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Chapter 1508: Final Chapter·Sea Chapter [14]· “They are not here.”

【Welcome back to the "Midnight Bell" segment. 】

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Su Mingan opened his eyes and saw a long table with flickering candlelight in the castle.

Under the sixteen mists, people sat on cushions.

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【Please let the "devil" start the discussion. 】

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The fog faded away, and No. 2 Noel, No. 5 Su Liujin, and No. 8 Alger all saw each other's faces.

Su Mingan looked at them, but his mind was thinking about what had just happened.

Fate is a wonderful thing. Starting from "The Poisoned Wine Skirt of the Fun Devil", the first Rovasa person Su Mingan saw was Kasadia, and the final puzzle was also Kasadia.

He was not dead.

Casadia, the 2D otaku who made Rovasa a dangerous alien world, has cheated the number one player Hui Bai, cheated one billion Zhai Xing players, cheated the world tree and Ijurel, and finally set a trap again in the end.

What is His purpose? There is no need to think deeply about this. For a high-dimensional being whose godhood is “fun”, there is no need to guess His jokes.

But before Su Mingan had time to delve deeper, the castle segment began.

"...It's been about half a day since the first castle session." Noel No. 2 glanced at the wall clock, clasped his hands together, and said:

"My three demon teammates, I think you have all seen the nature of this castle segment. It is not designed to make us fight and kill each other. The so-called 'demons kill people, and people find the demons' rule of Werewolf is actually just empty talk."

"Because there is no exile phase, even if someone finds out that we are demons, they can only try to kill us during the role-playing phase. But the question is, can they kill us? None of the four of us are weak."

Alger No. 8 leaned back in his chair lazily, his eyelids drooping as he asked, "You mean to call on the sixteen people to work together and no longer pay attention to the differences in status?"

Noel nodded, "Yes. But I'm afraid the Rovasha people won't cooperate. After all, their death is real death, and some people must want to kill the demon."

Alger lowered his head and chuckled, saying nonchalantly, "This is easy. First, kill all the Rovashas among the sixteen, leaving only the players. This way, they will be united. Even if they know that Su Mingan is a demon, they won't do anything."

They seemed to have overlooked that there was a Rovasha among the demons. Or to them, a mediocre jellyfish was not a threat at all. This was why Noel had asked at the beginning, "Can demons kill teammates?" As long as the three demons were united, Su Liujin would not be an obstacle. The premise was that Su Liujin really had no trump card.

Su Ming'an watched all this quietly. As long as he completed Bai Qiu's task, he would get the reward of "camp conversion". Then he would become a good person and would no longer sit at the table with these two traitors.

"...Su Mingan, do you have any ideas?" Noel looked over and blinked.

"I'm very curious how you two can behave the same as before and don't feel embarrassed at all?" Su Mingan said calmly.

Alger shrugged nonchalantly. He had no guilt, so he naturally didn't care about betrayal. He just honestly followed his own desires.

Noel looked puzzled. He bent his index and middle fingers, as if trying to confirm Su Mingan's meaning, but Su Mingan did not respond at all.

…Pretend, keep pretending, Noel Akinni.

...You are already in a state of unity of light and darkness, yet you still pretend to be the innocent and kind-hearted Light-sided Noel. Do you really think I will believe that you do not have any Dark-sided Noel elements?
Su Ming'an didn't want to give these two people any extra attention, so his gaze fell on Su Liujin, as if this was a pure land.

The Jellyfish Emperor remained silent. He did not show any emotion when facing the situation of being excluded.

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[Four demons, please choose your target.] The system sounded.

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Alger put down his crossed legs, stood up from his chair, folded his arms, and looked up at the mottled ceiling coldly:

"——Okay, okay, stop pretending, Supreme Lord, is installing the system fun?"

Noel had already noticed this, so he stood up with a smile and looked up, saying, "Supreme Lord, do you really want to see the werewolf plot? You haven't seen enough of the Fourth and Tenth Worlds, so you specially arranged a level in the Disciple Game? Unfortunately, the situation is different now. We won't fight to the death anymore."

Su Liujin also stood up and said calmly: "The Supreme Lord... is the mastermind behind the Disciple Game. Just wait, sooner or later I will come to you and avenge you for all this."

The three people reacted in the same way almost at the same time.

