Life Game In Other World
Chapter 1354: Long-lasting Layout (Big - Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 1354: Chapter 1354: Long-lasting Layout (Big Chapter Seeking Monthly Tickets)

The purple figure attempted to break free but felt as though a powerful force held his body in place, unable to move an inch no matter what he did.

He tried to harness the power of the surrounding frenzied ’Deep Sea,’ but the calm Deep Sea quickly surged with turbulent undercurrents, only to be suppressed by an even stronger force in the next instant.

The purple figure lowered his head, his body trembling like an image flickering on an old television screen, a hoarse voice echoing in the depths of the Deep Sea, "Have you maintained your humanity? Why? The anchors of fate shouldn’t be enough to sustain your reason."

The confusion in his tone grew heavier, "I have weakened all your potential fate connections as anchors, erased those ’friends’ you cared about, and did my best to diminish your memory. Why can you still maintain your humanity?"

"Yes," a soft sigh came from He Ao behind him, "Why indeed?"

In his field of view, he could still see those blurry illusions.

On the other side of those vague fantasies of Li Cheng, Liu Zhengyun, and Yang De, indistinct overlapping figures started to manifest.

Invisible lines resembled fate connections, linking him to these illusions.

These lines intertwined with those of the Main World, struggling to maintain under the onslaught of madness and power from the Angel.

Individually, they were perhaps very fragile, but combined, they became ropes in this storm.

These ropes connected He Ao’s soul and will, as well as linked to his memory.

Together, they composed his ’humanity.’

These memories and fate were his ’anchors,’ allowing him to sustain his self and humanity under the impact of mythical power and endless madness.

In fact, He Ao had long speculated about this.

When he saw the Angels in the dungeon world maintaining their humanoid forms, he wondered how these Angels held onto their human form.

However, this question didn’t particularly trouble him because he had never experienced it, making it difficult to comprehend its importance.

This was an ’information gap’ known by all who have undergone experiences of higher beings, but ordinary people without the need for promotion to higher ranks couldn’t perceive it.

After all, based on his previous promotion experiences, as long as he successfully consumed the Secret Medicine and completed the ritual, the promotion was completed.

This was his thinking inertia, and the Fate Spinning Wheel had always been ’exploiting’ this.

Listening to He Ao’s words, the purple figure trembled slightly again, filled with incredulity,

"You must have used special means; it’s impossible for you to maintain your humanity under the impact of this mythical power. Since you first arrived here, I’ve been influencing you all this time, with so many arrangements, erasing your friends, your companions, your fate, there shouldn’t be any problems, you’re about to die, you should be dying soon!"

He Ao didn’t know about the ’anchor,’ but 005 was aware and knew he did not.

So, 005 had been subtly ’weakening’ or ’erasing’ those he valued, diminishing his anchor points.

Under the gaze of the ’Eye of Truth,’ he indeed didn’t dare to directly alter He Ao’s memory and fate.

However, He Ao didn’t initially have the Eye of Truth.

Since He Ao first arrived at the ruin, first entered the High Tower, involved with the disturbed 8753 and Ruonati, he had formed a fate connection with this young man.

And a fate connection sometimes means a mystical connection.

Although at that time, He Ao knew nothing, and his mysticism connection with He Ao was extraordinarily weak, it didn’t prevent him from subtly altering He Ao’s memory bit by bit.

When He Ao didn’t notice, the name ’Liu Nan’ had long disappeared from his memories.

The neighbors and friends in his memories hadn’t appeared in his recollection for a long time.

Zhang Ansha, who once helped He Ao in Xidu, gradually turned into a passerby he’d occasionally nod to.

And with the cooperation of this time’s ’Tuning Master,’ he further altered He Ao’s memory by modifying the memories of Liu Zhengyun, Yang De, Wu Lan, and others, weakening He Ao’s connections with these people.

In this way, he patiently erased or weakened all those in this world He Ao might care about.

The only thing he hadn’t significantly altered was the elderly figure who held an important role in the depths of He Ao’s consciousness and had already passed away.

