Chapter 282 Then, the Whale Fell Into the Sea

within a certain space.

Xing Kai sat in the rocking chair, staring at the halo of the sky, holding a spoon in his mouth and strawberry-flavored ice cream in his hand.

A flash of white light appeared from behind the station platform passage.

The blind girl walked out from there.

Xing Kai didn't even look at it: "Zekou, I told you not to fight anymore."

The blind girl did not answer. Thinking of that Marjie, she no longer wanted to recall what had just happened.

She felt that Xing Kai was right this time. There was something wrong with the two men in that group, especially the one who was playing shit.

Xing Kai sat up straight and turned to look at the blind girl.

"It was a lot of fun this time."

"Fortunately, it just appeared in the newspapers a few times." The blind girl stood next to the tombstone and said with a smile: "At least the rewards gained can offset the burden of the main line's forced retreat."

Xing Kai took out a bag of sugar from his pocket, poured it on the ice cream, stirred the spoon and said: "This is thanks to the stupid president of the Fifth Detective Guild and the [Critical One] who can predict the future..."

There was a sound in the distance.

"Did you get it?"

"Got it."

The blind girl opened her eyes and dug out her blank eyeballs.

Crush the eyeball with slender fingers, the blood thickens into white spots, condenses into magic factors in the air, and then turns into a projection-like light screen.

The person on the screen is Sauron.

"It will take me a day or two to parse Soren Lee's data."

The blind girl turned her head and looked not far away.

"Croyd, what do you think?"

The blond man was washing his face with cold water by the pool in the yard. His blue pupils stared in the direction of the blind girl and Xing Kai. Then he turned back and picked up the towel next to him to wipe the water droplets on his face.

"Zawaguchi, you shouldn't have killed the girl who gave the handkerchief when you fought with the man named Di in the Corridor of the Sky."

"Unexpected, but I really wanted to take advantage of Di's kindness. The fact is, I did succeed, but... the man with the stench all over his body actually broke the puppet technique in an understatement." The blind woman's face became serious: "What are you talking about? , does it have anything to do with business?”

Croyd lowered his head and looked at the water flowing out of the faucet.

"It's just a reminder. I'm worried that this will become a reason for the 'Corridor of the Sky' to intervene. Forget it... Sawaguchi, what are the levels of those two people?"

"You mean the 'Fifth Detective Guild'?" the blind girl recalled, "It's so awesome."

"I mean, compared to you."

"The one with the cane is as good as me." The blind girl added: "I mean, use full firepower, use all your strength, and fight to the death."

"Xing Kai, what do you think?" Croyd asked again.

"What Zekou said..." Xing Kai took a mouthful of ice cream, shrunk his cheeks, blew out a breath and said: "Probably, I don't know what method that kid used to take down the Mirror Master, but judging from my experience ...On par with Zeguchi.”

"Isn't Solon Li what you care about?" the blind girl asked.

Croyd turned off the faucet, looked at the future reflected in the basin, and said: "Soren Li will definitely become an opponent. This is the nature of the main mission. It is unavoidable. That person is very powerful, and his methods are so many that all of us can I can’t imagine that it will be a hard battle, even a duel that is more difficult than any battle I have experienced.”

A man with short hair stuck his head out of the second-story window and looked down at Croyd who was speaking directly below.

His name is Ji Wen, the 2P character here.

"But it's us who will win in the end, right, Croyd."

Croyd raised his head and looked at Given expressionlessly.

"Ji Wen, I only know that you will die."

"..."

"We have been selected by the invitation letter. You cannot quit midway, so death is inevitable. Even if you have seen many endings, Jiwen will definitely die under Sauron's attack."

"But isn't there Xing Kai?"

"That doesn't mean that even Xing Kai can't save you."

Ji Wen was stunned for a few seconds after hearing this, and then turned to look at the blind girl.

"Zawaguchi, I'm dying, please stay with me for a few days, please."

"Allow me to refuse. Although I am blind, I still hope that the person I sleep with is a better-looking man."

"Hahaha, fuck you, you borderline one!"

"Knowing the answer to life is a very annoying thing..." Xing Kai finished his ice cream, patted his cheek, and said, "Going back to what I said at the beginning, we have problems with Sauron and Li Nuo. What's the relationship?"

