As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 574 Beat this old man!

Chen Shou came to find Li Nuo just to play a game, but on the way back he was hit by an imaginary train.

Xiao Wu felt innocent, but it was indeed her responsibility. Only then did she understand what was going on.

"We will get a few of our good friends in. That's the mechanism of this ticket."

"The relationship is good..." Maljie hesitated, not knowing how to comment on the current situation.

"Well... I'm a lone wolf, you know that." Xiao Wu said the most tearful thing: "I don't have any friends, and apart from you guys, there's no one I can talk to."

Her loneliness was entirely of her own making.

Muto Sora, behind this famous name are countless players who have been cheated by her.

Anyway, she always manages to cheat the people around her without them realizing it, even those strangers will get into trouble because of her.

For example, the thin guy this time.

"Forget it, let's make the best of it now." Li Nuo simply introduced: "Muto Sora."

This was the first time Chen Shou had seen Xiao Wu properly. He had heard before that she was an idiot neighbor who lived across from Li Nuo and his family.

Muto Sora... He thought about it carefully. This name... is the infamous god of plague.

Chen Shou's mouth twitched: "The fact that you all are together shows that... the difficulty of the script..."

He felt that he would die in this script.

Cha Bai took out a blank ticket from the magic grid and handed it to Chen Shou.

[Escapist Ticket]

This thing was obtained by Cha Bai after she paid a higher price after agreeing to be Wen Ke's temporary mascot.

She said: "Just spend some time comfortably in the script, and you can use it to leave the script."

Chen Shou took it and said, "I will use it, don't worry."

But he probably won't use it, Li Nuo thought, and looked at the two people opposite. The last time at the "Creation Mountain", Chen Shou's function was repeated with Nanami, and this time, Chen Shou repeated it with Xiao Wu.

"Brother Shou, you really are an item that can be replaced at any time."

"My life is a sin, right?"

【The train has arrived】

This time we arrived at the station very quickly. Because of Chen Shou's intrusion, no one had yet to have a "meeting", but there was actually no need, because everyone was clear about the basic world view of "Broadsword".

[The script has begun]

[The script is "Big Sword"]

[Plot synopsis…]

This was the first time that Li Nuo and his team saw a free plot summary. In the past, they had to pay for it. There was no such thing as a free lunch, so it was obvious that there must be something wrong with the script.

[The Great Sword, this story comes from the creation of the Middle Ages, originating from the war between two great powers]

[Great Sword is the name of a warrior from an organization, a cyborg whose job is to slay demons and monsters]

[The land where the great sword warriors are located is just an isolated island test site. And the great sword warriors who are tasked with fighting against the demons are just test subjects for biological warfare weapons.]

[Even the huge swords used by the greatsword warriors and the source of their power all come from the vast world outside the island]

[The behind-the-scenes controllers outside the island have set up an organization dedicated to researching and managing the Great Sword Warriors, and continue to develop various possibilities of the Great Sword Warriors on the island. Their real purpose is to create controllable super biological weapons and use them in the world war outside the island.]

[The world outside the island is a land where many countries are constantly at war. After many rounds of war, the continent has finally been united into two major forces. These two forces continue to fight for the ultimate hegemony.]

[However, during the stalemate between the two sides, one of the forces introduced a non-human race with a hard skin and extremely powerful - "Descendants of Dragons"]

Li Nuo wrote down the key words: Descendant of the Dragon. This thing is the origin of the Great Sword worldview.

[Another force, in order to fight against the "Descendants of Dragons", began to develop a new type of war weapon. This new weapon uses a technology that can mutate the human body into a monster, thereby producing special warriors for war. These special warriors have various abilities that surpass ordinary humans. When they break into the enemy camp or encounter the "Descendants of Dragons", they will transform into terrible monsters - "Awakeners"]

The Awakener, this thing Li Nuo has fought with more than once. Although he won every time without much risk, he has not encountered the most dangerous kind of Awakener.

[In view of the danger of destroying the Awakener's own army if it loses control, the faction that has mastered the Awakener's technology has temporarily moved the experimental work of this research to an island far away from the mainland.]

[The story of "Big Sword" begins here]

The following sound was a little blurry, but several players knew what happened without explanation...

That is the story of the greatsword warriors fighting against the awakened ones.

