Life Dungeon Game

"what?"

Alifia was taken aback.

She seemed never to have thought of that.

He Ao looked at the swaying trees by the door and suddenly laughed.

Only with a pure and innocent heart can one achieve long-term success.

He quickly finished his fried noodles, then turned to look at Alifia, who was engrossed in practicing with an empty wok, and asked softly, "You speak the local language of Ruodan very well. Do you have family members who are Ruodan?"

Chapter 506 The Metamorphosis Club (Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

"what?"

Alifia blinked, staring at He Ao, and stopped what she was doing. "You guessed right."

He Ao gestured for her to find a place to sit and talk, and the two of them walked together to a bench in the yard and sat down.

Alifia looked at the sky outside the courtyard and said softly, "I am a mixed-race person. My father is from Ruodan and my mother is from the Middle-earth. I was born in a small village on the western border of the Middle-earth."

"Your martial arts skills come from your mother?"

He asked softly.

“Yes,” Alifia nodded, “My father was a man who was very obsessed with pursuing higher levels of martial arts. He visited martial arts masters in all the countries of the West, but he did not obtain the top martial arts he was looking for.”

"So he traveled eastward, determined to enter the ancient Middle-earth in search of the martial arts he sought. Instead of flying directly to the major cities of the Middle-earth, he walked from the border into the Middle-earth. My maternal grandfather was a famous martial arts master in the area at that time, so he went to visit him."

"It was around that time that he met my mother."

At this point, Alifia smiled and said, "He was beaten badly by my mother. My mother later told me that my father challenged her for half a month straight, and then she beat him into a pulp during that half month."

He Ao gazed at her quietly, listening attentively to her narration.

“后来父亲死缠烂打的拜了外祖父为师，但是依旧被母亲痛揍，父亲说他那时候就知道他爱上了母亲，而母亲说他大概率是得了人质综合征，被迫害多了，反而爱上了迫害者。

"But somehow, they fell in love."

Alifia seemed lost in memories. "But it won't be easy to marry my mother. My grandfather is a very conservative man. He doesn't like foreigners, and the only option for marriage is for someone else to marry into the family. My mother has no choice but to marry out."

“Our area is generally very conservative, and the status of a son-in-law who marries into the family is very low, but my father still chose to marry into the family.”

"So, 'Li' is your mother's surname?"

He Ao continued.

“Yes, the surname of both my Middle-earth and West-earth names is ‘Li’. My full West-earth name is ‘Alifia Li’. Because of my father, I have spoken Romani since I was a child, but I am a Middle-earth person.”

Alifia nodded, then reached into her pocket and pulled out a Middle-earth passport to show Heo. "Although I haven't been home for a long time."

"So you came to Ruodan because you wanted to go back to your father's hometown?"

He Ao glanced at the name 'Li Dali' on the passport and asked softly.

"In a sense, I came here to find my father."

Alifia shook her head, seemingly lost in some kind of memory. "About five years ago, my father suddenly left a letter at home one day saying he wanted to come home and visit, and then disappeared. He never came back. Because of this, there were many rumors around. Some people thought my father betrayed my mother, and others thought my father died outside."

"My maternal grandfather searched many friends, but couldn't find any trace of my father. My father loved us very much; if he were truly safe, he wouldn't have stopped contacting my mother and me. Ultimately, my grandfather concluded that my father had passed away and left a message for him."

The relatives arranged the funeral.

"Later, when I reached the limit of martial arts, I asked to go out and seek the path ahead. My grandfather thought about it for three days and finally agreed."

"But none of us have ever left our hometown, so we don't know what the outside world is like. Only when my father was still alive did he tell me a lot about the customs and culture of the West, as well as his challenges against various fighters when he was young."

"So I plan to follow the path my father once walked, to find his footprints, to seek ways to break through the limits, and to see if I can find my missing father."

Judging from Alifia's current state of wandering, it seems she hasn't found the person she's looking for.

A cool breeze brushed against the girl's cheek.

He Ao sat on the stool and asked softly, "So your eyes are inherited from your father?"

“Yes,” Alifia nodded. “My father said that everyone in his family has eyes like that.”

“I walked around the neighborhood and didn’t see many people with eyes like yours.”

He Ao sighed.

“Yes, it is indeed rare,” Alifia nodded, as if she was recalling something. “I have been traveling in the Western Lands for so long, and I have not met many people with the same eye color as me. However, the eye colors of people here are all kinds of colors, and there are many rare eye colors, so I have not paid much attention to it.”

Then she turned to look at He Ao, "Master He Ao, what are you investigating?"

Although this girl is innocent, she has an unusually keen intuition.

“Something that may or may not concern you,” He Ao said slowly. “I haven’t figured it out yet, but once I have, if it really does concern you, I will tell you.”

Upon hearing this, Alicia paused, vaguely realizing that what He was investigating might be related to her father.

However, she didn't say anything, but nodded gently, "Thank you."

"No need, you've already helped me."

He Ao stood up with a smile. He glanced at the stalls in the courtyard and asked with a laugh, "Did Hong Long ask you to move the stalls over here?"

Alicia seems to be a very law-abiding person; she wouldn't do something so outrageous without permission.

"Yes, when Master Honglong told me I had a stall in the guesthouse that I needed to set up, he let me just move it over. I can also make some fried noodles to sell to my disciples. He's been very kind to me since he found out I'm from the Central Plains."

