First Player

Chapter 63 Chapter 62 · "She is the fire of sin."

The Roselle Church in White City was built in the old times.

Two hundred and thirty-six years ago, humans spent a city's tax revenue to erect this magnificent cathedral.

People invited the best craftsmen and painters with the most exquisite painting skills to paint brilliant portraits around the church. Every year it welcomes a large number of pilgrims.

But with the highly developed science and technology, people have gradually become indifferent, busy, specializing in interests, advocating individualism, and abandoning beliefs that they regard as unrealistic.

The church was abandoned.

Today, the statue of the compassionate god is covered with dust and still stands in front of the colored window. His white arm lifts the scale, still as it was in the past. It looks down at the leaders of the two armies confronting each other below. Its lifeless eyes seem to be witnessing something. A cross-era history.

The believers used the most pious oaths, chanted the hymns of the gods, used the most gorgeous words, and the most beautiful flowers to worship the gods to satisfy their noble beliefs. For this reason, they prostrate themselves on the ground and prayed to the gods above to see them. The helping lamb.

——Now, the owner of White City who chose to abandon the church is also prostrate here, like a lamb.

"Ha, haha, hahaha..."

The miserable laughter spread throughout the empty church. Bai Xiong's laughter was like the last cry of a wild beast.

Su Ming'an pointed his sword at Bai Xiong, and Bai Xiong's body formed a blue defensive shield that could not be broken through for the time being.

"Resistance leader, you will not kill me." Bai Xiong smiled.

Su Ming'an remained silent. He just kept slashing at Bai Xiong's defensive shield, trying to weaken the durability of the defensive shield.

He even tried using annihilation, but it had little effect. It was better to preserve his mana.

"You don't care about Noelia." Bai Xiong said.

"Nolia?" Su Mingan said, "I don't know her."

"No." Bai Xiong shook his head: "——Isn't she right behind you?"

Su Mingan was slightly stunned.

He turned around and saw Alyssa walking into the church. Her expression was full of confusion, but her right arm was raised high and pointed at Su Ming'an.

The originally thin white fingers had turned into a heavy iron-gray steel cannon, with the muzzle filled with blue electric light.

"I can't control myself..." Alyssa's face finally showed waves.

Impossible, she can't be Noelia, she grew up in a slum. Noelia is Shiro's mechanical creation. How could she have such a complete growth experience as Alisa?

...How could she be Noelia?

...How could she be Noelia?

"Well... or rather, this lady named Alisa is just one of my 'Nolias'." Baixiong smiled: "The original android Nolia was spoiled by me. She was too resistant to me. , even kept trying to kill me, so I scrapped her."

Bai Xiong stretched out his hand and took out a paper rose from his pocket, his eyes filled with light focused and blazing:

"I realized I needed a new, healthy version of my favorite 'Nolia.'"

"More than ten years ago, I put dozens of bionic bodies I created into different families and let them grow for more than ten years. Then I found the one whose temperament best suited the original Nolia, took it back, and implanted it. Core energy to become the perfect 'Nolia'."

"Noelia who is locked up in a glass room cannot become a normal lover. So, I raised a Noelia who grew up in a normal family."

"Look, how outstanding she is. She has the romance of a child and the innocence of a girl. She is simply... a perfect bride to wear a pure white wedding dress."

Alisa is no longer Alisa in Bai Xiong's mouth.

But a bride with long hair, wearing a pure white wedding dress, waiting to be picked and picked up like a rag doll.

When other colors are applied to the purity of love, love is no longer perfect. But there is no distinction between superior and inferior, only the unremitting struggle of reason and emotion.

Su Mingan remembered the words he heard before. People said they wanted to hand Alisa over to complete some kind of "Shiro's replacement plan."

If Alyssa is really handed over, what awaits her is to be implanted with "core energy" and become the perfect Nolia.

Only people who are implanted with core energy can have the ability to reproduce in large numbers. However, Shiro just wants the core energy to maintain Noria's immortality.

