First Player

Chapter 1 · "He looked back in the snow."

"call……"

The cold wind blew past his ears, and Su Mingan was afraid that he would go back to a point where he was "unable to save", such as the early morning when he fell asleep and he had no time to do anything.

His vision gradually became clearer, and he saw the light reflecting off the broken glass on the ground, and Tredia standing in the corridor.

Seeing this scene, Su Mingan suddenly felt relaxed.

It was now approaching eleven o'clock in the evening, and Lin Guang was still lying in the recovery cabin, so everything had a chance.

The only way he can think of now is to let the bionic body send part of the local army to support Yueyue's escort team. This order is not too unpredictable, but... there is a high probability that it will be too late.

As for the clone Ming, he is on his way to the City of God. Ming, as the fighting force that can compete with Lin Guang head-on, cannot be mobilized.

Su Lin and others are on the front line, fighting against those from the high-power god camp, and they cannot leave.

If he wanted to save Yueyue without sacrificing victory in the war, he could only rely on himself.

He now needs to consider four aspects of the situation at the same time.

First, Lin Guang could launch a nuclear explosion at any time. Second, Tredia is in unstable condition. Third, Yamada Machichi, who has been controlled and tamed by Lin Guang, but knows nothing about it. Fourth, Red-eyed Noel and others are responsible for interception on the first floor.

Yueyue's escort was completely wiped out at 1:40 in the morning. And her death time was earlier, maybe even just after midnight. She was one of the Guardsmen who died relatively early.

What can he do to save her and stop the nuclear explosion at the same time?

"boom--!"

Su Mingan's vision had just cleared. The next moment, Lin Guang woke up in the recovery cabin. Tredia detonated a pulse bomb in an attempt to kill Lin Guang.

There was a buzzing sound, the fire shot into the sky, and the impact swept through most of the corridor. Tredia rushed into the room and killed Lin Guang, who had just woken up.

Su Ming'an also rushed in instead of waiting in the corridor.

After Tredia entered the room in the last episode, she suddenly became confused, and was eventually pierced by a red hose and became a hostage. Su Mingan must follow her to ensure that there will be no problems in this link.

As he walked around, he could clearly feel the heavy debuffs on this body, the residual effects of anesthesia, the side effects of the mental stabilization capsule, the lack of energy in the body... all kinds of negative effects popped up like crazy. The double image in front of his eyes was blurry, as if his whole body was swollen and soaked in water. Tredia's bombs are electronic pulses, not direct flames. They will cause burn-like damage to human skin and texture.

"Teacher, you-" Tredia did not expect that Su Mingan would rush in regardless of the danger. His exposed skin was becoming charred at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Leave me alone, kill Lin Guang!" Su Ming'an said coldly.

Tredia only hesitated for a moment and then continued forward.

Several robots stood firmly in front of her. Tredia's hands were like sharp blades cutting through the metal. With a twist of her fingers, the robots were torn apart by her claw-like hands, "dinging, clanking, clanging". The parts shattered on the ground.

The fire wave blew her long hair, and she held a robot with one claw, like a lion tearing apart its prey. The firelight swept across the side of her face, and she was like a female war goddess in flames.

——And Su Mingan also saw the light in the flames.

Half of the white-haired young man's body was scorched, one eye almost fell out of its socket, and scarlet scars like whip marks appeared on his pale face. When he saw Su Ming'an, Lin Guang just smiled without surprise.

He was bathed in firelight and moonlight, and the scarlet moonlight all over the ground was like an ocean.

"Luvis, happy New Year's Eve." Lin Guang said stumblingly, blood streaks running down the side of his face.

Lin Guang raised his hand, and a line of text floated quietly on his hand. It was a program-like command:

【D-R-E-A-D】

Tredia suddenly stopped moving.

Staring at this line of characters, her expression suddenly changed from anger to disbelief, doubt, sadness... In the end, only despair remained on her face. She paused on the spot, motionless, like a still robot.

Su Mingan took a step back.

Last week...it seemed to be the same situation.