Generation after generation of greatswords finally took control of the island, but they did not intend to have conflicts with the outside world, and protecting the island became the final ending of the original story.

But the real story of the Great Sword actually happens outside the island.

It was a war between two huge forces.

A war that burned the entire continent.

[The war ended suddenly]

Li Nuo: “Hmm?”

In the darkness, he felt that he had heard the tone of this voice somewhere before, but it was definitely not the AI-like program voice in "Endless Corridor".

It was a woman's voice with complex emotions.

He quickly came up with the answer: "World War..."

This is the "Corridor of the End".

Things are developing in the most difficult direction. The script of invading any corridor is easy, except for the "End Corridor", which is the most difficult to deal with against that group of lunatics. It is equivalent to going against a group of Li Nuo and Maljie. It is not equal in strength, but unpredictable in behavior.

He calmed down and continued listening. The story was not over yet.

[A book came into this world, bringing with it those who could destroy everything. The war shattered the world, and these outsiders reaped the shattered world.]

[The gene that made the Great Sword Warriors stronger became a virus, polluting the world, and everyone has the potential to become a demon]

There is no antidote

No Faith

[The calamity left behind by outsiders lasted for a hundred years]

[Until now]

The world collapsed

"It's really rare to find people still alive in this world, haha, hahaha..."

The old and hoarse voice sounded like it contained blood foam and reached Li Nuo's ears.

Vision has not returned.

Then he heard another sound.

"Wake up, stranger."

Li Nuo opened his eyes suddenly in fright.

The road is bumpy.

There were cliffs on one side and a cliff on the other, and the sky was gloomy and dark.

A horse-drawn carriage with a rough wooden frame was driving on a dirt road. The old man driving the carriage was wearing a large bamboo hat. He whipped the horse with many eyes and coughed heavily.

Li Nuo was leaning against the shelf alone. The teammate panel showed that Maljie and Cha Bai were not far away, and they were approaching a point towards each other.

He looked up at the old man's back.

[Emile's Mask] Unable to view the old man's data, a prompt popped up.

[The elderly driver is protected by a soul, and data cannot be observed]

Li Nuo thought to himself that soul guards should be something similar to a small rubber umbrella that can prevent dangerous prying eyes.

At this time, the system prompt appears.

[You are a lone hunter who makes a living by hunting monsters. You heard that there is a big job in a village where monsters are prevalent, so you got on this carriage.]

"You just fell asleep."

The old man driving the car was like most taxi drivers and liked to chat.

"Ah."

Li Nuo agreed and glanced into the distance.

"Who is chasing us?"

The old man was stunned.

Li Nuo had already pulled out his cane and was looking behind the car.

"There's nothing."

The old man wanted to stop the car, but Li Nuo said, "If you stop the car, I will kill you."

While he was speaking, he started releasing his demonic power, which expanded his perception by about 10%. No, he could only sense malicious intent, but he didn't know what kind.

As he thought of this, his pupils turned golden, releasing 40% of his maximum demonic power and malicious perception.

Li Nuo suddenly tilted his head, and something like a shuriken brushed past his cheek, directly blasting the rock barrier in the way into pieces.

Malice perception can directly identify hostile people within range. In layman's terms, it is the perception of murderous intent. You know that the other party wants to kill you, and you can feel the source of the target. This is not outrageous. If someone with this ability also has extremely strong means of preserving his life, added together, that is an outrageous ability.

There was a rumbling sound on the ground; the explosion just now triggered a mudslide.

"My friend, should I speed up?"

"Need not."

Li Nuo raised his left arm slightly, grabbed a creature five meters away with his ghost hand, held it in his hand, and pierced its throat with his walking stick.

The thing that attacked him had no eyes, not even a face. Its face was a hollow, dark hole filled with overflowing magic factors.

[Alienated Demon·Mr. Si]

[Level: lv70]

[Strength: 200] [Reaction: 288]

[Spiritual power: 166]

[Physique: 170]

【Insight: 309】

【Medical: 411】

[A mutant of the Great Sword Demon, he was originally an ordinary human, but he has been a demon for too long and has forgotten his human state. He has become a completely chaotic creature, but the demons have their own organization, and he is a fighter of the organization.]

[Demons have extremely strong body repair abilities. They can only be killed if their bodies are damaged beyond repair or their souls are destroyed directly.]

