Chapter 904: Chapter 867: "Not for Sale
Speaking of "taking away the world," Gu Mian actually has seen someone pack up an entire world before.
This was seen in the [Angel Redemption] instance.
More accurately, it wasn’t the entire world being packed up, just an instance being packed away.
At the end of the Angel Redemption instance, the founder Holy Daughter appeared and compressed that entire instance into a disk and gave it to him. Of course, it was gifted along with a "non-sellable item."
It seems that both the Holy Daughter from that world and the Evil God from the Paradise World enjoy making people play house, repeating their experiences over and over again.
Speaking of the disk...
Gu Mian turned his head to look at Chu Changge. He usually doesn’t need any ghosts around him for protection, so most of the time, the disk was with Chu Changge.
The brother in the disk seemed to strongly dislike Chu Changge, hardly ever showing himself when with Chu Changge.
At that moment, Gu Mian saw an arm extending from Chu Changge’s pocket—it was his brother’s.
Meanwhile, he heard a byte coming from Chu Changge’s pocket.
"Sis..."
But before the person in the pocket could finish speaking, Chu Changge calmly pressed the arm back inside and spoke as if nothing had happened: "These years, the Low-Dimensional World has been contending with Earth, incapable of escaping the low dimension to enter the Earth world by themselves."
At this point, Chu Changge paused before looking at Gu Mian and speaking: "But now, the entire Paradise World has been brought to Earth; you have the ability to directly displace the Low-Dimensional World into reality."
"That disk—it’s the Holy Daughter’s experiment, right?" Gu Mian understood, "And also Mr. Green."
Xiao Qiao didn’t understand what Gu Mian was saying, only looking at him with a puzzled expression.
"On further thought, it seems just as you said." Liu Ruyan, smarter than Xiao Qiao, immediately grasped the meaning behind Gu Mian’s words.
The Holy Daughter compressed an instance into a disk and gifted it to Gu Mian. Later, Gu Mian learned that every instance is a part of the Low-Dimensional World, so at that time, the Holy Daughter was essentially compressing part of her own world into the disk, and Gu Mian successfully brought this small part of the Low-Dimensional World to Earth.
At that time, the Holy Daughter was likely experimenting, trying to see if he had the ability to bring the Low-Dimensional world into reality.
As a result, she witnessed it too.
Probably from then on, people from the Low-Dimensional World began planning how to bring their world to Earth.
Even from much earlier, the Low-Dimensional World started testing if he had that ability.
Gu Mian thought of the [Crazy Guessing Words] instance.
That was an instance Gu Mian entered shortly after the global game started, where he encountered his current accessory—Mr. Green.
The way to leave that instance was quite peculiar. After the guessing game ended, a door appeared in the instance, and one had to pass through it to return to the real world.
This was different from the other instances he had experienced, where completing the task allowed immediate return to the real world.
Thinking about it now, that was likely a test by the Low-Dimensional World.
They had long guessed that Gu Mian wouldn’t let the door go unused and would definitely bring something out from the instance.
Poor Mr. Green became their sacrifice, used in the experiment to test if Gu Mian could bring people from the instance to the real world.
"But the Low-Dimensional World itself has the ability to send people to the real world, right?" Gu Mian glanced at the three people before him, "You were sent to the real world by the Low-Dimensional World, and those supermarkets built out of thin air, the staff inside, and the ghosts from the large events that are held from time to time, all these come from the Low-Dimensional World."
The Low-Dimensional World can send people, buildings, and even ghosts to Earth without requiring him.
"No, no, no, that is certainly different." Liu Ruyan shook her head, "Those supermarkets and their staff as well as the ghosts did not fully come here;
"They are like shadows stretched due to lighting issues—their roots remain in the Low-Dimensional World, it is the light causing their shadows to elongate, allowing their shadows to squeeze through narrow gaps and project into the real world;
"They did not fully come here; their roots always remain in the Low-Dimensional World. As long as the light changes, the shadow will revert to the root. They do not belong to the real world. If the real world were destroyed, they wouldn’t die, but if the Low-Dimensional World were destroyed, they would certainly die."
A very curious metaphor.
"What about you?" Gu Mian asked.
Liu Ruyan only spoke of those staff and the ghosts in the large events, not mentioning herself.
"Are you shadows too?"
Liu Ruyan rarely fell silent; from her expression, Gu Mian understood that the Guardians were not the shadows she referred to.
"Our situation is more special, we are more advanced than they are. Like shadow puppets painted in color poorly mimicking people from the real world, our roots are no longer in the Low-Dimensional World, nor are they on Earth. If we have to describe it with a word, it would probably be neither human nor ghost." Liu Ruyan explained, sounding neither human nor ghost.
Liu Ruyan’s ability to illustrate was always that abstract. Gu Mian asked: "Since your roots are no longer in the Low-Dimensional World, then if the Low-Dimensional World is destroyed..."
Before he finished, Liu Ruyan knew what Gu Mian wanted to ask and quickly responded: "We would still die."
Gu Mian furrowed his brow, considering something before continuing to ask: "If the Low-Dimensional World invades reality, and the real world were destroyed..."
The person who answered this time was Xiao Qiao: "Then we won’t die, those who die will turn into Fatty Man, Digital Woman, and your other dear friends."
Xiao Qiao seemed to finally understand what the two were talking about, and couldn’t wait to answer.
