Chapter 730 Chapter 728 · “Neither love nor hate belongs to him.”

Su Mingan walked on the street and observed the changes in Doomsday City in recent years.

 He glanced at the barrage:

　　【By the way, does anyone know about Edward's movements? Why hasn't he shown up since his return? 】

  【I have been reading the joint group forum posts, and no one has revealed his location...】

　　【Recently, a person with red eyes has appeared in the world of the Lord God. Some people said that it was in the ninth cosplay world and he was wearing red contact lenses. Why do I feel something is wrong...】

　　【…】

 He looked away. Today's world of Lord God is also full of crises, whether it is Noel's authority or Edward's situation... After his return, there was another storm.

The world game is becoming more and more wrong. It has lost the stability it had in the early days. It seems that there are many hidden things and it is gradually getting out of control.

Most of the residents on the street had scarlet eyes. Some kept muttering the name "Asa Akto" and holding red-shell books in their hands, like devout believers of the city lord. Some people looked coldly at the direction of the inner city, thinking that a devil lived there.

 Public attitudes are divided into two extremes. One still worships Akto as a god. One of them regarded Akto as a lackey of [Tavi].

 “Traitor!” “Stooge!” “Liar!”

 From time to time, some such sounds would reach Su Mingan's ears.

 There were some demonstrators on the street, holding slogans like "Reject other resources, humans would rather die!" ] sign, walking from one end of the street to the other.

 An old man howled wildly before being taken into a dungeon. He stretched his hand high towards the golden edge of the building, as if he could reach the city lord in this way.

“—City Lord! You during the War of Dawn—please, come back!”

 “Please...come back...”

Su Mingan walked silently among them.

 The people's thoughts are complicated and contradictory, as if a sharp knife has cut open their camp. Some people wanted to curse the city lord with all the dirty words. Some people still expressed gratitude and regarded the city lord as a god.

Suddenly, a delirious man in the corner grabbed Su Mingan’s arm and kept mumbling like a madman:

"Please protect this world...You are our God..."

Su Mingan frowned, thinking that the man had discovered his identity.

Five seconds later, however, he realized that the man was just out of his mind. He grabbed a passerby and imagined that the passerby was the gentle and rational Asa Acto from before.

 The man did not realize that he was arresting the real owner.

"Please...continue to protect us..." the man murmured inarticulately: "Please, please give us ordinary people mercy..."

  “…” Su Mingan said: “… Got it.”

 The man didn't realize who he was catching, he just stared blankly at the sky in the distance and hummed a somewhat familiar tune.

Su Mingan listened carefully and found that it was the piano music he had played at the dinner party.

 …It’s obviously been so long.

 …People still remember.

Su Mingan removed the man's hand. The Ginkgo Teahouse was still open, and he walked into the teahouse quietly. The teahouse was still lively, with many people sitting and drinking tea with tired expressions.

“…The purges are going to start again these days?” People whispered:

“Last time, more than a hundred people were arrested, how many will they be this time…”

“An army named ‘New Beacon’ appeared outside the city and wants to overthrow Doomsday City. I want to inquire about it.”

“It seems that this Akto is indeed a monster that has been resurrected from the dead. He is so eager to be a dog for [Tavi]..."

"[Tavi]'s lackeys, monsters, demons, demons who have mastered the power of gods... Is he really a bionic body? Is it because his immortal life requires human vitality to maintain..."

All the most unpleasant words were used against Asa Acto. Su Mingan frowned and listened, and suddenly heard a "bang!"

 A wooden table was shot to pieces. A black-haired girl wearing a demon fox mask stood up, her eyes red.

“—Enough!” she shouted, and the teahouse fell silent for a moment.

　　People looked at her suddenly angry with puzzled expressions.

The black-haired girl had red eyes and roared:

“—He’s not a monster! He’s not a lackey! He’s not a devil!”

“—He is not an immortal monster, he can also feel pain and get injured! He will not absorb other people’s life force, nor will he kill anyone to sacrifice!”

