Life Dungeon Game

Otherwise, He Ao might not have been able to leave that abandoned building.

After these two ambushes, the mysterious man showed great caution in attacking Heo, especially after Heo killed Allent and took the wooden box in the mental hospital. The mysterious man will likely be even more cautious.

Therefore, He Ao estimated that as long as he did not actively step into places where the mysterious man might have set traps, such as going home, the mysterious man would not actively mobilize manpower to surround and kill him in the short term.

Vader, a C-rank assassin, came on this mission without any subordinates. Even if he had one subordinate with him, Vader would not have taken it upon himself to lure Heo over.

He Ao

There's a feeling that the mysterious man's trustworthy subordinates, especially his mid-level combatants, have probably already been mostly killed by him.

In this situation, the mysterious person would be more cautious in their actions, since gathering a group of elite subordinates who would fight to the death is not an easy task.

If He Ao's guess is correct, there is a lot of room for maneuver.

However, although He Ao judged that the mysterious man would not send anyone to attack him on his own turf, it was better to be safe than sorry, and the mysterious man's target was not only him, but also DeSanchez.

Even if they can't deal with Heo, they can find a sniper to take out DeSanchez.

A slender arm stretched out from the passenger window. Hai Xi leaned out of the passenger seat, grabbed the door, and jumped onto the roof.

She looked up at her surroundings. "Is it cold here?"

"Fortunately."

Heo pulled his leather coat tighter.

He had just bought the coat on the roadside. He didn't feel cold, but after the previous battles, his clothes were tattered again.

I synced the chat history. Did you see the location Wade sent you using my bracelet and rush over there?

Hai Xi sat down next to He Ao and said softly.

“No,” He Ao shook his head, “I was on my way here when I saw you assure me that there would be no problem. Even if Wade doesn’t send me his location, as long as you hold out long enough, I will be able to find you.”

"what?"

Hai Xi was taken aback. She looked up at He Ao with some surprise, "What... how did you know we were in danger?"

"Hmm?" He Ao looked at her suspiciously. "You've made your intentions so obvious. When you left the Huiermei Medical Building with me before, you also said that there would be absolutely no problem in the West District."

Hai Xi: ······

“That was an accident,” Hayes argued. “When I got the information you wanted this time, there was no problem. It was just during the handover with DeSanke that a problem occurred.”

“Is it possible,” Heo pondered, “that Wade was following you the whole time, and he only made his move when you were handing over to DeSanchez?”

Hai Xi: ······

That guy has such a damn sharp tongue.

However, she knew that Heo was joking, and both she and Heo knew very well that it was unlikely that Wade would follow her to DeSanchez.

She started from the Zarote neighborhood, taking several detours, demonstrating a keen awareness of counter-surveillance. It's unlikely that Vader will be able to track her down. Instead, it would be much easier for Vader to follow DeSanskrit, find her, and then capture her in one fell swoop.

The scene fell silent for a moment.

A quiet night breeze brushed against the woman's fair cheek. "Anyway, thank you for today."

"You're welcome. Just waive the commission fee for me."

He Ao laughed.

Hai Xi turned her head and stared at He Ao. She clicked her tongue and said, "Okay, enough joking. If there's anything you need me to do, just let me know."

"it is good."

He Ao nodded slightly.

The night breeze brushed against their cheeks at the same time, and in the quiet wind, it seemed as if a gentle woman softly said, "Thank you."

At that moment, Hai Xi seemed to see something. "Wait for me."

She jumped out of the car and ran into a nearby convenience store.

A minute later, she ran out, holding two bottles of sparkling water, and chased after the SUV, jumping onto the roof.

"Try it,"

She handed a bottle of sparkling water to He Ao, saying, "I noticed you seemed to enjoy drinking this kind of sparkling water at the dinner party."

"Thank you."

He Ao took the sparkling water, opened the cap, took a sip, and the expanding gas exploded in his throat in an instant. He smiled and looked at Hai Xi, "Not bad."

You have to trust my judgment.

Hai Xi sat down, opened her bottle of sparkling water, and looked around. "Sometimes you're so professional that I don't even remember you're a professor."

He Ao's chosen position was exactly where the best view was.

"People always change,"

He Ao smiled, took another sip of his water, and looked at the surrounding buildings. "When I was a kid, I was a good kid. My grades were so-so, and I didn't dare to do anything out of line. Back then, I really longed to sit on the roof of a car. It felt so cool."

“I thought you would be the kind of student who excelled academically when you were young, someone everyone admired.”

Hai Xi laughed.

"Everyone has different talents; someone with great research talent may not necessarily have outstanding academic performance."

He Ao looked at the road ahead, which was flashing with dim yellow lights. The streets in the West District had not been maintained for a long time, and were full of potholes and very bumpy. "My parents rarely scold me for my grades."

Jayce's father almost never demanded that Jayce be number one; he only asked Jayce not to fall behind.

Jess almost always barely made it into a good school, then maintained a mid-level performance there, and then barely made it into Waitland University.

"very nice."

Hai Xi curled up her legs, hugged her knees, and looked at the bright moon in the sky.

Beneath the bright moon, at the edge of the city, lies the Zarote neighborhood, inhabited by scavengers.

He Ao's gaze also turned to the end of the building. "You have a bank card and a social security account. You're not a scavenger, are you?"

"Um,"

Hai Xi was silent for a moment, took a sip of water, the moonlight shining on her eyes which shimmered with a faint glow, and then she slowly spoke.

“I originally lived in Plantation. My father was a factory worker in the nearby area and my mother was a house cleaner. We rented an old building near the industrial area and shared a large three-bedroom apartment with two other tenants.

