Life Dungeon Game

The FBI classified the incident as a suicide, but they did not explain why a frail old man would stab himself in the neck with a pen.

In a very short period of time, you lost both your parents, and your mental state deteriorated significantly. During this time, your wife chose to give up her job to patiently stay by your side and comfort you, and you slowly emerged from your grief.

[Age 30: You decide to take a long leave to calm down. Your wife supports your decision and takes leave with you. During this time, you return to the apartment where your parents live. While sorting through your parents' belongings, you discover some strange things.]

My father liked to copy some important research materials onto a hard drive and put it in the corner of the bookshelf in his study. Now, that hard drive is gone, and the storage device where my mother kept the manuscript of the unfinished book she created last year is also gone.

You realize something is wrong; someone has deliberately taken these things. You open your mother's computer, and all the documents on the computer have been deleted. However, following your mother's habits, you still find some of her discarded documents in a hidden folder.

My mother liked to collect discarded manuscripts as inspiration for other books or future works.

These manuscripts are few in number, and most of them are chaotic, rambling texts. Eventually, you find the only one with a logical structure, which describes a scene where an elderly biologist is communicating with a chemist.

From those descriptions, you quickly realized that the chemist was your father, and the elderly biologist was your wife Tini's undergraduate professor.

[Age 31: You contacted Tini's undergraduate professor. He fell silent about your discovery. In the end, he just told you that it was all over and that you should stop investigating.]

You flew to Kaya Medical University and confronted the old professor face-to-face. It took him two months to tell you what he knew.

Five years ago, his father brought him a tattered book containing hidden knowledge and asked him if he could use biological means to materialize the knowledge in the book to reduce its harm.

He rejected his father's idea and proposed his own inspiration: using this knowledge, he could try to bestow the power of the talent sequence upon ordinary people.

However, the father believed that this method was too risky and might have too strong side effects.

The two had a disagreement, and in the end, the father left with the book and never contacted the old professor again.

And the old professor ultimately

Unable to resist the urge to materialize that knowledge, he began to collect data and research gene-based drugs that could grant extraordinary powers to ordinary people.

At your insistence, the old professor finally revealed to you the occult knowledge he knew, and warned you that through the information he had collected, this knowledge would draw you into a supernatural world, bringing madness and danger, and that you should not easily tell anyone else.

You wrote that sentence down.

During your time in Kaya, you met the old professor's little granddaughter, a very cute little girl.

[Age 32: You didn't share your occult knowledge with your wife, but instead studied it on your own. At the same time, you began to suspect the true cause of your parents' deaths and started collecting information about them to investigate.]

[Age 33: Your investigation has made little progress, so you try to start with these occult knowledge, which records a wonderful method that can give ordinary people extraordinary power, but it is related to evil gods, and you are not prepared to seek help from the gods.]

After communicating with that old professor, you also began to try to create a gene serum that could give ordinary people extraordinary powers. You felt that what your father was researching might be related to this.

The old professor has provided you with a lot of help, but he does not support your research on this subject, believing that such knowledge will ultimately bring danger.

This project couldn't get funding from publicly available grants, and you quickly fell into financial trouble. Your wife didn't know what you were researching, but she was very supportive.

At this time, a strange person visits your lab. He claims to be from a large conglomerate and can fund your experiments. You don't know how he knows about your experiments, but you realize that he may be related to your parents' deaths.

You first calmed him down with words, and then began to think about how to make good use of this opportunity.

At this moment, you receive devastating news: your wife's teacher, the old professor who taught you about occultism, has been killed in an attack by cult members.

I'm having some writer's block, so I'll update later, probably tomorrow night. Let me sort things out.

Chapter 531 Rain

[Age 34: The mysterious person left, and you spent a whole month thinking alone. You found the email the old professor sent you a month before he died. Most of the content in it advised you to give up on this project, as it would not only bring danger to you but also to your family.]

You were so engrossed in your research that you didn't notice the hidden meaning in the old professor's words. Perhaps, at that time, the professor had already sensed something.

The wife found what appeared to be a letter left by her mother before her death in the corner of the bedroom in her parents' apartment. The letter was filled with messy handwriting, but the words inside were very clear. Her mother hoped that she could live, live well, and that this was her greatest wish.