“—He used to be very gentle. He could sing and play the piano. He would work all night until he was tired and lie on the table. He would try his best to save every companion..."

 “He’s just...he’s just...”

Her voice trembled and her shoulders shrugged slightly:

 “He’s just too tired…”

Su Mingan’s eyes moved slightly.

As people listened to her defense, a man sneered: "What are you talking about? Are you defending him? Defending the executive officer of Hewei who is becoming more and more ridiculous?"

"-In order to keep humans alive, the city lord became [Taiwan Executive]. Is there anything wrong?" The black-haired girl gritted her teeth: "Maybe, maybe his methods in the past six years were too harsh, brainwashing and purging. Actions are indeed meaningless. But why do you insist on asking him to be perfect? ​​No one can make mistakes. He dragged us from Cataclysm 32 to Cataclysm 71, and he is just a little lost now..."

She was extremely eager to clear Asa Akto's name in the face of everyone's cold eyes and spit, like an ant trying to resist the waves.

"I believe..." she trembled, "he will definitely wake up..."

However, no matter how she argued. Akto's behavior in the past six years is really ridiculous.

In the eyes of many people - as long as he commits a little crime, it is enough to erase all the honors he has done before. Because he is no longer perfect.

　　Countless spittle almost drowned the black-haired girl. She kept retreating, her pupils trembling violently.

 The next moment, a figure stood in front of her.

Su Mingan protected the black-haired girl.

“䱱…” The black-haired girl looked at Su Ming’an who suddenly appeared.

"Xi, I'm back." Su Mingan turned his head and smiled at her. His black pupils looked like condensed amber in the light of the teahouse.

 He didn’t expect that when he came back this time, the first person he met would be his old acquaintance Xi. Now that it's the Festival of Fortune, she's probably going to give him another new Luo Zi...

“…Who is it?” Xi finished the rest of her words.

Su Mingan’s pupils narrowed.

 He forgot that he is just Su Ming'an now.

People looked at the sudden appearance of Su Mingan and were stunned for a moment. Soon someone noticed something was wrong.

“Wait a minute, he doesn’t have identification on his chest!” Someone pointed at Su Mingan.

　　Now that Doomsday City is under martial law, everyone who enters the city must wear an ID card, but the Su Mingan in front of him does not have one—he can only be an intruder in Doomsday City.

 “It’s an intruder!”

 “There is an intruder! Go and report to the Eagle and Dog Guards!”

The people's faces turned pale, they immediately stopped arguing and ran out. For a moment, the teahouse "crackled" and the tables and chairs tilted, and it was empty in an instant. Invaders often possess powerful forces, and they do not want to be used as cannon fodder.

Such a scene is exactly the same as people’s attitude towards avoiding the light in the teahouse.

 —No one knows him anymore.

Su Mingan looked up and saw a group of soldiers with bright red eyes approaching. They stood ready and pointed their weapons at him, something that had never happened before.

"Arrest that man!" the team leader, a tall blond woman, shouted coldly. She raised her gun and pointed it at Su Ming'an.

Su Mingan recognized it at a glance—the blond captain was Anjie. She was one of the earliest members of Fenghuo and had always admired him. She once patted his shoulder with a smile and said she would always protect him.

However, Anjie's eyes at this time were extremely cold. She was only arresting a "stowaway" who broke into Doomsday City, not welcoming the city lord she admired.

Xiaobi, Tredia...these people who could recognize his inner essence as "Su Ming'an" rather than "Actor" have all died in front of him. They even used their lives to kill "Asa Akto" He was hailed as the hero who killed him.

 Neither the hate nor the love in the ruined world belongs to him. He obviously participated in everything and gave too much, but in the end he was just a non-existent ghost in the eyes of others.

Anjie raised her gun at Su Ming'an and said to Xi: "Xi, stay away from him and come here quickly! I'll hold the gun for you!"

"Okay." Xi nodded, looked at Su Ming'an defensively, and stepped back cautiously step by step. For some reason... she actually noticed a familiar feeling in Su Ming'an.

