Chapter 402 The King and the Corridor, History and the Future

Marger has always been in contact with the people in the "Corridor of the Sky", and he is responsible for diplomacy.

According to our understanding, there are staff members in the player gathering areas of each corridor.

But the character and appearance of the staff are identical to the character of the cloister.

For example, the staff of "Sky Corridor" are a group of handsome men and beauties with "stories." They are a group of people who seem to have jumped out of a two-dimensional animation. Their personalities are very iconic. They are lively, domineering, and passionate. In short, they are basically sunny but not out of touch.

The "Corridor of Immortality" is like a military camp, and the staff are stereotypical mercenaries.

When we arrived at the "Endless Corridor", we were greeted by a group of cartoon characters whose personalities were different from their cowardly looks, as if they had jumped out of Fujiko Fujio's comics.

Li Nuo knew the character of these guys, so he dared to come to them and threaten them.

To put it simply, he is bullying honest people.

The staff member squatted in the corner with his head in his hands, trembling, and looked like "I'm easy to bully."

Wen Ke felt compassion and suggested: "Just shoot him, don't torture him."

The staff member cried: "Am I still destined to die?"

Li Nuo was stunned. He didn't want to kill him, he just wanted to use Wenke, an aboriginal, to scare him... After all, Wenke was a businessman who wandered in the gray industry. In other words, he was not a good person in nature. If The partner is not a bastard like Li Nuo, but an "honest person" like Amanda or Chen Shou. Wenke can drain the player's value and then throw it away.

Otherwise, the "Fifth Detective Guild" would not have become Basel's "blacklist".

But Li Nuo is still curious about the staff's character.

"What is the reason why the staff in our corridor are so careless..."

"We have to ask our superiors..."

king?

Li Nuo sat on the sofa, twisted the lid of the tea, and said, "Tell me."

The staff member said: "The policies set by superiors are related to our personalities. In other words..."

He whispered: "It's because the superiors lacked the foresight first and then we lack the foresight..."

Li Nuo took a big sip of tea, breathed "ha" and wiped his lips.

"The king is a heartless person."

"Don't say I said it..."

Wen Ke said before Li Nuo: "But you have already said it."

The staff changed their posture, that of curling up with their heads in their hands, symbolizing "I am no longer alive".

Li Nuo put the weapon box on the ground and said, "Is the president very cooperative this time?"

Wenke leaned against the wall and locked the door, as if he was going to create a secret room murder scene, and said: "Firstly, you are now the 'Vice President', I have to give you face, and secondly, for Jane's sake I think helping you is the right choice for my girl’s future.”

Aboriginal people cannot interfere or participate in the player's affairs.

For Wenke, Nanami has turned from the aggressive girl at the beginning into his own girl. This is due to Marger's somewhat "scumbag" nature, which makes Wenke think about Nanami as a babysitter. .

Li Nuo complained: "You two are now the replica of Haihara Ai and Dr. A Li?"

Wenke narrowed his eyes: "Then who do you think you are? Bragging yourself to be Edogawa Conan?"

Li Nuo sneered and said like a pervert: "Ah~ Shirley."

In fact, no matter how much the players mess around in the script, children are still children, and ignorance is still ignorance. People like Li Nuo who have reached the full level of intelligence in adolescence are really rare.

"Since the president cooperates... then it will be easy to handle."

Li Nuo moved the folding stool out.

The staff looked up.

Li Nuo kicked the leg of the stool, and the iron rod in the stool bounced up. Then, with a roar, barbs bloomed, and the iron rod spun wildly like an electric drill.

Wenke can attack the staff, and although he will be punished by the "law", he himself does illegal things all day long, and he no longer cares.

How could the staff not know this guy Wenke.

The aborigines founded the guild and it still survives to this day. This old fox is considered a legend.

The staff member's throat rolled: "No, what do you want me to do? Just use a torture device when you come up? Is there such a thing..."

boom!

Suddenly there was thunder outside the house.

The clouds dispersed the clear sky.

"It is going to rain."

Li Nuo closed the window.