That night you cried, and your wife stayed with you until dawn. You finally couldn't hold back anymore and told your wife everything that had happened during this period, but you omitted the part about mysticism. You didn't want your wife to get involved in this vortex. You talked for a whole day.

Your wife supports your investigation into your parents' deaths and is willing to do everything she can to help you, but you fall silent when you see her haggard and thin face these days. You are not only a child of one family, but also a husband of another.

You met the mysterious man again. You abandoned your idea of ​​cooperating with him and using the opportunity to conduct an investigation, stopped the experiment, and sold all the experimental materials to him at a low price. The mysterious man regretted your decision, but still completed the transaction with you.

You returned to your family, both physically and mentally, but you didn't give up the investigation. Through the black market, you met a detective agency with extraordinary abilities and commissioned the investigation into your parents' and the old professor's deaths to the professionals at a high price.

[Age 35: The detective agency's investigation is proceeding in an orderly manner, and your life seems to have returned to normal. Apart from having some twisted nightmares occasionally, everything is as usual. You visit your parents every year and occasionally collect some information on your own.]

You know that the cult that killed the old professor came from a cult called the Witch Church, which worships an evil god called the Witch of Desire. The detective agency has also provided you with some information about this cult to demonstrate their professionalism.

You also learned about the extraordinary world through the detective agency and purchased a talent sequence 6: Hermit's Secret Medicine. You did not take the medicine, but instead stored it away.

You and your wife donated your parents' inheritance and savings over the years to establish a small charitable foundation named after your parents. The foundation primarily helps children, providing food for homeless children and sponsoring children who cannot afford to go to school, preventing them from taking out high-interest student loans.

As life returned to normal, a smile returned to your wife's face. You know she had been worried about you for the past few years, and seeing your recovery made her very happy.

You're both getting on in years, and you've decided to have a child. The past can't be changed, but at least you still have a future.

[Age 36: Due to your outstanding research performance, you and your wife have both become associate professors, and you have begun to be invited to attend various conferences and give presentations.]

The detective agency suddenly gave

You received a notice that you wanted to terminate the contract, and promptly paid you a penalty of five times your deposit, as stipulated in the contract. You then realized that something was wrong.

Meanwhile, a mentally ill gunman broke into the meeting his wife was attending, and she collapsed in a pool of blood while giving a speech.

You have lost your last family member.

The mysterious person has found you again and says that he admires your talent and is willing to cooperate with you to restart the original gene drug experiment.

What did you understand?

[Age 37: After burying your wife, you reached a cooperation agreement with the mysterious person. You are not afraid of death, you are just afraid that death is meaningless.]

You took the hermit's secret medicine, and the process of entering the extraordinary realm was painful, but you persevered.

The mysterious person provided you with a high-end and expensive laboratory, equipped you with various excellent assistants, and even provided you with some occult knowledge that you could use as a reference.

Research on gene-based drugs is still ongoing, and you can see the old professor's original research materials here.

[Age 38: With your joining, the research progressed rapidly. The mysterious person paid you an annual salary of up to one million federal dollars as well as additional project progress bonuses, but he did not reveal to you who their backer was.]

The lab provides you with everything you need, but you can clearly feel that you are being watched.

You managed to evade surveillance, re-contacted the detective agency, and purchased a follow-up talent sequence potion for 'Hermit' through their channels, talent sequence 27: Hermit.

You took this secret medicine, and this time the pain was even more intense than before. You could barely endure it. After this promotion, your mental state became somewhat bad, and you often had some twisted and bizarre dreams.

However, in this state, your research progress actually improves, and you always find inspiration in strange places.

You donated all the remaining money to a charitable foundation.

Towards the end of the year, you hear some news about the Witch Church. They seem to have wanted to hold some kind of ceremony in Dawn City, but it failed.

At the end of the year, you saw some strange parade on the street, people wearing black and white masks. You didn't know what it meant; it seemed like it had been a long time since you had actively engaged with the outside world.