But what impact can a single memory have? A lone thin line, no matter how sturdy, cannot anchor the entirety of one’s humanity.

While performing these operations, he also triggered chaos through the modification of the Main World’s memory, indirectly forcing He Ao to the ruins.

When He Ao was utterly unprepared, he forcibly merged into He Ao’s body, forcing a ’promotion.’

Because he also knew that if He Ao had enough preparation time, there’s a high possibility that He Ao would detect the changes made, so he had to strike unexpectedly.

Even the ’issues’ with Liu Zhengyun and Wu Ganglie had aspects he deliberately guided to allow He Ao to realize that everything was being influenced by him.

In the circumstances, He Ao would come here and attempt to forcibly contain or forcibly promote him.

Then he would obtain a body that might hide great secrets and escape the seal.

Although Liu Zhengyun losing control went a bit beyond his ’plan,’ the overall outcome still fell back onto the path he predetermined.

The Tuning Master was using him to locate the Main World, and he was using the Tuning Master to execute his scheme.

He never trusted the Tuning Master; his target was always on He Ao.

He had long prepared this ’dead end’ for He Ao with ’painstaking care.’

So, from the beginning, he wasn’t afraid of He Ao completing the ritual because even if He Ao succeeded, the final result was already fated.

In fact, he preferred seeing He Ao giving his all to complete the ritual only to find it couldn’t change the outcome—despair.

On this path, He Ao only faced a dead end.

He Ao seemed to have a choice, but in reality, he had none; there was no choice from the very start.

He greatly enjoyed this feeling, controlling a mortal’s fate and future, watching them walk down the predestined path he laid out for them, forced with no alternatives, only to embrace death and destruction.

This is how it should have been.

Feeling the leaping power within the Deep Sea, sensing his own suppressed will.

He Ao might sustain his reason to deceive him, but the power he could harness wouldn’t deceive anyone.

This proved He Ao really maintained his humanity under the wash of Deep Sea-like strength and began to some extent to control this power.

"So, you’ve noticed?" The voice of disbelief from the purple figure still echoed in the Deep Sea, "But realizing it doesn’t change anything! Your memory hasn’t been restored, and those simple fate connections can’t possibly anchor your humanity."

"Yes."

He Ao didn’t respond to the words of the purple figure; he just gazed at the blurred illusions in his field of view. Those overlapping faces gradually became clear in his vision.

There was Selena, Yi Jiali, Jia Xi... Christos, Roger... and Ande, Regit...

Each figure was a memory, a story, a part of life.

It was what he experienced in another world; it was his ’anchor.’

These dense connections formed ropes that held his will amidst the fierce deep sea’s impact, allowing him to have an ’anchor point’ in the deep sea, constantly retrieving those fragmented pieces of self scattered away by the deep sea.

He Ao was actually aware of the changes in his own memories. Liu Zhengyun’s loss of control led him to encounter Liu Nan again and, through past notes, noticed that he had interacted with Liu Nan before.

At that time, he realized that some people might have been erased from his ’memory.’

But back then, the Main World was filled with people whose memories were altered, so he couldn’t determine whether such ’erasure’ was a ’favor’ to him or just 005’s indiscriminate scheme.

Until he followed Li Cheng into Research Institute No. 195 and entered the consciousness space of the King Angel.

There, he realized there might still be a ’hidden threshold’ in the Angel’s ascension process.

A threshold significant enough to determine whether the ascension could truly succeed, a threshold defining the boundary between madness and reason.

For a long time, he pondered what the King Angel hadn’t ’told’ him, what the real ’threshold’ was and how to resolve it.

Later, he realized that the King Angel had actually given him the ’answer’ from the beginning.

The memories related to ’ascension,’ ’conflict,’ and meetings experienced beforehand with the King Angel were actually the ’answer.’

In the ascension process, the method to resist pollution from the talent sequences themselves was through ’connections with the world.’

Stabilize your ’past’ to obtain your ’future.’

