Facing Flax, enduring her pollution, and engaging in verbal battles with her had temporarily exhausted his energy.
"If you don't want to commit suicide," Su Ming'an said, "then just listen to the NPC... don't let something like today happen again."
He left a final word of advice.
He walked up the stairs.
There was a sudden loud noise behind him, as if the impostor was being beaten.
People are exhausting themselves internally to vent their anger at being deceived.
They vent their anger through fists and kicks, as if this can give them a sense of satisfaction.
Su Mingan turned his back to them and walked up the stairs.
On the fifth floor, which had just been opened, he saw the brilliant afternoon sunlight shining on the wooden shelves of books.
…
[Lin Jiang, a girl from an ordinary family born in Longguo, is actually 19 years old. She was a freshman in college before the world game started.]
[Her mother once told her: "We are noble enough in our own right."]
【“Money cannot measure us. We are more beautiful and valuable than anyone else.”】
[That’s what she originally thought.]
[Until one day, she attended a birthday party for her deskmate.]
[She previously thought that a birthday party was just a family sitting at a table, eating some cake, some meat dishes, blowing out the candles, and having a good sleep, right?]
[What else is there that requires a special celebration and the invitation of so many people to dress up? ]
【She didn't know, she just went. 】
【After that, she saw a world she had never seen before. 】
[The magnificent hall, the crystal-decorated hall lights, and the scarlet carpet that stretched from one end of the high steps to the other end where she was standing.]
[In the banquet hall filled with formalwear, her pretty deskmate stood at the top of the stairs.]
[My deskmate wore a long skirt that trailed the ground, and a diamond-adorned hairpin on her head, looking like a princess living in the real world.]
[The princess came over with a smile and raised her glass to her.]
[She looked at her school uniform and sports pants and panicked for a moment.]
[“Why am I here?”]
[She faced everyone's mocking eyes, unable to understand.]
[“…Why is she the princess and I am just the ugly duckling?”]
[“At school, I am the good kid in the eyes of the teachers, but she is a poor student who has no knowledge or skills.”]
[“Why, why are you here…”]
【“Everything is messed up?”】
[“Why do people look at me with contempt?”]
[“Why do they say this is the outside world?”]
【She escaped.】
[Like escaping from a world that does not belong to her, like escaping from the clouds into the mortal world. She walked through the alley full of dirty water, pushed open the creaking door, and saw her mother with wrinkles all over her face.]
[The little princess still remembers what her mother looked like. She looked like a lady who had never been to a man's house, and her face had no trace of aging.]
【At this moment, she saw her mother and felt ashamed. 】
【……】
【She gradually changed.】
[I used to feel close to my mother when I heard her nagging about family matters and rising vegetable prices, but now I just feel she is nagging.]
[Seeing the high-end desserts in the hall and the sea cucumbers and abalones flown in from abroad, she found the stir-fried cabbage on the table hard to swallow.]
[She felt ashamed when she saw the little princess wearing a rhinestone dress and brand-name accessories, a baggy school uniform that had been washed many times, and hairpins that cost five yuan each from a jewelry store.]
【……】
【She gradually changed.】
[She no longer cared about food and vegetables, and no longer chatted with her parents about family matters. She struggled with her own poverty. Every time she saw her deskmate coming to school, she didn't dare to look her in the eye, and always felt ashamed.]
[Her mother said: "Don't worry about these things, we are noble enough."]
But she couldn’t understand.
[She hid herself in her bed at night, her tears soaking her days and nights.]
[She shuttled among the crowd, seemingly having nothing to do with the hustle and bustle, yet she couldn't help herself from being among them.]
【Finally, one day when I was struggling, another "she" appeared. 】
[“She” said: “You are so useless, Lin Jiang.”]
[“She” said: “You are extremely ugly, and you dare not face your own inferiority complex.”]
[“She” said: “You can continue to feel inferior, and then I will mature on your behalf.”]
【……】
[“She” said: — I will become the “sin” of your vanity, Lin Jiang. ]
…
The words stayed in front of my eyes for a moment.
Su Mingan leaned against the library's bookshelf, yawned, and watched the blood-red words appear on the panel bit by bit:
【“——Doctor, my dear doctor.”】
[“You think, in the white sand paradise, such a child.”]
[“Is it judged to be an existence that can be saved?”]
[“Or…unable to be treated, destined to become discarded social waste?”]
[“What this child has committed is an unforgivable sin.”]
[“…Or did it create a past that could not be buried?”]
…
[“Please make your decision tonight.”]
Su Mingan closed the system interface and walked out from the bookshelf.
The setting sun outside the window shines through the tall branches and leaves, casting sparkling light inside.
He looked at the system time. It was five o'clock in the afternoon. He had been here for the entire afternoon.
The newly opened fifth floor is very large, much larger than the fourth floor, almost the size of a library.
He searched the entire fifth floor and met many other players who had come up there as well. When they faced him, they avoided his gaze and dared not communicate with him.
Mo Yan also came once. He seemed to want to look for clues in books, but he failed after flipping through only one or two books.
Mo Yan said that this book was very weird, just like the Baisha History that the teacher gave out, which made people feel dizzy and impossible to read on.
But Su Mingan watched it here for the entire afternoon and didn't feel anything was wrong.
He walked out of the bookshelf and found that the entire fifth floor was already empty.
He came to the other side of the bookshelf and suddenly saw a slender figure.
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