As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 732: Give up your life
Wenk: "Let Li Nuo die in another way..."

He seemed lost in thought, and his facial features gradually became distorted.

Li Nuocai realized the biggest problem: "Can't we find a more normal way to die accidentally?"

Soren skipped the topic: "Let's talk about the plan."

Li Nuo: "Soren, is there any device that allows you to sense my existence when I become a native?"

Soren thought for a moment: "[Life Cards], there are only two left."

Li Nuo: "Give me one, and you and Wenk decide how to use the remaining one."

He paused for a moment and said, "All of the above hypotheses are based on the assumption that the black marketeer's plan will succeed. If I become a native normally, I will only need to think about the next scenario."

Soren: "That's right. If the above speculation is false, the problems that follow are even bigger."

Ting raised her hand: "Excuse me... why?"

Wenk explained to them, "The Five Great Corridors don't reach the areas outside the World Tree, so the core managers are the World Tree itself. As a result, black market merchants may have even more methods at their disposal."

Soren: "That's true, but there's another possibility: we're just being too tense."

Li Nuo: "But the reason we've lived this long is because we're too anxious about everything."

This neuroticism, which appears to outsiders as such, is the foundation upon which they depend for survival.

In civilized society, they are "mentally ill".

In this bloody cycle of reincarnation, only they can navigate it successfully.

Wenk: "Tell me about the plan. You didn't come to me for advice just to get my input, did you?"

Li Nuo's lips curled up: "As players, we can't openly wander around different timelines. There's the interference of the real-world script, whether 'Li Nuo's Room' will make any changes, and the main storyline that could get rid of us at any time. You understand, Wenk."

Soren added, "The observation point in 'Linno's Room' is our real world, like an omnipresent camera to us players. We can't hide from each other's gaze, but as a native, perhaps..."

“Wait a minute,” Wink said. “The issues you’re dealing with are related to time travel. I know someone about it.”

……

ten minutes later.

Lillian sat down opposite them.

Standing behind Lillian was her loyal bodyguard, Inner.

At that moment, Lillian took a beer from Ting Ge's hand, smiled and nodded in greeting, while Innie was gritting her teeth and staring at the two guys.

Li Nuo and Soren's faces darkened: "Wink..."

Wenk sat opposite, next to Lillian, raising an eyebrow and laughing loudly: "Hahaha! You didn't expect that, did you? I've known the so-called Grand Master for a long time!"

Inne gritted his teeth: "Tch...it's all because of the people you lied to before..."

Lillian quickly added, "When you guys were causing trouble in the corridor last time, Mr. Wink asked me to help, but I had some reasons..."

She looked at Soren's face and said with a smile, "Anyway, I couldn't help for some reason, so consider this..."

Li Nuo said, "I'm so annoyed."

Inne: "Ah, never mind then~"

Soren: "Lillian, your dog cage is of poor quality."

Innie: "Ha! Four-Eyes! You think you can woo our boss?!"

Li Nuo slammed his hand on the table, stood up, and roared in annoyance, "What's wrong with Soren! Dare to take a gamble!?"

Soren: "Hey, Lino, it's not that bad..."

Innie leaned closer, almost cheek to cheek with Li Nuo: "What are you doing, causing trouble?"

Li Nuo said, "The places we met before were all important occasions, and I held my temper and didn't hold a grudge against you. Innie, right? You and Cha Bai fought back then during the 'Vaporwave' script."

Inne: "That idiot, what happened now?"

Li Nuo: "You fucking hit her."

Inne: "I got hit too."

Li Nuo: "Then why don't you find a man to protect you?"

Inne: "The one with waning blood...shall we duel?"

Li Nuo: "Okay."

Inne: "Okay."

Lillian: "Inner, get out."

A few seconds later, Innie stood outside the tavern, looking like she was about to cry, and walked into the alley and squatted down.

Inside the tavern.

Lillian: "Sorry, I saved Innie before, so he can be a bit impulsive sometimes. Wink has already told me part of the story, could you elaborate?"

