First Player

Chapter 1018: one thousand zero sixteen

Su Mingan slowly raised the sword in his hand.

—He originally thought that the blood-taking in "Louyue Kingdom" was the beginning of everything.

An antique decoration, a young man holding a pipe, and a fairy falling from the sky.

Under the full moon, there is a ten-mile long street with golden bricks and glazed roofs.

The blond woman wearing a fairy skirt with wide sleeves stood at the window edge, reaching out to Su Ming'an.

【"The organizer didn't make things difficult for me." The blonde beauty Noel smiled slightly: "Come on, the exciting adventure begins."]

…

—That’s not Noel.

Noel should never appear in "Louyue Kingdom". That cross-dressing Noel must have been fabricated by the gods. If that was really Noel, Noel moved too fast. As soon as the copy started, Noel had already figured out the rules of instant death and dressed up as a woman. He even accurately knew that Su Ming'an was on the tower.

He originally wanted to attribute this to Noel's superb wisdom, but he still felt inconsistent.

Now he has to revise his mind - this is not the first time.

Everything in the past happened before the "initial" of his cognition. He may have fought side by side with Chaoyan, he may have fought to the death with Xiao Jingsan, he may have gone against Li Mingyue, he may have saved Grandma Lin, he may have lost Su Luoluo...

—But they have all been buried before the "initial".

“The first day the copy is opened”—

It is not “the first day the copy is opened”.

　　When he first opened his eyes and saw Xiao Jingsan smoking a pipe beside the bed, he had forgotten everything and had already been defeated by the gods once.

Why did the live broadcast room disappear behind the scenes, and why did the barrage disappear behind the scenes?

Su Mingan’s pupils trembled slightly.

—In the beginning, they were illusions fabricated by the gods. Every barrage and every word was typed by the gods themselves. He arranged everything carefully to guide Su Ming'an's actions. When Su Mingan gets closer and closer to the prophecy stone wall, when he detects more and more information, when he comes into contact with these reminders of [It is not true.], when he begins to feel doubtful, alert, and questioning...these illusions fabricated by the gods will also Then disappear.

The moment he realized all this—

He vaguely saw the live broadcast room in the upper right corner.

It is like a cloud, not clear, and the handwriting is like a blurred shadow.

The distant past—who did he make eye contact with, and whom did he pass by?

—With whom has he made a promise, and with whom has he embraced each other?

These have been forgotten by him.

He did not change his original destiny. He still made it here.

The **** stretched out his hand and put it on his forehead: "Next time, I will say [I like you very much] to you in a gentler way."

Su Mingan raised his hand, and his wrist was instantly grabbed by the spirit.

—Prohibition of suicide.

He said slowly: "Resetting the world line is not easy for you. It should require a certain mechanism. For example, when I walk to the prophecy stone wall, you can cooperate with the prophecy stone wall to start resetting the world line. In other words, If I stay away from the prophecy stone wall..."

He doesn’t know where this prophetic stone wall comes from. It may be the most magical thing in the world. If the gods could reset the world line anytime and anywhere, there would be no need to wait until the eighth day.

“So?” said the spirit.

The stone wall of the prophecy has begun to bloom with brilliance, and everything Su Mingan sees has begun to gradually go back and flow backwards...

“So I will remember it.” Su Mingan said.

The spirit looked at him doubtfully.

“Beep, beep, beep, beep—” a sound came from Su Mingan’s body.

…

　　【In the second week, Su Mingan negotiated with the gods and asked to break the prophecy stone wall. The **** said he agreed, but took the opportunity to trap him. Fortunately, the bomb he had buried in his body exploded and he successfully returned. 】

…

This bomb has not exploded this week, it is still in his body - this is the bomb he buried in his body in advance in Daoya City, just to be able to return in time.

When the **** saw this, he listened to the increasingly urgent "didi-dip" sound in Su Ming'an's body, and just said lightly: "I will go to the sea to wait for you."

—When you return, I will wait for your last return time as soon as possible, and you can’t escape.

Su Mingan smiled, and put his fingers against his abdomen. There was a hard touch there, which was getting hotter and hotter—it would take him back to the previous river.

“Okay, I’ll wait for you.” He said with a smile.

—Then pray that I trigger my own retracement, and pray that I return to the sea and never see you.

