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Chapter 1439: Chapter : "The Blond Boy and the Young Man"

"Is your decision... to throw away the chocolate and not enter the dream...?"

"I see. I'll make a note of it."

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The chocolate candies gradually sank to the bottom, and the brown-black liquid flowed through the lake.

The displaced man chose to cut off his dream and move forward. He raised his eyes and saw the distant sea of ​​stars as bright as a lighthouse, and the excitement of fate was like a torrent, surging towards him.

The universe is deep, vast, and ever-changing, alluring and profound, tolerant and selfless. It is impossible not to immerse yourself in it, and even ignite yourself.

Human beings are extremely fickle creatures.

Influenced by relatives, friends, and society... With just a flash of thought or a flash of lightning, they can make completely opposite decisions. This makes them unpredictable, and also makes them flesh and blood and defy fate.

After a brief silence, the sound of piano gradually rose.

Su Ming'an placed his hands on the black and white keys, paused for a moment, and then played what Xiaona requested - the piano version of Gustav Mahler's Sixth Symphony "Symphony No. 6 In A Minor".

This famous work by Gustav Mahler, often referred to as the "Tragic Symphony," was composed between 1903 and 1904 and is noted for its emotional depth, complexity, and innovative technique.

The chocolate candy turned into a wisp of brown-black liquid and gradually disappeared in the vast lake, without leaving any trace of fate.

For some reason, Su Mingan should have been nervous about making this radical decision, but at this moment, he felt a soft peace. The tension of standing at the crossroads also dissipated.

It was like the sound of a shoe hitting the ground.

The melody gradually becomes higher and the sound of the piano becomes clearer.

The wind tells stories of distant times, and the water carries everything away.

Xiaona stood in the lake, raised her hand, and a scene gradually unfolded.

In the clear sound of the piano, Su Mingan saw the beginning and end of everything——

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【In 1932 AD, Zhai Xing. 】

A team of scientific expedition members walked towards the end of the North Pole, their thick orange protective suits embroidered with the words "United Polar Expedition Without Borders".

Among them, the most excited one was a young man. He was 24 years old, graduated from a well-known university, and had just been selected into the scientific expedition team.

A team of experienced, steady and experienced veteran team members, plus a few second-generation students, formed a well-funded scientific expedition team without borders in the early 20th century.

The young man looked at the vast white sky and earth. The scenery of the Arctic was so beautiful. The words of his teammates before departure were still ringing in his ears.

"Don't back down halfway! The polar regions have been a forbidden zone for life since ancient times. In the time scale known to mankind, there are still large tracts of blue ocean that have yet to be explored!" called out a strong bearded man.

"Ha! What will we dig up? Alien technology from before the Cambrian period? The secret of the extinction of dinosaurs? Or the legend of the ancient Egyptian pyramids?" another expedition team member laughed.

"You never know. In the Proterozoic Era 25 billion years ago, the ice age lasted for 3 million years and was called the 'Huronian Glaciation'. There is actually no complete evidence of what the planet was like before the frost fell. What if... I mean, what if aliens once used our planet as a summer resort?" The bearded man scratched his nose and said.

"Then, maybe there are some alien treasures buried under this ice field! For example, alien potato chip bags, alien stinky socks, and alien plastic bottles that are thrown around without any manners!" A middle-aged man danced with joy.

"Oh my god, even the smelly socks of aliens have a lot of research value! If we really dig up a pair, we will be rich!"

"Old man, you better pray that you won't end up like Robert Peary thirty years ago, returning to his Roosevelt empty-handed."

The young man listened to all this with great excitement.

Oh my god, this is all exciting, hot, and thrilling!
He is an avid scientific researcher. If there really are alien relics under the ice, he can't imagine what amazing things he can research!
His idea is to create a "perfect race with high IQ, high EQ, strong military force and abundant potential" and name it after his favorite word "Rin"!

The scientific expedition team is moving forward on the vast ice field.

After three days of trekking, the young man was extremely tired.

"David! We dug up something hard!" At this time, a man with a red face from the cold waved his hand.

People suddenly became excited and gathered together.

After careful exploration, excavation and protection, they saw it - something buried beneath the polar regions.

