As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 497: A man’s ideal partner is a comrade-in-arms
Time is something that happens synchronously.

While Li Nuo and Xiao Wu were being chased by insects and Cha Bai was fighting fiercely with Du Juan, something happened to Maljie and Nanami.

Let’s not talk about how the two of them ended up together by chance.

The most interesting thing is that they were still in a hotel room.

Nanami's face was as dark as a shadow.

"Can you come out of the shadows?"

Malj advised her kindly.

Nanami stepped out and said now was not the time to be sentimental, and besides, she had already made plans for a new life, so let the past go.

"Malger, can you please go away?"

"Hmph, that's easy to say."

Maljie pulled the door handle, but the door wouldn't open. He then took out a punch from his white coat and shot at the window. The bullet penetrated the glass and disappeared.

"Another space."

"So you're ambushed right away?"

Nanami felt something strange.

At this time, the headsets are all connected, and everyone can hear each other's conversations.

Li Nuo and Xiao Wu were howling the whole time. In order not to disturb others, Maljie changed the signal to block out these two.

"Brother Ma fell into an ambush?" Johannessen asked.

"Well, but..." Malger took out a [Player Radar] from his coat, clicked it and found no trace of people. He speculated: "Either the players of the 'Death Corridor' created a trap and we just stepped into it, or the players are no longer players and my radar can't scan them."

Malger is very concerned about the "Gintama-like Castlevania" label of Infinite City.

Wang is revising the script.

So is being the king's guard also part of the script?

In this way, players are no longer players.

On the spaceship, Li Nuo gave a clue. When Shao Hong died, Shao Hong's name was read out in the system announcement, which was not normal.

Malj pointed it out and told everyone.

Johannesson: "Don't worry, I will find a way. As long as I can see the king, everything will be clear."

Kasim sent a voice: "Don't commit suicide."

Nanami watched him the whole time, her mind in a mess.

She was wondering why she had fallen in love with this grandson in the first place.

Isn’t it just about having someone to help you when you are vulnerable?

Maljie is different from Li Nuo. Ma Ge rarely bears any ill will towards others, and he always pretends to be profound. People who hate him will be extremely annoyed, while people who don't hate him will like to get along with him. So people like Maljie are actually walking peach blossom machines as long as certain objective factors are not pointed out.

Nanami touched her forehead and said, “Oh, Maljie is very handsome… maybe this is the core issue.”

"Nanami."

Malj called her.

"Nothing, let's get down to business."

Nanami nodded, the light of [Realm of Reason] wrapped around her, and shook her head.

"A targeted attack pattern."

The scene in real life where Nanami killed three players with just a few swings of a stick was quite scary, so the "Death Corridor" gave her special care.

"The caster should be nearby, possibly in the room."

Nanami glanced around a corner.

"Yes, in the room."

"That's it..."

Marj thought for a moment and looked her in the eyes.

Nanami realized what was going to happen, so she reached out and Mago handed her a gas mask.

The two touched their fingertips.

Nanami: “Did you wash your hands?”

Marger: “I was wrong.”

Nanami sighed, then put on her mask and nodded.

Maljie brought out the [Giant Piece of Shit], and then Nanami realized that this broken mask was not poison-proof.

The hidden player seemed to be unable to bear it anymore, and broke through the defense in an instant, revealing a round shape, a centaur.

Ma Ge was shocked: "Is this not a human being?"

There is an additional branch of player chimera ant transformation, which is animalization of the body. This type of player must have acquired special abilities.

The player didn't say much. In the instant his pupils moved around, white mist filled the surrounding scene.

Nanami was a strong man. He picked up a stick and started to chop at him.

Snapped!
"What are you doing!"

Nanami's stick was blocked by someone and she opened her eyes and glanced.

"Master!"

Cassius held her stick, a look of displeasure on his face.

"You have been practicing for a long time, why are you getting angry again?"

Nanami shook her head and looked around in disbelief.

This is the world of Trails in the Sky.

She lowered her head, her hands and feet were mechanical.

I...I went back to that time?
"Nanami, why did you come here?"

"I, I did it for..."

Nanami closed her eyes, and at the moment when the [Realm of Reason] blossomed, she opened her eyes again.

"I wanted to prevent them from dying."

It seems like time has gone back.

About half a year ago, a letter from Li Nuo made her go find Cassius. She completed many tasks that almost made her collapse, and successfully opened the [Realm of Reason].

"The last step."

Cassius gave her the stick back.

The last step... Nanami nodded: "You mean... to kill that monster."

She didn't notice at all that she had merged into the "past", nor did she notice that she was standing on a drama stage.

The fan-shaped stage was filled with spectators.

She was the only one on the stage.

"Master... I feel like this seems a little familiar."

