As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 779 Standing Above the Crowd
Bloodstains were everywhere inside the Undead Asylum, and dead patients were scattered all over the place. The mentally ill natives who were previously imprisoned here had all been killed by the players. However, some staff members and kind-hearted prison guards were not killed and were instead taken care of by the players of "The End".

The ultimate law of the jungle only applies to opponents of equal strength.

The mints were no longer effective at this point.

That concludes the explanation of the main storyline.

Li Nuo and Cha Bai were following Rumi and Jinpula deeper into the Undead Asylum.

"You're saying... Marger came here?"

Li Nuo was dumbfounded.

Butcher Kimpra said, "Three days ago, I saw a car with background music playing slowly on the sea. The driver inside was a headless dog, so we figured out how to catch that dog and bring it in."

“I guess you’re not doing this out of curiosity,” Li Nuo said.

“Ha, I’ve even seen dogs that meow,” Kimpra said. “I’m a cook, and I like to eat dog meat, which is why I caught that dog.”

Rumi, who was walking at the front, said with a smile, "I didn't expect that to be your Captain Ma. Oh, right, that guy came here on purpose. He was afraid that flat-faced alien would come here to die."

Marger is looking for Nanami, which means that Nanami is deliberately avoiding Marger, and to find Nanami, one needs to cater to her preferences.

Nanami's specialty is "hunting players in the End Corridor".

Brother Ma was afraid that Nanami, the silly girl, would have another episode and deliberately cause trouble for "The End," which is why he came to the Northern Immortal Asylum.

Later, the whole thing took a strange turn, leading to "The End" finding their happiness here.

The valve on the upper level of the Undead Asylum was opened, and at the end of the corridor, a "painted world" that looked like a television set hung on the wall.

"right here."

Rumi stood at the door and invited them both in.

"Have you noticed that there are very few of us in the entire Undead Asylum? They're all playing in the paintings."

Li Nuo and Cha Bai were completely dumbfounded.

"Malje...what did he do?"

"First of all, there is a 'picture world' in the Undead Asylum. The ancient gods in that thing can be easily killed by us because we outnumber them. Secondly, it was your Captain Ma who came up with this great idea. The difference between a painting and a television is that the painting is 'moving,' and the picture world is actually a dynamic painting."

While listening to Rumi speak, Li Nuo noticed a stack of CDs placed in the corner.

"Those CDs?"

"Correct."

Rumi nodded with a smile.

“Your Captain Ma is, after all, half a manager. He plans to use us as an experiment to fit the script into the world of the painting, and the medium is these CDs.”

Cha Bai walked over to the CDs, picked them up, and only a "Permissions Insufficient" panel popped up.

"This is for managers only..."

“I know something similar,” Li Nuo said with a smile, “a gadget from ‘Doraemon 2025 Birthday Special: The Secret Treasure of Sky City! ~The Legend of the True Hero~’.”

Cha Bai picked up a CD and frowned, puzzled. "Why would Marger do this?"

Li Nuo raised an eyebrow. Marger did that to lock the madmen of "The End" in the Undead Asylum, stopping them from causing trouble at the source.

You have to understand, no one can lock these guys up unless they want to. You can't believe everything Rumi says. He says the world is dangerous, which is why everyone stays indoors. In reality, the more dangerous it is, the crazier "End" goes.

Additionally, helping to maintain the basic number of "End" players can also be considered as paying off the debt of farming Demon God Black Cards.

In the future, the two most needed sources of support for counterattacking judges are "emptiness" and "the end".

As for the CDs left by Marche.

This is an experimental disc used by the managers and corridor staff when creating the script.

"Although there is a script here, there are no rewards and many restrictions, but there are various styles of worlds, which we find very interesting."

As Rumi spoke, he pointed to the corridor behind him.

A sense of danger permeated the Northern Undead Asylum.

“We’ve been suppressing our own killing intent, you know? We can make money by killing our own people, but as long as someone makes a move, it will end up with only a few people left alive. The discs that you managers gave us solved our problem. We can play in experimental scenarios, which is honestly much more interesting than doing the main storyline.”

Rumi crossed his arms, tilted his head back, and smiled.

"Haha, we all want to join your 'Redemption'. Once your managers are officially promoted, remember to let us know, and we 'End' will be able to spare at least a hundred people to join you."

Therefore, Marger's true purpose was to preach.

"Where did Marger go after that?" Cha Bai asked.

