Life Game In Other World
Chapter 1088: The Third Vice Chairman (Two more - s for 9000 votes/monthly ticket; Alliance Leader adds more)

Chapter 1088: Chapter 1088: The Third Vice Chairman (Two more Chapters for 9000 votes/monthly ticket; Alliance Leader adds more)

"Little Bitch."

A man in a white formal outfit landed on the ground and looked up at Lin Chichi, who stood in the middle of the street. He raised his hand and pulled out a whip from his waist.

Distorted power surged out of him instantly, inflating his flesh like a balloon, expanding to the level of a C-class.

Then he took a quick step forward, striking out with the whip in his hand. It cracked through the air with a sharp sonic boom, lashing towards Lin Chichi.

Lin Chichi, holding the Holy Heart Sword, vanished in a blink, dodging the incoming whip and closed the distance between herself and Duke.

After these two days of repeated life-and-death battles, she had gradually mastered the energy manipulation techniques He Ao had passed on to her.

Although her talent was not great, the battlefield was always the best training ground.

"Well done!"

Duke immediately retracted his whip and subtly redirected his force. The flexible whip curled in the air, its tail whipping back towards the girl’s back.

Lin Chichi turned and blocked the incoming whip with her sword, her body shaking from the immense force. She spat out a mouthful of blood and charged further towards Duke.

"You think closing in on me means you can defeat me?"

In that instant, Duke sneered. He looked at Lin Chichi and said slowly, "My weapon is longer than yours; it’s not fair. We should both drop our weapons."

With that, he threw away the whip in his hand.

Lin Chichi was slightly stunned, an invisible thought creeping into her mind, making her instinctively want to drop the Holy Heart Sword.

She clenched her teeth and resisted the twisted thought.

And at that moment, her actions became noticeably uncoordinated due to her resistance against that thought.

"Strong willpower,"

Duke scoffed, as two daggers sprang from the palm of his hand, stabbing towards Lin Chichi, who was struggling against ’herself.’ "It’s not easy to defy the Arbiter’s Judgment, especially since I’ve enhanced it."

One dagger aimed for Lin Chichi’s throat, and another for her neck.

Watching the incoming daggers, Lin Chichi clenched the sword hilt tightly.

Duke watched the girl before him, a smile curling on his lips.

Given Lin Chichi’s current uncoordination, she could at best block one dagger, and even if she did not die, she would be grievously injured.

However, the next second, the smile on his face froze.

As he neared her, the girl, who had appeared slightly uncoordinated, suddenly regained her fluidity.

Clang!

Summoning all her strength, she swept her sword forward with a burst of light, severing Duke’s body at the waist.

Duke’s eyes bulged, still puzzled in his last moments as to why his ability had no effect.

His body fell to the ground, split in two.

Struggling, he lifted his head and shifted his body to look at the girl beside him, twisting his mouth into a smile, "Do you know who you’re taking away?"

"I know."

Lin Chichi lifted the Holy Heart Sword and thrust it through Duke’s heart.

As the two halves of the body began to decay rapidly, an invisible force surged within her, and only then did she sigh with relief, looking up at the sky.

Duke’s power had indeed affected her, but just as it took hold, she felt an invisible force brush past her soul, clearing her ’mind’ in an instant.

That power did not erase the effect of Duke’s ability on her, but it allowed her to suppress the twisted thought for a short time.

She took advantage of this, feigning influence to draw Duke closer.

After Duke’s death, the ’Arbiter’s’ power also completely dissipated.

Lin Chichi withdrew her gaze from the sky, lifted the Holy Heart Sword, and turned to face the fast-approaching vehicles, taking a deep breath.

Blood splattered across the street.

——

Half an hour later

The black car stopped in the dilapidated and desolate parking lot.

Daybreak looked up at the abandoned building outside the parking lot, the reflection of the worn-down mountains and forests in the distance flashing across her plain glasses. She asked softly, "Is this the southern suburbs?"

"Yes,"

Yan Yue nodded gently, then she opened the car door and said softly to Daybreak, "Miss Daybreak, wait in the car for a moment, I’m going to call the others."

The young man with black hair also opened the car door and got out of the car with Yan Yue.

Watching the two get out of the car, Daybreak folded her arms, pensive.