 It's like... they have met before, and they have given each other very important emotions, and even promised each other something.

 But why doesn’t she recognize him?

 Why does his face... feel so strange to her?

 Dozens of guns were pointed at Su Mingan, but his eyes did not change.

 Suddenly, there was a violent explosion outside the teahouse.

 “Boom—!”

Immediately afterwards, the air flow rushed from the distant street, swept the entire street like a tsunami, and poured into the teahouse. "Crash, crash, crash -" The glass was shattered by the shock wave, shooting like waves. The crowd of onlookers, the moving vehicles, the cold red-eyed soldiers... were all sent flying by this impact, like popcorn that had been knocked over.

 The guns were smashed to the ground, and the wind and waves scattered the ranks of soldiers.

“I caused the airflow, run with me!” Suddenly, someone grabbed Su Mingan’s hand.

Su Mingan was very wary of people approaching him. He raised his hand to resist, but he heard a very familiar call.

"-grandfather!"

At this moment, Su Mingan felt relaxed, and he let the man who called him "grandpa" pull him away.

That man's blond hair was fluttering under the sky, which reminded Su Mingan of Noel's hair color. Their temperaments were equally out-of-the-box, as lively as an elf. Sometimes, looking at the backs of Noah and Noel, Su Mingan would even confuse them.

　　Noah took his hand and went into the narrow and hidden alley, throwing away the people.

Su Ming'an had some guesses as to why Noah could recognize him at a glance.

 Not because Noah liked him much, just because—

 …

  【Skills of those in power】.

 …

At the beginning of the dungeon, Su Mingan used the [Power Holder] skill to forcibly increase Noah's favorability.

This kind of good feeling came for no reason. Noah just looked at him and suddenly became a life-and-death friend. As a result, Noah had no emotional basis for the character Asa Akto.

According to the system's judgment, Noah only targets "player Su Mingan" and has a compulsive, nonsensical, pathetic, and unreasonable favorable impression.

 He was robbed of his will and emotions, deprived of caution and reason, and was hopelessly "in love" with the player in front of him. So when the player Su Mingan came to him, Noah's favorability system was triggered, the "love" in his heart was activated, and he threw himself in front of Su Mingan like a program.

The only reason why Su Mingan was recognized was simply because the system forcibly grabbed his favorability.

　　　…”

Su Mingan let Noah pull him, and suddenly realized that the street behind him was very quiet.

“Wait a minute.” Su Mingan stopped and quietly looked toward the street through the narrow gap between the walls—

In the quiet street, people stood there as if frozen, their gazes fixed in the same direction. They were either silent, admiring, worshiping, or hating - looking at a figure slowly walking from the end.

　　　…”

 The moment he saw the man, Su Mingan's breath froze.

It seemed as if some strange emotion arose from his heart and gripped his heart suddenly.

 “Gulu—Gulu—”

 On the deathly silent streets, only the sound of wheelchair ruts was left.

 Under the high wind, the visitor's black hair seemed to be caressed by the wind, and his pupils were coated with a bottomless layer of dark gray. His eyes were too cold, but his appearance was as perfect as a carefully shaped porcelain, making people afraid to say a word loudly in front of him. Anyone who falls into those dark gray eyes that seem to have nothing in them seems to have been deprived of the right to speak.

He was wearing a black robe with golden lines on the edges, and wore a golden medal of "Tavi Executor" on his chest.

As he approached, people lowered their heads and said nothing, not daring to look at him.

The mechanical army surrounded this [Tavi Executive Officer], and he seemed to be integrated into the ice-white mechanical army, with a light, distant smile on his face, like an extinct volcano.

 This posture is very similar to Lin Guang, the messenger of gods, whom Su Mingan met in District 11 in the 32nd year of the disaster. Back then, Lin Guang was also surrounded by the ice-white mechanical army, with a cold face and no words.

 The city of doomsday has become the city of God. The city lord of the free camp became the executive officer of the gods.

 —This is the first time Su Mingan has observed his possessed character up close.

Akto lived like Lin Guang.

 (End of this chapter)