Look back.

The darkness covered half of the face, making the staff's fear almost reach the critical point.

"It's actually very difficult to bite your tongue and kill yourself," Li Nuo reminded.

The staff retracted their tongues and stood up, "I understand... which punishment do you want to give me first..."

He looked at Wenke resentfully.

"Please be gentle..."

"Shall we kill him with one shot?" Wenke suggested.

"I came to him to ask about the situation, not to kill people..." Li Nuo explained.

"I thought you wanted to kill someone..." Wenke exhaled, "I told you earlier."

Half a minute later.

The staff sat on folding stools with iron rods retracted.

This guy started the computer system under semi-coercion and was explaining the so-called Corridor War.

A simple description flashed on the screen:

[All up to five corridors can participate, and there must be at least three corridors. The way to participate is to screen the points in the "Intruder" mode]

[Intruders are players from other corridors who enter your corridor. If you can fight back and kill the intruder, you will get a large amount of points]

[If you are an intruder, killing players in other corridors will be regarded as gaining extra points]

[The points rules are determined by the "World Tree" in the center of the prison and the corridor]

"What is the World Tree?" Li Nuo asked.

"I don't know." The staff member said, "I am just a part-time worker. If you ask me how many mistresses Party A has at home, how would I know?"

"Referee," Wink said.

Li Nuo nodded: "Well... look down."

[Corridor Ranking: End, Emptiness, Eternal Life, Death, Endlessness]

[Endless Corridor: I have been beaten all year round, and the point gap is too large to enter the Corridor War]

"Then why are we here this year?" Li Nuo asked.

The staff member clicked on a folder.

【Icarus】

[This world is the territory of "Corridor of the Sky"]

[The "Endless Corridor" invaders changed the fate of the world and defeated a large number of players in the "Corridor of the Sky"]

[Snatch this world away and put it into the territory of "Endless Corridor" to get a huge amount of points]

[Destroy the entire guild as an "invader" and get a huge amount of points]

Wen Ke looked at Li Nuo.

"Is it up to you to co-write?"

"I'm really not sincere..."

The staff panicked.

"What do you mean...that 'intruder' is you!"

"What's wrong?" Li Nuo asked.

"Let me go, brother, do you know what big thing you have done!" The staff seemed to be saying something big.

Li Nuo's eyes wandered, he turned to the potted plant beside the bed, looked at the grass, and thought of sex, he said: "Turning 2B into my wife is the biggest thing I have ever done in my life..."

"You're really not someone who does big things..." The staff had already dispelled some of their fears because of Li Nuo's essentially easy-going nature: "For someone like you... I'll have to talk about it again the last time."

Mr. Wink took out a [Bamboo Dragonfly].

【Death Bamboo Dragonfly】

[Quality: Excellent]

[Effect: Wear it on your head and turn it, and remove it from your head]

[Brief description: Nobi Nobita in a certain parallel time and space was killed by it]

Li Nuo was almost beaten to death by this bamboo dragonfly once.

The staff’s teeth chattered.

Li Nuo comforted him: "If you keep talking nonsense, our president will turn your dick off."

So the staff member clicked on another folder, which contained a script from ten years ago.

[Player 9909, in the "Dead Soul Song" script of "Death Corridor", snatched the script and included it in the "Endless Corridor"]

"Player 9909?"

Li Nuo didn't understand.

"I only have 5900, why ten years ago..."

He seemed to understand.

“Liquidating players every few years?”

"What are you thinking about?" The staff member immediately realized that his words were disrespectful and immediately changed his words: "You are thinking too much... Our player number is up to 12,000. Due to too many deaths, it will be recalculated every year and replaced by new players. The number of the deceased was due to a major event that happened the year before last. The largest guild was wiped out by a guy, leaving a large number of numbers, which are numbers between 4000 and 6000. "

"Ah... Then our group of players actually refers to the numbered positions between 4000 and 6000?" Li Nuo said.

"I've heard about that big thing." Wenke said: "A guy named 'KING' shuffled the player power."

