Life Game In Other World
Chapter 1309: The King’s Retinue (Big - Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 1309: Chapter 1309: The King’s Retinue (Big Chapter Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Main World

"He’s already gone."

Standing between the narrow mountain runways, Li Cheng lowered his head, glanced at the quiet runway, and said in a low voice.

"Hmm."

He Ao glanced at the surrounding open land and responded softly.

When they rushed here, they already knew the outcome.

After all, so much time had passed.

Before He Ao’s plane landed, Liu Zhengyun probably had already left this place.

"Why did Liu build an airport here?"

Ming Guang slightly furrowed his brow, looked around the area, and said in a low voice, "He usually operates within the Dongdu area; this should be his base. Why would he flee from here?"

At this moment, he didn’t have time to mind his words.

"Maybe it was to handle some emergency situation."

He Ao looked at the deep night sky, slightly wrinkling his brows.

"How so?"

Ming Guang turned his gaze to look at He Ao.

He Ao pondered for a moment, sorted out his thoughts, and said, "For instance, if he felt that staying in Dongdu was no longer ’safe’."

"He’s going to his ’safe house’?" Ming Guang reacted quickly, "But his safe house isn’t in the well-established Dongdu, so where could it be? Beidu? He frequents there too? Or maybe Nandu? Or somewhere along the southern coast? His businesses are mostly in the southeast..."

Listening to his words, He Ao looked up, gazing in the direction where the crescent moon rose, "To the west, he went westward."

The Eye of the World Fragment still left traces in the World Bottom Layer, allowing He Ao to capture the general direction it departed.

"West?" Ming Guang was slightly stunned upon hearing this, "His ’safe house’ is in the west?"

He looked at He Ao, instinctively wanting to ask, ’Are you sure?’.

After all, Liu Zhengyun barely stayed in the west; why would he set up a safe house there?

But recalling this young man’s almost prophetic acuity, he forcibly swallowed his words.

Strictly speaking, setting a safe house in a place no one would think of is indeed the best.

From this perspective, Liu Zhengyun could indeed have set the safe house in the west.

"If Liu really went west," Ming Guang said with a somber expression, choosing his words carefully, "there aren’t many transcendent events in the west, and the forces we’ve placed there aren’t enough. Liu’s state is off, and Old Zhang from the West Capital Bureau is just D-level; even if he has a C-level sealed item, it’s entirely impossible to leap two levels to stop or affect Liu."

"Old Zhang?" He Ao turned his head, pondering for a moment, and looked at Ming Guang, "Zhang Ansha?"

"Yes," Ming Guang looked at He Ao with puzzlement, "Aren’t you from West Capital? Old Zhang should’ve been the one who welcomed you into the Research Institute?"

"Yes," He Ao nodded slightly, "There was some interaction, but not much."

Upon saying this, his words paused suddenly, and he slightly furrowed his brow, vaguely feeling a bit of discomfort, but couldn’t pinpoint where it stemmed from.

However, the feeling quickly dissipated, as if it never existed. If He Ao hadn’t been astute enough, he wouldn’t have even noticed this sensation arising from his innermost being.

He had experienced this feeling before; when targeted by weaker Transcendents, there would be slight discomfort, an instinctual alert to his consciousness that something was amiss.

He lifted his head, his gaze sweeping over the surrounding darkness and mountains. An orange-gray gleam flashed through his eyes.

At that moment, a dark shadow suddenly burst out, slicing through the night, rushing towards the direction of the two men.

It wasn’t until the shadow was about to reach them that Ming Guang realized, opening his mouth, wanting to warn He Ao.

At the same time, He Ao had already stepped forward, extending his hand, and lightly pinching the shadow with two fingers.

The formless shadow twisted momentarily, reluctantly squirming, and slowly condensed into a thin, black arrow without fletching.

"Shadow Arrow," Ming Guang obviously recognized this thing. He looked down, observing the arrow in He Ao’s hand, and said in a low voice, "This is a C-level Extraordinary item, isn’t it supposed to be a sealed item in Beidu? Did Liu borrow it?"

