First Player

"It's okay, this is the safest place." Su Mingan answered Alice.

——His only advantage may lie in the absolute safety of Daoya City.

His vision felt dim and he wanted to fall down on the sofa and sleep, but he still had a fourth game to play all night long. I don’t know when the next bedtime will be.

He reached out towards Li Mingyue and wanted to take the game disc, but Li Mingyue shook her head.

"There's still an hour before the server opens at twelve o'clock." Li Mingyue said, "You can sleep for an hour. I'll call you when the time comes."

Li Mingyue opened the door next to her, and there was a made bed inside. The quilt was scented with soothing herbs, and there were a few bouquets of flowers on the bedside table.

"Knowing that you might come back, I reserved a room. If you come back anytime in the future, this can be your place to rest," Li Mingyue said.

"..." Su Mingan looked at this cozy little room in surprise.

It was undeniable that he was really moved when he saw this scene. Just like a traveler who has been struggling outside for a long time and has hit a wall, after stumbling back home exhausted, he sees a bed made and dishes cooked. In a world full of dangers, this is the only safe place.

"Then I'll rest for an hour first." Su Mingan said to the air: "Changge, are you there? After I fall asleep, use my body to look at the Internet and help me continue to collect information. Just lie down and watch, your body is still need a rest."

Nowadays, big things are happening every minute and every second, and the world is extremely lively. The competition between the disciples, the roundup of the disruptors against the orderly ones, the trial by fire in the steam age... If you don't go online for an hour, it's like a completely different era.

"Yeah." Changge responded dully.

This old man has always been very quiet, because Su Mingan doesn't sleep every day to cultivate immortality, so Changge basically doesn't come out. Normally, Chang Ge seemed afraid of disturbing Su Ming'an, and would only say something occasionally, like an electronic pet.

"Where's Alice? You should go to sleep too." Su Mingan saw the dark circles under Alice's eyes. After she became a goddess, she probably had been studying for the sake of the people and didn't get much rest.

Alice looked around as if looking for a bed.

"You sleep here." Li Mingyue pointed to the folding chair next to her calmly.

Alice took a closer look and saw that there was a huge difference between a folding chair and a soft bed. Li Mingyue, on the other hand, lowered her head to read, not even planning to find a blanket for her.

This obvious difference in treatment made her dumbfounded. She thought Li Mingyue was a gentle person, but it turned out that he was alienated.

"Can I..." Alice pointed to Su Mingan's bed.

"No!" Su Mingan and Li Mingyue changed their faces at the same time.

Su Mingan felt that Changge would be awake, and Alice was already sixteen years old and not suitable for sharing a bed.

Li Mingyue took out a blanket and asked Alice to stop such dangerous thoughts.

When the door closed, Su Mingan covered herself with quilt and closed her eyes. He sank between the soft mattress and pillow, and his whole body finally relaxed. There is no more peaceful time than now, comparable to the sleep of the Lord God's world after every world ends.

——No need to worry about waking up and having gone back, no need to worry about who will peek at him, no need to worry about missing scary things while sleeping, and no need to worry about losing anyone.

This feels so good. Just like normal sleep for every ordinary person, it is a rare experience that he cannot get.

The scent of soothing herbs reaches my nose, and the flowers on the bedside table are also refreshing...

"..."

……Um?

Drowsiness came over me like a tide, and sleepiness gradually covered everything. At this moment - the alarm bell in my head suddenly sounded, like the instinct that came from many times of life and death.

...Daoya City is a small city in the midst of internal war and full of ruins.

...Why are there gorgeous flowers on the bedside here?

For a moment, Su Mingan lost all sleep, and fear seized his heart. He immediately wanted to open his eyes, but found that his eyelids were like heavy curtains, firmly attached to his pupils.

The smell of herbs on the tip of his nose seemed to entice his soul, causing his consciousness to fall involuntarily, forcing him to fall into a deep sleep.

……impossible.

...impossible, impossible, impossible.

His heart was beating fast, but he couldn't open his eyelids, as if he had been trapped in bed by a ghost. He focused his attention on his limbs with all his strength, trying to break away from this slumber, keeping his consciousness firmly awake.

