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Chapter 1348: One Thousand Three Hundred and Forty-Two·"Under the light of day, he turned his head (finally)."

Like a shameless deserter, he changed the subject and sealed up his sadness again.

"Hold on a little longer, at least you can see the appearance of that bastard under the tree." Su Ming'an quickened his pace.

“It’s useless. Even if there is a ‘next time’, you should be the only one who can remember everything, because you are the [protagonist] of Luowasha, you are the most important person.” Lu Shu whispered: “What you just said to me is meaningless. Because I will forget it next time, we will all forget it next time…”

Speaking of this, Lu Shu suddenly felt a little lonely.

Feeling lonely for Su Mingan.

If Su Mingan is the only one who can remember all this, and only Su Mingan can bring this final, desperate, struggling, and broken memory to the new beginning of "next time" and flow into the next long river, how lonely would Su Mingan be?
His words were in vain, his efforts were not seen by anyone, his injuries and blood were unknown to others. His pain was also buried.

Fortunately, this damn reset mechanism only happens this once.

Fortunately, it only happened...once.

The light inside the tree was soft and warm, like moonlight pouring down on the lake. In this interweaving of light and shadow, tiny dust particles floated in the air like dreamy fairy powder.

Getting closer to that figure.

Lu Shu couldn't see, but his spirit points were high, which allowed him to swing his sword better in the dark.

Therefore, he could also clearly sense that at the rate at which he was bleeding and the speed at which his wound was expanding... he would stop breathing in 197 seconds.

197 seconds...it's impossible to get there.

Yamada Machiichi is gone, Noel is gone, Luna is gone, all his teammates are gone, and now that he has come this far, he is destined to not be able to face the end with Su Mingan.

In the end, Su Mingan was the only one left.

Knowing that Su Mingan didn't want to talk about the lie, Lu Shu spoke his last words in the last 197 seconds.

Because he had long anticipated that he would die one day, he had practiced his last words in front of the mirror countless times. So when he said it, he was not awkward:
"Su Ming'an, when I was a kid... I liked to lie on the hillside and look at the stars... I stretched out my hands... and gently held them... There were so many stars... It seemed as if everything in the world was between my fingers."

He counted silently, 170 seconds.

It goes by so fast. I have never felt time go by so quickly.

"Xiao Bi told me... Taihua Mountain was not a mountain a long, long time ago... but a lake under the starry sky... Later, it was collided and filled up, and it became a mountain..."

149 seconds.

Speak faster.

"The lake water is very clear and reflects the starry sky... Looking out, it's like a vast sea of ​​stars is reflected in the lake."

133 seconds.

Blood flowed from his eyes.

Speak faster, speak faster.

“So… every time I lay there when I was a kid, I would imagine that I was lying in a sea of ​​stars… blue-black stars swam around me… I often fell asleep on the hillside and dreamed that I was floating in a lake, and if I stretched out my hand, I could scoop up a handful of stars…”

121 seconds.

A few blood-stained white hairs gradually fell to the ground.

It hurts so much. My body hurts so much...

"That feeling... is of freedom... as if I have no responsibilities at all..."

112 seconds.

The crystal branches and leaves gently brushed across his hair, as if caressing him.

This pain is just as painful as the previous one when I was sick...

"After you help me get revenge... I will return to that dream countless times at night... to that blue-black lake. I will remember... how many times I have scooped up the starry sky..."

96 seconds.

The tone of his voice began to distort, the coughs became more and more frequent, and his throat was gradually choked by blood.

Almost finished, almost finished...

"But I know... I've never actually scooped up the starry sky... cough, cough cough cough!"

"That was just a child's fantasy on the hillside...about you, about you all...I always have a lot of fantasies..."

"Every time I deepen these fantasies, every time I look forward to the future... I feel like I am still lying in that illusory lake... looking forward to... looking forward to fishing up the starry sky with you... cough cough cough..."

"But we..."

He spat out blood:

"But we clearly have nothing in our hands..."

"We were all lying on the hillside, and none of us was lying in the lake."

"But we always deceive ourselves...we have already reached for the stars."

"Tell yourself that we have already found the lake that we can never reach..."

34 seconds.

He gasped, his body losing strength bit by bit.

