Chapter 563 Chapter 561 · “Let me… sleep for a while.”

 【Lord God World·250 Servers】

 Noel was walking on the street, looking at the communication panel that had been "unanswered", feeling a little worried.

 …Su Mingan has not answered his communications. Logically speaking, this is not sleep time. Why don't you answer the call?

 Noel was nervous for a long time and waited from afternoon to evening before finally receiving a reply.

 He chose to agree, and with a flash of white light, he was teleported to Su Mingan's personal space.

This place is extremely simple, with a monotonous wooden table, a narrow single bed, and a floor that can barely fit your feet...

 …and Su Ming'an, who was sitting on the bed with his head lowered.

 “Su Mingan?” Noel suddenly noticed several tubes of injections on the table.

 The needle tube was bright red, and there was still a bit of blood-like liquid inside, as if it had just been injected. Noll suddenly became nervous, and he realized that this was the mental stabilizing drug Su Mingan had mentioned before.

"Are you okay?" Noel immediately squatted down and looked directly into Su Mingan's eyes.

 He saw a pair of calm eyes.

　　No waves, no sadness, no pain, not a trace of negative emotions.

 He heard Su Mingan's faint voice.

"...I'm fine." Su Mingan said: "The medicine is very effective...I feel very relaxed."

 “What’s wrong? What happened in the afternoon?” Noel felt something was wrong.

Su Mingan reached out and threw the used injections into the waste bin one by one. The waste bin has the function of automatically cleaning up garbage. After he throws away the injections, it becomes clean and tidy again.

 He stared blankly at the injection disappearing in the barrel, and remembered what he had just seen.

　　【The truth of the world】.

 Chona... or the existence behind her, showed him a... fantasy.

 A very real illusion, as if reproducing what happened in the past.

 At the moment the world game begins,

 The city was still, the pedestrians were still, the moment he walked out of the coffee shop,

 The screen changes.

At that moment—he saw Zhai Xing riddled with holes, like a doomsday ruins.

The bustling traffic of the city stopped at the moment the game started, as if the beautiful illusion suddenly disappeared, and what appeared before his eyes was a scene of apocalyptic ruins.

 The remaining six billion people who were supposed to be suspended and were not selected into the game were nowhere to be seen.

 …as if he had torn down the black wall that had held them back for so long, only to find that there was nothing outside. Zhai Xing became empty. Even if the world game ended, there would be no one on it.

 It's like - the World Game may have been held more than once, and they are the seventh batch of participants.

　　The first six groups of people, those six billion people...are all gone. They were all destroyed because the progress bar of the first six world games did not reach the standard.

He was immediately trembling with shock at this guess. At that time, Xiaona appeared beside him and whispered to him softly -

 “That’s good, right?”

"Even if you only become a **** for a billion people, you would find it interesting, right? Excluding the six billion people who have failed, you may be the first group to succeed..."

Xiao Na's voice was very low, but there was a concentration of observation in her beautiful slender eyes.

Seeing this, Su Mingan immediately chose to turn back.

His extremely frightened posture has been seen by the organizers, and he must not leave any hidden dangers.

 After he returned to work, he calmed down and was ready to see the doomsday scene again, and then he accepted Xiaona's invitation again and was transported to the void.

—But then, he found that the picture had changed.

  It is no longer the scene of "six billion people disappearing and Zhai Xing becoming doomsday". It turned into a scene where "Zhai Xing ascended to dimension, everyone turned into high-dimensional creatures, began to fight with each other, fight, and finally the whole army was annihilated."

 He immediately realized something.

 He noticed that Xiaona was floating not far away in the void, observing him intently.

 Seeing this, he turned back again.

 The third time he returned, he came here as promised, and what he saw was another scene.

Logically speaking, there is only one [truth of the world]. The truth is the truth. How can there be so many truths, some of which are completely opposite?

Every time he went back, he saw a different [truth of the world].

 …unless, these are not truths, just illusions.

 Otherwise, he would not see different “truths” in different weeks.

 He figured it out quickly.

—Xiao Na is playing a game of [Schrödinger’s cat].

 That is, a cat is sealed in a poisonous chamber. If the atomic nucleus decays and releases the cyanide gas in the poison bottle, the cat will die.

 The decay of the atomic nucleus is a random event—so the cat will always be in a superposition state of alive and inactive. Only when the lid is lifted can one accurately know whether the cat is dead or alive.