...Impossible, this is the safest place. Li Mingyue...

...Li Mingyue will not betray him...if even Li Mingyue will betray him...

Then he...

No, no...

Su Mingan struggled with all his strength, keeping his spirit firmly on the front line. He breathed heavily, fighting crazily against his sleepiness until—

"...!"

Opening his eyes suddenly, Su Mingan finally broke through the limitations of his eyelids and sat up. Fortunately, he had been alert enough before and only closed his eyes for a moment before falling into deeper relaxation.

He never imagined that this safest, most reassuring, and only place he could trust would also have traps. If you really don't wake up, who knows what will happen.

Cold sweat slid down his forehead, and he turned his head.

——The door is open.

Between the shadows of the flowers, outside the door was a beautiful blue full moon. It hangs low at the junction of the lake and the sky, like a jade plate spreading silver light, and the moonlight shines along the wide open door.

The bishop in white stood at the door, his moonlight hand resting on the door handle, like a gleam of solid moonlight, as if he had just opened the door. When he looked at Su Ming'an, there was astonishment in his eyes, as if he didn't expect Su Ming'an to wake up.

"...Wen...Ming'an. Why are you awake?" Li Mingyue said.

"...Why." Su Mingan's voice was calm. But if you listen carefully, there is a subtle tremor in the voice.

Why, that's the case.

Tell me where the flowers come from. The flowers cannot come from Daoya City, who gave them to you.

Who can have such fresh flowers? Why did you obtain His flowers? What did you exchange?

Su Mingan was already used to traps and being targeted. However, such a soft and warm bed, this familiar and safe church... were the only places he didn't want to doubt. So the moment he saw the flowers on the bedside, he even ignored the irrationality of it. He subconsciously wanted to believe it, if it weren't for his doubtful instinct...

He won't wake up.

If he hadn't woken up, he probably wouldn't have seen Li Mingyue pushing the door open.

"I..." Li Mingyue said.

But in the next moment, his eyes became indifferent and he said:

"——Don't you like my flowers?"

The moment Su Mingan heard this inorganic tone, he realized that the spirit possessed Li Mingyue.

Although Li Mingyue protects Daoya City and the Oracle cannot interfere with Daoya City, it seems that the gods can always possess Li Mingyue. There may be some connection between them. But the difference between them is so obvious that Su Mingan can feel it when his eyes change.

"God, if you really have difficulties, you can talk to me. If you have any enemies that you can't fight, you can also tell me." Su Mingan's voice was already broken, and she tightened her grip on the sheets: "Don't - don't do this again. "

Stop being everywhere.

Stop showing up around me and hurting the people around me. Stop trying to block me in the name of my good intentions.

The god shook his head: "Perhaps Lin Guang of the Ninth World gave you some misunderstanding, making you think that everyone has difficulties. Unfortunately, I am not like him. I only wanted to target you within the limits allowed by the rules. Within the scope, it’s just to prevent you from dying. If you die, I will lose profits, that’s all.”

"Am I going to die by joining the tower? So that you want me to stay by your side all the time, so that you want to use various means to disable me?" Su Mingan whispered.

These days, the sense of oppression given to him by the gods is too strong. Even Alice is a trap by the gods. He has almost died several times. Even when the Eighth World was at its most desperate, he was not so miserable.

Listening to his somewhat broken words, the god just stared at him quietly, as if there was something on his face.

Su Mingan clenched his fists and took a deep breath. Five seconds later, he quickly adjusted his mentality and his expression became calm:

"...Then let's talk, God."

Silver-blue moonlight shone between them, and Alice had fallen asleep on the folding chair. She was fast asleep and didn't hear any movement here.

The god fiddled with the flower branches without looking at Su Ming'an.

"There is nothing left to talk about." The god said in a low voice: "You want to complete the tower, but I don't want you to do it. So there is an irreconcilable conflict between us. However, I really can't kill you directly. At most Make you incapacitated.”

"Are you really not doing it for my own good? You asked Mizushima Kawakora to tell me before that you didn't want me to clear the tower because I would eventually be devoured by the Alien King." Su Mingan asked.

