First Player

Arriving downstairs, Su Mingan glanced back.

Su Wensheng carried the two children on his back, even though he was also weak.

Those who couldn't move forward could only lie on the ground.

"I... just rest here..." A flaxen-haired girl gasped, clutching the big hole in her abdomen: "There is no dialysis, I... it hurts... I will... not go with you... ..."

She got into a sack by the side of the road to cover herself. The sack was filled with the bloody smell of corpses and organs, as if she, too, had become part of the corpse.

"Let me... have one last dream..." Her lips were bruised and purple, and she could no longer breathe oxygen: "Have a... happy dream."

More and more children are stopped on the road, some lacking organs and unable to travel at all. Some lost too much blood and could not be rescued. Some stopped breathing on the way.

Their throats rumbled like bellows, sucking air at the last moment, but there was no oxygen to pour into their decaying bodies.

Get out, get out.

Escape from this hellish place, escape from this nightmare.

—They must not have woken up yet.

If they wake up, they must still be in a safe classroom, not in the operating room with their eyes open, nor lying in a sack full of organs. People's hearts can't be so bad, that's why.

"Did I do something wrong..." Su Wensheng whispered with the two children on his back, "If I hadn't taken them away, they would still be lying on the hospital bed receiving dialysis, and they wouldn't have died so quickly... "

Su Mingan did not answer.

He carried Xiao Li behind his back, Xiao Li said softly:

"Xiaowen did nothing wrong."

"It was Dr. Su who finally saved the souls of the children. They didn't die from persecution or naked on the operating table without dignity, but died in the free air."

"Everyone is free . . . it must be."

Finally, they arrived at the gate of the inner city. After cutting down the surrounding guards, Su Mingan went to push the gate.

During this period, Su Wensheng has been comforting the remaining dozen or so children:

"Everyone will get out."

"Well, as long as you open this door, you can reach the outer city, and then we will leave the experimental city."

"Don't worry everyone, we will tell the TV station after we go out."

"Xiao Li, you will live in my house when the time comes. My father is a guard, and he will definitely protect you."

"We want to expose what's going on here, and we want the bad guys to be punished!"

Following his motion, all the children raised their fists. They looked up, as if a small fist could break all injustice.

"We want the bad guys to be punished!"

"Boom—Boom—!" The door opened.

For a moment, like some kind of artistic special effect, intense white light sprinkled into the eyes of the children along the door.

Tears welled up in their eyes, their pupils trembling violently, looking at the bright light that covered the sky, they stepped out——

At this moment, Su Mingan saw the lantern in Su Luoluo's hand light up.

——Ghosts must guard the gate firmly and will not allow people to leave easily.

"The ghost is coming!" Su Luoluo's voice trembled.

A blood-red tentacle pierced a child to death.

"ah--!"

There was a scream, blood splattered Su Mingan's face, and the figure of the "ghost" appeared in the red mist. Its figure was extremely ghostly, making it impossible to capture.

"Yi Zhongyu, you send the children to the safe house first!" Su Mingan turned his head and said. Xiao Li and these children cannot leave the inner city alone, there are many contestants from the opposing camps outside, and they will kill Xiao Li.

"Shua! Shua! Shua!" More tentacles stabbed, and Su Mingan set up a space barrier, and the barrier had broken ripples. He protected Xiao Li, and the white tentacles broke through his back.

"—Get out of the way, Old God." At this moment, the 'ghost' spoke.

Under its thick black hair, a pair of pitch-black eyes hide a deep darkness: "I want to take Xiao Li's life, she died nine years ago, she shouldn't have escaped."

Su Mingan said, "I will not back down."

A fierce power came, and the ghost raised its tentacles high, and there were many corpses hanging from the tentacles.

Ghost: "Cause and effect are confused. People who should have died did not die. Do you know what the consequences will be? The Mobius ring that fits perfectly will be disrupted by you, and the stable reality will also be shaken."

Su Mingan raised his sword: "—that's not a coincidence."

He pointed his sword at the ghost in the red mist:

"My biggest task happens to be to kill fate. If it can be disrupted, the more chaotic the better."

