First Player

Chapter 367: Three hundred and sixty-four

  Chapter 367 Chapter 364·BE13·"New World"

   From Yinke's back, Su Mingan saw the players below as small as ants, with black dots scattered in the streets of the island.

  The wind and snow was blowing in his face, he lowered his head and buried his face in the crow's feathers, avoiding the too strong wind and snow.

   The soul hunting suit he was still wearing was a little thin, and with a lot of blood loss, he now felt cold from the inside out.

   "...Su Ming'an." Nuoer's voice came slowly from the side through the wind and snow: "What do you think is a god?"

   "Sorry, I'm in a bad mood right now." Su Mingan buried his head in the still warm feathers.

   In the past, he would talk to Noel about this topic, but now, he just feels tired.

   Enduring exhaustion and resisting the cold, and always thinking about the next move, is really not a good experience.

   He didn't make a sound here, but Noel said it himself.

"The current world, the human world has entered the information age, they are good at storing information, transforming information, sharing information... If there is no world game, lasting quantitative changes will bring about qualitative changes, and if this goes on, their achievements in technology will be higher and higher, higher and higher...

  In addition to informatization, their progress in biology is also remarkable. It is believed that it is not too far to synthesize a real life with flesh, flesh and thoughts.

  Humans… able to integrate information, mine ideas, and even, in the not-so-distant future—create life. "

  Noel's voice came through the wind and snow, and it seemed a little dull.

   "Su Ming'an, do you think such a human being is in line with our previous longing for 'gods'?"

  Su Mingan breathed a sigh of relief.

   The temperature of his frozen hands recovered a little. He raised his head and looked at the city in the clouds, which was not too far away.

   Their height is close to the city.

   He felt his heart beating faster and faster, his breathing faster and faster, and the reactions caused by the high altitude had begun to affect him.

   "...Su Ming'an?"

  Su Ming'an turned his head sideways: "Noel, I don't want to talk about this for now."

   He raised his eyelids.

   He met a pair of ice blue eyes.

   Tiny blue scales grow on Noel's cheeks, and Noel's exceptionally blue, glass-like eyes are watching him silently.

   He could see the calm and indifference in Noel's eyes.

   "Why there is lightning, there is wind and rain, because of God." Noel said: "Why does the land yield food, and plants grow naturally, because of God - this is the concept of ignorant people a long time ago."

  Su Mingan stared at him.

   He could see tiny bloodshots intertwined and curled on the other side's eyes, like coagulated waves.

"...But ignorance runs through the entire history of human beings, including us now, and can't escape the limitation of 'ignorance'." Noel looked at him: "So, what is the higher dimension in our eyes? It cannot be resisted. A great existence, or an opportunist who is lucky enough to gain power and can be completely overthrown by us? Do you think that gods can travel through endless timelines, and can humans become such 'gods'?"

   "Noel." Su Mingan interrupted the other party directly: "You must have met a siren before, don't say these words, let's go down from the sky first."

These words of   Noel are too dangerous.

   Maybe because of his mental influence, Noel could no longer keep calm, so he said such words before the live broadcast all over the world.

   He will not let Noel become the next Mizushima Kawaharu to be targeted to death.

   "—This journey has already started, and there will be no return." Noel smiled as if he had gotten the answer.

   At this moment, his voice was extremely passionate:

   "—Su Ming'an, I will lead you to your 'new world'."

   Even Su Ming'an didn't understand what riddle Noel was playing at this time.

  The Riddler met his opponent, and he could not understand what the opponent was saying.

   He watched Nuoer take out a silver-white controller, and watched Nuoer's hand press on the controller.

   Snow fell on his fingertips.

   "Su Ming'an."

   At this moment, Noel's voice suddenly became a little choked up. He turned his head and looked at Su Ming'an with an extremely complicated and hopeful look:

   "…I love all the people in this world."

  Suddenly, Su Ming'an's attention suddenly shifted to the other side, which was the perspective of the shadow.

  Archerev, whose whole body was covered with transparent silk threads, suddenly appeared among the soul hunters who were about to leave the arena. His cane was already aimed at the shadow.

  Su Mingan immediately reminded Ying.

   "Boom!"

  The blood flower exploded in his vision at the other end.

   His chest was full of phantom pains pierced through.

  Noel put down the silk controller in his hand a little stiffly.

   "...You are really well prepared." Su Mingan endured the pain and said.

  Shadow is dead.

   Died at the hands of the sudden attack of Archerev.

   And Archerev's body is still wrapped around Noel's silk thread.

  The silk thread that can control Archerev...Su Ming'an doesn't believe that players at this stage can have such perverted skills.

  Either, it is some kind of one-time unique equipment, or, it is that Noel used some features in the copy.

  Noel used such a hard-won thing to control Archerev... and then chose to kill the shadow.

  Su Ming'an does intend to test Noel, and this file is indeed not very good. He needs to revert once, so it is better to see if Noel will make a move before he dies.

