As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 556: Atlus returns, WWE preview begins

Li Nuo received a call from Brother Ting.

"Did you finish having fun with the succubus?"

"Don't say useless things!"

Brother Ting's tone was extremely urgent, as if he was going to hit someone.

"Brother Ting, how come your voice has become so... so charming?"

Even Tingge himself didn't realize that his voice had changed.

Very mature and steady, with a special masculine charm.

"I've become a succubus."

"Uh, poof!"

Li Nuo couldn't hold it back.

"Let's get down to business." Brother Ting said, "Does the nuclear bomb on the Tanggula Mountain have anything to do with you?"

Li Nuo immediately thought of the nuclear bomb magic he had planted in Tanggula Mountain using the [Legendary Staff].

"No, it has nothing to do with me."

"It seems to be you." Brother Ting has become accustomed to Li Nuo's appearance: "You are amazing."

"Tell me, what happened?"

"The nuclear bomb is still a phantom. I took a look and it's most likely of the 'Little Boy' level. It's not very powerful, but who knows what unexpected things will happen. The succubus said that the nuclear bomb will probably fall within a day or two. By then, the group of monsters in Tanggula will be difficult to control."

"Hmm... can it be transferred?" Li Nuo said, "I am going to get the evil demon now, can you see if there is a way to transfer it near me?"

"Let me think of a way." Brother Ting is a very capable person.

"By the way, can you take a picture for me and show it to me?" Li Nuo asked.

"You can't take a picture of it. You can only see it with magic. If you don't believe me, just watch it."

Brother Ting took a photo and sent it over.

"Brother Ting, if I'm not mistaken, the face in this photo is Sephiroth."

"that's me."

Li Nuo hung up the phone directly. He felt like he had suffered a severe mental blow.

Cha Bai tapped his shoulder.

"We're here."

It was already night when the airship arrived at Cross Village.

You can't tell the time from the color of the sky. The evening is still gray and there is no distinction between day and night in the world.

The village of Close was formerly known as the village of Reims.

In the story of "Ys", it is located in the Kingdom of Ys. As time goes by, it has become a small border town.

The village was in a state of desolation, very different from all the cities Li Nuo and his friends had visited before.

Dilapidated houses, crooked alleys, muddy dirt roads, dim bonfires, and tightly closed doors.

After Li Nuo and his team placed the airship, they went to a high place on the edge of the village to look out.

The villagers were thin and their faces were pale.

Hunger has always been a constant presence in this village, and panic is always with us.

The illustration now gives the reason why the city is so dilapidated.

【Cross Village】

[In the war seventy years ago, this village was designated as a supply station on the front line. After the war, many of the craftsmen stayed in the village.]

[However, with the problems of the evil ruins, this village was exiled to the borders of many countries and became a no-man's land without a country.]

[With the rise of leading corporate groups, the power-guiding technology has been mass-produced, and the power-guiding craftsmen in this village are no longer popular, so even the last bit of value has been lost.]

[Although it does not conform to the current market system, the craftsmanship of this village is indeed unique. The reason for being eliminated is that it cannot match the social production capacity]

The explanation given in the illustrated guide is only one of the reasons for the village's defeat.

The illustrations of Fire Glaze upgrades represent what big companies and national governments say to the public, and are not the whole truth.

The real reason is actually far away in the village.

Li Nuo and Cha Bai stood there like nails.

Their eyes were fixed on the tower.

Tower of Dam.

This tower was built by Warcraft thousands of years ago as a medium to contact the country of Ys which is still high in the sky.

Now it sinks into the ground.

There is a beam of light at the top of the tower flowing towards the sky. It is absorbing the energy of this world and is the cause of its destruction.

Cha Bai said uneasily, "There is a very thick shield around the tower. We can't penetrate it."

Li Nuo squatted down and observed the tower carefully.

"It's so scary. All the scary things are in the tower."

"you can see?"

"There is a slight increase in insight after 500. Combined with Denise's ability to sense demons, she can probably smell a scent that makes people want to carry a bomb and self-destruct there."

Cha Bai put on the glasses to see the quest line.

"There's nothing... the tower is just like empty."

She glanced around the village again.

[Side Quest: Guidance Craftsman]

[Mission Difficulty: lv? ? ]

[Mission Reward: 5000 Experience Points, the best guide equipment (obtained during the mission)]

[Mission details: This city has been living in dire straits. The village is full of excellent guide craftsmen, but they insist on manual technology and are eliminated by the times. Give them a good reason to let them regain their original intention as craftsmen.]

In the central square of the village.

A sturdy orc with wolf-like ears stood in the center of the square. His name was "Kevin" and he was the best craftsman in the village.

Orcs are a symbol of manual laborers in this world. Their numbers are relatively rare, and most of them are concentrated in another country overseas. Compared with reality, they may be similar to migrants on the African continent.

