As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 585: The Fire Keeper's Eyes
Li Nuo opened his eyes.

"This……"

The ceiling was receding at a constant speed, and every few seconds a white candle would come into view, emitting a dim light, and then disappear at the other end of the field of vision.

"what happened……"

He found himself lying on a cart. Because he was carrying a box on his back, he was lying sideways, so he could only see the scene on one side moving backwards at a rapid speed, leading him towards a large door.

He entered the gate uncontrollably.

Then, everything in front of my eyes became pitch black again.

[Completed the real-life scenario mission of "The Corridor of the End"]

[Leaving the dream]

【Rating: S】

[Reward: One-time use of the "End of Corridor" store. It is currently unavailable and can only be opened in a place where the "End of Corridor" player is not present]

"Stranger, are you awake?"

Li Nuo was still lying there. He raised his eyes and at the edge of his vision, he could see a man's nostrils with thick nose hair inside... and a chin full of stubble, but the man was wearing a mask, so only part of his face could be seen.

His clothes were black, but because of the angle, the style could not be seen.

What is certain is that this person is not from the eastern part of White City, but comes from a place far to the west.

"Well, wake up."

Li Nuo pretended to be calm and didn't get anxious.

The damp and moldy smell wrapped in the scent of rotten meat penetrated into his nostrils. There was a great danger nearby. The dream hunter's innate desire to kill monsters made Li Nuo's heartbeat accelerate.

The bronze candlestick in the corner was dripping wax tears, casting the hunched shadow of the masked old man on the leaking brick wall, and the cracked wall was shedding moss fragments.

"here it is……"

"Beyond the nightmare, it is also the beginning of a nightmare." The old man said in a hoarse voice.

"What's going on..." Li Nuo held his forehead and sat up, glanced at the old man's panel, a little surprised.

[Olek: lv65]

【Strength: 179】

[Reaction: 200]

[Spiritual power: 155]

[Physique: 142]

[Insight: -1]

【Medical: 335】

……

[Memory Fragment: A remnant of the "Great Sword" world organization, a doctor who has forgotten what happened in the past. His body has been transformed into a demon. As a gatekeeper, his only responsibility is to extend the life of the "ghosts and gods"]

……

There is an organization in the world view of "Broadsword" that created the experimental island for Broadsword warriors such as Denise and is the mastermind behind everything.

But the old man in front of him remembered nothing and was just a gatekeeper.

"Stranger, I'm glad you woke up, hehe... You can leave now."

The old man pointed to the wooden door of the exit, which led to the entrance to the sewer. Li Nuo remembered the smell here, so he fell asleep as soon as he entered the sewer.

"Dream... Hello, is that the Ancient God?"

The old man’s insight value is “-1”, which means that his mind is polluted. He can create “mechanism-type” illusions that even Li Nuo cannot resist, which means that his ability is extremely terrifying.

The sound of chains colliding suddenly rang out in the darkness.

"Is that Mr. Dante?"

A girl's voice came from behind a wall, as if ringing in my ear.

The next second, the wall disappeared.

There was a sweet, fishy smell in the humid air, like the smell of rust mixed with overripe berries.

The candlelight crackled at this moment. A human-shaped shadow was curled up on a stone platform thirty steps away. Four bronze chains pierced through the shoulder blades and ankles, nailing the woman called "ghost" in front of the mottled mural.

[Little girl, ghost, Davlu's transformed body]

[The remains of the Super Abyss Awakener from the original "Great Sword" world were fused by something from another world, and became the horrible appearance it is now]

Davlu... Li Nuo understood that the world view of "Broadsword" had clear levels of strength.

For the awakened, above is the abyss, and above that is the super abyss.

Kitama Yisili, the first person in "Sky Corridor", is an abyss-level demon in the original work.

There are only three or four people in the super abyss, and Davlu is one of them, a strange little girl.

But the girl was now weak and disheveled.

Her body was full of tubes and her skin was completely rotten and bloodless.

"It's you, Mr. Dante."

The girl called out the name again.

"I am 'Dream Demon', the woman you beat into a pulp and then ran away with."

Li Nuo didn't know what a dream demon was. There were too many things in the world that could be called dream demons. The only thing that was certain was that her original body was a guy who escaped after being beaten up by Dante who traveled everywhere.

She had no vision and her eyes were sewn shut. She sensed the scent of an exorcist from Li Nuo's aura. Also, if there was an exorcist who could easily break nightmares, she thought it was only Dante.

"Answer my question and we'll tell you the rest later."

Li Nuo interrupted the little girl.

"I do not know what to say."

The girl's voice was a little weak.

