...This is just an empty, model-like church.

There is no breath of human life at all, just like a dead city.

…

[Perfect clearance progress: 70%]

[Exploration degree: 90%]

…

"Is what you saw helpful to you? After seeing the appearance of Cloud City, can you find a way to remove the influence of the Kraken?" Noel asked him, turning his head.

"...it helps a lot. As for the Siren, maybe." Su Mingan said.

"Then I'll be relieved." Noel smiled.

"Are you helping me?" Su Mingan didn't understand Noel's series of actions that seemed like an enemy but also a friend.

"Of course I'm helping you, aren't we good teammates?" Noel responded innocently.

"Then why did you kill Ying?" Su Mingan turned around and confronted him.

Noel smiled and said nothing, just stretched out his hand and touched Yinke's head.

Yin Ke tilted her head affectionately and rubbed his hand.

Noel seemed not to care about the current danger at all, and his tone was still very relaxed:

"Su Mingan, I forgot to tell you. According to the information I know, when we rise to high altitudes, poisonous gas that cannot be dispelled will appear around us. In other words, when you see Yunzhong City, your life will be gone.

How long has it been raining?"

Su Mingan looked at his status bar in the upper left corner.

He was too deeply affected by the dizziness, and only now did he realize that he had another debuff called "Poison Gas".

[Debuff (Cloud City Poison Gas): Affected by the Cloud City Poison Gas, blood will be reduced by 1% per second. This state cannot be dispelled. 】

…

"Is this your 'help' to me?" Su Ming'an looked at Noel: "What you call help is that you dragged me to die with you when you knew that you were affected by the sea monster and could not turn back?"

When he said this, the pain in his chest still lingered.

The barrage in the upper right corner has gone crazy. The audience can't believe that the world's number one and the world's number two will fall here, in an extremely ridiculous way, like an internal fight.

This is just like a joke.

"Su Ming'an, although the ending is death, in this way, you can clearly see what Yunzhong City looks like, right?" Noel laughed.

"Then why did you kill Ying?" Su Mingan asked.

Noel's eyes suddenly softened: "Because it will be more convenient for you."

"..." Su Mingan's voice was trembling: "What's convenient?"

"Su Ming'an." Noel's hand stroked the black crow's head, and his voice slowly floated up through the wind and snow:

"How do you think it will be easier for you if I kill Ying?"

Noel's words sounded like thunder in Su Mingan's ears.

In an instant, a flood of emotions filled his mind.

His eyes widened slightly, and the question he had originally prepared was blocked in his mouth for a moment.

For him, the only benefit of killing Ying is...

...so that he can quickly return to the file.

The wind and snow are getting heavier and heavier.

At this moment, he could hardly hear his own voice, as if a hand suddenly grasped his heart.

At this time, in front of him, the little boy sitting on the crow's back straightened up.

As if asking for a hug from death and snow, he suddenly laughed and opened his hands cheerfully:

"Go and greet your new world, Su Ming'an, go and save the ignorant me, Su Ming'an!" He laughed loudly, and his laughter seemed to pass through the shackles of wind and snow, and spread outside like heavy snow.

He smiled, with a faint choke in his throat, buzzing like a broken bellows.

...like an explorer who finds a secret, like a voyager who discovers a new world.

Covered in blood, the blond boy stood in the snow, with an attitude that was not afraid of death, and opened his arms to the snow and poisonous gas in the sky.

"If my death can help you, if my death can make you trust me, then believe me, save me, treat me as your best partner, treat me as an unknown, and

Great explorer who sacrificed his life!"

The white snow covered Noel's frostbitten skin like a robe of velvet.

He laughed heartily, and the outstretched hand gradually began to freeze. The poisonous gas that had been latent for a long time infected his face, and the scales on the young man's face began to gradually break.

In the field of vision with white as the main image, Su Mingan saw that the golden hair that seemed to be shining in the sun was gradually stained with snow.

At this moment, the other party's eyes, which were gradually losing their luster, were particularly bright in his eyes.

"Bang!"

Noel's hand pushed up his chest.

The smiling second player opened his almost transparent lips.

His eyes had the bright and flamboyant color of a fanatic.

"Su Mingan."

"...Go and embrace your new world."

The high-pitched announcement pierced through the swirling wind and snow.

The snow-white sky fell in front of Su Mingan's eyes.

On top of the giant crow, the figure gradually turned into an ice sculpture, still standing there, with arms spread out, as if embracing the whole world.

The violent wind and snow blew across Su Mingan's face, and there was still strong shock in his eyes.

...ranked second in the world.

This is number two in the world.

He is not a little kid who has been lucky enough to reach this point, nor is he a young boy who only knows how to act cute and go to the amusement park to have fun.

…He is Noel.

It is the second in the whole world.

He actually guessed Su Mingan's death reversion skill.

In fact, Noel even guessed that after they ascended to the Cloud City, they would never return.

He anticipated his own ending and knew that if he continued like this, sooner or later he would be alienated by the residual influence of the Kraken, and he had to save himself.

But Su Ming'an was extremely distrustful of him at this time. If he just waited, he couldn't guarantee that Su Ming'an would definitely save him later.

so,

so,

Before facing the doomed ending of death,

He chose "self-rescue".

A "self-rescue" based on the premise of "self-death".

He took Su Ming'an up to the sky, took him to see the scene of Yunzhong City clearly, and then forced Su Ming'an to trust him in a true sense. He hoped that Su Ming'an could save him in the next turn.

He was not even sure what kind of repercussions Su Ming'an's death would cause, whether he could be truly saved, or whether he was only saving Noel in a parallel world.

But he still did it.

Because as an "adventurer", I am always curious about the unknown.

Noel is the only person Su Ming'an has met along the way, traveling through time lines, who can even take advantage of his death reversal.

…

【Su Mingan.】

[Do you think, can gods travel through endless timelines? 】

[...And can humans become such ‘gods’? 】

…

The shock of Noel's behavior replaced the panic of being discovered.

More wind and snow came up, like a heavy rain, and when it fell, it stuck to Su Ming'an's thoughts like glue.

The white color kept fading in front of my eyes, replaced by dark light and shadow that kept floating, like a glimpse of white snowflakes.

At the moment of falling, Su Mingan suddenly felt unprecedentedly relaxed.
To be continued...