As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 776 Welcome to the End

To extort money from the "Hall of Emptiness," you must first leave the world within the painting.

It's not difficult to get out of the world in the painting; the problem is how to get back.

Li Nuo sat on a folding stool pondering the problem, but eventually gave up. At worst, he wouldn't come back. There was no need to come back if he couldn't find Cain, and besides, there were more solutions than problems.

“Amuro, take me to the Northern Undead Asylum.”

Faced with Li Nuo's request, Amuro kept his back to him and refused to look at him until a moment later when he turned around tremblingly, his eyes filled with helplessness.

"I do not want."

"what?"

Li Nuo was shocked; Amuro would actually refuse someone.

"Li Nuo, I don't want to go there!"

“Wait! Why are you going there?!” Miaham asked.

Li Nuo said matter-of-factly, "Of course it's to get back the 'Sun Knight's Helmet'."

Miaham walked over, puzzled, clutching his chest, and said anxiously to them, "The Northern Undead Asylum is the most dangerous asylum on the continent of Pumeru! It's a forbidden zone where a curse exists, and even the best hunters can't enter."

Upon hearing this, the corpse whose son worked at the Northern Undead Asylum became agitated. He rushed over, stammering, "My son clearly said it was a great job... how could it be so dangerous? Didn't he say..."

"Feel sorry……"

Miaham shook his head at the corpse with a serious expression.

"The publicity is indeed good, but there are problems there. I can't say whether your son is still alive there, but he certainly wouldn't be doing very well."

The corpse was a father who loved his son, so he knelt on the ground. His rotting lower limbs could not support his body, and the rotten flesh of his lower body was spilled all over the ground. He wanted to cry, but the corpse had no tear ducts.

"What if he's still alive?"

Li Nuo stared with dead fish eyes and said something that was completely unlike him.

"Let me see if I can find out your son's name and what he looks like."

Li Nuo habitually took out paper and pen.

The corpse was too agitated and grief-stricken to speak, so the village chief, who had been killed by his son, helped to explain.

"Brown curly hair, a thick beard, and slanted eyebrows... um... a beauty mark under the eye, is that right?"

The moment the village chief finished speaking, Li Nuo had already sketched the person.

Miaham, standing behind, had a bright look in his eyes.

"Sir...you're even so accomplished in the arts?"

Li Nuo didn't care about such praise.

He painted so well that he could practically be considered a painter in this era. The corpses had a new definition for this "necromancer" who could resurrect them: a somewhat perverted painter.

Li Nuo put the sketch into the mask.

[Side quest triggered: Find the old father's son]

[Quest Difficulty: lv1~lv200]

[Quest Reward: Yharnam's Secret Treasure Key]

[Mission Details: The reason this mission has such a wide range of difficulty levels depends on how you solve it. The Northern Undead Asylum is now the territory of the "Corridor of the End." If you are sure you want to enter that demonic cave, you need to be prepared to face nine hundred real monsters. There may be other ways, but I can tell you that the child this old father is looking for is still alive.]

The Northern Undead Institution is probably the most dangerous place in the world right now.

"Amuro, are you sure you don't want to go?"

Li Nuo asked again.

"Don't go."

Amuro shook his head, then leaned closer to Lino and whispered in his ear.

"I'd rather die than go. I've finally managed to avoid becoming someone who's 'the end,' please let me go."

If Amuro dares to go back, he'll probably never escape again; the Northern Undead Asylum is that dangerous.

Li Nuo could understand him. Moreover, Amuro might seem like a saint, but he is a true saint. If given a few more days, he might actually be able to transform Yharnam into a kind and simple place.

"Xiao Wu, let's go."

"Don't go."

Xiao Wu's reasons for refusing were even stronger.

"The psychological trauma from Baicheng is too great; I don't want to go back to the 'End' headquarters."

Since things have come to this point, Li Nuo sees no need to insist.

But Xiao Wu has something more important to do.

"Li Nuo, come here."

She pulled Li Nuo aside and whispered a woman's intuition to him.

"That girl named Miaham might have taken a liking to you."

Miaham secretly glanced at Li Nuo from a distance.

"I know."

"If Cha Bai finds out..."

"It's her business if she likes me, it's none of my business."

Li Nuo's tone was as natural as someone eating when they're hungry; he was destined to be completely detached from the "harem."

"Then you go there yourself?"

"Well, it's just me. I don't really need to bring anything."

The only thing that needed to be taken out was the two thousand nine hundred blood gems, which Li Nuo had already tied with thin thread and put into the four-dimensional space bag. The purpose of tying the thread was to prevent the blood gems from getting lost inside the four-dimensional space bag.

