First Player

Chapter 3 · "Youth Network Systems."

Alice's confused eyes came into Su Mingan's eyes.

She stood at a loss under the light of the statue, while the white-haired bishops and nuns knelt down devoutly before her. At this time, she looked exactly like Su Ming'an, who was admired by everyone as the number one player.

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"Ding dong!"

[Trigger the side plot: The Road of the Goddess]

[Tip: You can agree to let Alice become a goddess, or refuse. Different options will lead to different plot directions. 】

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Alice has been chosen as the savior of this era. Does she really have the power to say "no"?

Su Mingan also had no right to say "no" at the beginning. Not because he can't, but because he doesn't want to, he can't turn a blind eye to responsibility.

"Sir Detective..." In the quiet church, Alice stretched out her hand to Su Ming'an. But she took half a step forward and did not approach him after all. Instead, she stayed under the light of the statue and surrounded by everyone. She didn't run away.

Her eyes trembled, and finally she smiled.

"Detective sir, do you know what I'm thinking?"

"Hmm...?" Su Ming'an looked up.

"I was thinking...Issie has loved playing the violin since she was a child. He is in poor health and doesn't like to learn swordsmanship. Every time he gives me an instrument, I use too much force and break the strings. Others say I am a violent woman, but he thinks My hand holding the sword like this is also very beautiful. I’m thinking... one day, I can protect him with such violent hands." Alice said:

"Diff is a quiet guy who spends all day hunting in the forest. But every time he comes to see me, he will try to wash the blood off his body. He will teach me archery, although I have no talent and always scare the rabbits away. "

"Wendel is a shy knight. Every time I go to the royal city to talk to him, he will blush. He will always address me with honorifics. Even if I ask him to call my name, he will solemnly add the honorific. Words. Over the years, I can always see him helping people eradicate alien species. Even if a child gets lost, he will patiently send the child home. He is a very good person, and I don’t want him to die in the war.”

"Pat... is the guy who grew up with me in the slums. He cheats and cheats, but sometimes he is very principled. He uses all the money to relieve the slums. Others call him a wild boy because he is like Like a wolf. If the war reaches the town, the slums he desperately protects will no longer exist."

"Meimi, the neighbor's gardener, has always been with me. When you were away, Detective, she taught me how to comb my hair and how to choose a skirt. She also helped me cultivate the lily garden that Grandpa Maxi asked me to take care of. .I don’t want those flowers to be burned.”

"There is also... a bard I met recently. His name is Xiao Hei. He always holds a harp and plays songs in the square. When I feel a little confused, I always run into him. He He will tell me a lot of life philosophy."

"These people, these things... I cherish them all. The past three years have been the happiest days of my life. You picked me up from the slums and made me become a child with no name." Alice'."

"Now, in order to protect these people, I can also let 'Alice' become 'Tasliche'."

Alice lowered her head and smiled:

"It's okay... Detective."

"Children who refuse to grow up will sooner or later be pushed by the world to grow up... It's time for me to grow up."

Su Mingan said: "You won't run away, will you?"

Alice said: "Yes."

Alice accepted this fate.

Although she herself doesn’t know why her mediocre self became the goddess of this generation. She has no idea how to save this era.

The bishop's grandfather said that when she turns sixteen, she can come to the church and officially become a priest. She still has one last year of freedom.

Su Mingan and Alice left the church, and the priests and nuns kept seeing them off respectfully. Alice tried to say hello to the nuns as usual, but all she received was the frightened and awed looks of the nuns.

"Lord Tasliche... please stop treating us like this. We are not worthy of your treatment. You are already a goddess!"

Then Alice fell silent.

Tonight is the last day of the year, and the town holds festivals every year. But now with curfew, the streets are quiet.

On the way home, Su Mingan heard the sound of Xianqin. Sitting beside the fountain in the square was a handsome black-haired boy. The young man fiddled with the gorgeous harp in his hand and hummed softly, his voice comparable to the most beautiful sacred music.

