As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 639: The Lantern Brings Light and Deception

Balsas and his guild came from the "Curtain of Eternal Life".

They were sent the "End" script about a week ago, because the appearance of the "Cairo Alien" made them have a lot of illusions, thinking it was the "Endless Corridor".

I didn't do anything this week except investigating the truth about the world.

It is also related to their main quest.

[Looking for the root cause of the emergence of "Cairo Aliens"]

Five minutes before Cha Bai was knocked off the overpass.

The player wearing mechanical goggles saw from a high place a white-haired woman being interviewed on the viaduct.

He immediately called out to his teammates.

"I see, she's in great shape, what's wrong?"

A girl is very unhappy.

The player simply released the information about the white-haired woman.

[From "NieR: Automata"]

[Suspected life carrier of 2B]

Balsas said doubtfully, "Your goggles always make mistakes..."

Someone said: "Let's go and see first, maybe it's a 'hidden world view'."

Some people have begun to wonder whether this is a parallel universe to the world of NieR.

There is a rumor among the player community that a bastard created a new parallel universe in the world of NieR, but because Jakor in that world is too evil, players are always assigned some strange suicide missions, so few people have figured out what is going on in that world until now.

While Balsas was still hesitating, suddenly, a van appeared on the viaduct and knocked the 2B off the viaduct.

"Oh my god, a plot has been triggered!"

"hurry up!"

"Give me the disguise mask!"

This group of idiots used [Disguise Area] to pretend to be Cairo aliens, then followed and found the place where 2B fell.

Then they saw the big guys in the van…

Then, before they could run, Nanami got out of the van and grabbed a street lamp.

Nanami walked over and broke the street lamp into a stick.

After Balsas finished narrating everything, he looked cautiously at Nanami who was carrying the street lamp.

"You guys..."

Nanami looked at the people in Balsas' team in silence. There were ten people in total, all squatting on the ground with their hands on their heads. Passersby thought it was some kind of cult ritual.

Cha Bai was explaining to the police on the roadside that it was just an act.

Until Li Nuo came over, this guy pulled out a gun in front of the police, and it seemed that he was going to kill two people on the street first, but it was Nanami who stopped him, saying: "First, extort some oil and then kill them."

Li Nuo grabbed Nanami's collar and said unhappily, "Your brain must have been caught in the door. I was just trying to scare them."

Balsas and his group were all stunned.

The players of "The Corridor of Eternal Life" are usually very united. If the team leader does not make any big moves, others will not act rashly. If they are players of "The Corridor of the End", they will activate the human bomb mode the moment they see Nanami.

The following process is very standardized.

Balthus took out all the "life-saving money" he could.

Their map marks all the side quests in the surrounding area, and there are a lot of them.

In order to show that he was harmless, Balsas released all the panels and other things, including the panel of the main quest.

Nanami looked at the panel and squinted her eyes and said, "Your main plot is... to find the root cause of the world becoming what it is now?"

Balthus nodded: "It's too difficult. There is no clue at all."

Li Nuo pointed at himself and said, "I am the instigator."

Fifteen minutes later...

Balsas's group of 27 people were picked up by the train, and they completed the main mission in a very strange way.

Li Nuo held the map drawn by Balsas and others and stared at them with dead eyes: "What a group of talented people..."

The city has four districts.

There are sixteen side quests in the wealthy area in the north.

There is a hidden BOSS in the slum area in the west.

The south is connected to a legendary great rift valley, which is now a scenic spot with fifty-five side quests.

The east side is surrounded by mountains. Due to the disaster that broke out several years ago, no one lives there, only a group of robots. Now there is a large side quest.

There was a circle on the branch line on the map, and Balsas wrote next to it that it might be related to the World-Destroying Divine Weapon.

He gave the map to Nanami.

By this time, Maljie had already asked Brupu to ride away in the van, leaving only him, Chabai and Nanami in the neighborhood.

Cha Bai came over helplessly with an empty wallet: "Nanami... why did you break the street lamp..."

Crocodile Agent followed behind Cha Bai without saying a word.

Nanami wondered, "Those 'immortal' people are very problematic."

Li Nuo shrugged. "The problem isn't with them, it's with us. We have been identified as part of this world, the 'natives', so we haven't shown any signs that we are players."

There is another argument.

Li Nuo felt that the intervention of the [Scholars] had weakened, which resulted in the system panel of the external players being unable to lock the specific identities of Li Nuo and his companions. From this point, he could see that Balsas and his companions had nothing to do with An Mi, so it didn't matter if he let them go.

