First Player

Chapter 1381 Chapter 33· "I made an eternal promise with spring."

——Noel Akini went to the stars.

He ran towards the ethereal spring.

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Su Ming'an put away all his gaffes, all his attempts to hold back, and all his weakness. His gaze quickly turned indifferent when looking at Noel.

It's not a big deal.

But in this world, no one knows the secret language between souls, no one can know his death wish without words, and can take him out of the quagmire of time.

There is no longer anyone waiting downstream of the long river of time, waiting for him with a cane at the beginning and end of time.

No one is passing strawberry pudding on top of the wild goose anymore, looking at the sunflowers all over the mountains and plains.

No one is standing in the spotlight anymore, humming a song and walking towards the organizer, leaving him to rest behind the sun.

Between thousands of possibilities, millions of roads, millions of strangers, millions of confusing options... Su Mingan only dared to believe in the truth of Noel.

Now, the friend who once took him to the amusement park overturned the building block castle he built with his own hands.

Su Ming'an could understand Noel's thoughts, which were completely reasonable, inevitable, irreversible, and unchangeable - this was the most fatal part.

"Best friends are real, cooperation is real, anchors are real, bonds are real... leaving is also real." He said softly.

Everything is stable, real, and irreversible. No one has done anything wrong. No matter how we try to save things, things are destined to slip to this point.

Su Mingan admitted that along the way, he had only been thinking about his ideal - to protect Zhai Xing. And what's more, he doesn't dare to think about it, and he can't think about it. Just to do this one thing, it already requires all the energy and price. He bet on his future, on his power, on his whole self...

He couldn't even think about whether there could be parallel worlds and whether this was an endless reincarnation. Could it be that if you follow your own ideas and go all the way to the end, you will get a happy ending where everyone goes home?

The probability is not high.

The ending answer given by Shen Ming'an means that at least Noel's ending will not be the best.

But Su Mingan can't think too far ahead. He values ​​his hometown and old friends more than anything else, including his own future and life. As long as there is still hope for the final result, even if it is just a glimmer of hope, he will always move towards this glimmer of hope.

Noel, on the other hand, wants to be more greedy and long-term, and his eyes are on the entire universe - for him, he wants to find the ultimate solution to all problems, and he is more afraid than Su Mingan of this endless quagmire of reincarnation. He was curious about where Su Ming'an's authority came from, but he did not dare to put all his hope in Su Ming'an's authority.

Therefore, in order to realize a more greedy and grand blueprint - Noel must choose to leave Zhai Xing and go to high dimensions. Only by giving up his weak human body can he climb to a higher level. There must be a price for this trip. He can't take the entire Zhai star with him. This planet is too heavy. He cannot allow himself to sit on pins and needles here, waiting hopelessly until he becomes corrupted.

- Just like the trolley problem.

Facing the approaching tram, Su Mingan's idea was to catch it with himself and die again and again. As long as he piled up enough corpses, the tram would stop.

But Noel's thought was, even if the tram was stopped once, so what? There will be a second tram, a third tram... The speed at which they pile up the bodies may not be able to keep up with the speed at which new trams can be dispatched. So Noel will decisively leave the track, go to the end of the track, find the person who sent the tram, and completely terminate the new tram. The price is that because he did not block the first tram, the first tram might crush Zhai Xing who was tied to the rails.

For Noel, the eternal law of utopia is \u003ehome. For the sake of a pure, perfect, and eternal world, he chose not to carry the burden and went directly to the distant place to solve the root cause of the problem.

For Su Mingan, hometown \u003e the eternal method of utopia. He values ​​his existing hometown and old friends more than anything else. Even if they are a burden, he insists on carrying them on his back, even if he falls into eternal reincarnation. As long as there is a little hope, he will choose to stay and guard this weak spark.

Therefore, Noel and Su Mingan are bound to take completely opposite paths.

——Su Mingan can’t leave.

——Noel can’t stay.

Like two stars, they intersect briefly for a moment, and eventually slide into different star paths.

However, this intersecting moment may have been the most shining moment in a long time, leaving an indelible mark on both stars.