"I came to this world and was taken in by an alchemist. When I was about to die, I was merged into the body of a monster named 'Davro'. This is who I am now."

At this point, as the woman floated up, the candlelight in the entire room simultaneously turned into an eerie green.

"I... I was used as a test subject by the alchemist. She injected a gene called 'Ancient God' into me."

The strange colors on the mural behind her began to wriggle, and sharp claws painted in cinnabar were slowly protruding from the wall, and tiny gnawing sounds were heard in the stinking air.

Countless eyeballs surrounded the girl.

Her danger level is only B, and if she fully awakens it can reach S-. However, facing what she thinks is Dante, the girl will not take action, and Li Nuo can skip a boss battle.

"Ancient God?"

“Moon God.”

The hidden boss of "Bloodborne" is also the final boss, Luna.

"Then the ability to create dreams comes from the Moon Goddess."

"Yes, sir."

The girl realized something.

"You're not Dante."

"Consider him half a disciple."

"I see. No wonder it's so familiar."

Then the girl briefly explained the matter.

Her memory is confused and disorganized, and needs to be pieced together manually.

Probably……

She appeared more than ten years ago, and entered the White City three years ago, where she was captured by the alchemist and used as experimental material, and has been there until now.

In the past ten years, all I have seen and heard is the world.

When the war ended decades ago, the world was already doomed. The sky was filled with poisonous rain, or the air was filled with smog that could mutate people.

All this has something to do with the Greatsword Warrior's experiment. The Greatsword Warrior's power is related to the "Descendants of the Dragon". It is actually an experiment of cursed mutation. The specific reason is unknown, but the whole world has collapsed.

There is killing everywhere in the outside world.

It is difficult for people to live a good life, and the scene of hell is being played out everywhere.

Just like the fragmented information of the three bosses, Catwoman, Dumb Girl, and Jingguan, all of them explain that the world has collapsed for a long time and there is no place for people to survive. One of the most troublesome situations in the end of the world is that the instigators are all dead, but the world is also over, and chaos has become the normal order, which means that we can only wait for the broken world to completely collapse, and wait for the "fire bearer" to extinguish the last flame of the world, and finally bring complete destruction to the world, and then rebirth.

This is what is meant by indestructible and indestructible.

The girl hung on the wall was originally the "dream demon" hunted by Dante, an S-level demon creature. After entering this world, she was attacked when she was extremely weak and almost lost all her ability to survive.

The reason why she appeared in White City was because... White City was the only place in the world where people could survive.

"That line of bloody words on the bronze door and the cloth, what do you want to tell us about the truth of this world?"

In response to Li Nuo's question, the girl suddenly raised her head, revealing half of her pale face between her messy hair.

"I want to save the world."

"..."

Li Nuo couldn't tease her because the girl was very serious.

"I was called 'ghost', it was just a farce at first."

The girl told the story slowly.

"Alchemist Elifa has imprisoned me here and inserted tubes all over my body. These things condense and absorb the illusion smoke produced by my body, enter the storage below the ghost market, and then distribute it to the hungry people, allowing them to breathe the illusion smoke in the air unconsciously and forget their troubles..."

"I guess Alifa just wanted to collude with the people around him to do something at first, but I didn't expect that these hungry people actually thought I was really a god..."

"They would even willingly transform themselves into demons and come to my dreamland to protect me."

“I also want to give them a place to survive.”

“But I’m done with it.”

The girl struggled to break free, squeezed out of the chains and tubes inserted into her body, and tried her best to get closer to Li Nuo.

"I can only ask you for help... Sir, whether you are Mr. Dante or not, I can sense something familiar from you. You have broken fate, and you stand above the higher dimension... I guess I am right."

She tore her body apart, dragged her spine and crawled on the ground, leaving blood marks, grabbing the floor, crawling towards Li Nuo, grabbing his pants.

"Please, please don't take it out on me for being rude..."

The man-eating monster lowers his pride for the sake of humans.

Li Nuo saw a scene that was impossible to appear in the original work.

"What a God that loves the world, let's go through the process."

Saving the world is not important, but as long as the [scholars] are expelled, the future can be changed. This means that what Li Nuo and others are doing now does not conflict with "saving the world" itself, so why not give it a hand?

"Follow...the procedure?"

"Ah."

Li Nuo bent down, pinched the girl's chin, and almost touched her face.

"The demon hunters are not capable of handling the current situation. You have to ask the Warrior of Light to come."

"Do you know the Warrior of Light?"

"It's quite familiar."

"Then let's go through the process."

Li Nuo raised the corner of his mouth in a gentle arc.

"No one will work for nothing, what can you give me."