"They may come too." Croyd paused and said, "I can see that the game disc is related to Sauron, but I didn't see that Sauron appeared because of the [Remnant Blood Man]."

Xing Kai was startled: "I'll go..."

Blind girl: "It's difficult, isn't it?"

Ji Wen: "I don't understand."

Xing Kai explained: "The prophecy ability of [Critical One] is not effective against Li Nuo and others."

Croyd knew the answer.

"They have broken fate, more than once. I should not have given that hat to Geralt in the first place. There were runes I printed in the hat, and he easily deciphered the prophecy of that rune."

Xing Kai shrugged his shoulders.

"To put it bluntly, it's still a question of fate. [Critical People] rely on seeing fate and are restrained by fate, so the only thing you worry about is that Brother Li and the others will join in and turn themselves from strong luck to weak people who cannot see the truth."

"Xing Kai." Croyd looked at the reflection on the water with an expressionless face: "Weakness is an excuse, strength is a humble word, and we have to wait until we see it to know the answer."

...

Mining town.

Capone has locked himself in the house for a long time.

He sat on a chair and looked at the sunlight coming in from the window.

Capone lit a cigarette and quietly admired the afternoon sun.

Two days have passed since that day, and his memory still remains in that sky and that white fortress.

There is a newspaper on the table.

The matter about "Ikaros" was completely suppressed. Using the terrorist attack as an excuse, the Principality of Wales threw the problem of the heavy blow suffered by the army to its neighbor, a very small country.

Reality is always so magical. Those who should not be blamed are blamed, those who should not live are alive, and those who should not be happy are happy.

The war left him with a heavy psychological trauma.

The content of that war was almost the same as that in the newspaper. It started with a dispute with a small country and finally evolved into an irreversible bullying of a big country against a small country.

Many twisted situations often start with an absurd lie.

In the end, the only ones who get hurt are those who stayed out of the matter at the beginning.

Capone is just a microcosm of that war.

Facing the sacrifice of his comrades, the death of the enemy, and witnessing the disappearance of life, Capone questioned his credibility. Carrying guilt and doubt, Capone could not make a promise to his lover Gina, and escaped again and again, closing his emotions as a human.

In the end, this emotion was used by the witch when the second war broke out, turning him into a pig.

Unable to escape the trauma in his heart and unable to understand what he wanted, Capone always lingered in the face of the pig.

In Ikaros' journey, Dolos and his group of sky pirates took on the work of drivers and rescuers, the soldiers of the Principality of Wales personally participated in the war of the super-ancient civilization, Llorente was a crazy and desperate scholar, and the princes and nobles behind the great power were the initiators of everything.

Then, what about Capone?

At first, he was invited by Malger as a weapon craftsman, and was pushed by Gina to leave home to relax.

He was more of a spectator on this trip, but in the end he found that he was his own spectator.

Capone has always wanted to find Ikaros to prove that he is brave enough to marry Gina, so as to break the curse of turning into a pig.

However,

Chabai turned from a pig into a human simply because he saw his lover who came to pick him up.

Ikaros is not a divine domain as the legend says, but a floating island driven by magic and machinery.

The above two things made Capone gradually understand that the world itself is actually very simple. It depends on how you look at it and think about it. Don't be affected, just follow your heart.

He picked up the pen and put some ink.

Thinking that if I want to say goodbye to the time affected by the war before, I might as well write down what I have seen in the days to come.

The weapon processing furnace under the store has been flooded with shit.

It is not too difficult for him to choose whether to continue to be a craftsman hiding in the dark and afraid to see people in the space where the methane remains, or to be a fool who lives with a pen under the window with sunlight.

Footsteps were heard outside the house.

Then Gina's voice.

"I heard from Sofia that you locked yourself in the house as soon as you came back. What happened?"

Gina pushed open the door like a hostess and saw Capone with his back to her. He looked thinner and didn't look like anything serious.

"I was scared to death... I heard that you saw Ikaros." Gina leaned against the door frame, her eyes flickered, her eyelashes trembled as if with a deep meaning, and raised her hand to put the lady's cigarette between her red lips.

Capone leaned back in the chair and said in a lazy tone: "Ikaros has nothing."

"Borrow a light, sir." Gina walked over.

Then,

the cigarette on her lips fell to the ground.

The sunlight outside the window shone on Capone's face.