Code words, handover, rose cane, 33 eyes, magician under the moonlight, long river, never falling wild goose, golden sunflower.

From then on, everything was like this "moment".

One is a realist idealist.

One is a romantic idealist.

[Ideal], and [Ideal].

There is no distinction between top and bottom, nor high or low.

No matter how strong the friendship is, no matter how profound the memories are, no matter how much communication spans time and space, they cannot cover up the independent and brilliant ideal.

——This is what they knew from the beginning. Regarding ideals, Noel never deceived Su Mingan with a single word. He always spoke candidly -

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[I want to embrace higher dimensions and the new world].

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And Su Mingan has never raised any objection. He knows this very clearly, and at the same time, he will never try to distort Noel's ideals.

Even though he knew that the Sword of Damocles was destined to fall on the road ahead, he still respected Noel.

The few words he paid to stay were just five sentences:

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"Just cut it off in two?"

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——Noel. Have you found your determination? No more looking back?

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"Then why don't you dare to let me look into your eyes?"

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——Noel. Are you pretending? Did someone seduce you or invade you?

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"In the wind and snow on the high-rise building in the ruined world, I looked back in the wind and snow, and you wished me a happy New Year."

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——Noel. Since your expression is very calm, this is your decision from the heart. So can we work together, like we did in Ruined World? You can go to the new world, and I can help you, at least you don't have to be so decisive.

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"Can you hold on a little longer?... Noel Akinni."

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——Noel, can we discuss this again?

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"Can you hold on... a little longer?"

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——…Noel.

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"Whoa-whoa-whoa-"

The black water was turbulent.

Noel raised his head, looked at the amethyst and blue birds in the sky, and opened his arms.

"It just so happens that there are some birds in this dream, so let me perform for you one last time - remember? I once said that I can 'birds paying homage to the phoenix'. As long as I pose, the birds will They will fly towards me." Noel looked at these magnificent birds in the dream, his eyes were trembling, but his pupils were very bright, he opened his arms as if holding the sun high, and laughed loudly:

"bring it on."

"Come and fly to...the adventurer of the new world."

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[This is close to the Bird Garden. Noel took a few steps and stared at the thousands of flying birds in the sky. He raised his hands and tried to perform "a hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix", trying to make all the birds hover around him. 】

["Su Ming'an, I really succeeded in 'Hundred Birds Paying Attendance to the Phoenix' in Yu State before. At that time, all the birds flew beside me. Today I will open your eyes!" Noel raised his hand hard and twisted his fingers into strange shapes. The shape and posture are like holding the sun high, smiling and shouting:]

["——Come on! Come and fly to the new world as an adventurer!"]

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"——Come on! Come and fly to the new world as an adventurer!"

"Plop!"

Black water rises.

The adventurer of the new world slowly fell, and the bright red blood stained the water around him.

Five huge holes opened on his back, and the scarlet claw tips penetrated his back and emerged from his chest, flashing with cold light.

He still maintains the posture of "a hundred birds facing the phoenix", with his arms spread out as if holding the sun high.

Indeed, there were many magnificent amethyst-colored birds flying low.

——really flew towards him.

"Swish, swish, swish."

Bird feathers as beautiful as crystals were falling towards him, like a magenta and lavender snow. What a beautiful scene it was.

Feathers fell on his forehead, cheeks, bloody mouth corners, and holed chest... one by one, they slid down him, like flowing stars and dots of light.

The "Hundred Birds Pay Attendance to the Phoenix" performance that failed during festivals in the past was actually successful here. Even Noel himself couldn't imagine that the birds here seemed really stupid.

There is no real "birds of prey", it's just a joke he made to make his teammates happy, and it actually came true. It seems like today is his lucky day...

"Cough...!" Noel coughed up a mouthful of blood and turned around slowly. Su Ming'an stood behind him expressionlessly, the scarlet claw of his left hand piercing Noel's body.

Bright red fingertips poked out from Noel's chest, grasping a red apple-like heart.

In Su Mingan's impression, Noel always seemed to be smiling.

