneath those mounds.
If not for the occasional movement from the people lying on the ground, Gu Mian would have thought they were dead.
Not far away was the place where the Upper Class People were held, but because there were too many Upper Class People, ordinary buildings could not hold them all together.
The lower-class people simply gathered them in the open air and drew a big circle along the perimeter of the Upper Class People, not allowing them to leave.
The Upper Class People within the circle were not bound, but none attempted to escape as they strictly adhered to the script, obediently playing the role of captives.
Some of the Upper Class People were even bound and hung upside down from trees by the lower-class people.
On a tree not far from Gu Mian, there was an Upper Class Person hung upside down, and a few lower-class people were smilingly admiring the person hanging from the tree.
"In the past, Upper Class People did this to us. Now we can finally hold our heads high."
"Let’s hang a few more in a while, or let’s play a game with them instead. Hang a bunch of them on thin branches and cover the ground below with nails. If they fall, they land on the nails. Let’s see who can stay on the tree the longest without falling. Didn’t the Upper Class People love playing such games with us?"
"From now on, we will be the Upper Class People. It’ll be time for them to play the games while we watch."
Seeing this scene, Gu Mian felt that even if he led the lower-class people to defeat the Upper Class People, the world would not change much.
The greatest change would be nothing more than the roles of Upper Class People and lower-class people being reversed. The once meek and easily bullied lower-class people had become the newly evil Upper Class People, and the once lofty Upper Class People had become the despised lower-class people they once scorned.
The Upper Class People would not disappear, neither would the lower-class people.
As long as people existed in this world, even if there were only two people, there must be a distinction between who is upper and who is lower.
Did the Evil God really bring him here to lead the lower-class people to defeat the Upper Class People?
Gu Mian fell into deep thought.
It felt like a change in form but not in substance.
But the Evil God left no other clues, and based on the current hints, he could only continue down the path of toppling the Upper Class People.
Gu Mian did not let the lower-class people continue reveling in the interstellar metropolis, and after awakening, he quickly gathered the lower-class people and rushed to the next destination.
The next stop was Joyful City, larger in area and with more people.
As expected, when Gu Mian and his people arrived at Joyful City, this enormous city of the Upper Class People had also encountered an incident—a team of lower-class people, which emerged from who knows where, had captured it and was waiting for Gu Mian’s arrival in Joyful City.
Upon seeing Gu Mian’s arrival, the team of lower-class people cheered and rushed forward, handing over the sovereignty of Joyful City to Gu Mian.
"We greatly admire Hero Gu Mian. Knowing you were coming, we defeated those hateful lower-class people in advance for you." said a person from the team of lower-class people admiringly to Gu Mian.
Gu Mian silently looked at the team of no more than ten lower-class people before him, realizing a small number of lower-class people had captured an Upper Class People residential area with tens of thousands of people and won.
If lower-class people truly had such ability, they would not have been oppressed by the Upper Class People for so many years.
Gu Mian thus fought his way through five Upper Class People residential areas, reaching the last gateway before Pleasure Heavenly City—the Joy Village.
The people in Joy Village lived up to their name, never doing anything that would make themselves unhappy.
They had long heard that Gu Mian, the fierce lower-class person, had consecutively breached five Upper Class People cities and was heading for their Joy Village.
The people in Joy Village were greatly startled, believing that meeting Gu Mian would be an incredibly unhappy event.
Sticking to the principle that come what may, they must keep themselves happy, they decided to flee the village.
This was all part of the plot Gu Mian concocted in his mind, with only the fact that Joy Village people fled the village being true, and upon reaching Joy Village, Gu Mian and his people found it utterly deserted.
"These cunning Upper Class People must have realized they were no match for Hero Gu Mian and fled out of fear." a lower-class person made a reasonable guess.
In any case, just like how a fairy tale advances smoothly, Gu Mian arrived outside Pleasure City.
Slaughter was already waiting for him in Pleasure City.
Not to reminisce with him, but to come as his stumbling block.
Probably the Evil God thought that this final battle must be thrilling and exciting. So he arranged for no scenes of surrender, fleeing, or explosions, but instead brought out the two founders of the Upper Class People, having them lead the Upper Class People in "fierce resistance"
Gu Mian didn’t want to take another look at the process of "fierce rebellion."
In short, after a battle that resembled children’s playtime ended, the two founders of the Upper Class People were captured by Gu Mian.
Gu Mian originally had some expectations that an instance settlement page would appear after this final battle was won.
