Life Dungeon Game

"The arrow is on the string and must be released."

The man in the main seat looked up at the sea and city outside the window. "He's just an ordinary B-rank. Even if he has the Verola, killing him would be a piece of cake."

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Middle-earth·Northern Capital

"Hao Yi has already been to Newland City-State?"

Li Cheng, the director of the research institute, looked slightly surprised as he sat in his office.

"Dean, wasn't it you who contacted him?"

Wu Lan, who was watching the video remotely, was also somewhat surprised.

"I was the one who made the contact; I just didn't expect him to act so quickly,"

Li Cheng rubbed his temples. "However, since he has shown his face in Newland City-State, the people on Moonlight's side shouldn't be too likely to play any tricks on you. Moonlight no longer has the confidence to offend a neutral B-level. This is good news, and you should feel much more relaxed."

"So, Dean, what did you pay to get him to intervene?"

Wu Lan asked with some curiosity.

"I don't know either,"

Li Cheng shrugged. "He said he'd ask me to do him a favor later."

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Newland City-State, Vinland

This is the third largest island in the city-state of Newland, and also the most chaotic, most populous, and poorest.

As a free commercial city-state, Newland does not have strict personnel control, which allows many people to easily infiltrate the city-state.

These people, without clear identities or backgrounds, gathered on Vinland Island.

Violence and assault are commonplace here.

A man with brown curly hair stepped through the falling twilight, walking slowly through the messy...

We stopped in front of an old, detached house in the alley.

Because it is an island city, it is frequently visited by storms, so the buildings in Newland are not tall, and there are many one- or two-story detached buildings.

This detached cottage was a residence that was "given" to 'Lenke' after he joined the Dawn deputy leader's faction.

Compared to other areas of Vinland Island, which are rife with gangs, this residence is located in a relatively quiet and peaceful area, and the surrounding neighbors are mostly normal working people.

At that moment, Heo, now wearing Lenk's face, took out an old key from his pocket and inserted it into the door lock.

After a period of simple exploration, he gradually figured out the effects and limitations of the 'Substitute Cloak'.

First, the person he chooses to be the 'surrogate' will be killed and erased directly. This was not mentioned in the message the cloak gave him when he first obtained it. However, he had anticipated this situation, so he found a villain to experiment on.

Secondly, after being replaced, Heo will acquire some of the key memories of the chosen person, and will be able to directly possess that person's habits and combat skills. Heo even feels that the mystical symbols that point to that person will turn to point to him. In return, that person's cognition will also interfere with Heo's.

However, He Ao also used this opportunity to test his resistance to cognitive impairment.

He has already experienced eleven different characters, each with their own memories and life story, but these characters' lives do not seem to have particularly affected his self-perception.

So He Ao kept thinking about whether it was because the system handled it well, or because he himself had some kind of resistance.

The conclusion is that both are true.

After the cloak 'substitutes', when He Ao impersonates others, he will feel a relatively obvious obstacle to self-awareness. It is not strong, but it exists and is not enough to particularly affect He Ao's self-awareness.

This indicates that the cognitive impairment of the dungeon character has been processed by the system, and He Ao himself also has strong resistance to cognitive impairment.

Besides being used for murder and information gathering, the substitute cloak also has limitations.

It cannot select people who are too strong; at most, it can only select C-level individuals who are not corrupted by the gods. If a C-level individual is exceptionally strong, they must be brought to the brink of death. Furthermore, the talent sequence of the person being replaced will not be inherited but will be directly extracted.

Furthermore, it has a cooldown period of approximately two days. After use, you cannot select another person as your substitute for two days, and you can only have one substitute identity at a time. Once you change your substitute identity, you cannot use the previous substitute identity.

Even with so many restrictions, the power to directly inherit memories, appearance, identity, and even mystical clues is still terrifying.

This ability will likely become even more terrifying once it reaches the angelic rank.

He Ao inserted the key into the door lock and turned the lock cylinder.

"elder brother!"

Just then, a child's voice rang out behind him.

He Ao turned around and looked behind him.

