As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 401 Toilet Portal
Victor stood at the sink, frowning, then turned back.

"You two ate eighty dumplings."

Maljie snorted coldly: "Humph, there is no other way. I can only use food to miss my hometown. I am now a lonely doctor wandering in a foreign country, but I am also just a traveler who misses home."

Victor missed V's seriousness, even though he wasn't that Victor, because he was watching Marger looking out the window with his back turned.

"Yeah, where is my home..."

A group of mechanical life forms knelt on the ground holding dumplings and vinegar.

"Master, I am sad..."

They let out mournful sobs.

Victor felt that Malger was a very competent leader as he could make this group of mechanical life forms evolve into such strange things.

"Don't be sad, my followers."

"Master..."

"This is my mission. The world is falling apart, and this forces me to travel through the future, present and past to fix it!"

"Master!"

“When the world reaches the critical point of hope and despair, I will carry all the despair and release all the hope!”

"Master, Master, Master!"

Snapped!
Victor pressed the button of the indoor fire door to isolate Malger and the mechanical life forms outside.

It was finally quiet.

Lao Wei thought about this and took a puff of his cigarette.

"Sister Cha, you haven't finished eating yet?"

"Um……"

Cha Bai is still eating.

"I can't help it. My race is being promoted and my flesh and blood are being recast. My body is not used to it."

She had already eaten a piece of cake while she spoke.

"Will that be troublesome?" Victor asked.

"It's quite troublesome." Cha Bai nodded.

[Elf bloodline: A race that is good at using magic. Contact with different elves can increase the bloodline effect]

[Current race: lv5]

[Racial proficiency: 30.3%]

[After the proficiency reaches 100%, there will be a slight qualitative change]

"Bloodline is something that grows differently for different people and their fates. That's my guess."

Cha Bai was talking to himself.

"I am a robot. To use magic, I need flesh and blood as a medium. Elves are a magical race. What they gain after upgrading their race is actually flesh and blood. At least that's the case for me."

"I don't know what the benefit is..." Victor said.

"Yes." Cha Bai said, "For example, I can use witchcraft and magic that increases my power. Many sage magics cannot be used because of my mechanical physique. As a medium, I am half flesh and blood, unable to gain the trust of 'God', and therefore unable to control the complete natural elements. That's about it."

Seeing that Victor seemed confused, she changed the subject.

"My current ratio of machinery to flesh and blood is 1:2, about this much."

"But I looked at your internal scans and all the key parts are still connected to the machinery."

"Well, the brain is basically flesh and blood, not to mention the blood vessels and flesh under the skin. The heart is also disappearing. Even the furnace core is disappearing, but fortunately the activity is not affected. And with the reduction of mechanization, I can use [Cyber ​​Psychosis] flexibly as a skill."

"Sister Cha, the only problem is that it's very troublesome to repair."

"Well, I admit that flesh and blood repair and mechanical repair are two different propositions."

Cha Bai looked towards the noisy fire door.

“But with [the relievers], everything is OK.”

Behind the fire door.

Marjie had enough of the noise, so he sat on the windowsill, enjoying the breeze and taking a deep breath.

He looked at the group of mechanical life forms busy in the yard below. These little guys were packing up things that they would use in the script.

"Hey?"

The cell phone connected to the tombstone intercom rang and he picked up it.

"Are you looking for me?"

The voice was from Dee.

Maljie had contacted Di a few days ago, but Di was not there at the time, so he just left a message. Since it was across the corridor, which was equivalent to crossing a country, the signal was weak and the time passed unevenly, so he had to wait for a few days before getting a reply.

"Are any of you participating in the 'War of the Corridor Worlds' scenario?"

Marjer got straight to the point.

There was silence for a few seconds on Dee's end.

"Brump signed up, but I don't think he'll be chosen."

"Can't be selected?" Maljie wondered.

"There are many candidates who meet several specific conditions. They will be eliminated in order of strength, and finally two teams will be selected."

"Wait..." Malger interrupted: "Brup is very powerful, right?"

"Yes, our guild's trump card."

"That……"

"Another entry requirement is the total score of the last three scripts. This is a bit vague, and I don't know how to judge it, but Brum has been losing a lot recently."

"Hmph, is that so..."

Di was curious: "You guys want to participate too?"

Maljie didn't answer, which was considered as his consent.

Di said: "If you send the best group of people from each corridor at this stage this time... you will definitely be able to participate."

Malger: "Give me some information."

Dee was silent for a few seconds.

"There's a guy named Monroe in the 'End Corridor', who looks a lot like your little brother Li."

"Brain?"

"No, he is pretending to be a coward. I just heard that he is the most powerful one in our stage... He may participate in that script. Anyway, you should try not to provoke them in the early stage."