But it didn’t.
Awkwardly holding onto two people, he wasn’t sure what to do next.
Gu Mian noticed Slaughter’s forehead vein pulsed twice when captured, seemingly finding the battle too childish.
With Slaughter in his left hand and another Upper Class founder, whose name was Torture, in his right hand, Gu Mian recalled.
The lower-class people cheered as they rushed up, surrounding Gu Mian who held the two trophies, singing praise of his bravery and fearlessness.
Gu Mian cooperatively chuckled a few times and instructed the lower-class people to distribute the spoils and detain the Upper Class People, while he himself took the two individuals in hand and turned into the conference hall behind the Pleasure Square.
Pleasure Heavenly City is the hometown of two founders of the Upper Class People and the most important city among the Upper Class People; several regulations were formulated in Pleasure Heavenly City, such as the famous "Upper-class Protection Law" in Paradise World.
Therefore, there’s a large conference hall in the city’s center where Upper Class People gather to discuss when their heads get hot and they want to legislate regulations that exploit lower-class people.
In the center of the conference room stands a long table. After entering with the two individuals, Gu Mian found the nearest seat and sat down heavily, placing the people in his hands to the seats on either side of himself.
Outside, the cheering of lower-class people infiltrated the walls, reaching him. They found high-end canons and fireworks from somewhere and lit them up to celebrate.
Hearing the noisy cheers and the crackling sounds of fireworks, Gu Mian, somewhat annoyed, rubbed his forehead.
Then he turned to look at Slaughter.
Although they had contact amidst the "great battle," it wasn’t appropriate to reunite in front of a crowd of Upper Class People and lower-class people.
Earlier, Gu Mian just kept chanting lines like "Evil Upper Class People, I will destroy you."
Similarly, Slaughter echoed with robotic-like lines such as "Lowly lower-class people, you’re truly delusional."
Only now, with no one around, could they "recognize" one another.
Without the emotional drama seen in TV shows, the "recognizers" directly posed their questions.
"What happened?" Slaughter was faster at asking questions than Gu Mian, stealing Gu Mian’s lines.
Not like other Upper Class People who were completely controlled, Slaughter could express his thoughts and move freely, but there was also a script given by the Evil God in his mind.
Gu Mian felt his head hurt more, it seemed Slaughter also didn’t know what has happened.
"I was going to ask you, I thought you’d know what’s going on. That leaf you gave me was a Dungeon Entry Ticket. I used it to enter one instance and was sucked into here. After being pulled over, I found myself labeled as a Hero, and had no choice but to fulfill the Hero’s duty, leading the lower-class people through battles."
Originally thought that after defeating the Pleasure Heavenly City, he could leave, but after accomplishing the goal of occupying the city, the Evil God gave no judgment nor allowed Gu Mian to leave, seemingly expecting him to retire here; Gu Mian was greatly troubled.
Slaughter frowned: "Did Xu Xingcheng bring you in? A few mornings ago, suddenly this world reverted, but I found that I could clearly remember events before the reversal;"
"This time’s reversal spans a large period, almost returning to the time just after everything began. You should have noticed along the way that in the current residence of Upper Class People, it hasn’t been made glamorous, and Upper Class People haven’t fully controlled the lower-class;"
"Upper Class People haven’t controlled the lower-class but were controlled by something else. I don’t know what about others, but upon realizing the world had reverted, I discovered a ’script’ added to my mind, which could control people’s bodies and make them act according to the script’s content;"
"Because I don’t resist the content of my instance, and even everything on the script is what I want to do, I can almost act freely."
"Is the script similar to what you guys designed with Xu Xingcheng before?" asked Gu Mian.
Asking, he glanced at Torture next to him.
Slaughter could freely act because he didn’t resist the script, but Torture...
Slaughter once told Gu Mian, Torture was previously washed with acid over his whole body, severely injured, and couldn’t wait for the Hero or Evil God, later showing a psychological twist leaning towards the Upper Class camp.
Uncertain if he could now control his own body.
Noticing Gu Mian’s glance, Torture turned to look at him, letting out a "hehe" sound.
Alright, seems he can control his body, doesn’t seem too resistant to the instance.
"Yes... almost," Slaughter paused then spoke, "but some parts are overly simplified and fairy-tale-like. We originally designed a ten-year-long instance. They need to grow their team over ten years until strong enough to rival the Upper Class People... you know, if their strength gap with us is too large, it becomes difficult to hold back..."
