As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 569: Two Champions in the Detention Center
The planet where the arena is located.

Cairo Police Department, Detention Center. The director, Fang Nao Luo, is trying to get the tea to his mouth, because his head is too big, so eating is a problem every time.

"(д) Damn it..."

Its hand slipped and the tea accidentally spilled all over its pants.

Just as it was yelling "It's scalded to death", the outer door of the detention center opened and Lillian came in, lowering her body.

"Ah~ Sorry, my friend has said hello to the sheriff, and I want to visit him in prison."

"Wait, wait!" Dafangtou Luo paused for a long time before saying, "If you don't give me money, I won't let you visit me in prison!"

Innie, who was standing at the door, stared with a fierce look in his eyes. People who knew him well said that he was the chairman's most loyal dog, and that was true.

Lillian looked back and raised an eyebrow, then smiled and shook her head.

Innie closed the outer door and went out, no longer meddling in other people's business. In the real world, he was a well-known interstellar hunter. Johannesson became friends with him at a drinking party of interstellar hunters.

"Sorry, sorry, that's my friend. He asked the sheriff to..."

"Get lost, you ugly bastard."

Big-headed Luo sat down with a look of disgust, picked up the cigarette on the table, but it was difficult for him to put it in his mouth.

Lillian came over and put the cigarette in its mouth and lit it.

"Your head is so big, so it must be very inconvenient in your life, right?"

"Ugly girl, don't think that serving me will allow you to visit me for free."

"I'm just curious, how do you usually eat?"

Lillian smiled and narrowed her eyes.

"You can't eat in this state, how come you haven't starved to death yet?"

Luo, who had a square head, was stunned for a moment: "Yeah... I have trouble drinking tea... How can I eat?"

Lillian covered her mouth in surprise: "Could it be that you are dead? You are now..."

Luo, the big-headed man, suddenly realized: "Yes... I should have died a long time ago... I starved to death a long time ago."

After that, it died.

The death of the Cairo people requires a clear self-awareness. When they feel that they are dead, they will die.

Lillian took out the house number from the warden's clothes. Even if she could kill the Cairo alien, she couldn't do it. She didn't want to try to deal with the trouble caused by the funny creature.

She walked towards a cage, swiped her card to open it, walked for dozens of meters, and stopped in front of a single room.

Click.

Accompanied by the sound of the iron cage opening.

Li Nuo raised his head, the sunlight outside the window splashed onto his face through the iron bars, his golden pupils were submerged in the light, and the person who came was reflected on his retina.

"so slow."

Lillian smiled when she heard that.

"Well, sorry."

It was clear from the moment Lillian arrived at the competition that the president would look for Li Nuo.

Li Nuo was not in a hurry to escape from prison, he was just waiting for her.

Lillian took her time to sit down on the chair opposite Li Nuo and said, "I heard from the people in the Anti-Science Alliance that they are very optimistic about you."

"Pandao?" Li Nuo said happily, "But I also heard them talk about the past of the corridor."

"Then you should know why I wanted to kill you before you could rise to power, right?" Lillian asked. Her deep meaning was the bloody storm in the corridor at that time and the unpredictable future.

Li Nuo said, "There's no point in whitewashing."

There was silence for a moment.

Lillian suddenly grabbed Li Nuo's hair, looked down at him, and gritted her teeth: "I'm going to find a way out, and you give me some face, is it that difficult?"

Li Nuo sneered and said, "How about this, let's both take a step back. I'll call you 'Chairman' and you call me 'Dad'."

Lillian: "Okay, Dad."

Li Nuo: "I don't recognize you."

Their eyes met, less than ten centimeters apart, and Lillian finally let go of her hand.

Invisibly, the gap between the two of them disappeared, at least temporarily in this prison.

Lillian lowered her eyebrows, facing the sunlight through the iron window, and said softly, "I came here because of what Wang Li said."

After hearing this, Li Nuo raised his eyebrows and said, "Ah, I see."

Taoist Wang predicted that Li Nuo's future would affect the Corridor.

"What do you think, Madam President?"

"It has nothing to do with me."

Lillian changed the subject: "Did you know that many years ago there was a bastard who brought the Ancient God to Basel?"

"I've heard of it." Li Nuo nodded: "That... it was almost..."

"No matter how outrageous you are, it can't be more outrageous than that." Lillian said, "Our corridor is a place where a group of diodes gather. The good ones are a bunch of honest people, and the bad ones are like you and me. If you go astray, it will indeed cause some problems in the corridor. In fact, there is no need for Cthulhu. Even if you put 10,000 Cairo people in the corridor, the entire corridor will be reshuffled."

Li Nuo said nothing, as he already understood what Lillian meant. However, he still wanted to say that the Cairo people were more terrifying than the ancient gods.