   But he didn't expect that Noel not only shot, but also shot so crisply.

  Noel's expression was a little stiff.

   He seemed to be brewing something.

"Now you have no way to retreat." Noel said softly: "Or, you can choose to kill me here and jump down. It doesn't matter, if you are sure that you can accurately grasp the distance of spatial displacement after falling from a high altitude. "

  Su Mingan ignored him.

   His gaze was aimed in the direction of Yunshangcheng, as if waiting to see something.

   "Even after I said so many strange things, you weren't nervous at all." Noel laughed from behind: "It seems that my guess is correct."

  Su Ming'an did not respond to Noel.

  The crow is flying closer.

   He could already vaguely see a corner of the city in the sky.

   It was a piece of white jade-like ground, and there was no snow falling. The city in the clouds was very beautiful, completely separated from the outside wind and snow.

   Noel's noisy voice continued behind him. This man seemed to be obsessed with talking to himself.

"...Su Ming'an, I'm probably going to end my journey here, because I already knew from the Central Great Library that I was influenced by the Siren King." Noel said, "This influence... I can't solve it by myself. And if I want to save myself, there's only one way..."

  The outline of the city in the cloud has gradually become clear.

  Su Ming'an grabbed the fur on the crow's back, and crawled forward little by little, using his hands and feet to gradually climb up its neck.

  Noel's voice floated from behind: "Did you see it? Above the sky, what the city looks like."

  Su Mingan looked up.

  —It was an extremely beautiful city in the clouds...or rather, a church.

   Soaring towers, golden church domes, crystal clear step gems.

  Two armored men with weapons stood guard in front of the church, with golden light rising from their bodies.

   Nothing else.

  There are no people walking around this beautiful church, no Praia residents sixty years ago, not even a breath of life. Except for the church, there is only a broad platform, and there is not even a shadow of other buildings.

  …This is just an empty, model-like church.

   There is no smell of human life at all, just like a dead city.

  …

  【Perfect clearance progress: 70%】

  [Exploration: 90%]

  …

   "Does what you see help you? After seeing the appearance of Cloud City, can you find a way to relieve the influence of the siren?" Nuoer asked him sideways.

   "...helps a lot. As for the Kraken, maybe." Su Mingan said.

   "Then I'm relieved." Noel smiled.

   "Are you helping me?" Su Ming'an didn't understand Nuoer's series of behaviors that seemed like both enemies and friends.

   "—Of course I'm helping you, aren't we good teammates?" Noel responded somewhat innocently.

   "Then why did you kill Ying?" Su Mingan turned around and confronted him.

  Noel smiled without saying a word, just stretched out his hand and touched Yinke's head.

   Yinke turned her head affectionately and rubbed against his palm.

  Noel seemed to not care about the current danger at all, and his tone was still very relaxed:

"Su Ming'an, I forgot to tell you, according to the information I know, when we ascend to high altitude, there will be poisonous gas around us that cannot be dispelled. That is to say, when you see Yunzhong City, your life will be gone. How long does it take?"

  Su Mingan looked at his status bar in the upper left corner.

   was too deeply affected by the dizziness, and only now did he realize that he had another debuff called "Poison Gas".

  [debuff (Poison Gas of Cloud City): Affected by the poison gas of Cloud City, the blood will be reduced by 1% per second. This state cannot be dispelled. 】

  …

   "Is this your 'help' to me?" Su Mingan looked at Noel: "What you call help is that when you know that you are affected by the Kraken and you can't turn back, you forcefully pull me to die together?"

   When he said this, the pain in his chest still lingered.

   The barrage in the upper right corner has gone crazy, and the audience can't believe that the world number one and the world number two will fall here, in an infighting and extremely absurd way.

   This is like a joke.

   "Su Ming'an, although the ending is death, in this way, you can clearly see the appearance of Cloud City, right?" Nuoer laughed.

   "Then why did you kill Ying?" Su Mingan asked.

  Noel's eyes suddenly softened: "Because this will make it more convenient for you."

   "..." Su Ming'an's voice trembled a little: "What's the convenience?"

   "Su Ming'an." Nuoer's hand stroked the black crow's head, and the voice slowly floated up through the wind and snow:

   "—What do you think, if I kill Ying, how will it facilitate your actions?"

  Noel's words rang in Su Ming'an's ears like thunder.

   In an instant, a flood of emotions filled his mind.

   His eyes widened slightly, and the question he had prepared was gagged in his mouth for a moment.

   Killing Shadow, for him, the only benefit is...

  …convenient for him to quickly return to the file.

  The snowstorm is getting bigger and bigger.

   At this moment, he could barely hear his own voice, as if a hand slammed into his heart.

   At this moment, in front of him, the young boy sitting on the crow's back straightened up.

   As if he wanted to embrace death and the wind and snow, he suddenly laughed and opened his hands freely:

   "—Go to meet your new world, Su Mingan—Go save that ignorant me, Su Mingan!" He laughed loudly, and the laughter seemed to pass through the shackles of the wind and snow, and the laughter came out like a heavy snow.

