As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 148 The real game is about to begin

Sauron extracted the data from the computer.

I kept thinking about it in my mind.

"It would make sense if it was Ignis."

"In the original work, he wanted to defeat the strongest fighter to prove himself..."

"So... could it be that Ignis wants to do something to resurrect himself, and then defeat the fighters again, and repeat the plot of "KOF 2001" again?"

"Oh no."

"Actually, players can also be considered fighters."

Sauron frowned, feeling increasingly nervous. There were some things it was best not to know.

Seeing him like this, Yake came over and asked, "What are you talking about?"

Sauron ignored him.

Yake put his hand on his shoulder: "Hello?"

However, at the next moment, an extremely terrifying aura spread all around. Yak sweated profusely and couldn't even move his fingers away from Sauron's shoulders.

Marsh said seriously: "Sauron... take back your murderous intent."

After Sauron was silent for a few seconds, he lowered his head and exhaled: "Sorry... this script is too complicated. The final boss may involve the enhanced Ignis. I accidentally..."

"Sauron." Cassim, wearing a hood and mask, walked out of the dark corner: "I found the core cabin of the spacecraft."

"... Got it." Sauron opened his special backpack compartment and took out a card from it and handed it to Kasim.

【Eiichi Kitate Summoning Scroll】

【Excellent quality】

[Effect: Summons a certain genius inventor "Kite Eiichi" from "Kiten Lie Encyclopedia"]

[Brief description: Eiichi Kite is an upright man, good at electronics, mechanics and chemistry.The funds for making props almost come from pocket money and New Year's money. I also collected and recycled garbage to make props.He is only in the fourth grade of elementary school, but Japanese elementary school students and Konoha genin are all perverts with the law of cause and effect. If you hand him a high-tech product that cannot be repaired, there is a high probability that he can solve the problem with the "willpower of an elementary school student" Done]

Kasim was stunned: "Well...this is not what you planned to do on the train..."

Sauron said: "Ask Eiichi Kito to come out now and repair the spacecraft for me."

He came to Ignis's mummy, moved his fingers, and Ignis's body turned into dust.

"The real body is no longer here."

"Marsh! Yak! Follow me to find out if there is any hidden information here!"

……

the other side.

[Hidden thread completed: the truth of the curse, the malice from the sound nest, finding the archives]

[Task reward: 15000 experience points, 9000 gold coins, magical candy*2]

[Experience points are stored until you get off the train]

["Magic Candy" can be used on the train]

Although the system's settlement sound appeared, the three players present were not in the mood at all.

Tom looked at his broken hands, with tears in his eyes. Without his hands, everything was lost.

Nanami and Marger stood there, staring at the intruder.

Marger knew that he was not mistaken. The person in front of him was Faust.

Faust, who is 2 meters tall and weighs only 82KG, was once a genius surgeon. He was kind and responsible. He was happiest when curing patients.

Until one time, a girl's operation was tampered with behind her back, resulting in the operation failing and the girl's death. From then on, Faust completely turned into a madman, put on a paper bag mask, and traveled through the night.Save people in another way - kill people.

But later this guy regained his goodwill and became a doctor again, but his neuroses engraved in his mind were also retained.

In short, Faust has now fallen into a state of madness.

He kept muttering in his mouth: "The sound nest...it's your sound nest...go to hell, the sound nest..."

Marger frowned as he listened to Tom's roar.

Can we win the fight now?

No.

It only takes a second to know the answer.

Tom had already told them with his own hands that Faust's strength could kill a reasonably good level 25 player in an instant.

"Damn..." Nanami took out the blood medicine and knelt on one knee beside Tom. When she was hesitating whether to be selfless, Marger suddenly took out a gun.

"Monsieur Faust, is that so?" he asked.

"Oh... you know me?" Faust's somewhat nervous voice was still crisp and clear from under his paper bag hood.

This guy turns out to be a good person.

It's essentially a diode.

He couldn't even clearly distinguish the difference between saving people and killing people, but in Faust's inner balance, saving people was more important than anything else.

Even when he later faced his enemies, he still wanted to save them first...

"We are not from Sound Nest," Marger said.

This was obviously a misunderstanding, but Faust was so jealous that there was no misunderstanding.