Things that affect the corridor are not necessarily serious matters. Some seemingly absurd actions can also make "fate" collapse.

For example, Soul of Steel.

Lillian: "You have passed level 90. You are qualified to see some things."

Li Nuo asked: "Rich Fan?"

Lillian smiled and gave him a middle finger: "Follow me."

[Player 9909 sends an invitation to go to the "World Tree"]

【Whether to accept? 】

"Well, let's go."

The words fell.

Li Nuo's vision went dark.

A white light suddenly appeared.

Green grass, blue sky, and a big tree in the distance.

At first glance, the tree looked like a giant creature a hundred meters tall, but it made Li Nuo, who was used to seeing monsters, feel fear, an uncontrollable fear.

“All the stories of parallel universes are in its green shade.”

Lillian stood in front of Li Nuo.

She turned around, and the viciousness that could not be hidden in her eyes seemed gentle in contrast.

"world Tree."

She raised her hand and pointed at the big tree.

"This is an area that only those who are qualified to challenge the 'Manager' can come to."

"Challenge the administrator?" Li Nuo paused: "Challenge the king? What qualifications do you have?"

"What is a player?" Lillian asked instead of answering.

"The living dead."

"That's too empty. How many people in this world are not the living dead?" Lillian said, "Players are just walking save machines."

She reached out her hand, touched a leaf, and flew it to Li Nuo.

"See for yourself."

When Li Nuo saw the descriptive words on the leaves, a long string of content suddenly appeared in his mind.

……

[“Eternal Corridor” player 3883]

——"I thought the players were just a bunch of ghosts, then I thought we were warriors, and then I found out we were the power that dominated the world. Now... I feel like the players are... like a bunch of machines."

……

[“Sky Corridor” players 5000]

——"Initially, the datafication was to protect us so that we could pass the early stage smoothly. As the datafication became weaker and weaker, it was probably because the meaning of our existence became real. This reality came from the communication with the world, but it was not the kind of communication with good intentions. Players might destroy the world, but they would also give some insignificant little people in the world a reason to live. These things seemed to vaguely form parallel lines in the world. My level is not high enough... I have to wait and see."

……

[“Sky Corridor” players 5107]

——"No need to look at it anymore, that guy is dead, but I did figure out some things. The World Tree is divided into multiple layers, and each layer is a different parallel line. The higher you go, the stronger the parallel world is. Most of the worlds you go to before level 25 are at the roots of the tree, because it is buried in the soil and is the most heavily protected. On the contrary, the top is the most dangerous because it is closest to the prison."

——"Oh, by the way, there is a border prison..."

[Player level 5900 is not enough to know the full picture of the prison, please upgrade to level 99]

...["Endless Corridor" player 2277]

——"This world is so big and chaotic, I just want to know...why are there no scripts for Dragon Ball or Marvel?"

……

[“End of Corridor” player 10096]

——"Players are seeds. The causes and effects they plant will blossom and bear fruit, and then become nutrients for the World Tree, nourishing its growth, and finally... blocking the forces that should not come from this world. The above is nonsense. Do you believe it? I believe it? Believe it or not."

……

【“Death Corridor” player 7033】

——"There is no such thing as big or small destiny."

……

The leaves in Li Nuo's hand turned into ashes.

With a breeze, it fell on the grass and turned into a white flower.

"understood."

"You understand now?" Lillian was curious, but she thought Li Nuo should also understand.

"I compare players to comics. Each script we experience is a unit drama, but the unit dramas are not connected to each other and cannot form an effective story. If there are some small stories in the middle to connect the unit dramas, then a complete story will be formed."

Li Nuo took out the thermos and blew away the hot air. This was the only thing that was not confiscated after he went to prison. It was his favorite prop.

“When something is connected between the scripts, the players themselves become the authors of their own scripts.”

He took a sip of tea.

Throat swallowing.

"Changing the storyline of a script is the beginning of creating a new script, that is, signing your name. There aren't many players who have reached this stage, right? I think I had the right to sign my name when I was playing NieR... No, maybe I had it even earlier."

Lillian expressed her approval with silence.

Li Nuo looked at the big tree.

"The obsession of the player with the right to sign will guide the next script he might go to. Just like when I wanted to kill the mirror, I would find it in the end, and the script would find me. From here on, the obsession will become a driving force, making the script story coherent. When the stories we experience form additional timelines... everything about us becomes part of the script."

Lillian said, "Then there is inheritance. Just like your comic became a script, the origins of many scripts are actually very strange and cannot be explored in depth, but most of them are related to players. Let me take your wife as an example. There is a player similar to you with a complete storyline. With this characteristic, he influenced a kid in a certain world. The kid had a strange artistic conception in his mind, and that conception became NieR: Automata."

Taking into account the multiple world lines and the confusion of timelines, the most terrifying thing may be that... many of the scripts they are familiar with may originate in the future.