“Didi, Didi, Didi—”

The sound became more violent.

At this time, Su Mingan heard footsteps. He turned his head and saw a girl with flying black hair.

—Chao Yan.

She looked at him with a complicated look, and the cross pendant on her chest moved with the hot wind. At the end of the timeline, she appears.

"Chaoyan, have we met before? Before the reset." Su Mingan said.

“…I’ve seen it.” Chaoyan finally stopped denying it.

The great reset of the world of gods is to reset everything to the first day, including the status of all NPCs. Even Xiao Jingsan and Su Wensheng, who remember Xiao Su's return, would think that was the first day. Except for the gods, no one will remember the world before the reset.

“But why do you remember?” Su Mingan said.

Chaoyan just smiles.

—Until now, Su Mingan still can't understand her.

"Why...you look like you're about to cry?" Su Mingan said.

Chao Yan reached out and wiped the faint tears from his face. Then her smile bloomed, like a flower wilting in the fire.

“Because…because…I…” Her voice stopped there, she shook her head, and just smiled again.

“Didi-di-di-di-boom-!”

The bomb exploded from the inside out, rolling flesh and blood into scarlet fireworks.

Su Mingan was shattered to pieces on the ground, half of his broken head stuck to the holy white ground, and the withered flowers beside the stone wall fell on his fallen eyes.

The vague dusk fell on half of his body through the cracks in the fire, like the waves on the seaside that were gradually disappearing.

The dreaming butterfly dies at the end of the dream, and withered flowers see it off.

The flames fill the sky and the flowers burn out.

…

—The girl felt everything was like a nightmare.

During the first journey, the **** did not understand Su Ming'an. He wanted to use inducement to get Su Ming'an to agree to become his archangel. At that time, the tower could be opened on the first day, and there was no need to wait until the fifth day.

So, Su Mingan opened the first tower on the first day of the dungeon, quickly contacted the City Guardian Department and the Old Holy See, and walked to the prophecy stone wall the next day.

The world was reset and everything returned to the beginning, February 3, 827.

During the second journey, the girl vaguely felt that the world was beginning to become uneven. Although she doesn't know the reason, she has been able to see the causal lines of the world since she was a child, and she can sense that a reset has occurred in the world. This reset would destabilize the world. As someone who can see the lines of cause and effect, she feels it is her duty to prevent this reset.

After investigation, she believed that some of the actions of "Su Mingan" might have caused the world to reset. She started to approach him.

With her deliberate approach, they became friends on the first day. She went to school with him, went to the Human Self-Rescue League to visit the sleepers, signed up for Li Yuxuan's Urban Guardian Department together, attended Tao Meng's funeral, and Go to the psychological counseling center to buy a doll for Xiao.

“What’s your name?” Su Mingan asked.

“I am an orphan, I have no name, and others call me a nerd.” The girl replied.

"Then I..." Su Mingan thought for a while: "I call you by the name of the flower on your skirt, is that okay?"

He pointed to the sarong she was wearing, which had several needlework flowers on it. “Hmm.” The girl thought for a while and felt there was nothing wrong with it.

“Chaoyan?” Su Mingan said.

“…Hmm.” The girl accepted the name.

“Chaoyan, why do you want to be friends with me?” Su Mingan asked her.

—Because you will cause the world to reset, which will make the world unstable.

Chaoyan thought this in his heart, but said on his face: "Because I want to protect you."

Later, together they stopped the Demon Hunt. Su Mingan took the college entrance examination, exposed his alien identity, joined the old Holy See, and exposed the Ark Project. She always follows him, no matter what difficulties he encounters, she will burn her life to help him.

—As long as he lives peacefully and does not get close to the prophetic stone wall, the world will not be reset. Chaoyan thought so.

Her protection was in place, and Su Mingan had been going smoothly. He did not encounter Su Wensheng who tried to assassinate him, nor was he injured by the alien royal family. All is peaceful.

On the fourth day, after getting through Louyue Kingdom, he took her to watch the starry sky.

One, two, three.

The star trailed its long silver-white tail and fell into the pure black sky. It looks so beautiful and vast.

“I’ve heard of a festival called Fuyuan Festival before,” Su Mingan said.

They sat on the rooftop and looked up at the stars.