Li Nuo and Soren's mouths looked like they had been sewn shut.

Wenk took a deep breath and said helplessly, "What can the three of us do? If the sky falls, we'll have to find that big guy to be the scapegoat."

A few seconds later, Li Nuo glared at him with dead fish eyes: "Let me tell you."

Li Nuo told Lillian everything, including all the speculations and the conclusions he had drawn, without holding anything back. His reconciliation with Lillian was superficial; when it came to matters of life and death, some resistance was inevitable. But Wenk was right; this time, a big guy was needed to take the lead.

After listening, Lillian looked at the "timeline" drawn on the table and said, "So what's your first step? Send Wenk to the real world, and then time-travel to the time when you died, Li Nuo?"

Li Nuo shook his head: "No, assuming I disappear, then it should jump to the moment I disappear."

Lillian nodded: "Hmm...yes, only by jumping through time from there can we meet the plan's main theme of 'starting a new main storyline from the ending to the beginning.' There are two problems that need to be solved. First, if you, Li Nuo, disappear, how can we ensure that Wenk still remembers you?"

Her hypothesis was based on the fact that after Li Nuo disappeared, Wenk lost his memories related to Li Nuo and thus forgot about the plan.

Li Nuo smiled and said, "The Great Maze."

Those present were taken aback.

Li Nuo said, "The timeline in the Great Maze is completely different from here; it's like traveling to another point in time. Also, three days in the maze is equivalent to one day in the corridor. To be on the safe side, Wenk should prepare and set off as soon as possible. I can wait a few more days..."

Lillian: "No, you must leave as soon as possible; that's the best option."

She crossed her legs, rested her elbows on the table, and propped her chin on her hand, saying very seriously, "Once the next script starts, it will be too late. None of us know when the next script will start. Tomorrow? The day after tomorrow? Maybe the next second."

She's right.

The difficulty of the scenarios outside the World Tree may be extremely high. At that time, you will not only be facing black market merchants, but also the group of guys standing at the top of the five corridors. Their level of danger is no less than, and may even be higher than, that of black market merchants.

No problem can be left unresolved; action must be taken immediately.

Wenk: "But if we go straight into the Great Labyrinth without any preparation... Miss Lillian, are you sending me to my death?"

Sauron: "I'll give you some items."

Lillian: "No need, I'll help Mr. Wink."

She interrupted Soren, which made Four-Eyes a little unhappy.

Lillian laughed and said, "Ha~ After all, I am the manager of the number one guild in 'Endless Corridor'. I have plenty of resources. By the way, I just don't know if I have as many resources as the [Explorers].

Sauron: "That's why I have to get my hands on you."

Lillian: "Welcome to [beep], the price is better than mine."

Sauron was delighted: "Haha, I'll have Gardevoir put a black hole in your mouth."

Lillian didn't care: "I already have a black hole down there, so how can the glasses attack me?"

Sauron: "I fucking..."

Lillian: "What the hell are you going to do?"

Li Nuo and Wen Ke stared blankly with dead fish eyes.

Ting quickly served a few glasses of juice to distract everyone. Lillian was the strongest player in the "Endless Corridor," while Li Nuo and Soren were the two most troublesome guys below level 99. If these three started causing trouble in the tavern, Ting was worried that something might happen to her.

Let’s get back to the topic.

Wenk's goal in the maze was to take advantage of the slowed time flow within the maze to summon the gorilla driver and take him to the planet where Lino was.

So the question is, what is Wink going to do next?
Soren took off his glasses and handed them to Wink: "Give these glasses to the me who was brainwashed back then."

Li Nuo was shocked: "Your true form is really glasses?"

Soren didn't complain, but calmly explained, "My glasses contain fragments of my soul, so..."

He suddenly realized that his true form seemed to be glasses!

Soren pulled a new pair of glasses from his shirt pocket and put them on: "Tch..."

"And then what? How do you solve the problem of time travel?" Li Nuo asked. According to his personality, he would use the "obsession" of the corridor script to make a few scripts, and maybe he could get those time travel gadgets. But with a time-traveling bitch sitting opposite him, it would be even easier.

