Life Dungeon Game

He looked up at the red-haired woman still in the coffin, clutching her throat and unable to speak, and his gaze paused slightly.

"cough cough..."

The red-haired woman coughed violently for a moment, took a few deep breaths, and it seemed that the force affecting her throat had been removed.

She clung to the coffin, which was already trembling violently, and leaped out.

The bespectacled man turned his gaze to He Ao, releasing his grip on the red-haired woman's throwing knife. An object resembling a fossilized finger bone appeared in his hand. "I can take you away, trust me..."

He Ao simply watched him calmly.

In fact, he knew from the very beginning that the bespectacled man was faking his death.

While Serat might not be able to accurately determine whether the bespectacled man was alive or dead, this was not a problem for Heo, who could see energy circuits and souls.

However, He Ao did not directly point out that the bespectacled man was faking his death, but instead marked him.

After Hypermemory was promoted to B-level, its mind-reading ability improved even further. Therefore, many of the thoughts that flashed through the bespectacled man's mind while he was pretending to be dead were directly transmitted to He Ao's mind.

Among them are the effects and abilities of the Radiant Corona.

So he deliberately pulled Serat into close combat, giving the bespectacled man an opportunity to 'double kill' him, and then, while the man hesitated, he used Yi Si to change his choice.

Thus, using the power of the bespectacled man and the radiant corona, Heo destroyed the distorted light that seemed to form the core of the church.

However, after the Super Memory advancement, the effect of 'Yi Si's' modified decision seems to be more subtle.

Distracted by his serious injuries, the bespectacled man seemed unaware that the decision he had just made was not from his own 'true heart'.

Of course, this may also be related to the fact that he himself was more inclined to 'direct' attacks at the time.

Yi Si simply gave him a push when he hesitated.

Of course, He Ao wouldn't tell him all this. Instead, he lowered his head and said softly, "My name is Ilo."

The bespectacled man was taken aback, wondering why He Ao brought this up.

Then his gaze swept over the two coffins on the ground, and recalling what He Ao had said earlier, he instantly realized something.

Then he heard He Ao continue, "I know where that wooden plaque with the eyes you want is."

In that instant, the bespectacled man felt as if his heart, which had just been crushed by Serat, had resumed beating in a flash.

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, but he managed to control his emotions and spoke quickly.

“Ilo, I remember now, you are Novus’s child?”

"What is this wooden plaque you're talking about? Actually, I'm a friend of your parents. We came here today specifically because we learned that your parents were held hostage by these heretics, and we came to take their remains home. We just didn't expect to meet you here."

“Little one, we’re all in this together.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he looked at He Ao with anticipation.

He Ao stared at him calmly, his gaze unwavering.

He didn't actually know what the Eternal Old Cult was looking for, but the Novus family didn't have many things that such a cult would covet. The only thing most related to the extraordinary was the wooden plaque that saved Ilo's life and contained the Hidden Observer talent sequence.

So he directly mentioned the wooden sign, giving the bespectacled man a scare.

Unexpectedly, they managed to trick them out of something.

What the bespectacled man said wasn't really important; many of his thoughts were relayed to He Ao through the 'marks' placed on him.

This allowed He Ao to actually obtain a lot of information when he asked the question.

The Eternal Old Cult members were indeed after the wooden plaque of the Hidden Observer, but the bespectacled man didn't know what the plaque was for, only that it was very important, and the cult's 'leader' demanded that he retrieve it.

While He Ao was pondering, the bespectacled man also felt a little uneasy under He Ao's gaze. Just as he was about to speak again, He Ao squatted down and took the finger bone fossil from his hand.

"How to use this?"

He looked at the man and asked quickly.

He did not receive any information about extraordinary items when he held the stone.

“This is an item belonging to our organization,” the man chuckled awkwardly. “It cannot be shared outside the organization, and only believers of the Eternal Light can use it. But I can take you out of here, trust me.”

He glanced at him, then reached out and took the radiant corona from his other hand as well. "Give this to me?"

The bespectacled man realized that his answer had made He Ao somewhat distrust him. His expression changed slightly, but he finally nodded gently, "Okay."

He Ao looked up at him, surprised that he agreed so readily, so he nodded and said sincerely, "Thank you."

Then he turned around, ignoring the bespectacled man, and amidst the violent tremors, reached out to bring the two coffins together.

The red-haired woman kept her head down, 'monitoring' the bespectacled man on the ground.

The bespectacled man stared at He Ao's retreating figure, his eyes narrowed slightly.

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

He had already realized that Heo didn't trust him; the boy was young, but not easily fooled.

His gaze swept over the paper butterfly on He Ao's shoulder, which had turned completely white.

