Life Dungeon Game

The military police captain, with a cigarette between his fingers, tapped the edge of the ashtray, shaking off the grayish-white ash.

"I remember when I saw you yesterday, your face was beautifully made up, but today you have some unkempt stubble and faint dark circles under your eyes, so,"

He Ao smiled and gently swung the document in his hand. "A military police captain who only wants to make money spent the whole night in his office looking at case files last night?"

The military police captain calmly gazed at He Ao's face, a faint glow rising from the cigarette resting on the ashtray, wisps of smoke slowly ascending.

Just as the spark was about to burn his fingers, he trembled, shaking off the grayish-white ash, and stubbed out the cigarette in the ashtray. "There were two crime scenes yesterday, and I saw you nearby at both. So you're here for this case?"

At this point, he picked up a document at random. "I thought about it all night last night, but I still couldn't figure out what the killer's method was, why he didn't leave any traces, how he destroyed the victim's body like that, and this."

He placed the file on the table, opened a page, and saw a pool of dried blood with several distinct words drawn on it. "Who does this 'It's here' refer to? Why would the deceased leave us such a 'hint'?"

"I'm not entirely here for the case,"

He picked up the file the military police captain had placed on the table. This was the first file He had seen yesterday concerning the victim in the alley. His gaze quickly swept over the document, and he said softly,

"Perhaps we should change our approach. This 'hint' might not have been meant for us. When the methods used to solve the case fail, why not try starting from the perspective of the victim?"

"Hmm?" The military police captain frowned slightly. "What do you mean?"

"The deceased was a woman, twenty-five years old," He Ao said slowly, looking at the information in his hand. "She left Allen during her high school years to study in the Republic of Ika, and only returned after graduating from university. The school she graduated from was Ika Polytechnic Institute, which, as far as I know, is one of the top twenty polytechnic schools in the entire Western Continent."

"And what job did she do after graduating from this prestigious university and returning to Jordan? She worked as a clerk in a small company, earning only 3,200 rubles a month. The average salary for graduates of Ika Polytechnic is about 9,300 rubles per month, as published annually."

"There is a significant income gap between her and her classmates."

“If I were her,” the military police captain said, pulling another document from the pile of files, “I would feel a serious sense of unease.”

"She has been working in this job with a monthly salary of just over three thousand rubles for almost three years. The company she works for is not a generous one, and her salary has only increased by two hundred rubles in these three years."

He Ao turned to the next page, "But her spending is very high; you found designer bags worth tens of thousands of dollars in her house."

"A designer coat. Although her family is well-off, her parents are only slightly above-average wage earners and can't afford such high consumption."

“She has a credit card from Ica Trade Bank,” the military police captain said thoughtfully, “with a credit limit of two hundred thousand.”

"Ika Trade Bank is a long-established bank in the West, known for its stable operating methods. Do you think this bank would grant a credit line of 200,000 to a clerk with a monthly salary of only 3,000?"

He smiled. "Unless the bank has records of the deceased's other sources of income."

"You mean she has other 'jobs'?"

The military police captain raised an eyebrow. "But we can't ask Ica Trade Bank to provide the deceased's other income records. I've tried, and they only provided some credit card information."

“Bank support isn’t necessarily required,” He Ao laughed. “Ika itself has a meaning.”

The Republic of Ika is one of Ruodan's neighboring countries and a bridgehead used by the Western Turks to resist the encroachment of the Tia Empire.

Of course, He Ao also possessed some other information.

For example, Ika Trade Bank is one of the partner banks of the Western Extraordinary Organization 'World Tree', providing bank accounts and loan services to some of World Tree's employees.

"You mean she's Ika's...?"

The military police captain seemed thoughtful. "The company she works for now provides some services to the Tia Empire."

"This case is beyond your authority."

He Ao said softly, "Someone should contact you soon."

Jingle Bell--

He had barely finished speaking when the landline phone on his desk rang.

The military police captain glanced at He Ao, then reached for the phone.

"it is good."

"Ah."

"I see."

After a brief exchange, he hung up the phone and looked at He Ao, saying, "They said these cases have been transferred to a higher-level department, and someone will be coming to hand over the documents to me soon."

The so-called higher-level department should be the people from 'Moonlight'.

Then the military police captain looked at He Ao thoughtfully, "This case isn't that simple, is it?"

Without waiting for He Ao's reply, he gathered all the paper documents on the table, stacked them, put them in a large folder, and handed them to He Ao, saying, "I have already 'destroyed' these documents."

He Ao glanced at him with slight surprise, then took the folder. "Thank you."

"You're welcome. Compared to those bastards, I trust you more; at least you seem like a good person."

The military police captain shook his head, took out a business card from his drawer, and handed it to He Ao. "I hope I can trust you. If you need my help, call this private number. When you leave, go down the stairs and turn right. There's a small door there. Don't bump into the people coming up."

