First Player

Chapter 366 Chapter 364·BE13·"New World"

From Yinke's back, Su Mingan saw the players below as small as ants, scattered like black spots in the streets and alleys of the island.

The wind and snow were blowing in front of him. He lowered his head and buried his face in the crow's feathers to avoid the too strong wind and snow.

The soul hunting suit he was still wearing was a bit thin, and coupled with the large amount of blood loss, he now felt cold from the inside out.

"...Su Ming'an." Noel's voice came slowly from the side through the wind and snow: "What do you think God is?"

"Sorry, I'm in a bad mood right now." Su Mingan buried her head in the still warm feathers.

In the past, he would have discussed this topic with Noel, but now, he only felt tired.

Enduring fatigue, resisting the cold, and always thinking about the next move is indeed not a pleasant experience.

There was no answer from his side, but Noel started talking himself.

"In the current world, the human world has entered the information age. They are good at storing information, transforming information, and sharing information... If there is no world game, lasting quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes. If this continues, their achievements in science and technology will It will get higher and higher, higher and higher...

In addition to informatization, their progress in biology is also remarkable. I believe that the synthesis of real life with flesh and blood and thoughts is actually not too far away.

Human beings... can integrate information, mine ideas, and even, in the not-too-distant future, they can create life. "

Noel's voice came through the wind and snow, and seemed a little muffled.

"Su Ming'an, do you think such human beings are in line with our previous vision of 'gods'?"

Su Mingan breathed a sigh of relief.

His frozen hands regained a little warmth. He raised his head and looked at the city in the clouds, which was not too far away.

Their height was already close to that city.

He felt that his heart was beating faster and faster, and his breathing was getting faster and faster. The reaction caused by the high altitude had begun to affect him.

"...Su Mingan?"

Su Mingan tilted his head: "Noel, I don't want to talk about this for the time being."

He raised his eyelids.

He met a pair of ice blue eyes.

Tiny blue scales grew next to Noel's cheeks, and Noel's exceptionally blue, glass-like eyes were watching him silently.

He could see the calmness and indifference in Noel's eyes.

"Why there is lightning, wind and rain, it's because of God." Noel said: "Why the land produces food and plants grow naturally, because of God - this is the concept of ignorant people a long time ago."

Su Mingan looked at him.

He could see tiny bloodshot threads intertwining and curling under the other person's eyes, like solidified waves.

"...and ignorance has run through the entire history of mankind, including us now, and we cannot escape the restrictions of 'ignorance'." Noel looked at him: "So, what is the higher dimension in our eyes? It cannot be A great being of resistance, or an opportunist who is lucky enough to gain power and can be completely overthrown by us? Do you think gods can travel through endless timelines, and can humans become such 'gods'? "

"Noel." Su Mingan interrupted the other party directly: "You have definitely met the sea monster. Don't say these words. Let's get down from the sky first."

Noel's words are too dangerous.

Perhaps due to mental influence, Noel could no longer keep calm and actually said such words in front of a live broadcast around the world.

He would not let Noel become the next Haru Mizushima who was targeted to death.

"——This journey has begun, and there will be no return." Noel smiled as if he had gotten the answer.

At this moment, his voice was extremely passionate:

"——Su Mingan, I will lead you to your 'new world'."

Even Su Ming'an didn't understand the riddle Noel was telling at this time.

The Riddler met his opponent, but he couldn't understand what the opponent was saying.

He watched Noel take out a silver-white controller, and watched Noel's hand press on the controller.

White snow fell on his fingertips.

"Su Mingan."

At this moment, Noel's voice suddenly became choked. He turned his head and looked at Su Ming'an with an extremely complicated and hopeful look:

"...I love all the people in this world."

Suddenly, Su Mingan's attention suddenly shifted to the other side, which was Ying's perspective.

Alcherev, whose whole body was covered with transparent silk threads, suddenly appeared among the soul hunters who were about to leave. His cane was already pointed at Ying.

Su Mingan immediately wanted to remind Ying.

"Bang!"

Blood flowers exploded in his field of vision on the other side.

His chest was filled with piercing phantom pain.

Noel put down the silk controller in his hand stiffly.

"...You are really well prepared." Su Mingan endured the pain and said.

Shadow is dead.

Died at the hands of Alcherev in a sudden attack.

And Archerev's body was still wrapped with Noel's thread.

The thread that can control Alcherev... Su Mingan doesn't believe that players at this stage can have such perverted skills.

Either it was some kind of one-time unique equipment, or Noel took advantage of some features in the copy.

Noel used such a hard-won thing to control Alcherev... and then actually chose to kill Shadow.

Su Mingan did have the intention to test Noel, and this position was indeed not very good. He needed to turn back, so it was better to see if Noel would take action before he died.

But he didn't expect that Noel would not only take action, but also take action so simply.