A USB flash drive.

A USB flash drive that could not possibly appear in this era.

No computer is needed, just plug it into any device and the data in the memory will automatically appear.

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【——An experimental topic on "the separation of the physical body and the immortality of the soul." 】

【The boss rabbit stayed. 】

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At the beginning of the 20th century, this topic was completely unexplored by humans.

Such an amazing discovery, even severe punishment could not curb human ambition. Some people secretly recorded the materials and paid a huge price to transport them back to their country. Some people handed the materials over to the United Group and submitted them to the big countries for voting. Some people sold them at a high price.

The young man left the team, secretly returned to his own laboratory, and began to concentrate on research. His name was "Kosona Rambo".

In 1941, a cult organization called "The Church of the Immortal Flesh and Blood" wandering in North Africa purchased this information with the capital of human trafficking and arms trade. After research, they unexpectedly achieved certain results - they successfully suspended the age of the mice for a period of time.

This is a precursor to eternal life!
They suddenly went crazy, using the gimmick of immortality to attract oligarch investments. Their power expanded rapidly, and they extended their evil claws to capture human experimental subjects.

They found that young humans with highly developed brains were the most suitable experimental subjects.

After nearly a century of fermentation, in the early 21st century, research in various countries was fruitful, and terms such as "abandoning the body" and "group consciousness" gradually emerged. All of this reached its peak when the "Cult of the Immortal Flesh and Blood" captured a most suitable experimental subject.

——A blond boy from Yu Country. After an experiment, his physical time was successfully stopped at his teenage years.

Although the military intervened to rescue people due to conflicting interests and the experimental subjects escaped in the chaos, people believed that the door to "eternal life" had already been opened a crack.

Then, very dramatically—

The World Game has arrived.

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The piano plays the first movement.

The first movement of Symphony No 6 In A Minor is "Anxious Wandering".

Dull, gloomy, and slight notes flow, like the crawling of fate.

Su Mingan sat in the lake, his ten fingers dancing on the black and white piano keys. Perhaps because of his extremely high mental strength, he could play this piece of music very well without any practice.

The shadow of an angel by the lake dances with its wings like a conductor.

History, displayed like a scroll, surrounds him.

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On November 2020, 11, the World Game is coming.

A billion humans float and sink in the world game.

Smart and agile international tycoons, leaders who make good use of power, royal families with strong appeal, Nobel Prize winners whose IQs are at the limit of human intelligence... occupy many of the top positions on the list. Of course, there are also many people from grassroots backgrounds, such as world e-sports masters, script-killing writers, game level designers, mystery novel enthusiasts... also occupy a considerable number of top positions on the list.

Mao Lian, a player at the top of the list, was born in the coalition government. He had experienced ups and downs in the political arena for fifty years. He was shrewd and cunning as a fox.

Antetolia, the top player on the list, was born into a royal family and was known as "the pearl that the Findora royal family has not seen in a hundred years." She is beautiful, elegant, and good at wielding power.

Alieldo, the top player on the list, was born in the chaotic South Africa. With his status as a pariah, he roamed among the gunfire and relied on bloody primitive accumulation of capital to occupy a place in the gray areas of various countries.

Ludwig, Edith, Ran Bo, Locke... They may come from the Academia Sinica, or from world oligarch families, or from the Senate of Eagle Country.

Human power, gods fighting, peak competition.

As for people like "Edward", "Mizushima Kawase", "Ailander", "Lu Likarpos", "Isabella Caljos"... their brilliance was completely obscured and not noticeable.

During the year-long game, the most acute conflict was between the number one player, Hui Bai.

He seemed out of place.

Compared to other powerful humans, Hui Bai is just an ordinary young navigator. At the age of 19, he has become the number one player with the highest points.

Edith challenged him, but he easily defeated her.

Alieldo launched a siege against him, but he recorded it and posted it on the world forum, causing an uproar in public opinion.

He was like a sharp blade, passing through the levels perfectly time and time again, and no one could stop him.

Until - someone dug up his past.

"...Have you heard? The No. 1 player Hui Bai has finally been unmasked. Someone has dug up his past."

