Life Dungeon Game

If he can grasp this undercurrent, he can seize the opportunity to perfectly realize his plan, change this city, and even change the fate of all the wilderness wanderers in the entire Federation.

Calvin, a little later.

Chapter 309 The Puzzle (Rising to Prominence on This Day Next Year)

The bright sunshine lasted only a short time; after noon, dark clouds gathered in the sky once again.

It's only early February, and the continuous cumulonimbus clouds are unusual.

He Ao turned his gaze from the sky to the towering wall beside him.

He did not return to the Hope Building, but instead wandered around the city. At this moment, he was in front of the south gate.

A guard on duty saw him, but only glanced at him before looking away.

It was a quiet time, with few people coming and going. The guard glanced around, took a cigarette out of his pocket, flicked it to his lips, and lit it with an electronic lighter.

Wisps of smoke drifted around.

The merchants coming and going didn't look at him, seemingly used to it.

The other guards watched him smoke, and after a while, they also took out cigarettes from different pockets. In just a short while, the area around the guard post was filled with smoke.

He Ao withdrew his gaze, found a dilapidated coffee shop nearby, and sat down by the window.

His bracelet displayed another image: a sentry standing tall and solemn in front of the city gate, meticulous in his posture.

This is a picture he took when he went to the North Gate.

After a moment's thought, He switched to another folder, which contained information collected by Eve about the various public social activities and statements of the two commanders of North and South City.

There are very few interviews with Commander Dick of the North City; most of the time, he is seriously discussing various city defense issues.

There are many videos of the South City Commander, Ainuoan. He has been interviewed by various media outlets, likes to post on social media, and even shares his daily life on video platforms.

He Ao activated his super memory and began quickly browsing through this information.

A wealth of information gathered in his mind, allowing him to begin to develop a basic understanding of the personalities of the commanders of the North and South armies.

The one who gives the most general impression is the Union commander Dick, who is clearly a serious and rigid person with a strong desire for control and power.

During his interviews, one could clearly feel an invisible pressure from the reporters; if they asked any slightly out-of-bounds questions, he would immediately back down.

Reporters and hosts from the Morning City media like to ask provocative questions. For example, the host who interviewed Christos that He Ao saw before used very sharp language and would interrupt Christos when he spoke.

However, in all the video interviews Dick gave, not a single reporter dared to interrupt him, making it feel as if a gun was pointed at the back of their heads.

Hmm... it's not impossible.

However, there is not much information about Dick, and Heo can only barely abstract these personality concepts. A person's personality is definitely complex, and more information is needed to fully study their personality.

In contrast to Dick, there is much more information available about the South City Commander, Enoch. He was enthusiastic about participating in various social activities and touted his tolerance and the love and respect he received from the army.

However, analyzing Inoan's personality is more difficult than analyzing Dick's, because Inoan's personality has a very strong...

His performative nature means that his image and personality will vary depending on the environment.

Sometimes his stance can be completely different in different circumstances, and his words before and after cannot be corroborated by each other.

He was like a person carrying a huge bag of masks, and in each scene, he would take out a mask that suited the scene and put it on.

To analyze his personality, we need to peel back his mask and analyze the commonalities he exhibits in different scenarios.

Doing this kind of work is very labor-intensive, and with the current level of artificial intelligence, it is not yet possible to achieve such refined personality simulation and differentiation, so the help it can provide is very small.

However, He Ao possesses hyper memory, which allows his brain to rapidly process and summarize information, identifying commonalities among all the data.

As the scenes and words overlapped, He Ao gradually figured out some of Ai Nuo'an's personality traits.

Ainoan loves adventure and will be the first to enter dangerous areas. In addition, he likes to stir up trouble. He will 'unintentionally' provoke conflict between two people with his words, and then smile and act as a peacemaker when they are arguing.

In addition, he also enjoys lying and likes to use lies to tease others.

Everything he says may not be true.

Of course, if someone teases him with lies or infringes on his interests, he will definitely retaliate; he is not as 'tolerant' as he appears.

At that moment, He's bracelet vibrated; it was a message from Christos.

[The talent sequence of the South City Commander, Ainuan, is 'Talent Sequence 72: Stealth Mage', and the prerequisite talent sequence should be 'Talent Sequence 40: Magician'. The ability is manifested in the manipulation of fire.]

Commander Dick of the North City has a talent sequence of 'Talent Sequence 160: Warden', with an unknown prerequisite talent sequence.

The message included a one-time video link. Clicking on the video led to a battle video of South City Commander Ainuoan.

In the video, he is fighting a giant two-headed hound-like beast.

The video is very short, only a few seconds long. In the video, Ainuan swings his hands, and a huge fireball falls from the sky and hits the monster.

