Life Dungeon Game

Yang De then looked at He Ao, "He Ao, why don't you join them for the inspection?"

"it is good."

He Ao nodded.

He was the one with the least injuries at the scene, and he didn't normally need to be examined, but it wouldn't hurt to have one.

He wasn't afraid of revealing anything during the examination. The abilities of superhumans varied, and the world currently had very little knowledge of mysticism. Basically, these examinations were just to check external injuries.

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While the main body was resting, Heo's clone piloted the Verola through the tunnel and arrived in the territory of the Tia Empire.

This is a continuous mountain range, with one mountain after another.

This place must have once been lush and green, but now, all that remains is scorched earth and trees that were burned before they could even react.

The bare, black tree trunks covered all the surrounding mountains, making this place, which should have been full of life, resemble a hell where no life existed.

He Ao opened the car door, got out, and gazed into the distance.

In the valley at the edge of his vision, there was a damaged building. At that moment, some busy workers were quickly turning over the construction debris on the ground to salvage the contents inside.

These staff members are all extraordinary individuals.

This place was once a secret base for Moonlight.

A few hours ago, two uninvited guests arrived here and took away an 'important item' that was stored here.

Actually, finding the research institute is quite simple: just search online for where a large-scale, suspected supernatural event occurred in the Tia Empire.

The phenomenon is sufficient.

The research institute is definitely not after something ordinary; such a thing is bound to trigger some large-scale event.

However, this requires luck, and he was just trying his luck in looking for it.

But he didn't expect this thing to have such a big impact.

The short video he was searching for contained a terrifying scene: endless dark clouds obscured the sky, and lightning bolts, like fine down, densely connected the earth and the heavens.

Trees were transformed into charred, bare trunks by the flashing lightning, and the verdant earth was almost instantly gilded with a layer of black.

The scene was like hell descending, like the end of the world arriving.

Although the video was deleted less than ten minutes after it was posted, it still generated a large number of reposts.

He felt that this large-scale damage probably exceeded the scope of Grade B.

The research institute's targets are mostly some kind of Class A, or near-Class A, extraordinary items.

While Sloan was besieging Liu Zhengyun, two other B-level researchers from the research institute were raiding his home.

At this moment, another B-rank member of the Tia Empire is probably not in good condition either. There is still no news, but he is most likely not dead, though he is definitely seriously injured.

At this moment, He Ao finally understood the purpose of the research institute.

The research institute has probably harbored the idea of ​​raiding the enemy's base more than once or twice. Before, after they came out of the ruins, they deliberately sent ships to loiter in the waters around the Tia Empire, probably in an attempt to lure Sloan into making a move.

Thinking about it this way, Liu Zhengyun was probably hiding on the ship at the time, waiting for Sloan to show himself so he could hold him off.

So, after such a fierce battle, not a single person in the research institute died; everyone survived. Although He Ao was involved, there were probably some shady dealings in places that He Ao couldn't oversee.

After all, Liu Nan was on that ship at the time.

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These old guys are all incredibly cunning.

Fortunately, He Ao had a backup plan and acted cautiously, so he didn't expose any of the more crucial details.

However, Sloan didn't fall for it that time and held back.

This time, Sloan wasn't blinded by greed; he came with a new plan to kill Liu Zhengyun.

Both sides were scheming against each other, and both fell into each other's schemes.

The main world is not as peaceful as one might imagine.

If He Ao hadn't been there, even if the research institute had succeeded in raiding their base, the price they would have paid would have been considerable.

At this point, He Ao finally understood the scheme of all the forces involved.

Like a drop of water falling into a clear spring, the last bit of Chaoyi's power melted into his soul.

Grade C.

Chapter 423 System Update Complete (Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Beidu-Institute Headquarters

In a secret research room deep underground at the research institute, a figure pushed open the tightly closed door.

It was a middle-aged man wearing glasses, who looked refined and cultured. He walked in.

Behind him followed a burly man who walked with a powerful stride.

"Old Liu, how are you doing?"

The middle-aged man wearing glasses looked up at Liu Zhengyun, who was sitting in the middle of the research room, his body wrapped in bandages.

"Fortunately," Liu Zhengyun said, leaning back in his wheelchair, "I survived, but I may need to recuperate for a while and cannot use violence."

Then he looked at the middle-aged man with glasses and asked, "Did you get the things?"