In the past few months, Li Nuo has inquired about relevant information. In addition to Lilian's "Wrath of Bahamut", there is also an "Anti-Science Alliance" on the top floor of the "Endless Corridor". Now the entire corridor is considered the strongest. That person is the boss of the guild.

However, Sauron also gave different information. There are a large number of lone wolf players and teams that do not join the guild. In fact, individual actual combat strength may be stronger than the so-called "recognized".

That KING may be the captain of a certain team.

"Okay, let's get back to the topic."

Li Nuo took a sip of tea.

"Who is player 9909?"

The staff clicked on the player profile.

Wen Ke was slightly startled: "What a beautiful woman..."

Li Nuo's eyes were silent.

There was a familiar figure printed on those amber pupils.

…

"Isn't it time yet?"

"There's also a group of people who haven't chosen to accept it."

"Are they the ones with residual blood?"

"It doesn't matter, it's not a track anyway."

Six players stood in a small church full of dilapidated signs.

Together, they looked at the woman standing behind.

"President?"

"Um."

"Don't be nervous, I'm going to take revenge this time."

"clear."

Lillian looked at them with a flat and uneasy smile.

"I understand."

…

"Lillian."

Li Nuo looked at the woman on the screen and murmured.

"Well, the witch of time...all call her that." The staff sneered: "She is an ugly monster."

It's clear that there's something similar to the Star Cairo aesthetic in the staff's programming.

"It was this woman who made big moves in other corridor territories last time."

"She looks so weak," Wenke said.

"Who said that?" Li Nuo: "She is so strong and scary."

Wen Ke shut up. Being described as strong by Li Nuo means that his ability has reached the point where he cannot solve it with his brain.

"Even so..." The staff member typed on the keyboard and opened a list: "Look at the Corridor War she participated in last time."

Printed on the screen, Lillian participated in the competition five years ago and came in second place.

"not bad."

"It looks like that." The staff said, "In fact, they were the only ones who survived until the end."

The winner of that game was "Endless Corridor".

The strength of this corridor is unshakable.

Staff: "It's a pretty good record, because in general, 'Endless Corridor' should be the first to lose. But the reason for her failure was... she was backstabbed by a player in the same corridor."

"To put it bluntly, it was a traitor?" Li Nuo said.

He probably understood why Lillian's awareness of players was so abnormal.

But he would not easily let go of the fact that the woman played fried fish in the corridor.

Unless Lillian went to the elevator door to defecate or something...

Thinking of it this way, Cha Bai is still better.

A woman who can't defecate...

Li Nuo subconsciously slapped his head.

"It's the same old problem again."

His thoughts jumped too much.

"By the way... the next comic is about 'shit' as the main character... the ultimate move is to poop in the elevator... well, Julie will go crazy if she knows my creativity."

The price of a flash of inspiration is that the two people around him look at him like a lunatic.

"That..."

The staff interrupted Li Nuo's artistic creation.

"Can I continue?"

"Lillian is just a feat for taking the second place, which means that our corridor is pitifully weak." Li Nuo said.

The staff nodded: "In fact, there is a corridor war every year, but we have been unable to rank because we have been at the bottom of the points for many years."

"Why are we so weak?" This was asked by Wen Ke, he was just curious if there was a business opportunity here.

The staff took a deep breath: "Because the 'king' you call, our superior, is too kind."

Then he talked about a very simple rule.

The moment the manager appears, he must decide the rules of the corridor, which is the so-called system rules for players, such as the cycle of participating in the script, the gold coins returned to the corridor, the difficulty definition of the script, and the punishment mechanism after the failure of the script task.

"The corridor war can benefit the manager, but I don't know the details." The staff paused and said: "You can understand it as the "Endless Corridor" is the most "living" corridor."

"So the king has to bear something, right?" Wen Ke asked.

"I don't know, but probably, you help others carry their lives, how can you not pay a price." The staff said: "Even our group of workers who don't know where they came from know that the manager is actually a "good person."

Wen Ke sat by the window sill, looking at the poster of Nanami on the clock tower screen after the heavy rain outside.