"It is said that the dead will become stars in the sky, watching us in the sky." Su Mingan said: "Those star marks, constellations, palaces of stars... are the eyes of countless old friends, and are the eyes of people on the ground. navigation light."

“Stars…eyes…” Chaoyan held his chin.

She is not a romantic person. She has only known the causal lines of observing the world since she was a child, and has no time to listen to these romantic legends.

“But what if we don’t become stars?” Chaoyan thought about the difficulty of the situation: “What if we fail in the end and fail to defeat the gods...”

Su Mingan shook his head and stared into her eyes: "That way, I will remember you too."

Her eyes are like deep emeralds, making people feel peaceful. Su Mingan may have said this just to gain her favor, but the emotion in his eyes was very real.

“But I turned into a star.” Chaoyan said.

"Even if you become a star, I will remember you." Su Mingan said softly.

Chao Yan looked at him deeply.

The universe is so vast, as if all the stars are reflected in their eyes.

She knew that if this journey failed, he would not remember her as a friend, nor would he remember all this. Perhaps, he would also think that she was a familiar and strange person.

-but.

Only this time...Although only this time...

Let her remember it first.

"Here, these are Italian candies given to me by my teammates." Su Mingan gave her a few purple candies: "When you are depressed, eating candy can make people feel better, so give it a try. "

Chao Yan peeled off the candy wrapper and swallowed it in one gulp.

“You don’t swallow the candy! You eat it with your mouth in your mouth!” Su Mingan was afraid that she would choke to death, so she shouted quickly.

“…Isn’t it?” She blinked blankly, the candy stuck in her throat, causing her to cough and tears were about to flow out. She has never eaten this kind of thing. She has been living alone as long as she can remember. She has been looking at the lines of cause and effect in the sky for a whole day. Others say she is a fool. But she knew that only she could see these causal lines. If she didn't see them, the world might be in trouble.

What kind of sweet feeling is this?

…She has never eaten anything like this.

He patted her back and gave her another one.

This time, she was finally able to taste it carefully. It was a taste that she had never experienced before - like... the untouchable starry sky.

The taste of stars should be similar to candy.

She wrapped the remaining half candy in candy wrapper and put it in her arms.

At the end of the journey, Su Mingan was driven by the main mission and walked to the prophecy stone wall. No matter how she tried to persuade him, he insisted on giving it a try, as if he had some leverage.

So she stood on the high eaves and watched the fire engulf everything.

The world resets and returns to February 3, 827.

…

It seems like an endless cycle of nightmares has begun.

She approached him again. This time, theology was clever and pushed the opening time of the first tower to the fifth day, giving Su Mingan enough time to develop in the small town, so that he could realize the power of the gods and give him the desire to become an archangel. idea.

She reached him in time to stop him.

“Who are you?” The young man’s voice was cold.

He has forgotten the vast and beautiful starry sky and the unforgettable promise with her.

"I am..." Chaoyan clenched his hand, looked into his black eyes, and smiled slowly.

She smiled as if she were crying.

“I’m just...an ordinary orphan girl.”

This time, they walked hand in hand to the fifth day. She still became his companion, but he was almost controlled by the gods, so she burned her life to defeat the tentacle monster at the edge of the world, and her life came to an end.

When he hugged her, she slowly placed a candy that was about to burn into his palm. This is the lemon candy she bought herself, originally planning to give it to him.

"Don't...don't...forget...forget..." The luster was passing from her eyes, and her breath was getting weaker and weaker.

“Forgot what?” The young man’s expression made her speechless. His expression was extremely confused. She knew that she could not tell about the reset of the world. Once she did, the gods would not allow her to exist. Maybe she was just a variable in the gods' control.

Her heart suddenly hurt.

Obviously we all tried our best.

Obviously I am trying my best to get close to you every time.

Obviously we have explored many possibilities.

"Don't...don't...forget..." She shed tears, her skin was hotter than fire, his palms made a "pricking" sound, and his flesh and blood were rolled up by the heat, but he kept holding her tightly:

"…I."

do not forget me.

Don’t forget that we fought so hard against the world.

Don’t forget that I tried so hard to save you again and again.

His lips seemed to move slightly in his eyes blurred by tears.

His lips silently and slowly seemed to be responding to hers.

—until everything is silent.

The world resets again—

…

February 3, 827.

…

The young man opened his eyes from the bed.