"Hmph, it doesn't matter. Only when there are obstacles in front of us can we live towards the sun."

"Haha, Brother Ma is still so confident. In this endless journey, you will only choose the most extreme path."

These two Chuunibyou can't get together. Otherwise, there will be a lot of weird conversations like this one.

But Maljie felt like he had met a soulmate.

"Next time we meet, I'll treat you to a meal and I'll bring the wine."

"Then I'll take the woman."

After hanging up the phone, Maljie took a deep breath, took out a cigarette from his pocket, put it to his lips, hesitated for a moment, and then put the cigarette box back.

"I have to learn to quit smoking..."

Ma Ge looked at the central tower of Basel in the distance.

"In the end..."

"It's so troublesome."

He opened the panel and checked his data to see if there was anything else he needed to prepare. When he saw the [Identity] panel, he began to complain because of the phone call just now and his busyness during this period of time.

"Sometimes I can't tell if I'm the captain or the babysitter..."

【Reliever 2.0】

[How to activate: Medical value ≥ 50, without any blood-replenishing items, then choose one of the two options... Option 50, rescue ten lives while injured (between HP30% and %); Option , rescue a creature in danger by various means, but the prerequisite is that the creature's injuries cannot be caused by you]

[Closing method: 1. Molesting patients; 2. Saving people or things that should not be saved (figure it out yourself); 3. Pay 3000 gold coins to automatically close]

[Effect 1: Resist three fatal attacks]

[Effect 2: Exchange your life for the rebirth opportunity of those who believe in the second life. You can revive up to two players at a time. If the resurrected person does not complete the script, you will die permanently.]

[Effect 3: Can repair your own broken limbs (voluntary), medical value +100]

[Effect 4: Acquire the skill "Staring Treatment". Each time you treat a person, they will gain a random ability increase, with an upper limit (e.g., the maximum strength value can be stacked up to 70% strength bonus)]

[Effect 5: Transforms into a protector in spirit form for five minutes. The blessing of "Effect 4" is converted into "protection" and given to one teammate. After the ability ends, "Rescuer" is turned off and cannot be turned on again in the scenario.]

[Effect 6: Crushing the methane particles spread by the "shit block" can slowly restore the health of creatures other than yourself, about 0.5% per second. Cannot be used continuously. The recovery time is defined by the size of the "shit block"]

[Effect 7: You cannot use any blood-replenishing potions or skills on yourself]

……

"Thanks to your help, Malger's [Rescuer] has reached version 2.0, but it will be more difficult to go any further."

Li Nuo walks in the alleys of Basel.

He turned his head and looked at Soran who was sitting in a wheelchair being pushed by Gardevoir.

"It's not difficult to find the materials for the 2.0 upgrade. The problem is that you need to complete random tasks afterwards." Soran said leisurely: "You and I both understand."

"Ah, no." Li Nuo pointed at him and said, "Do you like sitting in a wheelchair so much?"

"The feeling of being pushed is always better than walking by myself." Soran changed the subject and asked, "Are you sure you want to participate in that world war?"

"Well, I don't know, that's why I have to look for the staff."

As Soran spoke, he put on a pig nose.

The favor Li Nuo asked him to help with was to find the location of the staff.

Just like the first time they worked together, the props in Soran's hand can find the location of "hidden" things.

Basel is a place that hides some secret workers.

It is difficult to determine where they are hiding.

Now they were walking in the dirty alleys of Basel's lower town. There were beggars on the roadside and the cold wind made the guys lie down.

"The broken ditch has stained my leather boots..."

It was Wink who spoke.

The president of the "Fifth Detective Guild" was dragged here by Li Nuo.

Li Nuo: "Mr. Wenke, don't be so arrogant. Who knows, you might become their leader someday."

Wenk: "That's better than being your president."

Li Nuo brought him here to prevent the possibility of needing the authority of "President".

Li Nuo asked Wen Ke to find out the general location, but the specific location needed to be found by Sauron.

The demon hunter's nose can only smell things within a certain period of time. The wooden sign related to the staff has no smell at all. Soran's pig nose can lock the area associated with the sign.

Players just can’t attack the natives in Basel, but it doesn’t mean they can’t explore the hidden elements of the “Endless Corridor”.

"What happens after you find it?"

Soran pointed to the road ahead and asked.

Li Nuo thought for a moment and said, "Let's talk about it after we find it."

Soran: "What level are you at now? I'm talking about strength."

"Just wait until the bloodline of the race reaches level seven to branch out. The rest will be no different from before." Li Nuo pinched his chin and pondered for a while: "There should be nothing to be afraid of in the Endless Corridor, but it's hard to say about other corridors."

