First Player

　　【When Su Mingan asked about Xiao Jingsan, the **** said, Xiao Jingsan is just a stranger, here to watch over you. There is no story between him and you. 】

　　【The gods said that the tenth world only has a fourteen-day process, and today is the first day the copy is opened. 】

  【The gods said that he was the first person Su Mingan saw after entering the tenth world. 】

 …

In fact, as early as the seventh day of the dungeon, the gods had already demonstrated similar abilities. The gods locked up Su Ming'an at that time, making Su Ming'an think that this was the first day of the dungeon. But later, Su Mingan regained consciousness and remembered that this was not the first day of the dungeon. He thought it was all right.

However-

 It’s just boxes within boxes.

 When he remembered that the "seventh day" was not the "first day", how could he know whether the "first day" in his mind was the real "first day"?

 When he first opened his eyes and saw Xiao Jingsan taking blood by the bed, who knew if this was the first time they had met?

 …

　　【The **** broke the silence: "You are indeed the same as before. I originally thought that you would talk about other topics when I meet you again this time."】

Su Mingan sighed secretly, it turned out that Su Wensheng also loved preaching in the past. 】

【During this period, the **** has been looking at him quietly, his eyes like solid ice edges, and occasionally there is a flash of nostalgia in his eyes. 】

 …

The next day after the dungeon was opened, Su Mingan went to the church and met the **** for the first time, and the **** said these words to him.

—But in the memories he gained later, Su Wensheng had never had a missionary experience.

So, "the person who used to love preaching" is not Su Wensheng, it can only be -

Su Mingan himself.

 In other words, Su Ming'an "last time".

 …

【The tentacles buzzed, and there was a mental wave: "This necklace is a farewell gift, He asked me to give it to you."]

　　【The tentacles put a necklace on Su Ming'an. This necklace is surrounded by a hemp rope and hangs an eye made of wood. The eye seems to be alive and will tremble continuously. 】

 Su Mingan felt his scalp numb. 】

  【…Him? Could it be a god? But he has never met a **** - has Su Wensheng ever seen a god? 】

 …

The second day after the dungeon was opened, in "Louyue Kingdom", the tentacle monster on the seaside gave Su Mingan the Eye of the Old.

 —"goodbye gift".

Su Mingan initially thought that it was Su Wensheng who had met with the gods. Later, with more information, he thought that it was the old gods who had met with the gods. But he gradually discovered that the answer was neither.

 The person to whom the gods want to give gifts is himself, Su Mingan.

 They did, “have seen it before”.

 Before the world restarts.

 In the journeys that Su Mingan has forgotten again and again - they have really "seen before".

On the sixth day of the dungeon, Su Mingan agreed to become the angel of the gods. The gods looked extremely excited.

 …

Su Mingan felt dizzy. As the ceremony progressed, blood-red lines gradually appeared on his pure white tentacles, like heavy chains. 】

"I've been waiting for you...Really, I've been waiting for you to come back..." During the ceremony, the god's hand tightly clasped his shoulders and suddenly said this. 】

 …

Su Mingan understood why the **** was so excited.

 In his previous journeys, Su Mingan probably rarely promised the gods. And the purpose of the gods is exactly this.

However, this time the gods still failed, because at the last moment of the angel ceremony, the gifts from Chao Yan, Li Mingyue, and Xiao Jingsan protected Su Ming'an, allowing Su Ming'an to choose one of them and escape from the angel ceremony.

In the dim fire, Su Mingan saw the words on the prophetic stone wall. They shone like shells in the firelight.

 …

　　【On February 10, 827, Su Mingan had not yet met the conditions for resurrecting the alien king. Therefore, use brainwashing to clear this memory and start the "next" journey. 】

　　【This journey is very different from the last one. He has not changed his "established destiny". 】

  【Dungeon countdown returns: twenty days. 】

 …

"So...what day is the dungeon opened today?" Su Mingan looked at these dazzling lines of text, his pupils seemed to be burned.

Since the beginning of the dungeon, everyone has been emphasizing the concept of the "Twentieth Day" - only by reaching the "Twentieth Day" can everything end, only by the "Twentieth Day" can this dungeon be cleared, and as long as you wait beside the gods until "On the twentieth day" everything will be fine.