"I don't know. He left after settling the experimental deal with us. I heard he also captured the Blood Emperor of 'Empty'."

Rumi shrugged, then rummaged through a pile of CDs in the trash and pulled out a CD labeled "Gift to Wang Lun," which he handed to Li Nuo.

"When Marger left, he told us that if we came to cause trouble, he would let us in to have some fun, saying it was a gift for us."

Li Nuo took the CD.

The world depicted in the painting at the Undead Asylum has been transformed into a television, a collaborative effort between End and Marger. By simply holding the disc in front of the painting and silently saying "Enter," one can enter the world corresponding to the disc.

"Then... let's go in."

Li Nuo was sucked into the painting.

The CD in his hand fell to the ground.

There was a flash of white light.

What comes into view is blue sky and white clouds, as well as a bustling traffic.

Li Nuo looked around curiously. The place seemed familiar, much like the world he lived in, but the culture was clearly different.

Passersby looked at his clothes with strange eyes. Li Nuo smelled of dirt, and many people avoided him with disgust.

This is an experimental script.

A red panel suddenly appeared that was not created by the staff.

All the CDs are simulated worlds for training the "staff." Everything in these worlds is not real, and there are no results or scripts. They are meant to familiarize the work team with their tasks.

As the chosen experimenter, please remember that death here means real death, but our mission will be simple.

[Mission issued: Please watch the story unfolding on the overpass]

"viaduct……"

Li Nuo looked into the distance and saw an overpass under construction, with a group of people gathered around it.

A girl stood on the bridge; she had red eyes and wore blood-red earrings.

Sand feather.

Li Nuo walked over, looked in that direction, and twitched his ears. He could hear sounds that ordinary people couldn't hear.

Everyone thought Sawa was going to jump off the bridge, but the girl was just waiting for someone.

Suddenly, static appeared on the screen.

Marger stood next to Sand Feather.

The two didn't say a word, but silently hugged each other, while onlookers cheered.

Li Nuo, however, had a look on his face that said, "Are you sick in the head?"

At this moment, Sayu moved her face away from Marger's shoulder and looked at Li Nuo. Her earrings had changed from red to blue.

"what happened?"

"Majer asked in a bubble-like voice."

Sha Yu shook her head, then pointed at Li Nuo.

Why is that person carrying a coffin on the street?

Marger also saw Li Nuo.

"It's just a dog."

[Task completed]

Li Nuo emerged from the painting, and Cha Bai and Lu Mi both noticed that his expression was somewhat gloomy.

"Aaaaaaah!"

Li Nuo swung the box he was carrying, ready to smash the painting.

Cha Bai quickly hugged him from behind, pulling him along and asking, "What did you see?!" Li Nuo: "That Malje just wanted to call me a dog!"

……

January 2, 1888, courtroom.

Li Nuo gripped his hair, grinding his teeth, a fierce rage bursting from his eyes.

Blackie was very curious: "So what exactly is this Malger thing?"

Xiao Wu forced a smile: "Damn it, so filthy..."

Although the Bayer Kinworth delegation present didn't understand Marger, they at least knew that the Northern Undead Asylum was now quite secure, and that was enough.

Xiao Wu patted Li Nuo's head: "Hurry up and get down to business, I really can't stand Amuro anymore."

……

Let's go back to February 30, 1887.

Immortal courtyard.

It took Li Nuo a long time to calm down.

Cha Bai patted Li Nuo on the back to help him catch his breath, then turned to look at Lu Mi.

"Now can we talk about the issue of Aita and Pippen?"

"of course."

Rumi took out two CDs.

"Malger left behind several experimental scripts, and most of us are on these two CDs."

Excluding those who died in the infighting, the Undead Asylum now has 875 players, with 92 having left. The remaining players are preparing for the next possible scenario.

It split into two factions.

One side fights for ownership of resources by team, which is basically dividing up territory in a world and waging a territorial war involving 25 guilds and 669 people.

Among these, some people can be selected at any time and sent to another disc, the Wheel Battle Arena, which can be used to accumulate power and break through level 99.

The idiotic couple is on the second disc.

"That powerful couple who could crush me into a meat patty are now the prizes on that disc."

Aita and Pippen, individually, each possess a combat strength of approximately 0.92 to 0.98 Nanami.

If the two of them fight together, it would be roughly equivalent to: (Linuo + Sauron) x 1.05.