  Lifting the lid is a state of [decision], not simply an [observation] state—whether people lift the lid to take a look will determine the cat's life or death and change the cat's state.

 So, before he stepped into the void and observed the so-called "truth of the world", this "truth of the world" was uncertain. It will automatically generate an ending based on the subtle differences between his different steps, such as the difference in stride length, walking speed, and even the number of breathing and other variables. Like a mapping function.

 Hence, the pictures he sees in each program are different.

It has nothing to do with truth or falsehood, nor is it the truth, it is just an automatically generated picture.

Cortana, by observing whether he is surprised by this change, can judge whether he has super-standard abilities such as [Prophecy], [Deduction] or [Rewind].

 …This made him panic.

 She was testing him in this way.

 She is crossing time lines and world lines to test him with possible subtle differences in his attitude.

  Xiaona’s way of testing is almost exactly the same as Noel’s.

Although Xiaona's intention is just Su Mingan's guess, there is even a slight possibility that this guess is true...

  “—Su Ming’an, Su Ming’an?”

 Noel's hand waved in front of his eyes, and he raised his head.

The so-called "truth of the world" he saw this week was a scene where "the players at the top of the list all collapsed, and the human progress bar could not reach the standard." Therefore, the panic, fear and other emotions he is showing now...should not be any problem.

 It just fits his true state of mind at this time.

  It should not reveal that "he has a rewind, so he sees a different [truth of the world]".

 Last week, what he saw was the [truth of the world] in which "human beings finally reached the point score, and the organizers were extremely friendly to humans, and even the boss rabbit came to save humans." This positive "truth" certainly does not match his true panic mood, and could easily expose his supernormal abilities.

 But it should be fine now.

 He filed back six times, pretending to be normal.

 He lowered his head slightly and actually started to feel sick.

He bent over involuntarily, put his hands on the edge of the bed and retched a few times, and suddenly realized that this was an adverse reaction to the mental stabilizing drug. He took too much medicine in a short period of time and his body has not yet adapted.

 “Cough, cough cough…vomit…”

 A severe dizziness began to hit his mind. He lowered his head, leaned forward, and pressed his chest and abdomen, trying his best to relieve the nausea.

While retching, an idea came to his mind - his current mood was quite good, very consistent with the state of seeing the negative [Truth of the World] just now, and he should not be exposed.

Even though his mind was in a mess and his body was extremely unwell, he could still deliberately pretend to be like this based on Xiaona's possible setup...

 Is this an instinct?

 …quite a ridiculous instinct.

 Noel immediately helped pat him on the back.

"Su Mingan, is your mental state the same as mine?" Noel said: "Your situation is obviously more serious than mine, and you said there was no problem before..."

 “Stop shooting,” Su Mingan said.

Those who want to vomit cannot be patted on the back at all. Noel is still patting him wildly, but now he is being patted hard and makes him want to vomit.

Noel immediately stopped his hand, looking a little embarrassed:

 “What did you experience in the afternoon? Were you also invited to a place by the organizer?”

Noel knows that there are many players with special status who have been invited by the organizer. He himself had just been there a few days ago.

 But before leaving that place, they signed an agreement not to reveal what they saw, and if they tried to reveal it, their voices would be automatically silenced.

Su Mingan took a breath.

 “Yes,” he said.

 He suspected that the place where he and Noel and others went were not the same place.

 But he can guess that this should be an act of differentiation against human beings by the organizers. For example, tempting Edward to become a person with a special status. For example, persuade Noel to embrace Gao Wei. Or, use the resurrected sister as a temptation to persuade Mizushima Kawakora to give up perfect clearance, etc.

 It’s getting harder and harder.

…too difficult.

Su Mingan has long known that he cannot place his hopes on others. And now, this feeling is becoming more and more obvious.

 —He can’t even guarantee that even one person has the same mind as him and has the determination and ability to absolutely go on.

At this moment, a severe feeling of sleepiness suddenly hit his heart.

Human beings need sleep because they need to get peace of mind in this state.

 The mental stabilizing drug he just used seems to be giving him a chance to rest.

His eyes narrowed and his body fell to the side uncontrollably.

 Noel immediately pulled him and let him fall on the bed.

"...let me." Su Mingan said, "Get some sleep."

