"Plop, plop, plop."
The iron claw opened, and several dolls fell down.
Xiao Su picked up a little yellow chick doll, looking it over: "It looks quite cute..."
Before he could finish, Qi Zhou grabbed one with each hand, ripping the dolls apart until the ground was covered in cotton, and took out a slip of paper.
"Here’s a clue for you." Qi Zhou waved a hand, one hand in his pocket: "I’m off."
His tall and slender figure drifted away, walking decisively and casually.
Xiao Su looked at the heaps of cotton, his gaze frozen.
Su Ming’an picked up the slip of paper and unfolded it:
...
[Observation Record for Contestant 820:]
[According to observations, this contestant’s physical strength, speed, and power are all at normal levels, not exceeding the range of an ordinary person.]
[Yet, contestants who consu their blood and flesh gain strength that far exceeds the norm. This seems inconsistent with the Law of Conservation of Energy.]
[Arrangents will be made for more challenging levels to conduct extre tests on them.]
...
"Contestant 820... should be Su Liujin." Su Ming’an put away the yellowed slip of paper and walked forward.
His steps halted.
In the shadows ahead stood a figure with long, loose, rainbow-colored hair, face hidden by an Evil Ghost Mask, wearing a tight leather suit with rubber gloves, like a dark lurking ghost.
Su Ming’an blinked, but the figure was gone.
He rubbed his forehead, soon reaching the swimming pool.
In such a bloody ga, everyone was frantically seizing surviving ti, leaving no ti for leisure. Yet, in the pool, there was a figure with blue hair enjoying swimming.
The light shimring on the water, the young man moved like a silver-white fish, swimming gracefully and relaxed.
"Who’s there? Co in, I heard footsteps." The blue-haired young man smiled, looking towards the door.
Su Ming’an instructed Xiao Su to wait at the door, then went in himself.
At this point in ti, Wu Yi had already allied with the Ninth Thrones. Although the Ninth Thrones resided in the [Dark Side], they did not refrain from interference in the [Light Side].
"Shh." Wu Yi suddenly raised a finger, speaking before Su Ming’an: "I know why you’re here."
"Hm?"
"Laplace is fully aware, He told everything." Wu Yi smiled: "You want to ally with , to be your [Dark Side] support?"
... Is Laplace the true na of the Ninth Thrones?
Since the words were clear, Su Ming’an didn’t beat around the bush: "Luowasha is your hotown, if you don’t want it to fall to the destruction of the Master of the End of All Things, why not collaborate with ."
Water droplets slid down his hand, Wu Yi squinted his eyes: "... But before that, do you rember our bet?"
Su Ming’an’s expression showed a brief blankness.
For such minor details, his mory had beco blurred.
"Oh, oh, oh." Wu Yi said three tis, rubbing his chin with his finger: "Seems you’ve forgotten."
Water dripped from the blue hair as he suddenly swam from the end of the pool to the beginning, approaching Su Ming’an:
"We bet before, you need to prove to the goodness of human nature."
"I don’t care whether Luowasha is destroyed, I don’t even care if I’m alive, I just like interesting things... So, we’ll continue our wager, if you win the bet, I will help you."
Su Ming’an furrowed his brows slightly.
Prove the goodness of human nature...
"Alright, I will." Su Ming’an nodded, using [Perception] to glance at Wu Yi:
...
[Player (Wu Yi)]
[Ability: Flas (S-level), ?]
[Items: Sister’s Pendant, Silver Knife]
[Threat Level: Red (from low to high: White, Green, Blue, Red, Purple, Black)]
...
"Let’s go~" Wu Yi put on his clothes, stretched, seemingly very eager.
Just at that mont, Su Ming’an saw that shadowy masked figure again, blinked, and the figure disappeared.
...A hallucination?
As he walked forward, he heard a voice in his ear for a mont:
"We will definitely escape, definitely will..."
He saw Xiao Su growing lots of white hair, layered upon layer draping over him.
Wu Yi grew golden hair, his eyes turning a jade-like color.
They flanked him on either side walking forward, as his own body grew weaker and heavier, as if a bloody hole had opened in his abdon...
"——Su Ming’an!"
He opened his eyes to find himself standing by the pool, with Wu Yi still in the water looking at him.
"Fell asleep? Talking with and you’re dozing?" Wu Yi waved a hand, laughing.
