First Player

Fortunately, Su Mingan did not die. Instead, he mutated. He gained a hint of darkness and his physique became stronger. It's just the dark aura on his body that always makes NPCs subconsciously vigilant.

After the double blow of the virus infection and Yueyue's sacrifice, Su Mingan in this world line became cautious and gloomy.

Due to the bonus of this dark aura, his hidden profession is no longer "White Trial", but a dark profession.

Su Ming'an in this timeline is similar to what Su Ming'an himself encountered: the United Group targeted him, Edward hunted him, humans did not trust him, and adventure players wanted to challenge him. But the only difference is... the dark aura on his body makes even NPCs who are supposed to be friendly start to be afraid of him.

In the fifth world, when he wanted to join the revolutionary army, he found two mortal enemies who hated the Holy Master, waiting for him in the revolutionary army's tent.

"I have long heard that you are nearby. I caught you, Holy Master." The two enemies smiled: "You deserve to die because you have the aura of an evil dragon on your body."

Su Mingan stood at the door of the tent. At this moment, almost all the blood in his body froze.

...He gave the Revolutionary Army technology, helped them build barriers, and saved many people by bleeding.

As a result... they sold him back to their enemies.

It's just because the dark aura on him is the same as the aura of an evil dragon.

——How can ignorant people understand that this is the aura that comes with the profession?

——They believe that how can a person who is an evil dragon save the world that is about to fall into evil?

In the past, it was Shengqi who covered up the evil dragon aura on Qinwang's body and hid the truth with silence. But this dark aura comes from Su Mingan's profession and cannot be hidden.

It is impossible for the regular army and the revolutionary army to understand each other, and the truth cannot be communicated to each other unless it is truly realized.

Su Mingan was speechless and couldn't explain.

"I am here to save you...to save you!!"

No one believed a boy's words.

"Why is it just because of a breath... just because of the breath... I have done so much..."

He struggled violently. The third enemy suddenly appeared, grabbed his wrist tightly, and stabbed his shoulder with a sharp blade, making him unable to move in pain.

——Why is there a third one...

The enemy squatted down with a smile, wiped the blood off his face, and said almost jokingly:

"...Why, haven't you seen three people?"

These malicious words were firmly imprinted in his heart, as if they were mocking his naivety.

The last bit of kindness in his heart was shattered.

He finally realized that...there are some things that are innate, which are a person's original sin. Maybe he shouldn't have saved so many people in the first world. If he didn't save so many people, he wouldn't be infected with the zombie virus. If you are not infected with the zombie virus, your body will not mutate, and you will not have this lingering dark aura...

He does good deeds that have nothing to do with himself. In the end, no one was grateful to him, and those who were rescued stared at him in horror.

He should have died then.

Maybe he died then.

It's just that death has continued until now.

What happened after that was extremely horrific.

These three people obviously hated the Holy Master, and I wonder if Qin Wang had any grudge against them before. But now it's Su Mingan's turn to bear the hatred of his predecessors.

"Look at this guy...only water can wash away your sins!"

"Our world is like this because of you!"

"You paid so much just to repay your original sin, because it was all your fault!"

He wanted to say that it wasn't him, but all the people with abilities.

But people who are angry will not listen to the truth.

They pushed him into the water and lifted him up when he was about to drown. Then he gradually cut off his hand tendons and hamstrings and cut his flesh with a razor blade. With each cut, he burst into hearty laughter. The blood stained the clothes red and even the carpet lost its color.

The severe pain made every second extremely long, and he kept praying... If anyone could save him, anyone could...

Every second, every second, he repeated it in his mind. He has saved so many people... He has done so many good things... Even if there is only one favored person... please save him.

The white tower in my heart is on the verge of collapse. He could only recite his desire to redeem Zhai Xing over and over again, again, and again. Because he was afraid that if he was not firm enough, he would be defeated by the never-ending pain and torture, and he would start to be afraid to go on. Because something like this... will definitely happen more than once later.

Where there is one there are two.

At this time...even if it is just a person, what he has seen so far is mostly fear, fear, rejection and cold looks, an overwhelming amount of malice...At least for now, please give him a little bit of kindness so that he can Just keep at it…

A little bit of kindness... is good too.

But,

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No.

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Not all the time.

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Until the blood was almost gone, no hand reached out to him.

