As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 575 DLC: Across Time
The old man in the bamboo hat leaned against the wall and sighed.

He was thinking, when was the last time I was beaten up like this by a group of young people? When was it?

"I've never been beaten by a young man!"

Li Nuo gave him a blow on the head, and the old man grimaced in pain.

"So what are your functions?"

The old man looked at Li Nuo's smile and felt an inexplicable sense of palpitations.

He seemed to see the smiling face of a blonde woman overlapping with Li Nuo.

"Denisa..."

"Very good." Li Nuo stood up with his eyes wide open and asked, "First, what happened to Denise? Second, what is your role? Third, what can we do?"

Xiao Wu sat on the broken wall not far away, shaking her legs, looking at the old man with a smile, and kindly reminded him: "You'd better answer him, this guy is a lunatic."

Chen Shou couldn't help but say, "The woman who slaughtered a village of demons and hit an old man with a brick is no less despicable."

The pervert Xiao Wu responded to Chen Shou with a face.

The old man in the bamboo hat took a deep breath.

"Denisa only exists in historical documents. I have a record of Denisa in my mind. She appeared about 130 years ago... Other than that, there is no information."

Li Nuo nodded and glanced at Maljie, who came over with a "woof", sniffed the old man, and then nodded to Li Nuo, meaning that this cyborg could be dismantled, and if that didn't work, their brains could be dug out and put in a machine to read their memories. This method was useless for carbon-based organisms, but was effective for mechanical or biological weapons, but it was time-consuming.

The old man didn't know that the dog was trying to tear him apart, and thought it was just a good dog. He touched Ma Ge's head and stared at Li Nuo with his old eyes.

"In my mind, your smile just now overlapped with Denise's smile."

"Get to the point." Li Nuo reminded.

The old man in the bamboo hat then explained his role.

Humans once created him using biological black technology. The skill tree in the world of "Broadsword" is ridiculously distorted. You can't see guns and cannons in the original work, but it can actually do biological synthesis, and even resurrect things that have been dead for hundreds of years through fragmented genes.

This is what the old man in the bamboo hat is like.

The mainland is full of monsters. The human survivors go to the island where the original story of "Claymore" takes place, where they study technology to destroy the monsters, but they also need data about the monsters.

Humans send out emotionless hunters and have modified humans with special abilities wait for the hunters on the dangerous continent. Receiving hunters and extracting data are the jobs of the old man in the bamboo hat.

"My ability, to put it simply, is to upgrade you."

When the old man said this, everyone looked at him with strange eyes again.

In the classic Souls-like games that everyone is familiar with, there is a mechanism in which players kill monsters to gain experience points and then look for the "Fire Keeper" or "Shrine" to upgrade. Excluding items like shrines, the Fire Keeper is a woman, and a beautiful one at that, a beauty who can compete with 2B.

Li Nuo's lips trembled: "If I had saved an old man with an eyepatch when I first entered NieR, and that old man told me his name was 2B, I would probably have dug out my own eyes."

Xiao Wu laughed and joked: "Don't say it, haha... it's interesting just thinking about it."

She also glanced at Cha Bai and couldn't help laughing.

The old man laughed with Xiao Wu, but Xiao Wu's smile stopped because she was so disappointed.

"how?"

"I haven't seen this kind of smile since everyone died." The old man in the bamboo hat lowered his head and said, "Yes, they are all dead... almost all humans are dead."

In the past, Li Nuo would use various means to test the truth of this sentence, but here, the system will directly answer the doubts.

[Fifteen years ago, the last human with normal emotions died on the island]

[The "humans" still alive today are all hunters without emotional fluctuations. They may be more terrifying than demons.]

Chen Shou adjusted the slingshot and asked, "Everyone is dead, so what are you doing?"

The old man in the bamboo hat: "For...for..."

Cha Bai: "For the eternal glory of mankind."

The air seemed to be pinched by a hand.

The sound of rain was amplified in the small town.

"Ah."

The old man in the bamboo hat lowered the brim of his hat with his wrinkled, skinny fingers.

"Well, for humanity."

The cyborgs have been implanted with a mission. They must complete the task and their superiors must be humans. In order to allow humans to return to the mainland and to avoid human extinction, they, the cyborgs, are still performing meaningless responsibilities even now that humans have already perished.

Cha Bai patted Li Nuo on the shoulder, stood in front of him, and squatted in front of the old man.

“I understand, it’s a tough feeling,” she said.

"Yeah, girl, you're not a human either?"

"Who knows."

Cha Bai raised his finger slightly, signaling everyone not to disturb the old man.

"Old sir, tell us everything that happens next. You know better than us what to say."

The old man in the bamboo hat laughed dryly.

"Even if you dig out my brain, I still don't know what to do."

The old man's mouth curled up slightly.

"But I am still useful. For example, I can teleport you to the town you have been to. If you encounter danger, you have a chance to come back to me. Also... if you go outside to find monsters and hunt them, come to me and I can help you improve your abilities."

As he spoke, he extended his hand to Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu killed all the monsters in a town, so naturally she accumulated the most experience points.

