As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 733 Soren's Love Story, Countdown Begins

"Is the young master showing off again?"

Soren's steward asked kindly.

"no!"

Sauron's defenses are breached.

"Please have everyone go back inside. I need you to take care of my work for me."

"Understood, young master." The butler nodded to Wenk. "Young master has a bad temper and is somewhat late-maturing. He still needed to wear diapers when he was seven years old..."

Sauron: "Hey..."

Butler: "In short, sir, I'll leave the young master to you."

After the butler finished speaking, he dismissed everyone in the manor and asked Wenk, squinting, "Is he your godfather?"

Sauron: "The kind of person who's even closer than a biological father... Let's not talk about that, I need some peace and quiet now."

He opened the Explorer panel.

This body has already undergone the modified corridor, and the remaining memories will surely generate a "strategy analysis" file, which can be placed in the Explorer's exclusive panel.

Endless Corridor

The problem lies in the new version of "Endless Corridor," where the "Judge" replaces the "King."

[Reason for version change: Exploiting the special nature of the previous player 5900 as a "low-health" character, the truth of player 5900's death was altered at the moment the tree branch and fruit representing player 5900 appeared, causing a save bug in the "Endless Corridor". Because the "King" position overlapped with the "Judge", the "Judge" replaced the "King" to resolve the version bug.]

[Version Legacy Issue: Things closely related to player 5900's save file will have their progress modified; this is called "Timeline Fix"]

[Timeline Repair: Players only have one timeline, which is like a train running through time. The possibilities of the world are like the tracks. Based on this definition, it is necessary to continuously repair the memory saves related to player 5900 over a period of time.]

[Necessary fix: If necessary, the existing save file from "Redemption Corridor" will need to be replaced with the current save file from "Endless Corridor".]

[Replacement: The replacement player is a player who is difficult to control]

[Other solutions: Try to find a way to make the player die a natural, accidental death during the time period of player 5900's death; this has been attempted but failed.]

Soren frowned slightly.

"Replacement... In other words, if too much time passes, some people will be replaced to achieve a timeline where 'Li Nuo never existed'."

Four-Eyes breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, Li Nuo doesn't usually interact with people much, so the only ones at the very top of the corridor who are at risk of being replaced are those few people.

Li Nuo isn't actually averse to communicating with people; in fact, he enjoys it. After all, to torment someone, communication is essential.

It was Cha Bai who usually stopped him from going out.

Once you reach a higher level, it's pointless to harm players of the same or lower level.

As a result, he gave up communicating with other players.

"In a sense, 2B saved the 'Endless Corridor'..." Sauron remarked.

Then he went into the "What If Phone Booth" and took out a prop bag that was as tall as a person.

Before Wink arrived, Soren gave him some of the things he could bring with him.

At the time, he used the Explorer to see that the prerequisite for the phone booth to be unaffected by causality was that "it is best not to be a living thing". Things put in would "encounter strange changes", and the more things put in, the higher the possibility of the props mutating.

As for why Wink himself wasn't allowed to carry it... because it would most likely be stolen by the Cairo aliens.

“Actually, you players can do this yourselves,” Wenk said.

"Memory alteration, or a sudden scripted mission—if one thing happens, everything's over, my friend." Soren opened the bag: "[What If Phone Booth]'s strange change is that things disappear...?"

90% of the props in the bag are gone.

Fortunately.

He put the same props inside.

"Mr. Wink, why am I so smart?"

Soren asked very seriously.

Wenk understood somewhat why Li Nuo always liked to make fun of this four-eyed guy.

Among the items Sauron brought, the most important was the [Accident Creation Machine], a device specifically designed to cause accidental death. It was a palm-sized pink tablet computer with a screen on the front and a cute pattern of a rabbit eating meat printed on the back.

Then there's the [Shilipo Sword God Card], which he felt was necessary to linger in this timeline longer.

"Mr. Wink, what happened to the [Milk Production from Cows] that I asked you to bring me? Was it broken down by the [What If Phone Booth]?"