A little girl carrying a plate appeared in his field of vision. "Brother, have you eaten? This is a freshly made apple pie. Grandma said that you haven't been here long, and your family might not have all the tableware yet, so she asked me to bring it over for you."

This little girl was from this morning.

The little girl who sold the amulet to He'ao.

She happened to be 'Lunk's' neighbor. Her house was much smaller than Lenk's. When Lenk came in and out, he could often see her and her grandmother sitting in front of the door weaving grass amulets.

To be precise, it was precisely because Lenk remembered this little girl that Heo spoke to her today.

He Ao looked down at the girl's small hands with a thin layer of calluses, squatted down, and asked with some curiosity, "Little one, where are your mom and dad?"

"what?"

The little girl paused for a moment, seemingly hesitant. After a long while, she whispered, "My mom and dad are missing. They went out to buy things and never came back. The military police said they are probably dead."

Hearing this answer, He Ao was also taken aback. He asked softly, "Aren't you afraid I'm a bad person, just telling me like this?"

"The older brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunts in the neighborhood all know that my parents are missing,"

The little girl glanced at He Ao, who had squatted down to look her in the eye, and added, "And my brother doesn't look like a bad person."

"Oh."

He Ao took the apple pie from her hand.

The reason he remembered the little girl was because Lenk had originally planned to kill the two "troublesome" old man and young girl on his way back from Velen and nail them to the wall.

There was no reason; 'Lenke' simply disliked the way the two of them painstakingly wove the amulet.

"Thanks,"

He glanced at the apple pie on the plate. "Goddess of Luck will bless you."

"hey-hey,"

The little girl scratched her head. "Lady Luck will also bless my brother."

Then she said goodbye to He Ao and skipped home.

"I thought you were going to kill this little girl and chop her into pieces."

A sneer suddenly came from behind me.

call out--

The sharp dagger was drawn instantly, twirling in the air and making a slicing sound. In the blink of an eye, the sharp tip came to a steady stop in mid-air, just before the man's throat.

The tip of the knife only needs to be pushed forward a little bit to pierce the man's throat.

"Shh-"

A soft voice, as if asking the guests to keep quiet, then rang out.

He Ao looked up at the red-haired man behind him, grinned, revealing slightly red gums, and asked, "Want some apple pie?"

The surrounding air fell into a dim silence, with only the sound of the man swallowing deeply. However, he dared not make any big movements, because his prominent Adam's apple rose and fell, making it easy for it to touch the tip of the knife that was stopped in front of his neck.

Beads of cold sweat trickled down the man's forehead. He stared at He Ao and said in a low voice, "The boss wants to see you."

Oh, the plan to scare the enemy has succeeded.

He Ao looked at the man with a smile.

But this isn't good news, because it means that...

There really are snakes in the grass.

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Chapter 718 An Invitation from the Believers of the Former God (Super Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

The overturned and shattered desk, the walls splattered with blood, and the knife marks left on the floor and walls.

Wu Lan squatted on the ground, carefully examining the traces left behind.

A fierce, yet not overly fierce, battle once took place in this office.

The attackers here are strong, but the owner of this office is not without the power to fight back.

"We haven't touched this site at all."

A calm voice sounded behind Wu Lan; it came from West, the Moonlight's head in Newland.

"Thank you for your help,"

Wu Lan stood up and nodded. She glanced at West and asked, "You really didn't see anyone leave here?"

She knew very well that Moonlight must have someone watching her at the entrance of the research institute's branch.

"At least not within our field of vision."

West answered calmly.

"Um,"

Wu Lan nodded slightly, took a step forward, and stopped in front of the shattered desk. "Do you have any leads over there?"

"No,"

West shook his head. "In fact, we are also very curious about how the 'thing' or the person who attacked here managed to do all this. Your people may have left some data in the files, but as you know, all your computers are automatically encrypted without any user intervention, and it's impossible for me to remove your computer's hard drive and crack it."

"Okay, we'll take care of the rest."

Wu Lan smiled and nodded, "Thank you for your help."