As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 468 Ordinary Players
There is a station in the lower district of Basel.

There were only a few people on the platform, so sparse that it seemed like the area was haunted.

There is only one bus passing through here every day, and the final stop is the cemetery in the middle area.

Fine weather.

Sunshine soothes.

The cemetery is peaceful.

There is a new grave, and no one is buried in it.

There was a young man standing in front of the tombstone. He turned around when he heard footsteps behind him.

The witcher wearing a felt hat came in from the cemetery with a cane, looked around, and finally looked at this tombstone.

"Li Nuo."

"Yes, Chen Yanhui."

Chen Yanhui stretched out his hand to shake hands, but Li Nuo ignored him and walked away with his hands in his pockets.

"Just buried?"

"Well, the burial took place in the morning. I am..." Chen Yanhui put away his hands and said, "I am Su Mei's teammate. According to the list of her friends, I found dozens of people, but you are the only one who came."

"She isn't very popular." Li Nuo half-jokingly said, his eyes fixed on the name "Su Mei" on the tombstone and the photo of the girl with twin ponytails.

"That's pretty good." Chen Yanhui looked around and said, "Eleven people were buried. The only ones who came to see them off were the indigenous people. The players didn't have the time to come."

Li Nuo was curious: "I just found out that players can have a cemetery here."

In fact, it is just a surface job.

After the player dies, everything in reality is erased, and the only people who can remember their life stories are the players and the natives, as well as the worlds they have experienced.

The graves are just for decoration, because wherever the player dies, dust will return to dust.

Chen Yanhui said: "It costs several thousand gold coins to bury a player. When a player dies, his teammates have the right to inherit, but they can only get one-tenth of it. With the gold coins we have accumulated, it is not a problem to bury more than a dozen people."

"Are you the only one left?"

"Well, they're all dead."

"Condolences."

"Thank you."

Chen Yanhui laughed dully and said, "You can come, which means you have a good relationship with the Soviet Union and the United States."

"What if I have nothing to do?" Li Nuo shrugged.

The reason for coming is very simple.

The first time I met Su Mei was in "Neil", but we didn't have much of a relationship at that time.

The second time was "Cyberpunk", when Su Mei helped him.

There was no intersection after that.

Not a friend, nor an ally, at most someone with whom I have collaborated.

Li Nuo looked at the tombstone with mixed feelings.

When he was a child, he thought he would die first. But after attending so many funerals, he found that his own funeral was nowhere in sight.

After all, he was an old friend, and he didn't have to pay for the package. It wouldn't shorten his life to send him off, and he thought the person who invited him might have something to do.

Li Nuo took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out a cigarette, put it between his lips and lit it for himself.

He took a deep breath, exhaled the smoke, then squatted down and stuck the cigarette on Su Mei's grave.

"I just remembered that she liked to smoke, and I didn't prepare anything else."

Li Nuo put the cigarette box on the ground.

“Thank you so much for coming.”

Chen Yanhui turned his head and saw another person.

Nanami was wearing a black dress: "Look, I found something, the non-smoking demon hunter actually smoked."

Li Nuo stood up: "You have a breast pad."

Nanami ignored him and walked towards Chen Yanhui. The girl's usual expression of beating anyone she saw suddenly became gentle.

"Sorry, I was busy and just found time to come over."

Nanami bowed.

She has more say than anyone about how to deal with the death of a loved one, and war orphans attend countless "funerals", which may not include their own parents'.

"Surprisingly, Idol-sama actually has time to come here to buy a tombstone?"

Li Nuo teased.

Nanami stroked her hair and squinted her eyes.

"After the Cyberpunk script, Su Mei often came to Wenk's bar. I have a good relationship with her. By the way, this lady still owes me some money for drinks."

Li Nuo kindly reminded: "You can commit suicide and go to the underworld to collect the debt."

"I'm sorry to disappoint you. My country believes in heaven and hell." Nanami looked at Chen Yanhui and raised her lips: "Don't worry, I won't ask you for the money she owes."

As she spoke, Nanami picked up the cigarette box that Li Nuo had thrown away, took out a cigarette and put it in her mouth, lit it, took a deep breath, and then stuck it on the grave.

"Okay, I'm done."

Li Nuo hooked Nanami's shoulder, said "let's go", and turned to walk out of the cemetery.

Chen Yanhui looked at the two men's backs with some hesitation. How could he ask people to come to worship for no reason? The "Fifth Detective Guild" was a well-known name in the ears of players. There was a demon hunter who killed a high-dimensional demon. It was said that there was also a poster girl who single-handedly blocked an entire team of "The Corridor of the End". Even big guilds like "Wrath of Bahamut" were keeping an eye on them.

"wait wait wait……"

Chen Yanhui called them.

