First Player

Chapter 698 Chapter 696·BE22·"Meet You"

This time?

Su Mingan couldn't understand exactly what Noel meant.

The wind and snow raised Noel's blond hair, and the heat swelled and disappeared on the side of his face, outlining his pale face. His expression was focused.

"Look down." Noel said.

"Hula——"

The height of the crow dropped. Su Mingan lowered his head and saw the train speeding by on the ground. Through Kage's excellent five senses, he heard the sounds below. A train was passing by, and a mother and daughter were chatting.

"Nini, be good, don't stick your hands and head out of the window, you know?" A mother's voice came from the train, and she pulled the girl's hand back.

"Mom, when will dad come back from the battlefield?" the girl said.

"After tonight, if we can see the dawn rise, dad will come back. Nini must give him a big hug then, okay?"

"good."

"Not only dad, everyone on the battlefield is a hero. Nini will learn from them in the future, you know?" said her mother.

"Okay!" The girl paused: "Mom, what should we do if we don't see the dawn rise?"

"That means that a nuclear explosion occurred... It doesn't matter, Nini, you just need to remember that in the 48th year of the disaster, everyone fought with all their strength until the last moment, whether it was a frontline soldier like your father or a mother like you Logistics." Mother said softly, her voice mixed with sobs: "No one is ashamed..."

"Ah, mom, look out the window, I see crows! Live crows, so beautiful -"

Suddenly, the girl screamed in surprise.

The mother looked up and saw a crow like a floating black island outside the car window. Under the dark sky, the way it flew to the earth was so distant and peaceful, as if the water was about to melt gently into the water.

During the long war, people could hardly see living animals, and the air was always filled with a gray haze. The girl had never seen a bird since she was a child.

But tonight she saw it.

On the last night of the war, before dawn, she saw a free bird.

"Mom, didn't you say that we have to wait until the war is over, a long, long time later, after people enter spring, before we can see birds?" The girl said: "I have only been able to see the foggy sky since I was a child. Is it possible that in the cold winter? Will there be birds in there too?"

Mother holds girl in her arms.

She rubbed the girl's head:

"Nini, maybe spring has come."

…

……spring.

Su Mingan heard this word more than once.

In the eyes of people in the ruined world, it represents all the good things. Warmth, beauty, light... whatever is not available in winter nights, spring will have. Whatever is lost in war will be brought back in spring.

For this spring, countless people have died one after another in the sixteen years of cold winter.

"..."

The crow continued to move forward, and he saw the lights of thousands of houses in the city. The flashing red car lights were like flowing blood vessels, connecting the heart of the earth that sustains the lives of all residents.

The lights of the Sky Tower are flashing, and the links between the streets are ringing like bells.

He looked into the distance and saw beyond the city in the distance - lying there were bones that could not be seen with the naked eye. Trucks were rushing to carry arms, trains were rushing past like pythons, and soldiers going to the front line were holding their guns and saying goodbye to their families. The Festival of Fortune blends perfectly with the most dangerous last night of the Dawn War, and everyone is looking forward to entering a warm world.

"Crack-!"

The flames shot into the sky, the same color as the fireworks.

High in the sky, Noel also looked down at the splendid world.

"I often think... the universe is endless, but humans are so insignificant." Noel said: "Humans are a very strange race - even if they become overlords on the planet, they cannot solve the problems that animal groups can easily resolve. The problem. Human beings do not have absolute rules among animal groups. Some people are born with rebellion, which makes them want to resist all the time even if they are dominated, chasing freedom that requires sacrificing their lives..."

Su Mingan turned his head and looked at Noel, whose eyes were blood red.

"To describe this kind of person in one sentence, it is..." Noel also looked at him: "...it is people like you and me."

"...What?" Su Mingan said.

Noel's voice was too soft and he didn't hear it.

"I said, I admire people who are naturally rebellious." Noel said with a smile.

The other side of the night sky was so far away that even if he looked around, Noel couldn't catch anything but the skyline. Those distant nights are like a safe full of secrets, trapping risk-taking adventurers like moths to the flame.

Compared with the vast wind and snow, the fragile human body is as small as a mote, which reminds people of the universe and the truth of life and death.

"Puppet Master, what do you want to say?" Su Mingan said.

"I want to say... what can crush people the most is a recurring sense of powerlessness." Noel said: "People who are naturally rebellious lose what they want to gain time and time again. Once again, there is no redemption... No theory can speak to the heart and soul of such individuals who are suffering and unable to end their suffering, or speak to the despair they feel."

"Then what suggestions do you have?" Su Mingan vaguely felt that Noel was hinting at him: "Puppet Master..."

etc.

At this moment, Su Mingan suddenly thought of a possibility.

Noel's in-game profession is Puppet Master.

