Life Dungeon Game

He recalled again the words left by the deceased No. 1: "It's here."

Of all the 'cases,' only the first victim died while being chased.

She seems to have been running away the whole time.

Why didn't she ask her organization for help?

unless

She was no longer able to call for help from her organization.

But if the entire World Tree in Ellen's organization was already completely corrupted, why would she leave behind that signal?

Whom is she hinting at?

He Ao tried to put himself in the mindset of the deceased.

The deceased, No. 1, survived the observation of that divine descent, and perhaps there were others like her who survived.

They thought they had survived a catastrophe, but in fact, the power of the gods was still pursuing them.

This 'pursuit' is perhaps the embodiment of the shadow in the dream.

So, Dead One was trying to leave a mark to remind those who were still alive that they had not successfully escaped.

Death continued to pursue them.

The fact that she was able to leave these signals proves that she knew there were still living, normal people on the World Tree who could see her signals.

Under these circumstances, according to the intelligence obtained by the research institute, the World Tree Headquarters in the Western Lands has not made any response to Ruodan, which proves that the World Tree Headquarters is very likely unaware of the current situation of the Ruodan branch.

Someone has been passing a message to the World Tree headquarters.

Business as usual.

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Only a minority survived; most either died or were contaminated.

The World Tree is located at the core of Ruodan, which may be the place where the power of the 'mysterious shadow' first spread.

If this speculation is correct, the current situation may be even worse than He Ao had previously predicted.

The Mysterious Shadow did not create a primitive church through random contamination, but rather directly converted all branches of a powerful supernatural organization into its own 'followers'.

As his thoughts raced, He Ao sent Yang De another message.

He Ao: [Director Yang, do we have any information about the location of the World Tree's branch in Ruodan? Or do we have any information about the core of the World Tree's Ruodan branch?]

Information about the personnel?

Yang De: [Our intelligence network in Ruodan is too weak. Li Le might have some clues. You can ask him.]

Immediately afterwards, Yang De sent another message.

Yang De: [Hao Yi has appeared in Ruodan, and that strange monster has appeared again. This incident will definitely escalate. Moonlight and World Tree may join forces. World Tree's B-rank is very likely to enter Ruodan. Be careful in everything. If things get really bad, leave immediately. I will arrange for Li Le to help you leave.]

The World Tree's branches have most likely disappeared.

Instead, those corrupted primitive sects were there, and they certainly wouldn't want another B-level to come in and disturb their rituals.

However, in order to get rid of Hao Yi, they might join forces with Moonlight.

But if Moonlight knew what these people did, would she feel comfortable cooperating with them?

And what about dawn? What will dawn do?

The 'boss' has most likely arrived in Ellen and is hiding somewhere. What are his views on the Primitive Cult?

It cannot be ruled out that the Moonlight, the Primitive Cult, and the Dawn faction might unite because of 'Hao Yi'.

However, each of these three parties has its own interests and demands, so it may not be possible to find a suitable balance.

If the Primitive Cult successfully summons an evil god, the evil god won't care whether those below are allies or not; the people of Moonlight will most likely be corrupted and turned into monsters.

Although they don't care about the lives of the Ruodan people, they may not be willing to give up the interests they have built up in Ruodan for so long.

Moreover, the Moonlight controlling Ruodan is actually the weakest of the three parties, as they have no B-rank troops they can mobilize.

There's something to make a fuss about here.

However, more intelligence and clues are needed.

While pondering, He Ao replied to Yang De, "Okay, thank you, Commander Yang."

Yang De quickly responded.

Yang De: [Be careful in everything. If you want to do something, just do it. The situation is complicated right now. I'll go contact the dean. Don't worry, the research institute will always be your support.]

He Ao paused for a moment, then replied, "[Thank you]".

He Ao then exited the chat interface and sent a message to Li Le, asking if he had any information about the World Tree.

At this moment, the taxi arrived at its destination.

He Ao got out of the car and walked back to the martial arts school along the alley.

It was past midnight, but the martial arts gym was still dimly lit.

Heo pushed open the door and saw Alifia sitting in the yard with her eyes closed.

As if hearing the door open, Alifia opened her eyes and quickly got up. "Master He'ao, you're back?"

"Hmm," He Ao reached out and closed the door, picked up the lamb skewers in his hand, and smiled, "Want some late-night snacks?"

"Okay."

Alifia didn't stand on ceremony. She went back into the inner room, took out two cans of Coke, and gave one to He Ao, saying, "I don't drink alcohol, this is all I have."

"This is perfect."

He Ao smiled and took the Coke.

The two sat in the courtyard, enjoying their barbecue skewers under the moonlight and starlight.

After eating and drinking her fill, Alifia yawned, said goodnight to Heo, and went back to her room to sleep.

He Ao returned to his room and finished reading the dictionary he hadn't finished yesterday.

She leaned against the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

-

A silent stillness enveloped the world.

He Ao opened his eyes in bed and sat up.

He glanced at the sky outside through the window of the room.

The gray sky obscured everything.

He slowly got up, put on his clothes leisurely, pushed open the door, and walked into the courtyard.

This time, the surroundings were still quiet and deserted.

The bench in the courtyard stood there forlornly, the trees covered in a layer of gray as silent as stone statues.

He Ao raised his head and looked towards the entrance of the courtyard.

The tightly closed courtyard gate was slowly pushed open, and the old doors swayed silently.

Outside the courtyard gate, a human-shaped dark figure was quietly appearing.

He maintained the posture of pushing the door open, raised his head, seemingly gazing at the courtyard in front, or perhaps at Ho'ao.

His leg was slightly raised, still maintaining the forward motion, half of his lower leg had already stepped over the courtyard gate.

He is near.

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Jingle Bell--

The crisp ringtone of the cell phone woke He Ao from his dream.

He recalled his dream from last night, a dream that seemed to be a manifestation of divine power chasing after something.

It seems that the mysterious figure is not going to let him go.

Or rather, He was unwilling to let go of South City, and indeed, all the people in that city.

He Ao reached his hand out from under the covers, pulled out his phone, and answered the call with his eyes half-closed.

"We received many reports today about people dreaming of strange and eerie shadows."

The military police captain's voice came from the other end of the phone, "I had that dream too."

"Oh," He Ao groggily sat up in bed, rubbing his face, "was it a human-shaped shadow that kept approaching?"

“We didn’t get a clear description, and I can’t remember my own dream. Did you have that dream too? What would happen if that shadow got close?”

The military police captain asked quickly.

"It's no big deal."

He Ao yawned.

Then, with a sigh of relief on the other end of the phone, he continued, "They'll just die."

Military Police Captain: ......

Is there any solution?

"Yes, I left Nancheng for a while."

"So I won't have that death dream anymore?"

"No, this way you might die a little slower."

"..."

The military police captain paused. "So we're definitely going to die?"

He Ao went to the restroom, looked at the boy in the glasses, took out a toothbrush, and began to rinse his mouth.

At the same time, he replied to the military police captain.

"We will not die."