Gina looked at Capone's reflection in the window, and then looked at Capone.

Her eyes moved from the pig face in her mind to the human face, then from the human face to the pig face, and then back to the human face. Finally, the pig face in her mind completely disappeared, leaving only Capone who had turned back into a human.

Gina smiled with relief, picked up the cigarette on the ground, and put it back in her mouth.

"It seems that it is no longer important to distinguish which face is the pig face and which face is the human face."

Capone picked up the lighter and lit the cigarette for her.

"Gina, promise me that you will quit smoking after you get married."

"No."

Gina glanced at the paper and pen on Capone's desk.

"You want to write a book?"

"I want to write some interesting things I have seen during this period, and write about some people who have changed my cognition in an autobiographical way."

"Oh, the title of the book?"

Capone touched his chin.

"Since it's an autobiography, it's called..."

...

[World Development Line·Artistic, Special Mission Completed]

[A guy who gave up martial arts and turned to literature wrote your story into a book, which may cause a literary revolution in the future]

[Since it has not yet been decided whether to let the world end, the reward for this mission will be announced after the main story is completed]

[Book Title "I Found Out I'm an Idiot"]

Li Nuo stared at the panel that just popped up, staring with indelible dead fish eyes.

"So, why does the title of a book about me have 'idiot' in it?"

He was sitting on the deck of the airship, fishing.

Two days have passed since the fall of Ikaros.

The sun is shining now and the sky is clear with some clouds.

Marger sat next to him, fiddling with the tea-white energy hammer.

In the past two days, with Chen Shou's help, five new hidden mission points were locked.

The first place was an exploration cave. I defeated a not too strong BOSS and got a skill ball.

【Blood Mist】

[Learning conditions: Master a kind of blood magic, spiritual power 25]

[Effect: Use your own blood to spread a blood mist with a radius of about 5 meters. Within the mist, all your movements are hidden, and the cooling time is 3 minutes]

[Brief description: Special skills for aunts]

Well, that BOSS is a female vampire. Anyway, it’s not outrageous for any race to appear in this kind of world.

Anyway, Li Nuo learned this trick.

There is a kind of blood magic that needs to be mastered, and only he can learn it.

The second place is on an island on the border of the Principality of Wales, where there is a handwritten book hidden by the player.

Looking through Li Nuo's magnifying glass, he obtained a pharmaceutical notebook, and then made a ridiculous and outrageous thing.

【Super Tieguanyin】

[Quality: Excellent]

[Effect: Inject vitality into the weapon, repair the durability of the weapon, or drink it to restore an appropriate amount of magic power (about 40% of the magic power)]

[Brief description: Tieguanyin saw his best friend Longjing die in the hands of Hua Cha. He burst into anger and became the legendary Super Tieguanyin, so the color of the tea leaves in this thing is yellow]

Li Nuo happened to have a teapot with unlimited refills. He planned to go back and combine this thing with the teapot to see if he could make a super teapot.

The third place is above a certain plateau.

There is a treasure chest lying quietly in the dilapidated fortress. According to their investigation, it should be a treasure chest left by a certain great magician who has been dead for hundreds of years.

【Pandora's Mimic】

[Quality: Junk~Excellent]

[Effect: When you open it, you may see a treasure, or a monster, or it may explode directly. In short, it will be very dangerous. After all, the guy who left this treasure box is a magician who likes to play pranks]

[Brief description: Alexander is a highly respected mage. He likes to play pranks. One day, he made a strange treasure box. Something bad may happen after the treasure box is opened. He was very satisfied with this work, so he did some research on it. He put the items in and posted a notice saying that there was a hidden treasure chest. He also drew a treasure map for Albatross to spread everywhere. Since this guy was notorious, no one believed it, so the prank ended here. Until a few years later, when he was rummaging for something, he found the treasure box forgotten in the corner. This guy had forgotten the evil nature of the treasure box. After opening the treasure box, he was eaten by the treasure box he made]

Given the sad story stated in the introduction.

Li Nuo and the others decided to return to the space and unpack it. After all, the space was safer.

Then there is the fourth treasure hunting place.

A certain military camp.

Ignoring the process, I found a pair of goggles anyway.

