Life Dungeon Game

The sun is setting in the west, and dusk is approaching.

Hai Xi had already left. He Ao, holding the wooden box, sat in the sunlight by the door, and cheers seemed to come from afar.

His gaze remained fixed on the wooden box in his hand.

As the last stroke was made, the purple light shimmering on the wooden box connected to form a complete magic circle.

He loosened his grip, and the blood at his fingertips slowly congealed.

His powerful C-level recovery ability caused his wounds to heal several times during the painting process, forcing him to cut his finger again.

As his finger left, the purple glow on the wooden box seemed to solidify on its surface.

Then, the light slowly dimmed, and then slowly brightened again, flickering like breathing.

With each flicker, its overall brilliance dims a little.

He Ao's gaze was fixed on the dense and complex magic array.

The magic circle on this wooden box was originally an incomplete one. Its purpose was to keep the magic circle running continuously, to 'deceive' the power gathered inside the wooden box, making these powers feel that the ritual was still in progress, and to stabilize these powers from becoming violent. However, the original magic circle was very ineffective and would collapse within a few hours if it was removed from the ritual environment.

Later, in Jess's parents' old house, He Ao used the knowledge inherited from Jess's father, combined with his own understanding of magic circles, to improve a part of the magic circle, turning it into a magic circle that could operate stably with the help of the energy inside the wooden box.

Of course, the improved magic circle still serves the purpose of 'deception'.

After He'ao's improvements, the magic circle became more stable, the wooden box could seal energy for a longer time, and He'ao could open a gap to release some energy under certain circumstances and then close the wooden box again, instead of the original situation where the outer magic circle would be immediately destroyed by the surging energy as soon as the wooden box was opened.

He did not use the knowledge left by Jess's father to directly improve the magic circle on the wooden box.

One reason is that the knowledge left by Jess's father is pure knowledge, without any specific direction, simply knowledge that can push the structure of the magic circle towards the completeness of the ritual.

The entire ritual itself points to that unknown, hidden existence. In the past, those sacrificed in the ritual were also 'synchronized' with that hidden existence.

If the magic array is perfected directly, it's equivalent to directly helping that hidden being perfect the ritual.

He Ao didn't know how the hidden entity wanted to use the energy in the wooden box. Although the wooden box was in his hands, he still couldn't follow the other party's ideas just to be on the safe side, lest he inadvertently do the work for the other party.

Another reason is that when He Ao was perfecting the magic circle, there were mysterious people all around him, belonging to the 'tentacles' of that hidden being. If he rashly drew the picture, it might reveal the knowledge that Jess's father had painstakingly preserved to the mysterious people.

With the help of these two factors, he only made simple improvements to the magic array at that time.

In fact, He Ao had always had a suspicion: his journey from the mental hospital to Jess's parents' house had been too smooth, and that's why he was attacked...

After the mysterious man's tentacles collapsed, the mysterious man should have known that he had returned home, but he did not take any action during this process.

While this could be explained by a shortage of manpower, there is another explanation: the mysterious person wanted to use him to perfect the magic array on the wooden box.

Therefore, He Ao was always very cautious about the handling of the wooden box.

In theory, if the mysterious man was indeed facing Jess, this scheme could very well have succeeded.

Even if Jess learns all the knowledge about the magic circle, he cannot master it in a short time, so he cannot modify the magic circle.

Therefore, he only had two choices: either abandon the wooden box or improve the magic array on the wooden box.

Abandoning the wooden box would cause the energy inside to leak and create a disaster. The kind-hearted Jayce would never leave the wooden box unattended, so Jayce actually only has one choice.

Even if Jess knew that the mysterious man might be using him, there was a high probability that after acquiring the knowledge of the supplementary magic circle, he would use this knowledge to stabilize the energy inside the wooden box, and the mysterious man's goal would be achieved.

On many occasions before, the Mystic manipulated Jayce in this way, making Jayce a puppet who had no choice but to follow his lead.

Unfortunately, this time, he was facing He Ao.

Jess's previously uncontrollable madness can be controlled by Heo.

Based on this, He Ao can use this frenzied state to directly peek into the 'truth' of the magic array and master the knowledge of the magic array in a short period of time. In this way, he will have the foundation to freely modify the magic array.

Of course, simply being able to modify the magic circle is not enough; one also needs a great deal of occult knowledge to know how to modify the magic circle to resolve this situation.

Coincidentally, He Ao had some knowledge of occultism.

During the day or so he carried the wooden box, he kept thinking about how to modify the magic circle.

He Ao, carrying the wooden box, walked out of the room and into the corridor.

This is a building on the edge of the Zarote region. He glanced around and could see a huge open-air square in the distance.

The square was not small; it could accommodate thousands of people moving around freely. But at this moment, it was filled with a dense swarm of figures, like ants.

They were like clouds on the ground, covering the entire square.

The cheers, as loud as mountains, echoed under the sky. Even He Ao, who was so far away, could hear the shouts that seemed to be the background noise of the world.

As dusk fell, DeSanke had been speaking all day, but people continued to stream along the distant streets to arrive.

The surrounding buildings were still playing Ned's campaign ads on their screens, but those brightly lit screens looked so dim in the sunlight.

As soon as there were a few more people, Hayes went to protect DeSanker.

At noon, DeSank was shot in the middle of a crowd. If Hesy hadn't pulled him away in time, the bullet would have pierced his temple and blown his head to pieces.

But after that sneak attack, DeSanchez did not hide in a safe place; his figure remained standing on the most conspicuous podium.

Shortly thereafter, Christos was appointed by the City of Witland.

At the invitation of the government, he went to the Ellensard Palace, where Mayor Whitland resided, and left the venue.