 Including the basic tasks of the copy, it also displays: [Survive, live to the twentieth day. 】

 Including the requirements for perfect clearance, it also shows: [Within twenty days, achieve the highest status], [Within twenty days, "the face of the emperor will not die"] and so on. Constantly emphasize the concept of "twenty days".

 …

"My dear Wen Sheng. From this point on, you can no longer look back - turning back to the small town to spend an ordinary twenty days is your last chance." - Prompt from the main mission. 】

"Within twenty days, I will stuff you into a white cat puppet and play with it as a ball." - Su Mingan's own words. 】

"It doesn't matter what you say. I will let him spend these twenty days safely, and after everything is over, I will send him out of this world safely." - From the communication between the gods and Xiao Jingsan. 】

"Su Mingan, you finally discovered me. Only you and I are the operators on the chessboard. As long as you get to the twentieth day, we will meet." - Overlapping images from the starry sky. 】

 …

Everyone is emphasizing the "twentieth day". Due to inertial thinking, players also believe that the duration of the tenth world is twenty days. As long as it exceeds twenty days, the instance will automatically end because all previous instances have Is such that.

 But, this “twentieth day”—will it really come?

 It is never emphasized, it refers to the "duration of the copy".

In a circle, every time Su Mingan walks in front of the prophecy stone wall, his memory will be wiped away, and he will be sent back to the first day of the dungeon, and everyone's status will return to the first day. As for the time that follows, it has been cut off out of thin air, leaving only an unreachable void.

 —He will never be able to cross this point in time.

Just like White Sand Paradise, the duration of the entire dungeon is limited. Even if the timeline of the dungeon is restarted again and again, time outside the dungeon keeps running normally. You keep going back to the first day from the eighth day, but the time outside the dungeon goes through these eight and eight days normally.

 The Tenth World did not clearly indicate how long the duration would be, but it must not be too long. If many days have passed outside the dungeon, Su Mingan will never reach the "twentieth day" of the tenth world. In the dim light of the fire, the spirit walked to him, and the world seemed to become very quiet, and nothing could be heard except the blazing fire that swept across the field of vision.

The flames spread in the air, like a long river hanging upside down, and sparks floated around them one by one, as if they were hanging in the starry sky on the surface of the earth. Su Mingan turned around and looked directly at the **** without any hesitation.

"There are two levels of retracement in this world." Su Mingan remained calm: "The first level is Xiao Su's retracement. This is the retracement that you can know."

"On the second level, you activate the world line's big retracement. Whenever I walk to the prophecy stone wall and fail to meet certain requirements, the world line's big retracement will be activated, returning to the first day of the dungeon. I will be wiped out. Deremembering, this is a change of cause and effect, not cognitive shielding, even if the Dawn Immortality skill is turned on, it will be useless."

 He ​​has not yet said the third level of retracement - the third level of retracement is his own death retracement, which has been blurred between the two levels of retracement. He had always relied on "whether the gods were blocking his return point" to tell the difference, but if the gods deliberately created an illusion...

Then I really can’t tell.

 Three levels of regression exist in the tenth world. As he gradually became clear about this information, he had reached the end of this timeline.

 The threads of fate have been woven into a complete web, just waiting for him to fall into the web.

 He recalled what the God once said when he first met him:

 …

["Destiny cannot be 'killed' at all. As early as the moment you stepped into this world, the moment you saw Xiao Jingsan beside the bed, everyone's fate was already determined - you will only become my 'helper' , will not become my 'enemy'."]

 …

 —The moment you see Xiao Jingsan beside the bed, everyone’s fate is determined.

The moment Su Mingan opened his eyes for the first time on Lou Yueguo's bed and saw Xiao Jingsan - the world had already started a big reversal. This was not the first time he had stepped into this place. His perception had been confused, and everything he saw had been fine-tuned by the gods.

Whether it was the first night of the dungeon, there was a strange voice in his ear—[Don’t dream patrol! Don’t dream patrol! Don’t $#*! ], [First Player...], [World Game...]

