Life Dungeon Game

One time, Jess went to his father's laboratory to get some materials and saw this wooden box on his father's desk.

The wooden box exuded a hazy allure, drawing Jess to touch it, though at that time Jess didn't know what it was.

After learning some occult knowledge, he realized that the wooden box might have been made of some kind of extraordinary wood.

He didn't touch the wooden box at the time, but his father, who had returned in time, stopped him.

At that time, he asked his father what it was, and his father's answer was simply, "A box left here by a friend."

After that, Jess never saw the wooden box again.

He had investigated this as a crucial clue in his investigation of his father's accidental death, but ultimately obtained no leads.

He Ao never expected to see this wooden box here again.

The magic circle engraved on this wooden box has a simple function: it represents the person performing the ritual and the person who benefits from it.

In other words, this space, this mental hospital, is all for the purpose of serving this wooden box.

Jess had never considered that the beneficiary of a ritual could be an inanimate object, because he had not addressed the fact that the beneficiary of a ritual must be the performer or the main participant in the ritual.

How can an inanimate object dominate a ritual?

Jess's father's magic circle seemed to have solved the problem, but only half of it.

Judging from the wooden box and the patterns around it, Jess's father had constructed a magic circle structure that used inanimate objects to simulate the ritual performer.

However, Jess's father did not solve another problem—the person who performs the ritual must be a key participant in the ritual.

In fact, this is also the position of the one who pays the price, and it must be a living being.

This is the flaw in this enormous magic circle: at its edge, there are some 'patches' that are clearly weaker than the original magic circle.

This 'patch' shifted the cost that originally needed to be paid by the ritual performer to the 'patients' in the mental hospital, while the wooden box in the position of the ritual performer received a 'gift'.

However, this patch did not solve all the problems.

He reached out and touched the wooden box. The allure that had initially attracted Jess had completely vanished, leaving only dense, constantly shimmering patterns.

This wooden box is indeed just a box; inside the box lies the 'blessing' accumulated by this massive magic array over the past ten years.

But this gift cannot be retrieved.

Because the magic circle is not complete

all.

This patched-up magic circle cannot sacrifice others to gain power without paying any price.

The contents of this box are likely related to that hidden entity.

The cultivation system of this mental hospital, known as the 'breeding farm,' should also be part of this magic circle patch. The hidden erosion is actually trying to make the cost equal to the 'beneficiaries' in this box.

The mysterious figure attempted to disguise the cost as a beneficiary in order to fulfill the conditions for the ritual to take place.

This method worked, but it was only half successful.

He Ao channeled a portion of his divine sense into the wooden box through his fingertips, where he sensed a powerful, turbulent energy, like surging volcanic lava.

If Heo tries to open the wooden box, a powerful force will erupt and destroy everything nearby.

This proves that the magic circle was effective, and the contents of the wooden box did indeed acquire powerful energy.

However, this power is uncontrollable.

Theoretically, these forces should explode the moment they enter the wooden box and be unable to be retained, but the creator of this magic circle used a clever method to maintain the stability of the energy.

The magic circle on the surface of the wooden box flickered. It was both a magic circle that made the wooden box the 'performer' of the ritual and a complete ritual magic circle.

This ingenious design makes the forces inside the wooden box believe that the ritual has not ended and remain in the state of ritual operation.

This magic circle maintains the stability of the energy inside the wooden box, preventing the power inside from exploding directly, but it also prevents the use of this power.

Unless someone can fix the flaws in this magic circle, complete the ritual, and naturally channel these powers into the wooden box.

He stared at the wooden box; theoretically, he should have just taken it.

Taking away this wooden box means that this massive magic circle will lose its organizer, and the magic circle will immediately collapse.

Removing the wooden box will end this cruel ritual.

He Ao activated his super memory and glanced back at the shattered remains of the collapsed gate. Looking at the partial magic circle carved on the floor and the shadow emerging from beneath it, he snapped out of his madness.

After a moment's thought, he rushed out of the hall and jumped into the elevator shaft.

The elevator is currently on the basement level.

He Ao hung in front of the elevator door on the first floor, pried open the door, and rushed out.

He saw again the mental patients and nurses in the lobby on the first floor.

"Gentlemen, I need your help."

He gazed at those people.

In an instant, everyone turned to look at him.