Boom—

After a moment’s wait, a dazzling brilliance lit up behind the car, a huge magic wand emanating a yellow glow smashed down from behind.

A blue radiance exploded from within the car, igniting a splendid flame, and with the flying debris of the car, a girl bathed in blue light walked out of the flames. She saw Elder Ruodel in the distance and smiled, "Elder, long time no see."

She raised her hand, and a small blue geometric sphere floated above her palm.

Looking at the short ponytail girl in front of him, who was smiling and had a somewhat frail demeanor, Elder Ruodel’s face completely chilled, "Daybreak, is it really you? Has this old man ever treated you poorly? Why would you betray the World Tree?"

"Elder, why would you think I betrayed the World Tree?"

Daybreak curled the corners of her mouth, her slightly chubby cheeks puffing up a bit, her gaze fixed on Elder Ruodel, smiling and saying, "And not that I had joined the World Tree with a hidden identity from the start?"

"You!"

Elder Ruodel’s expression froze.

"After all, you never check backgrounds when recruiting. Anyone who comes to you, you accept. Don’t you know the members within the World Tree are mixed? You always strive for greatness but lack management capabilities, why blame me?"

Daybreak shook her head slightly, her silvery ponytail swaying in the morning breeze.

"You!!!"

Elder Ruodel’s face turned completely red with anger.

While the two talked, Yan Yue led a group of weapon-bearing individuals who slowly appeared from all around.

"So this is the trap you’ve laid for me?"

Daybreak turned her head to glance at the surrounding individuals, smiling and saying, "Where’s that quirky little girl? With these few people, Miss Yan Yue who just came doesn’t understand everyone. Elder Ruodel, it’s highly probable you wouldn’t think this deeply and wouldn’t suspect me, so it seems only that little girl would have thought of this."

Elder Ruodel: (Angry)

Daybreak glanced in the direction she came from, "She’s now stopping Duke? If she dies at Duke’s hand, that would be a bit regrettable."

As her words fell, a somewhat battered black car drove in from a distance.

Yan Yue was just about to refute Daybreak when she heard the engine sound. She turned her head to look at the approaching car.

She could vaguely recognize that it was one of the cars that had been chasing them earlier.

Everyone’s gaze suddenly concentrated on this beat-up car.

Soon, the car stopped behind Elder Ruodel, the already damaged car door kicked open, a girl holding a knight’s sword got out from the driver’s seat.

"Fortunately for you, Miss Daybreak,"

Lin Chichi removed the mini earpiece she used to communicate with Yan Yue from her ear, holding the Holy Heart sword, her gaze fixed on Daybreak, she spoke slowly, "I’m still alive."

"You’ve gotten stronger,"

Daybreak’s eyes swept over the girl’s body, still stained with not-yet-dried blood, her mouth curving into a smile, then she asked softly, "I thought I had disguised myself well, how did you come to suspect me?"

"Firstly,"

Lin Chichi coughed lightly, "Unlike Mr. Ruodel, I haven’t been around you for a long time, deceived by your scheming, without a biased assumption that you are a good person."

Hearing her words, Elder Ruodel’s face looked a bit better.

Daybreak, on the other hand, tilted her head with a smile, looking at the girl in front awaiting her next words.

"Secondly,"

Lin Chichi continued, "I couldn’t be certain you were really the mastermind behind all this, nor could I convince everyone to believe you were the mastermind, so I had Miss Yan Yue show an urgent and suspicious eagerness to get out of the car first, then had Mr. Ruodel strike to test you."

She looked at Daybreak, still smiling with a seemingly weak and easily bullied appearance, and went on,

"From the fact that you had Duke invite us to dinner, I deduced you might have encountered some kind of mutation and had to urgently do something ahead of schedule. Under such circumstances, you would be on edge, not daring to bet on Mr. Ruodel truly striking to test you. After all, if you pretended once more, and we captured you, you might really miss your chance."

There’s something she didn’t say, because she knew that ’Hao Yi’ was also investigating these cases, so she could be certain that Zennany must have lost her composure due to some unforeseen event.

Because she believed ’Hao Yi’ had the capability to change the entire situation from unseen places.

"So you were ’deceiving me’ just now?"