"Faust, you hurt the wrong person."

"The reason why you are here is not a sound nest..." Faust raised his slender arms and said like crazy: "You bastards, hahahaha! Bad people never say they are bad people!"

"I understand." Marjie asked in a deep voice: "Let me ask you, if you hurt someone yourself, would you save it?"

"Killing is also a way to save people." Faust said.

boom!
After a shot went off.

There was a bullet hole in Tom's abdomen, and he looked in disbelief at Marger, who was pointing the smoking gun at him.

Nanami also frowned: "Hey... what are you doing..."

Faust watched Margery shoot Tom, who was crying. He was indifferent at first, and then suddenly he covered his head: "Damn...bastard, you bastard!"

"So Doctor Faustus, would you like to come and save this poor Mr. Tom?"

Marger's voice lingered in Faust's ears like the whisper of an ancient god.

"Hehe...I, I won't..."

"You can, you must, you can't leave the injured alone." Marjie said firmly, "Because I am also a doctor."

Faust's eyes froze in the paper bag.

"I will kill that girl next. You can also stop me and kill me before I do it." Marger raised the corner of his mouth: "But in that case, hum... Faust, you can't save anyone. Come back, and the source of all tragedies is caused by you."

Faust stood motionless.

Marger continued: "What are doctors most afraid of?"

Faust: "You..."

Marger: "It's death."

Faust lowered his arm, and then the guy took out the medical equipment from his coat, walked over, and began to treat Tom, and also connected his hand.

"And you can't kill us yet." Marger continued: "Doctor Faust, we have a patient here who needs your treatment."

Faust was sewing up Tom's arm, with his back to Marger, and asked: "What kind of patient?"

Now Faust has been forcibly transformed into the kind doctor.

In other words, Marger turned him into a temporary ally.

"A girl is infected with a special virus. We have no choice but to leave her to die."

"What kind of doctor are you?"

"Humph, anorectal doctor."

Nanami thought Marger was joking, but in fact the above conversation was a rare serious answer from him.

At this time, Marjie quickly contacted Li Nuo.

"Damn... there's something wrong with the signal." He turned to ask: "Faust, tell me what happened and why you have a grudge against the sound nest."

"A little boy was transformed into a monster by them." There was a tragedy hidden in Faust's brief sentence. He continued: "I have been killing here for a long time, but their people seem to have withdrawn long ago. , Hehehe... I guess this place was originally a trap."

Faust spoke briefly.

He was entrusted by a man and a woman to investigate matters regarding human cloning.

Of the two people, the girl has short white hair and big breasts, and the man has long blue hair and wears sunglasses.

"Angel and K999?" Nanami immediately realized that they were fighters from the "KOF" series.

"Where are they?" Marger asked.

Faust shrugged his shoulders: "Go to another base."

[Hidden quest line has been triggered: Truth 2]

[Task level: lv35]

【mission rewards:? ? ? 】

What do you mean?
Marger was stunned.

At this moment, the flashing incandescent light suddenly went out. In an instant, the backup light source here lit up, and white light enveloped the entire room.

Not only that, they heard the sound of machinery running.

All this shows that someone entered this area and repaired the power supply.

Nanami had already reacted: "The people from the Sound Nest are here, and they are probably going to kill them."

It's not that simple, Marger thought.

Except for the master Faust, the rest of them... can't get out without any injuries.

This is not because he is looking down on himself.

For example, the participants in the mission on Mount Hinagami were Li Nuo, Cha Shiro, Ichijo Akira, and Kanzaki Jusan. These four people were all better at fighting than Nanami. Plus, Wells, who was close to Nanami, made it possible for them to fight. The plot of Rishangshan has been completed.

Among them, if Li Nuo hadn't picked up Hidechiyo's short sword, Ayane would probably have exploded into the third form. At that difficulty level, the five of them together might not have been able to pass the level without incident.

The intensity of the sound nest will not be lower than that of Rishangshan.

What's more, the script has just started, so if too many bullet resources are consumed now, it will be a bit more loss than gain.

The good news is that the network signal has also been restored.

Marger immediately contacted Li Nuo.

This time the signal was not interrupted and connected smoothly.

"Are you not dead yet?" Li Nuo asked directly when he came up.

Marger said calmly: "Pull us out, I found Faust."