In fact, in a corner that he didn't know, Balsas and the others didn't want to go back.

Because something happened in the "Corridor of Eternal Life".

There was a four-eyed guy who started a fight with the people in their corridor. No one knew what they did, but they fought to the headquarters of the "Corridor of Eternal Life". In short, it was a mess.

Nanami took out a fire starter from her earring.

【Pixel Fire of Ancient God of War】

[Quality: Epic]

[Effect: The Fire of the God of War left over from the ancient world, which can summon the contract fire of the God of War in Cairo, has now become a tool that can only find that guy's house number.]

[Brief description: That's what happened... Ahem, Mr. Khalik, the God of War in Cairo, was recently imprisoned for being falsely accused of rape. The plaintiff was a mute gorilla. We thought it was a false accusation, but since it was almost time to get off work, we simply sentenced Khalik to a hundred years in prison.]

Nanami: "That old guy is in jail."

Li Nuo took it and half of his face twitched slightly: What's wrong with this old bastard...

Cha Bai was curious: "How did you get it?"

Nanami told everything.

She originally wanted to go to Lillian to practice with her, but she was rejected because she knew Cassius and she couldn't steal his apprentice.

"Lillian is quite considerate." Li Nuo interrupted.

“Isn’t it…” Nanami frowned: “I can’t even find my master, and she still cares about this…”

Cha Bai: "No, Li Nuo meant that Lillian didn't want to accept you so she found an excuse."

Nanami: "I know! What's wrong with me giving myself a way out?"

What Lillian was actually worried about was whether Nanami was a spy sent by Linuo. After all, "The Wrath of Bahamut" was in danger recently, and there was a four-eyed man who kept coming to steal things. She couldn't let outsiders see the "statue of Linuo" in the basement.

"I just wanted to know if there was any other way to increase my strength." Nanami said, "Lillian's group is the only group of players I can think of who are above me and have normal brains. Even though she rejected me, she still gave me a useful direction."

Inne, a member of "Bahamut's Wrath", knew Harikrik, although it was not a good memory.

"So these ideas were all given to you by others?" Li Nuo interrupted again.

"So?" Nanami tilted her head and smiled, revealing her beautiful dimples. She said gently and modestly, "I'm fucking mentally retarded. I know I'm an idiot, so I just listen to others."

She didn't want Wenk to get involved, let alone let Tingge, that loser, join in, so she shouldered everything alone.

If Li Nuo knew the reason behind this, he would definitely say: You are quite fond of touching yourself.

Li Nuo: "You are quite self-centered..."

Cha Bai covered Li Nuo's mouth.

There was already a glittering luster in Nanami's eyes, and she was about to cry because of Li Nuo's ridicule.

"In short, this thing can only find the location of Mr. Cairo, but it can't directly summon it over, right?"

"right……"

"You can summon it here."

The two girls looked at Li Nuo.

"I have a [Pixel Fire] here that can be possessed by it."

Li Nuo's trump card is [Pixel Spark].

If we add the house number that Nanami got, maybe we can transport the Harry Potter frame over here, and we won’t even have to use the possession technique.

Nanami finally got smart: "No, the timeline here is the future of our place. How did you get the old man here? Even if you get the old man, you need the fire to locate the driver to transport the goods. How can you locate the garbled timeline?"

Li Nuo praised her: "Miss Jian is really a mentally retarded person~ I will ask the driver to find the location of the old man, and after the prison break, I can use the pixel fire to locate the old man and bring him here."

Nanami sat on the curb and cried. Cha Bai comforted her while glaring at Li Nuo.

Li Nuo: "Nanami, you'd better not hold the street lamp when you cry."

Nanami: "Get lost!"

five minutes later.

The gorilla driver rushed out from the roadside with a banana truck.

After Li Nuo explained the whole thing to the gorilla driver, the gorilla driver shook his head and held up a sign: "I'm in a bad mood recently. The task you entrusted is very troublesome. I don't want to do it."

With the help of the [Seal of Axis], the gorilla driver "spoke" out his depressing things.

The cause was that the gorilla driver found a girlfriend.

He kicked the driver because he thought he was a screwdriver.

Cha Bai said: "It's a problem that can be easily solved."

Five minutes later, under Cha Bai's guidance, the gorilla driver drove to the door of a bar.

"I triggered a side quest nearby when I came here. You'll know when you go in and take a look."

