First Player

Chapter 702: six hundred and ninety nine

   Chapter 702 Chapter 699 · "Can I dream?"

   After knowing the location of the Dawn password, Su Mingan fell asleep.

   When he woke up and went to the surface, he saw creamy white lilies and gypsophila swaying in the valley. The light shone down through the slender wings of the butterfly, with a faint rainbow hue.

  The white-haired boy stood in the flowers, his back was a little lonely.

   "Are you awake? It's ten minutes until six in the morning," said North Lissle.

   A squeak sounded, and those home appliance robots appeared again, looking at them.

   "You're awake! You're awake!" The refrigerator made a sound.

   "I'll just say he's not Aktor," the computer said.

  Su Ming'an originally thought that these chattering robots were North Lisser's secret weapon, but now, these robots are more like North Liesel's companions, playing and chatting with him...

  Like a fairy tale, there is only a boy with flowers and a large group of robot friends in the valley.

   If someone with bad intentions broke in, this group of incompetent guys would be hard to escape.

   "Sleep well, I'm going." Su Mingan said.

   "You can't stop the nuclear explosion, it's almost six in the morning..." North Lisser stroked the screen of a TV robot, as if touching its head.

   "It's too late." Su Ming'an said, "Goodbye."

  North Liesel was startled.

   He saw blood flowing from Su Ming'an's temple and fell down.

  The sense of intimacy is a very magical thing. Even though they only got along for a few hours, he already regarded Su Mingan as a friend. Once again he saw a friend die before his eyes.

   "Where are you going...to?" he whispered, feeling out of reach.

  …

  Su Ming'an started his journey to find the Dawn password.

   Throwing Yamada-cho in the city of gods again, Su Mingan and Nuoer confronted the secret code.

   "I heard that you are also a member of the Lighthouse Support Club?" Su Mingan bent his **** and chatted with Noel about the lighthouse theory.

  ["l (the **** of the right hand is bent + "i" (talking about the lighthouse theory) - "Last week, I went to the valley to get the clues of the dawn system."]

  Noel quietly listened to Su Mingan's chat. After a while, he nodded and said, "In that case, next time I will show you the summary of the Lighthouse Forum I wrote."

  【"m (nod + "i" (talk about the lighthouse theory) - "Do you need the Dawn password?"]

  Su Ming'an sighed slightly: "I think the summary of those lighthouse theories is too biased..."

  【"d" (sigh) + "i" (talk about the lighthouse theory) - "the first."]

  Su Ming'an rubbed his eyes and said, "There are still some new posts. After the end of the ninth world, I want to write some new ones. You can help me look at them when the time comes."

  【"x" (rubbing eyes) + "i" (talking about lighthouse theory) - "West."]

  …

   They tacitly faced the information until the position of the first password was clear.

   There are still loopholes in this communication method, such as the unclear correspondence between words and sentence meanings. If you talk about topics other than the Dawn password, there may be mistakes in information exchange. But Noel gradually perfected the code language and evolved a set of independent language system. It's just the first time the code is being used, just make sure both parties know it well.

  In the eyes of others, they are just talking about the lighthouse theory, which is no different from everyday life. Even the audience did not respond, and they were still talking about topics related to New Year's Eve.

  …

   "Ding dong!"

  【You get the 2D Dawn System·Dynamic Password·First Place·Kermo. 】

  …

   At 4:30 in the morning, during the search on the edge of the world, Su Mingan heard the system prompt.

   It is not easy to find the password. There are five Dawn passwords scattered all over the world. Only he can trigger this password, and it is impossible to find all of them within ten hours.

   In order to get together the five-digit password, Su Mingan could only find one password every week. The Dawn password is dynamic. Every time he finds the previous password, he needs to go back to the valley of North Lissel. According to the feedback from the Dawn system, the best trigger time for the next password is deduced, and he will search for it in the next week. , to ensure that the five-digit password is a consistent dynamic sequence.

   Yueyue died at twelve o'clock in the morning, so he had to find a set of passwords that could open the dawn system before twelve o'clock in the morning.

   At 5:20 in the morning, he and Noel came to the valley of North Lisel.

The    Dawn system is a bright red crystal like a heart, linked by countless scarlet hoses. Su Mingan entered the first password into the Dawn system and calculated the best time to discover the next password.

"What the **** are you doing..." North Lisser was puzzled: "The set of passwords you are looking for has expired. This is the password at twelve o'clock in the morning today. It has expired for more than five hours now. You have already expired. Missed opening time."