"Isn't that food...?"

"You are crazy!"

"Do you know what I went through on this journey! The Cairo aliens took me in, but they didn't give me any food!"

Wenk's eyes trembled, a sense of grievance welling up inside him.

His experiences during this period were not good either. After being captured by the Cairo aliens' "Maze Adventure Village" in the maze, he traveled with these guys under the name "Lillian". During this time, he traveled through a wormhole. At that time, in order to avoid being killed by the wormhole, he modified his body. Wink can actually transform.

He can transform into a Cairo alien.

Sauron was completely convinced...

"Forget it, I'll do it myself."

He went out for a stroll and triggered a "real-life scenario" in the countryside woods.

A brown bear roamed the woods and set its sights on him.

[Real-world scenario triggered: Kill the brown bear on the other side]

Soren punched the brown bear in the head, knocking it unconscious.

"Then I'll revise the script again..."

【“Explorer” Effect 7: One-time permission to modify script missions】

[For a script, you can cancel once and revise it again.]

Soren incorporated information about the "Endless Corridor" into the "Reality Scenario" that had just been triggered.

[Edited successfully]

[Real-world scenario: Go to April 1, 2030, and kill this brown bear within ten days of that timeline.]

Soren: "Modify..."

[Real-world scenario: Go to April 1, 2030, and kill Li Nuo!]

"Anyway... it was successfully triggered."

Soren muttered to himself as he walked back.

A large group of Cairo aliens arrived at my doorstep.

Wenk stood at the entrance of the manor, looking blankly at Soren.

"Mr. Wink...you wouldn't..."

"Who are you?"

Wenk asked him curiously.

"Because I left the maze and got some distance away from the [What If Phone Booth], my memories were reset..."

"Wait...aren't you that four-eyed guy...?"

This Wink recognized Soren.

Two chimpanzees got out of the Cairo alien's car, one of whom could speak human language: "Who is this B?"

Wink scratched his chin like an idiot: "Ignore him, let's go."

Sauron gritted his teeth and suppressed his anger.

Four-Eyes watched the group leave, letting out a helpless sigh. Once everything was over, Wink would regain his memories.

The real-life scenario has been successfully constructed.

What we need to do now is go back to that period.

Actually, he also kept a broken prop that could travel through time in the "What If Phone Booth", but it seems to be gone.

and so……

Soren reluctantly took out Lillian's hair.

"call……"

The strands of hair grew longer in his hands, floated into the air, and intertwined, transforming into Lillian like a magical girl transforming.

Lillian landed and looked at Sauron.

"Owner."

"what?"

"Owner!"

"what!?"

Lillian's eyes lit up: "I'm Lillian, the Time Traveler Doll, I can't do anything lewd~"

Soren was going crazy: "Whatever, April 1, 2030... Can you suggest a location and the items to bring?"

Lillian's doll: "Don't be smug~"

Sauron: "Don't play dumb!"

Lillian said seriously, "When you switch personalities, can't you look at my panel, you idiot?"

[Lillian's Doll: A time-traveling device created from the Time Witch's hair. It can be used to locate a specific region on the same planet across timelines. However, it cannot carry large items during the journey, so don't be too excited!]

Soren smashed the panel with his fist: "I know I can't be cowardly! I don't want to be cowardly!" Lillian: "Tch, idiot."

Soren endured and endured, pulling the "What If Telephone Booth" back into the house and instructing the butler to keep it safe. The butler even asked him, "Young Master, why don't you want to be sad?"

Soren was already used to being teased like this. He told the steward with a wry smile, "I'm completely incompatible with women."

After he went out, he took "The Room of the Warrior of Light" and walked to the Lillian doll.

Soren: "April 1, 2030, preferably during the day... the location is..."

Swish!
Soren stood downstairs at Li Nuo's house.

"So fast!"

Soren couldn't accept it: "This is too absurd! I've never seen time travel at this speed before! Lillian, are you kidding me?!"