“When I was in school, I had excellent grades and often got A’s. Every time I showed my report card to my mother, she was very happy. She always thought that I would be able to go to university, move to a better place, and even be able to afford to rent a single-family apartment by myself.”

After saying all this, she paused and quietly took a sip of water.

He Ao sat quietly beside her, observing their surroundings.

After a brief pause, Hai Xi spoke again.

"When I was a child, I always thought this was my future life, but when I was ten years old, everything changed."

"My mother was diagnosed with a malignant tumor. The treatment requires a lot of money. Even the cheapest effective drug is not something our family can afford."

"My mother signed a temporary contract with the cleaning company, so they don't have to buy her medical insurance, and we have to cover all her medical expenses. Our savings are quickly depleted."

Have it.

"After my mother was diagnosed with a tumor, her health deteriorated, and she soon became unable to work and was bedridden."

"In order to earn money for my mother's special medicine and to support the family, my father worked overtime like crazy, sometimes working one or two consecutive night shifts. At that time, I didn't realize anything. I only knew that the bread at home was getting worse and worse and that my father was coming home later and later."

“Life was tough, but we could manage. But one day, my father’s factory called my mother to say that my father had passed away. He had accidentally gotten caught in a machine while working the night shift, and all he left behind were some tattered clothes.”

"The factory said my father had not purchased accident insurance and therefore there was no compensation. Out of humanitarian spirit, they gave us five thousand federal dollars."

"They packed up some of my father's belongings and gave them to us. On the day we received them, my mother got out of bed, dressed for a long time, and took me to that factory. It was my first time there. All I remember is that the factory was very big and luxurious."

"The employee who led us in said that the landscaping trees at the factory entrance cost five thousand federal dollars each."

"Later I learned that the factory was one of the largest factories under the Huiermei Group."

"After my father passed away, my mother's health deteriorated, and she spoke less and less. One morning, when I called her to get up, she never woke up again."

"My roommate helped me call a hearse to take my mother away. The funeral home rent, labor costs, transportation fees, cremation coffin, and service fees all added up to more than 6000 federal dollars."

"But at that time I only had 5,000 federal dollars given to me by the factory. I spent 500 federal dollars to buy medicine for my mother, so I only had less than 4500 federal dollars left. My parents' credit cards had been maxed out long ago to buy medicine, and I couldn't borrow any money."

“The funeral home staff took pity on me and raised a lot of money to help me pay for it. In the end, I only gave 3800 federal dollars. I couldn’t afford a burial plot or an urn. The funeral home staff found me a small wooden box to put my mother’s ashes in.”

"Shortly after I got home, the apartment management company came to collect the overdue rent, which was 600 federal dollars. I couldn't afford to pay next month's rent and was evicted from the apartment."

"That year, I was ten years old. I was sleeping on the street with my mother's urn in my arms. At first, I was in Plant District, but later, when the neighborhood was being cleared, I was driven out by the neighborhood management along with other homeless people. My mother's urn was also taken away by the adults in that chaos."

“I only collected a small amount of ashes, which I kept and later sealed in artificial amber.”

At this point, Hai Xi paused for a moment, "Sorry, my story is too long."

He Ao simply said gently, "I'm listening."

Hai Xi paused for a moment, turned her head to look at He Ao, and looked at his gentle face stained with blood in the moonlight. For some reason, the tension in her heart relaxed a little.

She turned her head back and continued looking around. "Later, I wandered to several places, only to be driven away by neighborhood or apartment management staff. Finally, I arrived in the West End. No one drove us away there, but there were gunshots everywhere, every day..."

People died in both cases.

“I formed a group with some other homeless kids. We helped each other, stole food from gang-run restaurants, picked up trash on the streets and sold it to cleaning companies or mechanic shops. I gradually became the leader of the kids.”

"Unfortunately, our good fortune didn't last long. The surrounding gangs gradually took notice of us. One of our kids was caught stealing food from a restaurant run by a gang and had his leg broken. I led a group to the restaurant to cause trouble and retaliate, but it turned out to be a trap. In order to cover the escape of the others, I was caught by the gang leader."

The SUV passed a streetlamp, the dim light reflecting on Hai Xi's shimmering pupils. "That boss said my eyes were beautiful, then he blinded me, broke my arms and legs, and then I passed out."

"When I woke up, I found myself on a street I had never been before. There was nothing around me, I couldn't see anything, and I just felt very weak. I thought I was going to die."

"You encountered a scavenger?"

He Ao asked.

"Um,"

Hai Xi nodded gently, "I met a priest who was buying medicine outside. He was a C-level superhuman, 'Talent Sequence 71: Pharmacologist'. I called him Grandpa."

"Grandpa took me back to the Zarote neighborhood and cured my body, but my eyes were beyond repair because they were discovered too late. He replaced them with a simple mechanical prosthetic eye, which restored some of my vision."

“Grandpa had no children, and the two of us depended on each other for survival. That period was the happiest time of my life. Grandpa would teach me many things, from astronomy and geography to pharmacology and arithmetic. Every time he went out, he would bring me delicious food, fun things, and interesting books.”

A faint smile appeared on Haixi's face. This was the first time He'ao had seen a smile on her face since she began to speak.

"Grandpa had a strong influence among the scavengers. He often left the Zarote neighborhood to contact other corporations, city council members, and mayoral candidates under the guise of buying medicine, trying to fight for the rights of the scavengers. His greatest ideal in life was to enable scavengers to live like normal federal citizens."