First Player

“Who was the number one player who helped you become a **** a week ago?” Su Mingan said.

 The **** looked at him indifferently.

“…Who were you before you became a god?” Su Mingan put his fingers on his watch.

 The spirit still said nothing.

He turned around and left, his hair flying in the air, and his figure quickly disappeared.

 “Start the Millennium Project as soon as possible, Su Ming’an.”

 Leave only advice.

 …

 At night, Su Mingan met with General Qin. This famous figure finally appeared in front of Su Mingan.

The man has black hair, his facial features are more oriental, his eyes are deep, his nose is high, and he is handsome. Not like the second-in-command under the old gods and the first person in charge of the Millennium Project, but like an elegant pianist.

“General Qin, I have been curious about you during the simulation, and I finally met you today.” Su Mingan sat opposite him.

General Qin looked at Su Mingan. The resentment in his eyes was exactly the same as Xiao Ying's. It’s a look that I’ve longed for for a long time.

"[...I have been waiting for you for a long time]." General Qin slowly held Su Ming'an's hand.

 “What’s your real name?” Su Mingan said.

“…You can just call me General Qin, Mr. Qin.” General Qin said.

 “I want to hear the real name.” Su Mingan repeated.

"I have forgotten my real name, Lord Old God." General Qin said.

Looking at General Qin’s troubled expression, Su Mingan suddenly stretched out his hand: “Bring it to you.”

Just when General Qin sat down, Su Mingan noticed that General Qin's face seemed to be covered with a layer of something, like a human skin mask. He has been curious about this copy of General Qin for most of his life, but this guy still hasn't revealed his true appearance. What secrets are there under his skin?

General Qin hurriedly dodged, but Su Mingan had quick eyesight and quick hands. He crossed the table in a few steps and knocked the opponent to the ground. Everyone in the conference hall was so frightened that they looked sideways - What is going on? Why do you push him down as soon as you meet him?

The sound of tearing of the human skin mask was heard, and General Qin's hands repeatedly covered it, but Su Ming'an ruthlessly opened it until the human skin mask was completely torn.

 —A plain face appears.

"Well, I haven't seen you for a long time. I wanted to make a good impression on you, so I put on a handsome face, but I didn't expect that you had to look away." General Qin stood up helplessly.

Su Ming'an knew that he had misunderstood. It seemed that General Qin's appearance was nothing special, but General Qin just wanted plastic surgery. Su Mingan wanted to let it go, but felt something was wrong...

"…Um?"

As soon as General Qin stood up, Su Mingan rushed over again, pushed him to the ground, and pressed his hand firmly on General Qin's face.

"What are you doing..." General Qin looked helpless.

 “Whoops!”

There was a crisp sound, and everyone turned their attention again.

 Another layer of human skin mask.

Su Mingan held the second human skin mask in his hand, his eyes widening.

 …Beneath the mask is a more beautiful mask.

　　Unexpectedly, General Qin had so many human skin masks on his face. Su Mingan peeled off a few more layers, and they were all human skin masks. How many human skin masks had this person put on his face?

"General Qin. Just like Chaoyan's real name, your identity cannot be revealed, right?" Su Mingan said.

"...It is true." General Qin said sincerely: "Except for my appearance and real name, I will not hide anything. Please understand."

Su Ming'an stood up and suddenly called out as if nothing had happened, as if he was just murmuring casually:

　　…“…long song.”

 The conference room was quiet, no one responded to him, and General Qin's expression was also very calm. Su Mingan did not hold on to this matter. He discussed the Millennium Plan with General Qin and decided to officially launch it tomorrow.

 …

 Late night. Su Mingan stood on the rooftop watching the stars, waiting for the night session.

The sea of ​​​​stars is vast, blue-green light is swimming in the sky, and each star seems to be very close to him.

 He sorted out the information he had obtained so far:

 The earliest time point was more than two hundred years ago, when the Old Gods participated in the First World Game.

 Then a hundred years ago, the old gods disappeared. General Qin was born in this period and was a friend of the old gods. After the old **** disappeared, General Qin obtained some things from the old **** to extend his life, and waited for the old **** to return. In the past hundred years, the old gods have returned many times. From Su Mingan's perspective, it is like his own body acting on its own. It was also during this period that the superimposed shadow of the high-dimensional being above the starry sky set its sights on the world. He began to use various means to invade, such as releasing black mist and possessing humans.