A smile with raised lips, a hearty laugh, a pursed smile, a smile, a smile secretly covering the mouth... The cheerful and optimistic adventurer seems to always be able to see only colors, and smiles when he meets everyone.

But how can there be only one expression in this world.

At this moment, he saw the... slightly novel smile gradually appearing on Noel's face.

It's bitter and full of rewards.

"...Sure enough." Noel coughed up another mouthful of blood and gradually fell into the water. Su Mingan also squatted down, still maintaining the movement of penetrating Noel's heart.

When their sights converged, the blue eyes dimmed little by little, like a blue star gradually losing its heat and about to fall into the vast universe.

The young man's voice was filled with clear pain:

"...You did the right thing, you really should have done this..."

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"Plop."

When I took my hand back, my ears were very quiet.

Su Mingan crushed Noel's heart, and everything fell silent.

Making this decision was not difficult.

Even though he felt extreme pain, after thinking rationally, Su Mingan immediately killed Noel.

First, if Noel is being coerced, doing this will allow Noel to relieve the coercion. Secondly, if Noel is voluntary, then Noel will kill Su Ming'an in exchange for the opportunity to advance to the dimension, so Su Ming'an might as well strike first. They all have this awareness in their hearts. Thirdly, if Noel had something hidden and was pretending to betray someone but was actually undercover, then Noel must have thought about what to do when Su Mingan killed him.

Therefore, after taking all the circumstances into consideration, Su Mingan took action while Noel was performing a hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix.

He didn't expect it to go so smoothly.

The moment his heart broke, Su Mingan's palm was extremely warm, as if he had crushed a silent star.

Noel's warmth remained on his fingertips, and just for a moment, his life disappeared.

The image of the seventh seat slowly faded away. Noel's death prevented him from coming here.

"Whoa-whoa-whoa-"

The body of the blond boy lay among the floating black water, as light as a phoenix feather. His hair swayed in the floating water, catching the scattered starlight.

Su Mingan closed his eyes and subconsciously wanted to put the heart in his hand away and put it in the backpack compartment, but after a moment, he frowned, squatted down, slowly peeled away the rotten flesh on the boy's chest, and stuffed the heart back The boy's chest.

The blue-red heart lay in the chest, no longer beating, very quiet.

Su Mingan stopped silently.

This is not his thing.

This is not his collection.

What should belong to the individual should eventually be returned to the individual. Whose heart should return to the chest. They are not his property, everyone has the right to pursue them, he should have understood this long ago.

He was the one who clung to the anchor point and refused to let go, so when the critical moment came, he was exposed to such obvious gaffes and breakdowns.

It was him who was wrong.

He should have let go long ago.

He had thought he was no longer an island.

But he forgot, "Far travelers look at each other across the boat" - this sentence, in essence, the travelers are still in different boats. They have never come together or sat in the same boat together.

He also forgot that "the island is no longer lonely" - this sentence, in essence, the islands just cleared the fog and saw each other from a distance, but they were still independent islands.

He forgot too much and ignored too much.

So lonely.

So painful.

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["When you wake up, we will play together for three days and celebrate the New Year together. I have prepared a lot of interesting activities and want to share them with you... We will make dumplings, cook New Year's Eve dinner, play board games, and watch the wedding. Bring it with you. Lin Yin, Yamada, Luna, let's go together." Noel held Su Ming'an's hand and pressed his own heart. 】

[It's still beating there. 】

[He is still smiling. 】

【"I won't die."】

【"I promise."】

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Su Mingan blocked Noel's heart and looked at Noel's bloodless face.

Those blue eyes lost the purity of the sky and the warmth of the ocean, leaving only the calmness of death itself, looking at him calmly.

Death is always quiet.

After a while, Su Mingan coughed to confirm that his throat could still make sounds.

He opened his dry lips, tore off some bloody skin, and let the sound flow out.

Picked up the books left behind by Noel after his death.

Like a background sound for reading.

Slowly, humming:

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"How afraid I am that revolutionaries will lose their faith and creators will abandon their shining pride."

"I'm so afraid that the children will forget their dreams and the bluebird won't fly here..."

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Prepare for the exam, prepare to finish and save the manuscript, and rest for two or three days.