Life Dungeon Game

He Ao's pen moved quickly as he tried to 'copy' a fleeting moment of the image in his mind, relying on the artistic skills he had learned from Wei An.

As the copying continued, the distorted image seemed to gradually become easier to 'understand'.

But just as he was about to fully understand the image, He Ao stopped writing.

All the noise and chaos stopped at this moment, returning to silence.

He lowered his head and gazed at the painting.

This is a painting composed entirely of twisted lines and irregular blocks. The painting is not finished, with a small blank space in the lower right corner.

This incompleteness greatly weakens the painting's 'meaning', but...

Thus, while gazing at the painting, He Ao also felt a jumble of noisy murmurs exploding in his ears.

According to the 'classification' of evolutionary followers, this incomplete painting should belong to the highest level category, which can help C-level contaminated monsters fuse.

If He Ao were to complete this painting, he might obtain a work of the same caliber as the one on the ceiling of the Shadow Figure, a painting that could directly lead people to madness.

But that would mean that Heo would need to fully integrate into that 'pollution'.

He put his hand away, folded the painting in his hand, picked up a lighter, lit the painting, and put it in the ashtray.

It seems that the 'listener' may have also entered the winding hill.

As the flames rose, He Ao's gaze pierced through them, reaching the books arranged side by side behind them.

He gathered his thoughts, thoughtfully raised his bracelet, and opened the photo that Ishia had sent him—the scene where his son was found.

He stared at the social security card number written on the ground.

Sito's son, Kavi, has a social security number of 152-45-1351. This nine-digit number was split into two parts, written by Kavi and his wife respectively.

The number written by Kavi was 1524, and the number written by his wife was 51351.

These nine numbers are not perfectly parallel; they are crooked and staggered.

He had realized long ago that the numbers might be wrong, but only now did he have time to think carefully about their meaning.

If we distinguish them by top and bottom, among the four numbers written by Kav, the position of 14 is not much different and is at the top, while the position of 52 is not much different and is at the bottom.

Of the five numbers written by Kawi's wife, the positions of 5 and 3 are not far apart and are at the top, while the positions of 1, 5, and 1 are not far apart and are at the bottom.

If we divide the numbers into four regions (top, bottom, left, and right) into one group each, the two groups at the top are 14 and 53, and the two groups at the bottom are 52 and 151.

As the flame in the ashtray gradually died down, He Ao's gaze fell on the books tucked between the bookends behind the flames.

When he was very young, Kavi learned the numbering system used in libraries and numbered each shelf and each book on his small bookshelf.

But as the novelty wore off, he became too lazy to number each book anymore. However, the numbers on each shelf were still there because they were engraved on the shelves themselves.

He Ao placed his hand on the books in the book stand again.

One slightly unusual aspect of Kavi's numbering system is that the first layer of his numbers is not on the bookshelf, but on his desk.

He categorized the books clipped to the bookends on his desk as the first shelf, while the actual first shelf of the bookshelf, in Kavi's numbering system, was 2.

At this moment, the fourth book from the left on the desk is the book that records ghost legends.

He Ao paused, took out the book, and turned to page fifty-three.

The familiar phrase, "[The problem is with this city]", appeared before him.

This is exactly the page where Kavi kept his notes about the 'Pollution Cleanup Division'.

1-4, the fourth book on the first floor.

5

3, page 53.

He Ao seemed to sense something.

If we solve it this way, then the second set of numbers is 5-2, 151.

He quickly shifted his gaze to the fifth shelf of the Kavi number, which was the second book on the fourth shelf.

This was also a storybook. He Ao pulled out the book and quickly flipped to page 151.

This page is easy to turn because Kavi has tucked an airship ticket into it.

This airship ticket is a souvenir ticket left behind by Kavi when he first traveled to Dawn City for university by airship.

Almost all airships in the Federation use electronic tickets, although physical tickets are also available for an additional ten Federal Credits.

Kavi himself wouldn't buy such a physical commemorative ticket; this ticket was bought for him by Sito, who knew the boy liked physical tickets.

He Ao had found the airship ticket while browsing through the books on this bookshelf, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

In Sito’s memory, Kavi’s airship ticket was tucked inside a book.

