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Chapter 1025 Chapter 1023 · "We have met before."

When Ying was killed by Su Wensheng, Chao Yan saw it.

Across the coast, she heard Shadow's shouts, but she couldn't break away from the fierce battle. Until Su Mingan, who had already returned once, came and he rescued her in time.

"It's...you..." she said.

The moment he met her gaze, Su Mingan looked away. This was a behavior that seemed a bit socially fearful when facing a stranger who was too close. As if he didn't dare to respond to her close gaze.

...Yes, stranger.

If Su Wensheng hadn't killed Ying, Su Mingan himself wouldn't even have come to the edge of the world. But even when facing a stranger, he still endured the burning pain and protected her.

Chaoyan bit Su Ming'an's shoulder. Of course she knew that Su Ming'an's blood was useless. She just wanted to know vengefully what he would do to a "stranger" like her who offended her.

"What are you doing!" Jamel Xiao roared.

When Chaoyan met Su Ming'an's eyes - calm, steady, like the windless sea, she was shocked to realize that there seemed to be deep years buried in these eyes.

"I understand." He simply said.

His voice was as soft as the evening wind in his ears.

This is the seventh day of the dungeon, and the battle to become a god has officially begun.

This is the best episode of the week. Su Ming'an seemed to be a prophet, announcing the start of the battle to become a god before the gods issued the oracle. He was even able to make good use of Zou Yuqing's instant death rule to instantly contain Qingniao and Mizushima Kawakora.

Temples, angels, relatives, papyrus...all kinds of false stories were made up by Su Mingan, and became the "real" myths 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, his eyes were calm, and he talked about these castles in the air with a compassionate tone - as if at this moment, Chaoyan really saw the reappearance of the old god.

While Su Ming'an was in the spotlight, she used her 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: Day 8, 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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After waking up from the church, 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 vaguely 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 Black Magpie. Next, Su Ming'an will go to Huo Mu Lier Kingdom.

"Huo Mulier 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 Supporting the Old God, Su Ming'an's strength is also improving steadily. The action I should take now... is to increase his favorability and make him start to trust me."

But she looked at Alice, who never left Su Mingan's side, and hesitated.

She knew the connection between Alice and her - she once looked in the mirror and saw her own reflection - her reflection looked like Alice. So in a sense, 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. This is a responsibility that she cannot refuse. So, I will wait for another half day, until Alice leaves... This way, it will be smoother to gain favor." Chaoyan retreated silently.

——But what she didn’t expect was that,

During the half day she was away from Su Ming'an.

——He walked to the prophecy 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:】

[Game days: Eighth day, afternoon. 】

[Internal note: No, no, no...no, no! ! 】

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

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

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

“Beep, beep, beep—”

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

The umbrella is still the original umbrella, the world is still the original world, but time is no longer the original time.

"——I will go to the sea and wait for you." The god 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 bomb explosion did not trigger his own return, he would be stuck by the gods waiting at the previous return point.

He looked at the back of the god and slowly sat down, gently pressing 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?

If he wants 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 they can't 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.

What emotions must 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.

"Sorry..." he whispered.

Maybe he's not sharp enough.

Maybe he didn't think about it enough.

Maybe he's 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?

"..."

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

at this time,

At this moment when he is waiting for the judgment of fate——

Another protagonist finally walked in front of him.

"Ta, ta, ta."

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.

Su Mingan actually felt that this scene also seemed like an absurd drama.

The girl's cheeks looked too white in the red field of view, 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 doesn't 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. The moment she saw the cracked prophecy stone wall - she knew she had failed again. It's obviously the best time, the most perfect time.

"...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 smiled.

——Until now, her efforts have been in vain.

The end of the story has already ended 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 away the faint tears on her face. Then her fingers began to tremble unnaturally, and then her whole body began to tremble - fear that everything she had done would go back to where it started, fear that their eyes would finally meet. Will fall into the void and turn back is really the most terrifying power. It will wipe out all efforts, persistence and faith, and make people become a madman when they repeatedly achieve nothing.

"Why did you..." Su Ming'an spoke slowly, and the countdown of the bomb in his body became 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.

"It's so hateful." She whispered to herself in a low voice that only she could hear.

——Because I love you passionately and 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 am very sad, but I understand that it is 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 the ninth layer.

Crash------------

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.

Crash------------

Su Ming'an stretched out his hand, as if the evening train was speeding through the heavy rain that night, the warm light diffused loosely between the fine grids of the window, and the girl gently hugged him in the cold rain on the high-rise building. Said in the ear:

[For the ninth time, you finally called my name. 】

"..." Su Mingan looked at her.

There were traces of flames burning on her cheeks - they were left behind when she burned her life on the seventh day. The pitted purple-black marks destroyed the clear beauty of her facial features.

There was a shallow knife mark on her neck - this was when she was nearly severing her neck with a knife while suppressing those politicians.

The circles under her eyes were extremely dark and blue - this was the result of the psychotropic drugs she had taken many times in order to stay awake.

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

The most glaring thing was her arms and the backs of her hands, which were covered with burns, like the densely packed stitches on a worn-out doll. They were healed and then injured, and the wounds were not healed but were destroyed again and again - these were just this week, short. The trauma endured in just eight days. And those other weeks buried in time... are hard to count.

"Didi-di-di-di-di-" The countdown is getting faster and faster.

"Because... for... me..." Her words stopped there, she shook her head, and just smiled again.

The bomb is about to explode, so many things, 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 could be seen. Even though he couldn't remember anything, he could still feel this strange - no, this familiar girl -

"The star's...promise..." His voice faded.

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

"Didi-didi-boom-!!!"

Bombs explode.

The girl who was killed along 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 flesh and blood, 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.

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The sea breeze blew Su Mingan's hair.