At that moment, Mr. Derby waved to Lino.

"How are you going to leave here? Theoretically, it's impossible to leave this place."

"Oh... I should be able to leave."

Li Nuo took out the "Black Goat's Fingernail" and disappeared from everyone's sight in a flash.

Mr. Derby stood there, stunned: "To be honest... this guy's skills are just ridiculously amazing..."

Miaham nodded with a smile: "Of course!"

Xiao Wu sensed that Miaham was already planning to die.

The corpses fell to the ground after Li Nuo left, and Amuro put them back into the grave.

"All right."

Amuro stretched.

"Since Li Nuo isn't here, let's save Yharnam next."

……

January 2, 1888, courtroom.

Xiao Wu sat in a chair, covering her face with one hand.

"Working under a saint is really unbearable... I don't want to talk about what happened next. Li Nuo, you can talk about your side."

Xiao Wu interrupted Li Nuo's teleportation, just as he also had a problem.

Tell me about the Northern Undead Asylum.

Blackie and her team had become the "Redemption Corridor's" local intelligence agents, and they quickly explained the situation at the Undead Asylum.

There are two types of prisoners on the continent of Sumeru.

One type of criminal is those who know what they are doing; most of them are imprisoned in the harsh environment of the Cold Rift Valley, which is here.

Another type is the weirdo who thinks it's justified to break the law. Most of them have been corrupted by the ancient gods and can no longer be considered human beings. If they are locked up in normal prisons, their individual influence on others will spread rapidly like the curse of the ancient gods, and all living people will be cursed. These people are placed in the Northern Undead Asylum.

The official explanation is that the Undead Asylum is a mental health facility, and its inner workings cannot be revealed to the public.

This explains why Miaham was so worried when he learned that Lino and the others were going to the Northern Undead Asylum.

Sister Hei took a sip of water to moisten her throat.

"So Miaham really has taken a liking to you?"

"There is something in the words."

Li Nuo gestured with his chin towards Sister Hei.

"explain."

“I don’t know Miaham. I just checked her records. This girl is strangely powerful. There shouldn’t be such a powerful human in our world.”

Blackie wasn't saying that Miaham had a problem with her humanity, but rather that she suspected the girl's origins might come from the conjunction of the celestial spheres or something else.

Xiao Wu squinted and raised her hands.

"Alright, alright, I understand. I'll keep an eye on that girl. Please tell Li Nuo the information he needs as soon as possible. I need Li Nuo back as soon as possible. I really can't stand Amuro."

"That's all for the Undead Asylum in the North." Blackie glanced at Lenny, who nodded and stepped forward.

"I have some news here. A group of strange guys want to destroy the Northern Undead Asylum with a 'continent-destroying weapon'."

Lenny turned on his watch screen, which displayed a report from someone named "Crusel," a player from "The Corridor of the Sky." The report indicated that "The Sky" was currently focusing its efforts on eliminating "The End" inside the Northern Undead Asylum.

However, it is clear that the "Sky Corridor" plan was interfered with because the idiot couple were imprisoned in the "Northern Undead Asylum" and became hostages.

"Hmm... I think I understand."

Li Nuo crossed his legs and continued his story.

……

After returning to the dream using "the black goat's fingernail," Li Nuo was dumbfounded.

Their dreamland has become "Hunter's Dreamland".

Moonlight bathed a towering Gothic cottage, the entire building gleaming with a cold light, like a shadow growing from the depths of a dream.

The sea of ​​flowers swayed in the moonlight.

They spread endlessly, flooding the paths and clinging to the tombstones, like some kind of living thing, trembling gently in the night wind, making a soft, almost whispering rustling sound.

Li Nuo felt as if he had returned to his original main space when he first became a player.

The long path is lined with tombstones.

Victor is using his computer to send a message to the tombstone.

He took off his gloves after seeing Li Nuo.

"Brother Li, doesn't this place look familiar?"

"Hmm... I almost thought time had reversed..."

Li Nuo looked around.

There were many mechanical life forms moving bricks.

They are busy building the entire area.

The tamed black goat and Rugal were eating by the roadside, with a blueprint on the table beside their food. The two of them were working even while eating, as if they had fallen in love with their jobs.

"Victor... Old Victor, what's going on?"

"I am the designer, the black goat is the engineer, Rugal is the recorder, and the mechanical lifeforms are the construction workers."

Victor tapped the target in front of him, and the tombstone displayed blank information like a computer screen.

“Brother Ma’s permissions can be used here. In other words, we are trying to create a gathering area.”