In order to prevent her from becoming a reproduction machine, Bai Xiong would capture a large number of people from the outer city and let these people be persecuted and transformed on her behalf to replace Noelia's mission - because Noelia was supposed to be a reproduction machine. After being rescued, more people need to pay the price to replace her and become the new "White City Hope" - a ridiculous hope that is a fertility machine.

They were driven forward by public opinion and became "successful residents" in the sense of Baicheng. In everyone's expectant eyes, they made a "great" sacrifice for the continuation of civilization.

Bai Xiong sacrificed his life and soul for his true love, shattered all original plans, and exchanged more people's lives and freedom for Nolia's "tomorrow".

A "tomorrow" who is the future ruler of White City.

To this end, he abandoned his responsibilities as the current ruler and happily cultivated her, sacrificing countless people to maintain this sick city.

——It’s so crazy, so ridiculous, so absurd, so desperate!

Even all the negative words are not enough to describe it.

...It turns out that Alyssa is the "source of evil".

No.

This world is the "source of evil".

Shiro is a madman.

He didn't even care about his own life, how could he care about the fate of the residents of the outer city.

"absurd--!"

Alyssa shouted: "Absurd!!!"

How is it possible to accept such a truth?

Thousands of suffering residents, people from outer cities who have lost their dignity, and rebels lying in pools of blood - just to satisfy Shiro's sick love?

Kuchu shot himself before his death, Guanna smiled in the sea of ​​​​fire, countless residents struggled in suffering, and the thick list of the dead became increasingly cold...

——They died silently just for this truth?

——For such ridiculous reasons, countless people from outside the city were forced to separate their flesh and blood, break up their family ties, and become inhuman and ghosts?

Bai Xiong was still laughing, laughing under the increasingly thin defensive barrier.

His hair was disheveled and his body was soaked in rainwater, like a madman:

"[——You should wear a pure white wedding dress and comb your long hair, like a doll, sleeping beauty, or a blooming white rose.]"

He shouted and smiled, a sickly blush appearing on his pale face:

"[——You must be pure, beautiful, and submissive. You should not hold knives and guns, and there should be no blood and fire. You must absolutely endure the coveting, prying, plundering, and malice of the outside world. 】

"[——You shouldn't be unique, you have to get used to waiting, being patient, being silent, and finally being selected and picked up successfully!]"

"Ha, hahahaha - this is fate! This is love! The survival of Baicheng and human civilization are so ridiculous - a city-state that needs to sacrifice girls to exist. Since the world is sick, why don't I be allowed to go crazy? once?"

"Elaven, the leader of the resistance, how do you think you have seen the truth of the world? Do you still want to save these people? Everyone is crazy - me too! You are saving a city-state composed of lunatics!"

"No, no... maybe you are the craziest..."

Bai Xiong smiled, grinning like a dying beast. He looked at Su Mingan:

"——Elaven, you have kept Alyssa safe all the way, and I am grateful to you.

As long as you quit the resistance from now on, I am willing to keep you, witness Nolia’s growth with you, and protect the future of Baicheng!”

…

[A special plot appears, and the ending has a twist]

[Do you agree to Shiro’s invitation to become an [Observer]? (Observers exist without player status and will no longer return to the main god space. They will continue to live as a native resident of the world and become a lucky person who is beyond the game) 】

The temptation in front of him is very moving, [Observer] may avoid the fate of being obliterated in a year.

...But to complete the level perfectly, the only way the player can go is.

Su Mingan didn't have any emotion about this, he just slashed at Bai Xiong's barrier shell.

"So."

Bai Xiong tilted his head slightly and ordered:

"——Noelia, shoot at the leader of the resistance!"

Alyssa moved her wrist.

"No - no!" she screamed: "Absurd! Ridiculous! Ridiculous! How could I, how could I be a machine -"

As if all her pride was shattered in an instant, she screamed in despair.

When Bai Xiong made her decades ago, he implanted a chip in her brain, and she couldn't resist his orders.