A hundred years after the main storyline of Great Sword ended, the world has been reshuffled, and the monsters on the island are rampant on the mainland. Because of those outsiders a hundred years ago, the human system collapsed and monsters became the masters of this world.

[These guys are obsessed with flesh and blood, especially living people]

The mask's final explanation told Li Nuo why these creatures were chasing them.

The old man driving the car is definitely not a carbon-based creature.

At least this old guy is not delicious. To carnivorous creatures, he should be an old thing that only vegetarians would open their mouths and bite.

Li Nuo stepped on the struggling demon on the ground and slowly pulled out the cane from its neck, leaving a little flame to burn its soul. Then he touched his ear with his left hand and found no signal in the headset. He believed that Maljie was still debugging the signal source of this world.

Meanwhile, the invisible demons were already in pursuit, riding on black beasts as big as horses and as sized as wolves, along the narrow dirt road.

The weather was not good, and it started to rain.

Li Nuo's golden pupils reflected these demons that exuded a strong aura of death. They were galloping on the path. They had no faces and no expression could be seen, but their malice was like a big hand that grasped the air.

Four demons riding on ferocious beasts approached quickly from the road and the rock wall, surrounding the carriage that was rushing towards Li Nuo.

Suddenly, a demon held a lit cannon barrel and shot a lead ball-like cannonball, but Li Nuo changed its trajectory with a slap.

The explosion caused a large amount of thick fog that obscured vision.

A steel knife pierced through the mist. Li Nuo bit the tip of the knife directly and twisted his walking stick into the heart of the person who drew the knife. The blue fire burning from the stick burned the demon to death.

The old man driving the horse looked at Duodu and cooperated by slowing down the speed of the carriage.

Wow…

The rocks on the rock wall rolled down.

The quiet demons dodged the stone pestle and attacked the carriage from both sides, slashing with the blades in their hands.

Li Nuo blocked with his staff and fought with the two on the carriage for a few rounds. After getting familiar with the demon's physical skills, he stopped probing. With "Pa Pa", he snapped his left fingers twice in succession, and the "Alchemist's Finger Snap" blew up the two.

In an instant, only two demons were still chasing. These two suddenly transformed. The moment the demons awakened, they swallowed the beast under their crotch and merged with it into a four-legged monster with a human face.

Their bodies grew to more than ten meters in size, and they opened their barbed mouths to bite down. The carriage swerved to avoid them, and a deep hole was bitten out on the road behind.

"Once demons use their awakened form, we can no longer fight them."

The old man driving the car wanted to persuade Li Nuo.

"I'm going to speed up and get rid of them, you..."

"slow down."

"what?"

The old man turned his head and looked at Li Nuo in surprise. He was standing on the frame with a cane, and his body did not move at all during the bumpy ride.

The two awakened demons had already jumped down from the sky, their mouths wide open, as if they would tear the entire carriage to pieces in the next second.

The black shadow pressed down on Li Nuo. He raised his pupils and saw the two extremely huge strange faces were very close.

【Blade that Cuts the Wind】.

Li Nuo pressed down the brim of his hat and slowly sat back on the bench in the carriage.

The faces of the demons that had just attacked had been shattered into pieces, and blue crystal flames poured into their bodies from their wounds, forming a bonfire in the rain.

"Uh, ah?" The old man driving was stunned. He didn't see what just happened.

"Watch the road, sir." Li Nuo reminded.

The carriage nearly hit the rocks.

"The monster is different from what I imagined." Li Nuo held the monster fragments he had just cut off in his hand and put them into the pharmacist bag.

The old man driving the car said, "They have been like this for a long time. Ever since this continent fell, the masters here have always been demons, and humans are their food."

What Li Nuo meant by "different" was the difference between these monsters and those in the original work. In the original work, the monsters would retain human communication methods after being humanized, but the ones that attacked them just now were more like some objects without life signs.

[In this continent, demons have already started to produce demons on a factory assembly line]

The system suddenly provided very humane answers to questions.

This made Li Nuo even more certain that this was the "Corridor of the End".

"Stranger, I can only help you go to those dangerous places, but you need to explore the rest by yourself."

The old man suddenly opened his mouth and spoke.

Li Nuo guessed that the old man was a riddler, but he was not in a hurry to beat him. He would at least get to the station first.

