Free Web NovelChapter 814: Chapter 778: Making Hats for Lu Yi Together
"Did the people who used to live there leave anything behind?" Gu Mian asked.
Mingliang wasn’t sure why Gu Mian wanted to know, but after thinking for a moment, he shook his head. "Nothing left, just bedding and some trash."
Looks like I’ll have to check out that power distribution room he mentioned once we get out, Gu Mian thought to himself.
was silent for a moment too, wanting to know where Renle Mountain had gone, but understanding that now wasn’t the time to discuss it.
Thinking this, she pulled out a colorful flyer: "Look at this."
She handed the flyer to Gu Mian. "Chu Changge got this from the Upper Class People’s area." freeweɓnovel.cѳm
Gu Mian took it and looked down—
["Judgement and Crown" is about to make a shocking arrival]
[Crown of Ignorance! Crown of Cowardice! Crown of Greed!]
[The ignorant burn the world alone, the coward covers their ears and drifts with the flow, and the greedy look up from the abyss.]
[Those who willingly fall into the abyss will face the world’s judgment]
[Convict: Upper-class Traitor Louis (former head of the Circus of Love and Justice)]
[Judge: To be selected in a clean, sanitary professional lower-class breeding area]
[Executioner: Winner from the lower-class judging group]
"Judgement and Crown..."
Slaughter mentioned to him in the Secret Forest that the show to judge Louis was called "Judgement and Crown," and it’s written plainly that the convict is Louis.
This is exactly the show Gu Mian and the others need to participate in.
It seems Chu Changge managed to take a very useful thing from the Upper Class People’s residential area.
"The judge will be selected in a clean, sanitary professional lower-class breeding area..." Gu Mian read the words on the flyer, this means they want the lower-class people to judge Louis and impose punishment on him.
Below, there are three stages of the event.
The first stage is the preliminary period, which can be briefly summarized as clandestine canvassing, with lower-class people giving speeches at polling points while Upper Class People watch the voting. The top fifty lower-class people advance to the second stage.
The second stage is the elimination period, with fifty people competing on stage and the top ten moving to the third stage.
The third stage is the coronation period, more commonly known as the handicraft stage, where ten people are to make hats for dear Louis.
Gu Mian figured these hats were certainly not normal hats; the Upper Class People wouldn’t go to such lengths for making hats for Louis.
"This is troublesome;" Gu Mian looked at the judge column, "The first batch of lower-class people will be selected in a clean, sanitary professional lower-class breeding area. They want to select people from clean and sanitary enclosures, but we’re not being bred, we’re just wild."
They didn’t even have the qualification to compete.
However, when leaving the Secret Forest, Slaughter told Gu Mian about a friend who ran a photo studio on the second floor of Game City who could help them acquire the appropriate identity.
The name of that photo studio is "Catch Turtles in the Sky Photo Studio."
"Let’s first find a photo studio on the second floor," Gu Mian lifted his foot to walk into the building, saying this as he turned back to look at Dai Huanhuan, "Do you know a photo studio called Catch Turtles in the Sky?"
Dai Huanhuan was taken aback; he actually did know it: "I know it, it’s right on the second floor here, I’ll take you there."
Saying this, he naturally moved to the front to lead the way, without any guilty conscience of betraying his kind.
He didn’t know what Gu Mian and the others came to this world for, only that Gu Mian had promised to help him gather money.
Thus, he led the way with peace of mind, as if he had fully integrated into Gu Mian’s group.
had already put Hei back on the ground, and Hei seemed to like her very much. After stretching lazily on the ground, it hurriedly followed, constantly circling around 007’s feet.
"By the way, Gu Mian, you mentioned something about this world’s memory rewinds in the group earlier, can you elaborate?" 007 asked.
At that time, when things were urgent, Gu Mian only briefly told them the outline in the group, without clear explanation.
Now that they had time, he explained the entire memory rewind incident to Chu Changge and 007 as they walked, describing how he came to the Secret Forest and met Slaughter, how he saw the story of the Evil God, and also told them about the magical use of the Evil God statue.
"It’s like a wishing machine; that motorcycle you saw at the mall entrance was made by me using the statue," Gu Mian said to 007.
had found the motorcycle’s shape twisted at first glance, and now she knew why.
"Slaughter also gave me another leaf brooch left by the Evil God, though it seems useless, it does pair with the one I had before." Saying this, he pointed to the green brooch pinned on the right side of his chest.
He had another identical leaf brooch pinned symmetrically on the left side of his chest, looking quite ludicrous.
looked at the brooch left by the Evil God: "To think this world has undergone memory rewind so many times before, and to think it originally intended... for Heroes to lead everyone to defeat evil..."
She had difficulty finishing the last sentence, given the current state of the world: there’s not even a "Hero," let alone "everyone."
The world was solely divided into Upper Class People and lower-class, with a gap larger than that between humans and beasts.
Mingliang trailed behind them.
had already explained to him that this wasn’t an instance, and that the mall was quite safe.
He initially listened to the conversation between Gu Mian and the others, but it had been too long since he had walked so peacefully in a mall, and soon he was captivated by the endless array of shops around.
Every now and then, strange creatures would walk past, and Mingliang would sneak sideways glances at them.
"It seems the Earth has been continuously thwarting the script written by Slaughter and the others, forcing this world to rewind until it became what it is today;" Chu Changge adjusted his glasses, "By the way, Gu Mian, you said while you and Slaughter were running up from underground, Slaughter said a lot of ominous things, but the statue didn’t realize them?"
"Yes." Gu Mian also found it strange.
That statue was something that, as soon as it discovered even a single thought from you, would eagerly help you fulfill your wish.
Yet at the time, the things Slaughter said underground never came true, and they escaped safely, passing through the shutter door to the surface.
Chu Changge thought for a moment, then looked up at Gu Mian: "Can you tell me about your escape to the surface from the underground in detail?"
"There wasn’t much to it; Slaughter said a lot of things like ’earthquake,’ ’flood,’ ’we’re going to die here,’ but none of it happened. I pulled him along as we ran up the stairs, and once we got to the top, we pushed open the shutter door to escape."
"Push open the shutter door?" Chu Changge zeroed in on the key point.
"Yeah, it opened just from a push from below."
"When Slaughter took you down from the top, was the shutter door opened the same way?" freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
Gu Mian furrowed his brow, recalling the scene going down: "No..."
When they went down, Slaughter had searched a long time for the shutter door key.
After finding the key and inserting it into the lock, the shutter door automatically transformed into a downward staircase.
At that time, he had praised how smart this thing was.
So when he fled from the underground to the surface, using a push to open the shutter door was incorrect; it shouldn’t have been able to open by pushing, but required insertion of the key to form stairs.
But at that time, he’d long forgotten about this, and naturally pushed open that "ordinary shutter door."
That’s when Gu Mian remembered seeing, in the rearview mirror as he drove the motorcycle away, Slaughter outside removing the helmet that isolated wishes, as if he was no longer worried about his wishes coming true at any moment.
Moreover, when his motorcycle reached NPC Street, the vehicle grew two more wheels under his strong desire, yet at that time he was far from the Evil God statue, and wishes shouldn’t have been able to come true.
From this, a strange thought occurred in his mind.