"Of course I got it."

The burly man standing behind the bespectacled middle-aged man responded by holding up a small rectangular wooden box in front of him and opening it to Liu Zhengyun.

In the very center of the wooden box lay a sharp, silver metal pyramid.

A flash of lightning instantly filled the entire room, obscuring everyone's vision.

The next second, the burly man closed the lid, and the flashing lightning disappeared instantly.

Liu Zhengyun looked at the charred bandages on his hand, his face expressionless. "Wu Ganglie, your Special Research Department will not receive any additional sponsorship next year."

The burly man called Wu Ganglie froze for a moment, then rushed to Liu Zhengyun in a few quick steps, his eyes, like those of a fierce tiger, fixed on Liu Zhengyun.

His gaze was ruthless, as if he wanted to devour someone.

On the ferocious face, a large mouth slowly opened.

"Give me a chance..."

boom--

The middle-aged man with glasses, who looked refined, smiled and reached out to close the door. "Gang Lie crippled Jie'an, who was left behind in the Tia Empire. That's a way of avenging you. How's the situation in Sloan? We just got back and haven't seen the report yet."

"Sloan is dead."

Liu Zhengyun said seriously.

"died?"

The bespectacled man was taken aback.

Wu Ganglie, who was standing in front of Liu Zhengyun, was also stunned. He looked at Liu Zhengyun in disbelief, "You killed him?"

"More or less," Liu Zhengyun pondered for a moment, "a 'mysterious person' helped me at a crucial moment."

He tossed a stack of documents onto the table in front of the two men. “The reports are all here. Lao Li, Lao Wu, take a look. Some of the information is highly confidential, so I didn’t have them publish it. Instead, I sent it to them one-on-one first.”

Old Li is that middle-aged man with glasses, Li Cheng, the director of the research institute.

"That's definitely how it should be."

Li Cheng picked up the report on the table and began to read it, while Wu Ganglie, who was next to him, also picked up a copy.

About half an hour later, the two put down their reports.

"I originally thought this would be complicated, but I didn't expect it to be this complicated."

Li Cheng rubbed his temples. "So that car is actually some kind of ritual item that can summon an A-rank being? Are they trying to 'smuggle' themselves into the main world? It seems those high-ranking beings hiding in the ruins aren't willing to stay put either."

"The actual situation is probably worse than we imagine," Liu Zhengyun sighed. "The ruins..."

It's not just Grade A that's in there.

“We should hurry up with our business,” Li Cheng also sighed, looking at Liu Zhengyun. “Old Liu, what do you think of that ‘Hao Yi’?”

"As it stands, he seems to favor us," Liu Zhengyun replied slowly.

"Whether he was injured or possessed some kind of tool, objectively speaking, he demonstrated top-tier B-level instantaneous combat power."

"And now he controls the Verola, which means he now has a speed and mobility far exceeding all of ours, and he can appear anywhere in the world within hours."

"His ability to instantly cause landslides and earthquakes would have devastating consequences if used in the core area of ​​a major city."

"Can we use the Ring of Fate to predict his location?"

Wu Ganglie, who was standing to the side, asked softly.

“It’s difficult,” came Li Cheng’s reply.

"The Ring of Fate is severely damaged, and it will cause huge deviations once it involves more advanced intelligent life."

"Its deviations will lead us toward misfortune. This time, we followed its prophecy to carry out our plans, and Old Liu almost died in Westland, even with minimal side effects."

"It's okay to predict supernatural objects that lack intelligence, but predicting advanced supernatural beings is too risky."

Wu Ganglie fell silent.

Li Cheng then looked at Liu Zhengyun, "You mean, we can 'cooperate' with him?"

“There might be a possibility of cooperation, after all, he doesn’t seem to have shown any hostility towards us at the moment,” Liu Zhengyun nodded. “Moreover, he seems to know a lot about esoteric and mystical knowledge, and may have some kind of deep connection with the ruins. I just don’t know what he’s really thinking.”

"He probably wants to cooperate with us,"

Li Cheng turned to a page in the report and pointed to a passage on it.

That passage was Lin Chichi relaying He Ao's words to her, a description of the mystical knowledge about A-level beings and angels.

In this passage, He Ao clearly states that entering Rank A means one can be called an angel, and that advancing from Rank B to Rank A is very risky and requires extreme caution.