However, the social security account number left by Kavi at this moment points to the page with the airship ticket, which means that Kavi may have left some 'message' for his father.

He stared at the airship ticket.

This is an airship ticket from St. John's City to Dawn City, while Sito had bought physical tickets for his son for both the round trip.

Another ticket from Dawn City to St. John City is on a shelf in another book.

Kave specifically pointed to this ticket, and considering his desire to leave the city as written in the ghost book, it's highly likely he wanted Sito to leave the city with his daughter.

However, it may not be that simple.

Page 151 of this book is on the left.

He placed the book in his hand on the desk and pressed the airship ticket tucked inside the book to the left.

At that moment, the arrow pointing to the destination on the airship ticket was pointing upwards.

He looked at the top edge of the airship ticket, where a sentence was drawn out like a line.

Don't trust them.

He Ao looked at this sentence, flipped back the page, and found the beginning of the story.

He quickly read the story through.

This is a typical short horror story.

The story has several main characters: a lone traveler, a couple, a boy and his father, and two FBI agents on a mission.

In this story, the protagonists accidentally stumble into an abandoned grain factory and encounter an evil spirit that resides there.

In the story's background, these evil spirits are the factory's managers. They made a deal with an evil god, sacrificing the entire factory in an attempt to gain wealth and power.

However, their actions were discovered by a passing wizard who ruined their plans, killed them, and sealed their souls in the factory.

The story mainly narrates the events encountered by several main characters, and its background is not complicated.

As the story unfolds, all the mysteries surrounding the protagonists are revealed. The lone traveler is actually a survivor of the factory where workers were sacrificed. He has returned to blow up the factory and perish together with the evil spirits.

The woman in that couple obtained the method of sacrifice through some channels, which was actually...

She tricked her boyfriend into coming here, intending to use the factory's broken magic circle as a sacrifice; this wasn't the first boyfriend she had sacrificed.

The simplest identities belong to the little boy and his father; they are homeless people who had no choice but to enter this abandoned factory because they had no place to stay to keep warm.

The two FBI agents in question never existed at all.

They were evil spirits from the very beginning.

The little boy discovered the fake agents' secret, so he secretly went to his father, who had been kept in the dark, and told him what they had to say.

"Don't trust them."

In the end, the couple perish in their final battle, the lone traveler successfully blows up the factory, and the little boy and his father team up to kill the evil spirit and escape alive.

The story itself is just a very ordinary horror story. The author of the story does not understand the supernatural world, and many parts are pieced together from some circulating legends.

However, this story effectively conveys what Kavi wanted to tell his father.

He truly knew some secrets.

He closed the book.

It seems that on the night Nighthawk injured the investigation team, Kavi did have contact with Nighthawk, and may even have saved the injured Nighthawk.

However, this 'kindness' brought him disaster.

The boy in the story had a happy ending, but reality is always different from the story.

He Ao opened the briefcase next to him.

Between the two urns, a photo frame sat quietly. It was the wedding photo frame that He Ao had found at his son's house, the one that hadn't been burned.

Night Hawk wasn't stupid; he was certainly aware of the risks Kavi had taken in saving him.

Therefore, Night Hawk most likely left a way to contact him so that Kavi could contact him if he was in danger.

But in Sito's memory, that stubborn child, if he had known that the people who captured him were after Nighthawk, would never have betrayed Nighthawk for his own sake. Instead, his calling Nighthawk over played right into the hands of the Evolutionary.

After all, Night Hawk had once saved him.

He wouldn't reveal any of the Nighthawks' contact information.

Therefore, the thing that could contact Nighthawk should have remained at Kavi's house the whole time.

He picked up the photo frame.

This is the most carefully protected item in Kavi's home, and it is also one of Kavi's most cherished possessions.

He Ao turned the photo frame over and removed the back cover.

A piece of seashell, about the size of a thumb and as translucent as jade, came into his view.

He picked up the seashell.

The moment He Ao touched the seashell, he understood its purpose.

'Crush it'.

He Ao gently pinched the shell fragment between his index finger and thumb, and then slowly applied pressure.

As fine cracks spread across the shell, an unseen connection was established between He'ao and the surrounding space.

Chapter 687 Night Hawk (Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)