 It was still the feeling that he often noticed, a feeling of reality and illusion.

 —These are all the impacts of the world’s major reversal.

 …

"So." Xinyue suddenly stopped: "Leader, if you see something that others can't see or hear something that others can't hear, please don't delve into it - just treat it as if you didn't see or hear anything. .”]

"Eye don't need to see, ears don't need to hear." Xinyue said: "Please be a stupid smart person - in this world, people who see too many things will definitely go crazy."]

 …

 Xin Yue should be a person of the gods.

 She is probably, like Su Luolo, an "experimental subject" of the gods.

Su Mingan suddenly came to his senses - he finally understood why Xinyue repeatedly emphasized to him on the first day not to listen to strange sounds. She hugged him tightly under the moonlight, comforting him to stay calm, but she never thought that her concern was also a hint rooted in her heart by the gods.

 —Those are not strange sounds at all, they are probably reminders that he or his teammates left for themselves during the last journey.

Eyes don’t need to see, ears don’t need to hear, so no one can remember what happened. The words "number one player" and "world game" were obviously left over from the last world retracement, otherwise it would have been impossible for them to ring in his ears on the first day and become auditory hallucinations.

 …

In addition, on the first day after the dungeon was opened, Su Mingan felt like he was seeing flowers in the smoke.

　　　　　Su Mingan sat down. There's no point in staying here. Even the teacher's level is far inferior to him. It's better to go back and play the second chapter of the game. He has always had a strong sense of weirdness, and his eyes would always flash hazily from time to time. I always feel like everything is smoke and mirrors. 】

 …

 On the fourth day of the dungeon, when Ying was rescuing people at the execution ground, there was also a sense of illusion.

["Huh...?" When he raised the knife, Ying was slightly startled. He vaguely felt that Mizushima Kawakora on the stage had an illusory feeling, including many people around him, but this feeling soon disappeared. . 】

 …

On the fifth day of the dungeon, when Su Mingan looked in the mirror, he realized that his appearance was beginning to be illusory.

When passing by a mirror, Su Mingan felt his reflection in the mirror flicker, revealing his white hair, but when he looked in the mirror, he still had dark hair. 】

 …

 —These are the differences left behind by the world’s great reversal.

 That’s why the original **** was so confident and thought that he could not kill Destiny.

"How many times is this..." the **** said: "But your last journey should have left you a few reminders - after all, even if the world line returns to the first day, some things will be left behind."

Su Mingan said slowly:

　　—It is not true.

 —Donotbelievethisworldline.”

 This is a passage that appeared in front of Su Mingan on the fifth day of the dungeon.

 This should not be a reminder he left for himself.

  —should be left by Noel.

With Noel’s wisdom, Noel must have noticed the mechanism of the world’s major reversal, and Noel may have used many means to try to leave a message for the next time.

 This information jumped over the translation mechanism and appeared in front of Su Mingan's eyes, in the form of one of Noel's native languages. However, perhaps the important information was intercepted, and Su Mingan did not fully understand the meaning of this passage at the time.

Su Mingan raised layers of white tentacles to block the firelight surrounding him.

 All the information has gone through his mind, and he has only one goal left at this time.

 —He must prevent this world from reversing. You can't let yourself go back to the beginning without knowing anything.

 What capital does he have to make a comeback?

　　—Death rollback.

Su Mingan stared at the gods.

At this time, in his eyes, the **** is no longer a general copy boss, but an equal enemy with full threat, suppression, and dominance.

"You should have received a message before. It was sent by Noel. He asked you... to go to the sea first." The **** said softly.

“…” Su Mingan stared at him.

 “Unfortunately, that message was sent by me.” said the spirit.

 “I know.” Su Mingan said. He had thought of this.

"Your purpose... is to block the time of turning back and make me stay on the sea for a long time. In this way, even if I use the last resort - turning back... there is a high probability that I will only turn back to the surface. , surrounded by the sea and unable to escape, you can easily subdue me...right?"

“The correct answer.” The **** smiled gently, but his smile was chilling to the bone.

—He even considered the action of "blocking the critical time point of rewinding and restricting Su Ming'an to a certain location after rewinding" to block the way out.