Li Nuo and Nanami turned their heads and saw the two of them arm in arm. There was no difference between men and women, they looked like two brothers.

"I guess this guy has a conspiracy. Otherwise, he could just give the message privately. Why let players who may be hostile to each other meet?"

Li Nuo stared blankly.

Nanami elbowed him lightly in the chest.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier? I didn't expect it."

"I forgot your brain is as small as your chest."

"roll!"

These two are not doing the right thing.

Li Nuo tapped his cane on the ground.

"Why are you looking for us? What's the reward?"

This time Chen Yanhui straightened his body.

"Would you like to hear about our experience?"

"Do not."

Li Nuo was about to leave, but Nanami stopped him.

"Listen."

"Not interested in."

"Just listen to it as a story." Chen Yanhui said, "I don't think I can live past two scripts... Su Mei said that she knows a few powerful guys, but they are not of the same kind, so we can't go the same way together."

Nanami said, "Why don't you just tell us directly?"

Li Nuo stared with dead eyes and said, "How can he know the depth of our situation without seeing the real person? Su Mei should not have told us what kind of people we are."

Chen Yanhui was wearing glasses, and there was a layer of data on the lenses that only he could see, which was the data of Li Nuo and Nanami.

But both of them used the skill of lowering the data panel, and the detection device was ineffective against them.

Chen Yanhui could only believe what he saw.

"I know the name of the Fifth Detective Guild, but I don't think it's easy to get close to them."

"Because of that old bastard Wink, right?"

Li Nuo smiled.

The reputation of that old fox Wenk is so bad that players don't want to have anything to do with him. Moreover, the system has reminded players who approach Wenk more than once that the "Fifth Detective Guild" is essentially a fraud group, and all information related to the guild can be regarded as false propaganda.

"Tell me about it."

Nanami sat casually on a tombstone, looking like she had nothing to do.

Upon seeing this, Chen Yanhui said, "We are [Invaders] and we entered the 'End Corridor'. The enemy is more than ten levels lower than us, but their intelligence and abilities are far superior to ours."

Li Nuo stroked his chin and said, "'The End'... You guys are so unlucky that you went to the most difficult corridor."

"We didn't mean to provoke anyone, and becoming an [Invader] was just an accident." Chen Yanhui paused, thinking about the past, and looked up and said, "After entering the scenario, our captain encountered the enemy team. The players of 'End' didn't give us a chance to leave. They killed our people one by one, like playing with us. Eleven of the twelve people in the team died, and I was the only one alive."

Li Nuo: "Killed?"

Chen Yanhui: “Literally.”

"What about Sumei?" Nanami hesitated, feeling that she couldn't ask any further since she was an old acquaintance after all.

Chen Yanhui: "The bullet penetrated the heart."

Li Nuo nodded: "It was a pleasant death."

Chen Yanhui did not respond, although it was true. "'The End' is too strong. I hope you and your friends can stay away from it as much as possible."

Li Nuo and Nanami were both stunned.

Chen Yanhui took out a small notebook, crossed out Li Nuo and the others' names, and nodded: "Well, I got the message. One of Su Mei's last words was to tell the 'good players' of her past about her death as a lesson."

Li Nuo: "Ah...haha..."

Nanami looked at him.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

Li Nuo was smiling happily in front of Su Mei's grave.

"Fuck! Turns out he's a kind person!"

"Don't worry, he's sick," Nanami said.

Li Nuo pressed Nanami's shoulders and said with a smile: "Do you have any clues? I mean clues about the murderer."

Chen Yanhui: "You mean..."

Li Nuo said: "I think you are not playing a devil's advocate, but a good-hearted elder brother. I will pretend to be a fool and believe you. So give us a clue about the murderer, and we will avoid him next time."

Chen Yanhui was obviously not prepared.

Li Nuo took out a piece of paper and a pen and said, "Just give me some features and I'll draw it."

The human scanner started, and within five minutes, a portrait close to the photo was drawn.

Li Nuo folded the portrait and stuffed it into his clothes.

"Okay, can we go now?"

Chen Yanhui nodded and lowered his eyelids.

"Sorry to bother you two."

He actually just wanted to see if Su Mei’s friend was a “good person”. If he was, he would give him a reminder. If he was not, he would treat it as a sacrifice.

"There's a guy called Soran. Go find him and tell him that 'that bastard witcher' introduced you. If you have the ability, follow him. If you don't, just fend for yourself."

Chen Yanhui looked over when he heard the sound.

There was silence all around.

He turned around, looked at his teammates' graves again, took off his glasses, and saluted.

The air seemed to be squeezed by someone, and after a while, someone in the cemetery was sobbing.

……

[World War Results Announced]

[High Division, First Place: Endless Corridor]

[Central Division, First Place: Death Corridor]

[Low Division, First Place: Endless Corridor]

On the bus.