More than sixty years ago, the Second World Game took place. Chaoyan participated in it, but General Qin was alive but did not participate. During this period, the invasion of overlapping shadows was already very deep, and the word spirit system appeared on a large scale in the world. General Qin and Chao Yan discussed how to resist the invasion of Duoying and build a "Utopia" barrier that could isolate high dimensions. This was the prototype of the Millennium Plan.

A week ago, the third world game took place, and General Qin, Chaoyan, Li Mingyue, Xiao Ying and others participated. The first player helps the gods become gods, and then the first player disappears. At this time, the invasion of Duplicate Shadow was already very deep, so the starry sky that Su Mingan saw now was so close, and the world was already in danger.

Now both sides are just one step away - Duplicate is just a short step away from invading the world. The Millennium Project is only a few steps away from being launched.

According to the future simulation situation, the Millennium Project must have been successfully launched, so the overlapping image after a thousand years will always stay in the starry sky waiting for invasion, otherwise the world would have been destroyed long ago.

"So the situation now is more dangerous than a thousand years later... No, it's just the same." Su Mingan said to himself: "They are all just a little bit close to destruction. This civilization is really walking on thin ice, whether it is a thousand years ago or a thousand years later."

"...Yes, that's it." A sigh came from the nearby starry sky, and a pair of eyes lingering around the stars opened, looking at Su Mingan in the vast Milky Way: "So, how about giving up thinking about these? Come to Come from heaven…”

Su Mingan ignored the overlapping image.

 The overlapping laughter sounded meaningful, but it sounded clear and cheerful.

“…Can you tell the truth from the false? Su Mingan, do you know which one is true…?”

 …

This night, Su Mingan did not wait for the night part.

 Maybe it was because his perception of time was different, or maybe it was because the "day period" had not ended yet, so he was not too panicked and would wait sooner or later.

 He unexpectedly discovered that there was another person living next to his residence in the old shrine.

Standing at the door of the room, Su Mingan recognized who this neighbor was.

"As long as you smile, Miss Demon King will be here..." A girl's voice came from the door, familiar and lively.

Hearing her voice, Su Mingan suddenly felt at ease.

Unlike others, Su Luoluo has no secrets or conspiracies. She is just an ordinary girl, the only one he does not need to test and defend.

 … Was Su Luoluo also a host a thousand years ago? Thousands of years ago, there was no Dream Patrol game, so she was probably live streaming computer games. He looked at the information in his hand: Su Luoluo, eighteen years old, a girl with no characteristics who had never participated in a world game. But she played an important role many times in the future in the simulator. The old gods took her from the civilian area to see what was so special about her.

 It turns out that she is still an ordinary girl. It's just that the old gods gave her the position of general.

 The door was suddenly opened, and Su Luoluo stuck his head out: "Little Yunduo? Why are you standing here? I have ended the live broadcast. You go in and sit down, and I will go downstairs to make a glass of milk."

The walls of her room are covered with anime stickers, and there are many quicksand mahjong and figures in the glass cabinet. It is a standard two-dimensional space.

Su Mingan came closer. There were many photos on the table. He originally thought it was a landscape photo, but found that it seemed to be related to him.

 The first picture is a photo of him and Su Luoluo looking at each other in "Lou Yue Kingdom". Next to the photo was written in small letters: "Dominate Lou Yue with Xiao Yunduo"!

 The second picture shows his promise to Su Luoluo to make her the most powerful entertainment dream patroller. Written in small letters next to it: "Now I realize that Xiao Yunduo is the number one dream patroller. No wonder he was so confident at the time."

 The third picture is of them transforming into orange cats and ragdoll cats, running in "Cat and Her". Next to it was written in small letters: "The rookie has become stronger, how could it be possible"!

Another one, in the photo, he is sleeping soundly on a chair, wearing a helmet and looking very quiet. The photo says "What kind of dream is Little Yunduo doing?"

He walked to school with his schoolbag on his back. Su Luoluo was waiting at the school gate. The photo read "Xiao Yunduo got off school very late today. I need to eat better tonight."