[Fire Keeper can improve your abilities]

The system still assumes that he is the Fire Keeper.

[“Endless Corridor” player 5833 (Xiao Wu), hunted 25 ordinary monsters, no side quest bonus, temporarily unable to improve data]

[Side quests, hunting monsters, these can improve the hunter's stats]

[If you can find a way to change the world, you can get a huge reward]

[The main mission has been triggered]

[Go to the "White City Ruins"]

[Task details: The main task process needs to be done according to the instructions. Clues will be triggered after arriving at the "White City Ruins"]

[Tip: Please make good use of the Fire Keeper's role function. After signing a contract with her, you can trigger three functions: "location teleportation (need to open the location)", "ability improvement (complete the main quest, side quests, and hunt monsters)", and "one forced return"]

Xiao Wu withdrew her hand and glanced sideways at her "companions".

Everyone is tacit.

The world can still be saved.

"Should we go to the island where humans last existed? I feel like that's where it's heading." Chen Shou asked. This should indeed be the correct solution.

However, Li Nuo, Maerjie and Xiao Wu were concerned about the most core issue.

Xiao Wu asked: "What happened one hundred and thirty years ago that led to the destruction of mankind?"

The core refers directly to one hundred and thirty years ago.

"I only know that a large number of viruses broke out in White City, and the infected people became demons. Later, there was no way to stop it." The old man in the bamboo hat paused, took off the bamboo hat, lifted up his dry white hair, revealing the "implantation slot" in his forehead, and said: "The record has been deleted, and we can only discover it ourselves."

"Can you take us back one hundred and thirty years ago?" Li Nuo suddenly asked.

Chen Shou was stunned at first: "Wait... that's too jumpy."

The old man in the bamboo hat: "Time travel?"

Cha Bai nodded: "If we solve the root problem, everything will be solved, right?"

"No, no, no... this is too bold." The old man in the bamboo hat murmured to himself: "If there is something related to time, my campfire ability can indeed find an anchor point, but..." The old man in the bamboo hat paused, and his eyeballs slowly turned white. He read the data memory in his brain. After his pupils recovered their expression, he said: "You can go to a place to find something that can give you the 'time function', give it to me, and then... forget it, that's too dangerous."

[Side quest has been triggered: Time Traveler]

[Task Difficulty: lv180]

[Mission Reward: 800000 storable experience points, fully enhanced black card]

[Quest steps: 1. Involve the hidden BOSS "Demon of the Abyss", take away its flesh and blood; 2. Find the Time Orb of the Dragon Descendants left on the continent. After combining the two things, use them in the Fire Keeper's bonfire to trigger the DLC plot]

[Task details: The difficulty is too high, but~can you give up this reward? ]

Maljie woofed.

What he meant was: "In the final analysis, a time-related item and a space-time ability are actually needed."

Li Nuo took out the [Date Change Chalk] that Doraemon gave him.

Cha Bai took it, crushed the chalk with his fingertips, and held the hand of the old man in the bamboo hat.

"Dubhenn haern am glndeal, morc'h am fhean aiesin (My gaze will pierce the darkness, and my light will dispel the shadows)." A green light shone from her.

The power of the ancient blood evaporated her blood and burned the magical factor that traveled through time and space.

"Anchor, old man. Give it to me."

The old man in the bamboo hat looked dull as if he had seen a miracle, nodded like a fool, and a ball of fire shone in his hand. This fire symbolized the teleportation function of this world. Under the influence of the two time and space things, the DLC unfolded.

A square door popped up in front of them. Inside was pure white, and a time signal appeared, which read: 130.

Symbolizes one hundred and thirty years ago.

"Brother Shou, you stay..." Li Nuo said.

"Me?" Chen Shou was preparing ammunition: "Why?"

"I'm afraid of danger." Li Nuo said, "and we don't intend to give up the benefits of this era."

Chen Shou stayed in the present, focusing on exploring this era where humans have become extinct.

Li Nuo summoned Die and explained the situation to her. Die could protect Chen Shou in the dark. She now had the power of the fruit and was a completely different person. Moreover, this girl was a very skilled killer and sometimes even Li Nuo couldn't find her trace. Besides, with so many monsters, there must be tons of ○○, right?

Die looked at Chen Shou and smiled: "Mr. Li, are you sure this is not an ingredient?"

Li Nuo slapped Die on the back of her head: "This is my skinny brother! It's your super skinny brother!"

Chen Shou suddenly realized: "It's that 'Shou'. I said you couldn't be so attentive and keep calling me 'Shou Ge'!"

"That's not enough." Xiao Wu looked around, took a deep breath, sniffed the smell of danger and said, "These two are good at guarding the house, but they are the perfect match for the demons when it comes to going on adventures."

She was right, so… Malger took action.

Here's what happened. In the previous scenario, after Maljie completed his personal mission "Save the village ravaged by the evil spirits", the strength of his skill [Faith Summoner] increased a little.