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On the hillside, the team of players who came to deliver props looked left and right, but did not find Su Ming'an.

"Hey...didn't someone see the first player nearby? Where did he go?" The fat man in the team lowered his head regretfully.

"The mental recovery potion we carefully prepared cannot be delivered to him..." The girl pursed her lips: "There are also various small gifts for him..."

"What a pity, where has he gone..."

They didn't know that in the forest next to them, just a few steps away... Su Mingan was inside, and they could even smell the smell of blood. The blood spread along the tent, and every inch was shockingly beautiful.

Everyone in the team shook their heads and left with regret.

Of course,

...The idealists who endured suffering also failed to wait for his light.

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At the last moment, the three people knew the seriousness and spared his life.

After escaping, Su Mingan completely changed.

He is no longer silent, no longer gloomy, and always has a joking smile on his face.

The audience discussed for a long time, but they didn't know why he had changed so much. In the end, it was attributed to his becoming more optimistic.

He doesn't seem to care about anything and even finds most things fun. Whenever you encounter moral kidnapping, just say that you have no morals.

"I am free." He said with a smile on his face: "If you want to save, I will save. If you don't want to save, none of you can force me."

This kind of attitude makes it easier for people to accept him - because saints are often ostracized, and people easily think that saints are "unsociable", "hypocritical" and "unrealistic", but now such a flesh-and-blood image is more in line with human selfishness The nature of self-interest and self-interest.

"I'm telling you! This is what the first player is like!" They laughed, feeling satisfied:

"That's good! Like a normal person."

"I finally stopped pretending. I've been wearing a mask of kindness before. Aren't you tired? He saved many NPCs before, but they all treated him coldly. I feel tired just watching him."

they do not know.

Su Mingan didn't take off the mask, but... put on the mask.

A more "safe" mask.

The ideal in his heart remains unwavering. But the others... he couldn't care anymore. Those unimportant things and unimportant people... He can no longer invest his emotions in them. Because there will be no reward, but it will easily drag yourself into the abyss.

He had stepped on the mud.

Stepping on the mud woven by human nature.

Malice pulled at his neck and turned into a thread. If you raise your head slightly and look at the light in the distance, the threads will tighten, and you will feel suffocated and stinging.

He captured the three enemies, but did not inflict the same torture on them, but simply killed them.

If you want to be bad, you people go ahead and be as bad as you want. Don't try to drag me down.

I do not care.

Apart from that final wish... I don't care about anything else.

He put on a joking smile and sat on the throne, no one could hear his voice.

"I don't know what else to do."

"I really have... tried my best."

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Maybe evil people do take to the water.

Later, he still suffered a lot of attacks because of the dark aura. For example, being held in a river and having her skin cut off was called "purification," having dozens of nails driven through her body was called "judgment," and being tied to a cross and burned by tens of thousands of people was called "witch." , watching his skin and flesh fester little by little...

There was almost no clean spot on the body, and no good piece of meat.

…but so what?

He smiled silently, still with a cynical smile on his face.

...He doesn't care.

right.

He doesn't care.

Anyway, at the end of each copy, he will be treated and everything will be as new as before, as if there has never been a wound on his body.

In this way, he will think that he has never been hurt, and then continue to walk down with a smile...

To meet the next world, the new evil from the world.

Being ostracized, blamed, having their bones broken, being burned... He looked at their ugly faces with a smile, and then offered them salvation without a care.

——I want to save you, but what does that have to do with you? Do you think I care about you? No.

——My bones are broken only by my ideals, and my flesh and blood are burned only by my will.

In the seventh world, Noel still disappeared due to the erosion of the sea monster. In the ninth world, Su Mingan didn't care at all when faced with Edward's difficulties. Because he didn't let Yueyue go to the battlefield at all, so there was no third-line deadlock.

After the ninth world ended, the organizer had a secret chat with him, and both parties smiled with satisfaction.

After that, he called himself——[Shadow].

The deepest, most terrifying and profound "malice" became him.

He said,

"People who live under the shadow should have such a name."

"It would be too tiring if everyone lived in the light."

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Su Mingan's eyes returned to darkness.

He looked at the vastness of the universe and the rotation of stars.

Two figures, one light and one shadow, walked forward step by step on the stream of the long river of time.

Walking through the world of green mountains and green waters, walking through the magnificent blue-purple sky, walking through the burning heaven, walking through the broken cloud city, walking through the spring day when white birds fly.