Nanami put away the unified announcement and turned to look at Li Nuo who was sitting in the car seat.

"If you leave later, you can show off in front of Chen Yanhui."

"Ah, what a pity."

Li Nuo was absent-minded.

"Nanami, did Big Brother give me any commission just now?"

"You don't have to help Su Mei get revenge."

"Without a commission, I certainly don't need to do anything." Li Nuo paused and said, "Making a promise with a player is a stupid thing to do. There has never been peace in the script. As a player, you don't know what's going on outside. When you make a promise with a stranger, the so-called promise has already been blown away by the wind to a place you can never reach in your lifetime."

Nanami covered her mouth and pretended to be surprised: "Hey, great poet."

Li Nuo: "Cartoonist."

Nanami smirked, "You're planning on helping Sumei get revenge, right?"

Li Nuo did not answer, but he could use the decoction as an inducement to lure Phil and let that guy attack the people in his corridor. Anyway, the guy from "End" would do anything to achieve his goal, which is an advantage but also a fatal weakness that can be manipulated.

"At the time of NieR, if it weren't for me, Su Mei and the others would have been killed by the [Invaders] from the Corridor of Immortality. To put it bluntly, they were just..."

Li Nuo made a circle with his hands.

"Reincarnation."

"Damn it, he escaped once, but he can't escape two or three times?" Nanami asked stupidly.

Li Nuo sneered and said, "Guess what?" without answering, which made Nanami go crazy. In fact, her answer was correct.

The bus swayed and stopped at a block platform. The indigenous people got off the bus. Nanami found an empty seat and sat behind Li Nuo.

"Me and Wink, we saw something."

Along the way, Nanami explained clearly what she and Wink had seen about the image of the "King".

Li Nuo thought of the image of the manager that Cha Bai had also seen in the "threshold" of "Vapor Wave".

"anything else?"

“That’s all.” Nanami curled her lips and narrowed her eyes: “That guy’s voice has been processed, some things can’t be heard, and Wen Ke can’t hear it either.”

"Then forget it." Li Nuo guessed that the "king" was paying attention to him, and might have been paying attention to him for a long time. He asked, "Are you going back to Wen Ke?"

Nanami nodded: "Yeah."

Li Nuo: "I'll go too."

He planned to talk to Wenk. Before entering the script, he, Wenk and the staff member had a verbal agreement on how to expand Wenk's fraud business.

However, there was another thing that might happen, and Li Nuo felt it necessary to go and deal with it.

In less than two minutes, the car left the dilapidated alley.

Nanami took out her keys and headed towards Wink's bar.

"Wen Ke and I read your script for two days. When it came out, we found that two days had passed and the time was messed up. This place is really weird."

Li Nuo's eyes widened.

"What's wrong?" Nanami turned around and asked.

"This key..." Li Nuo said, "Wen Ke is too smart to give you the key."

"My home is here!"

"Ha, you have a home now."

Li Nuo followed.

Nanami was a little unhappy.

Li Nuo asked: "You and Wen Ke really turned into Dr. Agasa and Huiyuan?"

Nanami: "Yes, yes, thanks to you."

Nanami almost forgot that Li Nuo originally placed her here to guard against Wen Ke.

"If Wink treats you as his own girl, Malger's position will be in trouble."

Nanami smiled with dimples: "Yeah, he hates that bastard named Ma."

"You can be the second one." Li Nuo said with a double meaning.

Nanami inserted the key into the keyhole, but when she heard this, her hand suddenly stopped. She turned around and looked at Li Nuo seriously.

"Li Nuo, at least I still regard myself as a human being, not a piece of paper that will stick its butt out for people to poke at if you give it a little benefit."

"Well, I'm sorry." Li Nuo reminded her: "You plan to be an advertising idol, but sooner or later you will become a paper man."

Nanami gritted her teeth: "You're so annoying..."

Click, the door opened.

Wen Ke was sitting on the sofa chair and looked unhappy when he saw Li Nuo.

"Take a look at this thing."

Wink knocked on the table.

There were two pieces of mail on the table.

Li Nuo strode over and picked up the letter.

——"Bahamut's Wrath, Invitation Letter."

——"Anti-Science Alliance, invitation letter."

"When were they delivered?" Nanami asked curiously, "Are these two the largest guilds in the Endless Corridor?"

Wen Ke said, "It was almost as if they squeezed in through the crack of the door within five minutes of you leaving."

The old fox looked at Li Nuo and said, "I hope to receive the letter from the Fifth Detective Guild. I don't understand the acquisition content given. Only you players can see it..."

As soon as the last word came out of his mouth, Wen Ke saw Li Nuo click on the letter.

"Hey... why don't you take a look!"

Li Nuo threw the burning letter into the trash can.

"Not interested in."

(End of this chapter)