Welcome to Rewind World Game-Chapter 1550 - 33: "It’s Farewell Forever, Shall We Shake Hands?
["Su Ming’an, I want you to swear:" the Deity Ming’an said:]
["——From now on, I only care about myself, only focus on my own strength, only think about my path to becoming a god."]
["——No longer looking back, no longer attached, no longer weak, no longer hesitant."]
["——No longer connecting... with those who have been holding me back, with the people I have always had to save, including my homeland."]
["Su Ming’an, I want you to swear to me, swear that you will live well."]
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[Su Ming’an’s blood-stained hands remained still, and he asked:]
["Do you want to deny me?"]
[...God, do you want to deny everything about me? Deny the reasons I’ve come this far today?]
[The Deity Ming’an opened his hands, lowered his eyelids, showing some compassion:]
...
["No."]
["...I want to save you."]
...
I want to save you.
To make you value only yourself, to lead you to an end that is not so prolonged, to protect the lifespan of your soul, to protect you.
"Drip drip..."
The fingertips retained the warmth of the heart.
Su Ming’an opened his eyes, and the Deity Ming’an leaned on his shoulder, his skin devoid of blood color, his heart crushed by his own hand. His face was calm, silent lashes hanging down.
Snow-like long hair draped down, quietly swaying, like a hovering white seagull.
...I see.
Having acquired the memories of the Deity Ming’an, Su Ming’an gently retracted his palm.
I see, on the Sea Crossing Line, I would be poisoned by Noel, vying for the initiative in consciousness with Noel. In the end, although I woke up, the Devouring Authority had consumed too many things, leading me to decide on suicide, leaving the Deity Ming’an for the next universe cycle.
Crossing the universe cycle is a very difficult thing.
The Deity Ming’an initially couldn’t remember anything, only acting on instinct, with occasional memories popping up in his mind, until Noel came before him.
"You must have remembered something by now." Noel said.
The Deity Ming’an silently looked back. Indeed, he remembered part of the past, remembered how he fought with Noel for control of consciousness in the previous universe cycle.
"But don’t speak it out." Noel pointed to the sky: "Someone...is watching."
"Who?" the Deity Ming’an asked.
"’They’." Noel said: "Those who don’t want this story to end. Once they discover we’re trying to find the best ending, they’ll undoubtedly try everything to stop us."
"The people you’re talking about, are they that formidable?" the Deity Ming’an asked.
"Well, formidable, maybe not, but they possess some abilities. If they really try to stop us with all their might, we’ll probably end up stuck in cycles again, endlessly." Noel said.
"I don’t quite understand." the Deity Ming’an said: "But if you say it like this, won’t those people hear it?"
"Have you watched variety shows?" Noel suddenly asked.
...Hmm? the Deity Ming’an frowned, replied: "I think I have."
"The camera in variety shows always focuses on the most important people at the time, right? So disputes like ’fighting for the camera’ arise among celebrities. Some want to occupy a bit more camera time, so they deliberately do something eye-catching. As for relatively low-key celebrities, they get less screen time." Noel said.
The Deity Ming’an paused his action of brewing tea, seeming to realize what Noel was implying.
The "camera" Noel was talking about, implied... "Narrative Anchor Point."
The "variety show" Noel was talking about, implied... "Everything happening in Luowasha."
The "celebrities" Noel was talking about, implied... "Su Ming’an, Yuanyuan, Noel, Su Liujin, Sique and other key characters."
When the "Narrative Anchor Point" falls on Su Ming’an, whether it is the records of the World Book, the gaze of others, or the attention of the High Dimensions...will all be drawn into this "camera," which is the system rules of Luowasha as a book.
There is only one camera. When the lens is aimed at Su Ming’an, then the situation on Noel’s side will not be "recorded."
"I specifically studied the recording situation of the ’World Book’..." Noel said: "After the Eleventh World began, the Narrative Anchor Point has been mostly focused on Su Ming’an, with only a few occasions when the camera moved away, such as ’Lü Shu waking up from the Blood Clan’ (Memory Clip 1214), ’Noel saving Lan Qie in the land of Mechanics’ (Memory Clip 1218), ’Su Rin opening an antique shop’ (Memory Clip 1219), ’Yamada Machiichi disguised as a maid to assassinate Zhi Li’er’ (Memory Clip 1222) during these times."
"Thinking about the similarity of these events, I believe that only when the affairs of the ’Protagonist’ Su Ming’an are explained, and the importance of other people’s events greatly increases, will the Narrative Anchor Point briefly fall on others. For instance, no longer recording the incident of Su Ming’an and Hui Bai shopping and sitting in the Cat Car, turning instead to record the affairs of Lü Shu waking up among the Blood Clan. Moreover, after other people’s events conclude, the Narrative Anchor Point will still return to Su Ming’an."
"So, I deliberately chose a moment when ’Su Ming’an is doing something very critical,’ to come to you. This ensures that the Narrative Anchor Point is on him at the time and won’t fall on us two."
"He’s currently conversing with the Dawn Goddess. The importance of our conversation, no matter what, won’t exceed his. You can rest assured, for now, it’s relatively safe."
"However, our conversation must be somewhat secretive, not to involve particularly deep keywords, to prevent the Narrative Anchor Point from shifting to us."