At this time, Merry and Duster stood behind Kevin.

"That... Boss?"

"came back?"

Kevin turned his head and glanced at the pair of stupid thieves behind him with his wolf-like eyes.

Merry smiled and said, "We found something incredible!"

Dust nodded, "Really, it's a powerful monster."

Kevin frowned slightly.

"Can it destroy the world?"

“I can drive.”

"what?"

"And what can it transform into... God?"

Dust became less and less confident as he spoke. It was true that he could drive, but when Malger turned into a god, he didn't look much like a god.

"What god?"

"That god of 'Soul of Steel'..."

Kevin frowned, he knew Dust and Merry's personalities very well. Although they were usually not very smart, they were very reliable and their craftsmanship was the best among his students.

"Soul of Steel..."

Kevin discovered the blind spot.

"Soul of Steel!"

He grabbed Dust by the collar and lifted him up with one hand.

"Let's not talk about whether it's a divine beast or not, have you offended the Soul of Steel?"

In this continent, the name of Steel Soul is comparable to that of the Demon King.

“No, no one knows what we do.”

Merry quickly explained.

"There it is..."

On the way here, Merry released Maljie. Knowing that they were coming to this village, Marge cooperated obediently and followed them the whole time.

However, Kevin saw Li Nuo and Cha Bai.

"Are these two divine beasts?"

Dust and Merry were startled, looked back, and shuddered with fear.

"I'm going, they're chasing me!"

"That divine beast was raised by the two of them!"

Kevin immediately covered Dust and Merry's heads with his big hands, pressed them down, and bowed down to apologize. "I'm sorry... these two kids are my apprentices, and usually..."

Li Nuo: "Oh no, the dead dog issue doesn't matter."

Kevin: "Huh? Dog?"

Li Nuo touched his pocket and said, "It's like this... We are employees sent by Miss Huo Liuli, and now we want to promote this village..."

He took out his cell phone, dialed Huo Liuli's number and made a video call.

Huo Liuli on the screen still had tears on her face.

"Um...what are you doing?"

Li Nuo pointed his phone towards the village.

Huo Liuli was still quite capable in her job and immediately put on the face of a social elite. Li Nuo and her had already been in cahoots on the way here. As for how to get the people in this village to cooperate with the work, it was actually very simple.

"Hello, sir from Cross Village. I'm from the Ancient Fossil Research Company..."

"Miss." Kevin looked at Huo Liuli on the screen coldly, his eyes unfriendly: "I will remember you."

Many years ago, Huo Liuli's father sent people to the ancient ruins here to move out the crystals, resulting in the loss of an industrial chain in Cross Village. The villagers took this to heart, and since then they have been at odds with the big companies.

"Two million lire."

Huo Liuli made an offer directly.

"what?"

“The money was used for us to purchase the intellectual property rights for the village of Cross.”

"Hey!"

Kevin was unhappy. The skills of the guide craftsmen had been passed down from the war with the demons and were not something that could be measured by money.

Because of the appearance of the "two million", many villagers looked over with light in their eyes even though they were hungry.

"The village is near the Tower of Dam, which is a bit dangerous. If you are willing, skilled people can come to work in our company. Although the salary is not high, at least you can have enough food. Also, if you are willing, we can contact the government to build a new resettlement area for everyone. The most important thing is the household registration issue. Because Rocks Village is sandwiched between several countries and has historical issues, everyone is undocumented. If you join our company, everyone from technicians to cleaners can get a household registration."

"Of course sir, everything has a price. Please discuss the specific situation with my agent."

"I am waiting for your good news."

Huo Liuli turned off the communication. She was very good at playing hard to get.

The villagers who heard the content of the phone call all stood still, looking at Huo Liuli's agent, Li Nuo, as eagerly as wolves.

Merry and Dust widened their eyes, both of them at a loss.

The purpose of this pair of stupid thieves capturing Maljie was to sell the dog that could drive, get money, and then use their connections to relocate the people in the village. The two of them could only sell the stolen items on the black market, and they dared not display the money they got on the table, which resulted in the inability to effectively transform the stolen items into useful assets.

The problem with this village lies mainly in the national border. If the country accepts the scope of the village, it will have to accept the aftermath of the Tower of Dam. The village is very small, with a population of only a few hundred and few resources. No one cares about it. In name, it belongs to the Blue Sea Kingdom, but in reality it is an exiled foreign land.

Huo Liuli solved all the problems with just one sentence.

This is what the powerful class is capable of.

What ordinary people struggle to solve is just a matter of words for the rich young lady.

"Do you agree?" Li Nuo asked after putting away his phone.

"I fucking agree." Kevin said without hesitation. Who would go against money and household registration?