Noel's expression was a little stiff.

He seemed to be brewing some emotion.

"Now you have no way out." Noel said softly: "Or, you can choose to kill me here and then jump down. It doesn't matter, if you are sure that you can accurately grasp the distance of spatial displacement after falling from high altitude. "

Su Mingan ignored him.

His eyes were pointed in the direction of Yun Shangcheng, as if he was waiting to see something.

"Even after I said so many strange things, you weren't nervous at all." Noel laughed from behind: "It seems that my guess is correct."

Su Mingan did not respond to Noel.

The crow is flying closer and closer.

He could already vaguely see a corner of the city in the sky.

It was a piece of white jade-like ground with no snow falling on it. The city in the clouds was very beautiful, completely separated from the wind and snow outside.

Noel's somewhat noisy voice continued to come from behind. This man seemed obsessed with talking to himself.

"...Su Mingan, I will probably end my journey here, because I already know from the Central Library that I was influenced by the Siren King." Noel said: "This kind of influence... I can't do it on my own. Solve it. And if I want to save myself, there is only one way..."

The outline of the city in the clouds has gradually become clearer.

Su Mingan grabbed the hair on the crow's back and crawled forward little by little. Using his hands and feet, he gradually climbed up to its neck.

Noel's voice came from behind: "Have you seen it? What that city looks like in the sky."

Su Mingan raised his eyes and looked up.

——That is an extremely beautiful city in the clouds...or rather, a church.

Soaring towers, glittering church domes, crystal clear steps and gems.

Two armored men holding weapons guarded the church, with golden light rising from their bodies.

Nothing else.

There are no people walking around this beautiful church, no residents of Praia from sixty years ago, not even a breath of life. Apart from the church, there was only a wide platform and not even a shadow of other buildings.

…This is just an empty, model-like church.

There is no trace of human life at all, just like a dead city.

…

[Perfect clearance progress: 70%]

[Exploration degree: 90%]

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"Is what you saw helpful to you? After seeing the appearance of Cloud City, can you find a way to remove the influence of the Kraken?" Noel turned his head and asked him.

"...It helps a lot. As for the Siren, maybe." Su Mingan said.

"Then I'll be relieved." Noel smiled.

"Are you helping me?" Su Mingan didn't understand Noel's behavior that seemed like an enemy but also a friend.

"Of course I'm helping you. Aren't we good teammates?" Noel responded innocently.

"Then why did you kill Ying?" Su Mingan turned around and confronted him.

Noel smiled and said nothing, just stretched out his hand and touched Yinke's head.

Yin Ke tilted her head affectionately and rubbed his hand.

Noel seemed not to care about the current danger at all, and his tone was still very relaxed:

"Su Ming'an, I forgot to tell you. According to the information I know, when we rise to high altitudes, there will be poisonous gas around us that cannot be dispelled. In other words, when you see Yunzhong City, your life will be gone. How long has it been raining?"

Su Mingan looked at his status bar in the upper left corner.

He was too deeply affected by the dizziness, and only now did he realize that he had another debuff called "Poison Gas".

[Debuff (Cloud City Poison Gas): Affected by Cloud City Poison Gas, blood will be reduced by 1% per second. This state cannot be dispelled. 】

…

"Is this your 'help' to me?" Su Mingan looked at Noel: "What you call help is that you dragged me to die with you when you knew that you were affected by the sea monster and could not turn back?"

When he said this, the pain in his chest still lingered.

The barrage in the upper right corner has gone crazy. The audience can't believe that the world's number one and the world's number two will fall here, in an extremely absurd way, like an infighting.

It's almost like a joke.

"Su Ming'an, although the ending is death, in this way, you can clearly see what Yunzhong City looks like, right?" Noel laughed.

"Then why did you kill Ying?" Su Mingan asked.

Noel's eyes suddenly softened: "Because it will be more convenient for you."

"..." Su Mingan's voice was trembling: "What's convenient?"

"Su Ming'an." Noel's hand stroked the black crow's head, and his voice slowly floated up through the wind and snow:

"——How do you think it will be easier for you if I kill Ying?"

Noel's words sounded like thunder in Su Mingan's ears.

In an instant, a flood of emotions filled his mind.

His eyes widened slightly, and the question he had prepared was blocked in his mouth for a moment.

For him, the only benefit of killing Shadow is...

...to facilitate his quick return.

The wind and snow are getting heavier and heavier.

At this moment, he could barely hear his own voice, as if a hand suddenly grasped his heart.

At this time, in front of him, the young boy sitting on the crow's back straightened up.

As if asking for a hug from death and the wind and snow, he suddenly laughed and opened his hands cheerfully:

"—Go and welcome your new world, Su Ming'an—go and save the ignorant me, Su Ming'an!" He laughed loudly, and his laughter seemed to pass through the shackles of wind and snow, and spread outside like heavy snow. out.