When Li Nuo heard Faust's name, he immediately understood Marger's intention.

"wait for me."

At the same time as he hung up the communication, Marger summoned Victor's avatar.

"Hi, old man." Victor greeted in a standard Night City tone.

"Victor, help me find all the computer hosts and bundle them together!" Marger shouted. The computers contain key information about Sound Nest. As long as we can decipher and recover the data, we can know Sound Nest's plan. what exactly is it.

At least that's what Marger thought.

While Victor was cleaning up the computer, Tom was sitting there in a daze. The scene just now was like a post-war reaction to him, which was imprinted in his heart. No one could change it after seeing his hand cut off and sewn back on. Good attitude.

Nanami looked at him and took a deep breath: "If you feel that you are a burden, do something that a burden can do, such as strapping a bomb to help me evacuate."

Tom lowered his head: "I need some time..."

Nanami: "If you think you're okay, cheer up quickly."

Tom: "Um...I, okay."

At this moment, an amber portal appeared behind Marjie, and Li Nuo's robotic hand stretched out from it.

Portal?

Why isn't it [retrieving a leather bag]?
Marger had questions in his mind, but he didn't have much time to think about them.

Victor held the computer and smiled: "This hand looks very familiar."

"Nonsense! It belongs to that bastard!" Marger shouted: "Everyone hold me back! Including you Victor, and you Faust! You have taken my order!"

Except for Victor, no one else had ever wondered.

Just now.

There were messy footsteps outside.

After Marjie came in, he placed a sound transmitter outside and could clearly hear the people outside saying:

"The clones were destroyed."

"There is a high level of reactive energy operating in the archives."

"Destroy the Archives."

Depend on!
Marger: "Catch me quickly!"

The voice just fell.

with a snap.

boom--

The fire blew down the thick walls of the archives room.

This kind of firepower is completely aimed at destroying the entire area.

In an instant, this place was reduced to ruins.

Sound Nest staff wearing gas masks stood around the ruins, and one of them held a microphone: "The vital signs have disappeared."

……

Slum entrance.

SUVs parked on the street.

Li Nuo, Cha Bai and Kanzaki Shisan, the three of them pulled a group of people out of the portal.

They did not use [Fetching Leather Bags], but used Ichijo Ming's onmyoji to locate Marjie's position, increase the teleportation spell range, and pull Marjie and others over.

Cha Bai was tired and directly injected himself with a tube of ether to restore his magic power.

Li Nuo was determined not to let her use the [Fetching Leather Bag]. The cooldown time of that thing meant that it would be difficult for them to use it a second time in this script.

Li Nuo has a more critical use as a prop like [Fetching Leather Bag].

On the other side, Ichijo Akira watched Marge and the others fall to the ground. They covered their heads and looked dizzy. The girl couldn't help but cover her mouth: "I didn't expect that my summoning shikigami onmyoji can be used like this?"

Li Nuo walked straight to Faust, stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "I've heard of you for a long time, doctor, you must help us well next."

Faust saw in this man's eyes qualities very similar to his own.

He is also a patient.

"Okay, everyone, go to Sister Mei Xuan's place." Li Nuo turned around and shouted: "One, pack up those two policemen and take them with them. I want them to be useful."

Ichijo Akira: "Keep your voice down!"

Marger stood up and dusted himself off.

"Did something happen to you here?"

"I'll tell you on the way." Li Nuo whispered, turned to the people behind him and said, "Thank you, everyone."

He was talking to Nanami and Tom.

One of the two men was silent, and the other nodded.

On the road.

Faust got Chabai's blood in a small bottle.He carries various medical equipment on his body, and even has a folding wheelchair in his arms. No one knows how this guy got it in. Anyway... don't compete with Japanese game characters.

Because whenever necessary, their anus can become a mental space rift.

Faust: "It's difficult to handle...Miss, it's not..."

"Shh..." Li Nuo walked with him at the end and whispered, "This matter is a patient's privacy."

Faust said: "I only treat people."

Li Nuo smiled and said: "Then let me ask you a question. Some kind of weird virus erodes the body like an Internet virus. It will spread like cancer cells until the person becomes a madman and until it causes harm to the person. People around me, until I let this person die, what kind of advice will you give me?"