At this point, Alifia looked up at Heo, "Also, he said that if you allow me, I can move in and live in the suite on the east side, which would be convenient for work."

For Alifia, naturally she wanted to be as close to Heo as possible. Her purpose in coming here was to seek the Dao, not to find a job.

However, she knew very well that everything required He Ao's permission; otherwise, if she moved in rashly and angered He Ao, her study plans would come to an end.

After the first failure, it becomes much more difficult to get another chance.

He Ao quickly understood Hong Long's idea. Hong Long must have had some interaction with this girl and thought she was a good person. He probably wanted to help He Ao reduce some restrictions by having her move in.

After all, only He Ao lives here.

If he were staying there, he would need to return to the courtyard at night to help Hong Long guard the martial arts school. If Aliphia also lived there, He Ao wouldn't need to come back if he had something to do at night.

Ordinary thieves, or even those who come to challenge you, can't beat Alifia unless they're superhuman.

After thinking for a moment, He Ao nodded slightly, "I have no objection."

Upon hearing this, Alifia quickly stood up. "Thank you, I won't cause you any trouble."

Having a place to stay is a good thing for her, since rent is a huge expense and she doesn't have that much money.

He Ao smiled and chatted with Alifia for a while longer before returning to the inner room.

Then he picked up his phone and opened the information about the Ruodan Kingdom era that Yang De had sent him yesterday.

The family of the last king of Ruodan ruled Ruodan for about two hundred years until they were overthrown five years ago.

The distinctive feature of this family is that they have a strong dominant gene for eye color. Most members of the family have brownish-red pupils, and eye color was one of the criteria for determining nobility in the Kingdom of Rhodan.

Of course, with the development of the Industrial Revolution, many former nobles lost their privileges and intermarried with commoners. In recent decades, brown-red pupils have lost their high status in Rhodes. However, this eye color is still relatively rare.

He quickly flipped to the chapter that introduced the family of the last king.

The father of the last king of Ruodan was a rare wise monarch in the history of the Ruodan Kingdom. During his reign, he balanced the relationship between the Western Turks and the Tia Empire, and made many decentralization and reforms, which enabled Ruodan's economy to continue to develop and once showed a trend of prosperity.

Unfortunately, the old king died young, and the last king who succeeded him was a complete tyrant, causing the previously developing national strength of Ruodan to decline once again.

However, the information mentions that the old king originally had two sons. The last king who succeeded him was the eldest son, named Jonathan, and the other son was named Ronnie.

Both sons were intelligent when they were young, but the elder son was better at performing and socializing, while the younger son was more introverted.

It's hard to keep the king's family affairs a secret. Rumor has it that the second son was particularly fond of fighting and had defeated all of Ellen's martial arts masters before he was even an adult. After he came of age, he went abroad to challenge others on several occasions.

Then one day, the second son suddenly disappeared.

The royal family did not release any information, but since then, there have been no further announcements about the prince, and no one has seen any trace of him.

The prince disappeared about twenty years ago, which roughly corresponds to the events of Alicia's father's life.

Moreover, Elifia's father disappeared from Middle-earth about five years ago, when the situation in Rodan was in turmoil.

If He's guess is correct, and this Prince Ronnie really did completely break away from the royal family and marry into a small town in Middle-earth to live a simple life with a wife and children, why would he return to Rodan again when the kingdom is in turmoil?

After returning to Ruodan, why was there no further news?

As Alifia said, as long as he was alive, he could always send messages back home.

Unless for some reason he is unwilling to send the message back, or he is no longer able to send the message back.

However, according to records from five years ago, the opposition at that time...

They also tried to find Prince Ronnie's whereabouts, but found nothing.

Or perhaps He's speculation is wrong, and that Alifia's father is not Prince Ronnie, who has long since disappeared or died.

He currently lacks evidence and too much information to directly link Alifia's father with this Prince Ronnie.

He Ao turned off his phone and wrote down the information.

The last king of Ruodan lost a great deal of wealth, but there was no clear heir to inherit it.

Moreover, the last king was merely cruel, not incompetent. According to intelligence gathered from various countries, most Western countries acknowledged that this king was a capable monarch.

However, in the last few years of his reign, he seemed to be under some kind of urgent pressure and began to make money by any means necessary.

Such a person, who happened to live in an era of extraordinary development, did not think that he did not have his own plans for the extraordinary, and that the lost wealth may have been spent on the extraordinary.

Furthermore, Jin Ya, as his second daughter, is a C-level superhuman, and it has probably been quite some time since she was promoted to C-level.

Whether in the main world or the dungeon world, advancing in rank is not easy.

For example, most of the C-level members of the research institute are people who came into contact with the extraordinary world by chance, ten years ago or even earlier.

Three or four years is not enough time for an ordinary person to advance from zero to level C.

This proves that the last royal family probably came into contact with supernatural powers very early on.

Jin Ya is a high-ranking official in Dawn and a confidante of the "boss." He Ao has reason to suspect that the "boss" has connections with the family of the last king of Ruodan.

And there is some interesting information in the materials about the Republic of Rhodan.

The opposition leaders who initially overthrew the king were all mysteriously killed in their homes with sharp weapons about two years ago. The fatal wounds were very thin, and the victims had lost a lot of blood.

This description is very similar to the effect of the extraordinary item 'Shadowless' that Heo obtained from Jinya.