As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 375 Ah... The Craftsman of Light
Ningen Town is particularly lively today.

The bartender stood at the window, wiping his glass and looking outside. Old trucks passed by, creating waves in the flooded town.

There was only one customer left in the pub, sitting next to the bartender with a complaining look on his face.

"What the hell, it makes the wine taste bad."

"I guess something happened. Even the old president is here."

The bartender is also a member of the Adventurer's Guild and is very familiar with some of the rules.

One of the rules of Chuangjie Mountain:

In one day, no more than 100 troops can enter the Creation Mountain at one time. Otherwise, they will be teleported away indiscriminately. There will also be a cooling-off period for personnel teleportation, which is a particularly troublesome "curse".

The Principality tried to train soldiers in the Creation Mountain, but later found that there were always soldiers who were forcibly teleported out of the Creation Mountain and fell to their deaths from the sky. Later, the Principality gave up the idea of ​​taking action here, until fifty years ago, when the old president took office and proposed that the dangerous environment of the Creation Mountain was a holy place for training soldiers, and started cooperation with the Principality to train adventurers.

After leaving Chuangjie Mountain, outstanding adventurers can get a good job directly in the army.

It played a great role in the development of Chuangjie Mountain.

"Since then... the Beast-ear Tribe's living territory has been trampled by the Principality, and monsters have become the bottom-level food for hunting. In a blink of an eye, only thirty years have passed. It's really fast."

"I don't think you're even thirty."

"I am an elf, and my lifespan is 200 years. I am only 60 years old this year." The bartender poured wine for the customer and said uneasily, "So I know that the appearance of the old president and the army means that something big has happened."

"event?"

"Don't think too much about it. What does it have to do with us ordinary people?"

The sound of footsteps stepping on the puddles was frequent and frequent.

"Ran?"

"Will not."

The old president got out of the car and looked around.

"Magic won't lie. Her magic is gone."

Elise's eyes moved and she noticed something was wrong.

"We moved heavy weapons here, and now you say she disappeared?"

"I don't know, old lady." The old president took a deep breath and said, "I have a dog's nose and can smell the magic factor. The black abyss-like power in her body is gone."

"So that means he's dead?"

"died."

"In other words, the Dragon Girl is not the root cause of the loosening of the barrier of the Creation Mountain." Elise stared at the old lady and asked, "I hope you, who are highly respected, will think about it carefully and don't let me think that you just want to use us to kill the Dragon Girl."

"Don't say too much."

It was Sydney who spoke.

"The old president is old, but she who sealed the door fifty years ago..."

"Seal the door?" Elysee was amused: "Who saw you seal the door?"

Xueli: “This…”

Elise looked at the old president, who still had a kind look on his face.

"Old President, if the Principality considers your contribution as yours, then it is yours. If you are useless, then you have no contribution."

As long as Elyse gives up her obsession with being a military flower, she will be a very reliable soldier.

"Seal off the scene, and arrest anyone who comes over!"

As she walked towards the car she saw Amanda doing something in the corner.

"Amanda, let's go."

"Ah, um."

Amanda followed, holding the white hair she picked up from the puddle in her hand and hid it secretly.

The old president: "The savior... is it you?"

Amanda: “…”

The car started and slowly drove out of the town.

Dam ran towards the town anxiously.

When he saw the dark clouds appearing here, he knew that something had happened to the Dragon Girl.

"Oh, Dam!"

The bartender called out to him from the door.

But Dam ignored him and ran straight over.

The bartender yelled, "You have a letter."

Only then did Dam stop, turn around and walk over quickly.

He took the letter from the bartender, opened it, and pulled out the crumpled paper inside.

The letter read: I'm leaving, don't look for me.

"Who gave it to me?"

"A girl with white hair and long legs, very pretty."

"That's it..."

Dam read the words on the letter again and again.

Even though the handwriting was crooked, even though Dam had tried hard to teach the girl how to write, even though the girl could never become a human, even though Dam knew that the girl was a man-eating monster.

"How annoying! I taught her that, but she still wrote so badly... She wrote it with great effort..."

Dam muttered to himself and put the letter in his pocket.

Then he looked to the west, where the cottage where he and the girl lived remained.

But still chose to turn around and leave.

"By the way, why did you come back suddenly?" asked the bartender.

"Nothing... I'm just scared."

Dam said this, but he was actually just worried about the girl.

The bartender lit a cigarette, stared at the sky blankly, and said, "Glad you're back. I received a notification five minutes ago that the team mission you took was wiped out by the hunting target."

Dam stopped.