   He laughed, his throat choked up faintly, and there was a humming sound like a broken bellows.

  …Like an explorer who finds secrets, like a voyager who discovers new worlds.

  The blond boy standing in the snow, covered in blood, opened his arms to the wind, snow and poisonous gas in an attitude that was not afraid of death.

"—if my death can help you, if my death can make you trust me—then, trust me, save me, take me as your best companion—take me as The unknown, the great explorer who gave his life!"

   Baixue covered Noel's gradually frostbitten skin, like a Chinese robe covered with a layer of snow velvet.

   He laughed happily, his outstretched hand gradually began to freeze, the long-lurking poisonous gas infected his face, and the scales around the boy's face began to shatter.

   In the field of vision with white as the main picture, Su Mingan saw that the golden hair, which seemed to be shaking in the sun, gradually began to dye snow.

   At this moment, the eyes of the other party that gradually lost their spirits were particularly bright in his eyes.

   "Boom!"

  Noel's hand pushed against his chest.

   The smiling second player opened his almost transparent lips.

   In his eyes, there is a bright color like a fanatic.

   "Su Ming'an."

   "...Go and embrace your new world."

   The high-pitched announcement pierced through the wind and snow.

   The snow-white sky fell in front of Su Ming'an.

Above the    giant crow, the figure gradually turned into an ice sculpture, still standing there, with open arms, as if embracing the whole world.

   A violent snowstorm swept across Su Ming'an's face, and there was still a strong shock in his eyes.

  …World No. 2.

   This is the second world ranking.

   He is not a little boy who has been lucky enough to get to now, nor is he a little boy who only knows how to act cute and go to amusement parks to have fun.

  …he is Noel.

   is the second in the whole world.

   He actually guessed Su Mingan's death rollback skill.

   Even, Noel guessed that after they ascended to the city in the cloud, they would never return.

   He expected his own ending, knowing that if he continued like this, sooner or later he would be alienated by the residual influence of the siren, and he had to save himself.

   But Su Mingan extremely distrusted him at this time. If he just waited, he could not guarantee that Su Mingan would save him later.

so,

so,

  Before meeting the doomed ending,

   He chose "self-help".

   On the premise of "self-death", one "self-rescue".

   He took Su Mingan up to the sky and showed him the scene of Cloud City - and then forced Su Mingan to trust him in a real sense. In anticipation of the next pullback, Su Mingan can save him.

   He wasn't even sure what kind of reversal would be caused by Su Ming'an's death, whether it could really save him, or whether it was just Noel in a parallel world.

   But he still did it.

  Because this is an "adventurer" who is always curious about the unknown.

  Noel is Su Mingan who has traveled all the way through the timeline, the only person he has ever met who even used his death reversal.

  …

  【Su Mingan. 】

  【Do you think the gods can travel through the endless timeline? 】

  【…And can humans become such ‘gods’? 】

  …

   The shock of Noel's behavior replaced the panic of being discovered.

  More wind and snow came up, like a rainstorm. When it fell, it stuck to Su Mingan's thoughts like glue.

  The whiteness is fading in front of the eyes, replaced by the constantly floating dark light and shadow, like a snowflake that has been sprinkled with a glance.

   At the moment of the fall, Su Mingan suddenly felt an unprecedented ease.

   Far-travelers used to see each other across the ship.

  …And now they finally saw their comrade.

Whether   high-dimensional creatures have been discovered is not mentioned for the time being, but if Noel has discovered this.

  ... Then has he found another "island"?

   He laughed suddenly.

   In his quick fall, he burst out laughing.

   A strong sense of dizziness and tingling pierced his brain. At this moment, every cell in his body was roaring, and the pain like flames burned his upper body.

   He laughed happily as if it was painless.

  ...The ignorant human beings cannot easily create the unknown and see the light of the sky like the gods.

  Then they learn to use what they have, rack their brains, break their bones, burn their lives, shatter their souls,

  —and raised the flames of war against the gods of the sky.

   They are weak and ignorant, with only short lives, shallow vision, and unable to cross the so-called timeline.

  … But it can use everything "known" to calculate everything "unknown" in order to save the so-called "future".

   If you still can't win, then wait until the next round to go back to fight, if you still can't see the light of the sky, then hand the torch to the next one.

   No one is unaware of their meanness and desires.

   The surviving nobility and belief have enabled this group of "explorers" to burn in the dark to this day.

  In their eyes,

  —Has been engraved with tens of millions of scars belonging to compatriots.

  …

  【If my death can help you, if my death can make you trust me—】

  【Then—trust me. save me. Consider me your best friend. 】

  【—Take me as a great explorer who gave your life for the unknown—]

  …

  【—Su Mingan! 】

  【…Go and embrace your new world. 】

  …

  …

   "Boom!"

   (end of this chapter)