What a daredevil team.
No matter what, it’s still death.
Gu Mian initially thought that as long as the Low-Dimensional World didn’t destroy the corresponding world, there wouldn’t be any problems. But now it seems that even if the Low-Dimensional World isn’t destroyed, someone still has to die. Because whether the Low-Dimensional World is fine or not, it’s always Earth; if Earth has problems, the people on Earth are done for.
"Haha." Gu Mian let out a dry laugh, "Then everyone doesn’t need to make an effort anymore, it would be better if we just dig a few pits in the yard early, and lie in them waiting for death."
Anyway, half the people have to die, it’s always right to dig the pits early.
Yet not necessarily half have to die, as long as Earth and the Low-Dimensional World maintain their current state, neither fighting the other, then everyone can still live.
But this is basically unlikely, Gu Mian knows that the current situation of Earth and the Low-Dimensional World is very similar to the Upper-Class vs. lower-class battle he experienced in the Paradise World.
Between the two, it’s like there’s a bomb set to explode; they toss the bomb to each other, and it gets thrown right back. When the bomb explodes, one of them has to die.
Gu Mian felt somewhat headache-stricken.
If possible, he wished Earth would explode along with the Low-Dimensional World.
But then there would be too many pits to dig.
"I don’t care about life or death, but if possible, I hope when you enter the Old World again, don’t show any mercy." Liu Ruyan was completely indifferent to her own life or death, just wishing her hometown would be destroyed soon.
Gu Mian had heard Liu Ruyan’s story before, the Old World was all surveillance, monitoring, and crazily strict rules that had to be followed. Stray from the path once, and the Supreme Law of the Old World would sentence you to the harshest punishment.
In such an environment, the people of the Old World follow rules strictly and step by step, all wearing the same mechanical smile of happiness.
Everyone is like a programmed robot, living the same dull and numb life every day. Yet, the people there don’t think there’s anything wrong with it; they’re addicted to it, even to the point of frenzy.
Moreover, everyone there is a monitor; in the midst of their happy lives, they closely observe the actions of their family, friends, and neighbors. If they find anything contrary to the Law Code, these monitors immediately report them, nipping any "illegal criminal behavior" in the bud.
In such an environment, for Liu Ruyan to develop her quirky rebellious personality is truly not easy, she’s like a traitor appearing among robots.
once gave Gu Mian a special item [Prophecy Book]
Fill in a person’s name, and you can learn all the identities they’ve ever had up till now.
Gu Mian once filled in the name Liu Ruyan and her former life identities appeared in front of him, he still remembered the three "offender" identities within Liu Ruyan’s background.
The appearance of these three "offender" labels at that time completely stunned Gu Mian’s eyes.
"Murderer, prisoner, fugitive." Gu Mian repeated the three labels he saw under Liu Ruyan’s name in the Prophecy Book, "You were happy killing in your own world, anyone who didn’t agree with your viewpoint was killed by you. I actually think that world suits you."
The people of the Old World have a foolish admiration for the Law Code.
As long as the Law Code said something was right, then it was right; they almost had no thinking ability of their own.
In such a rule-following world, Liu Ruyan appeared. Don’t misunderstand, she’s not some hero leading everyone against the foolish rules, she just feels the Law Code is wrong.
What nonsense Law Code, the rules of this world are incorrect, it should abide by my rules — this is Liu Ruyan’s thought.
So while Liu Ruyan was considered a freak by the people within the Old World, Gu Mian still felt she was inherently meant to belong there; she is suitable for making rules.
"Student, murderer, prisoner, fugitive, player, champion, guardian, landlord." Gu Mian recited all Liu Ruyan’s former identities from the Prophecy Book, "You killed someone, were imprisoned, escaped, and then captured again to participate in some game winning the championship, finally earning the qualification to come to the real world."
Liu Ruyan used to briefly recount that game to them before.
Because the people in the Old World weren’t quite normal, unsuitable for guarding the real world, the decision-makers in the Old World knew sending out a monitor, constantly surveilling Gu Mian, would definitely annoy him.
But their technological level wasn’t advanced enough to create people with normal brains like in Chu Changge’s world. So they let relatively sane offenders partake in a game, picking out the highest quality among them to send to the real world, Liu Ruyan was the final winner.
"I remember last time you said you were already fourteen when you came to this world. So, do you remember how you came from the Low-Dimensional World to the real world?" Gu Mian asked the question he wanted to know.
He thought of the giant tree he saw in the endless darkness, and the "fruits" hanging from it.
He hadn’t seen those fruits clearly before returning to the real world; he wondered if Liu Ruyan saw that giant tree when she was sent from the Low-Dimensional World to the real world.
"They sent me to a dark place, it was utterly pitch-black without any light. Then I felt myself starting to sink, sinking deeper and deeper. I don’t know how long I sank, but when the surroundings lit up again, I was already in the real world." Liu Ruyan recalled the situation.
Also in a dark place...
Gu Mian thought of the environment he was in before seeing that tree, it was similar to the total darkness Liu Ruyan described.
Could it be that it was a dark passage connecting the real world and the Low-Dimensional World?
But Gu Mian’s feeling at that time differed from Liu Ruyan’s, she said she was sinking in darkness, but Gu Mian felt he was always rising in the darkness.
With this thought, Gu Mian turned to look at Chu Changge beside him: "What about you, do you remember how you came to the real world?"
