First Player

Chapter 408 Chapter 406 · "Take me...home, okay?"

Luna came and left easily.

Su Mingan watched her leave, and suddenly heard Nai Luo's voice.

She didn't seem to understand their conversation about "players" and "the eighth world" at all, and her voice remained calm.

"Rin." She said, her voice particularly clear in the light wind: "...I want to go home."

"Let's go, I'll ask Soul Hunter to arrange a boat back for you." Su Mingan said.

It is now noon, and his specialization skills have stopped at level 2 and cannot be improved.

It seems that the content Naraku can teach is limited and can only help him advance to one level. Any further teaching would be a waste of time.

However, the specialization skills are amazing even if they are upgraded by one level. He already has a sense of superiority of "hitting wherever he points", although this is probably an illusion...

The current harvest is enough. He still needs to catch up on his sleep in the afternoon, and then face the final level in the evening and board the city tomorrow.

Since Naraku wants to go home, he should send her home early. After all, she was from the At Empire. Even if something happened to the At, he could send her back.

He turned around and saw the girl standing on the hillside with her back to him.

The red hair behind her was still gorgeous, trailing down to her lower back like tiny flames, swaying brightly and dazzlingly in the breeze.

When she heard his words, she turned back with a daze in her eyes.

"What home?" she said.

"Yate Empire, if you want to go back, you can go back with the merchant ship." Su Mingan said: "You don't have any relatives here, and the living environment is very harsh. There is no need for you to stay here."

"..." She looked at him blankly, her eyes clearer than ever before, as if all the emotions in her eyes had been wiped out suddenly.

"My home is the Art Empire?" she said.

As soon as Su Mingan realized something was wrong, he saw her suddenly burst into laughter.

"I'm kidding you, Rin." She said, "I don't want to go back, it's very good here. Duoya and the others are very polite, and they also gave me free housing and living resources. Compared with that, I need to be cautious and emphasize etiquette everywhere. The Mir family of the Art Empire, I prefer to stay in this free land...at least..."

She moved her hand and took out her poorly danced spear from nowhere.

"...At least here, I can still keep my gun with me." She said softly.

She seemed to have omitted half a sentence.

In addition to being with the gun, she seemed to want to be with something else.

"Rin, are you leaving tomorrow? Going to that city in the sky?" she asked.

"Well, there is a high probability that he will not come back." Su Mingan said.

According to the urinary nature of the dungeon, he will definitely reach the ending of the plot immediately after he goes up, then ends the dungeon and has no chance to come down again.

"...I will remember you." She said, "Always remember you."

She looked over.

"Even if I forget everyone and everything... Even if I get so old that I can't even see my eyes... I will still remember you."

she says.

The ends of her eyes were slightly curved, and the heat contained in them was brewing as if they were scalded.

Those who look at her can detect the rather straightforward and unabashed emotion of joy.

Ever since the Yate sank, Su Ming'an had never seen her smile so happily, as if she had been freed from all restraints.

This charming young lady who had been struck by lightning since the very beginning of the dungeon, pointing at his nose and yelling, was as clean as a gust of wind.

Anyone else would definitely think that she had grown up during the disaster and became more rational.

But in fact, she never changed.

She might be able to live well here.

"You still have a long time to live." Su Mingan said, "I hope you meet a better person."

Naraku lowered his head.

When she raised her head, her eyes were crystal clear.

"So, goodbye."

she says.

"Goodbye." Su Mingan said.

"I'm leaving, and I won't go to your farewell ceremony tomorrow. From now on, I will live happily in Praia, dancing with guns, carving wood, drinking rice wine... Maybe, I will also become a I am a brave soul hunter and I want to find a handsome young man who loves me." Naraku said: "There will be no woman in the world who loves you as much as I do, and no one will love you as much as I do. Don't hurry up. Last chance?"

"Naruo." Su Ming'an repeated: "I am not Su Lin. Su Lin may have liked you, but I don't like you."

He knew that she couldn't understand this. She was an unawakened NPC and wouldn't understand why the player became Su Lin.

He just wanted to emphasize that he was not the original Su Lin and should not be the object of her affection at all.

What she likes should be Kaiya, who fled to the At Empire, and her childhood sweetheart, the young master of the Su family, who is a close match.

When she said this, he saw her eyes were dull.

"Do you think I care about your love?"

Her emotions suddenly rioted violently, as if she was angered by his words: "——I tell you, stay away from now on!"

She turned around and walked away very fast, as if running away, her voice flying in the wind like an elf.

She didn't look back, as if she didn't give anyone any room to save her.

The fiery red spear swayed slightly in her hand, like the vertical tail of a flame bird.

When her figure was about to completely disappear from his sight, her steps stopped for a moment, and her tiny voice came from the wind.

"Sleep well," she said: "Climb the city and... put an end to the disaster in this land."

The system prompt sounded:

…

[NPC (Naraku), favorability: 85+5 (dying love)]

…

Su Mingan returned to the East District to catch up on his sleep.

Not surprisingly, until the copy ends, he will never have another chance to sleep.

The seventh world, the most critical last day, is coming.

He fell asleep quickly while thinking.

He seemed to have fallen into a dark, sweet dream in an instant. He was extremely tired and fell asleep very quickly. Even if he was lying on a simple bed with poor conditions, his body felt like he was in a soft cloud.

Complex thoughts quickly fade and disappear during sleep.

Sleep allows people to escape from complicated thoughts, escape everything, and fall into pure peace.

——until evening.

Someone knocked on his door.

"Lord Su Lin."

He woke up from his slumber and opened the door.