He glanced in the direction the Shadow Arrow was shot from, "This arrow can be set in a fixed trap, automatically firing when someone enters its attack range."

He looked back at He Ao with slight trepidation, "Did Liu want to take out whoever was investigating him?"

With the speed of the shadow arrow just now, if it targeted him directly, he didn’t have absolute confidence to dodge it unscathed.

A trap set with a C-level Extraordinary item, planned in secret, could trip up most C-level individuals.

"Perhaps," He Ao looked at the slender arrow in his hand, glancing in the direction it was shot from, "this is just some sort of ’warning’."

In the darkness where the arrow was shot from, a slight extraordinary power was slowly dissipating. Clearly, the stored extraordinary power there was being erased.

As he spoke, He Ao had already briskly walked in the direction the arrow had been shot from.

"Warning?" Ming Guang was taken aback, watching He Ao making his way, quickly following him.

"This arrow wasn’t aimed directly at us," He Ao lifted the thin arrow in his hand, tracing a vague trajectory in the night while walking, speaking softly, "It was intended to pass by us, or rather, the investigators who reached here, to ’scare’ them."

"You think this is a ’warning’? What is he trying to ’warn’ us about?"

Ming Guang slightly furrowed his brow, following the trajectory He Ao drew with his eyes, confirming that the arrow was actually designed to ’graze’ past them.

This arrow had a built-in living creature recognition and aiming function, ensuring it wouldn’t miss. Conversely, deliberately letting it shoot wide required considerable effort.

"To ’warn’ us not to continue the investigation, to imply there could be real ’danger’ ahead."

During the conversation, He Ao had reached the place from where the arrow had been shot.

This was a dense forest adjacent to the airport, not in a high location. Several trees where the trap was set seemed to have already been shattered by powerful extraordinary force, but were maintained in their original state under some kind of balance.

As the two of them arrived, these trees could no longer be sustained, collapsing thunderously into debris in front of their eyes.

Conversely, the transcendent power in the forest was quickly dispersing at this moment.

"It probably used the inherent abilities of the Shadow Arrow to set the trap," Ming Guang glanced at the trees that had fallen apart on the ground and spoke slowly, "Once the trap is successfully set, the Shadow Arrow will completely hide in the darkness, like a real shadow, without the slightest extraordinary fluctuation. Even if the trap itself that holds the extraordinary power is destroyed, it will maintain a strange balance for a short time, just like these trees."

"If we hadn’t come, they probably wouldn’t have collapsed for a while."

Saying this, he looked back at the airport, "Setting this ’trap’ parallel to the airport ground means that when we arrive, our focus would certainly be on the sky, easily overlooking a ground-based trap. This trap seems typical of Liu’s style."

Pausing slightly, he examined the surrounding darkness carefully, "But how did he manage to ensure the Shadow Arrow would only miss?"

While Ming Guang was speaking, He Ao had already crouched down, observing the tree debris on the ground.

On the withered bark, faint, blurred patterns were vaguely visible. These patterns seemed almost integrated with the bark, hard to distinguish as natural ’markings’ or shapes molded by other forces.

He Ao lowered his head, giving the Shadow Arrow in his hand a glance, "Maybe it relies on some special mystical techniques."

"What do you mean?" Ming Guang was momentarily taken aback, then realized, "Are you suggesting Liu mastered some mysticism knowledge even the Research Institute hasn’t grasped? When?"

"I’m not sure."

He Ao shook his head, stood up, and once again looked in the direction of the airport.

"So, what exactly does Director Liu want to achieve?"

Upon hearing He Ao’s words, Ming Guang’s brow furrowed deeply.

Liu Zhengyun’s actions have been somewhat illogical up to this point.

He stole the Eye of the World Fragment without going through the Research Institute, then pretended to ’disappear,’ and now he’s warning the investigators not to ’investigate.’

If this were a child playing house, Ming Guang might understand.

But this is Liu Zhengyun, known for his stability and caution, one of the people who climbed to the top of this world through years of struggle.

"I don’t know either,"

He Ao put away the thin arrow in his hand, "but everything that seems illogical at the bottom layer must have its inherent logic. Director Liu is definitely hiding something from us."