Cha Baiqian's smile was so damn beautiful that Li Nuo wanted to push her into the corner and treat her like an object until she died.

The gorilla driver was very distrustful of Li Nuo and was very resistant to Nanami. One of them was bad and the other was violent, but Cha Bai left a good impression on him, so he listened to her.

"Hey, white-haired girl, what's in this bar?" Nanami asked while squatting on the side of the road.

Chabai smiled and said, "Gay bar."

Li Nuo: "..."

Nanami: "..."

Four hours later... Li Nuo rushed into the bar to save the gorilla driver...

After that day.

It was willing to be loyal to Cha Bai from now on and promised to take over the Harikrik frame intact.

Li Nuo and Nanami both felt that the world had gone crazy.

But Chabai feels so good.

evening.

Nanami carried the stick and decided to do a side quest.

"You two are shameless. I don't want to be a light bulb."

"Nanami, if you don't want to be a light bulb, you don't have to carry a street lamp, right?"

Nanami looked back at Li Nuo, opened her mouth and spoke with her lips.

"Be careful."

Crows fly across the dusk.

The mechanical wings fell to the ground, and countless cameras formed a large net.

One of the crows flew through the clouds, circled over an electricity tower on the far side of the city, and finally landed on the walking stick of a Cairo man.

It's called Haru.

Haru took the phone out of his mouth, and on the screen was a message he had sent to Galileo.

"We found those guys."

But Jialilu never responded to it.

There is a new message in your inbox.

"Documents on the deeds of 'Nature'."

"There are records left by mushrooms more than 10,000 years ago. The authenticity has been verified using translated runes, but it is too long ago. We only know that she entertained a man in the hut."

Haru sighed and didn’t understand. Is the goddess of nature a brothel owner?

Today, it saw on the Internet that the goddess brought a gorilla to a robot gay bar, confirming its guess.

"The goddess of nature is a succubus."

Why is Lord Galil interested in this group of people?
It really wants to know.

So, Haru called a company, which had an insider that it had arranged long ago.

Another company that also participated in the "Sky Arena" is "Cairo and Juliet's Detective Agency". Its main business is to help wealthy people investigate cheating cases and make a lot of money.

Today, it is a large enterprise in this country, and its most elite personnel are still a group of detectives who practice magic.

A detective's voice came from the other end of the line.

"We have already placed listening devices in their rental house." "Why not put surveillance cameras?"

"It's about the Privacy Act."

"It doesn't matter, I'll pay more!"

"It doesn't matter. We know the law and we don't break it."

……

Cha Bai drove to the outskirts of the city.

Compared with the city center, this place is quite shabby, and it feels like traveling in the countryside of Eastern Europe.

"I rented a house here. In order not to attract too much attention, I just want to integrate into the local life first."

Cha Bai has learned to drive without wearing high heels, which is a kind of evolution.

Li Nuo sat in the co-pilot seat and checked the information sent by Maljie. He had already learned most of the general situation of this world.

One person must be mentioned here.

Chen Chuang.

This guy planned the text of the theological textbook, which was passed down to later generations. It was the robot side that interpreted Chen Chuang's name.

Humans, descendants of dragons, Cairo people, underground creatures, and robots represent four concepts, corresponding to the four mainstream beliefs in today's worldview.

Humanity:

Art, creation, love; corresponding to the "God of Love at All Times", which Chen Chuang dealt with with the Taimanin.

Descendants of the Dragon:

Power, destruction; the one who believes in the "organization" is Emperor An Mi.

Cairo and the Underground:
Wisdom, strategy, invention; the god they worship is called "Goddess of Wisdom", who is actually "Aqua" created by Chen Chuang.

Mechanical Life:

Health, vitality, medicine; legend has it that it is an AI program, most likely a second creation of Malger's imagination left behind by the "Fire of Prometheus".

A quick thought will tell you that it's all the players' fault.

The gods of this world are actually players.

The four beliefs have formed a very strange stable state, which has driven the world to run until now and has not collapsed.

"Four kinds of evil gods..."

Li Nuo was too exhausted to complain, what the hell were those four vendors?

Legend has it that a believer found a stone called Behelet, and collecting seven of them could summon the gods of the past.

The guy named Chen Chuang left a deep impression on Li Nuo's mind.

Although I haven't seen it.

But he must be a talent.

"Anmi and his team used theology as an introduction in the past to bring Behelet to the world. One day, believers will call them to the future, and they will be able to change the future."

