Chapter 395 Chapter 392 · "That road is too long."

  [The tenth day of the dungeon, 8:00 am]

   At dawn.

  Su Mingan opened the door and saw a red figure sitting not far away.

   Baixue fell on her shoulders, and she stared silently into the distance... It seemed that a silent breath was spreading in the white snow.

   That fiery red is particularly dazzling in the white snow, like a flame in the ice and snow.

   Hearing the door open, she turned her head, and a pair of dull eyes fixed on Su Mingan for a moment.

   She looked like she had been sitting by the frozen glacier for a long time, with a thin layer of snow on her head.

   "Didn't sleep well?" Naraku asked him.

   "Obvious?"

   "Under your eyes." Naraku pointed to his face: "A circle, everyone can see it."

  Su Ming'an didn't look in the mirror, he raised his head and looked towards the south.

   Through the tall and short flat-story houses, he could see the dazzling barrier, and outside the barrier, dense shadows were clearly visible in the snow.

"Don't worry." Naruo said, "Even if the barrier is broken, there is still the barrier of the Royal City. If your goal is to climb up the Cloud City, go to the barrier of the Royal City and wait until the day after tomorrow. already."

  Su Mingan knew she was right.

  Even if he doesn't care about this siren attack, he will be able to pass the level perfectly when he gets to the upper cloud city, because the story will end there, as for Praia on the ground, it's just a springboard for him to get to the city.

   But things cannot be seen that way.

   The reason why the Kraken sieges the city is that he is afraid that the Kraken will break through Praia ahead of time and hinder the final customs clearance route.

   "—you little girl! Say something!"

   There was a savage shouting from the side.

  Narro was taken aback and saw an aunt wrapped in a padded jacket squeezed out of the house a few rooms away.

   Her face was frozen red, but she was not polite at all:

"Finally, life has been a little easier in recent years. With such a large area of ​​land missing, how do you want us to live? You say such depressing words at a young age, how did your family teach you? Such bad words, Can't talk nonsense!"

  Na Luo opened her mouth, and she was stunned in the face of such an old lady.

   She grew up in a noble family since she was a child, and she never met an aunt with such a loud voice, it was like thunder in her ear.

   "And you, lad."

The aunt's eyes, like knives, slashed at Su Ming'an who was standing at the door: "-You don't care about your girlfriend, at such a critical moment, it's fine if you don't go to the city wall to help, and you're still talking nasty things here. It depends on your age. I can work, but I’m still sleeping here. Why don’t you help move things if you have the strength?”

  Su Ming'an: "…"

   He reckoned that the aunt was not close to the Southern District Wharf at all, so she hadn't seen Su Rin's appearance yet, so she directly educated him as an ordinary boy.

   "Hey! You'll fall asleep for anything, do you know who this person is?"

   She didn't refute the sentence "You don't care about your girlfriend" at all, and quarreled over the second half of the aunt's sentence.

  Su Ming'an didn't want to quarrel with this resident. Noon was the time to start the "Cross-Sea Operation", which would be the most dangerous period.

   He walked directly in the direction of the southern district, and Naraku hurriedly trotted after him.

"Hey, that's right, go earlier and help earlier." The aunt's voice drifted from behind: "My son Yongzhi is helping on the front line, he probably hasn't eaten breakfast yet, so I'll bring him naan later. Bing...you two, don't be idle, since you have the strength, hurry up and help..."

  Su Mingan walked very fast, and quickly left her voice behind.

  Last night, he opened the fifth level of "The Demon King and the Brave", but after finding out that it and the final level "must be completed within two days", he decided to postpone this night level.

   In this way, before landing on the Cloud City, he still has the opportunity to go back and change the night selection, instead of overwriting the save file with time offset.

   He intends to complete the fifth level tonight, the final level tomorrow night, and the day after tomorrow to board the Cloud City.

   That way, the timing is just right.

   He turned around and found Naraku still following behind.

   Her pace was not fast, but she was panting and seemed very weak.

   "Don't follow me, it's very dangerous to wait." Su Mingan said.

   "I know, Miss Ben is still a bit measured." Naruo pouted: "But waiting on the city wall and watching you return safely, it's alright, right?"

   "...that wasn't a great experience."

"what?"

   "You'll have nightmares when you see that sight."

"Huh?" Nailuo's eyebrows stand upright: "Su Rin, although Miss Ben likes you, you shouldn't be shy and underestimate Miss Ben's courage, but it's just to break through the sea monster's blockade and go to the sea to set up a new knot. It’s just the world, how terrifying can it be?”

  Su Mingan stopped.

   "You should know that I am not the old Su Rin."

   He didn't look back.

   "What?" Naraku tilted his head: "What are you talking about?"

   She looked puzzled, not like a fake.

  Su Mingan understood.

  Different from Princess Tulip and Xie Lude, Naraku is an unawakened NPC.

   She didn't understand the concept of the player he was talking about, and she didn't understand that Su Rin would change people. She firmly believed that he was the Viscount of the Su family she liked.

   She never learned to give up.

  ... But her liking is just a copy setting, not an emotional product achieved by her self-thinking.

   This kind of love is very sad.

   "Su Rin doesn't like you." Su Mingan said, "Go back."

   Whether it is before or now.

  Su Rin didn't like her, never liked her.

   In his heart, there is only persistence and struggle for his own ideals. His vision has always been on the future of this land. As for Xiaoqing and Xiaoai, they are all things that can be given up for the "future".

   He had given up the young Garde who fell in love at first sight, and naturally he would not stop for a Naraku.

  Su Ming'an's footsteps were extremely fast, and he quickly left Naruo behind.