"Dream again?"

Nanami lowered her head.

During that period, she often dreamed that she was alone in the dream. At that time, she had just found a place to live, had just eased the relationship with the demon hunter, had just become a player with "friends", and had just become a normal person. So she didn't want to lose.

It's not all about love, nor is it the pressure that Shayu brings to her. After all, it's just a worthless life, so she should pay it back.

"My life is gone..."

Cassius looked back at her.

No representation.

There is only indifference.

In the center of the stage, Nanami lowered her head, and the golden light of [Realm of Reason] was dissipating.

She was completely into the role.

The Chimera Ants had long ago analyzed that her ability was a manifestation of "a certain level of internal strength" and that only by destroying her ability could they defeat her.

The leader is Ryan, who thinks Nanami is the most troublesome one among the people in the "Endless Corridor", even above Li Nuo who has no skills.

The ability of the Centaur Chimera Ant is to release a psychedelic smoke.

Three things must be met to realize this ability: there must be a large stage, there must be an audience, and the performer's personality must be dominated by emotion.

The solution is that the performer will wake up immediately if attacked by external force.

But if the person's mentality collapses before waking up, he can be killed in one blow.

This is how the Chimera Ants killed Nanami.

Perfect to the extreme.

The way the "Death Corridor" plays with space and life, as well as their style of doing things in hiding, are clearly displayed here.

Nanami found herself walking in a phantom corridor, and she remembered that there was a giant monster at the end.

That guy can make people reveal their true feelings. Only by defeating that monster can one reach the initial standard of the [Realm of Reason].

"Hey...how do I know so much?"

Nanami began to ponder this question.

However, the stage play did not give her any time to think, and the monster emerged from the ground.

The audience below the stage had already prepared all their weapons, with the muzzles of guns and cannons all pointed at her.

If Nanami had any problems, she would die immediately. In her hometown, which was ravaged by war, the flames of shells engulfed the wheat fields. In the wasteland, there were corpses everywhere. Her parents waved goodbye to her, and then died in front of her. The nightmare began to unfold.

The power of the monster invaded her brain.

"The terrifying thing is right in front of us, a dream within a dream..."

Nanami's eyes widened and she slowly knelt on the stage.

[Realm of Reason] Only a small outer layer remains to protect the body.

The Centaur Chimera Ant raised its arms and gestured to the spectators below, preparing to attack.

"Master..."

Nanami raised her head and looked around helplessly.

"Master."

She was looking for Cassius.

"I have nothing left..."

"very scary……"

"Don't do this... don't leave..."

……

In the world of "Trails in the Sky", Cassius is worried about his daughter's lack of talent in swinging a stick.

His daughter is addicted to fishing all day and does not do her job properly.

Cassius looked at his wife's portrait guiltily.

"I'm sorry for your daughter being like this..."

The man's eyes flicked to a photo nearby, he picked it up, and looked at the girl in the photo with dimples on her cheeks.

"I don't know how the little girl is doing."

Cassius walked to the cabinet, and missing his apprentice, he picked up the [Orbital Device] that Nanami left behind.

"That time she encountered a magical beast that could create dreams, and that's where she broke through the [Realm of Reason]... But she's too violent, and [Shura] might still come after her mind."

Cassius pinched the guide machine and found that the beads on it were glowing.

"This is……"

【Pearl of Time】

[Crisis contact signal, space-traveling alarm]

"I'm still in trouble."

Cassius closed his eyes.

"Help you again."

……

Nanami knelt in the center of the stage, covering her face with her hands, sobbing.

The appearance in her dream changed back to her childhood. At that time, everyone around her was dead, and there were corpses everywhere, all of which were the bodies of her parents.

"How strange... No, that's not right."

She vaguely remembered that it wasn't like that and she should have let go of the past.

In everyone's eyes, the faint golden glow on her body on the stage had disappeared.

There was a flash of white light.

"Someone come... pull me out."

"What kind of evil thing is this?"

Suddenly the witcher's voice broke into her ears.

Nanami raised her head, and the scene she was in turned into a pure white stage. Li Nuo and Wen Ke stood in front of her, one on her left and one on her right.

In the middle of the two is Cassius.

"Master."

Nanami was stunned. The ability of the monster was to create a replay of the most terrifying things in her mind. Cassius, Lino, and Wink were not the things she considered terrifying. Instead, they were the three people who made her feel most at ease.

They represent friends, teachers, and family.

The three men held out their hands together.

Spoken by Cassius: "Get up."

Nanami stretched out her arm, and the mechanical hands and legs turned back into flesh, leaving only one mechanical arm, and it was this hand that she stretched out.

The shadows of the three men merged together and became that Maljie.

"Nanami, face your fears."