Zennany looked at Lin Chichi with a smile, "A simple yet effective strategy. People do tend to panic and create chaos when they are pressed, but I’m curious, where did you start to suspect me? After all, we have only met twice."

"It was the fingerprints."

Lin Chichi answered calmly while looking at Zennany’s smile.

Hearing her reply, Zennany was first taken aback and then seemed to recall something, laughing, "You suspected me because of the Senwen disappearance case? Because on that floor, only my fingerprints were found?"

"You’re very smart,"

Lin Chichi paused for a moment and said softly,

"You first designed a flawed ’hint,’ directing suspicion towards Duke and the World Tree Organization, so that when we dismissed this hint, we naturally excluded the World Tree Organization from suspicion as well.

"At the same time, you had Daybreak kidnap people, drawing the investigation’s focus onto him,"

She looked at Zennany,

"I think the key point of your plan was originally on me; you had Daybreak come to kidnap me in the first wave.

"If I really were kidnapped, firstly, it would eliminate the one person Minister He could count on here, preventing Minister He’s influence from taking control here in the short term, leaving you time to arrange everything.

"Secondly, even if Miss Yan Yue arrived later, her attention would be focused on me, who was kidnapped, and then she would put all her efforts into investigating Daybreak, eventually drawing everyone’s attention to him.

"Your Rong Guang Society would then continue to operate from the shadows, directing the situation."

"But your power, young lady, exceeded my expectations,"

Zennany said softly with a laugh,

"You weren’t captured, but instead caught those intellectually challenged guys from Daybreak, triggering a series of chain reactions that forced Daybreak to act much sooner than I had planned,

"Of course, it’s useless to say all this now,"

She sighed, "Elsewhere, a more severe collapse has occurred, causing the space I have for maneuvering to be greatly constricted. However, I’m still very curious, can you determine that I kidnapped Senwen solely based on fingerprints?"

Her face still wore a smile, "I kidnapped him, but where could I have hidden him? After all, due to my fingerprints, your people were the first to search all the places I had been."

"You certainly kidnapped Senwen,"

Lin Chichi continued calmly looking at her, "Only, it wasn’t yesterday that you kidnapped him."

Upon hearing these words, the smile on Zennany’s face froze.

"After reading that fingerprint report, I started to wonder what it all meant? In theory, it was impossible for you to commit the crime because the first place searched was your office, and all your rooms, where any clues would have been found immediately,"

Lin Chichi calmly continued, "All the surveillance also appeared to confirm that you truly had nothing to do with Senwen’s disappearance."

Then she gazed at Zennany and added, "But this is a Transcendent world, isn’t it? Many of the thought processes that work for ordinary cases don’t apply. For example, the ’Senwen’ who met with me yesterday, did he really disappear?"

Zennany’s smile began to fade.

Lin Chichi went on, "Why must it be that he ’disappeared’? Couldn’t he have just walked out of his office? If the elevator’s surveillance didn’t capture his image, isn’t it simply because he didn’t look the same at that time? That’s why the corridor’s surveillance had to be broken so that it wouldn’t capture who actually left the office,"

She looked at Zennany and smiled, "Right, Miss ’Senwen’? You promised to help me investigate the ’K Belief,’ any results yet?"

"Now don’t you already have the results?"

Zennany replied with a smile.

"I think, perhaps as soon as Senwen arrived here, you had already switched him out,"

Lin Chichi continued, "After that, all ’Senwen’ that everyone saw was you, and as for the ’Zennany’ who was actively moving around, that must be something like a ’clone’ or a ’doll’,

"I found obvious mechanical structures on that ’Flesh Doctor’ from Daybreak, and according to his records, he shouldn’t have those things. That guy must have also been turned into a doll by you."

She paused slightly, "That’s why you had the ’Zennany’ doll take the elevator at a different time from me; probably shortly after I left, ’Senwen’ disappeared, and that doll identical to you was also retrieved by you, and I became one of your ’witnesses.’"

When Lin Chichi uttered these words, the black-haired young man standing next to Yan Yue’s face changed slightly.

"How can you be sure that I was impersonating Senwen, and that ’I’ was a doll?"

Zennany asked with a smile.