Faust: "What kind of opinion?"

Li Nuo said calmly: "I want her to live."

Faust smiled and said: "Hey... if you can take out her soul and replace it with a new container, everything will be solved."

"That's it." Li Nuo tilted his head and turned his pupils away: "Can I understand that not only does her body need to be replaced, but the key brain and heart also need to be preserved."

"If she is a human being, she only needs to sacrifice her soul." Faust pointed out the lifeline: "But if it is just a set of data, what you need is... hehe... the data core is also saved."

Li Nuo thought: In other words, Chabai still needs a core furnace, and it needs her memory as a basis.

Is the only way back to "NieR Automata"?

Faust took out a tube of reagent: "If she starts to go crazy, inject her with this. Don't worry, there will be no side effects, but it can only be stopped once."

"Thank you, Doctor."

"I will continue to study her limited cells and try to give you an answer within five hours."

"Thank you, Doctor."

Li Nuo could no longer recall how many times he had thanked the doctor.

He finally got out of the hospital in his life.

But he has to brand himself with the doctors again.

die.

Li Nuo could only think so.

Cha Bai walked in front and listened silently.

She didn't want to just wait. It was okay to die one day, but before that, at least dying would be of some use.

This is the definition of the role and survival value of the "Yoroha Force" imprinted in her mind.

Then, on the way, Li Nuo and Marjie reviewed the situation.

"If Yinchao is the driving force behind the situation, then Ignis's identity will be very interesting..."

After hearing what Li Nuo said, Marjie also said: "I doubt... Ignis will appear."

"No need to doubt...it will most likely happen." Li Nuo shook his head: "No...there are still doubts that have not been resolved. Your computer can't be cracked?"

Marger looked at the host loaded on the cart by Victor and said: "Multi-layer encryption, and special file encryption. There should be a folder that has been destroyed. There is nothing we can do with cyber technology."

By this time, they had arrived at Mei Xuan's residence.

Amano Diao was still drinking wine under the fake cherry blossom tree.

The full moon is in the sky.

All sounds are silent.

When Amano Diao saw this large group of troops appearing, he was so frightened that he woke up from alcohol.

Kanzaki Shisan rushed over and lifted Amano up. Mei Xiao walked out of the house. Ichijo Akira ran over crying, holding Mei Xiao's waist, shouting about the suffering he had suffered these days.

Nanami looked at this scene and fell into deep thought: "These characters that can only be seen in the game are actually flesh and blood."

"Isn't this nonsense?" Li Nuo said, "We are also characters in the game. In theory, they are also people living in a certain real world, exactly the same as us."

Cha Bai nodded slightly.

Mei Xuan came over and Li Nuo said with a smile: "It's the Gate of Underworld. There is a Gate of Underworld in Rishang Mountain. There is also a mirror world inside. There is only so much we can do... I'm sorry."

Mei Xuan took out a knife, quickly cut off his little finger, handed it to Li Nuo, and said: "According to our agreement, this is what I want to give you. The other fingers still need to hold the knife, so I can only I’ll give you your little finger.”

Li Nuo took it, and then he and Cha Bai heard the sound of the system.

[Hidden Line Completed: Looking for the Exorcist in the Ghost Courtyard]

[Task reward: 8000 experience points, 5000 gold coins, Mei Xuan’s skill teaching, Amano Piao’s skill teaching]

At the same time as they heard the sound of the system, he and Chabai each had a card in their hands.

What Li Nuo holds in his hand is [Amano Piao’s Skill Card].

Chabai is [Mei Xuan’s skill card].

This card can be used once to learn a certain move of the character on the card.

"What are you looking at, boy!"

At this time, Mei Xuan's angry voice appeared.

Li Nuo raised his head and stared with dead eyes.

In order to take a good look at Mei Xuan's hot figure, Marjie pressed his face against the strong woman's chest without even realizing it.

Mei Xuan could only dodge sideways because it was inconvenient for Li Nuo and the others to chop him. Nanami held her forehead and pulled Marjie's hair to drag the guy away.

Li Nuo raised his head.

Look at these guys.

Nanami: "So your coolness is all disguised, right..."

Marger: "Miss Nanami, that's part of my nature."

Amano: "Okay, come in quickly."