“Be careful…” the girl whispered, “Alifa… the organization… those people are watching everyone. Everyone’s combat data will be used by them… and… I will give you an eye. You must use it well.”

As the girl spoke, she thrust her fingers into her eye sockets and dug out her eyes.

"This is something that was put into my body during the experiment. At least it's something non-polluting..."

This scene is so similar to Mulan digging out his own eyes.

Just one is for refuge, one is for rescue, but both are for life.

[Eyes of the Fire Keeper]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Effect: After installing a pair of eyes, she will become a fire keeper who records and inherits the past]

[Brief description: It is a single item that needs to be combined with another one to be used normally, but the eye was taken away by another fortune teller. The fortune teller was also an experimental subject of Elifa and had the ability to predict the future. Before she died, she was resold by a group of players. Later, she came to a funny world. She is very happy now.]

Li Nuo pinched his eyeballs, and suddenly he realized something.

……

……

The eye is called "Magician's Eye" and is kept in a box on Li Nuo's body.

Li Nuo had an outline of the whole incident in his mind. Even though the world collapsed, it was still the [Scholar] who destroyed the world. This meant that something happened in White City that accelerated the world's demise, but it had nothing to do with Li Nuo and other people who suddenly appeared. It might be related to the indigenous people.

Li Nuo didn't think about it for the time being.

He put the [Eyes of the Fire Keeper] into the box, then took out his walking stick and inserted it into the girl's eye socket.

"I promise you."

The girl smiled. She was very happy. She saw the shadow of Dante in Li Nuo, so she believed that there would be no problem this time.

The cane pierced the girl's head, but this time it brought out not only blood, but also tears of joy.

"Finally relieved."

An old doctor named Olek came in and picked up the body from the ground.

"What are you doing?"

"I have to piece the girl back together. I am a doctor, and someone has to continue to play the role of ghosts and gods so that the hungry people in the ghost market can find faith."

"Are those outsiders good or bad?" Li Nuo asked the players of "The Corridor of the End".

Olek said: "There are good and bad ones. For example, the people at the top are still good people, such as the madam of the brothel, who takes in girls who are dying after being experimented on. But people like Kunqiong and Alifa are pure beasts."

"Don't repair it, she's dead."

"This is my job, how can I

Before Olek could even finish his words, Li Nuo stabbed him in the neck with a dagger from behind.

Olek turned into a pile of loose sand. He was actually the embodiment of a dream, something that did not exist originally, a product that appeared to protect the girl's life, similar to the relationship between Maljie and Mr. Victor, but more closely bound to life.

If there was no relationship with Dante, ordinary players who wanted to challenge the girl would fall into an endless loop, because the answer was to kill Orlek.

[Side quest completed: Ghosts and Gods]

[Task Difficulty: lv100]

[Quest Reward: BOSS Materials]

There was an extra box in Li Nuo's hand.

[The Moon Goddess's Dream Box].

[Quality: Epic]

[Effect: Force a plot character to fall asleep. This item can only be used once in a scenario. This item is useless to players.]

[Brief description: It contains vaporized "Blood of Adam" and traces of the "Philosopher's Stone". It is something made by an alchemist]

Alchemist refers to the alchemist Alifa of the "Tianlou Organization".

In fact, Alifa is the real manager of the Ghost Market, above Kunqiong. All the experiments in the entire White City are related to Alifa. It is definitely right to kill the alchemist first in troubled times. Li Nuo wants to kill Alifa, not only because it is related to the main line, but more importantly, he wants to upgrade his alchemy ability and complete a task.

[Alchemy Notes] Upgrade conditions: Find a top alchemist and then kill him.

The main task is just a direction, and what you experience in the process is the scenery of life. For Li Nuo, the best scenery must be getting good things. In order to achieve this goal, he is not afraid of offending anyone.

But facing the top players of "The Corridor of the End", Li Nuo was not confident that he could win. He thought back to how he was shocked by the group of Amuro and Phil. The average strength of the players of "The Corridor of the End" was at the top of the five corridors, not to mention that they were on someone else's territory, so he planned to occupy the venue.

So the first step.

Li Nuo looked at the mural where the girl Davlu was tied up. Behind it were pipes that were used to absorb the gas from the girl's body. The gas was sent to the ghost market, and then the hungry people were made into demonized experimental subjects while they were fascinated by the happiness.

"Well, use this to destroy the ghost market."

At this time, a system settlement reminder sounded again.

[Side Quest: Time Traveler]

[The Dream Demon has been killed]

[Mission Reward: Dante's skill entry (reward shared by the team)]

(End of this chapter)