“Money is all that matters,” Lillian said. “Our main universe is a hilarious and absurd world. Time travel is something those Cairo aliens can handle. I have the connections, and the money…”

She glanced at Wink and said with a smile, "Mr. Wink, we can discuss the interest rate separately."

"Oh..." Wenk took it all as a way to avert disaster for Nanami.

Therefore, the initial plan was quite simple.

Wenk entered the Great Labyrinth with the [Life Card] containing Li Nuo's information. Whenever the card fluctuated, he would immediately contact Lillian. This woman had been operating in the real world for decades and had her own unique resource channels. She had made prior arrangements with the Great Labyrinth's "Cairo Adventure Village" company, allowing those Cairo aliens, who were unreliable when it came to serious matters but very reliable when it came to black technology, to transport Wenk to Soren.

Finally, the glasses containing the current fragment of Sauron's soul were handed to the brainwashed Sauron, thus completing the mind control.

"Then, how do I get to the timeline of my death?" Li Nuo asked.

Soren said, "I can take out the 'Book of Travelers' from my glasses. It records the timeline of my first scriptwriting, which is a week before your death. I can then travel directly into that time..."

Lillian: "No need for that."

She plucked a hair and handed it to Wink: "Just use this hair."

【The Time Witch's Summoning Hair】

【Excellent quality】

[Effect: Summons the puppet of "Time Witch" Lillian, who will take you to a time anchor point within the next five years.]

[Summary: Xiaoming used this hair to send himself back to 2014. He wanted to use Germany's 7-1 victory over Brazil to get rich, but his positioning went wrong, and Xiaoming got stuck in the wall.]

Lillian explained, "It actually has a lot of limitations. First, I can't use it myself. Second, it can only be used in my main world. And once you're teleported back, you can't come back. But it won't create any extra timelines."

Wenk took it and stuffed the hair into his wallet: "Is there anything else I need to prepare?" Li Nuo stood up: "Come with me, take the [What If Phone Booth] with you when you leave."

That phone booth has its own causal laws, unaffected by external influences, and might be able to help Wink.

“I’ll figure out the rest,” Soren said. “In the ‘Warrior of Light’s Room,’ mark the pages with the information you deem important.”

Everyone present is a neutral being; there's no need for specific work assignments. Everyone can simply do their own job without interference.

"Then it's up to you guys." Li Nuo finished his drink on the table, then picked up his cane. "I'm leaving."

When Li Nuo reached the door, he stopped and glanced at Lillian.

"Chairman, what is your purpose?"

Lillian's gaze sharpened: "..."

Li Nuo: "Fine, I'll take your word for it."

He pulled Wink away from the tavern.

Lillian stood up, smiled at Soren, and said, "Then I'll go and get ready too."

Soren kept looking at her without saying a word.

Finally, Lillian couldn't help but ask, "Assuming Linuo's idea is true, do you know who your opponent is?"

Sauron: "The World Tree."

Lillian: "This is a road with almost no chance of winning, Soren Lee, you can stay out of it."

Soren: "I cannot."

"Very good." Lillian chuckled and bowed to Ting Ge, "Thank you for your hospitality."

She disappeared from the spot and was teleported back to her little chapel.

In the empty tavern, Ting poured Soren a glass of wine and told him that he could leave whenever he wanted.

The bespectacled man remained silent... His glasses couldn't hide the confusion in his eyes. What he saw wasn't the table, the wine glass, or what would happen tomorrow, but... Marsh.

……

Li Nuo had Wenk secretly take away the "What If Telephone Booth" (a fictional phone booth).

As he was leaving, Wenk asked him a question.

Why aren't you angry?

"angry?"

"You can't stand it when people use you behind your back."

"Yeah, why aren't you angry?"

Li Nuo turned around and looked at the courtyard behind him, the courtyard where he had spent all his time since becoming a player.

“Wink, apologize to me and Nanami… I shouldn’t have yelled at her in the tavern, but we can’t let them get involved now.”