Soran asked Gardevoir to park for him in front of a public toilet.

"You have the highest chance of winning against the Corridor of Eternal Life. They are a group of melee players, but not as good as you and 2B. The magic and unexpectedness of the Corridor of Sky is too strong. If you encounter them, tell them the names of Brum and the others and try not to fight. The Corridor of Death is too mysterious. I have only encountered a few of them. Finally, there is the Corridor of the End. The last time we encountered a player from the End, he was not a super player."

Soran paused here. Even if Li Nuo said "not necessarily participating in the competition", he knew that with Li Nuo's personality, he would participate.

"If it were in the past, you would have rejected this script, right?"

"It's indeed too troublesome to deal with people." Li Nuo said.

Soran suddenly asked, "What are you looking for?"

Li Nuo looked at him and said, "Sauron, it's not good to judge people so clearly."

Wenk said: "You need to let go of your bullshit sense of security when you need to."

The three men present are all so smart.

Li Nuo raised his eyebrows, shrugged and said, "Like Xing Kai, not being a player, or..."

"What you need to find may be in the border prison." Soran interrupted, "It's too dangerous there, so you can't stay in the house. You must contact more people and see more things with your eyes. Is it for your lover, or do you just don't like this kind of life... Well, it can't be because Ikaros' world let you see some truth, goodness and beauty... That's indeed a good place. In short, the above situation led to your participation in this damn world war." This guy's thinking ability is too hateful, Li Nuo thought.

"It's voluntary." Li Nuo said, "I have other ways, but I need to contact more corridors, and I need to be independent of anyone. I don't want to become a 'hound' of a big guild like Kroyd one day."

Soran glanced at the central tower in the center of Basel, which was more than ten kilometers away, and said nothing.

"You don't want to be a player..." Wen Ke became more and more frightened the more he thought about it. He remembered that Nanami had mentioned that Li Nuo had found a way to kill the natives: "Why don't you just let me go..."

Neither Li Nuo nor Soran paid any attention to him.

Finally, Soran took a deep breath.

"Be careful, call me if you need anything."

"Ah."

"I will deliver all the gifts before you leave."

"it is good."

Li Nuo waved his hand, grabbed Wen Ke's collar and went into the bathroom.

After Wen Ke went in, he covered his nose and looked around.

It was a dirty public toilet with filthy stuff on the floor. Li Nuo had long been accustomed to the shit and didn't care. But Wenke couldn't. He immediately turned on the faucet and washed his face.

"That's not right. I remember hearing that some people often saw those mechanical workers around here, but how can this be a public toilet?"

"It's very simple. This is something that only we players know."

Li Nuo's voice came from the bathroom cubicle.

"Mr. Wink, come here."

The two of them were facing a particularly clean toilet.

"What do you mean?" Wen Ke didn't understand: "Don't tell me this is a teleportation device?"

"In a certain script, I actually had the experience of being teleported away by a toilet." Li Nuo put on a mask and kicked the toilet button.

The next second, the two were swept into the toilet water.

……

During the "Eternal Life Train", Li Nuo and Maljie were rolled into the toilet and went to the front of the train, and the same thing happened this time.

It can be determined that the teleportation toilet is the official "anywhere door" of "Endless Corridor".

"We need to make one..."

Li Nuo picked up his hat and stood up from the ground.

He was standing in the pool, all wet.

look around.

Under the blue sky are a group of buildings that are intertwined and densely packed together. They are not as cramped and dilapidated as the lower levels of Basel.

(Probably like this)
"Isn't this the upper level of the central tower?"

Wink's voice sounded from beside him.

Li Nuo pulled him up.

"What's going on? I didn't even know there was a portal to the upper level."

"It's just a restriction on players." Li Nuo said, "Players who don't have a certain level and authority cannot come here."

"So what should we do now..."

"Mr. Wenk, have you ever played games?" Li Nuo asked.

"Am I that kind of person?" Wenk asked back.

Li Nuo put his hat on his head and said, "Open world games often have several small passages on the early maps that lead directly to the later maps. This is to stimulate the players' desire to explore and allow them to take risks in the early stages to get the later equipment."

Wen Ke stepped out of the pool and said, "What a strange setting."

Li Nuo: "It's not surprising. You can think of it as an Easter egg, like the Easter egg that the mastermind behind a horror game is actually a dog."

boom!
Suddenly, fireworks were set off on the street next to us.

Li Nuo and Wen Ke looked over as their conversation was interrupted.

A clock tower is hung with a colorful screen.

On the screen was a blurred photo of a woman.

There was a large line of words written below: [Countdown to Nanami's visit to the upper area...]