That seems to be the source of the child's 'power'. Now, that power has been exhausted, and the child is probably seriously injured. As time goes by, he will only become weaker.

If he were that child, he certainly wouldn't leave with this untrustworthy and dangerous person; instead, he would try every means to find out how to use that door-knocking stone.

No, if they were able to get in, they might have other ways to leave.

The red-haired woman wasn't strong. Her earlier show of weakness seemed to have made them think she was very weak now. If she acted quickly enough, the red-haired woman wouldn't have time to warn her.

With a thought flashing through his mind like a streak of light, the bespectacled man slowly reached out and suddenly pulled out the golden spear that Serat had previously inserted into his body, which had not yet completely dissipated.

It's better to strike first.

The golden spear was aimed at Heo's back.

At that moment, the red-haired woman who had been staring at the bespectacled man immediately spoke up, "Little..."

A dazzling golden light flashed by.

He Ao turned around, put down the golden broadsword in his hand, glanced at the bespectacled man's head flying in the air, then at the blood flowing on the golden broadsword, and then looked up at the red-haired woman who had opened her mouth but had not yet finished uttering the first syllable.

The red-haired woman stared awkwardly at He Ao, slowly closed her mouth, and then reached out and picked up her black throwing knife from the ground.

boom-

The bespectacled man's head slammed to the ground, his face contorted in disbelief, and rolled into the darkness.

Most of his energy gathering points were destroyed by Serat, leaving only one at his neck, which was severed by Heo with a single strike.

"Thanks for your hard work."

He Ao looked at the red-haired woman and nodded slightly. Then he put the golden broadsword back on the coffin, tore off the clothes of the bespectacled man, tied them into strips, turned his back, and tried to tie the two coffins together.

The paper butterfly on his shoulder had turned completely white, its wings spread, as if it had lost its mystique.

As the paper butterfly's wings unfurled, He Ao's aura rapidly diminished and withered.

He reached out to tie the bandages together, but the moment he pulled on them, he leaned forward and fell to the ground, his breath catching in his throat, as if he had fallen into a coma.

The red-haired woman stared blankly at the sudden scene.

She gazed at He'ao, and after a brief pause, she looked up at the two coffins that were to be tied together.

She slowly raised the throwing knife in her hand.

The black bracelet lit up its screen as she raised her wrist, and a 'note' that was fixed to the homepage lit up above the bracelet.

Two corpses, fifty million

Her gaze paused for a moment, she gripped the throwing knife in her hand, and walked step by step toward the little boy lying on the ground, his body completely stained with blood.

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boom-

The black metal throwing knife was slammed onto the coffin lid.

"Lena, Lena, I'm afraid you're not cut out to be a mercenary in this lifetime."

The red-haired woman bent down, sighed, and laboriously hoisted the little boy onto her back, then picked up the bespectacled man's clothes again.

Tear off a piece and tie it to the boy's body.

Then she reached out and tied the straps that He Ao hadn't yet fastened to secure the coffin.

Then, she took the disc with pointers out of her pocket.

She reached out, about to adjust the pointer on the disc, when a weak voice slowly sounded behind her, "Don't use that, you'll die."

She paused slightly as she turned the hands.

“You are actually contaminated when you enter the inner church. That disc doesn’t help you counteract the contamination. I can see that it seems to store the ‘contamination’ in a strange way.”

The weak voice behind him continued, "If you turn the pointer back, the stored contamination will erupt instantly along with this contamination. You are not a believer in the eternal light, and you cannot withstand this contamination."

"Then we..."

Lena was stunned; she had no other way to leave.

"use this."

A small hand stained with blood emerged from her back, and in its hand appeared a fossilized finger bone that shimmered with a faint golden light.

"Do you know how to use this?"

Lena was taken aback.

"Ah."

He Ao calmly raised his head and looked at the overlapping, illusory images of the room above him.

When he asked the bespectacled man how to use it, the bespectacled man had already recalled all the uses of this 'door knocking stone'.

Strictly speaking, this is not a true 'door-knocking stone,' but merely a 'sub-entity' replicated by the Eternal Old Cult using the power of the Eternal Light. Therefore, Heo did not obtain information about the extraordinary item.

This 'sub-body' has one more chance to be used, which can traverse the inner church and bring them back to the surface world.

The method of use is also very simple: just give a little bit of the power bestowed by the eternal light to influence this knocking stone.

This is essentially a special 'encryption' that allows only believers in the Eternal Light to use this item.

Although Heo was not a believer in the Eternal Light, he had a way to gain the influence of the 'Eternal Light'.

He raised his head, gazing at the illusory room images that seemed to have their 'collapse' slowed by some stabilizing mechanism, and slowly opened his mouth, holding the knocking stone in his hand.