 His condition has obviously always been normal.

 His mood has obviously always been stable.

He is not at all like Noel, who is so exaggerated that no color can be seen, nor is he like Edward, who has extremely strong crazy and collapsed emotions.

 But after using the potion, he suddenly realized...

 Some patients are not aware that they are sick.

 …just like a madman who always thinks he is normal.

Noel said softly: "Su Mingan, I don't know where you just went or what you saw. But I think there is no need to be afraid of anything. Since we have worked hard to the extreme, let's be more optimistic..."

 Listening to Noel's very soft words, Su Mingan closed his eyes.

 “…Good night,” Noel said.

 …

Su Mingan occasionally has lucid dreams.

The feeling of being in control of your own dreams and being able to learn to think in your dreams is very fascinating.

 Sometimes, he would meet his father, and he would chat with the father he imagined in his dreams, as if this could dispel all the suffering.

 Sometimes, he also thinks of his grandma. Grandma would give him sweets and protect him from being beaten or scolded.

While falling into a dream, his consciousness gradually became blurred.

 …Is he still conscious? Or have you fallen asleep?

 He couldn't see anything clearly, and everything was a mixture of black, white and gray.

He couldn't hear any sound, as if the world had become nothingness.

 He had a nightmare.

 He dreamed that Zhai Xing was destroyed, everyone had died long ago, and the world game was just a dream of his.

He dreamed that he was not actually him, but just a clone sent down by a higher-dimensional creature. All his memories, wills, and ideals were meaningless and were just fabricated thinking products.

He dreamed that his death date was actually given by the organizers. They were like playing with an ant, watching him struggle in the death of reincarnation, adding a bit of fun to the game.

He dreamed... Even if he struggled to the end and fought to the end, he could not save Zhai Xing. The human progress bar was not up to standard, and everyone would die together. People with special identities cannot return to their human identities and disappear into the dust of the universe as the game disappears.

 Finally, he finally dreamed of a fairly happy ending.

He saw himself filling up the progress bar bit by bit, collecting the seals for perfect clearance one by one, seeing the return of his hometown, rebuilding his home, and seeing smiles appear on people's faces again.

 …Then he left without looking back and disappeared from people’s sight forever, his body shattering bit by bit and disappearing like ice and snow melting.

This pain of death was so familiar that it actually gave him a feeling similar to "nostalgia".

So much so that when he opened his eyes, the scene of his complete death still appeared in front of him.

The alarm clock placed on the table before Noel left was ringing, and the current time was eleven o'clock in the evening.

Su Mingan turned off the alarm clock with a click, blinked, and suddenly found that his eyes suddenly became a lot brighter.

 Bright indoor light, orange wood carvings of despicable people, bright white walls...

The gray fog that had been covering my eyes had dissipated with this sleep. Even his mood at this time was very stable, and he did not feel like he could not control his shaking in the afternoon.

 The effect of the medicine is very good. As long as the adverse reactions are overcome, the treatment effect will really be achieved.

  He calmed his breathing, quickly expelled those nightmare scenes from his mind, opened his personal panel, and started to use points.

 Since the end of the eighth world, he has not used points, just to add points at the last moment to make the best decision.

It is now eleven o'clock in the evening. He has slept all afternoon and will enter the ninth world in one hour.

 Since he bought 60 points of psychotropic potion in the afternoon, his current points are 796 points.

 Open the email and receive the one-time equipment upgrade right given by the special easter egg.

 He thought for a moment, thinking about his poor mobility in the shadow state, and chose the Water Realm Boots, upgrading this red-level equipment to purple-level.

 …

　　【Water Realm Boots (Purple Level): "Let the sea water rush into my chest...it is so hot in my arms."

Bounce ability: SS (highest)

  Running speed +30%

Special skill (stabbing): active skill, kicking forward, causing 50 (fixed damage) + 8*strength value points of damage. This attack has special destructive effects on obstacles and special destructive effects on barrier-like space objects. .

 Special skills (Long Song Xing): Passive skills. You gain the ability to "walk on water", which will slightly speed up your stamina consumption when used. 】

 …

 After upgrading, the Water Realm Boots have the destructive effect on space objects. The most satisfying thing is the jumping ability that has been upgraded to SS, which is the highest level of jumping ability in the world game.

He crushed the three skill promotion stones obtained in the main mission of the Eighth World and chose to upgrade them all to "space".

