Life Game In Other World
Chapter 1319: Angel Tier Item Reassembly Project Team (Big - Asking for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 1319: Chapter 1319: Angel Tier Item Reassembly Project Team (Big Chapter Asking for Monthly Tickets)

Ruins

The soft footsteps echoed in the silent, pitch-black space, with faint flickers of electric light illuminating the path ahead and behind from the spear held high.

"It seems we haven’t encountered anything living for a long time."

Li Cheng held Andaville’s Spear, illuminating the surrounding darkness.

"Yeah."

He Ao’s gaze also swept across the surrounding space.

This was a small laboratory, with scattered equipment haphazardly toppled over, and all the electronic devices had been utterly destroyed.

There were traces of long-dried blood on the ground, and thick dust covered the floor, as if no one had been here for ages.

He Ao stopped in front of a wall, where barely visible First District characters spelled [Satellite Research Room 01].

There were no other inscriptions around, nor any usable electronic equipment, with these few words being the only available information.

However, He Ao vaguely remembered that the last lab with clearly legible text read [Satellite Research Room 05]; the numbers were decreasing.

"We’ve been walking downward in a spiral around the hall we just fell from."

He Ao looked up and glanced at the small open door ahead, speaking softly.

They had been following this corridor for a long time now.

In his perception, the corridor was roughly spiral-shaped, winding downward around the vast cavernous hall they had just fallen into.

On both sides of the corridor were laboratories, long since destroyed, devoid of any signs of life.

This corridor resembled a vine with lush leaves, slowly winding down along the cavern hall.

"The spiral should be converging, forming a funnel shape," Li Cheng continued, glancing upwards, "We should be directly beneath the hall we just fell from."

"If we move forward," He Ao looked at the small door ahead, speaking softly, "we’ll reach the exact center of the hall."

The number 01 continues to decrease, becoming ’0’.

The beginning of everything.

"Yeah."

Li Cheng nodded slightly.

He slightly tightened his grip on Andaville’s Spear, extending the radiance forward.

He Ao raised his hand, summoning the Shadowless Sword.

The two silhouettes, shrouded in a hazy glow, slowly moved into the depths of darkness.

This ancient research room fell silent once more.

The dense blackness surged, as if something was trying to emerge from it, yet gradually returned to calm.

Everything was so quiet, like the countless years that passed after a civilization’s destruction.

——

Main World

The real He Ao lifted his foot, stepping up the old stairs, eventually stopping in front of a door bearing visible damage.

He took out a key and unlocked the door.

The air was tinged with a slight mildew and the rich scent of dust.

He hadn’t been home for a long time.

Walking to the window, he opened it, momentarily allowing a breeze to enter the room.

The morning sun rose in the distance, its warm rays illuminating the campus and city afar, with scattered people walking the streets.

He Ao withdrew his gaze and walked towards the study, pushing open the tightly shut door.

The scent inside the study was even stronger, and as soon as the door opened, a pungent odor assaulted him.

He Ao pushed the door open, grabbed a nearby chair to prop the study door open, and then walked to the old desk, opening the study window.

The morning breeze blew into this small space, brushing against his face.

He Ao glanced at the patterns on the desk, bent slightly, and slowly opened the second drawer of the desk.

An old black notebook with a somewhat worn cover appeared in his field of view.

——

Ruins

The bright radiance stopped in the darkness, and the footsteps beneath it also came to a halt.

Li Cheng slowly raised the spear in his hand, illuminating the object in front of him.

It was a massive stone door, with three huge, robust stone pillars crossing in front of it like ancient door bars, barricading the entire stone door.

Dense blood-red patterns were engraved all over the stone door and bars, and under the illumination of Andaville’s Spear, those patterns slowly began to glow with a cold radiance.

"This seems to be some sort of ’locking’ array?"

Li Cheng looked at the blood-red patterns on the stone door and slowly spoke.

In the process of deciphering the array with He Ao, he had learned a bit of mysticism knowledge.

However, He Ao didn’t respond immediately; instead, he turned his gaze towards the side of the stone door.

