First Player

  Chapter 1025 Chapter 1023 · “We have met before.”

 After Chaoyan’s death, Su Mingan returned to work as scheduled.

 Su Mingan rescued Chaoyan from an angle that she couldn't see.

On the seventh day of the dungeon, the battle to become a **** officially begins.

Temple, angels, relatives, papyrus...all kinds of false stories were made up by Su Mingan, and became the "real" myth of the old gods in people's eyes, as if they were an ideal country built out of thin air. He stood in front of the camera and spoke of these castles in the air with a compassionate tone.

While Su Ming'an was in the spotlight, Chao Yan used his nine-week experience in the shadows to silently suppress those enemies who might be detrimental to Su Ming'an. No one knows these things.

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  【Chaoyan Notes:】

　　【Number of game days: The eighth day, morning. 】

　　【Inner Note: On this day, he started the game "Destiny Simulator". This is also...the most critical day. Su Wensheng will induce him to walk to the prophecy stone wall. 】

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Su Mingan and Alice went to the beach. They encountered wind and waves and lay on the beach.

Chaoyan looked at them from a long distance and did not come closer. She felt that Su Ming'an seemed tired - had he triggered Xiao Su's retracement many times?

Su Wensheng appeared on the beach and provided clues to the black magpie. Next, Su Ming'an will go to Huo Mu Lier Kingdom.

"Huo Mu Li'er country... there should be no threats there. Su Mingan will not walk to the prophecy stone wall in a short time. After all, the black magpie will not trust him." Chaoyan thought silently: "This is the best week, many people support it Old God. The action I should take now... is to brush up his favorability and make him start to trust me."

 But she hesitated as she looked at Alice who was beside Su Ming'an.

She once looked in the mirror and saw her own double reflection - her own double reflection looked like Alice. So Alice is actually a kind of "past life" of hers. If it weren't for the timeline fusion brought about by the tower, she would never have met Alice in her life.

"Sooner or later, Alice will become a goddess. So, I will wait for another half day, until Alice leaves... This way, it will be smoother to gain favor." Chaoyan quietly retreated.

—But what she didn’t expect was that,

 It was during the half day that she was away from Su Ming'an.

 —He walked to the prophetic stone wall.

Because in her mind, it was impossible to trust Su Ming'an's black magpie - Su Ming'an used the power-in-power skill.

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  【Chaoyan Notes:】

 【Number of game days: The eighth day, afternoon. 】

　　【Inner Note: No, no, no...no, no! 】

 …

 As the fire burned, the young man's sword danced like a blazing flame.

Fine words gradually appeared on the prophecy stone wall - the prophecy stone wall had already predicted in advance everything Su Mingan would do this week.

Su Mingan stood still in front of the broken prophecy stone wall. In an instant, he suddenly understood many things.

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The bomb inside his body made a sound, and he looked at the **** holding an umbrella in the blazing fire. For a moment, as if he recalled the **** from the ninth week, there was also such a bright red umbrella, and such a calm and unruffled look.

“—I will go to the sea and wait for you.” The **** said calmly.

 The explosion of the bomb can no longer be stopped, and Su Mingan will inevitably trigger a reversal.

“—Okay, I’ll wait for you.” Su Mingan said with a smile.

The smile on his face was not bright, because he himself knew that if the explosion of the bomb did not trigger his own return, he would be stuck by the gods waiting at the previous return point.

Looking at the back of the god, he slowly sat down and gently pressed the bomb in his abdomen with his fingers, waiting for the end of his life.

 For a moment, he felt confused.

Since the beginning of the tenth world, he seems to have been flowing in the torrent of fate, always being pulled by countless threads. Some come from good intentions, and some come from bad intentions. Even now, he still felt so depressed that it was difficult to breathe. Everything was like an endless nightmare. The flames thinned the air and suffocated his breathing.

Even if he goes back, what can he do?

Even if time goes back, where can he go?

 In order to pass the level perfectly, he must break the prophecy stone wall according to the main mission. However, the prophecy stone wall is destined to cause the world to reverse and everything will start again. It's like walking on a Möbius strip that never ends. Unless he gives up the reminder of the main mission and finds a new path on his own.

  New... road.

How confusing and difficult it is.

 He raised his hands and slowly covered his face. He still couldn't see clearly the live broadcast room barrages in the upper right corner, they were like blurry snowflakes.

 People outside the dungeon must be very anxious. They watch themselves come back over and over again, but cannot remind themselves of anything. If today is the day after the dungeon is opened, some people should have cleared the dungeon and come out. After all, they will not disobey the gods. Like Aini, Beiwang, Luna, Bonnie... they should all have finished the dungeon, even if the ending of the dungeon is hard to accept.

 How should they feel when they see themselves like this through an unreachable screen?

The long-term pressure made him feel breathless. In this closed environment, he could only show his vulnerability for a moment.

 “I’m sorry...” he said in a low voice.

 Perhaps he is not sharp enough.

