Noel always accompanies him on his journey upstream, waiting for him at the end and the starting point of his retrospection - like a watchman waiting on both sides of the long river of time.
When Su Mingan opened his eyes after looking back, he saw that it was Noel who was with him. In the last second before his death, he still saw Noel.
Because different rounds overlap and the superimposed psychological cues are too confusing, there are occasional miscommunications between them, and some rounds will be wasted.
However, what Su Ming'an is best at is facing death repeatedly and quickly starting over when something goes wrong. Even a gamer in front of a computer screen would get bored with repetitive game cycles, but he wouldn't.
The second code was found in an inconspicuous town.
After finding the code at 4 a.m., they rested together in the town for two hours, making silk nets, hanging red cloth, and eating snacks like rice cakes and candies.
"Happy New Year." Noel held up a piece of candy that was as crystal clear as a candied haws.
"Happy New Year." said Su Ming'an, with a bracelet woven by Noel on his wrist.
They looked up and watched the fireworks bloom and disappear in the distance. Noel squinted his eyes and saw the mushroom cloud rising in the distance.
"It definitely can't be a parallel world...right, Ming'an." Noel said to himself. He stood in the sea of people fleeing in a hurry, facing the spreading flames calmly, like a stable reef in the rushing sea.
The next second, the light of the nuclear explosion engulfed him.
Su Mingan closed his eyes, and the warm touch on his left hand gradually disappeared.
…
The whispers of the gods are getting louder.
Su Mingan could often hear the anxious voice of the god beside him: "Lu Shu! What are you doing? I have clearly paved the way for you to win, why did you come to a place like this?"
The aftereffects of nearly three hundred pills of mental stabilizers are gradually taking their toll.
He could sense that his mental state was very good, but this was just a stimulant, just like a person who only slept for two hours in the early morning. Although he was awake, there were huge hidden dangers in his body.
Sometimes, he would see the audience's questions.
[What is the first player doing...]
[He doesn't care about the City of God anymore? What about the war on the front line...]
[Is a nuclear explosion about to happen? What on earth is he doing? He has sold out Su Lin...]
Su Mingan would not consider the situation in the parallel world. That would be too desperate and too cruel for him.
In the 27th week, he did not take the mental stabilizer. This drug is addictive. He vaguely felt that if he continued to take it, he would be the first to be destroyed.
“Ding Dong!”
[You get the dynamic password · the third digit · Mo. ]
The third code was located in a pool of blood and was found next to Yu Yueyue's body.
When Su Mingan and Noel found this place, Yueyue was already dead. She was sunk deep in the boiling red soil, her back was charred, and the skin on her fingers were curled up, like a scorched butterfly.
Her eyes were still open before she died, and her empty eyes reflected the hellish scene.
“…”
Su Mingan squatted down and closed her eyelids, with no joy or sadness on his face.
He would save her.
Every time he dies, he is laying the stepping stone for the most perfect ending.
Just like when he saw the white ashes of Aktor in the basement of the central city of the Measurement City, his own bones were now piled up into a mountain, accumulating in a timeline that no one could see.
Every time he died, he was comparing new information with Noel bit by bit. Whether it was the password mechanism, the time required to trigger the password, or the location of the password... Every second he spent was spent in fear that he would miss something.
[We must be absolutely perfect... We cannot repeat the original game, we must reduce the number of times we go back to the previous game, and we must reduce our own mistakes...]
He thinks so every time.
Until he reached out his hand, closed Yueyue’s eyes, and turned around——
He saw the family portrait on the wall, the red checkered dining table with the aroma of food wafting from it, and the TV playing the skits from the Spring Festival Gala. This was a home with a familiar decoration.
He realized something was unusual in an instant. He was in a pool of blood and it was impossible for him to see these scenes.
——Get out of here quickly!
At this moment, reason and emotion were fighting fiercely in his mind. One voice said that he had found a password this week and could rest. Another voice told him to leave quickly and not indulge in the weak illusion.
Suddenly, he heard the clattering of keys.
A middle-aged man with a square forehead, a wide face, and thick black eyebrows walked in and hung his blue police uniform on the hanger next to the door. He was tall, with a few silver strands in his black hair. The wrinkles on his face were like cracks in the fields, and his dark eyes were very similar to Su Mingan's.
"Ming'an?" The man looked at him and said, "Sit down and have the New Year's Eve dinner."
Su Mingan stopped.
He didn't take any medicine this week, and he knew what was happening.
"...Can I dream?" he said.
In fact, the person he wanted to spend the New Year with the most was not Yueyue or Nuoer, but...
"Dreaming?" The man shook his head: "You are already ten years old, what are you dreaming about?"
"Where's grandma?" Su Mingan said.
"Grandma is sleeping in the room." said the man.
Su Mingan stood there, unable to look away. He looked longingly at this deceased relative...
Suddenly, he heard another round of footsteps, and a woman in an apron came out of the kitchen carrying dishes and stuffed a red envelope into Su Mingan's hand.
"Ming'an, how come you don't even know how to thank your mother?" the woman said with a smile.
“…”
Su Mingan was silent.
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