“Where am I being funny?” Lillian’s voice came from behind him.

Soren turned around abruptly: "You..."

Lillian Kemm

“Don’t look at my data,” Lillian said. “I am the real me, not a puppet.”

She walked towards Soren, took off his glasses, looked at them, and said, "So that's how it is. It was me from three years in the future who teleported you here..."

"Three years later?" Soren paused, then said, "You are..."

Lillian smiled gently: "This is our first meeting, Lillian Kem, the head manager of 'Endless Corridor'."

This woman is very beautiful just by looking at her appearance... but physical descriptions don't mean much. Let's describe Miss Lillian's appearance in a special way. She's the kind of woman who makes you want to say to her, "You don't want your husband to be like this either..."

Despite the conflict, in this current timeline, she is giving Sauron an innocent smile.

"So could you please stop smiling at my glasses?"

"Oh, oh, sorry."

She returned the glasses to Soren.

Then, with her arms wrapped around her bouncy chest, she said, "I could sense when you used the Time Travel Hair Doll, so I came here. I happen to be on business on this planet recently... We're quite destined to meet. Wait... you're the young master of the Li family's Toilet King, right?"

Soren quickly changed the subject: "So you knew you'd come out three years from now, that's why you gave me the hair... your purpose was..."

Lillian: "Because I think you can't do what you're going to do without me. Okay, tell me, what are you going to do?"

Soren glanced at the building where Li Nuo lived.

Just as he was about to speak, an older woman walked up to him.

This woman is actually one of the group of middle-aged women living downstairs from Li Nuo's house. You know, the status of the elderly men and women in this place is like that of the chicken god in "The Legend of Zelda," an inviolable mascot.

Soren didn't dare to provoke them either, and the Explorer's panel had already displayed a warning: "Do not provoke elite monsters in the neighborhood."

The older woman looked Lillian up and down, then waved to her old friends who were taking a walk with her.

"Oh my, come and see! A stunningly beautiful woman, a perfect blend of East and West!"

Lillian smiled and said in broken Mandarin, "Thank you, Auntie~"

Soren pulled her away, saying, "You seem quite happy."

"A 'foreign horse' is a compliment, don't you know that as a person of Asian descent?"

"What I mean is, don't waste time!"

Next to the convenience store at the entrance of the residential area.

Soren recounted the whole story to Lillian, but deliberately omitted the conflict between them and Lillian.

"Jump through timelines to solve the problem of 'endlessness'..."

Lillian stroked her chin, her eyes glancing at the yellowish sky.

"The 'Low-Blooded Ones' who escaped death and didn't become players plan to kill themselves again, using a different way of dying as a new storyline to deceive the 'World Tree' and extend a new beginning. You guys are pretty clever. Hey, you're not from my guild?"

"No."

"So that means we have a feud?"

"Okay, let's get down to business."

"You're so serious. I'm at least thirty or forty years older than you. Do I look that serious?"

The shopkeeper chuckled, "Are you kidding me, girl? Where did you get this?"

Lillian laughed and said, "Big brother, you really know how to talk. How about I introduce you to a mistress?"

She actually started chatting with the man at the convenience store.

Soren bought a pack of cigarettes, lit one, and looked at Lillian with suspicion. The woman in front of him was completely different from the wicked woman they knew.

"Let's get down to business..."

"okay."

Lillian looked at the building where Li Nuo lived and then launched into a long speech.

"Back to your plan to deceive the World Tree, since that black marketeer intends to alter the truth of Mr. Li's death, then he must prevent him from dying in order to deceive the World Tree. During the World Tree's repair process, he can use a bug or some mechanism we don't know to become the new administrator. Regardless of his actions, there is a prerequisite for this to succeed: during the period when Mr. Li may have died accidentally, the World Tree's repairs for his supposed accidental death must all fail. In other words, Mr. Li is very clever; he had already rendered the World Tree helpless even before becoming a player."

Lily settled down for a moment and took a bottle of water from the shopkeeper.

