"good evening."
The three of them returned to the villa, and after confirming that Lu Shu and Nuoer were fine, Su Mingan wanted to go back to his room and sleep for a while.
"Good night, Su Mingan." Lu Shu said.
"Good night. When you wake up, the villa will be very lively." Noel waved to Su Mingan with a smile.
"Who are you going to invite over for the New Year?" Su Ming'an asked. Noel seemed very motivated for this New Year celebration, and had been preparing since the end of the Ninth World. Who knew what surprises would come.
"Of course they are all acquaintances." Noel said, "Don't worry, I have arranged everything. I guarantee you will be satisfied with the process."
"Okay." Su Mingan smiled and closed the door.
The moment the door closed, Su Mingan immediately tilted his body and sat on the ground, covering his face and breathing rapidly. He stretched out his hand and slapped his dizzy forehead several times, then stood up with the help of the wall and walked towards the bed.
…
After Su Ming'an fell asleep, the hall suddenly became extremely quiet, with only the "puff puff" sound of the small stove boiling tea.
Noel glanced at Lu Shu with an ambiguous look in his eyes.
Lu Shu did not respond, his eyes slightly lowered, as if he was still thinking about Su Mingan's words.
Seeing this, Noel wanted to turn around and leave, but he heard Lu Shu say, "Wait."
Noel turned around without surprise. He knew that he had said some bad things about Lu Shu before, and this time he probably wanted to talk about it openly. There was indeed a conflict between their teams.
The two looked at each other. Su Lin, who was making tea next to them, raised his eyes, then lowered them with disinterest.
"If you have any questions, ask me," Noel said.
"——Do you really have the authority?" Lu Shu asked, but the question was this.
Noel was stunned for a moment, then felt speechless.
"No. I've said it so many times." Noel would never confirm this verbally. Once he confirmed it, it would mean destruction, even if he really had no authority.
"If you really have authority, people will think you are safer than Su Mingan." Lu Shu said, "At present, such a trend has emerged on the forum. After all, you don't need to spend as much time as Su Mingan to dig out the deepest secrets of the dungeon. You just need to complete your identity tasks casually, and you can directly reach the perfect clearance."
"I'm not a perfect passer." Noel turned his palm slowly. The perfect pass mark on the back of his hand was not complete. "No threat to the organizer. No help in leading mankind. As long as I don't have the right to make a wish, it is impossible to dominate the human world after the war. I can't replace Su Mingan's position, don't worry."
“——But don’t you have any regrets?” Lu Shu suddenly said this.
"What?"
"It was the White Day Floating City instance in the second world. You lost to Su Mingan, which prevented you from completing the level perfectly. You are smart, powerful, and have authority. If you hadn't proactively provided the Dawn Code to Su Mingan, you wouldn't have exposed your authority." Lu Shu said, "You were questioned by the organizers because you helped Su Mingan. You could have been on your own and didn't need to assist Su Mingan, right?"
Lu Shu's words became more and more profound.
Su Lin, who was making tea nearby, raised his eyebrows and glanced at the two of them again. Three seconds later, he lowered his eyes again, pretending to be uninterested in their conversation.
"...I didn't expect that you'd become smarter after becoming 'Captain Mu'." Noel smiled.
“After living for more than ten years, you will always grow a little bit,” Lu Shu said.
"It's a little smarter." Noel stretched out his hand, slightly pinching his thumb and index finger, leaving a slight gap. There was no malice in his tone, just pure teasing: "But not much."
Lu Shu listened with a blank expression.
After the tempering of time, he is no longer easily angered. In fact, he knows in his heart that he does not hate Noel, and Noel does not hate him either. They are more like bickering and targeting each other. This relationship does not come from a conflict of interest or some kind of contradiction, but is just due to the personalities of the two.
The strange smell of tea and milk lingered in the air. Noel raised his head and glanced at the closed door on the second floor. Su Mingan was sleeping inside and could not hear his argument with Lu Shu.
If we don't remove this thorn in the team's side, it will definitely lead to disaster in the future. Now is the time to talk it out.
"I have always helped Su Ming'an, even played a supporting role for him...but it's not because I am willing to do so, do you understand?" said Noel.
“…Huh?” Lu Shu was stunned.
"Listen carefully - if I were truly invincible and could do anything on my own, I wouldn't make friends with anyone," Noel said.
"But Su Ming'an is Su Ming'an, and I believe he has the ability to stand on his own. At that time, I had already lost the qualification to complete the game perfectly. After careful consideration, I thought that only by helping him could I maximize my benefits, so I would continue to help him as a supporting player."
"I think helping him will help me achieve my goal to the maximum extent. If I help him, I can maintain my position as the 'second player' stably and safely. If I help him, I can get closer to the most precious thing, the 'right to make a wish'."
"If helping him is beneficial to me, of course I will help him."
"There is no inexplicable affection or trust in this world. The source of everything in the world comes from interests. Only when interests exist at the beginning will more and more emotions and entanglements be mixed in later. I don't believe anyone who says 'because I like you' or 'because I have a good impression of you'."
When Noel said this, he smiled and said, "You wanted to make friends with Su Ming'an in the first place, wasn't it because... he was very powerful and could help you get revenge in the future, so you followed him? You can't just go up to someone and devote everything to him. It can only be because of your family background, your values, and your decisiveness that you can judge that following him will help you emotionally and in your interests, and then you will follow him. If you met him in the apocalyptic world at that time, and he was not the top player, but just an ordinary player, would you go up and say you wanted to follow him?"
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