As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 714 Dog R's Marger
Arale crawled through the dog hole and saw Li Nuo lifting a dog high in the air.

"So, Lao Ma, what are you doing?"

"Wang..."

Malger, his paws trembling, grabbed the cigarette case from the table, lit a cigarette, inhaled, and the smoke billowed from his ears as he recovered.

Li Nuo carefully noticed that this pack of cigarettes was the "recovery cigarettes" that Su Mei gave him in the script of "NieR".

Marjee sat up straight and pointed to his dog face.

"Wang."

Arale glanced at Li Nuo and asked, "What is it going to do?"

Li Nuo translated: "He said that everything needs to be explained from the beginning, and things are more complicated than imagined, involving issues related to the surface world."

The reason why Li Nuo could understand Malje's "woof" was because they both had "magic essence".

In NieR, magic essence exists within living beings, and under certain special circumstances, it can be used to communicate with monsters.

Arale thought it was amazing. Although the dogs in her village could speak human language, there was a communication barrier between dogs that couldn't speak human language and humans.

Therefore, Li Nuo immediately became high-class in her eyes, which is similar to the concept that people who can bark like dogs are amazing.

Li Nuo moved out a folding stool and sat down opposite Malje.

The only computer screen in the room was showing Cha Bai opening a treasure chest. He tried to contact Cha Bai, but the signal couldn't be transmitted because of the special nature of this room.

This place is similar to the workshop in RPG Maker, with some differences, but the general meaning is the same.

Marger finished his cigarette and began to explain why he had become the... leader here.

The following content is translated by Li Nuo.

……

The negative impact of the Basel flood incident was still too great; whenever Marger revealed his true form, he would be chased by a group of indigenous people with weapons.

Later, Marger realized that rather than being chased like a dog, he might as well be a dog himself.

So, ever since the last script ended, this guy has been living as a dog in Basel.

One of the advantages of being a dog is that you can make a group of fellow dog lovers.

Basel has regulations against attacking indigenous people, but there are no dog protection measures here, so dogs can be beaten.

And so, in just two weeks, Marger became the King of Dogs in Basel.

He had control over all the livestock in Basel.

He became the true "King of Beasts".

Time is like water, life is like a song.

The timeframe is a few weeks before Li Nuo and his companions entered the maze.

Marger had always acted in human form in the vicinity of his residence. On that day, Chabai borrowed a Nokia from Marger.

When she returned in the evening, she was carrying a pair of stockings.

"Marger, don't tell Li Nuo about the stockings."

Marger believed that Cha Bai's words were not a request, but a threat.

Later, through Cha Bai's narration, it was learned that she had taken her Nokia to play mazes. It was then that Malger remembered the maze incident, as he had been too engrossed in playing as the king of dogs lately.

Later, Marger was busy helping his dogs conquer the nearby army of wild cats and temporarily forgot about the maze, but he did make a mental note of it, thinking he could go and see it later.

Until four days before Li Nuo and his group entered the maze.

That day, the dog army stormed the cat army's headquarters in the abandoned mining area of ​​the lower district of Basel. The battle took an unexpected turn when a wildcat suddenly evolved into a monster cat.

Although the outcome was good—the dogs won, and Marger officially ascended to the throne as Basel's first king to conquer both cats and dogs.

But the fact that the cat could mutate struck him as very strange.

So he ordered his subordinates to investigate the mining area for anything strange.

Working together, the cat and dog found a strange pipe in just a few hours. It was not a pipe because it was covered in eyes, but it was also not a pipe because steam was coming out of its mouth.

"Once you enter, you will gain the power of evolution."

That's what the pipe said at the time.

It was obvious that the mutated cat had risked entering the pipes in order to defeat Marger's army of dogs.

After learning the truth, Marger had the dogs put up a tombstone for the cat.

Then I started to figure out what exactly a pipe was.

Having weathered many storms, he was naturally not afraid of this pipe that resembled an ancient god, so he crawled inside, because he also wanted to evolve in dog form, such as into a Tibetan Mastiff that could penetrate an aircraft carrier.

Ultimately, the end of the pipe led to the bottom of the White City Maze.

The labyrinth of Baicheng.

As one of the means to enhance players.

The world inside is often random.

The only way to enter the maze is through the proper means, such as by going through the main entrance.

At the end of the pipe was a vent, which was locked tightly, and it was filled with thick black smoke, making it impossible to see the internal structure.

"It seems that the cat mutated because it was affected by the smoke inside."