"Haha, hahahaha..." Laughter came from the red mist, like a girl's miserable laugh: "——It's useless. You don't understand what a sense of fate is like. All your struggles will eventually lead to the established goal. The ending. It’s the same for Xiaoli, and it’s the same for you.”

Su Ming'an drove the tentacles forward, tightly clenched with the ghost's tentacles, and there was a feeling of muscle necrosis.

At this moment, the ghost's figure moved, and it gave up its tentacles directly, and stabbed Su Ming'an with a rapier, so fast that it was unexpected.

Behind Su Mingan was the gate, and there was almost no way out. He cannot let go of the tentacles, otherwise the ghost will attack others.

At this moment, he felt the wind coming from his ears.

"Shua!"

Grabbing the rapier with both hands, the palm of her hand was pierced in an instant. The rapier passed through her shoulder, pierced the shoulder blade, and the remaining tip of the sword stopped in front of Su Mingan.

Her hand firmly grasped the blade, stuck it in her body, and became a buffer zone in front of Su Mingan. A "cat bamboo stick" prop appeared in front of her, forcing the ghost to take three steps back.

"—Exactly, now." Blood flowed from Su Luoluo's mouth.

——Su Ming'an didn't expect Su Luoluo to exchange the props anyway.

Her shoulder was bleeding all the time, and there was a mark where the flesh had been gouged out.

The ghost took three steps back, Su Mingan threw Arman's sword forcefully, and the tip of the sword pierced the ghost's forehead in an instant.

"You..." Su Mingan said.

"Among us, there must be someone who can exchange items, otherwise there is no way to fight against ghosts." Su Luoluo stumbled back a few steps: "You are very important, and Yi Zhongyu is also very important, only me is the least important, so... in your After I left, I exchanged my flesh and blood for props. Even if there are any consequences, I will bear them alone."

Su Mingan didn't expect her to have such great determination.

Her shoulders were bleeding, and the blood stained the medal of Miss Demon King on her chest red.

While the ghost was still drawing his sword, Su Mingan picked up Xiaoli, rushed into another safe room with Su Luoluo, and slammed the door shut.

The ghost regained his composure and kept knocking on the door, already extremely annoyed.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The loud noise kept ringing. Su Luoluo sat in the corner, and Su Mingan bandaged her. The wooden door kept shaking, and the safe house seemed to collapse at any moment.

"The ghost is enraged... it should have been guarding the door." Su Luoluo said.

"En." Su Mingan already felt that the ghost's aura was stronger than before.

"What if we...can't get out? It will always guard us, always..." Su Luoluo said: "At that time, if you are hungry, eat my meat."

"I have food with me." Su Mingan said.

He lifted off her clothes that were covered with blood and skin, and she kept sucking in air.

"It hurts so much, you still have to stand in front of me." Su Mingan said, "Don't do that next time."

If Su Luoluo died, he would go back to save her.

At this time, Su Luoluo suddenly raised his hand and held his hand. There were still some scars on the palm of his hand, which touched her bandaged hand.

When looking at him, her pupils shrunk slightly like a cat: "Actually, Wen Sheng told me a long time ago that one day he will become another person."

Su Mingan paused with his fingers: "Huh?"

Lolo Su lowered his eyes and said:

"So I call him by different nicknames every week, sometimes I call him Little Blue Sky, sometimes I call him Xiaoxiliu, every week, every week, I give him different nicknames."

"Until the week when I called 'Little Yunduo', you came. From then on, I will only call you Little Yunduo. The nickname 'Little Yunduo' is unique and belongs only to you."

Su Mingan paused with his fingers for a moment, and said in a low voice, "I broke your peaceful life."

Su Luoluo shook his head: "No. I never imagined that there would be miracles in the world...until I met you. That day you held the Dream Tour helmet and told me, 'Push it, and it will happen'."

"You told me that this world can be saved, and you said that you want me to be the most powerful entertainment anchor. At that moment, what I thought in my heart was, no matter what wishes you have...I also want to participate with you."

"My previous life was not good. Since I was a child, I was regarded as an oil bottle. Later, my home was bombed, my father passed away, and my mother was still sick. You let me save her."

"Only once...just once."

Her hands clenched.

"I want to have a wonderful dream with you."

