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"How...how is this possible?"

Looking at the weird rectangular button in front of him, Natsuki Subaru's expression was extremely complicated.

Shock, confusion, astonishment, confusion, countless expressions kept changing on his face, making his heart, which was gradually returning to calm, once again fall into confusion.

"Is this really a game world?"

Natsuki Subaru struggled a little, he was indeed unwilling to accept this truth.

After all, Emilia is too real to him. Every word the other person says and everything they do, Natsuki Subaru can even feel the other person's heartbeat and body temperature, and understand all the other person's little thoughts. …is this really something a program can do?

What kind of server can simulate such delicate emotions?

And how much computing power does it take to use code to create these NPCs that look like flesh and blood?

But if it weren't for the game world...

What's going on with this weird system interface in front of you?

Natsuki Subaru looked up again. The twisted and broken system interface was still floating there. However, after careful observation, he noticed some details that he had not noticed just now.

For example, there are many buttons and setting keys on this page.

But in fact, due to data confusion, the color of many buttons is actually gray, including the knobs for adjusting model resolution and the reset button at the bottom, which seem to be unlocked and even have some functions. The keys simply collapsed and were completely destroyed.

Natsuki Subaru tried turning a gray volume button.

The result was pretty much what he thought. All these gray buttons were beyond his control.

Of course, not all buttons are inoperable. After some testing, Natsuki Subaru found that the pain button seemed to be barely usable.

But there is obviously something wrong with this button.

Normally, this kind of button is usually adjusted between 1% and 100% of the parameter.

Just like the volume button in the game settings, the upper limit has been locked, but the problem is that the button on Natsuki Subaru's hand can increase it infinitely.

Yes that's right.

It just pulls up infinitely.

After Natsuki Subaru's test, he found that the minimum pain correction could reach about 1%, but when he tried to adjust it upward, the button exceeded the limit of the progress bar.

As if IU made a mistake, the button flew directly outside the progress bar.

The pain correction currently displayed is about 2349%, and it seems that it can continue to increase. I don’t know where the limit is.

Natsuki Subaru pinched his face out of curiosity.

As a result, unprecedented pain hit him, and his whole body instantly twitched and collapsed on the bed.

"So...it hurts!!!"

Natsuki Subaru was breathing heavily, almost bursting into tears. It didn't feel like he had pinched himself, but rather like Rem had hit him hard with a meteor hammer.

"It hurts, it hurts! System!"

Unable to bear it, Natsuki Subaru hurriedly raised his hand and flipped the pain button, adjusting it to 100%. Suddenly the whole world seemed to be purified.

"It really doesn't hurt anymore..."

Natsuki Subaru touched his cheek in surprise: "So this is what Brother Dongwen feels like as a player? But why do I also have a system panel? I am obviously not a player, and I am not from the same family as Brother Dongwen. The world... wait, is it related to those guys? "

Think of this.

Natsuki Subaru's heart suddenly moved for no reason.

Yes, he seemed to have remembered those weird bloody garbled words oozing from the pages of the book.

It seems that a group of scientific researchers and players have contacted me through some unknown method and asked me to destroy or save everything.

"Could it be their fault?"

Thinking of this, Natsuki Subaru immediately began to search around.

He wanted to find a book at random, and then use the book to verify his conjecture to see if this weird page was created by these guys.

"Book...book..."

Natsuki Subaru searched through boxes and cabinets for a long time, and finally found a worn notebook. It was probably used by Rem and the others to keep accounts before, or it might have some other purpose, but he can't care about that much now. , quickly opened it and looked inside.

And it was pretty much what he thought.

The pages originally filled with various account details suddenly began to bleed.

Immediately afterwards, the plasma gradually twisted and began to squirm like a living creature, forming a lot of meaningless gibberish.

And among these messy codes.

Natsuki Subaru could vaguely find some traces of writing.

Putting these words together, Natsuki Subaru immediately discovered the information conveyed to him by both parties.

[You are doing a great job. I see that you are saving those tragedies. I believe that you will be able to find your own perfect ending. For this reason, we have prepared a small gift for you. Although it may be somewhat unsatisfactory, we Already tried my best. 】

【What are you doing? If you don't destroy it all...this will become a tragedy for all of us! You will definitely regret this! ! ! 】

"...Is that really the case?"