"What? Tell me now!"

"It is said that he is one of the experimental subjects of a cult called 'The Immortal Blood and Flesh Cult'! A few years ago, this cult accidentally let go a blond boy, who was their most satisfactory experimental subject. In order to make up for the mistake and attract investment, the church at that time hurriedly wanted to imitate a perfect experimental subject similar to the blond boy."

"Oh, big melon! And then?"

"In fact, Hui Bai didn't look like this originally. He used to be a boy with light green hair and brown eyes. He was abducted while sailing to a South Asian country and became an experimental subject of the Church of the Immortal Flesh and Blood. The cult thought he was a young and smart 'good experimental seedling' and kept doing experiments on him. They took the physical data, blood samples, hair tissue, and skin tissue left by the blond boy and implanted them all into him to try to restore the most perfect experimental subject. After enduring a long period of torture worse than death, he gradually turned into a blond boy with blue eyes, and even looked more and more like the original blond boy..."

"The human blood melon is delicious, delicious..."

"I guess the experiment should have been successful, but it went in a strange direction. It failed to freeze his body in time, but gave him a brain that was different from that of an ordinary person?"

"Is that why he is so perceptive and smart about dungeons, and can clear them perfectly every time?"

"That's right! It must be like this! I don't believe he relied on his real ability! He is just an ordinary young navigator, how can he become the number one player!?"

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The piano music gradually enters the second movement.

The increasingly lyrical notes are like a stream that gradually breaks through the ice.
Andante moderato is sad, soft and slow, giving the audience time to breathe.

A blond boy seemed to appear in front of Su Mingan.

The boy walked naked in the pool of blood for a long, long time. When he finally walked into the sunlight and embraced the warmth, another golden-haired shadow rose from the darkness.

One, two, ten...

Countless "blond boys" stained with blood and filth were ripped open from the bodies of boys with different hair colors and eye colors, and slowly crawled out, opening their identical sea-like eyes, their bodies covered with scars of sin.

The bloody history still marches forward indifferently.

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No rumors or gossip can withstand the absolute suppression of strength.

Hui Bai knows that he has been subjected to a cult experiment and will be condemned by everyone, so he has been consciously improving his charm and conquering everyone in a purely gaming way.

After his charm value reaches A, the gossip gradually decreases.

After his charm value reached S, people's gazes towards him gradually turned into admiration.

After his charm value reached SS, there was no longer any open voice against him in the world.

What about the human wisdom and intrigue? What about the hostility of the authority? He simply solved the problem by using the game's numerical method.

He rushed ahead, and with his gentle smile, charisma, and sunny attitude, he gradually got people to follow him.

He established guilds, formed alliances, assembled top teams, spread ideas, comforted the masses, and won points.

At this point, he has become the real "number one player".

At the end of the World Game, the stars shone brightly, and 36 players completed the game perfectly. People were proud and cheered.

But there is no means to limit the number of people who can make wishes.

Who is willing to give in?
Who wants to become a stepping stone for other powerful people?
Who is willing to commit suicide before making a wish?
No one wants to.

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The piano enters the third movement.

A light and fast melody wandering over the lake.

The vivid contrasting sounds, swaying, spinning and dancing high and low, are like dancers in black and white dresses.

The highly ironic sound of the music intensifies the tragedy of the entire piece and is also seen as the wave before the climax.

Su Mingan vaguely saw the ending of this history.

——Thirty-six powerful people who possess human wisdom, emotional intelligence, charm, luck, power, identity, status, and resources, fought a bloody battle in a heavy snow during the wish-making session.

Don't they know there will be a conflict of wishes?

Of course they knew it, but once the chain of suspicion was formed, it could not be broken without death.

With his trembling eyes, Su Mingan saw the final scene of Symphony No 6 In A Minor——

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Purgatory on earth.

Blood flows into a river.

In the air filled with paper money, the platform symbolizing the highest wish was filled with corpses. Anyone who saw such a tragic scene would be filled with grief and despair.

The blond young man crawled out from the pile of dead bodies and stumbled forward.

Holding a transparent key, he looked up and shouted:
"——I'm talking to the world game!"

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