The fact that players can settle here and start a second life in the true sense is a loophole in the rules and the kindness of the rule makers.

"At first glance, you have a great 'king'."

"That has nothing to do with me." Li Nuo lowered his eyes: "The strength of the End lies in their strict rules, training a group of crazy people, right?"

"Yeah."

Li Nuo raised his eyebrows. As a comic artist, he knew very well that the most important thing to draw a picture is to create a pattern. No matter how exquisite the details are, they can only be icing on the cake. The pattern is the foundation of painting.

This understanding is the same in many places, and it is also true in the corridor.

The foundation is not good, the growth is crooked, and the final result is that you can only work behind closed doors.

Li Nuo: "The real reason why Lillian failed in the 'End' before was that her ability at that time could not compete with that group of crazy people."

Staff: "Yeah."

Li Nuo: "But the people who beat Lillian at that time died later, right?"

Staff: "Yeah, I heard that..."

Because the way the "End Corridor" cultivates players like a death squad is destined to make a group of crazy guys die everywhere.

Li Nuo: "Then, 'Endless Corridor' needs to win now, right?"

Staff: "I don't know about that."

Wen Ke lit a cigarette and said while smoking: "You must win. Your current comfort will come at a price. There is no benefit for nothing."

Li Nuo suddenly grinned.

"So, what backdoor can you open for me?"

"This..." The staff was in a dilemma: "Do you have to take something away?"

"I finally found out about your Easter eggs. How can I leave without a reward?" Li Nuo paused and said: "To be honest, if you don't give me a satisfactory answer, I can't do anything, but let's calm down and make a deal."

Li Nuo made a triangle with his hands.

"You, me, and Wen Ke, let's work together."

"Ah?" This sound was made by Wen Ke and the staff together.

Li Nuo first said to the staff: "If I can win this world war, you, as my assistant, should be able to get promoted, right?"

Staff: "Yes... but..."

Li Nuo did not give him a chance to speak, and looked at Wen Ke: "President, if I win, it will increase the reputation of our guild, and you will have more opportunities to defraud players, right?"

Wen Ke nodded, without saying anything. The old fox smelled a strong business opportunity.

"Wait!"

The staff stopped.

"Can't win!"

Li Nuo asked: "Why?"

He said: "Because the 'Endless Corridor' cannot challenge the position of the 'End'."

"Then challenge now." Li Nuo said.

Then Li Nuo held down the staff member's head, stared at him, and said, "They are all madmen, who is afraid of whom?"

Li Nuo has worried too much so far and has never really "had fun". Only those who know him well know, and those people... In fact, including Wenke, Cha Bai, Marjie, Nanami , Wells and Sauron, only these people understand.

The last time he was in this state was to protect Cha Bai during the "Eternal Life Train".

The road ahead is not easy. In order to achieve the goal he wants, he knows when to liberate his nature.

"But...I can't give you anything..." The staff hesitated to speak.

Li Nuo believes that there must be a "back door" because the existence of easter eggs is meaningful.

Li Nuo: "It doesn't matter, give as much as you can."

Wenke said: "We can ask him where his superiors are and I can go talk to those guys?"

"No! Further up is the interior of the central tower. None of you can enter. The aborigines also have a hierarchy, I know this!"

The staff swallowed.

He was not aware of the tacit understanding between Li Nuo and Wen Ke.

"I can set your initial position and randomly go to a landing area in another corridor."

The staff expected bad consequences.

"That's my permission to cheat. If there are bad results, I will be fired, but for you..."

"Increase the difficulty?"

Li Nuo asked.

The staff member raised his eyes.

He saw the witcher's expression of silence. He said: "Yes, increase the difficulty, because when you come up, you will enter the encirclement net."

"Okay, let's increase the difficulty."

Staff: "Ah... I don't want to kill you?"

Li Nuo looked out the window. At a certain place, his eyes seemed to overlap with the king's. He said softly: "Is it okay?"

The staff member squinted: "Is there a ghost outside the window...?"

"I'm not talking to you."