——Until we reach the tenth world.

Their figures suddenly disappeared, as if they had collided head-on with Su Mingan himself.

Endless "possibilities" were intertwined at this moment, like billions of threads penetrating his body.

At this moment, Su Mingan saw countless futures that had never happened, not only his, but also other people's.

He saw the white-haired tramp walking between the bridge holes in despair, with no light in his eyes.

He saw Yueyue turning the sword and pointing the tip at him.

He saw Su Luoluo laughing and jumping off the tall building in the heavy rain.

He saw Chao Yan being burned to death on the cross.

He saw Jamel Xiao covering his chest, blood flowing out of his heart.

——That is the "truth" that has not happened yet, and it is also the "falseness" that has been abandoned by the timeline.

Then he saw Noel.

The young man with flowing blond hair was walking on the covered bridge of Bairi Floating City. The white bird was perched on his shoulder. He leaned his head slightly, and the white feather gently rubbed his face.

The red aristocratic robe was slightly raised, like a butterfly fluttering in the wind. The blue rose cane in his hand was gleaming with the color of the sun, and the high heels made the sound of jade.

The blond boy walked towards him like this.

——This is the first meeting between the first player and the second player.

Behind is the sky, the blue sea, and the long river.

The young man has an elegant posture.

The blue line of cause and effect overlapped between them - Noel Akini came towards him.

He saw countless "futures" for Noel Akinni.

Even though he is a genius with great wisdom, things are not always smooth sailing for Noel.

Noel is dead.

In many "futures" - Noel is dead.

He might have died from Minghui Shengqi's attack, he might have died from the human sea tactics in White Sand Paradise, or he might have died from the nuclear explosion in the ruined world. There were so many deaths - Su Mingan saw thousands of Noer's corpses, piled up around him in layers.

Noel died, but did not return to the world of the Lord God. Instead, he heard a voice in the distant starry sky.

——[Come to me. Noor Akinni].

——[Embrace high dimensions and become the freest adventurer].

Noel smiled, not panicking, and asked - [Who are you? 】

The voice answered—

【I am you. 】

[I am you - the union of all "futures" (mathematical meaning). 】

[In the observation of billions of world lines, all the "you" who died halfway overlap and become me. 】

【I am Gao Wei. To be precise...I am the original "you". 】

Noel laughed - [You want to say... the world line I am in actually does not exist. Is it just the reflection you observed? 】

The voice also laughed - [No, in fact it will exist, but when it finally "comes together" to the truth, we will find the most perfect answer. Countless dividing lines will converge to one point - that is the essence of my existence. I am the union of your success and failure (mathematical meaning)]

Noel said - [In other words, there is only one world line that actually happened, and the rest of the world lines are fill-ins at the end? They exist and they do not exist. 】

The voice said - [Exactly. 】

Noel said - [Can I know which world line is the real one? 】

The voice said with a smile - [This is the one I am observing. Noel, when you come back, I will "contain" you. When you return to me, you will see that world line, which has already occurred in the tenth world. 】

Noel said - [The Noel in that world line is the real me? 】

The voice said - [Yes. That is the real, absolute existence. Noor Akinni is the only one. Su Mingan is also the only one. They are all real. As for your divided world lines, they will eventually be converged. Your world lines have not really happened. You are still in the state of Schrödinger, but you have just gathered into me. 】

[I am Noel, but I am not Noel. I am the rubbing of countless "futures" for you. I am a certain kind of you who chooses to ascend to another dimension, and I am also countless kinds of you who die halfway through your fate. 】

Noel said - [Then what is the significance of these empty world lines? 】

The voice laughed out loud - ["Nothingness" itself has no meaning, it just exists. But "existence" itself is meaning. I can't say more about your question. We will all know when the World Game continues. 】

Noel said - [Are there many people like you? 】

The voice said - [No more. You are special, Noel. Only you have the strong desire to ascend to higher dimensions, which creates my "possibility". 】

"Noel" didn't quite understand, but he didn't say much and just asked the last question - [What's your name? 】

The voice replied - [You can call me Xiao A, this nickname comes from your name. As for what others call me...]

He finally revealed the meaning of His name.

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【——I am countless overlapping figures of "you". So, others call me——】

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[——"die, shadow". 】

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