In my mind is the expressionless face of the Dragon Girl.

Are you blessing me?

……

When Li Nuo opened his eyes, it was already night.

He could tell from the smell that they were now in Henry's house.

Li Nuo covered his head.

"Ah... the pixelation lasted for at least ten hours."

Cha Bai fell asleep sitting on the chair.

Li Nuo wanted to take off her blindfold to see the injury on her right eye, but he didn't have the heart to wake her up.

He got out of bed quietly.

My face is hot, and new data is generated for [Emile's Mask].

【Leviathan of Collapse】

[Analysis data: Infected by the power of "Border Prison", he was not controlled due to his deification, but suffered a mental breakdown]

"Border prison."

Li Nuo thought of Kroyd at that time.

[Critical One] opened the gate of the Border Prison and eventually turned into a monster with black flames burning all over his body.

The same is true of the Leviathan formed by the maiden.

The water god Leviathan he had seen was a pure white dragon with a sacred aura.

It was not the ferocious dragon that appeared not long ago.

"The substances emitted from the prison will infect living things and cause them to mutate. The Tyrannosaurus Rex we saw before carried dark energy, so it's related..."

The data of the mask has not been completed yet, so Li Nuo temporarily put aside his desire to ponder it.

[Available alchemical materials: Leviathan's water vapor, water-type dragon scales]

[Materials that can be combined: Dwarven Liquor, Magic Crystal, Boar Tusk, Overlord Male Rathalos Mutation Inducer, Salt, Gunpowder Dust]

“This is just writing down what can be used.”

Li Nuo touched his brow.

"The hidden mission, Warrior of Light and Craftsman of Light, is Uncle Henry and I."

"But there is another hidden mission. The Overlord Fire Dragon is the variable on the first floor. The variables on the second and third floors are the players, Maljie."

He first encountered two different hidden missions.

Li Nuo took a deep breath to refresh himself.

"The story of the Dragon Girl is related to the collapse fifty years ago."

"Maljie's incident is related to this collapse."

"It's equivalent to a past tense and a present continuous tense, but there may be some connection between the two... Henry?"

Li Nuo looked towards the door, and he remembered that the sound woke Cha Bai up.

"woke up?"

Cha Bai rubbed his eyes, and when his knuckles slid over his right eye, he could clearly see the knuckles digging into the eye socket.

Li Nuo stepped over, squatted in front of her, and took off her blindfold.

Then I saw that Cha Bai's right eye had been removed, and his right eye socket was empty.

"It's okay. We have similar eyes in reserve in space. We can just ask Victor to help install them next time."

“It hurts.”

Li Nuo touched her cheek and slid his fingers across her eye sockets, feeling distressed but also afraid of hurting her.

Cha Bai laughed out loud.

"You're in more pain than me, right?"

She was teasing, but Li Nuo nodded very seriously.

"..."

"Idiot, is it that serious?"

"As for."

Cha Bai frowned, took out a book from the magic element grid, and gently hit Li Nuo on the head.

"Look at this, it has something to do with where Maljie is going."

"The Prince and the Village of Remains".

Cha Bai has already read the whole thing, but she hopes that Li Nuo can read it with his own eyes to fill in the gaps.

Li Nuo turned the pages of the book. It was only forty pages long and was a collection of notes. It was not long and he spent an hour reading it.

"A fellow who is determined to become a top adventurer chases a shining bird and mistakenly enters a place called the Sea of ​​Monsters."

"That's the gap between the second and third floors of the Creation Mountain. The Adventurer's Guild has a rule that you can't just enter the third floor without special circumstances, but that adventurer still bravely broke in. After all, the probability of a flashing monster appearing is only about 1/4096."

After closing the book, Li Nuo began to mutter to himself. The first twenty pages can be summarized with the above content.

The key is what comes after.

"After passing through a cave, he entered a place called 'Remains Village'. The residents there were like crazy. Almost all the men had turned into monsters, and the women had turned into reproductive tools. They gave birth to demonic monsters. Everything was so weird."

"The adventurers eventually met a man who called himself a prince in a dilapidated building."

"He is a poor prince who fled to the Chuangjie Mountain after a small country was destroyed. He was later taken in by an adventurer. He said he was doing an experiment on how to use these monsters. It was a great plan that would subvert the entire world."

"The adventurer finally escaped, and he wrote this story into a biography..."

This is the outline of the entire book.

Li Nuo opened the teacup and took a sip of tea.

"Hmm... a low-quality novel written by a charlatan."

Cha Bai stared at him with his only eye and moved closer to him.

