Chapter 899: Chapter 862: Digging Through the Wall to Steal Hoots_2
These days, he even divined questions as silly as "What color clothes is Gu Mian wearing today?" "Is Gu Mian really called Gu Mian?" "Is Gu Mian male or female?".
But even for such obvious questions, there was no result from the divination.
This means that Gu Mian might have been "shielded" by some entity.
"Right, wasn’t that leaf brooch that allowed you all to enter the Fierce Ghost Exhibition instance given by someone called the Evil God? Gu Mian also buried himself after hearing his message, which is why he didn’t leave the instance with you all."
The Fortune-teller speculated, "It’s likely that he took Gu Mian elsewhere. From what you said, the relationship between the Evil God and Gu Mian seems quite good, so if Gu Mian was indeed taken by him, there shouldn’t be any danger."
"Brother Chu and I also think it was the Evil God who took the doctor away," Fatty replied. "Although I also think the doctor would be safe, this kind of total silence still makes one anxious. Plus, we don’t know when the doctor will come back."
More than worrying about Gu Mian, the Fortune-teller was actually more concerned about themselves.
Before teaming up with Gu Mian, I could at least be considered the brains of my original team, with my enigmatic divination methods and sharp mind always anticipating a ghost’s next move to lead everyone out of danger ahead of time.
Though living under constant threat of death, I managed to fully utilize my brain, and in the most critical moments, I could rely on my intelligence and wits to escape danger.
But ever since joining Gu Mian’s team, it feels like my brain has started rusting.
Daily life seems to have reduced to eating, sleeping, and the mundane task of instance farming.
No thinking is required in the instance, no experiencing the thrilling escapes of the past, just waiting to receive compensation.
Even the divination methods, once commonly used in instances to predict ghost movements, are basically useless. My skills now primarily focus on finding things, finding people, finding Gu Mian’s shirts secretly hidden by Xiao Hong.
Thinking of this, the Fortune-teller grew alert.
Wasn’t the game’s main aim to promote evolution? But ever since meeting Gu Mian, it seems I’ve regressed instead of evolved.
Glancing around at the others nearby.
The aimless Fatty, the destructive female star, the expressionless man who never makes a sound before a ghost appears, the cloaked figure who does nothing but strut around stylishly in the instance.
Heavens, imagine how this group of the weak and sick would survive without Gu Mian in the future.
It feels as if the world would explode the moment Gu Mian is gone.
Whether the outside world explodes or not, Gu Mian doesn’t know, but he’s about to explode himself.
He had managed to lead the lower-class in overthrowing the Upper Class People, awaiting the game’s settlement screen.
Unexpectedly, once the settlement screen disappeared, he found himself restarted again.
The same familiar scenes, the same familiar lines, he became the Gu Mian hero with nothing once more.
Even though the possibility of a restart crossed his mind long ago, actually restarting left Gu Mian unable to suppress his frustration.
Luckily, this time the Evil God thoughtfully erased everyone’s memories, making them forget everything that happened before.
Gu Mian thought that last time’s ending of "Digging through to Overthrow the Upper Class People" was largely due to the lower-class retaining their old memories. Now with memories wiped, their minds remained pristine, and the outcome should be different.
In this scenario, the lower-class are not as timid as they were at the start the last time. They are full of enthusiasm and confidence, genuinely believing that the Gu Mian hero will lead them to victory.
What hasn’t changed from last time is that the fight scenes in this script remain child’s play, and even contain the iconic scene of Gu Mian throwing a stone to knock down dozens of Upper Class People.
Overall, after two days of effort, Gu Mian finally reached the outskirts of the Pleasure City once more.
Slaughter and Torture awaited him there again.
Judging from the tired expressions on their faces, they too remembered the events before the rollback.
The weary trio staged a ridiculous performance just like last time, in the end, Gu Mian grabbed Slaughter in one hand and Torture in the other, declaring he had successfully defeated the two founders of the Upper Class People, bringing their era to an end.
The lower-class folks cheered just like last time.
Gu Mian led the two into the conference hall behind them, awaiting the forthcoming settlement.
He didn’t think it would be the final settlement.
Upon entering the conference room, Gu Mian didn’t speak to the two beside him. Instead, he sat on the central bench clutching his throbbing temples.
"We are repeating his previous experiences." Slaughter came up and sat beside Gu Mian, his eyes bloodshot, appearing sleep-deprived these past few days.
"This time Upper Class People and the lower-class have all lost their memories from before; the ending might turn out different from last time." Gu Mian issued the order to find Xu Xingcheng right from the start this time, but still hasn’t found him yet.
"Will it restart again after this time..." Slaughter hesitated. Although this ending is slightly more perfect than the last, everyone had lost their original memory, and no one had yet experienced the ugly world to come, their minds yet to be tainted.
This time, the ending should be different from the previous one.
"How is it any different from before?" Torture inserted from the side, "What’s there to cherish in things that can be attained within just two days? The lower-class will just feel entitled to it. Their self-confidence and vanity will inflate wildly, greedily swallowing the whole world, perhaps even more ruthlessly and quickly than the Upper Class People."
"How is lower-class victory any different from Upper Class People’s initial victory? It’s merely about who wins becomes the Upper Class People. Don’t you see, this world has been corrupted at its core. No matter how many times we restart, it’s pretty much the same outcome."
He is indeed a prophet.
Time began to accelerate again, phantoms fluttering to and fro in the conference room, this time the lower-class more quickly renamed themselves as Upper Class People, even erasing the humiliating history before.
They felt ashamed of their past as "lower-class" and erased every trace of that existence from the root.
It’s as if the lower-class were Upper Class People from the start, and those Upper Class People were the lower-class from the beginning.
Gu Mian looked at the plot’s development, nearly bursting into laughter.
He didn’t even know what expression to make in face of all this.
The original Upper Class People had turned into more lowly slaves than even the previous lower-class, lacking even a residential area this time. The lower-class felt the despicable, hideous slaves were unworthy to live above ground, and simply dug a hole and banished them in.
During the protracted wait, Gu Mian finally arrived at this round’s settlement screen.
[Achieved ending ’History Repeats (I)’]
[Eh? Wondering why there’s a ’I’ at the end? Of course, because there’s a whole series of II, III, IV, V, VI to follow.]
Damn it.
This infuriating panel.
If the Evil God was in front of him now, Gu Mian would certainly go up and punch him dead.
But his fists had nowhere to land, so he could only watch as the curtain fell and then rose again.
The same familiar formula, the same familiar taste.
He heard that familiar line again.
"With the Gu Mian hero, we will definitely defeat the evil Upper Class People!"
