Life Dungeon Game

"Where are you now?"

A question came through the walkie-talkie.

"On the helicopter,"

Kodo gripped the edge of the helicopter, glanced up at the dark night sky beyond the roaring rotors, and said, "The situation on Vinland Island seems much more serious, so I'm going to check it out."

"The lives of everyone in this city are in our hands," a voice said after a moment of silence on the other end of the walkie-talkie. "Don't give up."

"Ah."

Kodo nodded slightly and turned off the walkie-talkie.

He looked up at the silent sea below and the city under the night sky ahead, then sat back down in the helicopter seat.

"The scenery on this trip is beautiful, isn't it?"

A soft laugh came from beside him.

He turned his head and looked at the seat next to him. Another 'figure' exactly like him was sitting there, gazing at the unchanging starry sky outside the helicopter.

"Relax,"

The figure slowly turned its head to look at Kodo, a smile spreading across its lips—a smile that appeared gentle, yet also seemed to conceal a twisted, eerie quality.

"We are changing the world, and everything will be going in a good direction, won't it? You will become the leader of the new world and trample all the bugs under your feet."

"You've been working diligently, but what have you gotten in return? West, a twisted and chaotic cultist, has sidelined you and is running rampant in this city."

“Fia, she has never worked a single day in this city, yet she became your boss directly.”

"Listen to the voice recording just now. Even a D-level researcher from that research institute is pointing fingers at you?"

"What gives them the right?"

"No one sees your achievements, no one understands how much you've sacrificed. Can you really manage the world by being with these idiots?"

"It's time to do something for yourself. You can change the world and reshape a brand new, perfect world that belongs to you!"

"you shut up!"

Kodo grabbed his head, his fingers running through his hair, his eyes bloodshot, and roared angrily.

"We are on the road to final victory."

Despite being rebuked, the figure showed no anger, maintaining its eerie smile and sighing.

"Boss, what's wrong?"

The helicopter pilot in the front row seemed to have heard the commotion behind him, turned around, and asked a question loudly.

"fine."

Kodo covered his face with his palms, rubbed his cheeks vigorously, and looked to his side.

The seats next to it were empty, as if no one had ever been there.

"Boss, are we going back to the branch office?"

Sensing that something was wrong with his boss, the driver checked again.

"Back!"

Kodo withdrew his hand and glanced outside.

The cold night wind brushed against his cheeks and ruffled his disheveled hair.

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On a secluded coast near Vinland Island, Heo looked up at the helicopters flying in the distance.

"You rascal, I've been looking for you everywhere!"

A soft chuckle came from behind, "How does it feel to save the world?"

A middle-aged man who looked honest and kind slowly walked along the deserted path.

He walked out of the seaside promenade, raised his head, and walked step by step toward He Ao, standing beside He Ao. "Let me introduce myself. My name is Robert. I remember seeing your file, Lenk? Your file only lists you as D-rank, right? You've been hiding your true strength?"

"You've been infiltrating Moonlight's organization all along?"

He glanced at his moonlight uniform and asked casually.

"Of course, I'm a legitimate employee of Moonlight Entertainment. Otherwise, how could I have bypassed your vigilance and tracked you all the way here?"

Rob grinned and said, "Those idiots from Moonlight and the Research Institute think they're protecting this city. How do they know that if you hadn't thwarted our plans, they would have been dead long ago?"

"It's a pity that the lord's ability can only sense who has died, but cannot see who the murderer is. I went through a lot of trouble to find you."

He glanced at He Ao and said, "You killed so many of our Dawn people. Did you ever think this would happen? In this world, if you want to be a savior, you have to be prepared to be killed."

"To clarify, I only intervened when they were committing the crime; I didn't kill anyone intentionally. I'm not a savior, just a good person passing by."

He Ao shook his head, shifted his gaze to the calm sea, and casually asked, "Was the person who ambushed Chen Lin a bait you deliberately threw out?"

"You really are very smart,"

Rob looked at He Ao and lit a cigarette. "After all, you always move so fast. By the time I get there, it's all over. All I can do is set up some traps to lure you in."

Thick smoke billowed from his mouth as he watched the drone disappear into the sky with smug satisfaction. "Even so," he laughed, "you really are fast. I almost couldn't catch you."

"I have a question,"

He Ao slowly asked, "I've asked many of your people, and none of them have ever seen what your deputy leader looks like. Have you seen him? Or are you not qualified?"

Rob's smug expression froze for a moment as he took a deep drag on his cigarette. "No one is qualified to see the deputy leader's true face. The leader may have seen it before, but none of us have."

