First Player

Chapter 1 · "[I am four millet quails.]"

But Mo Yan was still worried. He held Su Ming'an's wrist: "Brother, I will take you away and go back to see if you have been brainwashed. If you have been brainwashed, it will be terrible."

Su Mingan's pupils were covered with mist. He was dragged away by Mo Yan in a daze, and the snow-colored divine clothes were dragged along the ground.

At this moment, a white figure appeared in the tent.

"...What do you want to do to my archangel?" the god said lightly.

"Sure enough, he was still brainwashed." Mo Yan realized something was wrong. The eldest brother's expression was so stiff, he was like a puppet on strings.

"...Why do you have to say it so harshly? It's just a control mark." The god smiled softly: "Among the thousands of possibilities, there are always hundreds of possibilities. He failed to escape the angel ritual and was successfully marked. The control mark belongs to me. In this 'possibility', you can't save him."

Mo Yan didn't understand. But at least he knew that he wanted to save the big brother in his hands.

Who knows which one is the real big brother? What if it is true?

Mo Yan held his elder brother's wrist tightly and cursed rarely: "God, why are you always staring at your elder brother? You are driving him crazy. Don't tell me you are doing it for his own good. It makes me sick!"

The gods were noncommittal.

He just moved his fingers, as if there were invisible threads pulling Su Ming'an. Su Ming'an walked to the side of the god, his eyes dim and his limbs stiff.

Under the heavy crystal crown, the young man's eyes were colorless.

"...Brother." Mo Yan called out hesitantly.

Su Mingan looked down at him, the bright red control marks on his shoulder blades glowing dazzlingly. The god's hand was on his shoulder, like touching a sheep.

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A. Yamada Machichi.

B. Road.

C. Su Lin.

D. Mo Yan.

E. Su Mingan.

F. Isabella.

G. Burris.

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【E.】

The moment he saw the empty corridor, Su Mingan completely understood.

He totally got it.

One day, Zhuang Zhou was sleeping in the court and dreamed that he had turned into a butterfly, dancing gracefully and forgetting himself in joy. Unconsciously, he is Zhuang Zhou, but in fact he is just a butterfly. Then he woke up and returned to Zhuang Zhou. Zhuang Zhou asked himself, was it Zhuang Zhou who dreamed of being a butterfly? Or is the butterfly dreaming of Zhuang Zhou?

"Did Zhuang Zhou dream of being a butterfly...or did the butterfly dream of being Zhuang Zhou...?"

He remembered the system prompt at the beginning of the copy:

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[The Old World will be copied into 422 copies and around 10,000 players will be invested in the game! 】

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so,

What about "exactly the same"?

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[The magical world will be copied into 30,000 identical copies, and each copy will be invested...]

[White Sand Paradise will be copied to 1340148...]

[The Feast at Sea will be copied into 22808 identical copies...]

[The City of Measurement will be copied into 32 copies...]

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From beginning to end, the word "exactly the same" is always used in the opening prompts of all copies.

But the opening prompts for the tenth world... none.

There is no such word as "exactly the same".

It's so inconspicuous, like a fixed format, that no one is too lazy to take a second look...no one would think that there is a problem here.

If players will encounter different situations in each copy... then have all players really entered the same era?

Su Mingan suddenly thought of the term "world line convergence". He looked at the 10,000 monitoring screens and searched carefully. He suddenly discovered——

On one of the surveillance screens, there was Su Lin's figure. On the screen, Su Lin wiped the rain off Alice's head on the rooftop. But it was clearly not raining here at Su Mingan.

Su Mingan searched again and saw Yamada Machichi on another surveillance screen. There was a black cat lying on Yamada Machichi's shoulder, but the black cat was clearly left on the ground by Su Mingan and did not move at all.

"...They and I are not in the same world from beginning to end, right." Su Mingan looked at the sickle so close at hand, and the inference in his heart was established.

The voices calling him... came from a world parallel to his. Although these worlds are very close to him and the integration is very high, even to the point where he can vaguely hear sounds, they are not the same world after all.

A is a world, B is a world, C is a world, and so on - 10,000 players, each player is in an independent world.