After seeing the information mixed in these bloody garbled words, Natsuki Subaru also nodded thoughtfully.

It seems that this inexplicable system page was really given by them, but it is not certain which side it was. After all, both of them are confusing him to make him listen to their advice, and Natsuki Subaru is too lazy to guess their identities.

Anyway, he can't destroy the world.

Let alone destroying this world, as long as he thinks of the scene where Emilia and the others got into trouble, Natsuki Subaru feels that his heart is like a knife. How can he do it?

As he gets deeper and deeper into this world, Natsuki Subaru finds that he seems to be more and more difficult to extricate himself. These NPCs are so real, each of them has their own emotions...even more real than the numb office animals in the real world.

Even if this is really just a game world, Natsuki Subaru has no urge to destroy it.

Even if it is just false happiness, it is so intoxicating.

So Natsuki Subaru can only pray that after saving everything, he can leave here as he wishes, but if things go against his wishes...then he can't be cruel enough to destroy all this beauty.

After thinking this through.

Subaru Natsuki felt that his heart suddenly became clearer.

"So, back to the point." So he turned his attention to the reset button and pressed it twice, but because the button was gray, he couldn't press it at all: "...Isn't this reset button useless?"

"Isn't it a setting that is unlocked slowly?"

Subaru Natsuki thought about it and suddenly had such a strange idea.

Yes, if according to the bloody garbled code, he saved something to get their help, then what exactly does this rescue mean? Is it to stop Xie Dongwen from destroying the world with the BUG skill? Or to help Theresa and Reinharu recognize each other?

"It should be... not the former, right?"

Thinking of this, Natsuki Subaru also began to think: "This is not the first time that Dong Wen has messed up. I have stopped him many times before, so is it the latter?"

"Does this 'saving' mean saving NPCs?"

After all, he has played games a lot, so Natsuki Subaru thought about this point quite quickly: "Just like the side quests in the game, solving all the regrets and sadness in the world, isn't it set like this?"

Of course, it's useless to just think here.

So soon, Natsuki Subaru opened his notebook again and wrote down his questions.

It's just similar to the previous replies, and the bloody mess still gave him two completely different statements,

[Yes, it is to save all the suffering in the world, after all, you are the savior of everyone. ]

[That's not the case, saving means redemption of your own heart, just because you love all of this deeply. ]

There is no doubt that one of them must be deliberately confusing the audience, because they don't want themselves to do this, so they deliberately put smoke bombs to try to confuse themselves to make some wrong choices.

"Forget it, I won't ask anymore."

Realizing this, Natsuki Subaru simply closed his notebook.

Instead of fighting wits and courage with these random codes, Natsuki Subaru thought it would be better to test it with actual actions, such as using his brain to let Theresa reunite with Wilhelm as soon as possible, to see if he could activate the reset button.

Thinking of this.

Natsuki Subaru immediately sat up from the bed.

He pushed open the door and carefully looked out.

The lights were still on not far away. It was obvious that Theresa was still chatting with Reinhard, and Xie Dongwen was probably inside. Thinking of this, Natsuki Subaru immediately walked out, bypassed the opposite door, and quietly left this temporary mansion.

His idea was very simple.

Xie Dongwen's original intention to resurrect Theresa was not because he liked her, but to target Wilhelm, after all, the other party had rejected his kindness before.

Of course, in addition to this, there may be some of his own factors in it.

Subaru Natsuki had talked to the other party about this before. It was indeed because he was in a hopeless situation that Xie Dongwen wanted to help him. So he simply resurrected Theresa and used her special identity to deal with several members of the King's Choice.

In other words, according to the other party's plan.

Theresa was originally intended to be returned to Wilhelm.

But this is not a free gift, but to make the Crusch camp where Wilhelm is, and the Firut camp where Reinhard is, be on good terms with him.

It is for this reason that Subaru Natsuki dared to conclude that Xie Dongwen would not be angry if he facilitated this.

Of course, that's what he said.

But Wilhelm couldn't just admit his mistakes.