At that time, Tredia was inexplicably still indoors, which allowed Lin Guang to go to the rooftop. Today the situation is the same.

"...The command D-R-E-A-D is a command for the [two-dimensional] data world. I can make a person suddenly remember that she is just a program." Lin Guang's hoarse voice sounded, and his eyes were full of haze. , his eyes were like cold needles: "Luvis, they are all programs, you can't [change] anything, the ending has already been written..."

"Tredia!" Su Mingan ignored Lin Guang at all and tried to wake up Tredia. But she just stood there, as if being hit by the huge data flow, and lost response to the outside world.

"Luvis..." Linguang called him softly.

"Boom——!" Su Mingan raised his wrist, and a strong spatial vibration instantly exploded in the room!

Under the vibration, the ground cracked and sank. Su Mingan himself was thrown away by the powerful impact, and his back hit the ground in the corridor hard. He coughed up a mouthful of blood, and the bright red blood bloomed like flowers on the ice-white ground, and there was a faint moist feeling on the back of his head flowing down his spine.

"呲呲——" He was lying on the cold ground, and the heavy snow from the broken glass poured endlessly into the corridor, and the frost and snow instantly dyed his hair white.

The cold wind poured into his nose and lungs, blocking his breathing. His body felt like falling into a cold ice pool. At this moment, his thoughts seemed to be frozen. He was so dazed that he almost forgot what he was going to do.

He must have looked very embarrassed now. The blood in his coat was frozen, condensing on his body like red frost. When he managed to get up, he could hear the sound of his bones twisting and "clicking".

If he didn't choose to turn back, he and Su Lin should be walking leisurely on the street in the daytime, laughing and talking in the warm banquet hall, enjoying everyone's respect and blessings.

Even though everything was over, he actually wanted to go back to hell and struggle again.

"——Su Ming'an! Catch it!" A figure from Yamadacho flashed around the corner of the corridor, and a wheelchair was thrown towards him. Like the previous week, Yamada Machichi sent a wheelchair.

Su Mingan stretched out his hand and almost missed it. The wheelchair hit his side with a clang, almost crushing his leg.

"Yeah..."

"I understand, doctor, I will send you to the rooftop." AI Yeya's calm voice came.

The wheelchair spun half a circle on the ground, carrying him through the gap in the floor-to-ceiling glass and rushing into the night, accurately avoiding the blocking robot that rushed out from the top. The blue barrier flowed like water, protecting the almost silent person in the wheelchair. Black-haired young man.

Su Mingan was shivering from the cold. He raised his head and looked up stiffly - 111th floor, 112th floor, 113th floor...

This week, he was one step faster than Lin Guang.

The black clouds pressed down like a thick curtain, and only the faint light of the aviation obstruction lights on the top level could be seen. The battlefield in the distance was blazing with fire, and the sound of fighting penetrated through the thick wind and snow.

Everyone is fighting for survival, and their fates collide fiercely in the changing world.

"——Lovis!" Hysterical shouting came from below. The white-haired young man, whose body was stained with blood and his flesh was curled up, stretched out his arms high, as if he wanted to cross a distance of tens of meters and pull Su Ming'an, but he could only see Su Ming'an. Rising higher and higher...

"Do you want this person to die! Lewis! Stop!" Linguang grabbed Yamada Machichi and lifted him high.

But Su Mingan ignored it and didn't even look back.

The wind and snow dyed his hair white, and frost covered his burned skin. His face was expressionless, like a stone sculpture, pale and silent, solemn and solemn.

The barrage flooded the screen like crazy, saying that the first player actually didn't care about his teammates, but thanks to Yamada Machichi, he risked his life and death to save him.

[It was Luna who sacrificed for him before, but now it’s Yamada Machichi’s turn? Noel was invaded by Tawei, and Lu Shu disappeared - whoever gets close to Su Mingan will be unlucky. 】

[Although I like Su Ming'an, Yamada Machichi is also very pitiful...]

