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Chapter 1356: Chapter : "Noel's final outcome."

Su Mingan opened his eyes.

The crystal branches and leaves sway in the wind, and the small stove for making tea makes a "beep beep" sound and emits steam.

"Have you finished reading it?" Shenming An tilted his head.

"..."Su Mingan put his index finger on his chin, thinking.

These two memories, in short:
First couplet: The Supreme Lord pursues the truth and becomes crazy about writing.

Second line: All things will eventually become numb after chewing hard persimmons.

Horizontal banner: The story will begin again.

It was the first time that Su Mingan knew that he had been spied on. This Supreme Lord had been reading his real-time space-time record in the distant universe, and when he arrived in Luowasha, he even spied on him in person. I'm afraid that now, this guy is still hiding in a corner and spying on him.

The Lord of the End of All Things is even more heavyweight. As a cosmic rule, He has been running rampant until Rovasha was defeated and deceived by the sweet words of the magpie, and was dragged for 12300 years.

Most of the mysteries of Rovatha have been solved. The god An does not riddle or hide anything.

So, how many resets has it happened now? He remembered that in his first dream, there was a pink-haired girl named "Ijurel" questioning him, but there was no Ijurel in this memory, which meant that the reset must have happened more than once.

"Okay, let's answer the third question." Shenming An cut the strawberry mousse into pieces:
"What was Noel's final fate?"

"A. Successfully embraced the new world and became a free adventurer in the universe. B. Successfully embraced the new world, but was trapped in a small world and became a watcher, unable to leave freely. C. Encountered a crisis after being promoted to a higher dimension, and was finally killed by a stronger existence. D. Failed halfway and was swallowed by the shadow. E. Failed halfway, swallowed the shadow and became the second generation of the ragtag king. F. Failed to upgrade the dimension and took the initiative to sacrifice for the spring of the new world. G. Failed to upgrade the dimension, survived to the end, became a well-known adventurer in Yu Country, opened thousands of orphanages, and died peacefully. H. Failed to upgrade the dimension, was obliterated by the rules, and lost existence."

"please choose."

"Is there any point in always giving me questions that have no answers?" Su Mingan frowned.

Shenming An narrowed his eyes and picked up a piece of strawberry mousse:
“…This question has a correct answer.”

Su Mingan's head buzzed and his heartbeat suddenly quickened... Why was there a correct answer to something that hadn't happened yet?
Could it be that the god An had contact with someone with the power of prophecy and therefore predicted Noel's end?

Su Mingan said decisively: "I choose A."

Becoming a free adventurer has always been Noel's wish. Judging from the current situation, Noel has a chance to realize his wish.

The pair of inorganic golden pupils flickered, and He gently put down the knife and fork, and the plate made a crisp sound:

"……wrong answer."

error.

That means the ending is one of the other items.

Su Mingan's heart skipped a beat, as if something cold was condensing.

"You answered this question incorrectly, but I will still show you my memory." Shenming An held out his hand.

Su Mingan closed his eyes and felt a cold touch on his forehead.

……

When Shenming An opens his eyes, it is Shenming An.

He was under the World Tree, and his memory was not very clear. He only remembered that when he opened his eyes, he was God.

"...World Tree, you helped me become a god?" The god An looked at the World Tree.

The World Tree swayed its branches. It suggested that they could work together and it would help the god An become stronger.

Shenming An agreed.

Shen Ming An could feel that as a god, his strength was very strong, but it seemed... lacking. After all, if he became a god, he would definitely be the strongest god, but now he seemed far from being the strongest.

Therefore, maybe I am not the real Su Mingan, because the real Su Mingan is preparing to rush the tree with the players. I may just be a man-made product.

On the day when the red sun descended, the god sat inside the tree and brewed some black tea. He wanted to see the real Su Ming'an.

As for the remaining 34 players? Anyway, the world is about to be reset, and these 34 people will be resurrected after being "recorded", so it doesn't matter if they are killed.

Witnessing their deaths, he felt no emotion. Even though he remembered some of their past experiences, they were so strange that it was like watching someone else's story. He could not understand the laughter or tears of the past, and he did not understand why he had struggled so much in the past.

Anyway——isn’t it okay to just not care?
The emotional foundation was gone, the anchor was gone, and everything that supported it was gone. There was nothing to pull him down, and there were no five strings in his heart that connected him to other people's hearts.

Flowers are blooming, swallows are returning, what does all this have to do with Him? Who are His companions? Where is His home?
The sugar cubes sank to the bottom one by one.

Nine, eight, seven...

...one.

"despair."

The footsteps were suddenly very close to Him.

He raised his head and saw someone walking towards him under the lush tree canopy, with long trails of blood under his feet.

Their eyes met, both golden. One was hot like the melting sun, the other was cold like solidified molten magma.

The protagonist of the story, His reflection in the mirror.

——Su Mingan is here.

……

Su Mingan opened his eyes.

Shenming An's memory is very short, and this is all he has.

At present, Su Mingan knows a total of five types of "Su Mingan".

Su 1, Su 2, Su 3, God is at peace, the 2021 version of Xiao Su.

The first three are slices of yourself before the reset and belong to you.

The god Su is not himself, but some kind of creation.

The 2021 version of Xiao Su is not himself. The cause of his formation is unknown and he has been frozen.

"Beep, beep, beep..." The steam rises and the second pot of tea is ready.

Shen Ming'an opened the lid of the tea, and a few strawberries, blackberries, and mulberries floated on the water, like fruits floating up and down. He poured two cups and pushed one of them in front of Su Ming'an.

"I don't drink tea." Su Mingan refused.

Shenming An laughed, his smile as cold as ice: "...You will drink it eventually."

Su Mingan was puzzled: "Huh?"

...Why do you say that?