After all, his brother's temper was too weird. If he wanted him to calm down, Wilhelm had to at least do something like asking for forgiveness, and it would be best if he had to kneel there, and then his brother would take the thorn and beat him twice, but could Wilhelm do this?

Natsuki Subaru couldn't help but wonder.

Wouldn't old man Wilhelm think that he was humiliating him and then just cut him with his sword?

Actually, Natsuki Subaru originally wanted to wait until tomorrow to deal with this matter, but considering that he could be easily killed by the other party... he decided to act as soon as possible. After all, his save point was at noon today, so if he was killed later, he would only have to wait about ten hours.

If this is delayed until tomorrow, he will be hacked to death by the opponent.

Reading files by myself is quite frustrating.

Of course, in addition to this consideration, Natsuki Subaru also wanted to verify his inner guess as soon as possible, which was the gray buttons on the system page, so he wanted to resolve this matter as soon as possible anyway.

Although it is already night.

But because this is the area where the royal city is located.

There were still a lot of pedestrians on the road. Natsuki Subaru casually asked for directions and soon found out where Wilhelm lived, which was the location of Duke Carlsten's Palace, and then went directly to visit.

"Subaru Natsuki, right? Your performance during the day is really impressive."

After being led in by his servants, Natsuki Subaru also saw the green-haired girl who was at the King's Selection during the day: "Is there something urgent that you came to visit so late?"

"Good evening, Miss Curio."

Natsuki Subaru did not hide it, but spoke directly: "This matter is mainly related to Mr. Wilhelm. Of course, it also has something to do with you, because I want to sell you a favor... "

"You are really direct."

Cruxiu also smiled when he heard this: "But it doesn't matter, I like this kind of straightforward and decisive character very much, so let me guess... it should be related to Ms. Theresia, right?"

"That's right."

Natsuki Subaru also nodded and said in a sincere tone: "So, can you let me meet Mr. Wilhelm?"

"What?!"

A few minutes later, in Curio's study, Wilhelm looked at the strange green plant in front of him with a gloomy expression: "You asked me to carry this thing on my back and go to your house to apologize to him, and then you have to Kneel down and get whipped twice?"

"Yes...yes."

There was also a drop of sweat on Natsuki Subaru's forehead. The sword demon in front of him was so powerful that his heartbeat started to accelerate: "This is not Emilia Tan's idea, it's just me. My personal suggestion, because Brother Dongwen has a very weird temper..."

"..."

Wilhelm suddenly fell into silence.

"Old man, please believe me, I really don't have any ill intentions."

Natsuki Subaru rubbed his temples and said: "This is the best solution I can think of, because no one can match Brother Dongwen in terms of force, and if things get too tense, it may end badly. And he has already started calling Ms. Theresia Mrs...."

"..."

Hearing this, Wilhelm's aura suddenly became more fierce: "Are you...sure that that is really Theresia?"

"this……"

"Your Excellency Natsuki Subaru."

Before he could say anything, Cruxiu, who was standing next to him, suddenly interrupted: "Although you didn't lie, the resurrection is indeed a bit unbelievable... I believe you must be fully prepared when you come here to negotiate. , can you please provide some convincing evidence?”

"Sword Master Reinhardt is at home."

Natsuki Subaru sighed. This was the first time he had negotiated alone with people from other forces. Sure enough, he was still a bit too reluctant: "If you don't believe it, you can ask him for confirmation tomorrow. There is no way he will admit that he is wrong." Grandma?"

"Is that all?"

"You also saw the assassin in the palace today. His name is Lord Rom. He had been taking care of Felt in the slums. He sneaked into the palace today to take Felt away."

Natsuki Subaru once again gave an example: "But after Mr. Rom was chopped down with a sword, the wound continued to bleed. He should have been cured after Ms. Thearesia left, right? The seniors of the Guards Knights should have We all know...this is clearly the effect of Miss Theresia's death blessing."

"Is that so?"

Curxiu also nodded after hearing this: "Then I will ask Felix to ask tomorrow..."

"No."

Before he finished speaking, Wilhelm next to him suddenly leaned over and picked up the thorns on the ground, his expression becoming extremely determined.

"...I will return to your house with you now."