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[npc (Su Luoluo) favorability degree: 90 points (together in the same boat)]

...

Su Mingan let go of his hand, and in Su Luoluo's eyes, he saw emotions similar to those of Wang Xingkong.

The girl who was lingering at the school gate, she has come here.

"You have done a good job, then you stay in the house." Su Mingan said, "I'm going to face the ghost."

The ghost has fallen into a state of mania, its tentacles are extending in all directions, and he has already heard people's screams.

— can't let it go on.

"Can you beat it?" Su Luoluo asked.

Su Mingan stopped for a moment: "Should...cannot."

Exchanging flesh and blood for props and attracting ghosts is the normal game idea. But the ghost kept staring at him. Once the ten hours have elapsed, the first tower will fail.

Even if you pay the price of multiple retracements, you must kill the ghost.

He put his hand on the doorknob and took a deep breath, knowing he was about to face a lot of pain.

When he was about to push the door out, the corner of his clothes was pulled.

"Doctor Su." Xiao Li's lips trembled:

"I know what to do. Let me do it."

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...

[February 9, overcast. 】

[Today, the operation went on as scheduled. 】

[No one came to save me. 】

[After my blood was taken, my kidney was also taken. 】

...

[February 10, overcast. 】

[I asked Xiaowen to write the diary for me, because I couldn't hold a pen. 】

【He has been crying. 】

[The adults chased him away, and then took most of my liver. 】

...

[February 12, Xiaoxue. 】

[Xiaowen has been telling me that when I get off the operating table, we will go home together. 】

[However, I know that today I will have a major operation. 】

[The grownups want to transform me, because the blood of those who are qualified is very strong, and they are thinking, if my blood can be turned into weapons, such as bright red tentacles, like "alien species that can be controlled by humans"—then, They can use me to get more resources. 】

[However, in that case, I will also become a walking dead, and it will no longer be me. 】

[It's so funny, I thought I could live a few more days. 】

[Xiaowen is still crying. 】

[A man loves to cry so much, how can he save other children in the future. 】

【I told him that if someone really came to save him, he must come back in the future and destroy this place. 】

[Then, goodbye. 】

...

[February 13, heavy snow. 】

[In the early hours of this morning, Xiao Li passed away. 】

[I am Xiaowen. 】

[Just now, a man named Dr. Su came to rescue me, and I left with him. 】

【Xiao Li... She is only one day away from leaving here. 】

[It's just... a day away. 】

【…】

【Doctor Su asked me what regrets I have. 】

【I said, if Dr. Su could come to rescue us before everything happened...if before February 9th, before Xiaoli's organs were removed, then it would be...consummation. 】

[However, reality is not a fairy tale. 】

【Doctor Su patted my head and said that I am still young, go home and don't get involved. When I leave the small town after the college entrance examination and become a big shot in the future, I will come to him again. 】

...

[July 9th, sunny. 】

[I met a person named Chaoyan. 】

【She told me that as long as the first tower is opened, I can see Xiaoli again. 】

[I decided to live well until the first tower is opened. 】

【But she looked at me sadly, and she told me that the fate of death cannot be changed. Cause and effect are like ouroboros connected end to end. Even if I go back to the past, I will only complete the connection of cause and effect, which will only make the fate of "Xiaoli's death" more profound. 】

【The method of the first tower to bring people back to the past is not to reverse time, but to climb along the causal line to the past. Only people with perfect cause and effect can be rescued, and those who have never appeared in the future are doomed to die. It can change the course at most, and produce a butterfly effect to affect the future, but only death is the irreversible past. 】

【It's just like—a fate that is tightly locked up. 】

[But I don't believe it. 】

[I want to live until I meet her. I want to... tell her what it's like to go to school, what chalk dust smells like, what cake smells like, and I'm going to bring her fresh tomatoes and the new paintings I've done in the past few years. 】

[I want to give her a hug and tell her not to be afraid, I have grown up. 】

[I want to live. 】

[Live until nine years later, when I meet her in person. 】

【I want...to live. 】

[This is the agreement. 】

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Sorry, I quoted some readers' words in the text before. After being reminded, I realized that it needs to be marked, and it has been deleted. I will ask for future references.