Chapter 901: Chapter 864: Coo Coo Is Coming
Listening to the words of Torture, Gu Mian thought of Xiao Qiao.
Xiao Qiao was the embodiment of "Xingyun" in the Seventh World, modeled after herself.
Their voices were identical, but the voice of Xingyun sounded much smarter than Xiao Qiao’s. After all, it’s hard to find someone more foolish than Xiao Qiao.
Speaking of which...
Gu Mian recalled seeing the crumbling scene in the Jinche Room, representing the Seventh World, during the Fierce Ghost Exhibition.
The last time the Seventh World had an incident, Xiao Qiao slept like a log. I wonder what’s happened to Xiao Qiao this time.
The game panel couldn’t be summoned, and Gu Mian couldn’t find out the situation outside through the ten-person group chat. He didn’t know how much time had passed outside now.
If a year and a half had passed outside, Fatty might have already starved to death.
It’s still best to get out early. Gu Mian thought and turned his gaze back to the door. It was still flickering outside, but the settlement panel was nowhere to be seen.
This time, because everyone has become slaves, the evolution speed has drastically slowed down.
Gu Mian turned to look at Torture again and continued, "In the Paradise World, you two have the highest ranks, right? Who sent the Guardian to the real world?"
Torture didn’t hold back at all: "I don’t know that person’s exact name, nor does he have a specific position. But since you Earthlings view our Low-Dimensional World as a ’game,’ he could be considered the game’s general planner."
"He might have a form, or he might not. When he wants to talk to someone, the person’s mind naturally hears his voice. We’re like a collection of data, and he can directly insert any data he wants into us;
"He knows everything happening in the Low-Dimensional World. He knows what happens each second, each minute in the world, and nothing escapes his eyes, including our current conversation."
As he spoke, Torture leaned back in his chair, looking indifferent as he said, "Originally, I wasn’t supposed to tell you about the Guardian, nor about him. These are strictly forbidden. But anyway, I no longer care."
Gu Mian had prepared for Torture to be enigmatic, especially since most NPCs he’d encountered would evade and change the subject. Unexpectedly, Torture revealed everything he knew in one go.
Torture crossed his hands behind his head, a sign of giving up: "Don’t ask me about that ’game planner’ because I don’t know anything else. I’ve already told you everything I know."
Gu Mian nodded, "Since he knows everything happening in this world, he must also know where the Evil God is now, right."
With that, he clasped his hands together and looked up to make a wish: "Dear game planner, I hope you bring the Evil God to me."
Gu Mian himself had a wishing function, and during these cycles, he had tried to wish the Evil God to come to him, but his wishing function was imperfect. Multiple wishes had never succeeded.
Now that he knew there was a more powerful wishing mechanism in the Low-Dimensional World, Gu Mian tried wishing directly to it.
Torture watched Gu Mian clasp his hands and make a wish, and he felt a lump in his throat.
Normally, Earth players, upon learning there’s a ’general planner’ in this global game, would first react by thinking of ways to defeat the other side.
After all, everyone is on opposite sides.
Just like in the scripts they had devised, the opposing lower-class people and upper-class people would kill each other until one side completely suppressed the other.
But Gu Mian, upon learning that the opposing Low-Dimensional World had a god-like ’general planner,’ straightforwardly began to make a wish.
The planner clearly didn’t respond to Gu Mian’s wish. Instead of the Evil God, a hand-drawn panel of the Evil God appeared before them.
This time it wasn’t a settlement panel but a cutscene.
Though it was called a "cutscene," the panel only had twisty, handwritten words that floated up and down, pretending to be an animation.
[Long, long after, the Slave Master Gu Mian the Hero died of old age...]
The aged Gu Mian’s forehead twitched as he continued reading down.
He knew that after this settlement, he probably still wouldn’t be able to leave; most likely, he would have to return again.
[After the Slave Master Gu Mian died of old age for a long time, the upper-class and lower-class people, who were originally slaves, reignited disputes and resumed their struggles]
[After years of long warfare, the upper-class people achieved victory]
At this point, shadows began flitting back and forth in the hall again.
This time it was the upper-class people in suits.
One didn’t need to look to know they were drafting regulations to elevate the status of the upper class and enslave the lower class.
Although it had taken a long time, in the end, the "Upper-class Protection Law" appeared before Gu Mian again.
That part of the story finally reached the time for settlement.
[Achieved the ending ’Alone and Hard to Support’]
["A single Gu Mian is useless since one Gu Mian can’t oversee all the people in the world"]
Then darkness descended around him once more.
Gu Mian found himself on the stage at the end, just like countless times before, a light spot appeared before him, suddenly flaring up to illuminate the surroundings.