Judging from the messages Hayes sent to Heo, the city government of Whitland had actually come to see Christos many times, but he had not left.

Until that one black gun incident.

The Vitran people who remained in the square at this moment were no longer there for Christos of Dawn City, but for DeSanc of Vitran.

He Ao turned his gaze away from the square and stared at the wooden box in his hand.

The luster on the wooden box had become unusually dim.

This is the energy inside the wooden box being transformed into its final product by a stable magic array.

At this moment, the magic circle on the wooden box is quite different from the original one, and even from the magic circle that Jess's father had envisioned.

He Ao retained most of Jess's father's ideas, deconstructed Jess's father's core concept for a stable and perfected magic circle, and then nested another element on that basis.

He turned around and looked at the wall of the room. On that entire wall, strange and extremely complex patterns were drawn in very light strokes. These patterns together formed a huge magic circle.

The control array engraved on the Verola.

This was a magic circle drawn by the angel who attempted to descend into the main world to control extraordinary objects. Later, Heo modified the magic circle, changing its direction from that of the angel to 'K', thereby gaining control of the Verola.

However, He Ao didn't really understand how the magic circle worked or what its principle was, so he used Jess's berserk state to study the magic circle carefully.

Although in his frenzied state, Heo's comprehension of knowledge unrelated to the gene-potion ritual and lacking a foundation was much slower, it was still far faster than Heo's own exploration.

Soon, He Ao roughly figured out the core principle of this magic array.

Then he discovered a problem: the magic circle only works when it is inscribed on a supernatural object, but the energy in the wooden box has no physical form.

At that moment, he thought of the magic circle created by Jess's father, which could inscribe information into the tentacles through the energy it emitted.

He combined the two magic circles to form a new magic circle structure, and then nested it around the original magic circle of the wooden box.

In this way, when the energy in those wooden boxes is transformed into the final product through the magic array, the control magic array pointing to 'K' will also be engraved into the product.

Furthermore, He Ao gained an unexpected benefit: because the control array was completely integrated into the final product, it would continue to exist unless the final product was completely destroyed.

The only drawback of this magic array is that it is too complicated and consumes a lot of blood. He Ao drank several large bowls of the medicinal soup prepared by Hai Xi in order to barely support this amount of blood loss.

Of course, He Ao didn't use all his own blood. On his way back from the wilderness, he hunted down several C-level alien beasts and took their core blood as materials for the magic array.

However, the most crucial part of the control array, which points to 'k', is best drawn with He's blood. This has a ritualistic effect and increases the probability of successfully drawing the array.

At this moment, as the light on the wooden box gradually dimmed, He Aoneng could feel the light emanating from the wood.

The violent and chaotic aura emanating from the box is stabilizing, which means that the contents of the wooden box are becoming stable.

"Hello, Uncle Jess, can you hear me?"

As Heo watched the wooden box's light dim, a communication came through his earpiece from Viana.

"I can hear you, speak."

He put away the wooden box, turned around and went into the house, placing his hand on the wall where he had carved the control array.

In fact, this magic circle is not complete; it only contains some key structures that he drew for reference.

He placed his hand on the wall and gently wiped it. As some dust settled, the section of wall he had wiped was smooth again.

"Uncle Jess, didn't you tell me this morning to check if the Trison Group had renamed and used the Phoenix System elsewhere?"

"Guess what I found?" Viana said excitedly on the phone.

This morning, as soon as I got back to the city, He Ao sent a message to Vianna, asking her to investigate this.

If the Phoenix System is truly unprofitable, then its existence increases the Trison Group's costs and revenue, reducing the group's overall profit margin. This would have a huge impact on the stock price, and the consortium is unlikely to allow such a thing to happen.

"Is the Trison Group profiting from the Phoenix System?"

He Ao said with a smile.

"Yes!!!"

Vianna quickly said, "Didn't I ask you to find a lot of papers about the Phoenix System for me?"

"After carefully reading these papers, I found that the core of this system is actually data processing and information analysis and verification. It determines the authenticity of information through a complex comparison and verification process, confirms the authenticity of voting users' information and the compliance of their identities at the software level, and ensures that there will be no deviation in the information transmission process due to interference from external software or different communication device operating systems."

"The voting system is just a facade. In fact, the Phoenix System does information collection and processing. Then I looked up all the commercial services that Trison Group was selling and found that Trison Group had a large number of commercial data collection and processing service projects."

"These services vary in price, ranging from one hundred federal dollars per month to ten thousand federal dollars per month."

"However, most of these services offer new users a three-day free or low-price trial, so I created a secondary account to pretend to be a new user and purchased some of these services in tiers. Then I used an algorithm to measure the accuracy of these services and compared it with experimental data from some Phoenix systems in the papers I found."

"Then I discovered that the data feedback results of those projects with monthly service fees of more than one thousand federal dollars were highly similar to the experimental data of the Phoenix System. I have reason to suspect that these service projects are using a weakened version of the Phoenix System."

"It's also possible that they're using the Phoenix System,"

While erasing the magic array on the wall, He Ao continued, "It's just that the Trison Group uses software algorithms to give different permissions to different business projects. In this way, they don't need to develop a separate weakening system or configure additional servers to maintain the security barrier."

"After all, the phoenix"

The system is only used for one or two days during each election, so its usage frequency is not high. This greatly saves costs and optimizes resource allocation.

“That’s possible,” Viana replied. “But if that’s the case, why do they claim that the Phoenix System was specifically developed for the Federation and is only used for elections in the Federation and other regions? They’re also making money off this system themselves.”

"If they don't promote it this way, how will they get the federal central government and local governments to provide high usage fees?"

He Ao laughed and said, "The federal government and local governments helped them cover their costs, so all they earned was profit."

"It's something they're capable of doing."