Puppet master, as the name suggests, Noel can control the movements, expressions, and words of the puppets, so that the puppets can perform on the stage and perform every repertoire perfectly.

Noel can use silk threads to control surrounding objects, and can even control NPCs and players... He can control almost everything he sees.

But Noel's thread...

Su Ming'an's heart skipped a beat.

——Can you control Noel himself?

If Noel's will can control the thread, let the thread penetrate every bone of his own, control every expression on his face, and turn his own body into a puppet that can perform...

Then behind the body of "Noel invaded by Tavi" with bright red eyes,

——Is there a clear-headed soul of Noel who controls his body with silk threads?

Su Mingan suddenly remembered what the god in him said when he saw Noel:

[And this guy named Noel is really interesting. He actually...]

"..."

——He was actually not invaded at all.

Noel split his body and soul, and watched coldly as his body was bewitched by the gods and turned into red eyes, and he did all kinds of cruel things like a walking zombie.

His soul remained awake, using silk threads to control his body, performing a puppet show in which he was "invaded by another dimension" in order to obtain important information from the god's camp.

——This is a perfect performance that only the puppeteer profession can achieve. If it were anyone else, there would be no way to separate body and soul.

This is how Noel deceived the gods.

He tied the puppet silk into his body.

——This is a method that only a madman can think of, and he must always bear the double pain of being separated from his body and soul.

The god in Su Mingan was not deceived by Noel, and he pointed this out in a subtle way. However, the god in Noel was not that smart, and was deceived by Noel's superb puppetry.

Even Su Mingan and the entire audience were deceived.

"..."

Su Mingan raised his head.

At this moment, he seemed to hear the "swish" sound coming from the silk thread. With the night as the scene and the crow as the stage, the blond magician smiled at him.

Noel's lips opened slightly, and he described a sentence to Su Mingan——

[Go to the valley of (283, 298), find a man named Beilisel, threaten him with the mechanical products he hides underground, and break the three-line deadlock. This is the secret message I learned from the god who invaded me. 】

"Ding dong!"

Su Mingan suddenly heard the system prompt.

[You get hidden clues·The valley of North Liessel]

[(Valley of North Lisel): North Lisel is not afraid of anything. Only the mechanical products he hides underground can allow him to tell secret clues. It is said that this clue is related to the Dawn System, which can turn the world upside down and restore missing people...]

"..."

Su Mingan's breathing froze for a moment, and the shocking thunder penetrated his heart.

suddenly see the light.

——It turns out that this Noel body with red eyes,

Just a puppet controlled by Noel's conscious soul,

It was his capital that allowed him to deceive the trust of the gods and go deep into dangerous places.

It was he who risked his life to obtain the unknown explorer's credentials.

It is the thread of his soul that pierces his body every life.

He is the real - [Puppet Master].

The thread controls not only his weapons and enemies... but also himself.

"..."

Su Mingan raised his head and saw the blond boy standing in the wind and snow.

The fluttering blond hair is as beautiful as the feathers of the golden crow in mythology. When blown by the cold wind, it looks like a water bird flying across the lake.

"Okay, you will achieve three levels of perfection." Noel smiled: "Happy New Year, Ming'an."

Everyone had only seen the red-eyed Noel before, thinking that he had lost his mind due to the [Tavi] invasion. No one saw that behind the curtain was a puppet master calmly manipulating his own physical performance.

——He is the second player, how could he be confused by whispers?

He just chose the most dangerous infiltration method, handed over his body, and firmly held his soul until this moment.

He didn't know whether Su Ming'an's authority was a timeline jump, and he wasn't even 100% sure that it was a return to death. It was very likely that he wouldn't even be able to hold on to his soul and would be completely invaded.

But he knew that only this method could truly help Su Ming'an, who was at the core of the crisis.

This is textbook messaging, a perfect Mission Impossible.

…

[This is humanity’s second player. 】

…

"Su Ming'an, I have lost all qualifications to pass the level perfectly, so I will raise my hands high and lift you up into the sky..." Noel did not say the second half of the sentence.

What he wants to say is that only in this way can the 'number one player', who has the power of time like a god and is the only one who can truly compete with higher dimensions, enter a brand new world where there is no dead end.

He has always been a bold gambler, a crazy and rational adventurer.

A golden bird flying towards freedom, sitting high in the sky and never falling.

"…Thank you, Noel."

Su Mingan responded.

Noel smiled.

His eyes were filled with bubbles of happiness.

The laughter was weak, as if it was melting away with the dark sky and earth——

"Ming'an - I was still a little unsure before. I need you to inform me about the next clue when you go back. Remember, [shaking your head is a scene simulation, waving your hand is a timed retracement, a hug is a death retrieval, and a greeting is a retrieval of the archive. ]"

Noel's words sounded incomprehensible, but Su Mingan understood them.

"I see."

Noel stood up, stopped looking at Su Mingan, and looked into the dark sky.

