As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 602: Light and Shadow of Time

Endless corridor.

Take the path of death.

The dormitory yard of the Hum team.

Nanami stood in front of the tombstone. A few days ago, Li Nuo asked her to ask Amuro for information, but she only gave a reply today.

"Now that everything has been said, Xia, would you mind telling me the information from your side?"

Amuro's voice came from the other side of the tombstone.

"My name is Amuro."

"But Char is more handsome." Nanami said shamelessly, and then nodded heavily: "Yes, Char is handsome."

"Okay, you can call me Char, but I'm really Amuro..."

Amuro is a good talker.

Nanami likes this guy. She is often bullied by demon hunters, and now she is a public figure and has to maintain a "good" image, so she misses the days when she used to bully others, hit people with sticks, cut people's throats with knives, and so on.

"Why would the 'Twelve Devils of the Heavenly Tower' in your corridor establish a gathering area in that world?"

"The Sky Tower..."

Amuro's voice froze.

Nanami sensed something bad.

"Strong?"

"and many more!"

There was a commotion from Amuro's side, and Ms. Nova grabbed the "microphone".

"Tianlou!?"

"Why are you so surprised?"

"Oh my gosh! Amuro, let's go over there and play too!"

"Nova, stop it!"

"Amuro, you bastard! Don't you still want to rule 'The End'? That guy will definitely make a scene, and we can wait in the wings and reap the Sky Tower. How fun it will be!"

"But Nova, they're so awesome!"

Nanami listened to the noise over there and gradually narrowed her eyes.

"Is it quite impressive?"

"Well, I'm the third in Team Amuro~ Just call me Sairo."

Nanami had an impression of this person. In the live broadcast of "World War", Qi Lang was the only one who did not fight with Li Nuo. He was just watching and having fun on the side. He was an extraordinary player. Sauron described it after he came back. Qi Lang was the kind of control player who could invade the brain. In short, he was a very disgusting type.

For example, Nanami feels like her head is going to explode right now.

"Don't tickle my brain."

"You actually noticed it? The legend of the Flat Girl in Endless is true to her reputation of slaughtering us, the End."

"Tell me about the 'Sky Tower'."

Qi Lang coughed lightly.

"Are you clear about the concept of a manager?"

"roughly understand."

Nanami replied that she had heard a lot of gossip about the players from Wink.

"The definition of the pinnacle of the player field is very vague. Strictly speaking, it is not a problem for players above level 80 to become gods in the flesh in the low-dimensional world. Super-standard players above level 90 have already been deified in some worlds. For players above level 99, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are "gods."

Nanami said she didn't quite understand.

"But this is only strength in terms of physical strength. It is far from being a god."

“Godhood?” Qi Lang laughed. “Let me explain the popular meaning of godhood, and show off to a bunch of weaklings.”

"Hmm... is that so..." Nanami felt that the term "pretending to be cool" was too vulgar, but she really didn't know how to define it.

In an area that Nanami and the others didn't know, the Tanggula goddess was a typical example of a player becoming a deity after leaving the group.

Even if people like Malger return to the world of NieR, they are undoubtedly god-level creatures.

The player who controls all the "gods" is the manager.

The God of Gods, sounds like Zeus, and is actually similar.

Wherever there is a throne, there are challengers.

"Do you know the rules of 'Challenge the Manager'?"

"heard about it."

"Talk about it."

"Corridors are different from corridors. I don't need to talk about our side."

"An unconvincing woman."

Nanami smiled.

"I've been cheated by so many scumbags that I've learned to keep my mouth shut."

“Hahahahaha!” Qi Lang laughed and said, “What I’m going to say next is very important. In the ‘End Corridor’, players who are capable of challenging the administrators will be allocated a territory after completing a special scenario. That territory is a branch of the player gathering area. The administrator cannot interfere with the life and death of that world. If that player or organization successfully challenges the administrator, that territory will become the next ‘player gathering area’.”

Nanami was stunned for a long time, then she said in confusion: "Ah...?"