Su Mingan understood what Lu Shu had not said yet. His heart seemed to be clenched tightly at this moment, causing him to feel pain. His throat was slightly choked.

"...You want to say that I am your lake, Lu Shu?"

A lake that cannot be touched, cannot be stayed in, but gives endless beautiful fantasies...

The Milky Way cannot be caught, but it once existed, existing in beautiful fantasies, giving people the motivation to move forward.

——Because of him, they all found the lake.

——Because of him, there is a sky full of stars.

"Yeah." Lu Shu responded.

He seemed to want to say something more, but time was running out. He began to regret that he had prepared too many last words, which were not as good as those he had practiced. He should have finished them normally.

As a result, the only thing that was said in the end was "Su Mingan is very important."

Then he began to have wild thoughts, thinking that it would be great if he had a telepathic device that could allow him to say his last words all at once.

It is said that before a person dies, they will see a revolving lantern of their life events. But Lu Shu did not see that. All he saw was darkness, a terrifying darkness.

But even though he was so scared, he still hoped that Su Mingan could succeed in one go.

"Say goodbye to me, please."

Seeing that there was no time to say anything else, he directly said what he thought was the most important thing.

What he wanted was actually always so simple.

"...Goodbye." Su Mingan looked at him. There were no tears on his face, but his voice was already hoarse.

“Yeah.” Lu Shu forced a smile and coughed up blood instead.

He gasped heavily and stumbled as he managed to finish his words.

18 seconds.

The countdown numbers gradually counted down to single digits.

"I'm already very happy."

16 seconds.

So say the most important things quickly.

"I am very happy to meet you."

13 seconds.

Especially thanks.

"Thank you, Su Mingan."

10 seconds.

And blessings.

I'm not good at giving blessings, but it's all right as long as I speak my true feelings.

"Next spring, you will have delicious tea and beautiful flowers."

5 秒

Finally, tell them...

"You, you guys..."

3 seconds.

"it's me……"

1 seconds.

the best……

friend.

His lips moved slightly and he said something vaguely, but no sound came out at all.

friend.

friend……

……

Still... one second off.

There is indeed a gap between practice and actual operation...

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0 seconds.

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Time is infinitely stretched at this moment.

The number in the white-haired young man's mind finally turned to zero.

When Su Mingan turned around.

"Boom."

It was as light as the sound of dead leaves falling.

——Lü Shu fell to the ground.

His eyes were closed, his white hair was stained with blood, his face, shoulders, arms... were all soaked in blood. The originally pure white person, surprisingly, had no clean parts on his body.

Due to long-term malnutrition, he is very tall but too thin, so skinny that even his bones are faintly visible.

Like a withered leaf, it fell into the brown-red mud.

There was no intense expression on his face, and the corners of his mouth were raised. It seemed that he didn't want to walk around with a "dead fish eyes" expression.

...But this smile is also very stiff.

Not natural at all.

Lu Shu.

Su Mingan was in a daze.

he thinks,

——When Lu Shu was practicing his death confession, didn’t he also practice his smile before dying?

What an ugly smile.

The sound of the wind was as sharp as a roar.

This is a very quiet moment, he thought.

Death is always quiet.

Fortunately, Lu Shu finished speaking.

……

"Ding dong!"

【The follower (Lü Shu) has died.】

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A colorful divine power emerged from Lu Shu's heart and fell to the ground like a beautiful crystal.

Su Mingan squatted down, touched Lu Shu's breath, and stayed for a while.

After a moment, his fingers moved down and touched the pulse on Lu Shu's neck.

After a moment, his hand moved to Lu Shu's heart.

Ten seconds later, he took it back.

"..."

He stood up silently, and after staying for three seconds, he turned and left.

For a moment, he actually had an idea. He wanted to take Lu Shu's head away and hang it on his body like Noel, so that Lu Shu would not be left here alone. But he soon realized that something was wrong with him... This idea was too terrible.

Is he mentally ill?

Has it been abnormal since a very early time?

He walked forward and smelled the sweet aroma of tea.

It turned out that he was very close to the figure under the tree. The figure was still making tea, and the second to last sugar cube in the pot was chopped up by the knife with a "crack".