At that moment, He Ao also recalled those ’angels’ in the cities of the dungeon worlds; although they usually didn’t interfere with the city’s affairs, they maintained a profound connection with the city.

He couldn’t be entirely sure of his guess, but he didn’t need to be sure; he just needed to arrange according to this situation.

The situation he faced at that time really couldn’t be worse.

He had also realized that he was being ’arranged’ toward a dead-end, a ’dead-end’ without any choices.

However, in this world, there is never a true impasse.

During that process, when he reviewed his own memories, he found that his ’connections’ with the Main World seemed not to be ’many.’

He didn’t have many friends, nor many people he could trust; he seemed to always be quite lonely.

But with so many altered memories, he couldn’t be certain whether his ’loneliness’ was inherent or the result of some ’modification.’

He found that he had quite a few ’friends’ in the dungeon worlds.

Although each time he returned from the dungeon worlds, his memories of them would fade and remain hidden in the corners of his memory, he could still ’recall’ them if he wished.

However, he wasn’t sure if 005 could not peek into his memories of the dungeon worlds.

So, when he pushed open the door and faced 005, he ’protected’ a part of his memories using the Eye of Truth.

Memories about the Trapped Destiny Plate were both his ’preparation’ for controlling 005 and a test against 005.

The final result was that 005 was not truly omniscient; even with Angel Tier-power intervention, he couldn’t see all of He Ao’s memories.

So, it’s quite possible that 005 couldn’t see those memories hidden by the system as well.

After all, if he really did erase memories, why wouldn’t he erase the ones from the dungeon worlds?

By then, he was actually prepared.

However, had He Ao not realized this ’anchor point,’ 005’s arrangement might have been successful.

Because what the system hides is not only memories from the dungeon world but also the Fate Connections from it.

These Fate Connections don’t reveal themselves actively.

This had previously helped He Ao block the retrospection from the dungeon world, but also limited his idea of anchoring himself with the Fate Connections from the dungeon world.

It’s like a sharp sword lying there; if He Ao doesn’t pick it up to use, it won’t have any effect.

Moreover, 005, even till the end, influenced He Ao’s memories, making him think he only had ’connections’ in the Main World.

If He Ao ultimately didn’t actively ’recall’ those memories from the dungeon worlds, those memories might not have had any effect.

Even so, these ’connections’ from the dungeon worlds, while individually weaker than the connections in the Main World, were numerous enough to converge. Combined with the Fate Connections of the Main World, they managed to stabilize He Ao’s sanity amidst the storms of the deep sea.

If He Ao’s ascension took place in the dungeon world, these memories and Fate Connections would undoubtedly be his most stable ’anchor point.’

However, if 005 hadn’t interfered, with his Fate Connections in the Main World, he might have ’ascended’ normally.

Unfortunately, this world has no ifs, and He Ao had no choice.

"Are you still trying to ’mock’ me? No, wait," at that moment, the purple figure suddenly realized something, raising his head, "your words are incorrect; your sanity hasn’t fully recovered yet,"

At that moment, it was as if he replayed all the conversations he had with He Ao just now, "your anchor point isn’t strong enough, you haven’t truly mastered your power yet, you’re stalling for time to regain your self,"

A fierce storm abruptly surged from this power-deep ocean, instantly shredding the power that had just suppressed him, breaking free from the arm pressing down on his shoulder, "are you ’tricking’ me?!"

Just when he exerted force, that powerful strength directly suppressed him, combined with the opponent’s displayed methods and secrets, made him momentarily believe the other had truly fixed humanity with special methods.

He suddenly turned his head, looking behind him.

The arm that had been suppressing him had completely vanished, turning into an empty void behind him.

"Always having me ’trick’ you," and at that moment, a light chuckle came from behind him, "when I’m truly ’tricking’ you, you don’t want it."

At that instant, that tranquil and pitch-black ’deep sea’ collapsed in the purple figure’s vision, transforming into a radiant ruin.

A young man with a gentle face stood amidst the ruins, smiling as he gazes at him, "Thank you for being willing to give me time; welcome to my Consciousness Kingdom, little mouse."