【Combined Goggles】

[Quality: Epic]

[Equipment requirements: Have "craftsman" attribute, insight 100]

[Effect: You can see in advance what will be formed after the item is synthesized. Note that after using the item effectively once, you need to rest for 24 hours before using it again]

[Brief description: Big Brother]

Marger's exclusive supplies.

Finally, there is the fifth baby.

They found a player's body in a cold quagmire and obtained an incredible gadget.

[Fragments of Leviathan's Ax]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Effect: Just an ax]

[Brief description: It’s just an ax]

Regardless of the fact that the description and effect are both mediocre, based on the principle that the simpler the entry, the more exaggerated the effect, and the less you wear, the higher the defense, this thing depends on the name.

Leviathan, battle axe.

Kratos' weapon fragment from "God of War".

It is still an axe, but a useless axe, but even a useless one is still an artifact.

Since it cannot be used effectively, it can be regarded as a material for manufacturing equipment.

Marger wore the [Combined Goggles] and observed that this thing could be combined with the brown hammer.

Ever since.

Li Nuo is fishing now.

Marger sat next to him analyzing the hammer.

As for why the things I got matched the urinary styles of these three people, I have to thank Chen Shou for that.

Since Cha Bai figured out the location of the hidden branch line, a large number of treasure chest locations have been updated on the map. It took Chen Shou several hours to sum up the location of the prop treasure chest that best suited the three of them.

Sauron has not been to their space in the past two days, and Chen Shou did everything alone.

[By the way, will you be back soon? 】

Brother Shou is chatting with Li Nuo.

"Well, there are still about ten minutes."

Chen Shou: [There is something you need to think carefully about. According to my observation, the time in the real world and the time in your script this time are synchronized. 】

Li Nuo: "I knew it earlier. It doesn't matter. I'm taking a week off."

Chen Shou: [Where is Brother Ma? 】

Li Nuo: "He seems to be in the same situation. He said that the hospital organized him to go out to study, but it doesn't matter if he didn't go."

At this time the fishing rod shook.

Li Nuo lifted the fishing rod.

The bait tied to the other end of the fishing line is a mechanical life form...

At this time, Cha Bai looked down from the observation deck on the deck and couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief: "Why is he using mechanical life forms as bait again..."

She jumped down.

Li Nuozheng took a card from the mechanical life form.

This is the last treasure that can be obtained with a small probability.

[Skill Card: Large Meteor Summoning Technique (Incomplete version, can only be used once)]

[Effect: Summon a meteorite, killing everyone within the range, as well as you. This card has been used twice. The power of the last time has been reduced sharply. It can no longer destroy the world, but it can destroy you (the side effects are huge and super powerful. Muscle weakness, tell me if you are afraid)]

[Brief description: The old Liu family has a mage]

According to Icarus's records, the previous destruction of "humanity" was closely related to this thing.

Marjie glanced at it and said, "The player's behavior determines the emergence of the script world, right?"

"Yeah." Li Nuo nodded invisible, put the card into his pocket, and said with a smile: "Aren't we the ones who triggered the subsequent stories of "Cyberpunk", including this world, without Cha Bai and us defeating it there? There is no such world in N2. Players create the script, then enter the script, then fall into a cycle, and finally become part of the world. That’s about it. In the end, the creator is still small and worthless compared to the world.”

Things in the world of "NieR" have changed here, and it may be related to the scope of the "Corridor of the Sky". This may represent "evolution". The huge magic group of the "Corridor of the Sky" affects the transition process of things themselves. .

However, since Di promised to communicate after returning, there may be an explanation for these things after they return to space.

Establishing a strange relationship with the "Corridor of the Sky", a guild with Dee and Brupp at its core, is neither a good thing nor a bad thing.

On the bright side, this script doesn't have any killer tricks, and there might be some surprises.

Thinking about the worst, there is actually no big loss. It is just the loss of some experience points from killing players and the props and equipment obtained with a small probability.

In fact, Li Nuo himself had not thought of a thing.

From the first time he entered the script to cause trouble, many causal loops have been set up. No matter whether he causes trouble in the script in the future or not, even if he is as peaceful as this time, those loops of trouble will find him, or Good or bad, but never treat him badly.

Most players are unaware of this situation either.

Players influence the world, and the resulting different worlds will give back.

It's like depositing money in a bank. The more you deposit, the more interest you get.