It was almost night, and the blood-red sunset shone on the gradually thawing river, like a thick road of blood.

Outside the door, Deputy Minister Duo Ya was standing there, covered with a brilliant sunset.

Her face, which was always filled with a smile, had mixed emotions at this time.

"I'm sorry to disturb your rest. But... you'd better come here and take a look."

…

Su Mingan once again saw Naraku, who had said goodbye to him.

When he saw the girl sitting in the room with dull eyes through the door, his steps stopped.

When he saw this, he thought he had seen it wrong.

Naraku is a lively, generous girl who is as bright as a flame. She is extremely courageous and has an adventurous spirit in her nature, as if she is not afraid of anything.

In this land of gray tones, she is the brightest color and seems to always have vitality.

When I think of her, the deepest impression is her flaming red hair, like a flame that will never go out.

...but at this moment.

But at this time.

Through a door, he saw the girl whose eyes were still dull despite the help of the medical soul hunter. He froze when he pushed the door open.

"Don't go in yet, she is receiving treatment." Duoya said softly.

"What's up with her?"

"..." Duoya was silent for a while.

When she spoke again, her voice was even softer: "Lord Su Lin. The pearls from the underground treasure house in the royal city can restore a person's appearance... but they can only restore their appearance."

"..."

Su Mingan looked inside through the small window on the door.

The girl inside the door still looks young, without any wrinkles on her face, and her skin is still as delicate and fair as pearls.

However, the hanging white hair and the cloudy eyes had already vaguely foreshadowed everything.

The princess's experiments on her took away her vitality and soul. Even with the pearls to repair her appearance, her life was still inevitably coming to an end.

This is an inevitable passage, the passage from life to death, and no one can save it.

"Her condition suddenly deteriorated. Maybe she had been holding on forcibly before. And this kind of strong support even more depleted her remaining vitality." Duoya sighed: "This child... has been pretending to be okay. It’s not that she fainted on the side of the road, we have no idea what happened to her.”

"How is she doing now?"

"There is nothing wrong with her physical condition, but it is obvious that her mental problem is very serious. Her soul is damaged, like a bag with a hole in it, which cannot be plugged at all." Duoya said: "The obvious situation is... She seems to have some dementia. Now she seems to be unresponsive to anything. Even if we talk to her, she seems to have forgotten everything. This is a symptom of her soul being exhausted, and it has begun to erode her brain... She probably won't last long."

Su Mingan looked inside the door.

The motionless white-haired girl sat blankly on the chair, her eyes blank.

It's like being locked in your own world.

Since yesterday, Naraku's memory has started to have problems. When she came over with an umbrella yesterday, all she said was nonsense.

【Everyone is mortal. 】

He remembered what she said.

However, just one afternoon passed and her condition deteriorated to this point.

The medical soul hunter is trying to communicate with her: "Miss, miss? Can you hear what I say? Do you still remember what happened to you?"

Naraku shook his head blankly.

"Miss, what do you remember?" Medical Soul Hunter was very patient: "Age, hometown, even...your name?"

"...I don't remember." Naraku's eyes were confused: "I don't remember."

"She can't even remember her own name, deputy minister." The medical soul hunter sighed, straightened up, and looked at Duoya who was standing at the door: "She should have lost all her memory, and then there will be Loss of five senses..."

Medical Soul Hunter suddenly saw Naraku move.

The stupid girl who had been sitting on the chair since she woke up suddenly stood up.

The legendary Su Lin was standing outside the door, looking at her.

"Do you remember my name?" he asked.

Duoya next to her shook her head: "It's useless, sir, she doesn't even remember her own name..."

"cold."

The silent girl suddenly spoke.

When she called out the name, her voice was choked with sobs, and she couldn't tell whether she wanted to cry or laugh.

Light filtered in thinly, into her somewhat faded eyes. She suddenly straightened up and walked toward the door with unsteady steps.

——Until she opened her arms, as if she wanted to embrace the blue and distant sky.

The breeze blew up her long pale hair, her blood-red coat, her swaying gown and swinging skirt.

At this moment, between heaven and earth, she seemed to be blown away by the wind.

…

[Listen up, Su Lin. 】

[I don’t care if you are the mastermind behind this, or why the Yate sank. I only know that you saved me, and I like you too. 】

[——I think even if I am so old and deaf, I still won’t be able to hear your name clearly. 】

[Even if I forget everyone and everything...even if I get so old that I can no longer see my eyes...I will still remember you. 】

…

The girl with flying white hair looked at the area where no one was standing and smiled.

"Rin." She said the name to the air, with childlike joy on her face.

Through those faded eyes.

She seemed to be able to see, in that deserted area, a young man standing at the boundary between sunlight and shadow, holding flowers in his hands and looking back at her.

It takes at least ten days to travel from Praia to Yate Empire.

She was too late.

So she "didn't want to go home."

It takes half a day to walk from the southern hillside to the residential area.

She was too late.

So she "don't come to see me anymore."

She knew her physical condition very clearly, knew her inevitable end, knew that she would never be able to return to that land and would die in a foreign land.

Therefore, anger and lies have become a barrier for her to refuse to hurt others, and she does not want to get close to anyone in the few days she has.

But at this moment,

She suddenly wanted to go to him.

…

Su Mingan watched this scene silently.

He watched her pale long hair being blown by the wind, saw her old man's eyes revealing childlike joy, and watched her staggering steps from inside to outside the door.

"cold."

The girl said to the air:

"Take me...home. Okay?"

Su Mingan looked at the photo necklace and wood carvings he placed in the grid of his backpack.

He seemed to keep losing.