At the same time, the beast retaliated, its sharp teeth biting at Ainoan, tearing his combat suit and leaving a wound that revealed a blurry, crimson flesh.

The video ends abruptly here, followed by a description of Ainoan, who claims his ability is talent sequence 72: Mystic Mage, whose preceding value sequence is 'Magician'.

The video then jumps to another segment, where a serious-looking man looks at the wolf-like beast in front of him and gently raises his hand.

A huge, pitch-black iron box suddenly appeared, sealing the wolf-like beast inside.

Immediately afterwards, he released his grip, the box disappeared, and only the wolf-shaped monster, reduced to minced meat, remained on the ground, followed by the same self-narration as before.

This man is Dick, the commander of the North City. He describes his extraordinary ability as 'Talent Sequence 160: Warden'.

This is likely a video introducing some kind of capability.

Christos sending him these videos was definitely overstepping his bounds.

He thought for a moment and replied softly, "[Thank you]".

Then all information records were deleted.

He ended his hyper-memory, glanced at the high wall, and slowly stood up.

He has roughly figured out the possible problems, but he is still missing the last piece of the puzzle.

Reasonableness.

The only missing element is the plausibility of the event, although all the clues suggest that the event may occur, and now is the best time.

However, in He's calculations, neither side had a reason to initiate this event.

It's like an archer standing opposite Heo, drawing his bow.

But He Ao didn't know who he was going to shoot.

In theory, there is a most obvious goal, but the most obvious goal is not necessarily the most realistic goal.

He Ao is still missing one last piece of the puzzle that will allow him to understand the true intentions of the person behind the scenes.

Chapter 310 It's Not Our Fault (Long Chapter / Yet Laughing at the Busy Scholars)

The old elevator creaked and groaned, a sound like a summer storm sweeping through ruins and valleys, or like a withered old tree desperately howling.

Penny stared blankly at the young man leading the way, who was wearing large earrings and a big gold ring. "Is there anything wrong with this elevator?"

This morning, He Ao messaged Penny and called two taxis for her to bring everyone to Hope Building to meet up with the other wilderness wanderers.

They came together, including the boy He Ao had saved. There were ten of them in total.

"No problem, this elevator was maintained three years ago."

The young man with the big gold ring glanced back at Penny and smiled.

Penny looked at the rusty metal in the elevator and the rust-covered retractable gate in front of her that was completely out of place with the elevator's style, and nodded slowly and cautiously.

As she nodded, her wandering gaze could even see the rough welds between the iron gate and the elevator edge.

Clearly, the iron gate and elevator are not original components.

If she hadn't been still in the city, she might have thought this was some kind of camp in the wilderness, a camp of wilderness wanderers who had unearthed architectural ruins from the Cataclysmic Era and then rebuilt human society with all sorts of scrap metal.

Penny never imagined that such a place existed in the city.

Compared to the hotel she and He Ao had stayed in before, this place was practically a ruin.

boom--

The old elevator shook violently and came to a stop as everyone swayed and lost their balance.

The retractable gate slowly opened, revealing a dilapidated square. Countless dirty curtains crisscrossed the square, barely dividing it into tiny, habitable cubicles.

A filthy, foul stench, mixed with excrement and urine, wafted towards me.

However, there are far worse environments in the wilderness, and those standing here are not the kind of people who have never seen the world. The group only showed slight surprise on their faces, but did not show any other reaction.

The young man wearing the large gold ring glanced at the astonished crowd behind him, then smiled and spread his hands.

"Welcome to Hope Building, where people without hope live."

Then he turned around and led everyone forward, saying, "This floor is not our destination. We need to take another elevator to get there."

Penny followed the young man blankly as they passed by the 'rooms' enclosed by dirty, slightly smelly curtains.

Most of these curtains are not properly sealed; they are only fixed to the ground by some bricks or ropes, with wide gaps everywhere where the curtains meet.

Through these gaps, Penny saw a group of disheveled people.

They sat in groups on the dirty ground, with most of them having a yellowed mattress next to them, which was where they slept.

As Penny and the others passed through a room, a little girl stood up and peered through a crack at them.

Her eyes were as beautiful as pearls.

She lay on the curtain, her small body pressing it forward, her messy hair, like withered yellow straw, casting a shadow on the tattered curtain.

She's good

Qi stared at Penny, and at the group of people walking past the curtain.

After a long while, she finally looked away, sat back down on her yellowed cushion, and pulled out a cold, dark starch stick from the side, chewing on it with difficulty.

Penny turned her gaze away from the little girl. Most of the people on this floor were not as curious as this little girl. Their eyes were cloudy and numb, and they let Penny and the others walk by as if they saw nothing.