For example, when Capone writes a book and triggers the [World Development Line·Art Direction] mission reward, the hidden thread is actually because Li Nuo has already affected one character in the world in terms of "art", so when he affects another person in the same way again in the same way, But when the world is different, the world will also feed him interest.

Cha Bai was walking towards them, when his footsteps suddenly stopped.

"Huh?" Marjie was stunned. He took apart Chabai's hammer. This scene was unexpected by Chabai.

She originally thought that Brother Ma just wanted to take a look at the external energy supply of the hammer, but she didn't expect that he actually dismantled it...

It's not a big deal to tear it down...

The problem is, this hammer has a prop inside it.

[The big "beep" slaps you in the face like crazy! 】

This is an electric Armstrong gyroscopic accelerating Armstrong cannon. Chabai used it to combine with the hammer to create the current hammer. The brief description of this weapon also kindly reminds that there is an Armstrong cannon in the hammer...

When Marger took out this indescribable thing from the hammer, everyone else was dumbfounded.

"Li Nuo, you two are having a great time, aren't you? I'll go and I can water the water!"

"I really don't know about this."

Li Nuo defended himself and looked at Cha Bai not far behind him.

The girl turned her back and acted like a blind man.

At this time, the door of the cabin was pushed open, and a sky pirate stuck out his head and shouted to Marjie: "Dad! Eat!"

Marjie wanted to jump into the sea.

Ever since they first met the sky pirates, these stupid guys called him "Dad", and to this day, they still call him "Dad".

These sky pirates are not so stupid that they actually consider Brother Ma as their father, they just think it's fun...

If Marger knew that Dolos was not an old woman but a mature woman, he would definitely kneel on the ground and agree.

It's just that there may not be that opportunity.

Li Nuo glanced at the group of sky pirates.

…

"Leaving now?"

Dolos looked at the three guys in front of him in disbelief, as well as a mechanical life form.

"Well, thank you for taking care of me." Li Nuo rolled out a flying boat in the cabin, then got on it and said to the group of guys behind him: "We have other things to do. You can come back when we are done."

Dolos crossed his arms across his chest and said with a sullen face: "You brat... you are lying."

"Truth and lies are not that important, right?" Li Nuo smiled.

Marjie carried a large bag of equipment upgrade materials stones that Li Nuo got from the back of the island whale, and then got into the driver's seat.

Turn your head.

Chabai was left stroking the hairpin in his hair, wanting to take it off and give it back to Dolos.

But Dolos held her hand and shook his head.

"Silly girl, you have to learn to do your own hair."

Cha Bai stared at her, then raised the corners of his mouth slightly and nodded.

"Um."

She held the mechanical life form and sat in the back seat.

Marger stepped on the accelerator.

Li Nuo turned his head and said: "You have time to clear out the gems and gold coins you brought from Icarus, otherwise this empty boat will only be used as a sailing ship."

Dorothea stood in the front, her adopted sons stood behind, and behind were a large number of gold coins and gems.

The smiles these guys leave behind are the final farewell gift.

The flying ship drives the floating stone into the air.

Cha Bai turned his head and stared at the increasingly smaller airship and the invisible sky pirates until his titanium white hair passed through the clouds.

She withdrew her gaze and looked at the mechanical life form beside her.

With one hour left, the main storyline is about to end.

She was about to make the final choice, and she asked the mechanical life form: "Do you have an answer?"

In two days, this little robot saw the world created by his group of exploration team members.

Many things are contrary to their conception. The world does not run around AI programs. It has its own set of biological concepts. Human beings may not be perfect, but... they are very lively.

"I still can't make a decision. It's up to you, the ancestral gene, to decide on this matter."

"I have made my decision a long time ago." Chabai smiled: "I mean, after you return to Earth, will you have another answer to your view of the world?"

The mechanical life form was startled: "Return to Earth?"

"Don't forget, Cha Bai said that he would send you back to Earth!" Li Nuo said in the wind.

"Is it possible? It's been twelve thousand years." The mechanical life form's steady voice contained undetectable excitement.

"Do you still remember that you said there was a mechanical cult there?" Cha Bai asked.

The mechanical life form nodded slightly.

"Hmph." Marger lit up a cigarette against the strong wind in the air: "I can't guarantee which timeline it will be, but it's okay to send you back."

