Life Game In Other World
Chapter 1180: Visiting Yilan (Two more - s for monthly votes)

Chapter 1180: Chapter 1180: Visiting Yilan (Two more Chapters for monthly votes)

Yilan City

At the end of the sky, faint glimmers of light shined through, as the grand city gates stood wide open. On one side of the gate, a dense stream of caravans lined up, passing through the security checkpoint on their way into the magnificent city.

On the other side of the city gate, a smaller passage was also set up.

People preparing to enter the city were queueing up here in a long line.

"Thank you."

A man dressed like a Wilderness Wanderer nodded lightly in gratitude to the soldier registering his entry, picked up his gear, and walked into the city.

"You’re welcome, next please."

The soldier sitting behind the window shouted out, raising his hand.

Accompanied by the sound of leisurely footsteps, a figure passed through the checkpoint and arrived in front of the window.

"Hello, please present your social security card."

The soldier lifted his head to look at the person standing before him.

The figure in front seemed to be in his forties, with a broad build and fine, fair skin, draped in a white fur coat with a sense of design. Upon closer inspection, he did not look like a middle-aged person in his forties or fifties.

The soldier gazed at the man before him, and for some reason, he felt a closeness to this person, experiencing an inexplicable warmth in his heart.

This feeling subconsciously made him disinclined to oppose the man, even unwilling to trouble the man in any way.

Ding——

At that instant, a piercing alarm sounded behind the window, "Abnormal emotional contagion detected, please proceed with a pollution test immediately! Please proceed with a pollution test immediately!"

Bang——

"Watch out for pollution, sedative! Sedative!"

A team of soldiers wearing masks quickly rushed in behind the window and seized the smiling, still unresponsive checkpoint soldier.

One of the soldiers held a syringe gun and rapidly injected the checkpoint soldier.

The checkpoint soldier struggled subconsciously for a moment and then seemed to remember something and fell heavily into unconsciousness.

At the same time, the team of soldiers looked up at the man in the leather coat standing outside the window and aimed a device at him.

Initially, the device read zero, but in an extremely short amount of time, it flickered with white light, then exploded violently.

The soldier holding the device stared blankly at the tool in his hand, seemingly encountering such an event for the first time. He lifted his head, looking confused at his comrade next to him, then back at the man outside the window still wearing a gentle smile.

At that moment, the leader of the squad had already snapped to a reaction; he drew his gun, aiming at the man outside the window.

The soldiers around him also drew their guns simultaneously.

Then, after a brief hesitation, the squad leader slowly spoke, his voice mechanical, "Sir, could we ask you to come with us, please?"

"Of course,"

He Ao showed a mild smile, looking at the soldiers before him and gesturing towards the checkpoint soldier who had fainted, "Please be gentle with him. He just accidentally saw something that will naturally resolve after some time."

"We will follow the procedure. If it turns out there is nothing wrong, we don’t wish to impose further on our comrade,"

The squad leader still had his gun trained on the man, his voice trembling slightly, "Please now come with me."

"Certainly,"

He Ao nodded with a smile and then turned his head to look at the small gated door blocking the channel on the other side, a gate that could not be opened unless through a security check.

Of course, He Ao could force it open with violence, but that would make things messy.

He turned back to look at the tense squad leader, "Still, you ought to at least show me the way."

The soldiers surrounding him, all pointing guns, looked at each other, hesitant in their eyes.

Eventually, the trembling squad leader reached out and opened the small door beside the window, just wide enough for one person.

Then the leading soldier, gun pointed at He Ao, slowly backed away.

He Ao glanced at the small door and walked in with a smile.

He looked at the helmets on the soldiers’ heads.

The helmets covered almost the entire heads of the soldiers, and at the place where the eyes should be, there were no openings or any glass lenses. Instead, at the eyes of the helmet, there was only a red line flickering with light.

That red line consisted of several cameras, while inside the helmet were display screens showing real-time images from outside to the wearer.

This was a simple way to ’reduce’ pollution as it often spreads through direct sight.

’Direct sight’ also signifies strong contact in terms of Mysticism.

By using cameras and screens as ’intermediaries,’ it reduces the impact of pollution to a certain degree.

Of course, against a Higher Being, these methods are of no use. The pollution from a Higher Being could potentially pierce through this ’intermediary’ system directly, even spreading more widely through the screen.

Looking at the nervous soldiers before him, He Ao shook his head with a touch of helplessness.