The artillery fire gathered on Alyssa's right arm and shot in the direction of Su Mingan, Bai Xiong showed a bright smile.

A bloody light emerged.

"boom!"

Su Mingan heard a sharp sound, like broken glass. It's like being in a sticky rhythm.

He turned his head and saw blood exploding in front of his eyes.

The brilliance shattered, and the tiny rays of light danced, like crystal-like waves under the sea.

Blue, glassy shards sparkled before his eyes.

"cough--!"

Alyssa coughed up blue blood.

A heavy cannon hit the ground hard, and the upper arm it was connected to was dripping with blood, tearing at her blue flesh.

In Alyssa's hand, there was a "blood-red dagger" full of blood.

She used the dagger Su Mingan gave her to cut off her right arm and forcibly stopped the firing.

"I won't shoot him..." She laughed like a madman, and the heavy rain wet her brilliant blond hair like sunlight falling into the sunset.

Abandoned the timidity when we first met,

Throw away the shyness of lack of love,

Even if he laughs like a madman, his facial features are twisted in pain, and half of his body is covered with blood,

She is still brilliant at this moment,

Like a leaping flame.

"Whoosh!"

The next moment, amid the exclamations of countless barrages, Su Mingan braved Bai Xiong's next bullet and stepped forward decisively - piercing Bai Xiong's heart.

"boom!"

The bullet passed through Su Ming'an's left shoulder, and there was a crisp sound of bones. A large amount of blood spurted out. He and Bai Xiong stood still at the same time.

He coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Shiro also coughed up blood at the same time.

The sound of patter sounded outside the church, and at this moment, lightning and thunder thundered.

"Rumble--"

White light flashed outside the window, illuminating their faces in a blur of brightness and darkness.

"...At that time, the sky was blue, there were flowers in the White City, and humans could play musical instruments..." Bai Xiong's voice was hoarse, as if he was missing something.

Su Ming'an drew out his sword and took a few steps back. The area where his left shoulder connected to his left chest was in extreme pain. A large amount of blood overflowed, and dizziness gradually began to dominate his body.

The cold rain outside the church door blew his black hair along with the cold wind.

Bai Xiong's body could no longer support the weight. His figure was tilted, his legs were trembling, and he slowly slid towards the coffin below——

"Uh-huh!"

Rotten rose petals floated up like a messy rain of flowers.

Shiro collapsed among the rotting petals, blood dripping from his chest.

There was no robot protection around him, and he was just a very fragile human being at this time.

He stared blankly at the top of the church - there was a composition similar to "Genesis". Huge, seated gods in various forms, together with vivid witches, prophets and slaves, formed a majestic portrait. They seemed to be watching him, who was covered in blood.

Pure white, devout believers once knelt here, yearning for the peace of tomorrow.

Countless petals will be thrown out at this moment, reflected in the melodious evening bell of the church. Faith is rooted in their hearts, and all of them long for happiness and forgiveness.

However, at this moment, there are only countless rotten roses and a sick leader of White City.

He does not pray for happiness, nor does he long for forgiveness.

His white coat seemed to be lit by fire, oozing with blood-red color.

He looked at the dome like this and actually smiled.

"We are just..." Shiro murmured to himself: "We are struggling to survive in the wrong way."

"Young resistance leader, let me tell you, human civilization... is not something that can be interpreted in terms of 'freedom' and 'justice'."

"After I built White City, I knew that sooner or later I would die like this."

"Then--"

Bai Xiong turned his head and looked at Su Ming'an who was approaching.

"I look forward to the fact that you and I will end up... being spurned by all the people and being killed by the people we saved... the same ending."

The light jumped across the colored window and fell into Bai Xiong's eyes.

His eyes seemed to be copying countless sacred and solemn statues.

"Uh-huh!"

Su Mingan cut open Bai Xiong's head.

The head of the young leader flew up, accompanied by dark, blood-stained petals floating as light as feathers.

[White Mechanical City·The second leader, Shiroro Rokaya, died. 】

Su Mingan put away her sword and turned around.