An eerie silence spread.

boom--

A mental patient twisted his head at too large an angle, causing it to fall off and roll onto the ground.

The nurse next to him picked up the head expressionlessly and put it back on the patient's neck. Everyone was watching He Ao.

Their eyes were numb, just like those who were locked on the sixth floor, completely assimilated, but not yet dead.

Chapter 566 Playing the Role (Mega Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

In He Ao's brief vision of super memory, the originally clear figures of these mental patients and nurses became blurred, turning into three-dimensional shadows.

The mysterious man is a very cautious person. He always leaves himself a backup plan and tries to be as secure as possible in every detail.

If it weren't for Heo's appearance, Jess would have died in that alleyway ambush.

Even after He Ao appeared, his plans remained largely intact. The gene serums and weapons he provided to the mercenary team that came to surround and kill He Ao, if fully prepared, were enough to kill any ordinary C-level enemy.

It was more than enough to deal with the strength He Ao displayed in the alleyway ambush.

However, he was facing He Ao.

In the interplay of their scheming and counter-scheming, He Ao revealed one unexpected card after another, causing his plans to be repeatedly disrupted.

But this does not mean that the mysterious person's scheming was shallow.

In many cases, his designs are exceptionally meticulous.

For example, the layout of this mental hospital.

The fourth and fifth floors of this building house the main structure of the magic array, while the sixth floor and above contain treatment rooms and places to store 'mentally ill patients'.

The third floor is the instrument storage room.

What about the first and second floors?

There is a place to maintain it, there are ritual arrays, and there are 'patients' cultivated as a price.

Theoretically, this magic circle can run indefinitely, and it doesn't seem to lack any other elements.

But what if there are no 'patients' left?

These patients are the 'price' that is paid, the sacrificial offerings.

They are also the energy supply that keeps the entire magic array running. Once these patients disappear, the energy supply will stop, and the entire magic array will cease to function.

One of the key reasons why the deception array on the wooden box was effective was that there was indeed a continuously operating ritual array outside, with energy constantly flowing in to maintain the array on the box.

Theoretically speaking, once the external magic array stops operating, this deception magic array will also be unable to sustain itself, and the power inside the box will go out of control, gushing out and destroying everything around it, leaving the mysterious man with nothing to show for his efforts.

Of course, the person who designed this deception array also took this into account, so he added some detailed structural details to the deception array so that when the array outside stops working, it can maintain the operation of the array by 'stealing' the power stored in the wooden box.

Although the structure is cleverly designed, it can continuously maintain its stability using the forces within the box.

However, the power stored inside the wooden box is inherently mad and violent, and during operation, it will damage the magic array on the wooden box, eventually completely destroying the magic array structure.

According to He Ao's estimate, after losing the power supply from the large magic array, the magic array on the wooden box can only last for seven to eight hours at most.

This allows the wooden box to cope with situations where it is temporarily without power, such as when it is moved to another location.

However, it is unable to cope with unexpected situations where the entire magic circle suddenly loses a suitable 'patient' or 'sacrifice' due to certain investigations or sabotage.

After all, the 'assimilation' of patients takes time. If all the original patients disappear, it will also take time to immediately capture new people and assimilate them.

between.

During this period, the magic circle received no energy input.

Therefore, the mysterious person also made arrangements to deal with such unexpected situations, which is the purpose of the first and second floors.

The first and second floors of this building are connected and merged into a single entrance hall.

This is the hall where He Ao enters. In this hall, the mysterious person's "items" are "stored" as "backup sacrifices".

Those were the patients and nurses standing before He Ao.

These people are actually long dead; what remains here are only fragmented souls.

Judging from their mental state, they may have been killed immediately after assimilation, and their souls were then trapped in this hall.

It's like a reserve of 'food'.

The mysterious man never considered these people's lives as lives, just as cannibals treat food.

Most of the patients in this mental hospital are prisoners or homeless and destitute vagrants.

They live in a corner of the city, forgotten and uncared for.

The mysterious figure captured these people from the corners and threw them into this seemingly magnificent but actually bloody and cruel meat grinder, ruthlessly manipulating their lives and souls.

It seems that he and these people are no longer of the same species.

In a sense, Mystic treated Jess and his family the same way: if they were useful, he would try to use them; if they were useless or even dangerous, he would simply kill them.

Treat it like livestock.