Shenming An lifted the lid of the tea, brushed off the tea foam, and said calmly:
“People always have something they want to hold on to more. When compared with new ideas, old ideas are like discarded tea foam, and they are easily thrown away with the excuse of ‘ideological innovation’.”

"You say you don't drink tea now because you are remembering a deceased person. But do you remember that only a few months ago you told another person 'your tea is delicious'?"

"Some things are so common that people will easily overturn their previous ideas."

"Just like you, Su Ming'an, how many people have you promised 'I won't forget you' to? Xiaohan, Alisa, Naraku, Tretia, Su Wensheng... just these five people, you have made almost identical promises of 'I will remember you' to them. And there are also the so-called 'most competent Knight of Light', 'the freest white bird', 'the brightest moonlight in Inaya City'... In just half a year, how many 'bests' have you met? If the time waiting for you is long enough, how many such 'bests' will there be?"

"I guess you can hardly remember what Liu Anna looked like at the beginning, and you can't even remember who she is, right?"

“The ideas that we once believed in will eventually become worthless after being washed away by time and with enough experience.”

"When you stand on the scale of 19 years old, looking back at your 15, 12, and 8 years old, it will be like seeing a completely different person. Not to mention a hundred years, a thousand years, or even ten thousand years."

"When you were a kid, you felt like the sky was falling when you failed an exam. What about now? You feel like failing an exam is no big deal at all, and being unable to save your hometown is the real sky falling. What about the future? Will you feel like being unable to save your hometown is no big deal?"

"People's ideas and will depend on external input. When you become 'me' and your horizons are broad enough, you will understand that the things you are currently confused about, insisting on, and hesitating about are actually not worth clinging to."

"So, will you drink my tea?"

Shenming An spread his palm and pointed at the steaming tea on the table. The red and black berries were swaying up and down.

…Drinking His tea means agreeing with Him.

Su Mingan looked away, his blood-stained hands still, and asked:

"You want to deny me?"

...God, you want to deny everything about me? The reason why I have come this far?

Shenming An spread his hands, lowered his eyelids, and showed a bit of compassion.

He said slowly:

……

"Do not."

"…I want to save you."

……

The red sun sets, and the last bright red covers the earth.

A few rays of light penetrated the cracks in the bark with the Tyndall effect and fell between them, like a gelatinous, bright pathway.

This is a kind of light with a sacred and quiet feeling, just like the effect when Jesus came in religious legends, so the Tyndall phenomenon is also called Jesus light.

The light shone down the passage, blocking their clear gazes.

"You still haven't answered my original question." Su Ming'an changed the subject: "You just said, [You hope to 'solidify' the ending of the Red Sun's arrival, so you created all this]. What does solidify mean?"

Shen Ming An answered without hiding anything: "Restarting is a way to fight against the Lord of the End of All Things, but every restart will be uncertain, and the rate of entropy increase may increase instead of decrease. Therefore, we need to 'solidify' each ending to ensure that each ending is almost the same. And the destruction of all members is the most stable, extremely orderly, and absolutely non-deviating ending."

Su Mingan said: "Is this why you killed everyone?"

Shenming An said, “Yes.”

Su Mingan followed up with, "Will I forget this precious information again when I reset it next time?"

Shenming An nodded: "Yes. The next time you reset, you still won't have any memory."

"How many days have I been in Rowsa?"

"I didn't count for you, so I don't know."

"How can I not forget all this?"

"I can help you. But the condition is that you have to swear an oath to me in front of the World Tree."

Su Mingan felt a sense of realization that "it's finally here".

Sure enough, Shen Ming An revealed so much to him just to use it as bait to tempt him - if you don't give something, you will forget all this precious information after the next reset.

So, give something, give something.

"What oath do you want me to swear to you?" Su Ming'an said calmly: "Send away authority? Give up the identity of the protagonist? Or completely submit to you?"

After all the details, there are only these few items.

It's nothing but coveting, coercion and plunder.

The white-haired young man, as cold as frost and snow, clasped his hands together, placed them on his knees, and stared at him.

He was just behind the gelatinous smoke, vaguely visible, with golden pupils being the only clear color.

Then He spoke:

"...Su Mingan, I want you to swear:"

“——【From now on, I only care about myself, only focus on my own strength, and only think about my own path to becoming a god.】”

“——【No more looking back, no more nostalgia, no more weakness, no more hesitation.】”

"——【I will no longer cooperate with... those people who have been holding me back and asking me to save them all the time, as well as my hometown.】"

"——【I want to be selfish, confident, and self-loving. My future is so bright, my potential is so great, I should stay away from anything that will completely kill me. I obviously have such a broad and long road, I shouldn't be dragged down by the mud and sand of lame feet.】"

"——【Only by waking up can I survive with such a low survival rate. Only by waking up can I survive with so many tragic options of ABCDEFGH... and escape the endings of these options and go a longer way.】"

"Su Mingan, I want you to swear to me that you will live well."

……

……

The words of the god An radiate love and sincerity.

But Su Mingan was very sober.

The god An wanted him to abandon his companions and live far away.

"What if I don't take the oath?" Su Mingan said.

Shen Ming An lowered his head compassionately, his golden eyes full of sorrow and pity: "...I will use various methods to 'persuade' you until you swear an oath."

With a "click", Alman's sword pierced into the back of the chair next to God An's face.

A few strands of Shenming An's white hair fluttered along with the sword and were cut off in the wind.

Su Ming'an stretched out his left hand and grasped Shen Ming'an's chin, his knuckles tensed, so that Shen Ming'an's right neck was almost pressed against the sword edge, with his cheek touching the sword.

The wind was extremely quiet.

“…So you killed Lu Shu and the others to free me from all worries?” Su Ming’an lowered his voice and said, “You are really different after becoming a god. You can do such a thing.”