[The tenth day of the opening of the copy, 8:00 in the morning]

at dawn.

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

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

That fiery red was exceptionally dazzling in the white snow, like a flame in the ice and snow.

Hearing the door opening, she turned her head, and a pair of dark eyes fixed on Su Ming'an for a moment.

Only then did Su Mingan realize that there was a narcissist sitting at the door.

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

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

"Is it obvious?"

"Under your eyes." Naruto 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 purpose 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 the Kraken attack, he will be able to pass the level perfectly when he climbs to Yunshangcheng, because the story ends there, and his perfect clearance progress is already 95%. As for Praia on the ground, it's just his It's just a springboard for Shangcheng. As long as it is not destroyed before the end of the dungeon, it will not affect his customs clearance process.

But things can't be seen that way.

Whether Praia is destroyed or not, he doesn't care, he will never sympathize with things other than his own world, including Shelud.

His mentality has not changed from beginning to end, and he has not spared any effort to pity those worlds that have been swept up by the organizers. He is just an ordinary student, just a human being, not an omnipotent god, nor a high-dimensional creature.

If you want to disseminate your sympathy and care about these unknown worlds, you will lose the opportunity to complete the customs clearance, and you will only lose more than your gains.

This will only follow the organizer's way. In the end, he may not even be able to save a world.

... Who would know whether what he is seeing now is the real world or an illusory trap set by the organizer.

From the beginning to the end, in his eyes, there was always only perfect clearance.

As for the others, he has no pity, no indignation, no sympathy.

Call it selfish or call it ruthless. However, even so, no matter how touching the plot will not affect him, and no matter how poor the NP will not let him give up his goal.

His path has only been straight from beginning to end, and the influence of the period will not let him waver.

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

He is not saintly enough to save every world he sees.

"You little girl! Say something!"

Suddenly there was a loud shouting sound.

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

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

"When the barrier of the island is broken, you should hide in the barrier of the King City. With so many houses and so many residents, where do you want us to take refuge? It's not easy, it's been a bit easier in recent years, less. Such a large land, how do you want us to live? You say such depressing words at a young age, but you don't believe those soul hunters who are guarding the city. How did your family teach you? You can't talk nonsense like this. !"

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

She grew up in an aristocratic family since she was a child, and she never met an aunt who spoke so straightly and with such a loud voice, like thunder in her ear.

"And you, young man." The aunt seemed to be out to sweep the snow, and the broom in her hand was about the same height as hers.

Her eyes, like knives, slashed directly 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 guessed that the aunt was not near the Southern District Wharf at all, so she had not seen Su Rin's appearance, and directly educated him as an ordinary boy.

"Hey! You're going to fall asleep. Do you know who this person is?" Naraku stood up immediately, her face flushed with anger.

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 did not intend to quarrel with this resident. Noon was the time when the "Cross-Sea Operation" began, which would be the most dangerous period.

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

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

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 that it was linked to the final level and "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 freezing the selection of the level and overwriting the archive as time shifts.

He intends to complete the fifth level on the tenth day, which is tonight, and finish the final level tomorrow night, and the day after tomorrow, he will go to Yunshang City.

That way, the timing is just right.

He turned around and found that Naraku was still behind him.

Her steps were not fast, but she was panting, as if she was very weak.

"Don't follow me, the action will be very dangerous." Su Ming'an said.

"I know, I won't follow you out of the enchantment, this lady is still a bit measured." Naruo curled his lips: "But waiting on the city wall and watching you return safely, it's alright, right?"

"...that wasn't a very good experience."

"what?"

"Looking at that scene, you'll have nightmares."

"Huh?" Nailuo's eyebrows stand upright: "Su Rin, although Miss Ben likes you, don'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'm not the Su Rin from before."

He didn't look back.

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

She looked puzzled, not fake.

Su Mingan understood.

Unlike Princess Tulip and Xie Lude, Naraku is an unawakened NP.

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 pathetic.

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

Whether it was 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 Garder, who fell in love at first sight, and naturally he would not stop for a narrator.

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

Before reaching the southern city wall, he heard the loud voices of players coming from there.

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

"Su Ming'an is dead? I saw his boat capsize with my own eyes!"

"Calm down, he still has a clone. This guy is very skilled 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 Kraken King, and ran away by himself, what should we do..."

"Everyone has to believe in him, the first player will never fail, we just need to wait for him to clear 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', a team of sharp knives will be formed to run through the sea-monster group outside to rebuild the broken barrier on the outside. "

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 traces 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.

The "Squad of Swords", 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 and strength of people it can recruit, and 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 sea monsters.

During the time when the Siren King was resting, they seemed to be more and more numerous, appearing in a mass-produced state, breeding like fish roe.

Soul Hunter has already calculated that even if all Soul Hunter Ministers join this sea-crossing 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 farm work, and only the harpoons that they usually use for fishing.

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

In case a siren targets them, if there is no one else to cover, what awaits them can only be death.

They are the obstacles to the Kraken, the bait for 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 to the residents the dangers of joining the squad.

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 casualties.

He explained the risks in detail and made it clear. After saying all this, he got off 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 of whether these people who had lived in peace for a long time under the protection of Soul Hunters would choose to participate in this extremely dangerous operation.

If the inhabitants are unwilling to participate, put all danger, all possible death, 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 humble registration point, and there were a few simple forms on the table.

There are three very simple subtitles on it: name, age, and family. 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 no one would come,

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

... He saw a group of people coming in ~lightnovelpub.net~ 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!"

The first, the fastest runner, the dark-skinned guy wearing a straw hat, showing his white teeth.

"Name?" Carocha asked.

"Yongzhi."

The boy smiled brightly.

...

Snowflakes fall.

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

The city shrouded by the white barrier is like a helpless island in the midst of a swarm of sharks, standing there in the almost frenzied attack of the Kraken.

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