With that, he lightly leaped towards the west of the airport, rushing towards the direction where the Eye of the World Fragment’s aura dissipated.

"Wait for me."

Ming Guang hadn’t expected He Ao to suddenly move, and he quickly bent his body to catch up to He Ao’s pace.

——

Ruins

The brilliant lightning illuminated the entire hall, brightening the space as if it were daylight.

The eyeball that had just ’floated’ into the hall showed no hesitation and attempted to rush back through the passage it entered, only to find that the passage behind it was already sealed by lightning.

It twisted its body, naturally squeezing itself into the void.

Soon, half of the ’eyeball’ was already submerged into it.

However, at this moment, it failed to further enter the void and with a ’pop,’ forcibly extracted itself.

The original entry point of the eyeball didn’t heal like normal space but instead was covered with fine cracks, within which was pitch black void that even light couldn’t penetrate.

The eyeball lifted its ’gaze,’ looking around at the surrounding lightning.

At the edge of the pervasive lightning, tiny void cracks could be seen fleetingly forming and closing near the lightning.

There are many ways to seal space; related abilities can use their powers, believers in certain Divine Beings can pray for Grace, and if neither is available, time can be spent setting up mystical rituals.

If even time is not available, there is also a trick.

That is to use brute force to tear and disrupt the surrounding space, rendering spatial traversal abilities useless.

This is also a form of ’seal.’

Power-oriented Transcendents have their own solutions, with the only requirement being that their fists must be big enough.

Clearly, Li Cheng’s fists are big enough now.

"You’ve been following us for so long, surely you should say a few words?"

In the twisted electric light, He Ao slowly emerged, looking at the eyeball suspended in the sky.

Somehow, he found this eyeball familiar.

Its shape reminded him of the eyeballs surrounding Velora’s original master, the ’King Angel.’

Only that King Angel had eyeballs formed in rings, while the eyeball before him was singular.

However, the sense of familiarity didn’t come from the King Angel.

As He Ao spoke, the eyeball floating in the air lowered its gaze, its blood-red pupils fixed on He Ao.

"Ooo——"

A sound that seemed capable of piercing the Soul echoed from the depths of the void, penetrating He Ao’s thoughts.

In this moment, a certain memory surfaced in He Ao’s mind.

Immediately afterward, pitch-black tentacles erupted from the eyeball, transforming it into a spiky sea urchin.

The tentacles wasted no time and darted at He Ao from all directions.

Seeing those pitch-black tentacles triggered a complete recall of memories in He Ao’s mind.

He realized a problem at this point.

Oops, it seems like this thing can’t talk.

As thoughts spun, his actions didn’t falter, and the Shadowless Sword flew from his hand, slicing through the tentacles in an instant.

Then, a thunderbolt descended from the sky, striking the nearby tentacles, charring them black in an instant.

The surging electric light traveled through the tentacles to reach the blood-red eyeball, covering its body.

Suddenly, the eyeball became rigid, losing control of its body.

At this point, the Shadowless Sword, already transformed into Shadow, passed through the charred tentacles without pause, piercing directly towards the eyeball’s pupil.

"Ooo——"

Just as the sword tip was about to pierce the eyeball, a sharper screech rang out, puncturing He Ao’s eardrums and piercing his Soul and body.

The pervasive electric light in the sky froze briefly.

Szzz——

Amidst a sound akin to tearing paper, the enormous eyeball was suddenly ripped apart from the inside, like an eggshell, from which squirming black flesh stained with a red glow gradually emerged.

The stalled electric light recovered, wielding terrifying force against the black flesh.

The red glow on the flesh erupted brightly, like a red shield dissipating some of the Thunder hitting the flesh.

With this situation, the squirming black flesh withstood the illuminating Thunder, stretching its body, akin to an expanding black cloud spreading across the sky.

"Ooo——"

The mournful and sharp sound echoed throughout the hall once more.

At this point, He Ao had completely recognized this ’monster.’

This was the B-level monster he encountered the first time he entered the ruins, which had chased him all the way to the High Tower.

Now, it was stronger and more twisted, madder than ever.