Marger pondered this.

"The smoke can affect its mutation, which means that the smoke comes from the subspace, but it doesn't seem to have any effect on me..."

He muttered to himself, pondering how he could evolve into a Tibetan Mastiff capable of breaching an aircraft carrier.

That must be the world on the other side of the duct ventilation opening.

Others might not be able to get in through connections.

But Marger can get in through connections.

Of course, this has nothing to do with whether he is a proctologist or not.

Because he was wearing a ring that signified his management qualifications.

After the ring turned into a dog, it became a dog collar and was worn around the neck.

Perhaps because the dog collar was much larger than the ring, although it reacted when it encountered the duct vent, it still couldn't get in. So Marger wondered if he would have to become human to overcome the reproductive barrier.

After trying it.

As the initiator of the White City Maze, Marger actually entered the maze through the pipes.

Then he went straight to the tenth floor of the great maze...

……

Li Nuo covered her face, her shoulders trembling almost imperceptibly.

"What did I hear..."

While feeding Arale a string of poop, Marje continued his explanation with a cigarette dangling from his mouth.

……

When Marger entered the tenth level, it was still a tomb.

What angered him most was that the servants in the tomb were all succubi wearing short skirts, which was very unpleasant.

So, using the dog's advantage, Ma Ge spotted the guy controlling the lower levels of the maze.

Guimarães, a minister who once betrayed the Kingdom of Halloran.

That minister was sitting in the innermost part of the tenth floor, on a luxurious chair, surrounded by beautiful women. He was living such a comfortable life that no man could tolerate him.

The good news is that the script mission was triggered when I saw that guy.

[Realistic Script]

Main Quest: Defeat the Minister and save the lower level of the labyrinth.

Based on past experience, defeating the minister was just the beginning; there must be a grand conspiracy lurking behind it all.

There might be a mastermind behind this.

The current Marger is a monster capable of single-handedly wiping out the sanitation of the entire Basel suburbs; he could easily dominate as the villainous BOSS in a script.

So Marger isn't in a hurry.

Through his investigation, he discovered that this was "Cairo Adventure Village," and that in the deepest part of the maze, besides the minister's succubus army, there was a special area.

That area is nowhere to be found; all we know is that it's a legend.

Legend has it that a labyrinthine will once existed, an elf named Peters, which may well be an evolutionary zone.

In order to become the Tibetan Mastiff that shot down the aircraft carrier, Marje came up with a crude method to find that place. He transformed back into human form and didn't say a word in front of a succubus. The succubus was bewitched by him and confessed everything.

……

"So what about the succubus?"

Li Nuo helped Arale decorate the poop string with carvings, then looked up and asked.

Marger said: "Because he couldn't have me, he went berserk and was eventually shot dead by me."

Scumbag.

……

It turns out there's an area on the tenth floor that you have to break through the wall to find.

The place was sealed off by the ministers because it was too dangerous; anyone who entered would be torn apart by the aura within.

Marger also activated [Rescuer] to negate the inevitable fatal damage before he was able to break in.

This is the place where he is right now.

It turns out that "Cairo Adventure Village" operates like a computer. Its structure is actually somewhat similar to "RPG Maker," but the difference is that it operates entirely on its own, and no one can interfere with its algorithm.

But then the hidden quest begins.

[Hidden Worldview]

Heal the world

[Mission Details: The Great Labyrinth possesses its own consciousness. With the birth of Peters, it completed its physical transformation. The labyrinth is now a strange, operating machine, and its ultimate goal is to become an ark.]

On that day, all the resources of this world will be absorbed by the labyrinth. If you don't go to the surface world, you won't know how strange this world is.

But the solution is never just about the surface world; it's about taking control of the Great Labyrinth directly.

This is difficult for anyone.

The safest way is to find the person in charge of "Cairo Adventure Village," but that guy is probably somewhere else eating, drinking, sleeping, and doing whatever he wants. That's the most difficult method.

[Or they may have "control permissions" related to this world, which could allow them to manipulate the structure of the maze.]

Marger happens to have it.

He had a ring indicating "management qualification" on him.

In the main world of "Endless Corridor", the significance of this ring lies in the player's future. If we add that the White City Labyrinth itself was initiated by Marger, then he has the right to control the script of this labyrinth.

What you need to do is lead the maze in a strange direction.

Ideally, this direction should correspond to your shape. There's no specific solution because no one has ever achieved it before.

The tricky part is figuring out how to make the maze into the shape of Marger.