"Do you understand?" Qi Lang said, "'Twelve Devils of Tianlou' is a genuine player organization that has the qualifications to challenge the administrator."

Nanami: "Ah...what? That's not the end...and your rules of 'The End' are so weird."

Qi Lang: "The strong prey on the weak, the law of the jungle, everyone from managers to ants must abide by it, this is the end."

If what Qi Lang said was true, Li Nuo and the others' best option was to withdraw immediately.

"Qilang, don't hide the key words." Amuro was an honest man, and said bluntly: "In fact, 'Tianlou' challenged, but failed. Their [Scholar] disappeared after losing. Now the gathering area is managed by a man named Anmi. That man is very powerful and should not be underestimated."

Qi Lang: "Amuro, I'm going to tease that tablet girl for a while."

Nanami: "Don't be ridiculous, Char. How can they quit?"

Amuro: "No way. Even if you have all kinds of tools, everything in there must be done according to the rules of the 'End'."

There is no exit button in the "End of Corridor".

Unless the "Emperor" agrees.

Nanami was silent.

Amuro: What are you worried about?

Nanami: “I…”

Subconsciously, she looked at Maljie's tombstone and smiled slightly, laughing at her own meanness.

"I'm cheap."

"I don't understand you." Amuro said, "But I am sure that Mr. Linuo will not die."

Nanami: "..."

Nova smiled and said, "How could a guy who couldn't be defeated by Phil and Amuro together die in a place like that?"

Nanami finally took her eyes off Maljie's tombstone.

Amuro: "But I never said others wouldn't die."

Nanami: “Is there no other way…?”

Amuro: "Unless they find a way to improve themselves quickly without contacting the Emperor, but that's too difficult."

Nanami understands the difficulty...

You break into someone else's house and level up under their noses, how is it possible... maybe... maybe it's possible, she thought, maybe those two dirty-minded people can really do it.

Nanami took a deep breath and said, "Tell me more information."

Amuro: "How about we go and fight the 'Sky Tower'?"

Everyone made an "ah" sound, meaning: Brother, didn't you just say you wouldn't fight?

"No, don't get the wrong idea. I heard that 'Tianlou' has messed up that world."

Amuro's voice gradually became serious.

"If it's for that world... I can't just pretend to be blind after knowing it. I also want to save more worlds that have been led astray by players, really."

As soon as he finished speaking, a quarrel broke out on the other side of the tombstone. In fact, everyone who said they wanted to fight "Tianlou" was just joking, and Amuro was the one who really wanted to fight.

"Put away your saintly heart!"

"But with great power comes great responsibility!"

"Sorry, flat girl, our boss has gone crazy, so don't contact us for now!"

Nova apologized and ended the call immediately.

Nanami also breathed a sigh of relief. With Li Nuo in that world, it was hard to say who the villain would be.

Not long after, Qi Lang sent her all the intelligence that the "Tianlou Organization" could obtain.

Nanami was silent for a long time, then went to the upper area to find Lillian.

This time it's for a friend.

……

The world of "Claymore".

In the year 891 of the Continental Calendar, DLC White City, a gathering area for players.

In the center of the White City, in the huge disc, An Mi, who was sitting on a chair, was looking at his arm. Panuccia's Sub-Space Slash left a spatial wound on his arm that was shining with purple light.

“There are also experts.”

Everyone in the room was looking at him.

Even though I have introduced him before, please allow me to explain in detail. An Mi is the second-in-command of the Tianlou organization and the de facto helmsman. The nickname of the emperor is the title of players in the Baicheng gathering area, which symbolizes that his words are followed by laws in this area.

Several years ago, [Scholar] challenged the administrator of "The End" and failed.

The book on the table is the incarnation of the "Scholar". It is somewhere in this world and has not yet died. The war between the "Scholar" and the administrator has not yet ended.

An Mi looked at the Scholar coldly and said, "The administrator selected some powerful people to expel the Scholar, I guess so."

The sudden appearance of the "Sky Corridor" and the sub-sky slash in the world they were summoned to both indicated his inference.