"What? Have you launched anything?"

"Ah..." Li Nuo stared with dead fish eyes: "The adventurer is the prince. To put it bluntly, the prince wrote a novel himself in order to attract experimental subjects, and then published it. Then the question is, who published it for him? It must be someone with some ability, um... the top leaders of Chuangjie Mountain... the old president? The collapse event fifty years ago turned the dragon girl into a monster. The collapse event was actually solved by the old president... The dragon girl failed, but the old president succeeded. There is something wrong with the top leaders of the Adventurer's Guild. Is the old president the big boss?"

Cha Bai was stunned: "Huh?"

She was looking forward to Li Nuo's leaps in thinking, but she never thought that Li Nuo could expand his cerebral convolutions to this extent.

"I'm just saying it casually."

Li Nuo gulped down another mouthful of tea, exhaled, and said, "Anyway, we'll know when we get there. Skinny Brother's mission is to go to the third floor, and we also want to find Maljie, so that's the perfect location."

On the page, Marger wrote, "I'm going to save those women," which means that Marger's essence has not changed.

It also symbolizes that the most dangerous person in that Relic Village is always Maljie.

"By the way, where are the others?"

Li Nuo wants to find everyone, especially Uncle Henry.

Cha Bai curled his lips.

"Mr. Security Officer is sleeping downstairs. Nanami and Chen Shou are on their way back. Mr. Henry has already obtained all the materials and is now making the Armstrong Cannon. He said... don't disturb him before it's finished, otherwise the craftsman's magic energy will fluctuate and all the work will go to waste."

Li Nuo took out a pocket watch from his arms.

"It's 12:30 in the morning, and there's still some time before dawn. As long as Nanami and the others don't take a car, they should be back here in two hours."

After Li Nuo finished speaking, he smiled sincerely: "Hehe~"

Cha Bai narrowed his eyes, then stood up and began to take off his clothes.

"You're still pretty energetic?"

"That's called there must be supplies after a war." "Let me make this clear, don't take the medicine, and don't collapse the floor."

Li Nuo took off his shirt, his body was sticky and covered with dried blood, but he didn't plan to take a shower as it would make him feel like he was in the wild.

——If you have sand in your heart, everywhere is Maldives.

"Oh yeah, can you drive the ghost back?"

“It’s really perverted.”

"Also, don't wear that eye patch. I like being half disabled."

Cha Bai was slightly skeptical: "You don't want to get into my eyes... do you?"

He did think: "Size..."

Cha Bai: "My eyes are relatively big."

At this time, there was a knock on the door downstairs...

Li Nuo had just taken off his shirt.

"Go and open it." Cha Bai wrapped himself in the quilt and said, "Mr. Henry's research is a big deal, don't delay it."

"Yeah." Li Nuo went out with his cane. If it was Chen Shou, it would be fine. But if it was Nanami, he would throw her over his shoulder. If it was a stranger... he had a fierce look in his eyes: "That girl is dead."

He opened the door with his upper body naked.

There is a cat standing at the door.

"The total shipping cost is 500. Give me the money."

"freight?"

"Meow, your friend called us the 'Meow Meow Transport Team' halfway."

In the world of Monster Hunter, there is a creature called "Elu Cat". They serve as hunters' partners and coexist with humans.

Li Nuo originally thought that if he met an Elu cat, he would try anything to see if he could get one.

But the cat in front of him made Li Nuo think: I must get one.

Meow meow.

From the world of Pokémon.

And it's the kind of meow that can talk.

"What are you looking at? Is there anything strange?" Meow Meow touched his furry face: "Meow?"

Meow Meow pointed at the car approaching not far away.

"There was a fat guy named Chen Shou who had an accident on the road, and a very good-looking boy called us."

A very good-looking boy... Li Nuo smiled: Nanami's label has an additional gender ambiguity after the human pig.

Li Nuo took out a few banknotes from his pocket.

Meow Meow counted and said, "No, you have 1000 extra Genesis Coins."

Li Nuo: "Well, that one thousand is for you."

Meow meow:"?"

Li Nuo: “Hmm~”

"Meow--!"

The miserable cat cry echoed in the night sky.

Two doors in the house were knocked open.

Uncle Henry came out shirtless, sweaty from working.

"What's wrong!"

The security guard ran out of the bathroom, his lower body wrapped in a towel, and his entire body was also wet.

"What's wrong!"

At this time, the Meow Meows' truck was parked outside. Nanami jumped out of the car and turned around to see this scene.