It's not that he thinks too much, it's just that he has seen too many similar people. They all did a lot of harm to him under the guise of doing good for him. Of course, most of them were responsible for the world. Whether it's Su Lin during the Yunshang City period, Xi Boer on the verge of alienation, or Lin Guang.

"Oh." The god smiled. Even if it was a smile, his smile seemed very light: "Don't take yourself too seriously. I don't want you to be swallowed by the alien king, because if you are swallowed by it, you will lose me. Interests."

God has no riddles, He has made it clear. God has told almost everything except why Su Ming'an's death will lose his interests.

At this point, Su Mingan could no longer attack the opponent.

"You used to delete posts for me through the computer screen, and then said you "like me very much". Now you say you are not doing it for my own good." Su Mingan still remembers this incident.

The gods seemed to have remembered this incident. His expression changed slightly, and then he said coldly: "There is no conflict between the two. I admire you, and I can coexist with you."

Su Mingan was noncommittal, it was indeed the case.

"...Okay, you can really sleep now. I won't set any more traps for the time being." The god dispersed the scent of incense in the room: "However, it is best to lock the door before sleeping."

Su Mingan knew that Li Mingyue could not be blamed. Maybe Li Mingyue just wanted him to sleep, but the spirit took the opportunity to possess Li Mingyue and almost took Su Mingan away.

"That's right." The god seemed to have remembered something: "Your body is still with me, remember to pick it up when you have time."

"Is Su Lin okay?" Su Mingan asked.

"He can't kill me, and I can't kill him." The spirit said: "He can't leave my house now, so I expect you to come to him. Now he smashes and sets fire to my place every day, killing all kinds of my bionic bodies, so that I can It’s very difficult.”

Su Mingan couldn't hold himself tight.

...Su Lin, I want you to find the gods every day.

It was rare for him to hear Su Lin hit a wall, but this incident was indeed because of him. If Su Lin hadn't given her body to him, Su Lin would not have been trapped in the hometown of the gods. But the gods couldn't kill Su Lin. Su Lin even did whatever he wanted there, but he just couldn't leave. I hope this won't become a crisis later.

Su Mingan remained silent, and the gods had no intention of continuing to communicate.

The spirit closed his eyes, and after a moment, Li Mingyue's consciousness returned.

"...Ming'an." Li Mingyue called out, his eyes struggled for a moment, and finally said slowly: "I will...leave here, stay away from you."

Su Mingan nodded silently.

He locked the door, called out two cats as a warning, and put on the Dream Patrol helmet. It's almost time for bed.

He looked at the game disc of the fourth game "Destiny Simulator". Engraved on the disc was a young man wearing a red robe, holding a scalpel stained with purple blood in his hand.

——What type of game is this?

Su Mingan took a basin of cold water and poured it on his head to stay awake. Then he dried his hair and put on a helmet, and his five senses began to change——

…

Su Mingan thought he would see a cool game opening animation. After all, in "Girls' Dream Project", there is a very long game opening animation.

However, when he opened his eyes, he only saw one person - a young man in red robes.

In the pure white space, the red-robed boy looked at him quietly, surrounded by three options:

["Please smash that iceberg and start your voyage."——Start the game]

["Under the attention of thousands of people, the devil was born here." - Live broadcast management]

["Go to the Songshan Mountain on a crane and return to the clouds."——End game]

…

Su Mingan waved his hand, and the red-robed boy smiled back. The boy in red robe has jet black hair and eyes and looks very handsome.

"Hello?" Su Mingan said.

"Hello." The red-robed boy smiled and nodded.

"Who are you?" Su Mingan asked.

"I am the NPC who guides you in the game. Please start your game." The boy in red robe replied.

"Is this game fun?" Su Mingan asked, seeing that this npc was quite intelligent.

"You will fall in love with it." The red-robed boy smiled.

……Really?

Su Mingan looked at the time, it was almost twelve o'clock. He turned on the live broadcast, stretched out his hand, and clicked [Start Game].

Games start.

A line of white words appeared.

…

【Welcome to the warm healing short game. 】

[——The Demon King was born here. 】

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