[Why did a good New Year’s Eve end up in such trouble? Why can't everyone have a beautiful New Year with Kazuma... Yamada Machichi sacrificed voluntarily, and we as outsiders should not blame him. 】

[It’s hard not to feel chilled. Su Mingan doesn’t look like a human being at all. He doesn’t even look back. He is just a machine that can pass the level perfectly. Yamada Machichi's life is not even comparable to his clearance progress bar. 】

【……】

Yamada Machichi doesn't feel sad.

He just closed his eyes and accepted his fate. Although he also felt regretful, Su Ming'an had always been the calmest and most rational person, and it was impossible for him to give up on perfect clearance just because of one person.

The ones who have the least position to criticize Su Ming'an are the casual players who are having New Year's Eve dinner in a warm room, and those viewers who think they are superior.

"...Goodbye." Yamada Machichi muttered to himself.

The next moment, Lin Guang stretched out his hand and twisted Yamada Machichi's right arm with a "click"——

"Crack", a crisp sound, exploded simultaneously in Su Mingan's right arm.

Su Mingan's face was distorted by pain for a moment. He raised his numb left hand and injected the last dose of Johnson \u0026 Johnson into his neck. The lost blood volume increased rapidly, and a status prompt of "Right Arm Disability" was left on the status bar.

Yamadacho was stunned for a moment. His right arm, which was supposed to be broken off, was fine. A streak of golden light wrapped around his right arm, flowing upward like a galaxy, pouring into Su Ming'an's right arm in the sky.

…

[Noah's Chain (Gold Level): "Death can conquer the entire world, our love will last forever, and life will never die."

Effect 1: You can select any player and let him or her share any hostile damage you receive in the next 3 seconds, with a one-hour cooldown.

Effect 2: You can select any player to share any damage received in the next 10 seconds with them. The cooling time is fifteen minutes. 】

…

The gold-level equipment "Noah's Chain", in addition to the damage transfer skill, also has a "damage sharing" skill that Su Mingan has almost never used.

He didn't use it in the past because he didn't need it. The reason he didn't use it last week was because "Tower Invitation" was a rules-based skill that blocked all outside influences. He couldn't help Yamada share the damage when he hit the tower invitation barrier.

Now, this skill is just right.

It not only allows him to rush into the sky without any scruples, but also saves Yamada Machichi's life. The only one who will be injured is himself.

——No one he wants to save must die.

However, Lin Guang didn't understand the magic of the player's equipment. He didn't realize that the injured person was Su Ming'an. He stretched out his hand to Yamada Machichi again——

Yamada Machichi roared, with tears on his face: "Madman! You twisted Lewis's arm!"

There was a crisp sound of "click".

Lin Guang was stunned, and he didn't even have time to stop.

"You..." He let go of Yamada Machichi instantly.

Another golden light rushed out from Yamada Machichi's left arm, flew into the dark cloud-covered sky, and penetrated into Su Ming'an's left arm. Only then did Lin Guang realize what he had done. His face turned pale and he immediately chased in the direction of Luvis——

"Da." Su Mingan stepped onto the rooftop.

His arms dropped, his bones twisted unnaturally, and bright red blood seeped into his windbreaker.

The wheelchair took him to the nuclear explosion console. The time displayed on the panel was 11:02 midnight.

...it's too late.

...it will definitely come in time.

On the first day of the first lunar month last year, he recorded horror game videos at home and ate the candied fruits sent by Yue Yue.

No one thought that a year later he would be in a ruined world covered with heavy snow, on the high platform of the City of Gods with scars, trying to save the person who sent him candied fruits.

"Beep - beep -" The center console was in front of him. He turned sideways, pointed the watch at the interface, and violently invaded the center console. In an instant, red light burst out.

He wants to interrupt the possibility of the gods' camp attacking Yueyue's side, so that the root cause of the problem can be solved.

At the same time, he had to wait until the clone arrived to kill or expel Lin Guang, the person with authority, otherwise the nuclear explosion would not be terminated.

He has to take care of both battlefields.

He looked back in the snow.

There are still fifty-eight minutes until the New Year's bell rings.