So even though Su Ming'an could hear Su Lin's footsteps coming from the rooftop, as long as he went to the rooftop and took a look, he would find that there was no one on the rooftop.

So even if Su Ming'an could hear Yamada Machichi shouting in the corridor, as long as he turned around, he would find that the corridor was empty, and no matter how hard he searched, he would not find Yamada Machichi.

So Mo Yan would see Su Ming'an in the enemy's tent, because on Mo Yan's world line, Su Ming'an was marked by the gods with a control mark. In Su Ming'an's own "world line", he was not marked with a control mark. The person sitting in the tent should be the seriously injured Mizushima Kawakora.

staggered.

Just staggered.

If he continues to search, he should be able to find one player on each of the remaining monitoring screens until he finds the remaining 9997 players.

Invisible threads are woven between everyone. Although they are connected to each other, they seem to break at any time.

——It turns out that this is a fake [single-player copy].

What isolates 10,000 players is the world line. If the edge of the world had not been crossed, they would never have crossed paths.

Su Mingan looked sideways and saw "Su Lin" standing in front of the surveillance screen that was burned to ashes.

"...I don't believe it." "Su Lin" also turned around and met Su Ming'an's eyes. The dark golden eyes seemed to have been stripped of color. He was so proud, how could he accept this truth.

Under the vast surveillance screen, it looked like a black and white electronic barrier... Su Mingan also felt a sense of powerlessness in language.

There seemed to be some kind of violent turmoil inside his chest, trying to tear him apart, but he just maintained his composure on the surface, while his fingertips were trembling uncontrollably.

...Only he is real.

...On this "world line", only he is real. Ten thousand players have been in different world lines, or eras, since the beginning...

There is a player born in the steam era. In that era, he/she is the only player and the [protagonist] of the era. The other players around him/her are all fake. In the same way, each of the other 9,999 world lines has only one real player.

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[Wooty bait, I am four millet quails, if I am in trouble, I will not be tired]

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This was a message Su Mingan received before. He felt that it was a signal left by Noel to remind him that "fake Noel may exist." Translated, it is [Noel, I am Su Mingan. If this line is confusing, it means that you and I are not in the same dimension. 】

Now I find that this is wrong.

——Person is basically the opposite. This is clearly the signal Su Mingan left for Noel.

But Su Mingan never left such a signal to Noel. It can only be left by "Fake Su Ming'an" to Noel, but where did "Fake Su Ming'an" come from?

One of the other nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine world lines.

In every world line, there should be a fake Su Ming'an. In each world line, apart from the player himself, the other 9999 players he/she encounters are all fake.

--There are only four exceptions.

First, it’s Noel. Noel came across the edge of the world. He broke the barriers between world lines, so Su Mingan met True Noel.

Second, it was Lu Shu. Lu Shu is a follower, and followers will always be with the player. This is the rule of the world game, so what Su Mingan met must be the real Lu Shu.

Third, is Su Lin. Su Lin also has the ability to cross the edge of the world, so when Su Mingan and Su Lin switch bodies, the one should be the real Su Lin. It's just that now Su Lin has been replaced by fake Su Lin. I don’t know whether Zhensu Lin is still in the hometown of the gods, or whether he has gone to another world line.

Fourth, is Yueyue. Yueyue is a special observer, she has always been true.

There are only these four exceptions, and the other players... there is a high probability that they are not true. But as the Tower and Dream Patrol games progress, the integration of the ten thousand world lines deepens, and the world lines will affect each other - so Su Mingan can hear the voices of Yamada Machichi and others.

At the same time, the actions of the real players will be simultaneously mapped to the other 9,999 world lines, so the people in Yamada Town and others will see Su Mingan enter the central control room. Su Ming'an will also see the figures of Yamada Machichi and others approaching the central control room.

But in fact, both sides are missing out - what both sides see is a reflection of another world line. Just like Zhuang Zhou dreaming of butterflies, butterflies dreaming of Zhuang Zhou.

The person in the mirror, the moon in the water.

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["Regarding the recent urban air strikes, the old Holy See confessed. At noon today, Daoya City also suffered an air strike. Nineteen artillery shells were dropped, causing countless casualties...\