The carriage stopped in front of a town that was collapsing like ruins, and Li Nuo got off the carriage carrying the first demon that attacked him.

But the old man was stunned.

“No… No!”

Lee Nott wants to smack him because the Riddler is annoying.

"This is clearly a demon village, full of demons, how come there is not a single demon left?"

The old man took a deep breath.

"The demons are all dead!"

Li Nuo was about to hit him when he suddenly heard a sound not far away. He grabbed the old man by the collar and pulled him towards the direction of the sound.

But they saw piles of demon corpses lying on the ground next to the bonfire in the center of the town. The girl with ponytail had her back to them, then turned around, her face full of blood, telling of a massacre.

"I hate it! Why did you come just now?!"

Xiao Wu lost all her cool as soon as she opened her mouth.

At this moment, Shou Ge was sitting on a small stool next to the campfire, looking at Li Nuo who was coming over with despair in his eyes.

"I say, Li Nuo."

Chen Shou pointed at the demon's corpse.

"You guys treat this thing as a small monster?"

Li Nuo guessed what happened. Chen Shou and Xiao Wu appeared together and directly appeared in the Monster Village. Theoretically, their situation was the most dangerous, but with Xiao Wu there, the monsters were the most dangerous.

Seeing that Xiao Wu was killing monsters easily, Chen Shou also took action, and then Fat Brother discovered that the monsters were very powerful.

Li Nuo said, "Thin brother, you are so weak."

Chen Shou covered his forehead: "You are the monsters..."

Every time Chen Shou went on a dungeon with Li Nuo and his group, he would doubt whether they were all creatures from the same worldview.

At this time, Xiao Wu walked to the old man, and after saying a few words, Xiao Wu picked up a brick and smashed it on the old man's head.

"You're a riddle man!"

There was a hole in the old man's hat, so Xiao Wu simply pinned the old man to the ground and beat him. Anyway, when dealing with the Riddler, you don't have to worry about his reaction. Just beat him to your heart's content first.

Li Nuo quickly stopped them: "Wait until Lao Ma and the others arrive, and then we'll fight together!"

Xiao Wu glared at Li Nuo unhappily: "Do you understand what it means to be alone is worse than to share happiness with others?"

The old man wearing the bamboo hat was desperate: "You are the villagers of the demon village!"

Chen Shou actually walked over and held the old man's hand: "Uncle, I think so too."

The old man is dumbfounded, what a bunch of lunatics! The solemnity here is diluted by these lunatics.

At this time...

A big white dog pulling a sled rushed out from the path next to it...

The white dog stuck out its tongue.

Cha Bai sat in the seat at the back of the sled and covered his face.

"This is such a shameful way to make an appearance..."

The white dog stood up and gave a thumbs-up, which meant: "Huh."

Ever since Maljie was able to transform into a dog, he has been thinking about how to make use of his identity as a dog. So he invented the [Alaskan Malamute Simulator Toy] not long ago, which turns himself into a sled dog. This thing is very useful, for example, it can act as a dog cart to pull customers and make money in the script.

So, now that everyone is gathered together, the next thing they looked at was the old man with blood all over his head.

The old man was used to wind and rain, so he quickly calmed down and put on his tattered hat.

Because he was beaten by Xiao Wu, he didn't plan to be a riddle man anymore, so he explained some things clearly.

An unknown event a hundred years ago caused the world to go astray. As long as humans have emotional fluctuations, they may turn into demons. The demonization that spreads like a virus cannot be stopped because no specific medicine can be developed.

The human regime left this continent. They sent some people without emotional abilities as bounty hunters to come here to hunt demons, and look for ways to drive out the demons from this continent. But today, humans are on the verge of extinction, and not many people take these hunters seriously.

Apart from those... manufactured cyborgs, the old man in the bamboo hat is a cyborg created by humans.

He is responsible for building safe houses for hunters who come here, but he will lead the hunters to a dangerous place first. Only qualified hunters are qualified to enter the safe houses he builds.

After saying all of the above, the old man introduced himself at the end.

"My name is Fire Keeper. By the way, some strange guys came here and said I was a Fire Keeper. Although I am genderless, Fire Keeper sounds shorter, so you can just call me 'Fire Keeper'."

As expected, he was beaten again.

(End of this chapter)