"Blackie!" Alice said.

This young man's name is Xiao Hei, he is her friend and a bard. He was always elusive and gave her a very mysterious feeling.

As soon as Alice called out his name, Xiao Hei smiled slightly, turned around and left, walking very quickly.

Alice said: "Xiao Hei seems unwilling to chat with us... By the way, Mr. Detective."

"What's wrong?" Su Mingan said.

Alice took out two wooden signs: "Today is the day of the festival. According to custom, everyone will write their wishes on the peace charms. I bought two peace charms before, let's write them together."

Su Mingan took the peace charm and wrote down his wish.

Under the dim light, their shadows were reflected in the water of the fountain, swaying slightly with the ripples of the water. In the lower right corner of Su Mingan's vision, characters were beating quietly.

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[Girl: What did you write? 】

[Detective: I want you to live well and still be Alice, not Tasliche. 】

[Girl: I also guessed that you would write like this. 】

[Detective: What are you writing about? 】

[Girl: Guess? 】

[Detective: Please pray that I live well and stay with you all the time. 】

[Girl: Correct answer, then guess what wish I made for my birthday last year? 】

[Detective: It should be the same. You want me to live well. 】

[Girl (sigh): So, why are we all making wishes for each other, hoping that the other person will live well, instead of thinking about ourselves? 】

[Detective (stunned):...]

[Girl: ...Because we all know that our wishes are somewhat unrealistic. None of us believed that we could live well. But he sincerely hopes and prays that the other person can live a long life. 】

[Girl: For ourselves, we will all be very rational, but for each other, we will subconsciously think from an emotional perspective and send the best wishes in our hearts. 】

【detective:……】

[Girl: But why don’t you make a wish for a long life? 】

[Girl: But why don’t you make a wish that we all live a long life? Is it because you are afraid that if you add unrealistic wishes, your wishes will no longer have the effect of being realized? 】

[Detective: Alice...]

[Girl: I have heard about you in recent years. It is said that you also suddenly became a savior in people's eyes one day. Just like I did tonight. At that time, you must have been quite overwhelmed, with so many pairs of eyes staring at you. I think you came here to train me in order to save your own world. 】

[Girl: You are really nice. 】

[Girl: You are saving two worlds at the same time. 】

【detective:……】

[Girl: The blue full moon tonight is so beautiful...The moon is always beautiful. 】

[Girl: Just like I hope you will always be the detective, I will always be Alice. 】

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Alice's slightly bright eyes made Su Mingan speechless.

He held the peace talisman full of handwriting tightly in his hand, and then followed Alice's movements and hung the peace talisman on the big banyan tree.

She clasped her hands together and made a sincere wish. As her eyes closed, those beautiful purple gemstones were hidden under her eyelids, with only her eyelashes trembling slightly.

"Sir Detective, starting from next year, can I ask you for a wish? Think of it as your birthday gift to me. I want to save this wish first, one every year. When I am eighteen years old, you can help me Let’s make it happen together.”

"Can."

The breeze from the street ruffled his forehead.

The girl was smiling, and her hands, which were covered with sword cocoons and no longer delicate, took him. The pads of his fingers rubbed against her raised sword cocoons, and even the fine lines could be felt.

He fastened the felt hat on his head, held her hand, and walked back bit by bit. On the way he met the old man Morgan Maxey. The old man was still patrolling the alien species in the middle of the night and said hello to Su Ming'an.

"It's been three years since I first met you, young man." Morgan said: "At that time, you still liked to stick to people everywhere, but now it has become much more normal. You look like you will never age, and your appearance has not changed. .”

"Thank you for taking care of Alice all these years." Su Mingan still remembered this old man.

"When you get old, you have to do something meaningful." Morgan smiled: "When I was young, it was a turbulent time..."

After chatting, they said goodbye to each other. Su Mingan sent Alice home. When he wanted to taste the spring cakes she made, he suddenly felt his vision begin to fluctuate violently.