Su Mingan was slightly surprised. He didn't expect that it was not just him. These three smart people also quickly realized the true identity of the mastermind behind the scenes and even fought back against him. It turned out that none of them were stupid.

It is really comfortable to be teammates with people of high quality.

The ceiling was silent, without any response.

"Silence is useless. We have already discovered you." Noel's voice was soft and gentle, as if he was reciting a narrative poem, but the content of his words was pressing step by step, like a sharp blade: "You are watching all this from a distant universe, but you are not willing to be lonely. You intervened and created the Disciple Game, wanting to make everything more in line with your perceptions and expectations... But don't you know a rule?"

His eyes were sharp and his blue eyes were deep:

"'When a reader tries to interfere with the story and manipulate the characters' actions, he or she has already failed as a reader.'"

"Your higher-dimensional path is 'reading', 'chasing', and savoring the mundane world. Its principles require you to observe without interfering, to empathize without becoming addicted. The moment you appear in the story, become the mastermind behind the scenes, and the moment the character recites 'Supreme Lord Tosolius' to you, you have already failed."

"Do you want me to keep repeating your name? Do you want me to continue polluting this pure story?"

When Su Mingan heard this, he suddenly remembered what the Supreme Lord had said:
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[“Go back. I don’t want to take up too much space and distract from the main topic.” The Supreme Lord said, “Don’t let my existence pollute your space-time record.”]

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The ceiling was silent; the Supreme Being was playing dead.

Alger raised his hand, and a pitch-black, red fireball flew into the sky and smashed through the ceiling. The crystal chandelier fell down and shattered into pieces.

There is nothing outside the ceiling.

“He must have used some characteristics of the World Game to place this small copy.” Noel retracted his gaze: “We can’t threaten Him yet, but He must abide by the rules. If we win in the end, the champion will definitely get to see Him, the mastermind behind the scenes.”

Alger sat down again and tapped the table with his fingers: "Then let's make it quick and decisive."

They didn't attack anyone, so the session ended.

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【The "midnight bell" segment ends, and now it's time to eat. 】

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The fog faded away, and the sixteen people opened their eyes and looked at each other.

They were startled by the shattered glass chandelier on the table and couldn't help but wonder what the demons had just done.

Noel remained calm and repeated his previous point, but did not point out his identity as a demon. He only asked everyone to help each other.

Player No. 13 was a lively female player with twin ponytails. Upon hearing this, she immediately booed, "Hush... How dare a traitor say such things? The reason we didn't go up and beat you up is because the rules don't allow it!"

The other players also showed expressions of disgust, as if Noel was some dirty thing.

No. 5 Su Liujin said:

"Whoever made that point has a valid point and it's important for us to share information with each other."

"I have a question. Have you ever come into contact with the concept of 'they'?"

There was silence at the table.

Su Mingan nodded silently in his heart.

Fate is very magical. The first two forces he came into contact with, the "Hand of Fate" and the "Death Singer", happened to be the only two forces that involved the concept of "them". The former wanted to kill "them", and the latter was responsible for "their" death escape.

However, apart from this, there is no trace of "them", and the general public still does not know of "them"'s existence, just like no one is responding now.

At this time, a somewhat timid voice sounded:

"I... I might know something. I'm Senator Vivian's confidant, and I've heard it from someone." The speaker was No. 7, a handsome young man with a slightly awkward look between his brows.

Su Mingan recognized that this person was Wang Xingkong’s high school classmate, who escaped from Mingxi campus with Wang Xingkong. His name was "Chen Yuhang"!
"Senator Vivian? Are you talking about the scientific congressman who took the blame for Bai Qiu?" The lady with white hair No. 11 had a cold voice. She had a sapphire on her forehead and white feathers on her shoulders. It was Tianyu.

"Yes, it's him!" Chen Yuhang swallowed his saliva when he saw this level of beauty. "He often talks to the mirror, saying things like 'I will sincerely welcome your arrival, change this stagnant class world, and destroy the cruel food chain'! Isn't this the ball-selling thief?"

"Where did this group of people come from?" No. 10 Aini showed a strange expression: "If you ask me, just collect the energy quickly and run away with the small world! Why bother with them?"

What Aini said was actually correct. Whether "they" existed or not did not affect Su Mingan's savior line. If Su Mingan had chosen to sacrifice himself to poison Noel, everything would have been over, and "they" had never shown up until the end. It was just that Su Mingan chose to continue going forward and get to the bottom of everything, and then he discovered "them".