"Me?" Wenk joked. He felt that Li Nuo had changed, or perhaps Li Nuo was hiding something that he couldn't tell.

Li Nuo pulled down the brim of his hat and said with a smile, "If I am the Warrior of Light, then you are the Merchant of Light, and you are destined to get involved."

After saying that, Li Nuo disappeared.

Wink remained where he was for a long time, only snapping out of his daze when Lillian contacted him.

……

Night.

Family.

Li Nuo sat in front of the computer, contacting Julie to discuss the issue of serializing his comics after immigrating.

"Why don't you start a new book?"

Faced with Julie's confusion, Li Nuo began to fight back by typing on the keyboard.

"How about I start my life over?"

"Be a good person in your next life."

"Thank you."

"..."

A few seconds later.

“You know Cairo… and you know Star Hunter, right? So you should understand that some things take time.”

"Waiting for you."

"Li, the great cartoonist, don't die during the immigration process."

The room was pitch black.

The light from the screen cast shadows on his face.

Li Nuo remained silent for a moment.

Then he picked up the teacup on the table, went to the kitchen to get some hot water, and stood in front of the cabinet to drink the water while facing his mother's portrait.

"Mom, I'll never have the chance to see you again in this lifetime. If you need me, please appear in my dream and I'll send my dad to you."

He laughed at his own words.

A faint snoring sound came from the inner room.

Cha Bai was sleeping soundly and deeply.

Li Nuo walked to the door and looked at her, the corners of his mouth involuntarily turning upwards.

He quickly took a sip of water to hide his silly grin.

The question Wenk asked came to mind: why wasn't he angry?

Why get angry...

His pupils gently fixed on Cha Bai.

The shady businessman uses his past life as a bargaining chip to change everything. If he can reconnect with his past life, it's like he's with Cha Bai in his first life, and he'll also be with this annoying woman in his second life, which hasn't happened yet. Ha, two lifetimes of mutual support.

All of this is thanks to the black marketeer's gifts, so why should he be angry?

Anyway, we'll just kill whoever's in our way... that'll solve everything.

……

the next day.

Li Nuo stood in front of the train's basement door.

He didn't know if there would be any problems on his trip to Icarus.

When he took the final step, he felt a pang of fear; at the last moment, Li Nuo was afraid.

(Chapter 729)
He suddenly stopped.

"Oh, by the way, we can get some things from Wenk's side..."

Marger kicked him down.

"Get lost."

Cha Bai laughed and jumped down after her.

The basement door closed.

Marger opened the panel.

[You have spent 8000 gold coins. The team "(Too Long to Pronounce)" has been disbanded.]

On the train to Icarus.

Li Nuo remained silent.

Cha Bai could tell he had something on his mind, so she remained silent and waited quietly.

The car door opens.

Icarus.

Cha Bai found Dolos.

Everyone is the same as before.

Looking at the scene before him, Li Nuo hoped that the plan he made at the tavern last night would never come to fruition.

He took out the receipt.

He signed a statement saying he would no longer be a player.

Then everything disappeared.

But at the last moment, Li Nuo grinned and said, "It's up to you now, Sauron."

He was certain that everything would succeed because Cha Bai had once done something completely unnecessary.

You can't completely trust fate.

But sometimes, you need to entrust your future to it.

In Li Nuo's limited understanding, the name of destiny is "Cha Bai". This time, he entrusted the seed of the ending to the person he loved most.

……

Wenk noticed a problem with Li Nuo's Vivre Card. As planned, with the help of the Cairo aliens, they finally located the planet where Li Nuo and his group were.

When he handed the glasses to Soren, the cloudiness in the Explorer's eyes disappeared.

"You're back?" Wenk asked.

"Heh~ You're back. You've had a long journey, Mr. Wink." Soren smiled and touched his glasses.

Sauron opened the "What If Telephone Booth," took out the book "The Room of the Warrior of Light," and retrieved the "Summoning Hair of the Time Witch" tucked inside.

Planning begins.

(End of this chapter)