He had nearly fully restrained the Life Force in his body; under normal circumstances, regular people couldn’t detect the High-Level pollution he carried.

But he did not expect the ’duty soldier’ at the city entrance to have such strong intuition and a high affinity for Life Force.

Of course, this might be a deliberate arrangement by the City Defense Army. Soldiers with high intuition inherently have a keen sensing for pollution and act like human radars, able to ’see’ many things invisible to machines.

After recalling this point, He Ao raised his head, looked at the surrounding soldiers, pointed to the soldier who had fainted on the table, and asked in a low voice, "Did you inform him of the risks involved when you assigned him this task?"

Upon hearing this, the leader of the masked soldiers faltered slightly. He didn’t really want to answer the question, but the voice of the man before him seemed to trigger an intuition in his heart, ’Do not refuse this person’.

So he spoke cautiously, "We have explained as clearly as possible the risks and potential problems to all inspection soldiers, including the recent incident, which is covered by our emergency plans. He understands."

"That’s good."

He Ao nodded gently.

The squad leader silently watched the man before him, not knowing why he felt as if this man was their commander, conducting an inspection of their ranks.

He shook his head to dispel these thoughts from his mind and then looked at He Ao, "Please come in."

Saying this, he turned and led the way, heading towards a door that was opened from behind.

His teammates also took out a folding stretcher, lifted the fainted inspection soldier, and followed them.

"The new soldier in charge of inspection has already arrived and will come over to continue the inspection once we have fully left. The entry into the city will not be delayed," said the squad leader, glancing at He Ao beside him.

"Hmm, well done."

He Ao nodded gently again.

"May I ask what brings you here?"

The squad leader looked at He Ao, realizing that this potentially contaminated being possessed a strong intellectual capacity and a friendly demeanor, which indicated the possibility of communication.

"I am here to visit your General Corvey,"

He Ao said with a smile.

He initially intended to cause some commotion so that the City Defense Army would inform General Corvey, and now it seemed to save him the effort.

"This..."

The squad leader was somewhat startled, unsure if he should respond and worried that a slip of the tongue could provoke this dangerous individual to engage in a killing spree right here.

"Don’t worry,"

He Ao said with a smile, shaking his head, "Tell your General Corvey that my name is Pete, from Limen City. He will come to see me."

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Yilan City · Top floor of the City Council Building

In front of the gilded windows, a white-haired figure behind the bookshelves was flipping through a book.

"Hmm?"

At that moment, he sensed something and frowned slightly.

The next second, his figure vanished from the spot.

The book he was holding in his hands drifted down from the air, and specks of green light emerged from within the book.

The book’s covers opened like the wings of a bird, and the book flew swiftly to the front of the shelving as if it were a bird itself.

Just as it was about to crash into the shelving, the covers of the book closed naturally, the book gathered together, transforming into a stream of light and inserted snugly into a gap on the shelf.

After a brief pause, the book appeared to sense that it was a bit cramped and wiggled slightly, making a bit of room for itself among the other books, then finally settled down.

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Kaye City · Top floor meeting room of Nolanka Building

Danny lifted his hand, projecting a message onto the screen, then turned his head to look at Lina and Fiss beside him, whispering, "What do you make of this?"

"Mr. Vian once said,"

Lina spoke softly, "that the reason we have such a comfortable environment for development now is because our allies are shouldering immense pressure in front of us. If we lose our allies, we will be the next to be dealt with."

"There’s one issue,"

Fiss looked up, his gaze moving from the other two people in the room back to the message on the screen, "Is this person, credible?"

"Credible."

Lina said almost without hesitation, then he looked at a somewhat puzzled Fiss, paused, and continued, "Mr. Vian might be connected to this individual; he once left me a mask of this individual."

Fiss was momentarily stunned.

Then Lina quickly added, "However, we need to make sure that the one sending the message is indeed the person in question and not someone with ulterior motives masquerading..."

"There shouldn’t be any issue with that,"

Fiss said in a low voice, "The contents of the message are easy to verify. The information continuously sent back by our reconnaissance forces is also corroborating the contents of the message. It is most likely authentic.

"Given the capability to know this situation, it is very likely that it’s the person from the legends."

He looked up at Lina, then at Danny, "From the current situation, that Mercenary Corps alliance is moving quickly, we probably don’t have much time, and we need to make a decision soon."

Lina also turned her head to look at Danny.

In the absence of ’Vian’, Old Danny, the steward, was authorized to have the final say over the entire Nolanka Group.