[Age 39: Your mental state has deteriorated further. Even when you are awake, you will experience hallucinations. You are sleeping less and less, and you are unusually energetic. Your emotions are also starting to fluctuate, and you are often excessively irritable. However, you have managed to control yourself and have not harmed anyone.]

You've almost completely cut off contact with your old friends, and all your work at Waitland University has come to a standstill. Everyone around you thinks you've gone mad, including your lab assistants, but your research has made significant progress.

You are not insane. At least for some time of the day, you remain lucid. You still visit your parents' and wife's graves at fixed times and sit silently in front of them.

You don't know where this strange mental state comes from; perhaps it comes from some twisted supernatural power, but you are now...

There's no time to worry about that now. You've bought a D-grade secret medicine, which is the follow-up talent sequence for 'Layman', talent sequence 54: Almsgiver.

You drank it without even waiting.

Surprisingly, after this promotion, your mental state was more stable than before, and it didn't deteriorate as much as it did after the last promotion.

You are more awake and have time to learn about the outside world. You learn that the strange black and white smiling mask comes from a person named 'K', who seems to be a mysterious superhuman, some kind of hidden existence, or some secret organization.

He seems to be suppressed by all the conglomerates, so all symbols related to him are taboo in the city, at least in Wetland. You know, he seems to be someone who is willing to help the desperate. You noted down the information about 'K'.

From the occult knowledge provided to you in the lab as reference material, you acquired some sacrificial rituals of evil gods, including those of the Witch of Lust and the God of Death.

You've discovered a way to control your madness: draw some of your power to create a gene serum, which will give you more time to be lucid.

Gene therapy has been gradually perfected, and most projects can no longer be promoted without your help.

At the end of the year, something big seemed to have happened. The stock price of Star Pharma, the number one medical conglomerate in the Federation, suffered a sharp drop and eventually seemed to fall out of the top ten in the Federation's market capitalization.

During those days, you saw that the mysterious man seemed quite happy.

[Age 40: Everything seems to be maturing. After years of effort, the mysterious person seems to think that you are no longer a threat and are a reliable person. He says that he will introduce you to a higher-ups, the real funders of the gene serum.]

You finally have the opportunity to contact the people hiding behind the scenes who killed your family and the old professor. You hand over all the information and observations you have collected in the laboratory over the years to the detective agency.

And tell them that after your death, release all this information to the FBI so that they can conduct an investigation.

Meanwhile, you've implanted a Trojan horse in all the computers in the lab. On the morning of the meeting, the Trojan horse will destroy all the data on the computers and catalyze the deterioration of the semi-finished gene serum by changing the storage temperature, destroying all the gene serum in an instant.

The most crucial data in the entire experiment, besides being in your mind, is on the lab's computer. That crucial data itself contains a Trojan program written by the hacker you hired. No matter how you copy it, it will be destroyed the moment the Trojan is activated.

You have made all the preparations.

The mysterious person arranged to meet you at a secluded café in the West End. You brought your homemade high explosives and went there, but the person didn't show up at the agreed time.

You realize something is wrong, but it's too late. Several gang members rush at you. You knock them unconscious and quickly escape, but then you find yourself surrounded—it's a trap.

Your mission is to clear the shadows from the night in Whitland.

Enjoy the game!

The pattering rain gently reached He Ao's ears, and he slowly opened his eyes.

His clothes felt wet; he was kneeling on a mess of blood.

Twisted, insane babbling echoed in He Ao's mind.

He Ao touched his chest; warm blood was flowing out along his damp clothes.

He reached into his clothes, peeled away the flesh with his fingernails, grabbed the hard object inside, and yanked it hard, accompanied by a sharp pain.

He pulled out a sharp bullet, which fell into a pool of blood.

He Ao leaned against the wall, staggered to his feet, and blood gushed from his wound.

He glanced at the bullet on the ground. It was a high-powered sniper bullet. This type of sniper rifle was specifically designed to deal with superhumans. A hit to a vital point could kill even a D-level superhuman with a single shot.

I heard hurried footsteps behind me.

The raindrops fell softly into the night.

There will be another chapter tomorrow at noon.

Chapter 532 Caught in the Net (Two Chapters, 6,000 Words, Seeking Monthly Tickets)