Mechanical life form: "Who are you?"

Li Nuo put his arm on Marjie's shoulder and said with a toothy smile: "Let me introduce you to the legendary leader of the Mechanical Cult, the great evil god who founded the sect."

Then he took out a piece of paper and a bottle of [Barorase Respirator] and handed them to the mechanical life form.

"Give these to Yacol, and she will have a way to use these things to treat the 'cyber psychosis' that is rampant in your place."

"So, then I want it?"

"Are you willing to join the Mechanical Cult?" Marger asked, adding: "Join to go home."

The mechanical life form was silent for a few seconds: "Yes."

As soon as he finished speaking, another mechanical life form appeared in the cramped cockpit of the flying ship. This was the cultist summoned by Marger.

"Take it back."

With an order, the two mechanical life forms disappeared into the flying ship together.

The next second.

The body of the mechanical life form passed through a wormhole-like white light and returned to York City, which it had not seen for tens of thousands of years.

The sky is full of stars.

There are a large number of mechanical life forms and artificial humans living in the steel city.

"I, I'm back?"

The time is ten years since it left.

But it can't care about that much.

At this time, a large number of mechanical life forms brought this guy to the altar of the cult.

On the way, the bespectacled Jacol noticed it.

"What a familiar smell..."

Jacol followed it and stole the pharmaceutical formula strip and the [Barorase Respirator] left by Li Nuo.

She pushed up her glasses and smiled.

"It's really fate. Do you want to be the creator?"

She looked at the mechanical life form that was taken away.

Near the cult altar, in the narrow and dark alley, a large number of mechanical life forms divided into two groups to welcome the new believers.

And in a corner, there were three guys sitting.

Prometheus.

nik

Echo.

The three people stared around blankly.

Nick: "I guess we have to wait a little long, Prometheus."

"I know." Prometheus said blankly: "But if the captain of that team doesn't call us out... we will have to stay for more than a month."

Echo: "One month? Then wouldn't the guild be gone?"

Prometheus covered his face: "Yeah... the way the 'Arctic Circle' guild was destroyed was too funny..."

Aike looked at the statue of the leader made by the mechanical life form on the altar, dragged his chin and said with a smile.

"It's okay, don't you think the leader is handsome?"

…

[Hidden quest line completed: Return to Earth]

[The hidden quest line has been completed: clean up the evil that has been planted]

[Rewards will be settled upon return]

Li Nuo was very satisfied. This time it was a complete success, but he always felt that something was missing...

It seemed like there was something else that he or Marger had forgotten in this world.

Flying ships roam the sky.

Cha Bai glanced at the sea from time to time.

"It's too far away and can't be seen." Li Nuo reminded: "Since there is cause and effect in the world, maybe one day we will be able to come back, so... forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything."

"Leave now." Cha Bai said.

Li Nuo: "There's still one hour left, why don't you take another look?"

She knew Li Nuo's intentions.

Seeing that she had a good impression of the world, he said goodbye to the sky pirate with whom she had a relationship in the most gentle way, and took her to see the world for the last time in the air, even though the pilot was Marger.

Cha Bai shook his head: "No, you said you would come back."

Then she took out the [Data Sphere].

Deprive the humans here of their peace genes and let them destroy themselves;

Call out Ikaros again, start a war, destroy civilization and genes, and return the world to zero.

Or, don't care about anything.

The answer was set at the beginning.

She crushed the [Data Orb] with all her strength, making the last "fate" feature left by "NieR" in this world disappear. From now on, this is a new world, no longer bound by any framework.

Whether the creatures live or die or perish, everything is their choice, and it does not need to be determined by the programs of other worlds.

The fragments scattered into the sea.

Not long after, the whistle of a steam train came from the sky.

It was not the sky train of this world, but the train that sent them away.

The train crashed into the airship, and the empty ship fell into the sea.

[Mission Completed]

[Players Please Get on Board]

...

The [Data Orb] completely turned into a bubble in the sea, and Ikaros's "soul"-shaped island in the sea turned into foam.

From then on, Ikaros became a true legend and would gradually be forgotten in the river of history.

When all this happened.

In the sky.

The island whale surged out of the clouds.

It flew toward the sea.

Gently entered the sea.

Then, when no one knew, it turned into an ordinary whale.