"First, because Senwen might have faced a sudden inspection by Minister He, I don’t think you could be sure that your lifeless doll could avoid Minister He’s gaze,"

Lin Chichi calmly said, "Secondly, when I just asked you, you had already answered me, didn’t you? The one I met at that time was you."

Hearing this, Zennany was slightly startled, then chuckled, "You little girl, deceiving me again."

"Of course,"

Lin Chichi paused for a moment, then continued, "There’s also another factor, that is, Senwen is not dead."

"Did you find him?"

Zennany’s eyebrows raised slightly.

"After all, I am currently inside that fortress,"

Lin Chichi smiled and said, "And you just locked him in the secret chamber below the fortress’s office. It’s indeed a good place, after all, if I hadn’t thought of transferring the prisoners on a whim, who would have thought of that place?"

Of course, she didn’t find it by herself. Last night she was sitting there deep in thought when she suddenly noticed the floor tiles of the office being lifted.

Opening the floor tiles revealed a secret passage that led straight to a secret chamber with a broken door. Senwen, unconscious, was hanging inside the chamber on a life-sustaining device, with equipment nearby for live blood extraction.

This was also one of the reasons why she guessed that Zennany had disguised herself as Senwen; after all, to create a puppet, there shouldn’t be a need to continuously extract live blood.

This blood was probably some kind of Transcendent material Zennany used to maintain her own Senwen characteristics.

It was also because she found Senwen that she was able to persuade Yan Yue and Rudel to cooperate with her plan.

"What an interesting little girl,"

Zennany shrugged her shoulders, smiling, "You can deduce so much from a single fingerprint. You’re quite impressive. I thought you wouldn’t pay attention to the fingerprint clue."

At first, she indeed didn’t pay much attention.

Lin Chichi looked at Zennany and smiled, "Because there is a particularly impressive person guiding me."

Actually, she had always had a hunch that ’Hao Yi’ was probably helping her through some means, after all, many clues came to her too easily.

Rudel glanced at Lin Chichi.

Of course, he could guess who the particularly impressive person Lin Chichi was referring to.

How could it be that kid Hao Yi, without even showing his face, could become a key figure affecting the event?

"Pity, that impressive person of yours didn’t show up here."

Zennany raised her other empty hand, took off her silver flat glasses, threw them on the ground, and then took off the hair tie holding her ponytail, ran her fingers through her hair, letting the silver short ponytail fall loose, turning into fairly oppressing wavy curls.

A slight smile crept on her lips, "Thank you for clearing up my confusion, cute little girl. I like to review the pros and cons after an event is completed. This can prevent me from repeating the same mistakes. Also, have your firearms been prepared?"

She raised her hand, with blue geometric spheres in her palm lighting up with a faint glow, her gaze sweeping over everyone present, "If you’re ready, then let’s all go together. You’ll just happen to be the first batch of sacrifices."

Hearing her words, Lin Chichi tightened her grip on the sword hilt slightly.

She could faintly sense that powerful presence; the Zennany in front of her seemed much stronger than they had estimated.

"Today, this old man shall personally clean the threshold."

Elder Rudel snorted coldly, his muscles bulging as he charged forward with the Magic Wand in his hand that shone with a yellow glow.

"Be careful!"

Lin Chichi hastily shouted.

But before she could finish her words, the blue sphere in Zennany’s hand instantly unfurled into a bronze giant and punched the airborne Rudel.

Boom—

Brilliant blue and yellow glows exploded in midair, while around them, the crowd also launched rockets at the bronze giant in the middle.

The intense explosions lit up the sky, almost obscuring the glow of the morning sun.

And within those burning flames, the elder with his robe in tatters flew backward and crashed into the weed-covered ground of the parking lot.

Boom—

The ground trembled from the violent collision, sending cracks spreading and shock waves tossing everyone around except Lin Chichi into the air.

The towering bronze giant stood behind the girl with silver wavy curls, who smiled as she watched Lin Chichi, barely steadying her stance, and glanced over Rudel, now embedded in the ground, and chuckled,

"Little girl, your external support doesn’t seem very reliable. If you don’t have any other methods left, then your lives, as well as the lives of everyone in this city, are mine. This place, with its clear mountains and waters, is just perfect for your graveyard."

Staring at the towering bronze giant, Lin Chichi clenched the Holy Heart sword in her hand, as the searing power burned through her soul.