Dust whispered, "Boss...but some old people don't want to leave."

Meili glanced at him and said, "Knock him out and take him away by force."

Li Nuo: "That's it, we are going to fight the evil spirits, please help us transform our things."

Bang, bang, bang! The sound of doors closing one after another rang out.

The children on the street were carried back into the house by their fathers and the windows were slammed shut.

In an instant, Li Nuo and a few others were left in the square.

Kevin bluntly said, "You guys are here to play tricks on us, right?"

Lino glanced at Merry and Dust.

Merry immediately said: "They are capable... Duster and I have seen it with our own eyes. They gave the Belia City-State to..."

Li Nuo: "Ah, that was Miss Huo Liuli's first step in building a new industry. Now it's the second step. So what happened in the village?"

Kevin sat down on a bench at the edge of the square and lowered his head helplessly.

"You have also seen the Tower of Dam. It used to be a battlefield. After the minions of the evil spirits appeared, they first captured people from our village to work as craftsmen. My master died in the tower. Later, they began to do research on taming monsters and used our village as experimental subjects."

"So you're still alive, which means there are other factors."

"You are quite clever."

Kevin paused.

"The purpose of those guys is actually to find out whether there is a goddess protecting us."

He looked at the statue of the twin goddesses in the center of the square.

"She said she was the goddess who was protecting us, but in the end, she never showed up."

Chabai stood in front of the goddess statue.

"The twin goddesses from Ys..."

The statue is at least a thousand years old and is covered with mottled marks. This place is no longer the Isu country of a thousand years ago. The statue was preserved because the villagers needed a place to put their faith. Also, during the war, someone moved the statue to the village, trying to summon the Gemini goddesses to appear and punish the evil spirits. However, there were no goddesses at all.

“It’s all lies.”

Kevin's sharp teeth were grinding.

"I even suspect that the story of Atreus is also a myth."

Li Nuo poured him a cup of tea.

"Is there any legend or something like that, the kind that can summon the goddess?"

"No."

"Have!"

It was Dust who called out.

"We saw a secret in the ancient ruins of Qibeier..."

He took out a photo from his waist bag. On the picture was a stone tablet with blurred text. On the back was a description that Dust had translated after research.

[Atrus left different anchor points in this world as traces of their existence. If the things that serve as anchor points can be activated, Atrus and his lover will appear.]

Li Nuo remembered a bell that Nanami had gotten from the idiot couple not long ago.

What Nanami narrated at the time was that the idiot couple needed to use the bell to establish an "anchor point" before they could come over from other worlds.

Li Nuo muttered in a low voice: "The idea that the bell establishes the anchor point is wrong. It should be that the bell connects the anchor point... Then the anchor point should actually be what Pippen and Etta left in this world..."

He took out the "Empress Figure" he got in the town of Qibei from the box.

Kevin looked at him strangely.

"How about playing?"

"I was wondering what you could do to help me?"

Li Nuo smiled as he played with the figurines.

"What Miss Huo Liuli said is true. We really need to fight the evil demons. As for the guiding equipment, I will rely on your help."

Although Li Nuo doesn't understand the power-guided equipment, he knows how to apply talents.

Cha Bai put the big bag he was carrying on the ground, unzipped it, and let Kevin see the guided parts they got from the Shirufus Building.

"Are you serious?"

Li Nuo nodded: "It's true, but it will be done in a media way. Someone will record the whole process, and the prefix content about how you make things will be played on the screen. It can be regarded as a wave of publicity for everyone. There is nothing to discuss in this regard. Everything will be done according to our will."

All video equipment is stored in the airship and guarded by Die.

The staff sent by Huo Liuli are on the way.

Li Nuo planned to kill two birds with one stone, dealing with the evil demon while solving WWE's mission, but now he lacks actors. As for who can be the actor, he already knows.

First of all, they must be very good, extremely good. All the leading actors must be able to act as the BOSS in a script.

Secondly, there must be multiple protagonists, and each person needs to be more or less connected to this world.

Li Nuo placed the "Empress Figurine" in front of the Gemini Goddess statue.

On the old statues, the goddesses' faces and voices are lifelike, as if they are still alive in some corner.

Fina and Rhea, the goddesses who founded the ancient country of Ys, the highest point that once protected the people of Ys, the winged people, the gods, all the explanations are meaningless because one of them is already a player.

Li Nuo stood in front of the statue and rang the bell at the figurine.

The soft and crisp sound of the bell is pleasant to the ear.

The sound is soft.

But it transcends time and space.

In that world, Etta looked at the sky, and Pippen's hair was faintly red.

On this day, Atrus and Fina returned to the ancient country of Isu.

They came back when the world was about to be destroyed.

And what greeted them was only the Warrior of Light.

(End of this chapter)