Li Nuo, Henry, and the security guard, three men surrounded a tied-up Meow Meow.

They were all shirtless and wet and sticky.

Although Nanami subconsciously felt that it was not what she thought, she still couldn't help but say, "I've seen people torturing cats, but I've never seen people fucking cats. You're a bunch of perverts."

……

Under the mediation of Uncle Henry, Li Nuo reluctantly let Miaomiao go.

On their way back, Nanami and Chen Shou were attacked by several mutant dragons.

Those creatures were strange, with red eyes and a dark aura of death surrounding them. During the battle, Chen Shou was seriously injured and had his magic power sucked away by a strange bird that could kiss.

This led to Nanami using a phone booth to call for emergency support from the "Meow Meow Transport Team".

"Anyway, Li Nuo, we brought you some things that can be used as decoctions. You can see how to use them yourself."

Nanami said as she pulled out a bottle of potion from her earrings.

[Alchemical Potion: If you are a man, jump down]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Toxicity: 1%]

[Effect: Automatically teleport to the nearest cave after drinking]

[Brief description: Xiao Ming drank the potion, and then he was teleported to the nearest cave. After that, he called his ex-girlfriend his mother, and his mother's nickname was "Virgin Mary"]

"What the hell?"

Li Nuo complained, but after thinking about it, he accepted it because it was actually of some use. It wasn't a decoction or a magic potion, so after he finished drinking it, it was really gone.

"Nanami, the mutants you mentioned are..."

"Something that makes the Realm of Reason uneasy."

Nanami made a "hush" gesture, indicating that there were irrelevant people nearby and they would talk later.

Li Nuo looked at Uncle Henry and said, pretending to be embarrassed: "Um... I'm sorry, I disturbed you just now."

"It doesn't matter. I've finished my stuff anyway. All that's left is the final assembly." Henry shrugged. Although he was smiling while talking, he actually looked a little conflicted. He pointed in the direction of the basement and said, "Your weapons and suits have been modified. The stuff is in the basement."

He threw a key to Cha Bai.

"Thank you!"

Cha Bai, who was obsessed with the hammer, immediately went to the basement.

"What a lively girl..." Henry laughed.

Li Nuo asked: "Uncle, you said the 'Armstrong Cyclotron Jet Armstrong Cannon' is ready?"

Henry nodded: "Yeah."

The light craftsman led them to the backyard and into an open-air studio.

Except for Chabai who didn't come.

Li Nuo, Nanami, the security guard, and Chen Shou who came because he heard "Armstrong", all looked at the cannon pointing straight to the sky and fell silent.

Henry smiled and said, "Look, what a beautiful cannon."

Li Nuo nodded: "Yes, she is beautiful no matter how you look at her."

Chen Shou: "No, something is missing."

Nanami: "Don't make me complain about this, please."

"This is the dream that brother left for me." Henry thought of Malger and looked at the sky and said, "The new Armstrong cyclotron jet Armstrong cannon."

After the uncle finished speaking, he pointed to two big balls in the corner.

"I'm not very strong, can you help me assemble it?"

Nanami slapped her forehead and said, "Ah..."

Li Nuo grabbed Nanami's collar in dissatisfaction and said, "Don't underestimate the 'Armstrong Cyclotron Jet Armstrong Cannon'! It's very well done!"

Chen Shou said: "Yes, every man wants to have an Armstrong cyclotron jet..."

"Shut up." Nanami felt like she was about to enter the [Shura Realm]. She slapped Li Nuo's hand away and said, "Go and have fun by yourselves. After this script is over, I will never rehearse another script with you guys again."

As they were talking, Li Nuo and Chen Shou helped Henry put the two balls of the cannon together.

“Ahhhh, the level of completion is so high.”

Li Nuo and Chen Shou were arm in arm, as if there was a Gundam standing in front of them.

When I touched this thing, only a name popped up on the panel.

And there is a brief description: Only serious operators can see all panel data.

Henry explained to them, "The two balls are actually the Overlord's Explosive Eggs. There is dragon fascia inside the cannon. In order to allow the cannonballs to compress space, the ejection device of the 'Earth's Space-Time Dragon' is specially placed. As for the cockscomb of the Sao Bird, it is actually the best long-range launch material. In theory, this cannon combines the best explosive impact force and the magical energy of compressing space. There are also some other substances. Those are the things I have experimented with before. Well, I won't go into details."

Although they didn’t understand it, they thought it was amazing.

Henry finally introduced the wings on both sides of the battery.

“It’s a decoration.”