   Before reaching the southern city wall, he heard the noisy voices of players over there.

The    shadow state gave him an excellent hearing, even if he was still several hundred meters away, he could hear all their words.

   "Su Mingan is dead? I saw his boat capsize with my own eyes!"

   "Calm down, he still has a clone. This guy is very sophisticated and won't easily put himself in danger."

   "...Then what do we do now? We can't find him, are we waiting to die in the enchantment?"

   "Don't worry, I saw him appear at the South Pier yesterday, he should be sure..."

   "It's all to blame for the first player, why can't he think about us whiteboard players? He got a clue, provoked the Siren King, and ran away by himself, what should we do..."

"Everyone has to believe him, the first player will never fail, we just need to wait for him to complete the level perfectly, just like Minghui, he will definitely be able to turn the tide. I heard that the soul hunters will start at noon today. What is the 'Cross-Sea Operation', set up a team of sharp knives, run through the sea-monster group outside, and rebuild the broken barrier on the outermost side, there must be no problem, we just need to wait here..."

   Their voices were not loud, perhaps because they were afraid that the soul hunters would get excited and tear them apart.

   After Su Mingan walked up to the city wall, they immediately shut up like a mouse meeting a cat.

  Su Ming'an ignored these people, he looked at the registration office of the sharp knife team on the side, where there were many people who were resting.

   They are not players, nor soul hunters.

What they were wearing were ordinary coarse clothes, and what they were holding in their hands were only stone and iron farm implements. Their faces and hands were also full of marks of hard work, rather than those left by fierce battles. scars.

   This is a group of ordinary people, ordinary Praia residents, who used to live an ordinary life.

   But since Soul Hunter began to recruit members to participate in the "Sword Squad", after they came here, they are no longer ordinary.

   "Sword Squad", that is, the team participating in the "Cross-Sea Operation" at noon, is openly recruiting for ordinary people.

   There is no limit to the number of people it can recruit, and there is no limit to its strength. Anyone can participate as long as they want.

   As for the reason why the conditions are so wide,

  …Because this team that crosses the sea and crosses life and death needs victims.

   The road across the siren barrier is too long, too long. Even if all the high-strength soul hunters are on the field, and their manpower is sometimes exhausted, they can kill ten or a hundred sea monsters, but they can't do more.

   Outside the enchantment, there are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and possibly even millions of sirens.

  In the time when the Siren King was resting, they seemed to be more and more, appearing in a mass production situation, breeding like fish roe.

Soul Hunter has already calculated that even if all Soul Hunter ministers join this cross-sea brigade, even if all the existing powerful Soul Hunters are protected at the periphery of the squad, before reaching the outermost broken barrier, the squad will still have The danger of total annihilation.

   That road is too long.

   Therefore, they are recruiting team members from people who are not soul hunters.

   These people who have no fighting power, they will be protected in the middle of the team to confuse the Kraken's judgment.

   After a team reaches a certain number and has a certain scale, even if the front line in one direction collapses for a while, it can be forcibly supported for a period of time, and the soul hunters in other directions of the team can be replenished.

   Of course, these ordinary residents, they will face great danger.

   They have no fighting power, no powerful weapons, only the hoes that they usually do in farming and the harpoons that they usually use for fishing.

   They are not strong, and they have no fighting skills at all. They are like pieces of fragrant meat, like fish bait, they stay in the middle of the team and confuse people.

   In case a siren targets them, if there is no other person to cover them, the only thing waiting for them is death.

   They are the obstacles of the Kraken, the bait in the team, and the "consumables" that roll the snowball up and make the team survive longer.

   During the recruitment period, the Minister of the Southern District, Kalocha, was on the city wall and explained the dangers of joining the squad to these residents.

  It is possible that the team will complete the mission and return smoothly after establishing the enchantment, but it is also possible that the team will perish on the road, and everyone will die together.

   Even if the team returns successfully, most of the "consumables" in it will face the risk of death and injury.

   He explained the risks in detail and made it clear. After saying all this, he went down the city wall and walked to the registration point on the side.

   His expression was very quiet, and he walked very slowly. He had no hope for these people who had lived in peace for a long time under the protection of soul hunters, whether they would choose to participate in this extremely dangerous operation.

  If the inhabitants are unwilling to participate, let all danger, all possible death, be on their shoulders.

  Soul hunting is to protect them, to sacrifice for this land, and to live for this.

   He respects the choice of every Praia resident.

   Even if the team is finally wiped out, the outermost barrier is not established by Su Rin, and the barrier of Praia Island is also destroyed, and they will be blamed.

   The public should not have taken such a risk, he thought.

   He walked to the rudimentary registration point, and there were a few simple forms on the table.

   has a name, age, family, these three very simple subtitles. If people die in this operation, they will be regarded as sacrificial soul hunters.

   Although compared to their lives, the addition of this honor is insignificant.

  He thought that no one would come,

   Until, he sorted out the form, raised his head,

  ... He saw a group of people coming in, holding hoes and wearing commoner clothes.

   "I want to sign up! Since Lord Su Rin is in the team, what reason do I have to hide in the barrier? I want to help Lord Soul Hunter!"

   was the fastest runner, a dark-skinned boy wearing a straw hat, showing his white teeth.

   "Name?" Carloza asked.

   "Yongzhi."

   The young man smiled brightly.

  …

   Snowflakes are falling.

   The farther you look, the more hazy the distant coastline appears.

  The city shrouded in white enchantment is like a helpless island in the ring of sharks, standing there in the almost crazy attack of the siren.

On the    city wall, the uniformed soul hunters were lined up in a square shape on the platform.

   (end of this chapter)