Ichijoaki: "I can sleep on the bed..."

Kanzaki Thirteen: "Ichijo, there is no bed here..."

Faust: "Hey, how is my hand?"

Tom: "Ah... no, it's okay! You can move freely, hahahahaha..."

Victor: "Brother Ma, find me a power source. I have to turn on the computer to see how to crack it."

Mei Xuan: "Come in quickly, especially your boy, come and tell me what happened."

The last words fell on Li Nuo, and he nodded.

"It seems like all the burden falls on your shoulders." Chabai whispered, "Xili's words have come true."

Li Nuo: "What?"

Cha Bai: "Carry her and someone she can trust over the mountains?"

Li Nuo was taken aback.

"So you heard it?"

"I'm an artificial human, and my hearing is very developed."

"You are too heavy."

"Okay, stop talking..."

Li Nuo cursed, but there are only two people I can trust...

Cha Bai picked up Mei Xuan's finger.

The sound of the system has already sounded in my ears:

[Whether to consume 4500 gold coins to advance your identity]

She followed Li Nuo and whispered: "Yes."

[Gold coins have been deducted]

【In progress】

Everyone had already entered Mei Xuan's half-collapsed house.

Li Nuo and Marjie noticed that Cha Bai had not followed. They turned around and saw Cha Bai standing there. Although she was wearing an eye mask and a mask, judging from the stiffness of her body, something had happened.

Cha Bai said slowly: "The advancement is complete, I'm a little... surprised."

She set the panel so that Li Nuo and Marger were visible.

These two people are well-informed.

But he was also frightened.

[Identity: Focuser]

[Activation conditions: Come up with a classic and good quote, such as "I am the man who wants to become the Pirate King!" "It's not me that's wrong, it's the world!" "This is Steins;Gate's choice!", please do it! Bingmao]

[Close condition: cry or do the opposite behavior of that sentence]

[Effect 1: The price of any item purchased in the script or in the mall is reduced by 50%]

[Effect 2: If the main line or side task is open when it ends, the experience value will be increased by 50%, and the gold coins obtained will be increased by 50%. This is common to teammates]

[Effect 3: 50% probability to easily increase the chance of encountering high-strength enemies]

[Effect 4: If you encounter an extremely difficult problem, you can solve it by accident (each script can only be used once, and the problem cannot be too difficult to solve)]

[Effect 5: Trigger the skill "Eye of Death EX", 100% gaze on the target's core weakness (available twice per scenario)]

[Effect 6: When you are bound to die, an accident will definitely occur and the event will not kill you. Cooling time: 1 month of script time]

[Negative effect: If the activation time exceeds 24 hours, the more dangerous your teammates are. Every time a teammate dies, shout "Athena" and you will get a chance to randomly increase all attributes]

【注：效果1、2、3为被动技能，其余4、5、6为主动技能】

Li Nuo: "Three Kingdoms Killing..."

Marger: "It's still a magic card."

It looks complicated, but in fact the entries are divided into two camps based on purely auxiliary and causal effects. The most special ones are effects 4 and 6.

The use of [Identity] is not as mindless as imagined. You need to identify the optional abilities that are needed now.

For example, Li Nuo's [Residual Blood Man] adds points at will, and the power type adds a large number of values ​​​​to spiritual power, which is pure work.

Like Chabai, it is a completely weakened version of the "Protagonist's Aura". By making good use of the active skills of [Focuser], you can overcome almost insurmountable difficulties.

This is the special nature of [identity holder].

Combat power and auxiliary abilities are inherently more cheating than others, but negative effects will always exist. After all, if a person wants to obtain a special identity, he must also bear the negative effects of abilities.

"So awesome..." Li Nuo stared at him and said, "Give me this ability, and I can do a lot of things..."

Marjie nodded: "It's a perfect support. Even the negative effects are beneficial to you."

Cha Bai shook his head: "The real negative effect should be to increase the chance of encountering enemies. Apart from that... it seems... it's all... Li Nuo. Looking at it this way, it seems that [identity] is a complex of various skills."

At this time, Victor shouted in the room: "Brother Ma, let's see how to crack it."

Amidst the noise, Victor had already found the power cord and started the computer brought from Sound Nest Base. The most critical files were stored in it.