"Thank you, brother. Hmm, continue. This is enough to show that it was not an accident that the black marketeer targeted Mr. Li. Rather, it is because this guy's special characteristics are truly unique. In conclusion, the black marketeer must have prepared a lot of backup plans."

She unscrewed the bottle cap and looked at the man at the convenience store.

"What do you think, brother?"

The shopkeeper couldn't hear the conversation about the "World Tree" and the "players"; he could only hear "Mr. Li" and the words about the corridor being repaired.

"Mr. Li...you're quite sharp, aren't you, Li Nuo?"

"Hmm, how is that person?"

"..."

The shopkeeper's frozen expression spoke volumes.

"Looks like I guessed right, he really is a nasty and interesting guy."

Lillian handed the bottle cap to Sauron, inside which was written "One more bottle".

"Before a player dies, they will receive a premonition of death in a dream, which will take place approximately ten days before or after death, but no more than fifteen days. The World Tree's repair time is within this range. If we want Mr. Li to escape death once and then suddenly die again, we need to use a lot of time to go through the cycle of time to do this."

She pointed at herself.

"Let me introduce myself again, Lillian Kem, nicknamed 'Time Witch' in my chuunibyou way. I can turn back time by ten to twenty days without altering the timeline. Although there are significant limitations... I can create plenty of opportunities for you."

Soren used the bottle cap to exchange it for a bottle of water for her, and then opened it and took a sip himself.

"So, three years later, you believe that this matter required a lot of trial and error before you were able to appear."

"I suppose so."

Soren stared at the building, the image of the small house reflected in his glasses.

Li Nuo hasn't returned yet, but there's a strange dark figure in his house.

"Don't look."

Lillian took off his glasses.

"Don't look, don't expose yourself. If you stay by my side, I have enough confidence to keep you from being discovered."

“Hey…” Soren paused for a moment: “You…”

Lillian said, "Since it's a task I set for myself, I will definitely find a way to do it well."

Soren frowned and snatched his glasses back: "Thank you, but I am an Explorer... I don't need protection."

"【Explorer】is a support 【identity ability】, its actual combat strength isn't that strong." Lillian was very curious: "You haven't even broken through level 99, so why are you so powerful? Did a bunch of monsters appear in 'Endless'?"

Soren didn't reply, only saying, "Once this is over, you'd better find a way to forget everything you know now..."

Lillian smiled and nodded: "Don't worry, I have a way."

Soren put on his glasses and read the scene that had just happened in Linuo's room.

"A black shadow appeared, and then... it must have pushed the table aside... Only three seconds, can you retrieve the information?"

[Black marketeer: ???]

"The things from the World Tree are indeed strange..."

Lillian shrugged beside her.

"The World Tree will try to kill Li Nuo in the next few days, but I guess your Mr. Li is too cunning, so he didn't succeed."

She smiled and tapped Soren's cheek.

"Does this old lady want to remind you of something?"

"want."

"As long as Mr. Li is alive, it means that 'Li Nuo's Room' has replaced the existing story. So, we need to make Li Nuo die again in order to start 'The Room of the Warrior of Light'. But if you want to bring the past to the future, you need to make Mr. Li's player career continue as before. So there is a key event that needs to be prepared in advance."

Lillian paused, then said, "Ha~ you know now, right?"

Soren muttered under his breath, "I must make sure Li Nuo dies today so that I can be matched with Marger in the 'newcomer screening.' No... strictly speaking, I must make sure Li Nuo dies within five minutes of not actually dying..."

Li Nuo died unexpectedly in one day...

It’s as difficult as climbing to heaven.

“Wrong!” Lillian frowned. “The most crucial point is not when Mr. Li dies, but that after his death, it means you are attacking the 'World Tree' mechanism. If we want to change the future, we will have to face the attack of the 'Fate Correctors'.”

Soren: "Us?"

Lillian: "Of course it's us. You're like a little chick, so of course I have to protect you."

(End of this chapter)