 After upgrading to [Space lv.6], new space skills indeed appeared.

 …

  【Space lv.6：

 Long distance spatial displacement: Each time it is used, 30 mana points are consumed. After five spatial displacements are used up, you need to wait half an hour to recharge.

 Space vibration: Use space vibration to attack enemies from a distance (the power has been improved)

Space Concealment: Continuously consume mana to build a concealed space. This space cannot be discovered by beings weaker than you (except for super-standard skills). 】

 …

 The improvement of space skills mainly focuses on [Space Displacement]. The mana consumption is reduced from 120 points to 30 points, and the number of uses is increased from three times in an hour to five times in half an hour. Even in the bright state, you can have great mobility.

 The second is the new skill·Space Concealment. Su Mingan has heard of this skill, which is similar to the field.

 …Now, he finally has domain skills.

 A domain can exist in a certain area for a long time, and can even draw others in to hide together. This will provide him with a lot of fault tolerance during his dangerous strategy. Coupled with his spatial understanding and lamb enchantment, he may be able to figure out some new ways to play.

 He spent 50 points to replenish the magazines of two purple-level guns, and all the remaining points were used to add points in the fourth dimension.

 In the bright state, 60 points of strength are added, and the strength is stacked to 140 points. A passive [Strength Suppression] appears, which can suppress all attacks under 100 points of strength. Swinging the sword will have priority in judgment.

In the shadow state, I piled up 60 points of spirit, reaching 217 points. After all, the san value copy was too scary, and high spirit meant high resistance.

Moreover, each mental attribute point will bring a maximum mana of 20 points. The mana represents the total amount of damage that can be dealt. Of course, the higher the better.

 He wanted to add more points, but he had already reached the upper limit. Level 4 players can only add so many attribute points, and they have to wait until level 5 to add more.

  He will not use the remaining 146 points, leaving a certain amount of buffer points.

 After doing all this, his combat power soared from 2650 to 3000, which was a big improvement. This wave of the eighth world is almost equal to the sum of his gains from the two previous worlds.

Therefore, the gap between the players at the top of the list and the average players will really only get wider and wider, just like the difference between clouds and mud.

  In the following time, he briefly chatted with a few friends.

The world chat at this time was very lively. They were all "The Ninth World is finally here!" "Ye Qing is back!" "Come on, adventure players!" "Will anyone really end up in this situation?" "Predict a wave. In the world of Xianxia, ​​it’s wrong to stand on your head and eat Lu Shu!” and other words.

 He sat on the bed, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and adjusted himself.

 Each world copy, he walked on the tightrope, dancing with danger and death.

 …I hope this copy goes a little smoother.

 While he was waiting, time came to zero little by little.

 …

  【2024/01/18，0:00】

 “Ding dong!”

　　【The break is over—Dear players, welcome back to the world game! 】

  【The Ninth World: City of Measurement·Akto. Global open dungeon for tens of thousands of people/specific development dungeon. 】

  【Participating players: 329801928 people! 】

　　【City of Measurement will be copied into 32,980 identical copies, and each copy will be played by about 10,000 players! 】

  【Since the player enters the game for the ninth time and no longer learns the common language for communication, 10 points will be automatically deducted for learning the common language of the ninth world! 】

　　——The world begins! 】

 …

 His eyes were shrouded in white light.

“—[Ling Ming] Zhi Nao divides human beings into eight major personalities based on their temperament and psychological state. Human talents are scientifically quantified and classified, thereby establishing a new order..."

 He heard a gentle male voice.

 But the sound... seemed to come from his own mouth.

 When he realized this, the voice stopped.

 He blinked and saw a large classroom...and a dark head.

People sat in the classroom like obedient students, all raising their eyes and looking at him seriously and admiringly. Looking at the number of students, there are at least one hundred and fifty.

 He lowered his head and found that he was sitting on a chair on the podium, seemingly giving a lecture.

…what's the situation?

 What kind of possession is this?

 He blinked, and the classroom was silent for a long time in an eerie silence.

He suddenly saw a young assistant teaching next to him, walking up with a worried expression, and nervously supported him:

 “…Are you okay? Is your body okay?”

 Seeing that Su Mingan was still in a daze, the assistant coach gently shook his shoulders with great restraint:

“…Dr. Akto?”

 (End of this chapter)