  Su Ming'an did not answer North Lisser's question, he started the next week.

  …

   It was an exceptionally difficult journey.

   The first Dawn password is very easy to find, and the second one requires Su Mingan to arrive at the password location at an extremely precise time to trigger the second password in the same sequence as the first password. The third bit is the same, it needs to be in the same sequence as the first and second passwords.

   is like an accumulation of numbers, the more you go, the harder it is to find the password. If the trigger time is slightly wrong, you will get the wrong password, after all, he rotates between different weeks.

  Sometimes, he and Noel would be overtaken by the heavily armed ray of light coming. Sometimes a sudden natural disaster overwhelms them, the scalding heat eating away bones and flesh. Sometimes, they failed to find the password before six in the morning. He watched Noel turn into a charred corpse with his own eyes. If it was closer to the nuclear explosion, the boy would not even have ashes left.

   And every time the two faced death, Nuoer held his hand tightly, even if the skin was scalded, the blue sea-like pupils shattered like scorched paper, and Nuoer didn't let go of his palm.

  Noel always accompanies him on his journey against the current, waiting for him at the end and starting point of the retrospective - like a watchman waiting on both sides of the river of time.

  Su Mingan opened his eyes after looking back, and Nuoer was walking with him. In the last second before his death, he still saw Noel.

  Due to the overlapping of different weeks, the superimposed psychological hints are too confusing, they occasionally make mistakes in communication, and some weeks will be wasted.

  However, what Su Mingan is best at is being able to face death repeatedly and quickly restart when something goes wrong. Even a player in front of a computer screen would get bored with repeated gameplay sessions, but he wouldn't.

   The second code was found in an unremarkable town.

   After finding the code at four in the morning, they rested together in the town for two hours. The two of them made nets, hung red cloth, and ate snacks like rice cakes and sugar.

   "Happy New Year." Noel held up the crystal clear candy like candied haws.

   "Happy New Year." Su Ming'an said, with a knot woven by Nuoer on his wrist.

   They raised their heads and watched the fireworks bloom and disappear in the distance. Nuoer squinted and saw the mushroom cloud rising in the distance.

   "It will definitely not be a parallel world... Right, Ming An." Noel said to himself, he stood in the sea of ​​people fleeing in a hurry, calmly facing the spreading fire, like a stable reef in the rushing sea.

   The next second, the brilliance of the nuclear explosion overwhelmed him.

  Su Mingan closed his eyes, and the warm touch on his left hand gradually disappeared.

  …

   The whispers of the gods intensified.

  Su Mingan can often hear the anxious voice of the gods in his ears: "Lu Shu! What are you doing? I have paved the way to victory for you, why do you come to such a place?"

   The sequelae of the nearly 300 pills of mental stabilizer are gradually backlashing.

   He can perceive that his mental state is very good, but this is just a stimulant, just like a person who only slept for two hours in the early morning, although he is awake, there are huge hidden dangers in his body.

   Sometimes, he sees questions from the audience.

  【What is the first player doing...】

  【Does he care about the city of God? What to do with the war on the front line...]

  【Is a nuclear explosion about to happen? What the **** is he doing, Su Rin was sold by him...]

  Su Ming'an will not consider the situation of the parallel world. It was too desperate for him, too cruel.

   In the twenty-seventh week, he did not take the mental stabilizer. This drug was addictive. He vaguely felt that if he continued to take it like this, he would be the first to be destroyed.

   "Ding dong!"

  【You get the dynamic password·third place·mo. 】

   The third password is located in the blood pool, which was found next to Yueyue's body.

   When Su Mingan and Nuoer found this place, Yueyue was already dead. She was deeply immersed in the hot red earth, her back was charred and her fingers were rolled, like a scorched butterfly.

   She still had her eyes open before she died, her eyes were empty, reflecting this hellish scene.

  “…”

  Su Mingan squatted down and closed her eyelids for her, with no joy or sadness on her face.

  He will save her.

   Every time he died, he was laying a stepping stone for a perfect ending.

   As he was in the basement of the central city of the surveying city, he saw the ashes of Aktor's Senbai. Now his own bones are piled up in mountains, accumulated in a timeline that no one can see.

   Every time he died, he met Noel with new information bit by bit. Whether it is the password mechanism, the trigger time required for the password, or the location of the password... every second he spends, he is afraid that he will miss something.