Of course, it's not as simple as turning into poop and pee.

In order to get a definite answer.

Marger easily conquered the ninth and tenth floors of the maze.

Minister Guimarães, a man who has been virtually invincible for nearly a century, can continue to live as the master of the labyrinth as long as the legendary Peters does not appear.

But his legion was completely destroyed by a group of small robots and cultists.

The women in the cult shouted "Exterminate the succubus!" and killed off his entire succubus army.

The vampire girl guarding the gate was also trampled underfoot by Marger.

The labyrinth that had plagued adventurers for centuries was swept aside by a proctologist with a single, nonchalant stroke, leaving behind only a defeated minister.

Minister Guimarães was also a tough nut to crack.

He believed that if he pointed out the problems of the world, the Labyrinth Will Peters would come out and attack him.

So I won't say.

Marger gave him a choice: tell the truth or live a life of eating excrement. He specifically emphasized that he was a proctologist.

"The treasure chests inside the maze are all portals. Every time the mechanism refreshes, the maze absorbs the 'normal' state of this world."

Guimarães readily revealed the truth when faced with the "lump of excrement" in Marger's hand.

"Until one day, when the Great Labyrinth absorbs 'normal' to a critical point, everyone in the world will turn into lunatics, there will be no order, everyone will be a crazy Cairo alien, and the world will be left with only a bunch of lunatics. That day should not be far away."

So the Great Maze is actually a tree that grows upside down.

Its leaves are underground.

The tree roots are on the ground.

Nutrients are a "normal" logic for living organisms.

Peters's appearance was to prevent this truth from being discovered.

This is actually a very dark world.

A world that is utterly hopeless.

Unless a celestial being from beyond the realm descends.

……

"Then I'll let Adam conquer the world..."

Li Nuo sculpted the poop into a little bee, and Arale held the thing and danced with joy.

Marger nodded.

It means that Lino's idea of ​​having Adam conquer the world was actually to save it.

……

After Minister Guimarães finished speaking.

Marger performed an excision on him, cutting off a portion of the guy's memories of himself, and then threw him out of the bottom of the maze.

The next question is how to control the maze.

To save the world, the maze must be controlled; otherwise, even if the surface world is saved, the maze will eventually drain the world dry, and the world's destruction will still not be prevented.

But Marger faces another serious problem.

If he becomes the administrator of the maze program, he cannot leave the room and must become part of the computer.

on the other hand.

Peters mastered the rules of another part of the maze.

Marger has limited rules to set, such as increasing the strength of monsters or raising the difficulty for certain monsters.

Yes, we're talking about Li Nuo here. Those malicious stones were deliberately distributed as part of a difficulty-increasing mechanism targeting him.

Marger wasn't trying to make things difficult for Li Nuo, nor was he seeking revenge. While malicious targeting would indeed increase the difficulty, the benefits would be unimaginable if he could overcome it.

For example, the Blood Gem that Li Nuo used to defeat the orphan.

For example, the fact that the turtle's settlement hasn't finished yet shows that the system's selection process is very careful, and the reward must be something that perfectly matches the needs of the successful applicant.

For example, Arale.

The appearance of this mechanical girl is not to defeat her, in fact, it is impossible to defeat her. For example, if Arale had been in the previous scenario, His Majesty the Emperor would have no chance to fight, the Scholar would have no chance to scheme against her, and even the Demon God might have to think twice.

This is the true value of the world of comedy.

Arale's role is that Marger can use her manufacturing plans to optimize his robot manufacturing methods and even create mechanical creations that transcend normal logical thinking in advance.

Let’s get back to the topic.

To save the world, we must tackle both the surface and the labyrinth areas simultaneously. Since Marger cannot leave the room, he must manipulate everything from behind the scenes as a mastermind.

Marger made a decision quickly at the time.

He can get players into this scenario by using the "Manager Qualification" ring, which connects to the White City Maze scenario, making this the scenario with the highest probability of being a maze.

Therefore, he needs a group of useful players.

The term "useful" doesn't refer to prodigies like Li Nuo and his group. While they are indeed powerful enough to destroy the maze's structure, they are the "protagonists." In addition to the main characters, a group of supporting characters is also needed.

Let the players drive the entire story. Li Nuo will become a good screenwriter, and he will definitely be able to change the structure of the entire world with his own abilities.

Marger trusted him unconditionally.

Therefore, finding leeks for Li Nuo became the top priority.

then.

Three days before his last public appearance, Marger found Chen Shou.

(End of this chapter)