Life Dungeon Game

The airship ticket is actually easy to explain. As the situation deteriorated, it's understandable that Jess's father realized that Mystic might target him and his family, and arranged for his family to leave Wetland.

But that hotel booking was quite strange.

Jess's father booked airship tickets for a departure in three days. Theoretically, they only needed to wait three days before leaving, as Jess and his group did have a place to stay in Wetland.

This room is their home.

This hotel booking can only mean one thing: Jess's father has realized that 'home' is no longer safe.

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Although Jess's father couldn't see these invisible tentacles, he had probably sensed their presence through some means.

Furthermore, I also felt the harm this surveillance force caused to my family.

Judging from Jayce's memory of his mother's personality, she would never allow her husband to face danger alone. Therefore, if Jayce's father had told her that he had bought tickets for her and Jayce, she would not have been willing to leave.

So after buying the tickets, Jess's father didn't tell his wife immediately, probably because he wanted to take some time to talk to her.

Similarly, Jess's situation was similar. He wouldn't abandon his father, but at the time, Jess's wife, Tini, was on a business trip in Kaya City, so Jess's father didn't buy Tini's ticket.

Unfortunately, Jess's father didn't have the chance to do some emotional support for his wife and children that day.

The explosion disrupted all his plans.

However, theoretically, even if Jess's father had passed away, if the ticket he bought was still valid, the airship company and hotel staff would still contact Jess's mother and Jess.

The fact that these staff members didn't call can only mean one thing: the tickets were 'refundable'.

The person who refunded these tickets was not Jess's father, who had died unexpectedly, but someone else. This person did not want Jess and his mother to leave Wetland, nor did he want them to leave home.

So this person's identity is quite simple: the only person with this purpose, ability, and connections to help Jess's father cancel the order is the mysterious person.

Working backward from this incident, it proves that Jayce's father's online behavior was likely under the surveillance of the mysterious person, and most likely, his bracelet, like Jayce's, was infected with a Trojan horse.

So when Jess's father bought the ticket, the mysterious man immediately knew the situation and realized that Jess's father had noticed the 'surveillance'.

He then decisively lured Jess's father away and planned an 'attack' on him.

He realized that Jess's father was an extremely formidable enemy and would never hand over that knowledge to him, so he decisively killed Jess's father.

This way, he might also be able to find that hidden knowledge from the materials left behind by Jess's mother or father.

In this process, the mysterious man actually made a mistake.

Jess's father did not buy the ticket immediately upon discovering that he was being 'monitored'. Instead, he made all the necessary arrangements and concealed the knowledge before purchasing the ticket.

This resulted in the Mysterious Man's 'surprise attack' being ineffective; although he eliminated Jess's father, he did not obtain any crucial clues.

Jess's father and Mystic are opponents sitting at opposite ends of the chessboard. Although Jess's father is much weaker than Mystic, he cleverly uses the rules and his own knowledge to build a balance on the chessboard.

Although he made a wrong move and ultimately lost the game, some of the tactics he left on the board continued to be effective.

After making these deductions, He Ao already had a guess.

Where should we store this knowledge so that it can be preserved without being discovered by the mysterious person?

It's very simple, just put the 'eyes'

What you're looking for is in your eyes.

There was an element of gambling involved, but Jess's father must have had his own assessment of Mystic's character, which is why he chose this method.

Heo didn't know how Jess's father achieved this effect, but it was clear that he had succeeded. To this day, the mysterious man has not discovered that the knowledge was hidden right under his nose.

Of course, he might have guessed it, but he didn't dare to touch these tentacles from the hidden existence, so he couldn't verify these guesses.

Only those who can truly engage with these touches will ultimately gain access to the knowledge left by Jess's father.

The fact that the visitor attacked these tentacles not only proves that the visitor is indeed hostile to the tentacles, but also proves that the visitor is very strong and has the means to attack these illusory forces and resist the pollution.

In this way, Jess's father selected the person he was looking for and entrusted the crucial information to the right person.

He had long anticipated his death, so he made arrangements for everything after his death.

In fact, even if Heo didn't go to Jess's house to look for those clues, he could still gain that knowledge by directly attacking these tentacles.

But even if Heo knew from the beginning that a direct attack would grant him access to the knowledge hidden by Jess's father, he would not have chosen to attack directly.

If he were a kind stranger who happened to be passing by and offered a helping hand, or an enemy of the mysterious man, there would be no problem with attacking him directly, but he is Jayce now.

It is the child of the person who left behind this knowledge.

Knowing how much effort his father had put in was just as important to Jess as obtaining what his father left behind.

The sharp axe sliced ​​through the illusory tentacles, and as each tentacle broke off, twisted thoughts flooded He Ao's mind. Those fragmented pieces of knowledge, now just tiny jigsaw puzzle pieces, merged into He Ao's mind.

He Ao turned around and looked at the countless tentacles surging towards him in the living room.

Based on the current progress, he must destroy all the tentacles in this room in order to obtain the complete knowledge left behind by Jess's father.

He currently has a little over four strands of divine sense left. When he started this instance, he had five and a half strands of divine sense left. In the previous battles and various situations, although he had tried his best not to use his divine sense, the rate at which his divine sense was consumed was still very fast.

He didn't know if there would be another opportunity in this instance to obtain a large amount of divine sense like in the inner market; judging from the current situation, it was highly unlikely.

He still has to face the mysterious man and the hidden entity behind him. He must save as much of his divine sense as possible for the battles to come and not waste too much of it here.