Noel’s smiling words made the Deity Ming’an suddenly understand.
——"Avoiding the Narrative Anchor Point"
Which means, avoid the camera in the variety show!
Taking advantage of the camera being focused on the star shining brightly, they have the chance to talk about some secret topics, and these words won’t get "recorded" by the "camera."
"Interesting." The Deity Ming’an curled his lips.
Then, Noel hinted to the Deity Ming’an:
"Su Ming’an is one and only, and you are a segment of his genes. Why not cooperate with me, my goal is to break this cycle.
"The Deity Ming’an, why shouldn’t you be able to replace him who knows nothing, and break the cycle?"
The Deity Ming’an did think, since Su Ming’an continues forward, ending up in the cycle from Guardian Shore Line to Sea Crossing Line, then why can’t he, who is gradually recovering his memories, replace Su Ming’an this time and try for a better development?
Even though Su Ming’an is unique, and he himself is just a segment of genes left from the previous universe cycle, he can do better, so why not?
Noel seized upon the Deity Ming’an’s desire to break the cycle, and the two established a cooperative relationship, jointly preventing Su Ming’an from becoming the World Tree.
However, this time, one thing changed the Deity Ming’an’s mind.
——Under the World Tree, at the moment of the final battle, Su Ming’an initiated a battle of words against the Deity Ming’an.
When those cold, hard phrases entangled his limbs, piercing his consciousness. Countless related past moments flooded into his mind instantly——
When He saw Su Ming’an open his arms, with a calm expression, embracing those vast, scorching, burning, twitching, painful words—
When countless past emotional resonances shook Him—
He began to hesitate.
—Can Su Ming’an really not break the loop on his own? His desire to replace Su Ming’an, even to deprive him of his right to choose, how was this any different from the deities He despised the most?
After enduring so much pain, so much grief, will He still head towards a tragic end?
Until He finally saw, at the moment the edge of Noel’s Sun Sword approached from the front, Su Ming’an remained silent, made no defense, and pointed the sword tip to the right. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞
He chose to open the path for humanity, rather than save himself.
He faced Noel’s deadly blade, allowing his own life to flow away as liquid.
At that moment, it was as if He glimpsed the moonlight falling into the lake of Dao Ya City, saw the youth fading in the Nine Serenities, and subconsciously made the same decision.
—I’ll leave it to you.
Su Ming’an.
I’ll leave it to you to make the choice yourself.
"Click!" Noah’s Chain blossomed with brilliance, the deity closed His eyes, and a fatal pain emanated from His chest.
Even though He had forgotten many things, forgotten tears, He still found the pain familiar and cherished, something that accompanied Him throughout His life.
Bright red blood stained the white clothes, like blossoming plum blossoms, He burst forth with remaining strength, rushed to the dazed Su Ming’an, tightly grasped his flowing hand, and pulled it into His own chest.
—Let him crush His heart.
"Did you feel it?"
I’ll leave it to you.
"Before his Sun Fire burns me to ash..."
Su Ming’an.
Take my place.
"You, crush my heart."
Go towards the distance.
Do not let "me" appear in front of "you" again.
"Boom."
The knuckles exerted such force, and it was the last time they did so.
No chance for any farewell.
The deity sensed His heart cease to beat. He raised His head, and finally silently fell into the pure white torrent.
...
In a daze, He heard a gentle male voice.
It seemed to be... the voice "He" would hear every time after a cosmic return.
"Confirming world line... Plotting world ending..."
"Planning complete, game start."
"Welcome back, Watcher of the Dawn, Player BE3030."
Now, He could finally understand...
What "Welcome back", this "return", really meant...
They had indeed "returned" countless times...
...
Under the World Tree.
Su Ming’an gently placed the deity’s body on the ground, watching his gradually transparent hands.
It seems now, at least four types of loops exist: Cosmic Panggala Return (Cosmic Reincarnation) > World Game over four hundred million cycles > Luowasha Reset, and Death Rebound.
"Truly..." Su Ming’an murmured to himself: "a long... journey."
Amid the white torrent, only he, the Cloud City God, and Noel remained. Dan Shuang and others were blocked outside the torrent of words.
He had successfully destroyed the World Tree, Tree Transformation Progress reached 99%, seemingly unable to change the future.
Naturally, sacrificing to become the World Tree to save almost everyone, this was his ideal ending.
He glanced at Noel, resembling a sun disk, then slowly closed his eyes, feeling the last part of his life being gradually absorbed by the small world...
Goodbye, Noel.
No matter what your purpose is, this is the last time we meet.
Hereafter, I will stand long in the small world, while you venture into the universe.
Never to meet again.
"Sigh..."
Who knew, at the last moment, he felt the sun disk approach, gently, slowly, stretching out a still humanoid hand.
"... Shall we say a final goodbye with a handshake?" From the sun disk, Noel’s weary laugh was heard.
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[The ending is set, he cannot stop you.]
[Before leaving, would you like to hold Noel Agnini’s hand?]
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[(Approaching an observation bifurcation point.)]
[(Possibility of not shaking hands with Noel Agnini, please skip the next Memory Clip: "Interlude - After Shaking Hands with Noel")]
[(Observation is about to be finalized, please observe with caution.)]
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