First Player

Chapter 48 "You are the pride of your parents."

Su Ming'an walked in the underground passage for a long time and came to the room where the saint's calendar lay.

She was lying on the ground, her skin and flesh rolled up, still looking like she was worse than dead.

Hearing the footsteps, she reluctantly turned her head and saw him.

"Where did you see that oracle?" Su Mingan said.

Zhou Lili opened her mouth, indicating that she had no strength to speak.

Su Mingan knelt down and fed her a blood bottle. He had as many of these blood bottles as he wanted. They were given by other players in the 10,000-person dungeon, so he didn't feel bad about using them.

After drinking the blood bottle, Zhou Lili's complexion improved.

"Don't believe that...that adventurer named Noel." She started, but the first sentence she said was this: "He...he is a devil! He is a devil!"

The devil again.

This was the second time Su Mingan heard someone calling Noel "devil". The first time he heard it was in the seventh world, where a woman had complained hoarsely about Noel's human experimentation.

"Why did he do this to you?" he asked.

"He...he didn't want to sacrifice himself with me. He even ripped off my skin and gouged out my eyes..." When Noel was mentioned, Zhou Lili's eyes were full of panic: "He is too cruel and terrifying. Yes, he used me as an experiment, letting my body be destroyed and grown again. He was studying me..."

Su Mingan remembered.

Before, in Praia, he accidentally bumped into Noel's experimental site. At that time, Noel's room was also a scene of blood. The NPC's body fell to the ground, and Noel's white gloves were still full of blood.

Noel said at the time that these were all NPCs, and he was just making reasonable use of these resources to study the source structure of NPC abilities to better enhance himself and help today's players.

But Su Mingan remembered that the Tulip Princess in Praia also said that she was just absorbing the souls of players to extend her life and protect the NPCs in Praia.

...It’s just a different stance.

"Can you leave?" Su Ming'an asked her, "Take me to the oracle you saw."

Zhou Lili drank several bottles of blood, but still collapsed on the ground, without any strength.

Her eyes were fixed on Su Ming'an, as if she was thinking about whether to take him down by force. Even though she was still lying down, she barely had the strength to do it. She didn't want to listen to this outsider.

The next moment, the light came on, and their vision became clear.

Su Mingan turned on his watch, revealing the raven on his shoulder.

"..." Zhou Lili immediately changed his expression.

Her expression became humble.

"Okay." She said, "I'll take you there."

…

Ji Lili still couldn't walk, after all, her internal organs had been torn out, and the blood bottle was just killing her.

Su Mingan took out a wooden board, threw her on it, and dragged her away.

After walking for a while, the direction sound of the day calendar stopped.

She raised her hand and pointed to a corner.

"When you turn that corner, there are bloody marks on the wall." She said, "I don't know if that is the oracle you are looking for..."

Su Mingan turned the corner, raised his head, but frowned.

What he saw was indeed a red pattern.

But that's not an oracle.

…just a whole wall of text and graffiti written in red.

The graffiti is crude, like a child's random drawings, and the words are crooked.

These... are not oracles that can convey key information, they are just a wall of graffiti left by children.

"Is this the oracle you are looking for?" Zhou Lili asked.

"...No." Su Mingan felt a little heavy.

He knew that Noel had made a mistake. What Dilili saw here was just a red graffiti pattern. After hearing her experience, Noel thought it was an oracle. After all, Noel has never really seen the Oracle.

Now, where would he find a new oracle?

He walked towards the graffiti wall. Due to his habit of searching for clues, he subconsciously read the text on the wall, even though he knew it was just a child's graffiti.

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【This wall is so big, I like it here. 】

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[The teacher taught me how to write. Hehe, she said I was the most talented child in the tribe. 】

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[Dad is so stupid, why are you worrying about the magma? We can just leave. 】

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[I’m here again today. Mom is going to sew me some clothes. It must be very beautiful. 】

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[Today I sneaked into the library and read some books. I discovered a very interesting thing! I want to test it, but the elders say it’s impossible. I don’t believe it. I’ll let them see the results! 】

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Su Mingan read quickly. These were children's diaries and had little content.

He was about to look away when he suddenly saw a sentence that concerned him very much.

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[He has beautiful black hair and a pair of beautiful black eyes. Well, I like black. 】

[He has a smart mind, not inferior to mine, and he also has the wisdom to adapt to changes. 】

[He cares about the feelings of his companions, regardless of the loss of one or the other...]

[He has the courage to face everything independently, and he never runs away, just like me. 】

[He respects others, has the ability to think independently, and has self-judgment. Well, that’s good. There are too many tragedies here, and he cannot be the perpetrator. 】

[Well, it seems like I really like him...]

…

Su Mingan put his hand on the wall. The writings and graffiti had faded.

This wall is very big, and it is covered with dense writings, and even some words are written in the cracks. The most common thing among them is not the diary, but the rows of "him" that are constantly repeated.

[I like him and I will write letters often. 】

[If he comes to play with me later, I can give him candies, good-looking candies wrapped in plastic shells. 】

[He can read stories, right? I like listening to stories, especially fairy tales. Although I know fairy tales are all meant to deceive children, I just like them. I want him to read them to me. 】

[It would be nice if he knew how to play a musical instrument. It would be a flute, a harp, a mekel, anything, as long as he knew one of them. I like listening to music and singing. It would be great if I could sing with him. 】

[I am looking forward to meeting him. I have prepared fruits and candies, just waiting for him to come...]

【……】

These are just records. "He" should be a friend of the graffiti artist, and the two have not actually met.

There is nothing special or noteworthy about the content.