He smiled, with a faint sob coming from his throat, buzzing like a broken bellows.

...like an explorer who finds a secret, like a voyager who discovers a new world.

Covered in blood, the blond boy standing in the snow opened his arms to the snow and poisonous gas in the sky with an attitude that was not afraid of death.

"--If my death can help you, if my death can make you trust me--then, believe in me, save me, regard me as your best partner--take me, Consider him a great explorer who sacrificed his life for the unknown!"

The white snow covered Noel's frostbitten skin like a robe covered with velvet.

He laughed heartily, and the outstretched hand gradually began to freeze. The poisonous gas that had been latent for a long time infected his face, and the scales on the young man's face began to gradually break.

In the field of vision with white as the main image, Su Mingan saw that the golden hair that seemed to be shining in the sun was gradually stained with snow.

At this moment, the other party's eyes, which were gradually losing their luster, were particularly bright in his eyes.

"Bang!"

Noel's hand pushed up his chest.

The smiling second player opened his almost transparent lips.

In his eyes, there was a bright and flamboyant color like a fanatic.

"Su Mingan."

"...Go and embrace your new world."

The high-pitched announcement came through the swirling wind and snow.

The snow-white sky fell in front of Su Mingan's eyes.

On top of the giant crow, the figure gradually turned into an ice sculpture, still standing there, arms spread wide, as if embracing the whole world.

The violent wind and snow blew across Su Mingan's face, and there was still strong shock in his eyes.

...No. 2 in the world.

This is number two in the world.

He is not a little kid who has been lucky enough to reach this point, nor is he a young boy who only knows how to act cute and go to the amusement park to have fun.

…He is Noel.

It is the second in the whole world.

He actually guessed Su Ming'an's death reversion skill.

In fact, Noel guessed that after they ascended to the Cloud City, they would never return.

He anticipated his own end and knew that if he continued like this, sooner or later he would be alienated by the residual influence of the Kraken, and he had to save himself.

But Su Ming'an was extremely distrustful of him at this time. If he just waited, he couldn't guarantee that Su Ming'an would definitely save him later.

so,

so,

Before facing the doomed ending of death,

He chose "self-rescue".

A "self-rescue" based on the premise of "self-death".

He took Su Ming'an up to the sky and showed him the sight of Yunzhong City - and then forced Su Ming'an to trust him in a true sense. Looking forward to the next turnaround, Su Mingan can save him.

He was not even sure what kind of repercussions Su Ming'an's death would cause, whether he could be truly saved, or whether he was only saving Noel in a parallel world.

But he did it anyway.

Because as an "adventurer", I am always curious about the unknown.

Noel is the only person Su Ming'an has met along the way, traveling through the timeline, who can even take advantage of his death reversal.

…

【Su Mingan. 】

[Do you think, can gods travel through endless timelines? 】

[…And can humans become such ‘gods’? 】

…

The shock of Noel's behavior replaced the panic of being discovered.

More wind and snow came up, like a heavy rain, and when it fell, it stuck to Su Ming'an's thoughts like glue.

The white color kept fading in front of my eyes, replaced by floating dark light and shadow, like a glimpse of white snowflakes.

At the moment of falling, Su Mingan suddenly felt unprecedentedly relaxed.

Travelers once looked at each other across the boat.

...and now they finally see their partners.

Whether high-dimensional creatures have discovered it is not mentioned for now, but if Noel has discovered this.

...Then has he found another "isolated island"?

He suddenly laughed.

He laughed out loud as he fell rapidly.

A strong sense of dizziness and tingling pierced his brain. At this time, every cell in his body seemed to be roaring, and a flame-like pain burned his upper body.

But he laughed happily as if it didn't hurt.

...Foolish humans cannot create the unknown and glimpse the light of the sky as easily as gods can.

Then, they learn to use what they have, rack their brains, break off their bones, burn their lives, shatter their souls,

——And raised the flames of war against the gods in the sky.

They are weak, ignorant, only have a short life, a shallow vision, and cannot cross the so-called timeline.

...but can use everything "known" to calculate everything "unknown" in order to save the so-called "future".

If you still can't win, then wait until the next round and go back. If you still can't see the light of day, then pass the torch to the next person.

No one is unaware of their despicability and desires.

However, the remaining nobility and faith have allowed this group of "explorers" to continue burning in the darkness to this day.

In their eyes,

——It has been engraved with tens of millions of scars belonging to our compatriots.

…

[If my death can help you, if my death can make you trust me——]

[Then - believe me. Save me. Consider me your best friend. 】

【——Think of me as a great explorer who sacrificed his life for the unknown——】

…

【——Su Mingan! 】

【...Go and embrace your new world. 】

…

…

"Bang!"