Following his action, Li Cheng raised Andaville’s Spear, making the radiance brighter, illuminating the direction of He Ao’s gaze.

On the side wall of the towering stone door, under the illumination of electric light and blood-red patterns, a dust-covered metal plaque slowly revealed its form.

He Ao walked up to the plaque, raised his hand, and swept away the dust to reveal the text beneath.

This plaque differed from the previous one that only had ’Satellite Laboratory’ written in First District language; it was inscribed with notices in five different scripts.

"What does it mean?"

Li Cheng came over, also looking at the plaque, asking softly.

"Angel Tier Laboratory, Federation Key Experimental Project, Angel Tier Item Reconstruction Experimental Project Team," He Ao read out the words on the metal plaque, "Danger Level: Extremely High Danger, Unauthorized entry is prohibited unless you’re a project member or have permission."

Upon hearing He Ao’s words, Li Cheng was initially stunned, seemingly not reacting immediately, then he slowly spoke, "Their research is pretty well-regulated."

He Ao glanced sideways at Li Cheng, recognizing that Li Cheng wanted a similar project structure.

The current transcendent research at the Research Institute is still at the basic containment and control stage, with no clear regulatory processes or in-depth research.

Actually, from the name of the Research Institute, contrary to ideas like Moonlight and World Tree that aim to use the transcendent to influence the world, Li Cheng most likely truly wants to conduct research.

"When we return, we might give it a try."

He Ao nodded slightly, responding to him.

The premise is that they have to make it back alive.

"Yeah."

Li Cheng also nodded slowly.

At this moment, he noticed He Ao extending his hand to the side, brushing off the dust from the side of the plaque.

A few lines of dust-covered bright red text appeared in the field of view of the two.

"Project termination, area sealed, entry prohibited."

This time, before Li Cheng could ask, He Ao read out the meaning of the text.

Unlike the multilingual sign, these lines were scribbled only in the script of the First District and Second District.

Only the complete sentence was in the First District’s script, while the Second District’s script below had just a scrawled ’project termination,’ with no further follow-up.

And there were no warnings in any other language below.

Clearly, there wasn’t much time given to the experiment staff to write warnings back then.

"Project termination?"

Listening to He Ao’s words, Li Cheng turned his gaze aside and looked at the door glimmering with bright red patterns, "So, is this Array meant to seal the laboratory?"

"Yes."

He Ao nodded gently and briefly scanned the patterns of this Array and the basic runes forming it.

The common runes and methods of arranging this Array were very similar to the one they just solved—the seal of Andaville’s Spear leading to the Depths of Darkness.

It was likely created by the same person.

However, the setup of this bright red Array did not narrate as the sealing Array did, with many parts skipping through the normal progressive nesting, directly combining some runes together.

It felt a bit like the ’process omitted’ or ’it follows that’ found in mathematical answers.

Of course, He Ao could still deduce its functioning principles through some simple combinations.

But doing this gave him the oppressive feeling of being back in a math class.

It made him realize how shallow his Mysticism Knowledge really was.

However, it seemed that the person who arranged the seal for Andaville’s Spear before was indeed intentionally lowering the difficulty.

If the person had seriously arranged the Array, he might not even have a chance to crack it.

"Is this Array very complex?"

Seeing the contemplative look on He Ao’s face, Li Cheng carefully asked.

In his eyes, the Array patterns on this stone door appeared much simpler than those of the seal of Andaville’s Spear they saw in the circular hall earlier.

But judging from Hao Yi’s expression, this Array was clearly not as ’simple.’

"Yes," He Ao nodded slightly, "The Array arranger has high proficiency, being able to use one or two runes to create the effect of dozens of nested runes, a bit like a super compression file. While this Array looks simple, the amount of information it contains far exceeds what it appears to have."

"Oh."

Li Cheng nodded with a semblance of understanding.

He grasped He Ao’s analogy, but he couldn’t understand the things related to the Array.

However, he knew this Array might prove difficult to handle, remembering the time spent in the circular hall, it might take even longer here.