But the strange thing is that on this wall, these paragraphs about "him" are repeated over and over again, as if they are crazy. The fonts are like ants, crowding the wall that is two people high, from top to bottom, a little bit No gaps are left, which can make the scalp of people with trypophobia numb.

Su Ming'an took a cursory look and saw at least a dozen repeated sentences. Their traces were deep and shallow, as if they were written at different times. The graffiti artist must have been here many times, copying sentences like this over and over again, embedding individual words into every corner of the wall.

...so weird.

It turns out that there are also mentally ill people in the sky.

"If this is not an oracle, there is nothing I can do." Di Lili's voice came from behind.

"Is there anything special about this underground passage?" Su Mingan asked.

Zhou Lili shook her head. Her shaking head seemed to involve some kind of wound.

She took a few heavy breaths, and after showing him a way out, she passed out again.

From the looks of it, she really didn't have long to live. The damage Noel had caused her was too deep, and even the blood bottle couldn't save her.

Originally, her plan on the eighth day of the war was to set herself on fire and die, but now her death time has been brought forward.

Su Mingan chose to leave. Since he couldn't find the oracle in the underground passage, he had no choice but to go up first.

He walked for a while and found a road that extended upwards. As he went up, he saw a wooden board blocking it. He could go up by lifting the wooden board.

He did not open the board rashly. Although Zhou Lili said that this exit was not within the scope of the first tribe and was in an area outside the wall, it should not have been blocked by Feng Zhang and others. However, he did not trust Zhou Lili because he was afraid that she was lying. he.

He pressed against the wooden board and listened to the movement above.

There was actually someone above, a man and a woman chatting.

"...Look, this is the clothes I sewed today. Does it look good?" This was the voice of a middle-aged woman.

"Alas." The man did not reply to her, but sighed.

"Are you still not relieved?" the woman asked.

"The elders should have almost discovered our intention to escape. We have to stay as far away from the first tribe as possible." The man seemed to light a pipe: "Shanshan, follow me, do you regret it?"

"How can I not regret it later?" the woman said: "You are my husband, and I can never leave you. The tribe wants to throw our children into the lava. If I don't follow you, should I still obey the tribe's arrangements? ?”

"This damn succession ceremony..." The man gritted his teeth: "There is actually the custom of throwing children into the lava for sacrifice. Such a bad custom should not exist at all. This time we left under the pretext of taking our son out to inspect the surrounding area. We have joined the first tribe, but our daughter is still in the tribe..."

"They won't embarrass a little girl. After all, we have already left." The woman said softly: "We... can only escape first and find an opportunity to pick her up later. Where is the son? Why hasn't he come back yet? We are here today." We have to stay away from the first tribe all night long.”

Su Mingan listened to the voice.

Through the gap, he saw that it was a civilian bungalow. From this angle, he could see the closed wooden door, but he could not see the man and woman talking. They seemed to be sitting on the other side of the room.

They are supposed to be a couple and this is their residence.

Listening to their conversation, it sounds like their children were going to be thrown into the lava during the succession ceremony, so they fled the first tribe and took up residence in this house.

I don't know if they know that there is an entrance to the underground passage under this room.

However, Zhou Lili did not lie to him. This entrance was really not within the scope of the First Tribe, and it was not blocked yet. He could go out from here.

Just as he was about to go out, he heard the sound of the door opening, and a young boy with black hair walked in from the door, holding a lamp in his hand.

"Son, why are you back so late? We have to go on a journey tonight." the woman asked.

"An old man fell on the roadside. I helped him to the nearest health center." The young boy said with a smile.

"Yes, you have to remember that we have to shoulder the responsibility of taking care of the weak..." The woman touched his head, with a sense of majesty in her voice. Their status seems to be high among the first tribe, and they only left the tribe to escape the magma ritual.

But after listening to the young boy's words, the man began to tremble.

"...Not good." He realized something, stood up immediately, grabbed the woman and son: "Let's leave quickly! That old man should be a trap!"

"What?"

"The elders suddenly discovered this place. I sensed... something is wrong! They are so fast!" As soon as the man said this, he heard a "bang" at the door and someone was kicking the door.

He immediately rushed forward and pushed the heavy furniture in front of the door. The woman was shocked and hurriedly pushed the furniture.

"Bang!" "Bang!" The sound of knocking on the door could not be heard, and torches lit up in the night, like the eyes of a wolf.

"——Return to the tribe, perform the ceremony, and don't forget your mission! Lord Siike! Lord Chushan!"

The voice came from outside the door. Although it used the respectful words of 'sir', it had a strong reprimanding tone.

"How could this happen..." The man gritted his teeth.

The woman closed her eyes in pain: "We had no time to escape, they blocked the door..."

The little boy froze on the spot. He didn't know why his act of saving people would destroy his family's happiness.

At this time, under the ground, Su Mingan, who was leaning against the wooden board, looked solemn.

He guessed that he was the reason why the elders of the First Tribe came so quickly. They should have tools that could track him.

After all, as soon as he got close to the ground, a group of elders heard the news and came over, and they happened to meet a couple who needed to avoid the elders.

It is estimated that this exit will be blocked after a while.

...He wants to find another outlet.

He stopped listening to the movement on the ground and immediately stood up. After taking a few steps, he heard a "click" very close to him.

"Son! It doesn't matter if you go through this tunnel. We have expected this day for a long time. It's not your fault!" A man's voice came from above.

"Dad, Mom, let's go together!" The little boy's voice sounded a little crying.

"Don't delay. I won't take care of you when the time comes to fight. You go first! Run from below!"

The man rushed to the door of the room, preparing to meet the enemy and delay.

The woman hugged the young boy and wiped the tears from his eyes.

"...Don't cry, you are the pride of your parents."

She opened the tunnel plank, pushed the young boy down, and closed the plank without hesitation.