An Mi murmured, "If it is a player summoned by the administrator, they may not be able to exit the script in a normal way, so there is no possibility of negotiation."

The man in a black suit and with lazy eyes looked at An Mi and said, "What did you find about the players you summoned with the [Imperial Edict]?"

An Mi: “Yes.”

The players who suddenly intruded that Li Nuo and his friends encountered, including the bearded captain of the "Sky Corridor" and his group, and the 19 players who were slaughtered by Yukinako, were all summoned by the [Imperial Edict]. Although this ability is unstable, the answer that An Mi wanted was the main quest issued by the [Imperial Edict].

"Kill the player in 'Endless Corridor'."

"Ah, you're not dead?"

Alifa twisted his lips in the dark.

"I told you that it wouldn't be that easy to die, Anmi, kill them. I want Denise's genes."

"Don't worry."

"Where's Xiaoqing?"

"Run away."

"Hahaha... like her."

"Hey... Let me tell you..." An old man holding a cigarette said with drooping eyelids, "We can't let the [Scholar] die. Once the [Scholar] is expelled, we will also be wiped out by the administrators. Let's kill those little devils."

Alifa: "You old bastard, those guys are not easy to kill."

Old man: "If it is life, it will die."

"How to kill them?" An Mi asked, "They are not in the same time and space. They are in the future, in the past, and outside of White City. We cannot leave White City."

A man hanging upside down from the beam said, "Don't panic. Unless they change the direction of the world, White City will always be our foundation."

An Mi stood up and opened the curtains.

"What if it changes?"

Outside the White City, the Great Rift Valley.

Clear skies.

In the White City, most of the wandering hungry people have disappeared, and the living space of the indigenous people has improved a lot. Only the restored Ghost Market still retains the strange rules of the player gathering area.

The eyes of several people in Tianlou were trembling incredulously.

The name of this world is "Great Sword".

As a rare but excellent comic abandoned by the editor, it is difficult to find its game, which is a big task that requires crossing several corridors. Strictly speaking, "Big Sword" is a dark world without a trace of romance.

Beima Yisili, the chairman from the "Sky Corridor", never wants to return to this world again in his life.

Some players have counted how many branches of stories can develop in different timelines in each identical script world.

The fairy tale of "Pokémon" has a realistic branch with the main theme of death and war.

"Mario" also has a fairy tale for adults.

"Metal Gear" has a peaceful world line.

Each world has its own different answers, right down to the details: no matter big or small, they all play different roles in different worlds. A merchant may become a robber, a thief may become a king, a fisherman may become a bandit, a god may become a human, and a devil may become a god.

There are few worlds like "Broadsword", which walks an endless darkness in any parallel time and space.

No one knows the reason.

Just like [The Blood Residue], no matter how many parallel time and space the world is divided into, some things have only a unique future.

"..."

"changed."

Anmi came to the edge of the Great Rift Valley.

"The person who came this time broke his destiny. He recast a new destiny for himself and blew up the world's archive."

"My name is Li Nuo."

"The one from World War?"

"It's him."

An Ya thought for a moment: "Miller, sneak into the main gathering area and find a way to kill or seriously injure Amuro Wa."

The player named Miller took a step back and stepped into the train door that had crashed out of the ground.

"Notify Lao Wu to travel through time and space to find traces of the Blood Residual Person. Find him no matter which era he is in."

"That guy is on a mission."

"Pull it back."

"it is good."

The man who had been talking to Anya was a man in a black suit.

Alifa added: "I want Li Nuo's head. I need to do an experiment!"

"Bad taste." The man in black suit was wrapped in clothes and disappeared here.

Elifa said: "Faye can break the restrictions and travel through the timeline of White City, but we don't know which era he is in, so it may be difficult to find him."

"that's right."

An Mi looked to his side, and a pair of dragon eyes opened deep in his dark pupils.

The shadow beneath his feet twisted and deformed, until finally the shadow of a giant six-winged dragon obscured the White City behind him.

"But he should be here."

One hundred and thirty years later in Baicheng, at the same location, Li Nuo was next to An Mi.