Su Ming’an held his forehead, looking at the shimring pool: "No, where did we just leave off?"
... It seed it was a hallucination just now. The War God Dragon King Narration was within him, so he might see hints left by Su Liujin at any mont.
"We were saying you need to prove to the goodness of human nature." Wu Yi said.
"Okay." Su Ming’an nodded.
"Then let’s go~" Wu Yi put on his clothes, stretched, seemingly very eager.
They reached the entrance of the pool area, suddenly hearing a loud noise behind them.
"Boom——!!"
Su Ming’an imdiately raised his head.
A loud crash, the breaking of the ceiling echoed, blasting open a large hole. A crystal chandelier with tallic attachnts shattered and fell, reflecting golden-white light.
"Help , save ——!"
The tiles fell with broken glass, and with them fell a black-haired girl, screaming as she fell, her body covered in bloodstains.
Su Ming’an’s vision slowed down instantly, a passionate voice echoed in his ears:
[Hm, catching a single person, for the Great Emperor, is a re child’s play!]
[Watch as the Great Emperor displays his skill!]
[Please roll the dice.]
[Required Points: 5 points (Points > 5 points, rescue successful. Points
[You rolled: 12 points.]
...
Su Ming’an spun his body, flashed, and caught the girl. Shards of glass grazed his skin, he frowned slightly but didn’t make a sound.
Landing steadily at the edge of the pool, he looked down at the girl. She had black hair styled in pear curls, delicate features, wore sportswear, with many bruises on her face, shivering, like an ordinary student.
... Soone is pursuing this girl?
"—Put her down for !" An angry shout ca from the broken ceiling, and a woman with blue hair floated down lightly. She pointed to the strawberry badge on her chest, glaring coldly at Su Ming’an: "Freedom Alliance business, bystanders stand aside! Or we’ll take your survival ti as well!"
Ice crystals floated around her, indicating impressive strength.
"What did she do to offend you?" Su Ming’an was unaware of any grudge between the two.
"She...she..." The blue-haired woman said coldly: "She approached our Alliance Hierarch with ill intentions!"
"I did not!" The girl with pear curls trembled imdiately: "I was only asking him to find my relatives. I’ve known him for a long ti, with no other intentions."
"A long ti? The Disciple Ga hasn’t been running that long, and you say a long ti! Full of lies!" The blue-haired woman sneered: "I’m telling you, Li Ziqi. I’ve seen plenty of people, male and female, pretending to be innocent to get close to the Alliance Hierarch! Who knows what you’re thinking!"
... What a ss.
Su Ming’an felt he might have caught a hot potato, but he needed to prove mankind’s goodness in front of Wu Yi.
"Who is your Alliance Hierarch?" he asked casually.
Both of them looked at him strangely, as if seeing a mountain wildling.
"In the Disciple Ga, who doesn’t know our Alliance Hierarch? Even a three-year-old knows." The blue-haired woman stood with arms crossed: "Since the Third Stage, the Alliance Hierarch established the Freedom Alliance, rallying the ga’s top experts."
"The Lighthouse of the Disciple Ga, bearer of the fla in the night, the guiding star of the contestants, the Alliance Hierarch of the Freedom Alliance—our Lord Strawberry!"
"I see you have good skills, why not put Li Ziqi down, and I can introduce you to et our Alliance Hierarch."
Su Ming’an: "..."
Lord Strawberry?
Yes, Noel is soone who can handle things independently.
After the disappearance of Su Ming’an from the Light Side, who knows what the Light Side Noel thought to establish this Freedom Alliance.
"Step aside, I need to settle this with her!" The blue-haired woman solidified ice crystals, aiming at the shivering Li Ziqi.
Li Ziqi imdiately grabbed Su Ming’an’s sleeve: "Help ... I am innocent. I recognize you, you’re Wang Xingkong from Mingxi campus! Although I don’t know if you got here through card drawing or from the Third Stage, you shouldn’t be hostile to players, right? I’m a Zhai Xing Player!"
Su Ming’an raised his right hand, waiting for the War God Dragon King Narration’s performance. Although he didn’t like ddling, Li Ziqi might know about the Freedom Alliance.
He suddenly noticed a wisp of green gas flowing in.
A cold loudspeaker voice sounded from the ceiling:
"The random event for this phase is—Poison Gas. Poison gas will be released gradually throughout the Ancient Castle, with only a few safe houses. Contestants, please give your best."