The couple obediently became spoils of war for two reasons: firstly, they were cowards, and secondly, they believed that as long as they were spoils, "End" and "Void" would not actually fight. In order to prevent bloodshed, they were willing to sacrifice themselves.

"That's a bit too much..." Li Nuo remarked.

“I think so too,” Rumi nodded.

"But... how are they going to make their spoils?" Cha Bai asked curiously.

"You'll understand once you go in..." Rumi didn't want to say more; after all, he was a member of "The End" and couldn't be too treacherous.

Li Nuo's caution prevented him from agreeing casually.

But Rumi already knew what kind of person he was.

“We at ‘The End’ firmly believe in the law of the jungle, so if you have the ability to go in and cause trouble, you have to have the ability to come out on your own.”

Li Nuo felt somewhat relieved after hearing these remarks.

Cha Bai's eyes lit up when he realized the disc contained an arena where people could fight.

"I'm sorry, this arena disc only allows one person to enter at a time. You can go in, but I'll need to find someone to burn a disc, but that guy..."

Rumi pointed to his head.

"Li Nuo, you just smashed his head in."

The player who attacked Cha Bai was in charge of burning the disc. Li Nuo's lips twitched. Since Cha Bai couldn't get in anyway, that was even better. He didn't want Cha Bai to get involved.

So, under Cha Bai's displeased gaze, Li Nuo activated the disc and entered the world within the painting.

……

The glow of candlelight shone in the darkness.

As soon as Li Nuo landed, an arrow appeared on the ground in front of him, splitting in front of him, binding him, and pulling him into the air.

"It's Li Nuo."

The voice belonged to a woman.

As her voice rang out, several dark figures flickered in the firelight in the distance.

"Oh no, the strongest one has arrived!"

Want to have a one-on-one fight?

"Of course, we have to use a series of attacks to fight him."

How about we listen to his demands first?

"Let's postpone the next match for now and let him play first."

The monsters standing at the very top of the corridor were being greeted by a monster even more audacious than themselves.

A blinding spotlight shone on Li Nuo.

The lights in the stands around the arena illuminated the players sitting in their seats, as well as the Undead Asylum staff who had been brought into the world of the painting.

The group of players erupted in a thunderous roar.

"They're here! They're here! It's Li Nuo!"

"This kid defeated the Scholar!"

"Who would dare take his bounty!"

"Let him kill me! I want to die a fun death!"

Their eyes gleamed with a wild hunger in the dim light, and what rolled out of their throats was not a shout, but a noise somewhere between a roar and a howl, like a million hungry wolves howling at the blood moon.

The air was thick with the smells of sweat, alcohol, and rust; every breath felt like inhaling a scorching knife.

The roar from the audience instantly transformed into a near-religious, fanatical whisper.

The arena's roof slowly opened, revealing a giant holographic projection above, featuring a sun pattern.

The sun opened its mouth.

"Welcome to our guests at the 'Solar Arena'."

"Let us praise the sun!"

The audience erupted in a roar, their voices surging like waves that crashed against the walls of the arena, shaking the dust on the sand.

Only a few players standing at a distance stared at Li Nuo without saying a word, as if they were looking at a product.

At this moment, Li Nuo's gaze was fixed on the only special terrace in the audience seating area.

There sat a man in full armor, wearing the helmet of the Sun Knight. He was from Dark Souls and his name was "Sun Knight" Solaire.

Although Li Nuo didn't know what had happened, the facts showed that Solar was the true owner of this place.

The players all obeyed him.

And this Solar also has a special identity.

The body that Li Nuo was asked to find his son has been found; it is Solal, the one wearing a helmet. The boy was possessed by Solal's soul and became the Undead Asylum steward, whom all the players of "The End" were willing to respect.

At this moment, the sun emblem on the ceiling spoke again.

"New friend, are you prepared to be a spectator, or become a challenger and risk your life for the reward you desire?"

Li Nuo, who was tied to the arrow, took a deep breath and then shouted loudly at all the players and natives in the audience.

"I'm taking Aita and Pippen with me, and I'm also taking Solar the Sun Knight. One-on-one, a tag team, or all at once, I don't care! You set the rules, and when you're ready, make your move! You self-proclaimed mad idiots!"

The arena suddenly fell silent.

Li Nuo's hat fell from his head, and the moment the felt hat hit the ground, the players erupted in the wildest roar.

(End of this chapter)