Li Nuo withdrew his gaze and then twitched his ears. The communicator starts.

"Lao Ma, join the game."

As soon as he finished speaking, a line of words popped up on the staff's computer screen:

["Humph Squad" added to world war screening list]

The staff member typed helplessly on the keyboard.

"Let me make it clear first...even if you sign up, there can only be two teams participating. Depending on the number of people you have, you may not be selected."

He picked up the snacks on the table and gave them to Li Nuo. Li Nuo shook his head and refused.

"Generally the system gives results within an hour."

"so slow."

"Well, unless your group is far more powerful than..."

["Humph Team" has been selected]

The staff member was stunned: "I'll go..."

"Stronger than what?" Li Nuo smiled and took the snack from the staff's hand: "Aha?"

Wenke squinted his eyes. After listening to everything, he realized in his mind that Li Nuo and his group of players were actually more than 2,000 people numbered between 4000 and 6000. Among these guys, the ones at the top were working with Personnel eat snacks.

At this time, a space-time rift appeared next to Li Nuo.

Cha Bai used the [Fetching Leather Bag] to find his position, hooked his neck and came out. With his free hand, he pulled Marjie's clothes and pulled Ma Ge over.

"Very good……"

Cha Bai let out a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately you didn't make a big fuss..."

She looked at the staff in a daze and subconsciously thought that Li Nuo was bullying people again, so she bowed her head slightly out of habit.

"I'm sorry...if he does anything unkind to you, please bear with me."

"Am I such a bastard?" Li Nuo's mouth tilted downwards.

"I'm worried that you and Marjie will join forces behind the scenes to create a mess that can't be cleaned up..." Chabai nodded to Wenke and said at the same time: "So I was thinking, if there is any accident, I can join in to help you solve the accident. ”

Li Nuo felt guilty because he always dealt with troublesome matters in private, causing Cha Bai to worry all the time.

"Huh... I received the ticket." Marjie got up from the ground: "Well, we will leave immediately. I have packed everything."

Marger glanced at Wenke, who looked a little unhappy.

At this time, the staff member said: "I just remembered... there are only three of you..."

"Three people?" Li Nuo asked, "What?"

“There are too few people,” the staff member said.

At this moment, Cha Bai opened the window and a train appeared outside.

"gone!"

"Li Nuo, I've asked the mechanical life form to pack everything. I'll get in the car and tell you!"

Chabai and Marjie kicked out of the window one after another and landed in the door of the floating train.

Li Nuo put away his things and stepped onto the window sill.

"I am sorry."

He covered his hat to prevent the wind and rain outside the window from blowing away.

"At this stage, the strongest team in the 'Endless Corridor' is the team of these three people. I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you."

He bared his teeth and smiled.

"Don't forget the agreement you made, Mr. Wenke, please help me keep an eye on this guy and make it more difficult for me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he jumped out of the window.

The door closed and before the train started, three voices came from inside the car.

"Li Nuo, Marjie... look at that poster, is it Nanami?"

"Hmph... The upper floors of Basel are so magical. Nanami actually has a poster."

"When you come back, should you consider getting some of Nanami's out-of-print autographs to sell to those aborigines?"

"Let Nanami go."

Woo——!

The train started while the three of them were chatting.

It seemed like they were just going to a tourist area to have fun, not risk their lives.

As the steam merges with the clouds, the train carrying the players disappears in Basel.

The staff member murmured: "I can't tell how powerful they are..."

Wink popped the cigarette butt out the window.

"Managers become kings, write new rules, and do not interfere with everything in Basel. Players have room to live, and you staff have the need to exist. We aboriginals have become the profiteers, and the past has become history. , history has become a myth, and what is happening now is nothing more than the first step in this cycle.”

This old fox squinted his eyes, his eyes were deep and full of calculations.

"Understood, boy, do you want to be part of the 'myth' of the future?"

"Well..." Although the staff member didn't understand, he thought he should nod, so he nodded.

"In this case..." Wenke turned around, half of his face looked a little scary in the shadows: "We must cooperate well in the future."