Free Web NovelChapter 811: Chapter 775: The Master of Insurance Fraud, Gu Bengbeng
By now the sky was gradually brightening.
A silver moon was slowly rising from behind the clouds, and the land in the east was also slowly lifting upward.
The moon looked as if it were being propped up by the up-tilting earth, the two of them rising into the sky together.
Huge chunks of debris were falling from the land that was ascending toward the sky, making for a spectacular sight.
But Gu Mian had no time to stop and properly enjoy this magnificent scene; he was ripping along the north-south central axis, not daring to slow down even a little, or he’d be heading up into the heavens along with this piece of land to rub shoulders with the moon.
He twisted the throttle to the limit, the motorcycle letting out a feeble roar as it carried Gu Mian and the Big Jar on the back seat racing southward.
Gu Mian only felt the ground getting more and more slanted, the scenery around him whipping backward, yet no matter what he couldn’t see the end ahead.
Just how big was this chunk of land that was about to take off!
The mechanical dog in the jar also poked its head out to look ahead, as if it were getting anxious on Gu Mian’s behalf.
The speed was too fast, and the wind slamming into his face was getting more and more painful; Gu Mian felt an itch on his forehead, like the Holy Disguise Item, the "Eight Characters" Moustache, was about to be blown off.
He freed one hand and slapped his forehead hard, finally sticking the wobbling "Eight Characters" Moustache back on.
The ground around him was tilting more and more, and in the end the motorcycle couldn’t even stand on this slanted surface.
At this moment Gu Mian finally saw the edge of this piece of land; a deep chasm had already appeared there, a trench formed by the earth’s movement.
That’s the end! Just need to clear that trench!
He saw a multicolored street winding along the opposite bank, exactly the "NPC Street" he had visited before.
He hadn’t expected the range of this Inverted City event to be so huge, reaching all the way to the entrance of NPC Street.
The street lay on the other side of the rift, just outside the affected area.
Gu Mian saw a few people standing on the opposite side of the rift peering over, most likely NPCs from the street who’d come to watch the spectacle.
Those few people had clearly also seen Gu Mian barreling toward them, and all stood there on the opposite side, mouths agape in shock.
The ground under Gu Mian’s feet had almost tilted to forty-five degrees, the motorcycle starting to slide downward; Gu Mian was so anxious he wished the bike under his butt could grow two more wheels and run a bit faster.
As if it had heard the wish in his heart, Gu Mian felt the motorcycle’s speed suddenly pick up, going crazy as it charged straight toward the few people on the opposite side.
The people opposite hadn’t expected Gu Mian to still be able to accelerate; watching the motorcycle coming straight at them, they stared dumbly for a few seconds.
The slanted ground made it hard for Gu Mian to control the bike’s direction; he felt that if he so much as turned the handlebars, the motorcycle would lose control and slide all the way down.
He had no choice but to charge straight ahead, but the kind-hearted Gu Mian still shouted a warning: "What are you spacing out for, run!"
Only then did the few NPCs snap out of it and scatter.
And by now Gu Mian had already raced to the edge of the rift; this huge crack split open by the earth’s movement was nearly two meters wide, with a bottomless abyss below.
Gu Mian lifted the front wheel slightly, and amid the earth’s roaring he drove the motorcycle toward the opposite side.
The bike leaped into the air, spanning the abyss.
At that instant, time seemed to slow; from the bike, Gu Mian could lower his head and see the chasm below, one side of the land still slowly writhing, like some enormous worm.
Gu Mian passed over the worm, surging toward the safe far side.
He was safe now, but the NPCs were not.
Even though they’d already reacted and scattered, there hadn’t been enough time, and they hadn’t run very far.
Gu Mian, racing full tilt, couldn’t slow down immediately; he clipped two people who hadn’t managed to get far enough away, and Gu Mian even heard one of them spit out a curse.
After knocking the two down he rushed forward quite a distance before barely managing to bring the bike to a stop.
As soon as he parked, Gu Mian jumped off and turned back to check on the victims’ injuries.
Turning around, he just happened to see the land behind him standing fully upright at ninety degrees, then the earth sped up its rotation, and in no time it had flipped over and lifted into the sky, becoming a true Inverted City.
Gu Mian saw that jeweled long-rod statue completely flip over as well, hanging upside down in the sky.
At a glance, the Secret Forest was not within the range of the Inverted City; when Gu Mian was escaping he’d been worried that Slaughter and the Evil God statue would go up into the sky together.
Turns out his worry had been unnecessary.
And directly beneath the Inverted City, the ground had been left with a pitch-black giant pit, extremely spectacular.
"Ow—""Ow—"
The sound of pained cries reached him, and only then did Gu Mian realize he still hadn’t checked on the victims’ injuries.
"You guys okay?" Gu Mian quickly walked over to the two people on the ground.
The other three NPCs who hadn’t been hit also gathered around to check on the two on the ground. ƒrēewebnovel.com
"Do I look okay to you?!" One of them clutched his waist and gave Gu Mian a fierce eye-roll, then ran his eyes up and down him.
He felt this guy looked a bit familiar, but for the moment couldn’t recall where he’d seen him.
"Which world are you from? I feel like I’ve seen you somewhere... whatever, point is you hit me and hurt me, so you gotta pay up!"
Last time Gu Mian had come here to borrow the delivery tricycle, he’d heard that fortune-teller guy say that everyone running shops here had rushed out of the lockdown zone, not bringing anything valuable. freewёbnoνel.com
A lot of them couldn’t even afford rent and had gone over to Crazy Game City to look for work.
Speaking of which...
Gu Mian looked at the two victims on the ground, then at the three onlookers beside them; the fortune-teller wasn’t among them.
He turned back; judging from the last time, he shouldn’t run into that guy until tomorrow afternoon, so it wasn’t time yet.
But at this same time last run, there hadn’t been an Inverted City forming here.
Gu Mian looked up at the inverted city hanging in the sky; most of this Inverted City fell within the forbidden zone, filled with ruined, dilapidated buildings inside.
The silver moonlight poured over the city, making it seem even more desolate.
"Are you even listening to me?" The man clutching his waist twisted his body and gave Gu Mian a sidelong look; he clearly wasn’t about to let him off without compensation.
Gu Mian turned his head toward a conspicuous four-wheeled cargo truck not far away, piled high with suitcases of all sizes; obviously the five of them had been packing up their luggage earlier.
Probably just like the fortune-teller had said: shop owners who couldn’t afford the rent, planning to take their luggage and go to Crazy Game City to find work, and his arrival had just made their already miserable situation even worse.
Thinking of this, Gu Mian also felt a bit guilty.
He took a few steps forward and pulled the man up from the ground: "I’ll take responsibility for you guys. Come with me, I’ll take you somewhere nice."
Gu Mian’s movements while pulling the man up were a bit too big, and the Holy Disguise Item, the "Eight Characters" Moustache on his forehead, which hadn’t been very secure to begin with, wobbled and, like a dying leaf in the wind, fell from his forehead and fluttered down to the ground.
The man had originally been half-skeptical about Gu Mian’s words, eyeing him with suspicion and not believing in this so-called "nice place" he was talking about.
But as Gu Mian’s moustache fell from his forehead, the man suddenly felt that this person looked more and more familiar, and finally his heart gave a jolt as he matched Gu Mian’s identity in his mind.
