Noel slowly loosened his hand, and the brim of his hat covered his eyes without pressing down. Perhaps Su Mingan could see Noel's eyes if he leaned over, but there was no need.
The meaning is very clear.
Noel slowly placed his left hand on the building block castle in his right hand and tapped on it like playing the piano.
It wasn't any code, just playful tapping.
Like a child playing with toys.
"Now is your best chance to kill me... Do you still think I have a hidden secret?" Noel lowered his eyes and looked at the brightly colored building blocks in his hand.
"You've done this before." Su Mingan said.
"But this time." Noel shook his head and finally gave a completely firm answer: "I really... have no secrets."
…
【“There is no hidden secret.”】
…
Noel should have had a thousand ways to tell him the reason, but he didn't.
Noel should have known a thousand more appropriate ways to say goodbye, but she didn't.
There was not even any communication of secret codes between them. Except for some codes confirming that Noel was himself, Noel did not respond to any of the secret codes sent by Su Mingan.
Not replying is actually a reply.
"Just cut it off like this?" Su Ming'an took a deep breath.
"Yeah. It's nice to have walked a path with you, but, it's true that we've come this far," Noel said.
"So, you think... your ideals are more important than my life?" Su Mingan asked.
Noel blinked his eyes, as if he was very surprised, and laughed: "Put yourself in my shoes. If the method to save Zhai Xing is right in front of you, as long as you do it, you will definitely be able to do it. The price is just to sacrifice my life - if you have tried hundreds and thousands of times and still can't save my life, will you choose not to sacrifice me and give up Zhai Xing?"
This empathy was so fatal that Su Mingan remained silent for a long time.
“…”
silence.
Silent silence.
Su Mingan had faced such a choice in the Ninth World. If Noel had not come to break the situation, Su Mingan would have been helpless... and might have really lost Yueyue in the end.
He really... couldn't give a definite answer.
After a moment, his voice became a little dry:
"Then why don't you summon Gao Wei immediately? Now is your best chance to strike."
"Our bet isn't over yet." Noel raised the building block castle in his hand.
"What's the point? What's the stakes?"
"If I win, you have some strawberry cake. If I lose, I'll have some chocolate," Noel said with a smile.
...What kind of bet is this? What kind of stakes is this? It's just like a child's play.
Su Mingan subconsciously wanted to laugh. He was used to giving face to Nuoer. Even if Nuoer told some unfunny jokes, he would still laugh. But when he was about to smile, he realized that he didn't need to smile at Nuoer anymore.
Noel's jokes were no longer for him and them.
A playful farewell, a playful bet, a playful wager, the adventurers in the new world always like to do everything in such a playful way, including his own life. But even at such a solemn moment, the boy still had a smile on his face.
Just like what the boy had said to him at the beginning - [Play the game with a smile].
Now, Noel was actually smiling.
If you don't look at his eyes hidden by the brim of his hat.
Su Mingan wanted to go closer to take a look, but Noel suddenly turned around and faced away from him.
"When I was a kid, my adoptive parents would take me to the astronomical museum." Noel looked up at the sea of stars and whales in the sky, as if he could see the blue sky of Zhaixing:
"Most of the astronomical museums in Yu Country are very romantic. They will anthropomorphize Venus, Jupiter, Saturn... into human beings, so that you can know their appearance, temperament, and hobbies."
"Saturn is a gentle angel with a huge halo and the color of a hard-working farmer."
"Mercury is a swift little elf, with an orbital period of only 88 days, and it always rendezvouses with the Sun very quickly."
"When I was a child, I didn't believe them like other children did. Other children thought they were really 'angels' and 'elves'. But I know they are just planets orbiting the sun. They have no temperament and are neither good nor evil."
“In a planetarium, it’s humans who play the planets, not the real planets.”
"All emotions are imposed on them by humans, who try to make them live as they want. Humans are such selfish and broad-minded creatures that they want everything to be presented and understood according to their way of thinking."
"So, I knew then that a planet is a planet after all, a siren is a siren after all, and the captain is a human after all."
"The siren will not abandon the vast ocean and confine herself to the land just for the captain. The captain will not stay at the bottom of the sea and bid farewell to his hometown forever just for the siren."
The blue rose ribbon fluttered, and the boy's golden hair swam freely under the sea of stars.
His white legs stepped in the black water, and his slender back seemed to have grown long wings.
"Of all the stars, I like the sun best."
"It's not because it's the core of the solar system, nor because it's the origin of all life, but simply because... it's unique and one of a kind."
"It is the only star in the entire system. It does not need to orbit anyone. As long as it exists there, it will be orbited by other planets. Its scorching heat and dazzling brilliance make everything afraid to look directly at it."
"——The sun leads all living things."
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