  【To be absolutely perfect... You can't repeat the original episode, you have to reduce the number of reversals, and you have to reduce your mistakes... 】

   He thought about it every time.

   Until he stretched out his hand, Yueyue closed her eyes for the sake of her death, and turned around—

   He saw the family portrait on the wall, the red plaid dining table with the aroma of the food, and the TV playing the Spring Festival Gala sketches. This is a home with a familiar decor.

   He realized in an instant that it was unusual. He was in a pool of blood, and it was impossible to see these sights.

  —Get out of here!

   At this moment, reason and sensibility are fighting frantically in his mind, and a voice is saying that he has found a password this week and can rest. Another voice told him to leave quickly, not to indulge in the illusion of weakness.

  Suddenly, he heard the sound of the keys rattling.

   "Click." The door opened.

   He looked to the right, there should be a gate at that location—

   A middle-aged man with a square forehead, wide face, and thick black eyebrows walked in and hung his blue police uniform on the hanger by the door. He is tall, with a little silver in his black hair, the wrinkles on his face are like cracks in the fields, and his dark eyes are very similar to Su Ming'an.

   "Ming An?" The man looked at him: "Sit down for the New Year's Eve dinner."

  Su Ming settled down.

   He didn't take medicine this week, he knew what was happening in front of him.

   “…Can I dream?” he said.

   Actually, the person he wants to celebrate the New Year with most is not Yueyue, nor Nuoer, but...

   "Dreaming?" The man shook his head: "You are ten years old this year, what are you dreaming about?"

   "Where's grandma?" Su Mingan said.

   "Grandma is sleeping in the room," said the man.

  Su Mingan stood where he was, unable to look away. He looked wistfully at the deceased relative...

  Suddenly, he heard another footstep, and a woman in an apron came over from the kitchen with a dish and stuffed a red envelope in Su Ming'an's hand.

   "Ming An, why can't you even thank your mother?" the woman said with a smile.

  “…”

  Su Mingan was silent.

   "Call Mommy," said the woman.

  “…”

  Su Mingan turned around and walked towards the room without looking back.

  …

   Have a great New Year's Eve.

  Women only think that the child is throwing a tantrum and don't care much. A family of three watched the Spring Festival Gala around the TV. The screen of the TV in 2012 was a little blurry, but my grandmother smiled happily.

   "The Spring Festival Gala sketches are getting more and more boring..."

   "I heard that fireworks and firecrackers will be banned for a few years. I don't know where the news came from..."

   They were banging melon seeds and eating puff pastry. Grandma put a gold chain in his hand and said that she would buy him a house in the future.

  Su Mingan sat stiffly in his room, as if living in another world. Until the father touched his head and said to him:

   "Good work, good night."

   At this moment, Su Mingan suddenly felt tired.

   He blinked, his thoughts plunged into chaos. He suddenly felt that it would be better to take a rest, this week's mission has been achieved...

   A woman's humming sound came from his ear, light and fluttering, like a lullaby to soothe his soul.

   "Little baby, go to sleep,

   "I will accompany you in your dreams,

   "Laughing with you and tiring with you,

   "With me relying on each other...

   "Little baby, go to sleep,

   "How many times will you dream of me..."

   The next day, he woke up in the morning, his thoughts were hazy, and he subconsciously walked to the bathroom with a stiff pace.

   When washing his face, he couldn't find a towel, and subconsciously shouted with sullen eyes:

   "Dad, where's the towel?"

   No one returned.

   He walked to the living room. There was nothing on the dining table except a bag of quick bread and some mustard greens. Instead of a family portrait in color, there was a black and white photo on the wall.

   There is no police uniform on the hanger.

   He turned his face.

  —yes, my father died long ago.

  On New Year's Eve when he was ten years old, he ate bread and mustard by himself, and spent the night wrapped in a quilt.

   He stood in the empty home, as if he had fallen from one dream to another. He crouched down and hugged his knees.

   "Su Mingan-Su Mingan-!"

  Suddenly, a voice pierced through the sea, and the scene in front of him was shattered, replaced by a blond boy.

  Noel shook him awake.

  Su Mingan opened his eyes, and his consciousness gradually returned to the cage. He saw a hot pool of blood in front of him.

   "Are you okay? Did you see a hallucination? I saw your expression was very relaxed, so I woke you up when it was almost six in the morning..." Noel looked anxious.

  Su Mingan was silent for a while:

  “…”

   "I still need to take medicine..."

   (end of this chapter)