He opened his arms high and laughed as freely as the wind. It was as if there were hot flames burning his body, like the clear sky slowly blooming in the sky——

"spring is coming……"

…

Su Mingan raised his hand and stabbed his temple, then closed his eyes.

Next week.

Su Ming'an opened his eyes, stopped Tredia from detonating the bomb, deflected the light, rescued Yamada Machichi, and then turned back.

Under the rippling moonlight of the high-rise building, the blond magician stepped on the black crow and appeared outside the window with blood-red eyes:

"Hello, guests from the City of Gods who have come from afar. The owner here has left. I will take this opportunity to take you away..."

next moment,

——Su Mingan took a step forward without hesitation and hugged Noel.

[Shaking your head is a scene simulation, waving your hand is a timed rewind, a hug is a death rewind, and saying hello is a retrieval of the archive]

…

[A hug is the return of death. 】

…

At this moment, a piece of "information" spanned two unrelated projects, reversed the cycle of archives, and jumped freely in the long river of time. In this embrace, the two isolated islands that could not communicate suddenly understood each other's hints.

"Ah..." Noel responded softly.

He got it.

A few days ago, he had already given himself a psychological hint. If he could get in touch with Su Ming'an, he must control himself to say "shaking your head is a scene simulation, waving your hand is a timed retracement, a hug is a death rollback, and greeting is a retrieval of archives." 】This sentence.

He thought he should have said this himself last week.

That's why Su Mingan hugged him.

...It turns out that Su Ming'an's power is the return of death.

He got it.

He knew what to do next.

——Between Zhou Mu and Zhou Mu, the information they possess is gradually improved... He will jump into the time stream of Su Mingan, the dead returner, as an ordinary human being.

No high-dimensional creature can know the meaning of their embrace across the universe - this is an "absolutely concealed" information transmission linking different universes with human wisdom.

Using pure human wisdom to defeat the gods...who says it's impossible?

…

Wisdom is the eternal burning torch of mankind.

…

"Shua", Noel let go of the soul thread that controlled his body, and his eyes temporarily turned from bright red to blue.

Su Ming'an put her fingers on his back, holding him so hard that it seemed to tighten his soul.

As if hugging a warm sun, Su Mingan's whole body was trembling slightly, like a frozen survivor who had just recovered from the snow.

His fingers tightened, like hugging a burning firewood.

The isolated islands hug each other tightly, and the drowning people are desperate to survive.

"..."

Humans are a very peculiar race.

They despise authority, are ashamed of being obedient and obedient, are rebellious by nature and do not want to be insulted... Some people are born with a rebellious streak and will never give in.

——This kind of rebellion makes them experience death but finally gain something, makes them frantically save people and seek kindness, makes them go through fire and water and get what they want.

——Making them resist constantly even though they are ruled by Gao Dimension, making them desperately turn around to save people who should be unable to be saved.

——So that even if they know that they may die, they still fearlessly cut their souls to send messages across their eyes...

It even allowed the forerunners to meet each other until the eighteenth week when winter was over.

Su Mingan fought to the death for eighteen weeks... because he was rebellious and refused to accept his fate. He wanted to leave no one behind.

He said "I'm sorry" so many times, not just to see her cry and say it didn't matter before she died.

"[We will meet many people in this life, and our fate is as fragile as dew.]" Noel talked about the sentences in "Dust Song", as if he was communicating with him in secret: "[Only with you, like dew." It is an endless river.】"

"[When the two rivers converge and merge into the waterfall, even the mist that obscures the vision will fade away.]" Su Mingan responded.

He thought of that Christmas Eve in Yunshang City, when Noel clicked on the death flashback, so that his soul, which was on the verge of erosion, would be safely saved by Su Ming'an in the next week. This hand is like a stroke of genius.

At that time, Noel crossed the two weeks before and after that were beyond the reach of humans, controlled the time power belonging to the gods, and achieved perfect self-rescue.

Today's New Year's Eve is also a snowy night.

In a three-line deadlock, Su Mingan could not be saved no matter what, and fell into despair. He walked through sixteen weeks and suddenly looked back in the wind and snow——

The blond boy was smiling at him in the snow, holding the password to break the game.

…

【This time, it's my turn. 】

…

With Noel's wisdom, he had calculated that Su Ming'an must have explored all possibilities before finally turning back to find him.

The two missed a total of sixteen weeks.

But as long as Su Mingan chooses to start with Noel, this handover will be successful.

This time, it was his turn to help.

The islands no longer face each other; they have a secret language for communication across time and space.

The young man will transcend time and space, and use human wisdom to calculate the gods.

The deadlock is broken.

Three lines perfect.

…

The long night will dawn.

…

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【In this life, we will meet many people, and our fates are as fragile as dew. 】

【Only with you, I am like an endless river. 】

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