Li Nuo covered the thermos cup.

"To sum it up, the player is the one who modifies the story, and the story ends when the player dies or quits."

He brought the topic back to the topic with one sentence.

"Madam President, you don't want me to commit suicide, do you?"

Lillian smiled and shook her head: "I'm not that stupid."

Li Nuo: "That's hard to say~"

Lillian ignored him and said, "The one that Taoist Wang calculated should be related to your own destiny. I let you see this to remind you..."

Before he could finish his words, the scene around him changed.

Li Nuo returned to the detention center.

Lillian still stood in front of him, with her back to the sun, and said, "Going to that place is a privilege for people above level 99. I have used my own privilege to take you there. You are at a low level, so you can't stay there for too long."

Li Nuo just wanted to finish his business, so he asked, "So, what are you going to do?"

Lillian was not a riddle teller, so she said bluntly, "You are too troublesome. I am worried that one day you will push things to a point that will affect everyone. As the saying goes, curiosity kills the cat. In fact, the cat died on the road of exploration. So I might as well tell you everything you are authorized to know, so that you don't have to explore it yourself. Including that Soren Lee, you should focus on your own things and don't be too outrageous."

What she wouldn't say was that the king's original order not to touch Li Nuo for the time being became "don't get entangled with the [low-blooded person] for no reason" in the eyes of the chairman.

Li Nuo nodded, narrowed his eyes, and said happily: "The president feels good, right?"

Lillian didn't hide it and replied, "Yes, it's great to be the top leader of the Endless Corridor. I hope to stay there for a few more years."

"Well, do me a favor, I won't be a player..."

"Like that Xing Kai?" Lillian interrupted, "Xing Kai was an accident. The 'ticket to not be a player' shouldn't have appeared in your original script."

Li Nuo's eyes changed, as if he heard a very...unexpected answer.

Lillian said, "Do you really think that it's that easy to stop being a player? Xing Kai's incident is a bit strange, don't delve into it."

After saying that, Lillian turned around to leave, but Li Nuo stopped her.

"What the president means is that we can only make ourselves strong enough, just like you and I did during the World War, until we have all the possibilities of victory in our hands?"

"World War..." Lillian laughed, with a hint of self-mockery in her voice. Then she whispered, "If I had faced the main force of the 'End Corridor', I don't think I would have won the championship. No one would believe it. As for the truth, you readers should just choose the best one."

"I see." Li Nuo asked again: "What is the World Tree?"

Lillian said: “▉▉▉▉▉…”

Li Nuo couldn't hear it.

Lillian told him that he couldn't know these things before reaching level 99.

Li Nuo made a compromise and asked, "Black businessman, can you tell me this?"

Lillian: "There are a lot of things that came out of the World Tree, but the probability of encountering them is very low, that's all. They are like black market merchants in the game, selling a bunch of things that are not presentable."

Li Nuo has always been concerned about black businessmen. Lillian's answer means that she doesn't know what black businessmen are, which makes him care even more.

At this point, there is nothing more to say.

Li Nuo waved goodbye and said, "When you get out of the detention center today, you will still be the president of your association. I have nothing to do with you."

Lillian didn't say anything. She thought so too. She turned around and opened the cage. Just as she took a step, she heard a voice behind her.

"Oh, and I have another request."

Lillian turned around and looked at Li Nuo in confusion.

"You have plenty of ways to escape prison."

"Who said jailbreak?"

Li Nuo pointed at her shoulder bag.

"Did you bring your cell phone?"

Lillian took out a white brick-shaped phone, waved it between her fingertips, and nodded.

"Ah."

"Take a photo with me."

"What's it for?"

"Don't worry about it. I won't hurt you anyway."

……

Inside the dark carriage.

The computer screen flickered white.

The display screen reads: "Li Nuo's Room", updated today.

"I'm Li Nuo. I spent the whole day drawing comics. The update is complete!"

He was wearing a large black robe and his rough fingers were tapping on the keyboard.

Clicked on the internal file and started updating the "private records".

"My name is Li Nuo. I didn't go to the last script. Ahhh...hate it, hate it. Well, today I participated in a fighting competition, and a woman who had a connection with me in the past came to see me."

"We both did shameful things in prison (covering face)."

"Really... I feel so sorry for my wife, so I decided to go home today and beat her up so that she can divorce me, hahahaha!"

After he finished typing all the text, he turned on the camera system.

Then he scratched his head in confusion.

"The Cairo alien's surveillance doesn't allow me to see the area near his home..."

"never mind."

"Anyway, no one except me can see what's updated today."

He always felt like something was missing.

Suddenly an idea struck me.

I tapped on the keyboard and added a paragraph.

"Today, I went to the big tree, but there was nothing there."

Enter.

Save.

Signed: Black businessman ■■.

(End of this chapter)