……Oops.

Su Mingan's left arm trembled subconsciously, but he was unable to stretch it out.

His body trembled, and then he fell.

The falling force replaced everything. He opened his eyes and prepared to face the next reincarnation.

"Snapped!"

At this moment, an almost transparent hand held his hand.

The dark hair fell down and brushed his cheek. He raised his head and saw the girl with eyes full of light, holding his hand firmly. Sweat beads rarely fell from her cheek, and her

There was starlight in his always cold eyes.

His vision was stagnant, and he saw that the platform under Yueyue was also breaking.

The next moment, a spinning feeling replaced everything. He was thrown up by the girl with one hand and slapped hard on the wide platform beside him.

"Live." He heard her say.

He felt that his body was instantly dominated by a hot will, which immediately pulled his body, turned over, and stretched out his hand, but he could only see a falling white shadow in his field of vision.

Like a butterfly, it appears in the endless void and darkness, and then gradually disappears.

...she fell.

He stared down for a while, then turned around and wanted to leave.

The next moment, he heard the sound of a butterfly flapping its wings behind him.

"...You just left like that?"

There was rare light in the hospital on the second floor. In front of it was a huge floor-to-ceiling window. A young man wearing a gray scarf was holding his hands and looking at him. There was a green mantis on his shoulder.

"I will live." Su Mingan said.

Lu Shu looked at him and chuckled with unknown meaning:

"—But she can survive."

He said, raising his arm slightly.

A huge, crimson butterfly, glowing, slowly rises up from the endless abyss.

On the jewel-like wings filled with broken light, lay a girl holding a rapier.

"I attacked you before. Although I don't know why you didn't die...but what did you have on you that would cause such a big reaction from the hospital? This was not the case when I came here. You were obviously taken by the entire hospital.

Targeted?" Lu Shu asked him.

Su Mingan thought of the purple liquid in his backpack, but he ignored Lu Shu and looked at Yueyue who was gradually lowered from the butterfly.

Only then did the barrage come to life:

[Damn, what happened just now, I can’t even post a barrage! 】

[The anchor triggered some kind of crisis, but it seems to have passed.]

[Yueyue fell down to save him, but he actually took one look and left? 】

[...I feel worthless for Yueyue, why is she trying so hard to save the anchor]

[Brother Lu Shu is the best in the world! Thanks to brother Lu Shu for saving Yue Yue!!]

[Thank you, Brother Lu Shu, Yueyue Chef is in tears]

【……】

Su Ming'an pulled the girl down and put it on his back with some difficulty, and then found that her body was as light as paper.

"I'm sorry for my previous behavior." Lu Shu said: "Although I don't know why you came back to life again... But after all, I did such a shameful act as a sneak attack. Now, I saved her once... Can you forgive me?

?”

Su Mingan didn't reply. He carried the unconscious Yueyue on his back and walked towards the stairs leading to the third floor on the other side.

"...Do you want to go to the third floor?" Lu Shu suddenly raised his voice: "It's very dangerous there, and it seems to be related to the clues for the final clearance. If you just want to achieve 100% of the advanced mission, there is no need to go."

"Don't you want to pass the level perfectly?" Su Mingan turned to ask him.

"I want to, but I don't think it's worth it. If you challenge the highest difficulty level just for those extra points, you might lose your life." Lu Shu said, "We are all from the Dragon Kingdom on the list. Although you are on the reserve list... but your skills

It's very interesting. If you don't mind, I can send you out after I finish exploring the second floor."

He felt that this young man had always been very polite to him and had a kind-hearted nature. His previous sneak attack was too shameless, so there was no harm in taking care of him for a while.

But then, he saw that the young man's eyes gradually faded as he looked at him.

"That's right." Su Mingan said.

"What?" Lu Shu was confused.

But he didn't get any more response from the boy.

Su Mingan carried the unconscious girl on his back, waved to him, and then walked towards the third floor without looking back.

"Hey - you are going to die!" Lu Shu didn't understand what this man was thinking - this man obviously didn't even have a free hand to hold a weapon.

But he still didn't get any response.

Su Ming'an seemed to have completely lost interest in him and had no reaction to his words. He pulled a long shadow, carrying the girl and her sword, and gradually walked into the bottomless corridor.

…

Su Mingan stepped onto the third floor.

There seemed to be no difference between the third floor of the hospital and the other floors, but beside the dark wall, he saw the little girl in the red dress with her head lowered, waiting for him.

"Big brother?" Duoduo slowly raised her head and looked at him: "We meet again."

The barrage was still discussing about Lu Shu:

[Why is the anchor so baffled... I thought they were going to fight]

[The anchor has a clone skill?? Dual-line control? I remember seeing brother Lu Shu die in his live broadcast room??]

[Hey...it turns out that this kind of information that the anchor knows himself can be sent out, but before, he couldn't send it out in Brother Lu Shu's live broadcast room.]

[I thought the anchor only had one black hole skill, and the distance was still so short.]

[Is this going to change the qualifier list again... If you add a clone skill, Brother Ming'an's combat effectiveness is actually quite strong...]

【?Am I the only one who cares about how he can have both these good skills at the same time? 】

[Oh my God, how many novice level points does this Dragon Kingdom boy have? Is his rating an S or an A? Why are his skills so powerful? 】

[When will Yueyue wake up... I feel that her sword skills combined with Brother Ming'an are really invincible...]

【……】

"..." Su Mingan looked at Duoduo who was smiling in front of him: "He is really haunted."

"What's wrong with eldest sister?" Duoduo ignored his words and looked over with curiosity: "She is really gentle...and she knows how to take care of Duoduo, but why did she fall asleep?"

"...She might be too tired, so she slept deeply." Su Mingan said.

He tried to wake up Yueyue, but failed. She seemed to have fallen asleep completely. Her eyelids seemed to have blocked off a whole world, and no sound could cause her to be touched at all.

"What a pity, what a pity, there is one less person to play with Duo Duo." Duo Duo's tone was a little excited, as if she was looking forward to something:

"But - it's okay, big brother, you came to the third floor of the hospital to get the final clue, right?"

"Tell me your conditions." Su Mingan said.

"Duoduo used to like playing chess very much... but there was always no one to play with Duoduo. Now, Duoduo doesn't need a companion." Duoduo smiled and said to him, "But... Duoduo likes to watch other people.

Play chess. Big brother, Duoduo wants to see you...play a game of chess with other players - using each other's lives as pawns, can you agree to it?"

The next moment, Su Mingan heard the system prompt.

【You have entered the Third Floor of General Hospital】

[Automatically enter the perfect clearance route·branch copy·world chessboard]

[Reward for clearing the side quest: Final clue·Duoduo’s portfolio (leading to perfect clearance)]

[The final evaluation and reward will be based on the performance of the game and the difference in strength between the enemy and ourselves, up to SS (perfect level)!]

[Current combat power (individual): 210, overall team combat power: 210]

[Perfect clearance progress rate: 60%]

"Hey... Why does Big Brother feel a little weaker?" Duoduo tilted her head: "Forget it, never mind! Duoduo believes that Big Brother, even if he is alone, can be very strong, right?"

The next moment, Su Mingan found that her attire had changed. She was no longer wearing a modern long-sleeved shirt, but a gorgeous blood-red robe with wide velvet trims. It was decorated with gorgeous sapphires. In her hands,

A long sword engraved with complex patterns also appeared.

He raised his head and saw that the scene in front of him was no longer the third floor of the dilapidated hospital. Instead, it was a vast starry sky above his head and a huge black and white chessboard under his feet.

...Playing life as a chess piece?

What kind of game mechanics?
To be continued...