An extremely strong feeling of palpitations made Li Nuo's heart beat faster.

He turned his head and looked at the place where the terrifying malice burst out. Denise's perception was almost trembling, attracting him to look there.

At this moment, the silver eyes turned into golden demonic pupils, and they met the dark pupils of the emperor from one hundred and thirty years ago.

"Has it been discovered?"

In the 355th year of the continental calendar, the abyss demon Xue Nazi was killed and the cursed magic rain disappeared.

Year 891 in the mainland calendar, White City DLC, the era where the player gathering area is located.

now.

The year 1021 in the mainland calendar is based on the timeline of the "safe house" where Li Nuo and others are located, with Mulan, the original fire keeper, as the anchor point.

One hundred and thirty years apart, the Blood-Resistant and the Emperor exchanged glances briefly and across time, heralding the official start of the tug-of-war between the two sides.

The sound of Cairo-kun kneeling on the ground and crying interrupted this cross-time and space eye contact.

"·°()°·Ah, wow wow wow wow! I destroyed the world! I am guilty, I shouldn't be alive!"

As it spoke, its body began to shrink.

Once the Cairo people think they are going to die, they will die.

Cha Bai quickly lied to it: "No, actually you saved the world."

Cairo: "()But you just said that I broke the world in two."

Cha Bai smiled: "I'm just teasing you."

“Brother—! Aaaaaaaaaah!”

Blind Mulan came in the dark, but he accidentally stepped on empty air and almost fell into the rift.

"You're an idiot..."

Li Nuona pulled her up and slapped her on the head: "Why are you running like a blind person?"

Die: "I told her that if she ran too slowly, her brother might ascend to heaven."

Li Nuo: "What are you talking about!"

Mulan suddenly hugged Li Nuo and whispered, "It's good to be alive."

After being alone for one hundred and thirty years, and hiding his panic with his talkativeness, he will eventually become vulnerable.

Cha Bai looked at this scene, the corners of her mouth slightly raised. She felt very comfortable seeing that someone cared about this bastard.

As a time anchor, Mulan's memory will not change due to changes in the past. Past experiences will be refilled in another direction and eventually become a new route that connects with the present. This is the specialization of the "Fire Keeper". The time paradox has been invalidated for her since she was entangled with the player.

But Li Nuo, Maerjie and Cha Bai always felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't tell the specific reason, so they had to put it aside for the time being.

In short, Mulan, who had become the leader of a church, still had a small church of his own in this age when death was no longer an issue.

The giant tumor that travels through time and space and opens the [Key to Super Time and Space] is stored there.

As for Xiao Wu's body, it was stuffed into Mulan's sales cart (actually a guide cart).

"Brother... I just hugged you, sister-in-law won't hit me..." Mulan whispered: "Or I will just say that I was controlled by a monster just now..."

"Just say you are actually a man." Li Nuo said.

"Well, let's get down to business. What's going on... this great rift valley..." Chen Shou panted heavily, hugged Ma Ge who had turned into a dog, and shouted from behind: "What on earth have we done!"

Mulan spoke out the new memories that popped into her mind.

According to new historical records.

666 years ago.

Since Yukinako's curse disappeared and civilization survived, the history books were not destroyed by the war.

About the past of the Swordsmith Country.

With the death of Femon, the demon experiment field disappeared from that country. The old lord woke up and worked hard to govern the country again. However, it might be the words Li Nuo left him, "Do you still want to hand over the military power to others?", which gave him too heavy a psychological hint, causing the old lord to become a dictator and the regime of that country to be overthrown.

The new lord integrated historical data, and the historian exaggerated the reality of the "remnant soldiers" as propaganda.

As a result, Minako's battle became known to the world, Chen Shou's code name resounded throughout textbooks, and other countries also had some records of this hero.

This is what is written in history books.

A warrior fought with the demon from the abyss for three hundred rounds. During the battle, eclipse, darkness, demons, death and all bad things were declaring that if the warrior did not win, the world would be destroyed.