Li Nuo came up with an answer that made him feel...like he would do the same thing.

Cha Bai turned on the turn signal and turned into a street corner, saying, "In addition to the four major beliefs, there are a large number of small beliefs. White City left some things, which were transmitted to every corner and era of the world through the track of belief. Faith and magic combined together will eventually become the thing that drives the evolution of the world. I think An Mi and the others also have this plan, which is to create a civilization for us that is difficult to persecute in terms of thinking."

Actually, you can look at it this way.

When believers become powerful enough, their souls will appear as projections in the White City.

At this time, the believers will receive a lot of information. This is also a kind of subspace communication in White City. The soul is the antenna and the magic power is the radio waves.

The group of organized players in Baicheng started promoting with loudspeakers just like in a vegetable market.

——The loving Father is watching you and wants to become one with you!
——Knowledge and destiny are ever-changing, join us and make knowledge immortal!
——Let us feel the joy!

After Li Nuo finished thinking about it, he felt even more confused.

There is indeed no way to effectively intervene in the future, and the emperor can even use the summons of [Behelet] to run out and deal with them.

"What is the purpose of that Sky Arena..."

Cha Bai stepped on the brakes, pulled the handbrake, and kissed him on the face.

"Don't think about it."

If he believed in Master Wang's fortune-telling, Li Nuo would win no matter what he went through. However, considering Croyd's past failures, Li Nuo did not believe in the prophecy.

Cha Bai released a panel just for him to see.

[Side Quest: Sky Arena]

[Task Difficulty: lv120]

[Quest Reward: Faith of the Succubus God]

[Mission details: "Endless Corridor" player 5950, you are assumed to be the goddess of nature, naturally giving birth to and mating, so you are the god of succubus. If your messenger wins, you will gain a large number of believers, and the power of faith you gain will grant you the "succubus MOD", which is a very powerful power]

Li Nuo stared blankly: "Ah..."

Cha Bai was ashamed of being a "succubus" and only dared to show it to Li Nuo. The hidden reason why she liked the arena was the reward for this branch quest.

"If everyone in this world believed in me, would it be possible to uproot the [Scholars] and the Emperor from the perspective of faith?"

Chabai's voice was calm.

"Even if it doesn't work, at least it can make me stronger, and I can use this to teach Malger. After all, he is an evil god, so he should be able to gain the power of faith."

Li Nuo suddenly felt a terrifying feeling running straight to his scalp.

He took in Cha Bai just because he wanted to create a Zaku. He never expected that he would create a succubus god.

And just like that, the succubus led the Pope's boy out of the car.

The succubus rented a small cabin on the outskirts of the city.

The succubus clumsily took out the key and opened the door.

The succubus turned on the light in the house.

The succubus greeted the homeowner, a robot that had long since short-circuited.

"Hey, Aunt Susan, why don't you take a break?"

"I haven't eaten yet."

Aunt Susan is a simple robot. It is said that she was a bionic doll many years ago, the butterfly type.

Aunt Susan worked as a part-time freelance woman for many years and finally earned enough money to buy a house. She bought a small house in the suburbs, but she was diagnosed with "robotemia", a disease prevalent among robots. So within a few years, Aunt Susan became what she is today.

"Are you sick?"

Li Nuo was shocked after listening to Cha Bai's narration. Such crazy plots rarely appeared in his comics.

"It all comes down to Malger's fault. He didn't complete the setting of Prometheus's Fire, and that's why the electronic X disease appeared in the end."

Cha Bai pushed all the blame onto the evil god and was just about to take out the cross and say "Amen".

But Aunt Susan Boyle is a very good robot.

She left dinner for Cha Bai, although it was just some screws, but Cha Bai... she actually bit a screw and said it was delicious... Li Nuo had no choice but to teach Aunt Susan how to eat screws with soy sauce, which could be regarded as the priest's compensation for the evil god's negligence.

Aunt Susan: "Where did you buy this little devil?"

Cha Bai: "I picked it up on the street."

Li Nuo: "..."

Aunt Susan: "Or zero dollars?"

Li Nuo: "Grass..."

Cha Bai was afraid that Li Nuo would get angry and summon Wells to teach the old lady what zero-dollar shopping was, so he pulled him back to the room.

Aunt Susan's cottage is actually quite big.

Two bedrooms and one living room.

Four hundred square meters.

If she only had 200 square meters of house, she wouldn't get X disease.

The bedroom has everything.

The first thing Cha Bai did was to take a bath.

