Even if it was just a secret with no reason stated, these words had already taken away his existence.

…

[TE3·(Reach the final old place and establish a utopia) Perfect clearance progress: 90%]

…

The progress of the perfect clearance suddenly increased a lot, which surprised Su Mingan. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but couldn't utter a word.

This is the 10% clearance progress gained at the cost of one's life. If it weren't for Su Wensheng's words, Su Ming'an didn't know how many times he would have to go back to the game to find out this sentence.

Su Wensheng stretched out his hands and held up his right hand.

Ten fingers clasped his palms, leaving faint crescent marks. His eyes were like a forgotten old oil painting, still bright in color, but unable to conceal the loneliness forgotten by the world.

"...Do you know why I always wear black earrings?" Su Wensheng said softly.

"Why?" Su Mingan was also puzzled about this for a long time.

"…Because you would never wear earrings." Su Wensheng said, "Even if you become me, you will take off your earrings. So, 'Su Wensheng with earrings' is Su Wensheng."

Su Mingan didn't expect this to be the reason.

He thought of many possibilities, including the possibility that the earring was a weapon, or a communication tool, but he never thought that it was just a... "distinguishing tool."

…He can only distinguish himself with his earrings.

"Yeah." Su Mingan whispered, "I don't like earrings."

Su Wensheng curled the corners of his lips.

Finally, he used a little more force with his ten fingers and buried ten crescents in Su Mingan's palms, as if he wanted to bury the heat between his palms deep into his bones.

"I don't know what I can leave for you." Su Wensheng lowered his head and smiled: "In fact, I still feel unwilling."

"Thinking about the bad impression I left on you, I only told you this secret for the sake of my own world. But if it happened again, I might still make the same choice. I must confirm you, because in other parallel worlds, maybe the savior would not be as qualified as 'Su Ming'an."

"The one who left the deepest impression on you was probably the Moon Arc who hurt you."

"Master Su, the savior, so I'll leave you a little crescent mark as my trace."

...What do you mean by "only for my own world"? Should I use "only" for this reason?

...Why are you so self-deprecating?

Su Mingan felt almost no pain on his palm. The mark left by Su Wensheng was very shallow, and his nails were cut short. He seemed to remember that students were not allowed to have long nails.

Su Mingan suddenly realized that there were so many players participating in the Tenth World. In the copy without Su Mingan, the "savior" might not be qualified, and Su Wensheng's choice was not unreasonable.

Just like the world that Bei Wang experienced, it was completely destroyed in the end. If Su Wensheng had made the same decision in that parallel copy, perhaps the ending would not be extinction.

Holding his hand, Su Mingan pursed her lips and buried the trembling in her heart.

"Su Mingan..."

…

The setting sun faded into the distance like a curtain falling. Thousands of golden rays sprinkled on the corridor, as if infused with a sacred rhythm.

The young man's face was filled with a detached calmness, and the last ray of light wandered on his black bone nails.

As if to confirm something, he raised his hand, touched Su Mingan's cheek, and looked at him intently, as if trying to find out what was different between these similar eyes and his own.

Is it obsession? Is it fanaticism? Or...

...What shaped Su Mingan? And what reconstructed him?

"There are 10,000 Su Wenshengs in this world. There are too many of them, and I feel confused. They are like shadows extending from me, similar, yet different enough to be confusing." He said:

"But there will only ever be one 'Earring Su Wensheng'... and that's me."

"Remember me, 'The Savior'."

"You have to remember... I have never forgotten my ideals, even if they are shattered."

——Even if it is one in ten thousand ideals, it still means eight billion lives.

——How can you expect him to ignore these 8 billion lives, ignore the possible destruction after his own death, and resolutely fall into the lake to die.

The next moment, it was as if an invisible machete fell on him, trying to wipe out his existence.

Su Mingan could not forget the look in his eyes at that moment.

It was a look...like one that longed for Heavenly Father.

He was the person who hated God the most. So many fire bearers passed the glass bottle to him, but only the gods saved him and preserved his ideals.

Even though it's just a fragmented ideal.

…But this has been my life for nineteen years.

Then, the real savior Su Ming'an came. Su Ming'an's arrival was like a second heavenly father, igniting the fire of hope in the world and making him feel redeemed again.

This time, the salvation is no longer a false one.

When Su Wensheng was accusing Su Ming'an of "heinous crimes" on the podium, he was clearly smiling.

——Because he knew that this "heinous crime" he mentioned was clearly an ideal that he himself could never achieve. It was a hope that he could never reach in his entire life.

——His life was rooted in the mud. But a bird flew over the mud.

Look, the sky is full of red, the sky is full of rosy clouds... How beautiful this world is...

He stared at the sky outside the window, his eyes slightly red.

——Why would someone just burn himself to death like this?

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[Su Mingan respects the choices of his teammates, and also respects the choices of the Knights of Light back then. When they choose to sacrifice, he will not stop them, but he will hope in his heart that next time, this will not happen again.]

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