The process of the battle had long been exaggerated to be extremely unrealistic. All we knew was that after that, the warrior disappeared together with the demon. Perhaps they died together, leaving behind only a huge rift that ran through almost half of the planet.

The above information comes from the "remnant soldiers" group that once existed in the Swordsmith Country.

Chen Shou: "Me? Me? Me?"

He can hardly speak.

Mulan made a "hush" gesture to the air and continued to explain.

The location of this great rift is very special, because the area where it is located is the northern end of humanity's defense line. The appearance of the rift divides the world of humans and dragon descendants into two halves.

So...although the war still exists, it is already on a small scale.

Li Nuo was panicking: "I actually controlled Brother Shou to stop the war... Am I so great..."

Chen Shou: "You just said 'control', right?"

Mulan: "Fat kid, shut up."

Chen Shou: "Little ghost?"

Die: "She is one hundred and forty-four years old."

Mulan proudly put her hands on her hips and said, "I'm a grandma!"

With the blessing of the Fire Keeper's eyes, how long will her life be... This is a superstitious question and there is no way to verify it. Anyway, Mulan is almost as long-lived as the elves.

Li Nuo tapped Chen Shou's shoulder and said, "Thin brother, she calls me brother and you little devil, so you have to call me grandpa."

Cha Bai: "Ahem."

Li Nuo became obedient.

After Mulan pretended to be a grandmother and turned back into the fire keeper, she got back to the topic.

"Unfortunately, all stories will be buried in the soil over time. That story has been forgotten, and only this great rift valley remains."

She is not completely blind. The special feature of her mind's eye is that it can draw a contour image and transmit it to her brain.

The Great Rift Valley is before our eyes.

"Brother, I don't know what you did, but after the Great Rift Valley was formed, a heavy rain of magic power fell from the celestial body, bringing a wave of power evolution to this world."

Cha Bai carefully observed the interior of the rift. A thousand meters below, a strong magical factor was rising like fireflies.

"What did you do before you left?"

Li Nuo thought for a while.

"Ah, I remember that I cast a random spell on those people in Tianlou..."

He glanced at the [Sinner's Staff] in his hand, and a random magic effect dialog box appeared: [Earth Healing].

God knows what kind of magic it is.

But the result is... in the 666 years of history, the release of [Earth Healing] brought new power to the bottom of the Great Rift Valley, and the surging magic power purified the height of the world.

"Could it be that I am the god of this world..."

Li Nuo began to amuse himself.

He did change the intensity of the world, but it was unintentional.

Mulan quickly continued the topic at Die's reminder.

The area below the Great Rift Valley is loved by many explorers, but the other side of the rift valley is adjacent to the territory of the descendants of dragons, so no one has yet fully explored the rift valley.

In Mulanxin's memory, she went down to the depths of the rift decades ago. There were many alienated beasts and it was too dangerous, so she didn't stay there for long.

"Let's go down and take a look."

Malje, who had been a dog, turned back into Malje.

"Humph."

He looked at the magic factor rising from the dark depths of the rift and laughed pretentiously.

“The essence of things always appears when they enter darkness.”

Mulan: "Brother, who can translate for me?"

Li Nuo: "There should be treasures down there."

Cha Bai: "Nokia might still be down there."

At this point, Cha Bai was suddenly stunned: "Li Nuo, where is my [Xia Nuoya's long skirt]?"

Li Nuo blinked his big eyes and said innocently, "Oh no, I forgot about it 666 years ago..."

[Side quest has been triggered: Backless dress that absorbs 666 years of essence]

[Mission details: There was a magical skirt stored in the Swordsmith Country. Later, a witch stole the skirt and fell into a large rift valley when being chased. A hundred years ago, someone found the skirt, which was worn by a very powerful old witch...]

Cha Bai had already jumped down when he saw this sentence.

"Give me back my skirt..."

Li Nuo released his [Ghost Hand] and pulled her back.

"Hey! Why don't you go to the Swordsmith Country first before jumping!"

By the way, they want to see if the Nokia that has been stored for 666 years will turn into a Zaku.

(End of this chapter)