But now that you are in it, you can no longer ignore it.

In order to avoid trouble, Su Mingan did not say that he was Bai Qiu, but only described Bai Chun's story. After a while of communication, everyone summarized the information about "them".

First, it is closely related to mirrors.

Second, most of them are hidden behind the scenes, and only a few will take over other people's bodies, just like the fast-travelers. They will treat Luowasha as a love game or other types of games.

Third, her character is just like that of an ordinary person, easily impatient and easily broken. Just like Bai Chun, her emotions are completely exposed on the surface, without any deep scheming.

"With such poor overall quality, I really don't know how 'they' can become stowaways who ignore the world's barriers. All the high-dimensional people I know are deep-minded and experienced. 'They' are not worthy at all." Tianyu frowned.

"Is there a possibility that they are the offspring of a higher-dimensional being? You see, even Boss Rabbit can force pregnancy." Yamada Machi suddenly had an idea: "So 'they' have bad personalities, but were born in the universe."

"I don't think 'they' are beings that can walk freely between universes. I prefer to think that 'they' live normally on their own planets. They are all ordinary people, but they can influence Luowasha through some channels." Su Liujin tapped the table with his fingers, his immature face was extremely serious: "According to Su Mingan, didn't Bai Chun mention 'drawing SSR cards'? Maybe from 'their' perspective, the Luowasha people are like the characters in the game plot, so they are ordinary in quality, but so arrogant."

"Yeah." Chen Yuhang nodded heavily. "Just like when we play computer games, sometimes we don't treat the characters as human beings. We may even kill NPCs several times to achieve a certain achievement. Or we may deliberately commit crimes and kill people just to experience the plot of going to jail."

Upon hearing this, Yamada-cho showed a relieved expression: "Fortunately, the 'Dream Patrolman' next to Su Mingan treats this as a love game. It's just a normal love affair, and the style is still fresh. Even if the person she likes rejects her, she will just kill him directly. According to some... uh, hard to explain games I have played, there may be even more unspeakable plots..."

Su Mingan said: "What plot?"

Yamada Machi suddenly seemed to be choked, and coughed a series of times in his throat. He looked at Su Mingan with a suggestive look, as if to say, "Do you really not understand or are you pretending not to understand?"

Aini sneered: "I don't believe Su Mingan has never played it before."

Su Mingan: “No.”

Only then did he vaguely understand what Yamada Machiichi meant.

"What you are worried about will not happen." Tianyu said lightly.

"Why?" Yamada Machiichi asked puzzledly.

"Extreme blood, violence, colors...it won't pass review." Tianyu said succinctly.

Suddenly, the long table was silent.

Su Mingan remembered that he had heard the term "not passing the review" at the very beginning, which came from the story of Si Que creating Si Yi.

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[“Then you must say goodbye to Siyi.” Qiao said, “They cannot be brought into the capital.”]

【“Why?” Little Si Que didn’t understand. 】

[“Because this kind of subject matter involving things below the neck and about male and female reproduction is too conflicting, it won’t pass the censorship.” Qiao said.]

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Su Mingan didn’t think too much about it at that time, but now that he realized the existence of “them”, he felt something was wrong.

Who is the person who audits?
Is it the World Tree?
Speaking of which, the World Tree obviously has no intelligence. When it swallowed Su Ming'an, it could only say words like "Delicious, love you, delicious, love you" based on its instinct. Ijurel also said that it has no IQ - then where does its wisdom come from, that it can read, score, review, and even guide Su Liujin to become an observer?
There have been people behind it since the beginning.

If not the emperor, if not the gods, if not the supreme lord, if not the lord of the end of all things, then who else could it be?
The World Tree looks down on everything from its high vantage point, scoring, reviewing, and ranking. If it sees a creation it is not satisfied with, it will put it on the Raven List... This attitude is very similar to that of "them".

"They" probably don't have such great authority to control the World Tree. They may just use it and guide it.

"So even if Bai Chun wanted to do something outrageous, such as imprisoning Bai Qiu and using violence against him, or even... cough, she didn't do it in the end, but killed him directly." Su Ming'an's cheeks were slightly hot, and he said to himself, "It turns out that it was because she was afraid of violating this point."