Leaving the world of "Ys", the number of summoned believers is greatly reduced. If the world strength is extremely low, the number of summons will decrease. Conversely, if the world strength is high, the number of summons will increase.

Summoned by Malje's skill, the followers of "Soul of Steel" crawled out from the ground.

There were fifty believers, a medium to high number, all of them a group of nuns who didn’t dress like nuns.

Their timeline is synchronized with Maljie. This group of nuns works in the Succubus Mansion. It is the off-season recently, so there are few customers and they are very idle. In their eyes, Chen Shou is as tempting as the garlic in the noodles.

As the second Pope of "Soul of Steel", Cha Bai told the nuns about everything.

"Why don't you let those demons believe in religion?" asked a nun in a slit skirt.

No one can give an answer.

Anyway... Brother Shou just stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do, under the protection of fifty believers and a female cook. The scene was no different from a wet dream, but no matter how he thought about it, he knew... nothing could be so good, and the most difficult thing was just beginning.

The old man in the bamboo hat on the other side had a dazed look in his eyes. He was a little dazed. He knew that the nuns were not "human" in the sense of their world, but he still felt ecstatic. Finally, there were noisy sounds around him. The last time there were so many people was twenty years ago, when he protected a group of refugees from the mainland to evacuate, and the ending was not good, so that memory extended to this day.

Snapped!
Li Nuo slapped him in the face, waking him up from his nightmare.

"You learn whatever I say."

The old man acted like a child in front of this young man.

"I hope."

"I hope."

"Humanity returns to the world."

"Humanity...returns to the world."

"Please, Agent Danger."

"Please... Danger, Danger Agent..."

[Team Title: Dangerous Agents]

[We have accepted the commission from the old man in the bamboo hat (fire prevention woman)]

【Let Humanity Return】

[Mission Difficulty: lv? ? ?]

[Task Reward: Double Main Line Reward]

Maljie gave a thumbs-up with his dog paw, meaning that he had accepted the task.

The old man in the bamboo hat finally came to his senses. He used to help others, but now he was the one seeking help. Just ten minutes ago, he was ready to fulfill his duties as a "fire keeper" and give the hunters some insignificant protection, but now everything was reversed.

Li Nuo saw what the old man was thinking and said, "This is called 30 years in the east and 30 years in the west."

He said as he stepped into the DLC door.

Xiao Wu shouted, "You mean what you said!" and followed him in.

Then there was Malj.

Cha Bai's ancient blood was used to open the door, and she wanted to be the last to go in, as she slowly walked through the door with cat steps.

"Can you really do it?" the old man in the bamboo hat suddenly asked.

Because one hundred and thirty years ago, it was a crazy time, a time more dangerous than the world that is collapsing today.

Cha Bai stopped and looked back at this cyborg who had the same fate as himself.

"Humans may not be able to live forever, but crystals will guide you."

[Focuser has been turned on]

She suddenly found that she couldn't speak human language anymore, so she left in shame.

Then the door closed.

……

[It has come to 130 years ago]

【White City】

……

Li Nuo looked up. This was a city with a mixture of Eastern and Western atmospheres. He was standing on a muddy road.

The city buildings are stacked up layer by layer, with green tiles and wooden walls, pointed brick walls, and bronze pipes coiled around the walls. Thick white fog emerges from these pipes, covering the dark clouds in the sky.

But the walls are broken and the roof is leaking.

All I saw was a mess.

The wheels of the carriage twisted through the mud, splashing dirty water that no one avoided. Pedestrians walked on the narrow road, and their straw hats, straw sandals, old boots, and dark tattered clothes filled Li Nuo's sight.

A disgusting stench came, and Li Nuo withdrew his gaze.

The corpses on the carts were piled up haphazardly. A few skinny hungry people sat sparsely in the dark alley full of insects. They stared blankly at the insects that could be used as food. Without exception, they were the eyes of dying people.

This is the world where humans still existed one hundred and thirty years ago.

After just a few breaths, Li Nuo smelled a scent that made his heart beat faster. This city was filled with countless demons.

[Attention Endless Corridor players]

[You have entered a special area]

[This is the "End of the Corridor" player gathering area]

Li Nuo was stunned. Cha Bai, Maerjie and Xiao Wu, who were several streets away, were all stunned.

Gathering area, the gathering area of ​​the Corridor of Finale.

The headquarters of lunatics.

[Side quest completed: Time Traveler]

[Mission Reward: 1200000 storable experience points, fully enhanced black card]

They didn't care about the reward calculation because more important news was coming.

[The main quest skips twenty steps and enters the final stage]

[Main quest update: Disperse the "scholars"]

[Mission details: There is only one way to restore order to the world, let the "scholar" leave this world]

Low health, exploration, critical point, focus, charm, relief, gluttony, reincarnation... Among the twelve player identity abilities, there is a particularly strange [identity].

It is called [Scholar].

This is an "identity holder" who only exists in rumors and has never appeared.

All the rumors about "Scholars" come from a mysterious organization called "The Corridor of the End".

——“Twelve Evils of Tianlou”.

(End of this chapter)