At the same time, in the theater, Malger ran out of the toilet. After he was discovered to be immune to illusions, he was besieged by two Chimera Ants. When he ran out, he saw Nanami in the center of the stage reaching out to the air, as if someone was pulling him. That person had no form, it was air, or it could be some kind of carrier in consciousness, something like a soul.

The Chimera Ants that were about to attack her were distracted by Malger's intrusion.

The Centaur Chimera Ant then shouted, "Kill this girl first!"

At this time, in Nanami's eyes, it was still Maljie who was reaching out to pull her up.

Cassius, who was far away in "Trails in the Sky", called her with the [Orbiter]: "In the [Realm of Reason], you must face your fears, but if you encounter troubles that you cannot overcome, you must run!"

Nanami's mind suddenly collapsed.

Face your fears.

She was still immersed in the stage play, but she was suddenly awakened by the thought that the monster had the ability to trigger fear in people's hearts.

Maljie, is it her fear?
Nanami's mind raced, facing fear... fear... I had clearly forgotten everything in the past, the only thing I couldn't let go of was fear... fear.

My fear...

Li Nuo just contacted Maljie at this time.

"snort……?"

Malger has summoned mechanical life forms to fight the Chimera Ants.

Li Nuo shouted, "Hey, find a way to get me a map. I need to find the treasure of Infinite City and..."

Suddenly, Nanami collapsed and yelled, "Damn it, I, I really like Maljie——!"

As soon as these words were spoken, all the Chimera Ants present, including Malger, stood there in a daze.

Cassius' voice lingered in Nanami's mind: "Well... I don't know what happened to you, but tolerance is one of the basics of maintaining the [Realm of Reason]... Don't be petty."

She kept hammering the ground. "I, I like him... this is my fear... what am I afraid of? Why shouldn't I admit it? Damn it! I like Maljie, hahahaha, hahahahaha!"

The energy condenses into golden light.

[The Realm of Reason] is reopened.

Nanami stood up and broke through the illusion. Although it was the [Realm of Reason], the look in her eyes looked like the [Way of Shura].

Malger looked at the Chimera Ants in the distance and asked, "Can I join you? Let's run together."

Nanami: "Can you say that again?"

Malger immediately pulled out the [Advanced Version of the Shit Gun] from his white coat and aimed it at the Chimera Ants.

Obviously, the Chimera Ants had no idea how terrifying this weapon was.

The Rifle Man in the Cowherd Group also had this gun. After using it once, he was depressed for a week.

[Advanced version of the shit gun]

【Excellent quality】

[Equipment requirements: Extremely strong endurance...]

[Effect: I don’t want to say... it’s just a submachine gun, but it has a chance of causing a methane explosion...]

[Brief description: Poof...]

A Chimera Ant wondered: What level are we at? Why are we still charging... Can this gun have such powerful effect?
Maljie's eyes flashed and he quickly inserted the magazine.

puff!
The index finger pulled the trigger hard.

Puff, puff, puff, puff!
Gunshots rang out!

With a vomiting roar, the Centaur Chimera Ant detonated the [Thunder Shura Bombs] placed around the stage, and the entire theater was completely blown to pieces.

All players could see that somewhere, there was a thunderstorm with flames reaching the sky, touching the shield of Infinite City and sweeping across the sky, forming dark clouds.

Dark clouds covered the sky and rain fell on the streets.

[Brave 5762, Brave 5899, buried in the thunderstorm of the Chimera Ant Army]

【Thank you for the stage play】

"Thank your sister! You're not dead!"

Nanami crawled out from a group of mechanical life forms. The surroundings were in a mess. There were flashes of lightning in the puddles, which were the remaining traces of the explosion.

At the critical moment, Malger used the mechanical life forms as shields to block the impact.

At this time, above the ruins, something strange happened again.

Mingnu controls space.

The ruins on the ground were gathered together again, and squares of three meters long and wide fell one by one, surrounding the area tightly.

The shadows of the Chimera Ants appeared one by one above.

……

Below the high tower where the king was, in a dim and dilapidated house, a chimera ant formed by the indigenous people was stirring a straw man.

The word "Cuckoo" is written on the little man, and the straw on his body has turned black, foreshadowing his death.

It burned the cuckoo man into ashes and scattered them on the group of chimera ants that were ambushing Nanami and Maljie.

……

[The Guardian's Uneasy Soul]

[In order to protect the "evil god", they will not stop even if they die]

Cha Bai saw a strange scene.

A cloud of smoke crawled out of Dujuan's body and rushed into the sky.

A current of air blew it out of nowhere and brought it above Nanami.

Among the group of chimera ants that besieged her and Maljie, a few of them suddenly twisted together and became a meat ball.