Nanami couldn't help it: "So the ten fossil winged birds that Chen Shou and I hunted are just decorations for a giant steel ○○!?"

“Hahaha…” Henry smiled apologetically: “What a pity, it’s nothing…”

Li Nuo didn't think so: "Uncle, don't think too much, this thing is very well made, even an old man will recall his puberty when he sees it."

Nanami: "Li Nuo, you are such a bad person. What exactly is our purpose here?"

Chen Shou: "Ah? Isn't our journey just for..." Shou Ge and Li Nuo said in unison: "The new Armstrong cyclotron jet Armstrong cannon."

“Ah——!” Nanami was going crazy: “Ah——!”

Henry laughed as he watched these guys having fun. His home hadn't been so lively in a long time.

What an incredible group of kids.

As he thought so, he turned around, his back looking lonely.

"Uncle?" Nanami said thoughtfully, "You seem... not very happy? Although I really can't understand you..."

"It looks like the end of the world." Li Nuo thought of the hidden clue about the "Light Craftsman" and said, "Try to tell us, and we will help to the best of our ability."

According to Li Nuo's calculations, the "Craftsman of Light" is related to both hidden lines and is also related to Maljie.

But this Henry is obviously not confident enough. If you want to make good use of such a master, perhaps you should solve his psychological problems first.

Li Nuo felt that it didn't matter much as it was just a matter of talking, as it was something he was good at.

Henry shook his head: "It's just a trivial matter."

He looked up at the stars.

Recalling the past.

"Since the large-scale hunting started in Chuangjie Mountain, a large number of adventurers have come here, monsters have been hunted, resources have been mined, nature has been destroyed, and the territory where the Beast Ears live has become smaller and smaller." Henry lit a cigarette: "When I first became a craftsman, I vowed to make effective use of all resources. As long as resources are not wasted, the number of monsters hunted can be controlled, and the Beast Ears may be saved, but I am thinking too well."

Li Nuo: "Then I was misunderstood and persecuted."

Henry: "Yes, the persecution of other races by humans and elves, as well as the destruction of nature, cannot be reversed at all."

He looked at the "New Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon" with affection in his eyes.

"This is the last thing I can do to prove my ideal, but I am afraid of failure."

This guy is a chuunibyou... Li Nuo complained in his heart, and comforted him with his chuunibyou thinking: "Anyway, you have already stepped half a foot into the cemetery, light up your hope, what if the sun rises in the cemetery?"

Although Nanami was used to hearing Maljie speak like this, when these words came out of Li Nuo's mouth, there was a sense of insincerity and disgust, and they were full of the nasty conspiracy theory.

Chen Shou whispered, "They've started pyramid selling again..."

Uncle Henry remained silent and just smoked.

"Since the thing has been made, then give it a try. It will become a watershed in your life." Li Nuo said confidently: "I am sure of it because this is the first time I have seen a cannon with such a high degree of completion."

Henry: "Really... Is that how you all see me?"

Everyone nodded.

Just nod your head anyway.

Henry showed a relieved smile: "Sorry, I'm obviously the oldest...Okay, I understand."

As he spoke, he took out a silver metal handle.

It is obvious from the look of it that the handle should be the seed left by Maljie.

Henry pressed the button on the handle.

A circle of spheres gathered at the muzzle, and in the blink of an eye, slender dust of light rushed into the sky!
In less than a second, the point in the sky where the light disappeared began to crack into white spider web patterns visible to the naked eye. These were the signs that the barrier of the Creation Mountain was about to break.

Li Nuo: "Wait..."

Henry: "Aaaah! This time it's not like the experimental cannon that broke after one shot. The finished product is indeed different!"

"Wait..." Li Nuo's mouth trembled: "Experimental cannon? That? The reason why the barrier of the Creation Mountain collapsed before..."

Henry looked at him.

"Ah, I blasted it out with an experimental cannon. It's the work of Mr. Hum and I. But thanks to everyone's help, this is a finished cannon."

Everyone stood still, no one had a good look on their face.

"Uncle Henry, um...what on earth are you making this cannon for?"

"Save the Beast-eared Tribe and the nature of Mount Chuangjie."

Henry thought about it.

"In other words... break the barrier of the Creation Mountain and let the things inside the Creation Mountain go to the outside world."

Chen Shou already knew what was going to happen.

Nanami was staring at Li Nuo with a look that said "I'm going to kill you".

Li Nuo finally confirmed: "Things from the Chuangjie Mountain are going to the outside world... then what?"

"And what else do I need to say~"

Henry smiled like a child.

"Destroy humanity."

(End of this chapter)