 Maybe he didn’t think about it enough.

 Perhaps he is not strong enough.

But what if he is asked to obey the gods from now on, take a simple route, and fail to discover the bottom secret of the world - human beings?

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He slowly let go of his hand and looked at the overwhelming fire. The flames gradually spread to his body and dotted his sleeves, but he remained motionless.

At this moment, at this moment when he was waiting for the judgment of fate -

 The other protagonist finally walked in front of him.

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 It was like a fateful reunion in a movie scene. The male protagonist is in dire straits leaning against a stone wall, and the female protagonist with three thousand green hairs flying in the fire.

 The girl's cheeks looked too white in the red field of vision, and cyan blood vessels could even be seen on her arms, like clear water under the sun. Her eyes are not sharp, but they can make people think of the gurgling stream under the hills, or the butterflies that are about to wither on the roses. When looking at him, his eyes were always mixed with a hint of despair and sadness.

Wearing pure white clothes, she looked like a fine snow falling in the middle of a blazing fire.

 She does not carry much obsession or madness, she is just calm. It was a kind of calmness - the ending was decided and there was no need to find it again.

The world was very quiet, the flames cut off everything in the outside world, and for a moment, it seemed like the only sound left here was her footsteps.

 The two protagonists come together here—the perspective of the film finally reverses, as if light and shadow meet.

 “Chaoyan, have we met before? Before the reset.”

Su Mingan finally asked this question.

 She looked at him with a complicated look, her eyes focusing on him carefully.

“…I’ve seen it.” She could finally stop denying it.

 “But why do you remember?” the young man asked.

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

  Chaoyan just smiles.

—Even now, her efforts have been in vain.

 The end of the story is already here, but the young man seems to have just reached the beginning of the story. On the screen, the heroine has done everything she can, and the audience is suddenly aware of her existence.

—It turns out that in this movie, there is always a heroine in the shadows. But why didn't her name appear in the cast list until the final scene?

Chao Yan stretched out her hand and wiped the faint tears on her face, and then her whole body began to tremble - fear that everything she had done would go back to the starting point, fear that their meeting eyes would eventually fall into space, and turning back was really the most terrifying thing. Power, it will destroy all efforts, persistence and belief, and make people become a madman when they repeatedly achieve nothing.

"Why..." Su Mingan spoke slowly, the countdown of the bomb in his body getting louder and louder:

　　…Looking like you’re about to cry?”

 Her smile bloomed, like a withered flower in the fire, and her tears fell to the ground.

 “How hateful.” She whispered to herself in a low voice that only she could hear.

 —Because I love you with your passion and I am attached to your persistence.

"It's so hateful that you still don't remember me." Her voice was as soft as a wisp of wind in a fire.

 —I’m sad, but I understand it’s not your fault.

 “Go to hell, go to hell, don’t let me do it again.”

 —But I will still persist until the day of happy ending. I still hope you...live.

They watched through the raging fire, but it seemed like they were separated by nine thin layers of time. As she approached him step by step, the first layer, the second layer, the third layer... these thin layers of time were violently smashed by her, until she reached the ninth layer.

 Hurling - hurling -

She broke through the shackles of time layer by layer, jumped over the cries of witches and the flames of war, jumped over ignorant believers and hypocritical politicians, passed over the distant ark and the bells of the tower, passed over those free people The sound of wind and high-flying birds—the protagonist finally broke through all time barriers and walked in front of him.

There are traces of the flames burning on her cheeks - they are the purple-black pits left by her burning life on the seventh day.

There was a shallow knife mark on her neck - this was when she was suppressing those politicians, and she almost had her neck cut off with a knife.

 The circles under her eyes were extremely dark blue—a sign caused by the psychotropic drugs she had taken many times in order to stay awake.

There were several coral-cut wounds on her calf—these were the wounds born in the seawater when she dragged the unconscious Alice and Su Mingan to the surface.

These are just the traumas endured in this week, just eight days. And the other weeks buried in time... are countless.

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

 The bomb is about to explode, so many misses, so much despair... I have no time to tell you. What you see is just a strange girl covered in scars, not the protagonist who suppresses the shadows for you.

She suddenly stepped forward and threw herself forward with all her strength.

 “You—” Su Mingan didn’t have time to push her away.

 Only her last fiery, smiling, tearful and complicated eyes can be seen. Even though he couldn't remember anything, he could still feel - this strange - no, this familiar girl -

 “The…promise of the stars…” His voice faded away.

 The burnt candy fell on Su Mingan's leg, burning a wound.

“Didi-di-boom-!!”

 The bomb exploded.

 The person who was killed together with him was the girl who jumped in front of him.

 The flesh and blood exploded, and the cloth of the two men was mixed with the fragments of skin and flesh, making it impossible for anyone to tell them apart.

 Only Su Mingan's fallen eyeball lay on the ground, as if staring for a long time.

 …

 The sea breeze blew Su Mingan’s hair.

 (End of this chapter)