Nanami frowned, she felt an extremely strong force brewing.

There was a creaking sound behind me.

Maljie opened a door played by a large mechanical life form in the room made up of mechanical life forms and walked out calmly.

"It's amazing, right? Let's do it together."

Maljie walked in front of Nanami. This damn man is like this. He always does "Assassin" things without realizing it, which makes people vomit and love him.

It doesn’t matter if you are dirty, as long as your heart is pure, people will love you.

Nanami's brows relaxed and she pulled him behind her.

"I'll do it."

"what?"

At this time, a tail protruded from the meat ball, and a three-meter-long Centaur Chimera Ant walked out of it. It had three heads and six arms, and no longer looked like a player.

"Maljie, what is your promotion mission?"

Nanami pulled out a steel bar from the wall next to her and carried it on her shoulder.

Maljer's eyelids drooped.

"Save all those harmed by the Chimera Ants and confront the King."

"Then go and defeat the king. That's what you have to do."

Nanami turned around and smiled with dimples.

"Go ahead, I'll pave the first path for you."

As long as the commotion is big enough, they can clear a route for Malge, Nanami thinks so. Now there is no time for both of them to waste their time here. The longer time goes by, the more disadvantageous it will be for the "heroes".

Also, since the theme of the script is heroes and evil gods, it doesn't matter if it's a little bit childish.

"Hmm...thank you."

The white coat turned and passed by, like a white curtain covering Nanami's pupils.

She turned her head, raised the steel bar in her hand, and pointed at the Chimera Ants one by one.

"I'm in a hurry, you guys come together!"

……

They didn't turn off their headphones.

So everyone heard it.

……

Johannesson: “Young people are so energetic.”

Li Nuo: "For men, the best partner is actually a teammate who can support them."

Nanami: “Annoying!”

Maljie: "I don't have the map. Now I have to go to the downtown area. Who will pick me up?"

Jeff: "I'm almost there, let's make an appointment."

Li Nuo: "Chabai is also in that area, who has a map?"

Nanami: "Lillolilo, that little guy should still be somewhere in the Infinite City. Find a cardboard box with the scent of the Cairo aliens that can be directly teleported into the head of Cardboard Box Ram. Lilolilo should be acting together with Cardboard Box Ram."

Li Nuo was particularly confused.

The reason why he didn't know about Cardboard Ram's function is actually... I didn't dare let him know. The Cairo aliens are just eccentric but not stupid. If he knew that there was this function, he would be killed.

Nanami: "No more nonsense, I'm going to fight! Aaaaaaah!"

The sound of bones breaking continued to echo from the other end of the headset... Li Nuo felt a little sorry for those chimera ants.

Xiao Wu could hear the voice in his headset, and asked curiously, "Do people who join your guild end up with some serious brain problems?"

She was referring to Nanami.

Li Nuo frowned: "What are you thinking about? At least we should be serious when we are serious."

Xiao Wu curled her lips and said, "Should we find a way to get out of the big bug's intestines?"

Background: These two useless guys were swallowed by a big bug while riding their bikes.

Xiao Wu squeezed out from the flesh wall, staggering and complaining: "I took a shower for nothing... Well, you have an electric saw, let's cut open its belly."

Li Nuo shook his head and pointed to the north.

"Just crawl out of its anus."

He also analyzed it very carefully.

"The north side must be the anus, because the airflow is weaker and the smell is more unacceptable. The south side is most likely the mouth, where the smell is more delicate. We can light a fire on the way out of its anus and skewer the insect's internal organs."

Cuihua jumped out and saluted Li Nuo.

"Okay~!"

Xiao Wu sneered, sneered, and sneered again, and finally covered her face and shook her head.

"Why should I cooperate with you! I never want to cooperate with you again!"

Li Nuo didn't take it seriously. He parked his bicycle, put on his weapon box, grabbed Xiao Wu's ponytail, and strode towards the insect's anus.

When Xiao Wu struggled, Li Nuo's trouser pocket vibrated.

He took out his cell phone and it was the pink-haired gorilla's number.

"The group of Chimera Ants sent to your house have already set off. I'll give you their contact information. You'll need to download an APP."

"Oh, wait, talk to you later, the signal is bad."

"Where are you?"

Li Nuo laughed.

"Near the anus."

The pink-haired gorilla hung up the phone immediately.

"ill."

……

Penguin, gorilla, and Cairo, the three chimera ants have arrived at the "Earth" where Li Nuo is.

The transmission position is slightly off.

The three guys were next to the train station, and passers-by were watching them... causing quite a stir.

Ten minutes after landing on Earth, the three were handcuffed by the police and put into the car.

These three will face adventures far more terrifying than those of the players.

(End of this chapter)