Heo raised his bone axe and cleaved off several more tentacles that were wrapping around him. As new knowledge flooded into his mind, he raised his other hand and pulled back the cloth covering the long, rectangular object, revealing a wooden box inside that shimmered with purple light.

This wooden box contains the 'blessing' power that the mysterious person has acquired over the past ten years through a magic array.

These forces are out of control; once the wooden box is opened, the power inside will surge out and destroy everything nearby.

The surging tentacles seemed to sense the terror of the wooden box as well. They paused slightly, bypassed the box, and continued to attack He Ao.

He Ao had already discovered that these tentacles were not very intelligent and mostly existed in a state of distorted instinct.

Judging from He Ao's feelings in the mental hospital, the hidden, dominant consciousness should still be in a state of dormancy.

Its power lacks any obvious intelligence, much like a person acting on instinct in their sleep.

The long wooden box shimmered with layers of purple light.

This is a magic circle engraved on the wooden box. This incomplete magic circle maintains the seal of the wooden box, although over time, some of these purple patterns have been worn away.

During the operation of the incomplete magic circle, the power within the wooden box remained restless and uncontrollable.

However, Heo now possesses some knowledge that allows him to control these powers.

He glanced down at the patterns on the wooden box, his mind flashing with newly acquired knowledge.

The fact that the tentacles instinctively avoided the wooden box meant that the power inside the box could indeed harm them.

He swung his axe and severed the flying tentacles once more. As new, hidden knowledge entered his mind, he cut his finger with the axe blade and leaned the wooden box against the study door.

Bright red blood dripped from his fingertips onto the wooden box.

He began to draw along the incomplete parts of the magic array.

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The purple light flowed rapidly upwards along the red blood, while tentacles flying through the sky came rushing towards them like a torrential downpour.

Using Hyper Memory also comes at a price, so He Ao did not keep Hyper Memory active for long periods of time. Although these tentacles are powerful, their attack consciousness and soul are precisely where He Ao is relatively resistant, so He Ao can relax his defenses and allow some mistakes to occur in the battle.

Therefore, when he uses his super memory, he usually only activates it briefly, glances at the position of the tentacles, and then uses his combat intuition and senses to roughly determine the direction in which the tentacles will swing next, before attaching his divine sense to the bone axe to attack.

However, such battles cannot last.

While Heo's soul could withstand the contamination and babbling brought by these tentacles, Jess's body could not.

As the battle continued, more and more blood seeped from He's skin, and a series of subtle, dense pains swept into He's consciousness.

Those chaotic and insane thoughts were rampaging through this body. Although He'ao's will could suppress them, in the process, the body's muscles and internal organs underwent a strange and twisted drain.

Although He Ao could not feel any obvious injuries, he could clearly sense that his life force was withering away as these thoughts swept over him.

A few more strokes have been added to the patterns on the wooden box, making the flowing purple glow even stronger.

He briefly activated his super memory, glancing at the dense tentacles sweeping towards him, and the faint wall behind them.

He then grabbed the wooden box in front of him, leaped forward, and flipped through the darkness like a fish, entering the living room. He dodged the tentacles' attacks by following the gaps between them.

His body landed near the door, and he immediately leaned the wooden box against the wall, drawing with one hand and raising the bone axe with the other, cleaving into the void.

He had already shut down his super memory, and the space around him was an empty void in his field of vision.

However, when the bone axe imbued with divine consciousness sliced ​​through the void, it encountered clear resistance in his hand.

In He Ao's mind, the movement trajectory of those invisible tentacles naturally began to be simulated, and then he slashed forward following his intuition.

His simulations, unlike his hypermemory, don't create a perfect combat model; they are mostly based on his intuition and experience.

The tentacles swept over without making a sound, and without activating super memory, there was no visual information. He Ao could not rely on his eyes or his sense of the surrounding environment to detect the movement of these tentacles.

To him, these tentacles were like an invisible and terrifying spirit.

He could only guess the movement patterns of these tentacles by observing the scenes he saw during the brief periods when his super memory was activated.

He still can't fully determine the direction the tentacles are moving, but it's much better than when he was just standing there taking hits at the beginning.

Relying on his super memory, he could remember all the initial positions of these tentacles and then constantly think about where these tentacles would attack.

In such a critical situation, his understanding of combat was also rapidly improving.

The drawing on the wooden box only outlined one or two arcs before those tentacles once again swarmed around it in dense clusters.

He briefly activated his super memory again. He first used his soul power to quickly contact the tentacles that he had 'blindly cleaved', obtaining the knowledge buried in those tentacles. Then he grabbed the wooden box and jumped away to the other side of the living room.

Although these tentacles lack high rationality, they are very likely part of a higher being. The pollution and suppression from that level, as well as that invisible body, are in fact extremely terrifying.

If He Ao didn't have super memory to see these tentacles, or if he didn't have the divine sense to damage them, even if he had some strong mental resistance, he would leave without hesitation.

The damage inflicted by these tentacles is not as bloody as that of terrifying beasts or weapons, but rather a silent, oppressive force from which there is no resistance.

They don't know where their enemies are, nor how they will attack them.

Under bright lights, in one's own home, in a place invisible to the human eye.

These invisible tentacles watch over the people who live here. They stand densely in every corner, on the other side of the world, whispering around the bodies of the ignorant.

If one knows nothing, it's fine; one can still walk towards death peacefully and happily.

However, if one discovers their existence but cannot see them or resist them, and can only wait for death in despair, this oppressive fear is enough to break a person's soul.