As this thought arose in his mind, he heard Hao Yi speaking beside him.

"However, if we don’t aim to crack it and just want to open the door, it’s actually quite simple."

"Huh?" Li Cheng turned his head to look at He Ao.

"At that time, their evacuation should have been very hasty, and the remaining energy in this laboratory is not much," He Ao said softly, gazing at the densely packed patterns, "No matter how sophisticated the Array, without an energy supply, it’s nothing more than a tree without roots."

His fingers slid over the bright red patterns, "The civilization of ruins has been gone for many years, various things might have happened in between, this Array probably hasn’t had its energy replenished in a long time, and its original energy is likely long exhausted."

The bright red Array seemed exquisite to him, like a master-level artwork.

But this artwork had lost its original color due to the wear of time.

"This Array has a setting to convert supplied energy into its own, but as long as we don’t violently dismantle it, it should be fine."

He Ao raised his hand, and the Shadowless Sword flew from his side, landing on a rune in the middle of the stone door’s crossbeam.

Simultaneously, he swiftly pulled Li Cheng back, retreating in an instant into the Depths of Darkness.

Li Cheng further illuminated the glow, which shined upon the door, clarifying the scene on the stone door.

The Shadowless Sword’s tip lightly stroked, severing the pattern in the middle of the crossbeam.

The brilliant red light suddenly burst through the entire Array, the radiance shooting out like scattered pellets towards the front of the door.

These lights easily pierced through the floor, and the rocks beneath, leaving deep holes behind.

However, at this moment, the Shadowless Sword had already transformed into a Shadow, dodging the red light’s attack, and landed on the left side of the stone door, severing another pattern.

As new red light illuminated, the Shadowless Sword again turned into a Shadow, avoiding the red light attacks while landing on the right side of the stone door, cutting through another pattern.

The glowing red light flickered on and off, at some moments the brilliance even exceeded the electric light lit by Andaville’s Spear.

However, their attack range was limited, mainly attacking the state in front of the stone door, reaching only one or two meters from where He Ao and Li Cheng stood.

After cutting nine patterns in total, He Ao raised his hand, and the Shadowless Sword fell into his palm.

The red light at the door continued to shine, but He Ao already started walking towards the stone door.

Just as Li Cheng wanted to raise his hand to remind him, he saw a line of red light retreating with He Ao’s footsteps, gradually shifting back toward the door.

When He Ao’s footsteps paused before the door, the blinding red light completely disappeared.

Boom—

Accompanied by massive, thunderous sounds, the three cross-stones holding the stone door collapsed, instantly shattering into scattered stone chips, sliding down like flowing water.

And as the stone chips fell like a screen of water, the tightly closed stone door slowly began to open inward.

Li Cheng stepped beside He Ao, raised his head, and looked at the interior of the door.

A cold, secluded breath swept across the faces of the visitors.

A vast, empty space appeared in their sight.

This space was so broad that Li Cheng couldn’t see its boundaries at a glance.

Densely packed mechanical devices were placed within the entire space.

About ten meters from the ground, long, narrow ’pipes’ interconnected horizontally and vertically, with steel platforms atop them. Faintly visible were some seemingly vehicular devices, long inactive, placed within the pipes.

These pipes and platforms filled the whole space, forming a kind of ’transportation network’ enabling quick passage within the space.

However, there were places within this transportation network that were not ’reached.’

In the center of the entire space, at this very moment, floated a huge ’egg’ shaped object.

It looked like a giant stone egg, partially with a gray-white stone shell and partially in a transparent state.

Seen through the transparent parts, clusters of faintly visible, ethereal blue crystal formations resembling crystal clusters were gestating inside.

The eerie blue crystal clusters emitted a faint radiance, shining through the transparent shell, casting a layer of cold, blue shade across the entire space.

Li Cheng looked up, bending his neck to the utmost, yet still couldn’t see the top of the giant stone egg.

"What is that, after all?"

He slightly opened his mouth, hoarsely issuing his words.

"This," He Ao slowly picked up, "is probably what we are here to find."