He was lying on the bed to rest, and Su Luoluo covered him with the quilt. The photo read "Little Yunduo actually slept so deeply."

 One sheet, one sheet, and another sheet.

 The last picture shows him sitting in the exam bus. Su Luoluo stood on the side of the road, watching him go away, and wrote "Goodbye, little Yunduo..."

—Actually, I think it would be fine if you didn’t want to be a hero and didn’t control the fate of so many people, but just a little cloud.

Su Mingan realized that people from a thousand years ago had also observed the simulations a thousand years later, so for them, those experiences after reincarnation were also vivid in their minds. Su Mingan misses this, and how can they get away from it. Even watching a movie will leave you with lasting insights, let alone your own life.

At this time, Su Luoluo came back, her face was stunned for a moment: "...I actually forgot that the photo was here, you, you didn't see it."

"No."

“You must have seen it. Am I going a little too far? I wrote down the future when it clearly didn’t happen…”

"No." Su Mingan repeated: "You are my good friend."

 Be it a mission or a simulation, I will never forget it.

 Thousands of years ago, Su Luoluo had almost nothing, not even his family. That's why she poured herself into the virtual network and regarded the life after a thousand years as her own. Other than that, she couldn't find anything to fill herself.

　　Su Luolo lowered his head, the uppers of his shoes scraping against the floor.

 “That…Old God…Master.”

 “Just a small cloud.”

"Little Yunduo. Although I don't know whether those futures will happen, but now that you wake up, all the futures can be created by our own hands. So, can we still get along like in the simulation?"

"Can."

"Then we..." Su Luoluo's voice was much lower: "We must see the unpolluted sunset."

 This was her wish. After the black fog hits, the sunset is always mixed with gray. She hopes that the Millennium Project will succeed.

 "I..." Su Mingan didn't finish his sentence.

 He suddenly felt that the scene around him was frozen.

The milk shaking in Su Luoluo's hand was also frozen in this moment.

 Then, it was overwhelming red.

He suddenly felt palpitations, not panic, but a feeling that his heart was being overwhelmed by something, a sense of restraint from which he could not escape.

 It was like he was trapped by something, from beginning to end.

 The next moment, red spread, and he saw an endless square. Many people stood in the square like him, looking at the sky in horror.

In my ears, the shouts of various people were mixed together:

 “Oh my god, where is this place!”

 “Mom, where are you, mom…”

 “What’s going on? Why did I suddenly appear here?”

 This scene, which he had dreamed about countless times at midnight, almost turned into a nightmare and haunted him, actually happened in front of him.

again.

 His pupils trembled violently.

 “Are you kidding me...” he whispered. He said the same words as most of the frightened people, but with a completely different mood. The expression on his face was extremely calm, but his fists were clenched.

 …When will this simulation end?

 He ​​was even more convinced that this was just a simulation, a simulation of a thousand years ago, and could not be the reality that was being staged. He can't - play the world's game within the world's game.

It is impossible for him to experience the world game completely. Even the previous copies are only gibberish. How can he be allowed to play it in person? At most, he can watch the opening ceremony. The most that can be done is to let him experience it briefly.

　　　…How long will your bad taste last?

 In his gaze that seemed to be covered with a layer of dust, the sky above the sea of ​​people came as promised—

 A big snow-white rabbit sprang out.

 Accompanied by weird cheers and trembling **** scales, the deformed big rabbit laughed happily, and the shadow enveloped everyone.

Su Mingan’s pupils shrank.

Just like countless midnight nightmares, he often had recurring dreams about the day when the world game began—that was when he began to rise from "Player One", and it was also when he began to fall from "Su Mingan".

 From that day on, the world became brighter and the world became darker.

“Woohoo—one-seventh—a billion! Everyone is here—” the rabbit called happily, staring at Su Mingan with its blood-red eyes:

“—Welcome everyone to our fourth world game!”

“Congratulations! The lucky ones who were selected, you now have the opportunity to change your destiny—!”

 Play the world game within the world game.

 The sky is full of colorful ribbons falling.

Su Mingan lowered his eyes slightly, motionless among the many doubts, fears, excitement, excitement, and confusion in his eyes, as if he was an outsider.

 Maintaining absolute silence.

 Like snowflakes.

 (End of this chapter)