Life Dungeon Game

He looked down at the pool of blood at his feet.

Raindrops fell into the pool of blood, blurring its original shape, but through the hazy rain, He Ao could still roughly make out the symbols that the pool of blood had once formed.

It was a symbol drawn in blood, 'K'.

Right in the center of the pool of blood, where He Ao had just knelt, lay a strange black and white smiling mask.

Of all the mystical knowledge, Jess studied the most about sacrifice, because this involved the creation of gene-enhancing drugs.

Similarly, he also understood the appetites of the 'evil gods'. With the offerings he could provide, the evil gods would not unleash any power exceeding D-rank. No god would help him, and he had no one to rely on.

All his occult knowledge came from three places: the old professor, the detective agency, and the mysterious man. The old professor had been murdered, the detective agency would never take on a task beyond their capabilities, and the mysterious man was the one who wanted to kill him.

He was at his wit's end.

Therefore, he could only place his hopes on the hidden being 'K' whom he had seen before, even though he knew nothing about any sacrificial rituals related to 'K', and did not know whether 'K' would provide any help. But it was like a drowning person grasping at a straw.

He has no choice.

This scene reminded Heo of Joey, who also had nothing.

Joey is innocent; he's not old enough to do anything.

Jess is kind; he never did anything wrong.

However, they arrived at the same intersection at different times.

He Ao slowly squatted down, picked up the mask from the ground, and put it on his face.

The blood stained the edge of the mask was imprinted on the contours of his cheek, flowing into the silent night along with the hazy raindrops.

puff--

That was the sound of footsteps stepping across the pond, splashing up bursts of water.

In the stillness of the night, the footsteps grew closer.

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"This damn rain has washed away all the bloodstains. That guy should be nearby."

The man in the exoskeleton armor raised his hand to look at the glowing monitor in his hand, and took the dagger from his waist with his other hand. "My armor is almost out of power. This guy is as slow as a rat."

The hazy raindrops slid down the hard metal outline of the armor.

“After all, he’s an extraordinary being,” laughed another man holding a Gauss rifle next to the man who spoke. “His physical abilities are far superior to ours.”

"I heard that guy doesn't dare to kill?"

The first man to speak carried his Gauss rifle and walked ahead, using an infrared detector to scan his surroundings as he slowly explored forward.

The rain significantly affected the performance of the infrared display, and the screen was covered with mottled noise.

He turned on the powerful flashlight attached to his helmet, illuminating the area in front of him.

“Yeah, he knocked out those gangsters who attacked him, he didn’t kill them,” the man walking behind laughed. “So when you see him later, just shoot him, he won’t kill anyone anyway.”

He looked up at the gray sky. "This rainy day is really terrible. Without this rain, we would have found it long ago."

He's there, but he was hit by a sniper. Even if he's not dead, he won't live much longer; he probably can't get very far.

Be careful in everything you do; even a rabbit will bite when cornered.

The man walking in front whispered.

"really."

The man behind nodded.

The two took a few steps forward when the man in front suddenly stopped, squatted down, and stared at his feet. "It's blood. He should be nearby."

“We didn’t expect to run into this,” the man behind gripped his Gauss rifle tightly. “Take out the target’s team first, and there’s a reward in Federal Credits. This might be the easiest money we’ve ever gotten.”

The electronic map on his monitor showed that it was a dead end.

"Once this is over, I'm going to go to a dance hall and party all night, open the most expensive bottle of wine, and pour it all over those bitches."

The man in front also stood up, revealing a sinister grin.

The two continued walking briskly along the alley.

Soon, they reached the end of the alley, where there was only a pool of blood that had been washed away by the rain.

"Ran?"

The man in front looked at the wall at the end of the alley with some confusion.

boom--

Just then, they heard a slight sound behind them.

"behind!"

The two men immediately turned around and fired without hesitation in the direction from which the sound came from.

Boom boom——

With a loud bang, the wall was shattered by the bullets from the Gauss gun in the rain, sending up a spray of flying debris.

A hole was blown open in the sturdy wall, revealing the building behind it, but there were no remains or blood around the hole.