Then, the figure's hand reached out for the last sugar cube in the jar.

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[Team Number: 1/35]

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"...Sique Olivers!"

Su Mingan shouted, his clothes had been completely dyed red and the original color could not be seen.

In fact, as soon as he rushed in and saw this figure from behind, Su Mingan's heart was shocked - although he couldn't see the front face, it was probably Si Que who could act like this.

——Why is Si Que under the World Tree? Has Si Que been deceiving him?
——By killing everyone around him, has Si Que achieved his goal?

"Shh!"

Suddenly, the branches and leaves that had been motionless for a long time rushed towards Su Mingan and were cut off by Su Mingan.

At the same time, Su Mingan finally rushed to the back of the figure, within close distance.

——He wanted to chop this damn guy to death.

Anger surged in his heart, blood roared in his veins, and he slashed with his sword.

But the figure turned his head at this moment.

——Under the daylight, he turned around.

Thousands of branches and leaves are connected to the young man like hoses, inseparable.

As the young man turned around, all the crystal branches and leaves were shaking, as if they were part of his body, and he seemed to be the incarnation of the world tree.

Seeing the young man's face, Su Mingan's breathing suddenly stagnated. His pupils trembled violently and he sucked in air.

At this moment, his thoughts were paused and he felt as if he had fallen from a height of ten thousand meters.

"Welcome... Would you like a cup of black tea?" the young man said to him calmly.

"It's delicious with eight sugar cubes."

Those golden pupils showed neither smile nor anger.

...The man who killed all his teammates.

...The person sitting under the world tree.

he is……

The young man's white hair was bathed in the sunlight. He twirled a feather pen in one hand and looked at him quietly.

Su Mingan's voice was very soft, his heart was empty:
……

"...Su Mingan?"

……

The young man in front of him, with white hair and golden eyes... was Su Mingan in divine state.

Its appearance is exactly the same as when Su Mingan became a god in the old days.

So those crystal branches and leaves are the branches of the World Tree, and also... the white tentacles of the God Su Mingan?

Su Mingan almost laughed out loud, blood trickling down his cheeks. His smile was more like crying than laughing.

There was a lump in my throat, and I wanted to swallow, but also wanted to scream.

——What on earth are you! What on earth am I?
——Why did you kill all my teammates! ?

——Because I become a god in the future, I can even use myself as a chess piece and never let go?
It took him less than half a second to figure out that the Su Mingan in front of him was the culprit who cut him into three pieces, the future Su Mingan!
Luowasha's time is chaotic, and Kachi can jump time at will, so it is not strange to see his future self. But Su Mingan's cognition is very clear-only the him at this moment is real. Even the him in the future is not him.

After all, even if it is "the future self", it is just "a possibility of the future self", and you can completely create a different future.

Just like the difference between Noel and Dieying, Su Mingan is only sure of Noel's truth, and also only sure of his own truth.

"What exactly do you want to do?" Su Ming'an's sword was against the chest of God Su Ming'an.

God Su Mingan said calmly:
"Don't worry. I hate the Riddler. So I'll tell you everything."

"In short, I wanted to 'solidify' the ending of the Red Sun's arrival, which led to all this."

"I know you are confused. It's okay. Sit down and I will explain it to you in detail."

"Let's take a look at this book first."

God Su Mingan placed his hand on the round table.

There is a thick book on the round table.

The book cover is dark in color, with a lighthouse pendant hanging from it, emitting a bright glow. This book is very thick, even thicker than Yueyue's book.

Su Mingan lowered his head and saw the words on the cover.

The moment he saw the words clearly, the whole world suddenly became quiet. He seemed to have seen [The Ninth World·Zhai Xing]. His mind made a buzzing sound and suddenly became blank.

His breathing was torn into pieces and his whole body was shaking uncontrollably. He seemed to have suddenly fallen into a desolate black and white dream, and his chest felt like it was burning in flames.

In the dead silence, he laughed very softly, and his laugh was so slow that it seemed like it would break if touched.

He heard his own voice, reading with a very calm tone:
The font on the cover is sharp, like a golden hour hand——

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"…Ready Player One (Su Ming'an)?"

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TE2 "They have waited too long for redemption" (reaching the dark side, ending the world game): 92%

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