"Is that so..."

He paused, then sighed, "I thought you would bring me some different information."

"What do you mean?"

Rob looked at He Ao, paused for a moment, and instinctively sensed something was wrong. He then shook his head and took the cigarette butt from his hand. "You're about to die, and you're still trying to bluff? I've seen your wounds. You're experienced, but your strength is only at the initial C-level."

He twisted his neck and loosened his muscles. "I didn't tell you, did I?"

A cigarette butt, still glowing with embers, flicked from his hand. The next second, a sharp spike shot out from his sleeve and into his palm. "I'm also a C-rank, and my strength is far beyond yours. You've already wasted enough of my time. After I finish you off, I'll go back and take care of those troublesome bastards at the research institute."

The dark spikes reached towards He Ao's neck against the backdrop of the night.

However, the instant the spike pierced through, a hand had already grabbed his neck.

He Ao had appeared in Luo's presence at some unknown time.

In front of Uncle.

He grabbed Rob by the neck, lowered his head, and whispered in Rob's ear, "Lend me your fate."

As soon as the sound rang out, Rob's muscles tensed instantly, and his expression became extremely ferocious.

The next second, his body slowly disappeared as if erased by an eraser, and his clothes, along with a piece of bone wrapped in the clothes that emitted an orange glow, fell down together with the spikes in mid-air.

He Ao slowly squatted down and pulled out Rob's phone from his clothes. When he stood up, he had completely transformed into Rob's appearance.

Unlocking the phone with my fingerprint, a message popped up instantly: "[Sir, when are you returning to the branch?]"

Some fragmented memories surfaced in He Ao's mind.

The source of the information appears to be a member of the Dawn of Moonlight who was 'lurking' with this Robert.

He Ao sorted through the few memories he had acquired and replied briefly, "[Right away]".

At the same time, some chaotic and seductive babbling echoed in his mind.

The 'order' that Robert was sent to hunt down Heo was given by this seductive rambling. After Heo 'took the place in Robert's body, the mystical focus that was originally directed at Robert turned to Heo.

In a mystical sense, Robert will continue to be 'alive' until Heo relinquishes this identity.

He Ao waited for a moment, but the seductive murmurs remained unresponsive and eerily quiet. It seemed that the 'owner' of these murmurs was not paying attention to this side.

He Ao concealed his surface thoughts and then straightened his clothes.

Having been in the city-state of Newland for so long, he had naturally been 'bewitched' as well, but he quickly figured out how these bewitching voices worked.

By distorting the thinking of the 'infected', making their way of thinking tend in the direction desired by the source of infection, its effect is limited to the surface of consciousness and cannot directly distort the self-awareness of the infected. Therefore, as long as a person has a strong will, they can resist for a relatively long time.

Simply put, as long as you stick to your principles and ignore these seductive voices, you can resist the temptations, but it's very difficult to do so.

In addition, He Ao deduced that this bewitching power possessed a 'mind-reading' ability somewhat similar to the Hypermemory Mark, but it was much, much weaker than Hypermemory, and could be easily concealed with a simple disguise.

After everything was tidied up, He Ao looked up at the deep night sky.

Still a little bit.

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Underground Palace, Fourth Level

The first thing that came into He'ao's view was a white 'pyramid' several meters high.

The edges of this pyramid are very prominent, the surface has smooth tangents, and the whole structure presents a strange 'symmetry'.

Strictly speaking, it is more like a regular tetrahedron laid flat on the ground than a pyramid. Moreover, it is a specially regular tetrahedron.

He Ao slowly approached the white tetrahedron and gazed at its smooth surface.

Then he vaguely noticed that there were some shallow 'patterns' on the surface, and the 'patterns' in front of He Ao vaguely outlined the shape of a 'leg bone'.

He paused, then stepped back slightly to look at the densely packed...

The texture of hemp.

These patterns are densely intertwined, outlining the shapes of somewhat twisted bones.

It includes both human and non-human creatures.

Someone stacked these bones tightly together, then cut the surface flat and filled the gaps, forming a regular tetrahedral 'bone mountain'.

He stared at the 'bone mountain', paused for a moment, then walked around it from the other side and went behind it.

Then, rows of neatly arranged "bone mountains" appeared in his field of vision.

The entire fourth floor is an open circular structure without any walls obstructing it. The 'lines' arranged by these bone mountains are like the dotted lines drawn in the circle, connecting the circle all the way to the center.

The distance between two adjacent bone mountains on the same line is the same, and the 'angle' formed between different bone mountain lines is also the same, dividing the circle into nine equal parts.