Fell into a trap!

The two immediately turned their backs to each other and looked around.

Just then, a masked figure fell down from the wall and landed in front of the man behind.

The man stared at the black and white mask, about to fire at the figure in front of him, but the figure moved faster. He swiftly pulled out the dagger the man had tucked into his waistband, and his arm rose like a phantom to the man's neck.

The sharp blade pierced his neck through the gap where the helmet connected to his body.

"Gulong——"

The man opened his mouth, as if to say something, but blood filled his neck.

The man standing in front realized what was happening, immediately turned around, and pulled the trigger.

With a deafening roar, the bullet struck his comrade's body, piercing through his exoskeleton armor, and exploded with a deafening boom.

Blood obscured his vision.

In that instant, he felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck as a sharp dagger pierced through it from the side, running diagonally down his cervical vertebrae and piercing his trachea and carotid artery.

He struggled for a moment and fell forward.

Bright red blood flowed along with the rainwater into the drain at the edge of the alley.

He Ao drew his dagger, squatted down, turned on the monitor on the man's arm, and opened the map interface. Immediately, small red dots appeared in his field of vision.

1···2···3······

Including these two, there are a total of thirty people. Judging from their attire, they should belong to some mercenary organization.

That sniper shouldn't be among these thirty people.

Besides the sniper, Jess also sensed an unusually powerful aura while escaping.

The information is most likely grade C.

I just don't know if this C-level person is a mercenary or someone from that mysterious person.

Thirty people, which is roughly a full-strength mercenary combat squad.

A standard combat squad consists of at least one sniper and at least one Class C superhuman.

They really think highly of Jayce.

He noted down the approximate location of the mercenaries and picked up two Gauss rifles from the ground.

These two guns are G-K2 Gauss rifles sold by Ives Space Systems, which are top-of-the-line commercial models and are generally only sold to large mercenary groups.

Each magazine holds five bullets. Now, each of the two guns has three and four bullets remaining, respectively. He Ao found five magazines on the still-intact man.

There were a total of thirty-two bullets.

He Ao opened his personal information and glanced at his current profile.

[He Ao (Jess)]

[Privilege Level: Advanced Player]

Physical fitness: 1194 (127)

[Skills: Talent Sequence 272: Super Memory (Soul Binding) (Rank C), Basic Firearms Mastery (Soul Part), Talent Sequence 72: Stealth Mage (Rank C) (Unusable)]

Mechanical modification: None

[Martial Arts: Qi Refining to Spirit Transformation (Rank C) (Partial Usability)]

[Character Skill: Talent Sequence 54: The Almsgiver]

Jayce's talent sequence is 'Giving Man'.

The ability of a giver is very simple: a giver can give away a part of their possessions, anything at all, even a random stone.

The recipient will subconsciously accept the gift from the giver, and regardless of whether he or she intends to accept it, his positive feelings towards the giver will increase.

The more the recipient likes the gift, the faster their favorability increases. However, this favorability will not turn into love. It will only make the recipient feel close to and infatuated with the giver. If the favorability increases too much, this infatuation may turn into possessiveness and a desire for control.

This talent sequence is not geared towards combat, so it offers very little improvement to physical attributes.

In fact, starting from the 'Hermit' path, the talent sequence along this route does not significantly improve physical attributes.

Jess initially wanted to buy a talent sequence that leaned towards combat, but the detective agency said that this was the only talent sequence they could get their hands on, so Jess ultimately compromised.

Those who give alms are not among the talents that stand out in the spotlight; however, if they are nurtured and cultivated behind the scenes, they can still unleash extraordinary abilities.

The problem is that Jess was always alone, and he was under constant surveillance.

However, he still used his ability to give alms to win over some research assistants in the lab and get them to help him implant viruses into the lab's computers.

He also used this ability to constantly win the favor of the mysterious man, which is why he believed that the mysterious man trusted him.

However, it is clear that even with the influence of the benefactor's abilities, the mysterious man never believed him. This so-called meeting with the 'big shot' was nothing more than a trap to kill him.

Lure him to a secluded place and kill him without harming the lab or attracting attention.