Marger went over, and Victor and the two began to think about how to crack this thing.

Akira Ichijo and others gathered around.

They are just curious about the structure of a computer.

After all, except for Mei Xuan and Faust, the remaining fighters here come from an era before computers were born.

Seeing them pondering, Li Nuo sat on the plastic chair, stepped on the [Weapon Box], and unlocked a new posture, his eyes slightly wrinkled.

Nanami was sitting not far away, looking at his plastic chair, and complained: "You still take the chair with you?"

Tom said: "Big brother has been following this stool for a long time."

"Are you nostalgic?" Nanami laughed: "Why, what did you think of?"

They don’t know anything about the hidden worldview.

"Ah, there are a lot of doubts." Li Nuo analyzed with confusion: "According to what Lao Ma said, the special tasks you obtained, can I understand that... in fact, due to cyber technology, you have skipped many tasks? Mission point, otherwise what you should experience on the Sound Nest line is..."

He took a deep breath.

"First, become a famous martial artist in the underground fighting arena and be spotted by Antonio or other big shots. Then they will give the player a task."

"Solve Faust."

"Two lines are developed from this, one is the sound nest line, and the other is the anti-sound nest line."

"The Sound Nest line connects the struggle between the police and the gangs. That is, after you and the Sound Nest eliminate Faust or the fighters involved, you can join the Sound Nest or be appreciated by Gith."

"The purpose of connecting the Anti-Sound Nest line to the mountain, or other lines, is to help Faust survive, and then find Angel and K9999. Together with these three people and the fighters who may exist but have not yet appeared, start contacting the Sound Nest In the end, you have to defeat a certain character, get the key to enter the archives, and get the right to view the archives database, so as to unlock the true secret of Sound Nest."

"However, because Marger crossed several mission points and entered the archives like a bug, causing the archives to be destroyed, this line should be revised."

Listening to Li Nuo talking about all this, Nanami was dumbfounded.

She thought that Marjie's mind had jumped enough, but here came a more ruthless one.

Tom whispered next to him: "This may be just a routine operation..."

Nanami kind of understood... why someone with such strong practical skills like Marger would listen to this weird boy.

Faust heard this and said, "Although I don't understand, it seems like you mean you saved me."

Li Nuo smiled and said: "So please repay us well and save our people."

Faust: "Hey..."

However, Li Nuo's analysis is not yet over.

As he said, one point brings out a line, and after multiple points and multiple lines, it becomes the covering layer of a surface.

"Now there are two options."

"Waiting for Marger and the others to figure out how to decipher the data."

“Or do things along the lines of the anti-voice nest.”

Li Nuo lowered his head when he thought of this.

There are still more than 10 hours left in the mission, which is enough for him to complete these lines, but there is a more ruthless plan in his mind.

He previously announced that the props obtained from the 25 prologue missions are all the tools to decipher the true thread.

So, it may be a more important choice to collect these 25 things now.

If it were another player, as long as they had one of the above ideas, they would be happy to do it. However, Li Nuo must avoid the most dangerous one and choose the option with the highest benefit value.

The information is still too little.

The Voice Nest file that Marger and Victor are currently cracking is the key, and there must be special evidence in it.

According to Li Nuo's experience, the so-called key point to crack the hidden line is "evidence".

That is to say, things that can prove the idea must exist and be consistent with the truth stated by the player. The two complement each other to become the basis.

Just like he had Hidechiyo's "confession" on Hidden Mountain, saw the Gate of Underworld, and met fighters from various games. Only when the "evidence" in the above categories is available can the system default to your " "The argument" is established.

Otherwise it is just a fantasy.

Now he needs to decipher the two hidden lines of Sound Nest and Geese before he can solve all the hidden lines, at least that's what he thinks.

So what is needed is the emergence of a figure who is involved in the two forces and can help him do things.

"I wish someone could help me."

While he was thinking about it.

Cha Bai walked between Marjie and Victor, squatted down and said to them: "If Cyberpunk's hacking ability fails, what about mine (Neil)?"

At this time, Li Nuo was holding the [Fetching Leather Bag].

There was a name silently chanting in his mind.

Chun Li.

……

*(The next chapter is very important and is being written. Guaranteed to be updated before noon during the day)
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