Each phase of the Ancient Castle triggers a random event, the previous phase was the Hunter killing, and this one is the poison gas.
Su Ming’an glanced at the poison gas and said to the blue-haired woman: "Stop, no matter what grievances you have, we need to find a safe house soon."
The blue-haired woman frowned slightly, putting her hand down.
Just as Su Ming’an was about to turn around, the blue-haired woman suddenly struck, forming an Ice Sword with her hand, stabbing toward Li Ziqi!
"Die!" Her facial features twisted, it was hard to distinguish if her emotion was jealousy or pure malice. Humanity was like a demon, and she ultimately decided to kill Li Ziqi.
In this cruel life-and-death ga, life was as insignificant as a mayfly, who would care about the truth, killing only yields positive feedback.
As the Ice Sword approached Su Ming’an, a gunshot rang out on the flat ground.
"Bang!"
Sudden, decisive, shrill.
A sliver of astonishnt flashed across the blue-haired woman’s face, and imdiately, her body slowly collapsed, a bullet hole in her chest, blood pooling on the ground.
A single deadly shot.
In the shadows, a figure with rainbow-colored hair, wearing an Evil Ghost Mask, held a silver gun with engravings, the whole body wrapped in a black robe, with two cold eyes peering through the mask’s holes, quietly watching Su Ming’an.
A gloved hand slowly extended toward Su Ming’an.
Su Ming’an’s heart tightened, he did not reach out.
After a mont of waiting, the masked person slowly spoke in a hoarse voice: "I’ll be waiting for you on the highest stage...champion."
The word "champion" was accented heavily and slowly by the masked person.
A mont later, the masked person straightened up, disappeared into the shadows.
"Champion? He called you champion?" Li Ziqi’s shocked voice broke the silence: "You were actually the forr champion?"
After all, that was Su Liujin’s accomplishnt. Su Ming’an coughed, asked: "Do you know that masked person?"
"He...he’s the Executioner of this stage!" Li Ziqi seed to recall sothing extrely terrifying, her face turned pale: "Many people who failed the mini-gas were executed by him. He would drag the losers to the wall, shoot them in the head with a bullet... blood splattering against the wall, as if life in his eyes was just pigs and dogs to be slaughtered, so terrifying..."
... Executioner?
Su Ming’an looked at the shadow, it turned out that the masked person was from inside the Disciple Ga, no wonder he knew he was a champion.
Rainbow-colored hair... a very distinctive feature, but it doesn’t rule out impersonation.
"Those capitalists I’ve killed can’t hold the stage, unlike soone who could support an entire Disciple Ga. If the Disciple Ga is deployed by the Supre Lord, there might be so nearing demigod-level people..." Su Ming’an pondered.
These matters were unrelated to his Savior route, even less to Eden. But it involves the Supre Lord in the back, and even the most mysterious Jellyfish Emperor Su Liujin.
—Should he continue exploring and spend ti on this to uncover the truth of the First Disciple Ga? If he continues to explore, will he be unable to activate the small world in ti?
"Perhaps this is where the divergence between TE and HE lies. Previously, if I went straight to the conclusion without understanding these matters, what I would have was a more obscure ending, not knowing if it ets the Book of the Universe’s perfection requirents..." Su Ming’an was considering when a faint voice interrupted his thoughts.
"Yijulai’er gave you life so you could continue, not to retrace old paths." Wu Yi stood with arms crossed, water droplets rolling down his cheek, he whispered softly into Su Ming’an’s ear: "If you still want to die confused or hide in a dream, I don’t mind, it’s just another round of the long Universe Pangala Return."
... "again"?
Su Ming’an squinted, it seed Wu Yi saw things he hadn’t experienced.
He would, of course, treasure this hard-earned life.
After Yijulai’er gave him life, every mont ever since was precious, originally unattainable for him.
Her goal... was it for him to discover all truths? To prevent future regret?
But in this world, is there truly an unregrettable ending? Pursuing perfection, is it that simple?
The information Wu Yi had likely ca from Laplace.
"Ah!" At this ti, Li Ziqi realized she was still holding onto Su Ming’an, realized the inappropriateness, quickly let go, jumped to the side.
Su Ming’an patted his shoulder, brushing off so debris.
"Wu Yi, let’s go."
The poison gas was already perating in, they couldn’t stay long.
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