Soon, tombstones will appear in shopping malls.

Li Nuo's lips were trembling.

He genuinely hadn't expected this turn of events.

"Can you teleport?"

Victor used his computer to remotely control the device and opened the information panel of any tombstone.

"Rugal and Black Goat have already prepared the teleportation instructions, but you need to enter your personal information first."

Lino looked at Black Goat and Rugal, who were greeting him when they saw him return.

A sense of guilt arose in Li Nuo's heart.

He had originally planned to stew the black goat sometime... to make a soup with that super ninja turtle, and use the extra meat for barbecue, but now... forget it.

Li Nuo entered the information into the tombstone, and the personal information entry was completed.

The black goat is responsible for "leaving the dream".

[Rugal is in charge of "teleporting locations"]

You can teleport to any "key area" you've visited, but it will cost 5 attribute points.

"Old Wei...it's so expensive."

Faced with Li Nuo's complaints, Victor shrugged helplessly.

"There's nothing we can do. After all, it's a newly established fake community. You'd better use it later; we still need to optimize it."

"Where's Lao Ma?"

"Brother Ma has run away."

Victor gave a brief account of Marger's situation.

Because Li Nuo sent Nanami to assassinate the group of players with special abilities, Marje was worried about Nanami and ran away.

"Damn it..." Li Nuo thought to himself, "The world is going to be in trouble."

He realized that Marger was finally going to make a move against the Old Gods of Bloodborne.

The "Redemption Corridor" is theoretically led by three leaders: Lino, Soren, and Malger.

Each of the three has their own storyline, and Li Nuo, in order to cover for those two, now has to become the troublemaker.

Back to the present.

The way to leave the painted world is just like now. The first step is to return to their dream world using the "Black Goat's Fingernail". However, this item can only be used to teleport between the two points in the dream world. Then, the second step is needed. Once Li Nuo leaves the painted world, he can contact Cha Bai.

Use the communicator to contact Cha Bai and ask him to return to the place where he is struggling to get to the Dreamland.

1887 11 Month 23 Day.

Cha Bai finally returned to the city where the Moon Goddess embryo was killed, which was also the place in the dream world where Li Nuo and the others were hiding.

"I have arrived."

She contacted Li Nuo, and as soon as she finished speaking, Li Nuo came out of her underwear.

Teleportation Rune

I first learned alchemical runes in the "Vaporwave" scenario. Back then, runes could only be used twice before they became unusable.

As the "spiritual power" increases, it is now possible to refill cups infinitely, but the cooldown time is extremely long.

This move is similar to "Flying Thunder God," but Li Nuo used it in an extremely underhanded way.

"Luckily, my underwear has the 'no exposure' tag... Li Nuo."

Cha Bai instinctively covered her skirt.

An old woman on the roadside stared in disbelief, thinking she had seen a giant, clothed baby rising up in the street, carrying a coffin, as if it had prepared for both life and death.

Li Nuo got up from the ground, cupped Cha Bai's face, and bit down on it.

A little farewell is better than a wedding.

"So what do we need to do?"

After he finished sucking, Cha Bai asked him.

"The Northern Immortal Asylum".

Getting to the Northern Immortals' Asylum is very troublesome.

The continent of Pumeru is too vast, the environment in the Undead Asylum is harsh, and the world's strength is relatively high. Players also need to be wary of sneak attacks, so caution is required throughout the journey.

They chose to ride the hammer there.

……

An isolated island in the north of the mainland.

A mental hospital stands on this huge island.

It seemed to stand at the edge of the world, with high walls soaring into the clouds like an iron curtain, their surfaces covered with rusty, thorny electric fences.

A sign on the dilapidated gate reads: "The 'patients' inside are waiting for you."

The headmaster was made into a balloon and floated above, his eyes placed in his own hands, gazing at the Undead Asylum.

The courtyard has been decorated in the style of a chapel.

The most dangerous eight hundred pairs of eyes roamed the corridors.

This group of players from "The End" took over the asylum, and the noise and commotion spread deep into the asylum.

At the end of the quiet corridor, there is a painting that looks just like a television.

The painting depicts a colorful stage, resembling a fighting arena.

This "world within a painting" has been occupied by "the end".

The area depicted in the painting has been transformed into a gathering place exclusively for those in the "Corridor of the End," where they can enjoy happiness.

A player wearing a baseball cap walked out of the Undead Asylum and waved to the players inside. Several other players like him also walked out of the Asylum.

They took down the sign for "Northern Undead Asylum".

It has been changed to "Welcome to the End".

(End of this chapter)