Then the familiar plot played out again, and Gu Mian took a deep breath, his patience reaching its limit.
"Yes..."
Gu Mian promptly knocked down the lower-class person who was about to give an opening speech.
The Evil God was right, one Gu Mian alone is useless; one person can’t watch over all the people in the world.
Since that’s the case, wouldn’t it be better if everyone in the world died? Then there would be no one left, and no distinction between upper-class and lower-class people.
Thinking of this, Gu Mian put it into action.
Everyone who kills frequently knows that killing is a very tiring job. Fortunately, with the Evil God’s script boost, killing became quite simple for Gu Mian.
Usually, Gu Mian only needs to reach out and poke someone with his finger, and the person would scream out and fall, leaving a last word, "Ah, I’m dead."
Then they would fall to the ground and become another corpse in the script.
But this time, the workload was too large; the target wasn’t Pleasure Heavenly City, but the complete annihilation of all the people of the world.
There were more than just a few upper-class residential areas in the world, and a considerable number of lower-class villages too; relying solely on Gu Mian’s finger to poke around was too slow.
It’s exhausting even if faced with hundreds of thousands of ants, let alone when facing more than that.
Thus, Gu Mian used the script to create a world-destroying bomb, which would kill everyone upon detonation, except for the main character—asking why the main character won’t die is because it’s the script’s setup.
Gu Mian detonated the bomb without hesitation.
The story reached its conclusion on the very day it started, as soon as everyone was wiped out by the bomb, time began to accelerate. At the same time, Slaughter and Torture appeared beside Gu Mian, both visibly unaware of why they were beside him.
"What? Do we three have to watch every settlement together?" This isn’t the meeting hall, no chairs around to sit, Torture lay on the grass at his feet, looking up at the flickering sky above, "Did you kill everyone this time?"
Gu Mian nodded: "Thought both of you would die too."
Torture laughed: "We are also the main characters; how could the main characters die in their own story."
Slaughter also looked up at the sky; with time accelerating, it was instantly several days and nights. He saw the stars moving in one direction above him, as if the sky was rotating or the ground beneath them was spinning.
The surrounding environment kept changing too.
Gu Mian detonated the bomb on a plain; first, they stood on grass, surrounded by mountains.
Then it was as if the heads of the mountains had been blown away by the wind; they gradually lowered, eventually even sank beneath the earth.
Next, water appeared in the dips of the mountains, turning the once rolling mountains into a great river.
Gu Mian felt something was wrong.
His eyebrow twitched a few times involuntarily: "Could the Evil God be showing me an evolution demonstration?"
He guessed correctly.
As the sky and landscapes changed, the creatures on the earth kept proliferating and evolving.
Finally, humans reappeared.
When he saw humans appear again, Gu Mian knew it was over once more.
Indeed, new humans inevitably began to have conflicts again; they started divided into several factions, but soon only the two strongest were left.
This time, humans didn’t differentiate by skin color, but they had their own set of standards, nothing more than height, weight, eye size, finger length, and the like.
In general, people divided as expected and then fought.
Soon, one side was about to achieve victory, and the story neared its cliched ending.
Torture looked at the flickering sky: "This world has long been polluted; even if all were killed, the newborns would naturally start fighting again. You should understand by now, the source of the problem lies not in the people but in the world itself."
Gu Mian understood, utterly and completely understood.
Killing everyone was useless; the newborns would still walk in the footsteps of their predecessors step by step. Those were footprints made long ago, engraved deeply into this world with every rollback, leading people naturally towards their destined end, even without others leading them.
"Were these endings... attempts he made once before?" Slaughter watched the continuously changing mirage.
"Yes." Gu Mian also looked expressionlessly in the direction Slaughter was looking, "I guess he tried every choice and finally found a way to save this world."
Slaughter froze: "He found a way to save the world?"
"He found it and told me." Gu Mian said.
The Evil God placed him in the Paradise World, using ending upon ending to tell him overturning the upper class was useless, enslaving everyone was useless, even annihilating everyone was useless.
The root isn’t in the people, but in the world itself.
Eventually, the Evil God found a way to save the world, but he couldn’t do it.
So the Evil God placed Gu Mian here, to witness the endings one by one, to let him understand where the source of the problem lies, to let him end it all.
"Couldn’t he do it himself? Did he know the way to save the world yet couldn’t do it himself?" Slaughter’s expression showed a realization.
"Couldn’t do it." Gu Mian asserted, "Just like people in fairy tales can’t jump out of the books that trap them, like heroes in ancient legends only exist in people’s mouths; he can’t escape his birthplace, his trap."
"But I can."