"Detective Sir, what's wrong with you, Detective Sir, Detective Sir...!!" Alice shouted anxiously. Su Mingan's five senses gradually disappeared...

Su Mingan opened his eyes.

The god held the Dream Patrol helmet and stood beside the bed looking at him. Her posture is like that of a mother trying to grab her child's game console.

Su Mingan touched his head and found that the gods had forcibly taken off his Dream Patrol helmet, causing the game to be forced to exit.

"You have been playing for more than five hours. Take a break at the right time." The god said.

"...Are you guest-starring in the anti-addiction system for teenagers?" Su Mingan said.

"Your average sleep time these days is no more than three hours." The god said, "You will be sluggish, and I still need you. If humans stay up all night for a long time, their brains will become stupid and their memory will become poor."

Su Mingan was silent. Does the god care about him? This approach is too strong.

"You didn't eat a bite of the sweet cake I made for you. You didn't drink a bite of the black tea I made for you." The god said coldly, "But you enjoyed it in the game."

Su Mingan: "..."

He looked at the black tea and sweet cakes that had gone cold on the table.

The god said somewhat coldly: "You rest for an hour, and then perform the ceremony to become an angel. Goodbye."

He hugged the Dream Patrol Helmet and left.

Su Mingan finally realized that the gods did have very contradictory feelings towards him. The gods looked like his friends and enemies. She not only has good intentions similar to longing for him, but can also ruthlessly carry out actions that are not beneficial to him.

He is lying on the bed. Since I can't play games, I can only sleep now.

When he fell asleep, Changge opened his eyes. Changge's face had an extremely complicated expression, as if he had learned some special information. As a night player, the system will occasionally inform him of some useful information, and he can freely choose whether to inform Su Mingan of this information.

But Changge thought for a long time, remained silent, and lay back on the bed.

An hour later, Su Mingan woke up and got out of bed to move his body.

As soon as he put on his coat, the god suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Let's go, it's time to hold the ceremony." The god held Su Ming'an's hand.

"What kind of ceremony does it take to become an angel? Can't you just say it?" Su Mingan said.

The spirit pulled him out of the room. Fifty oil paintings hung quietly in the scarlet corridor, and the flickering candlelight reflected on their intertwined hands, making Su Mingan feel dizzy.

They walked to a church. The faint morning light fell through the stained glass, and the myth of an angel killing a python was painted on the wall. Looking at these murals, at this moment, Su Mingan suddenly remembered the scripture he had read before.

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[In ancient times, there was an "old god" who once blessed mankind with good weather, but the old god has disappeared for thousands of years, and today's god is called the "Shangshen". 】

[Some people say that it was God who expelled and killed the old gods, and plundered the old gods’ attendants—the three archangels and the two major dependents. 】

[The angel of judgment who fell into the mortal world is named "Bi Luo". The angel of order who is in charge of the rules is named "Light". The killing angel in charge of punishment is named "Angbu". The familiar spirit whose body is all white is named "Buster". The dependent spirit whose whole body is black is named "Ra". 】

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Now Su Mingan already knows that the "old god" is himself, which needs to be verified. "Shangshen" is today's god. So who do the three great angels and the two great dependents correspond to?

People always subconsciously ignore language translation issues. After all, all the languages ​​he comes into contact with are translated by the system, so there will be no problem of language barrier. Just look at the text and you'll understand what this means.

But he has actually been ignoring one situation -

Will the system transliterate some names according to the common language of Zhai Xing people?

For people from the Dragon Kingdom like Su Mingan, what he saw was that the name of Long Guofeng was translated according to the semantics of the Dragon Kingdom characters, while the name of the foreign style was transliterated according to the common language.

Su Mingan suddenly realized this. He had never thought about this before.

If it is really a transliteration, then——

Angel of Order "Light" - L-I-G-H-T?

Killing Angel "Umbu" - U-M-B-R-A?

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Light——Ming.

Umbra - shadow.