Li Nuo sat on a folding stool and used the magic projection of the communicator to check the message from Maljie.

Dumbledore used teleportation magic to send Malger and his van directly to the other side of the planet where Galileo was.

They planned to enter Jialilu's research institute to see what was there.

[Side Quest: Shrine]

[Task Difficulty: lv190]

[Quest Reward: Certain Things of God]

[Mission details: Jialilu's research institute is heavily guarded, and it is extremely difficult to enter, but as long as you reach the end of the maze, it will be worth the trip.]

According to the intelligence sent by Maljie.

They couldn't get in because there were too many guards. Although they could force a breakthrough if a fight really broke out, there should be a better plan.

Li Nuo was thinking about how to help.

At this time, Cha Bai came out of the bathroom, and the water mist condensed into a pajamas, which was the combined ability of [Xianuoya's long skirt] and [wardrobe].

She raised an eyebrow toward the window.

Li Nuo also understood what happened.

Someone is outside.

The sensing force of malice took effect, the magic factors in the air were trembling, and finally a circle of magic that could not be seen by the naked eye or the electronic eye appeared around Aunt Susan's cottage.

alchemy.

tapping.

Cha Bai pulled the curtains.

outside the house.

The people hired by Haru spread the news: "We have been discovered, and the record is activated."

[Side quest has been triggered: Eavesdropper]

[Task Difficulty: lv20]

[Task Reward: Feature Value 1]

[Mission details: There is a group of guys outside the house spying on your movements. The contact signal just now has been hijacked by the mechanical crow outside the window. Your plan is at risk of being exposed, but since they are all a bunch of idiots, just kill them.]

Li Nuo pulled the Smiling Bustard out of the mask and exchanged a prop from his hand.

【Task expansion scroll】

[Effect: Only useful for low-level tasks that are 50 levels lower than your own level. Expand the task for more information]

If it is an eavesdropper, there are two candidates.

The emperor's blind loyalty in this era.

It is impossible for Anmi's seed to be only level 20.

The answer should be "Sky Arena", people sent by believers of the faith that is opposed to Cha Bai, or the interested parties behind it. No matter which one it is, if we dig deeper, it may be related to Jialilu.

Because there is such a hidden content in Maljie's message, it can be roughly interpreted by sorting it in Chinese characters: Our message has been obtained by someone, and it may be you, the mirror image in ancient times.

In the intelligence war, with Maljie around, we will never lose.

Li Nuo unfolded the scroll, wanting to see the content behind this lv20 task.

【Task Details】

[The eavesdroppers are a group of detectives hired by Dr. Haru. The person behind Haru is Mr. Galileo, but Galileo doesn't know about this. Haru is just interested in you.]

【Haru】

[It holds a very important position among Jialilu's men. As a biological researcher, it has been following Jialilu for nearly thousands of years since the Great Rift Valley period. However, due to the weird thinking of the Cairo race, it always does stupid things. But at least it is trusted by Jialilu's people.]

[In recent years, Haru has been in charge of intelligence work. His purpose of infiltrating this city was interfered by Galileo, so he couldn't find the reason, but his intelligence network is well developed, so for the people at the headquarters, he is a trustworthy strange doctor. Sometimes he will step over Galileo and directly give orders to the intelligence work of the headquarters. He is a difficult old guy.]

Cha Bai waited for him quietly.

Li Nuo came up with an idea that could help Maljie and the others break into the shrine.

He picked up a pen, wrote a few lines on his palm and showed them to the smiling brothel owner.

"Please help me see if they understand Morse code."

……

Nanami's side.

Based on the mission left by the "Corridor of Eternal Life", she found an area with only robots and got a long-term mission.

Nanami discovered a crucial piece of information.

Based on the breath-distinguishing ability of the [Realm of Reason], she sensed a familiar smell. Nanami kept flipping through the marks that had existed in her brain and discovered Chen Shou's name.

But Chen Shou seemed to be here, and yet seemed to be everywhere.

Another familiar breath also rushed into her brain groove from the steel frame with a gust of wind.

under the night sky.

She saw a figure with a ponytail and a slender body, a fierce sense of oppression, and a longbow in his hand.

But this Xiao Wu was not the one she was familiar with.

"I heard you turned into shit... Although your resurrection is not unexpected, it seems something has gone wrong, Mutou Sora."

Nanami pulled out a long stick from her white earrings.

"If you want to kill me, just try it."

(End of this chapter)