A group of people gathered under the bell tower, and someone was singing with a loudspeaker. The lyrics were roughly "We Love Nanami."

"What the hell?" Li Nuo was shocked.

"Didn't Jane sign with an entertainment company?" Wen Ke lit a cigarette and said, "According to you players, her level is not high enough to reach the upper level area, but she has a good image. Once the advertisement comes out, plus the company's publicity, she will have many loyal fans."

"It's the fan effect." Li Nuo said, "That girl actually has such a day..."

Wen Ke said: "Thanks to you."

Li Nuo said modestly: "It's also thanks to you."

They are like two dads.

But Li Nuo had an idea that Maljie might be killed by this group of followers.

The thought of a mechanical life form fighting against a group of fans was exciting and fun, so he showed a perverted expression.

"But speaking of which, Mr. Wink, what is going on with Basel? I mean the relationship with the players."

"This..."

Wink took a deep drag on his cigarette.

"Your administrator is called the king, right?"

"Ah."

“I also heard from my grandma…”

Basel is a corner of the world of "Eternity's End". The original setting here is that "humans" have no lifespan and time, and only get back on track after certain roots are eradicated.

Wink's grandmother is one of those humans with an endless lifespan.

"He killed another manager of the 'Cloister.'"

"what?"

"Hmm... it seems that originally the 'king' only had some causal connection with this world. Later, he was chased by a group of people and came here. The people chasing him were a group of 'players' from other worlds, and the administrator who called himself 'Judge'."

Wink recalled the shows his grandmother had shown him.

"The king killed everyone, crushed his own karma, and eventually became the new king."

"Oh, forget it." Li Nuo originally wanted to ask if there was any other way to avoid having too much contact with Bianyu. According to what Wen Ke said, if he wanted to kill all the players, it was not impossible to think about it, but the administrator was really not within his consideration.

First, it’s difficult.

Second, trouble.

Three, I haven’t lived enough.

Four, cowardly.

Li Nuo tapped his cane and said, "Let's go and find the person I'm looking for."

Wenk: "Where can we find it? There are so many buildings here."

Li Nuo looked at a house with an empty sign.

"The location the portal sent you is most likely the area closest to the destination."

He pointed his cane toward the house.

“This is the closest.”

"You're just guessing, right?"

"Stop talking nonsense. Go!"

……

[Counting participating teams]

The staff drank tea and sat on lounge chairs in the sun.

He had no idea that danger was approaching.

"Well... let me take a look."

The staff stared at the screen. There were a total of six teams for this script. Five of them had accepted to participate, and only one team had not yet accepted.

"Which coward is not participating in that group?"

He murmured, clicking on the roster on the computer.

"Hum team?"

Memories came to the distant past...

"Oh, right, the idiot who threatened me and told me to open the back door or else he would find me and get me!"

"Ah."

The worker shook his head and laid back on his recliner with a raised eyebrow.

"A mouth trafficker."

boom!
There was a knock on the door.

"Who?"

"Check the water meter!"

“The water meter is outside!”

After a few seconds of silence outside the door, someone knocked again.

"Door-to-door service!"

This time it was a woman's voice.

"Wait."

The staff member jumped off the chair and walked towards the door with Doraemon-like steps.

Looking out through the cat's eye, I saw a woman's face.

"Liar, you're holding a picture book!"

"Would you like me to draw a portrait of you?"

The worker was startled; the voice came from behind him.

Look back.

Li Nuo's eyes under the brim of his hat were looking at him.

"If you had opened the door I wouldn't have to boil the medicine. You're wasting my stuff."

Li Nuo sat consciously on the recliner in the room.

"As I said at the time, I came to the appointment."

He said at the time that he would find the staff, and he did what he said.

"If I participate in the competition, as a staff member, what benefits can you give me?"

"At most I can set the landing location for you, or spoil some of the reward mechanisms in advance... I don't know the rest."

"What about the benefits beyond the script?" Li Nuo asked.

The staff began to ponder.

"its not right……"

This guy finally reacted.

"Ahh... why should I follow you!" He suddenly remembered: "As a player, you can't touch me!"

Outside of the script time, players are unable to cause effective harm to staff. In Basel, if players casually harm official staff, they will be punished.

"You're right. As a player, I really can't do anything to you..."

“Hahahaha!” The staff member put his hands on his hips and laughed arrogantly: “Idiot! Get out of here! Not only that, I will deliberately target you in the future!”

He stuck out his tongue and made a face.

"Just get lost like a loser! Hahaha!"

Li Nuo stood up, exhaled, walked around the staff and headed towards the door.

He opened the door from the inside and there stood Wink.

(End of this chapter)