He Ao glanced at him and nodded slightly.

"Wait a moment,"

Just as he turned to leave, the military police captain suddenly called out to him, staring at Heo, "Not too many people will die, right?"

He Ao turned around and glanced at him. "If everything goes well, no."

"Thank you."

The military police captain smiled.

He Ao left.

The office door was slowly pushed open.

Du Na looked at the captain, who was sitting in his office chair gazing at the city outside the window, leaned closer, and carefully offered him a cigarette. "Captain, my wages for that day..."

"You accepted their cigarettes and still want a salary? Do you think someone as petty as me would pay you?"

The military police captain glanced at Du Na.

"Hehe," Du Na chuckled, "Captain, look at me, I have elderly parents to care for and young children to raise..."

"I understand, get out of here."

The military police captain took the cigarette.

"Hehe, thank you, Captain, thank you, Captain."

This meant everything was alright, and Du Na quickly said, "Captain, you are so magnanimous, your heart is as vast as the boundless ocean..."

"Stop blowing it."

The military police captain, with a cigarette between his fingers, pulled out a lighter and waved his hand impatiently, "I'm petty."

"Captain, what did you say to that guy from the Middle Kingdom?"

Seeing that the captain was no longer angry, Du asked with some curiosity, still worried that He Ao might be tortured by the captain.

"He's perfectly fine,"

The military police captain glanced at Du Na. He knew exactly what his subordinate was thinking. Besides, he wasn't sure he could beat He Ao in interrogation, and he didn't want to be subjected to legal torture.

He lit a cigarette, put it in his mouth, and looked out the window at the somewhat dilapidated city. "I've just done some things that I should do while sitting in this position."

The afternoon sun shines on this old city, blending shadows and radiance together.

Chapter 505 The Hidden Primitive Cult (Long Chapter, Seeking Monthly Tickets)

On the taxi ride back to the martial arts school, He Ao quietly flipped through the files in his hands.

He attracted the attention of the military police captain in order to find a way to infiltrate the military police headquarters and review the case files.

He had anticipated that achieving this effect would require many twists and turns, but things didn't turn out as he expected.

Upon seeing the scattered documents on the table, he immediately realized that the military police captain was someone he could win over, so his main objective changed from reviewing the documents to trying to win over the military police captain.

Having a reliable 'friend' in the military police is obviously more convenient and effective than obtaining all the information at once.

Of course, things progressed somewhat unusually smoothly.

This military police captain not only has his own principles, but he is also very smart. However, being in his position, having both of these qualities is not necessarily a good thing.

He accurately assessed the situation, and despite only having a partial view and not knowing the whole picture, he still placed his bet on He Ao.

For him, this was actually a gamble.

But he didn't really have any other choice.

According to the information provided by Yang De, Moonlight conducted a lot of research in Ruodan that could not be carried out in the Tia Empire. Obviously, they did not care about the lives of the Ruodan people.

The 'superior' the military police captain needs to contact should be someone from Moonlight.

Judging from the current situation, the World Tree should be the first to notice something amiss.

The first dead person He Ao encountered, referred to as Dead Person No. 1, was most likely an intelligence agent sent to Ruodan by the World Tree.

The message she left behind, 'It's here,' was not for the later investigators, but for her World Tree companions.

To an uninformed person, this statement may seem like a riddle, but to someone who knows the prior information, it is an important message.

Based on this premise, He Ao believes that the World Tree must have already made contact with the shadow in the dream and knows who 'it' is.

Among the three major organizations—Moonlight, World Tree, and the Research Institute—World Tree is likely the first to 'observe' that shadowy 'deity'.

It's understandable that the research institute was too far away to sense it, but how did the World Tree manage to sense that god earlier than the Moonlight, which had a stronger local influence?

He Ao lowered his head, lost in thought.

The only way to contact such a high-ranking being, similar to a deity, is through the worship of believers or through the active contact of the high-ranking being.

Currently, this high-ranking being, suspected to be a deity, is using a portal to actively contact people in the main world on a large scale through dreams.

This proves that he did not have a stable organization of believers before this passage was opened, otherwise he would not have needed to go to such great lengths.

Therefore, the people of the World Tree must have also come into contact with that 'god' through 'dreams'.

According to the data collected by He Ao, people with strong souls and high sensitivity have a more acute perception of dreams.

If a C-rank powerhouse in the World Tree happened to be in the South City when that god's power descended, then based on the strength of his soul, it would be highly likely that he could 'observe' that god.

Such powerful individuals are already capable of becoming the core of regional intelligence organizations.

This suggests that the World Tree's headquarters in Ruodan is very likely located in the South City.

Besides, other extraordinary individuals in the South City during that period were probably also more or less 'influenced' by that god.

At that moment, He Ao remembered the dark figure he had killed the day before.