Life Game In Other World
Chapter 1379: Assassination of the President (2 updates, requesting monthly votes)

Chapter 1379: Chapter 1379: Assassination of the President (2 updates, requesting monthly votes)

[Age 39: Shortly after arriving in Twilight City, you received news of Christos’ midterm election victory and sent him congratulations.

You followed the information provided by Heish, searching for promotion materials while continuing to investigate the Dark Lizard event from years ago.

With your citizenship, places that were once restricted now become accessible to you.

You researched many records in Twilight City and discovered that during the year of the Dark Lizard event, a massive earthquake occurred in the wilderness near the city, which some speculated was caused by a giant exotic beast battle.

You visited the area near the earthquake but found nothing.

On your way back, you saw Silo Flowers, the secret to feeding camels. You hired some Wilderness Wanderers in the outskirts of Twilight City and resumed feeding camels.

You saw the Kewort Group building in Twilight City and learned that the Kewort Group had experienced significant growth in recent years, climbing into the top twenty of the Federation’s market value, nearly monopolizing the rare earth market.

You heard about the upheaval in Yilan City and admired the courage and wisdom of Mayor Linen.

You gradually sensed that some changes might be happening within the Federation.

Your investigation in Twilight City hit a dead end, and you began preparing to return to Denno City.

It was then that someone approached you, seemingly investigating the Dark Lizard event as well.

With his assistance, you found the Lone Wolf’s primary material, synthesized the Secret Medicine, and completed your promotion to become a C-level Transcendent.

You and this ’friend’ returned to Denno City.]

[Age 40: When you learned of the chaos in Dawn City, it was already February, shortly after you returned from the wilderness.

Fortunately, Christos was still alive. The world’s instability intensified at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Your investigation gained speed remarkably, progressing at an astonishing pace.

You successfully found clues about the Dark Lizard’s activities, discovering it initially crawled up from the edge of the Slorx Grand Canyon.

You also found out that the Denno City Government seemed to have known about the Dark Lizard’s existence long ago.

You and that ’friend’ contacted the relevant city government personnel, infiltrated their database, and retrieved city government data.

After gathering information from various insiders from that year, you pieced together a ’truth.’

Both the city government and the Kewort Group were aware all along, discovering the Dark Lizard’s existence a year before the event. At that time, the Dark Lizard was dormant but gradually awakening.

The City Defense Army anticipated that the Dark Lizard might attack Denno City and the surrounding wilderness.

According to your collected data, the city government could have saved everyone by relocating Wilderness Wanderers into the city swiftly.

But the Dark Lizard, sensitive to life presence, would be stimulated to awaken prematurely and attack Denno City following the migration traces.

After analysis, the City Defense Army concluded that Denno City’s high walls could withstand a Dark Lizard attack until Federation Central support arrived to repel it.

However, the city government did not choose this ’life-saving’ option.

At the time, the presidential election was at a critical juncture, with the veteran senator and his rival neck and neck in the polls.

Denno City, as the veteran senator’s longstanding ’base’, posed a risk if any issues arose, prompting potential damaging criticism from opponents, threatening his slim lead and risking an election loss.

Thus, under the veteran senator’s direction, the city government ignored the crisis.

The Dark Lizard’s awakening, however, would not be influenced by neglect. After the election concluded and stability ensued, the Dark Lizard’s awakening accelerated further. Relocating people then would immediately awaken the Dark Lizard, attacking the city and wilderness.

Ultimately, under the ’president’s’ indication, the Denno City Government chose an alternative path:

They implemented measures to reduce Denno City’s presence in the Dark Lizard’s perception, steering it away from the city to protect both it and the Kewort Group’s mines located on the Dark Lizard’s original path north of Denno City.

Unbeknownst to you and your tribe, you were categorized as expendable ’bait.’

Sacrificing Wilderness Wanderers was deemed optimal, as a Dark Lizard attack on a city would be headline news, even resurrected during presidential reelection campaigns.

But deaths among the Wilderness Wanderers would merely spark some sensational gossip and self-media speculation.

You were unsure how to face this truth, questioning the ’new friend’s’ intentions in revealing this.

He plainly stated he opposed the president and, if you were to act, he could offer help.

You rented back the house where you once lived with your wife, waiting there quietly for months.

The ’new friend’ visited once, offering to provide you with an Extraordinary Weapon, asking what you needed.

You handed him the wooden-handled rifle you always carried, inquiring if he could transform it into an Extraordinary Weapon.

He took your gun.

Two months later, he returned it in a wooden box, explaining that the rifle was now fused with a contaminated Extraordinary Item.

The gun now had only one ability: it could fire one shot every eight hours, powerful enough to severely wound a B-level Transcendent. However, carrying it would expose you to contamination.

He advised locking the gun in the wooden box.

You fell into silence once more, and he did not seek you out again for a long time.

One day, he informed you that the president would visit Denno City in a week, his last year in office, campaigning for a successor from his party, with Denno City being the first stop in southwestern cities.

Hesitant but resolute, you left home the next day, accompanying the ’new friend’ to a street in Denno City’s Southern District, knowing you were merely a pawn with no room for contemplation, accepting it might be your only chance.

You rented a room on the fifth floor near a street corner, providing an unobstructed view of the corner and its subsequent stretch.

After the ’friend’ departed, you lay by the window, gazing at the street outside.

Watching the throngs of people.

The day finally arrived.

A silver Linster luxury car emerged from the street’s end, decelerating around the corner.

You could clearly see that familiar aged face through the rifle’s scope, waving enthusiastically at residents on both sides.

You placed your finger on the trigger.

It was the perfect moment, yet you hesitated.

If that ’truth’ was not the entire truth.

Bang—

The sharp gunshot jolted you awake,

Boom boom—

Not just one shot.

You witnessed the elderly man shot in the chest, collapsing backward into his seat, blood spreading across his chest.

While you hadn’t pulled the trigger.

Burly figures rushed from amongst the crowd, accompanied by panicked screams and screeching alarms; you noticed drones emerging overhead, targeting your location.

You hurriedly packed away the rifle, leaning back to leave.

But the room door behind you was suddenly kicked open, and a burly figure lunged at the window, pinning you beneath.

His speed was so swift you had no chance to react before being captured.

Unable to speak, you felt a heavy blow to your head, rendering you unconscious.

When you gradually regained consciousness, someone with terrifying strength was dragging you downstairs.

Surrounded by flashing lights and a bustling crowd, camera lenses were aimed at you.

You saw reporters swarming towards you recklessly, opened your mouth, watching shadows flicker in your field of view.

Hoarsely shouting, ’It’s not me—’, you felt a force suddenly grip your throat, unable to breathe or speak.

Your awareness dimmed as you realized the person holding you had released their grip, replaced by someone less powerful.

Instinctively, you struggled free, blurry-eyed, spotting your gun and seizing it.

Ahead of you remained a chaotic crowd, both journalists and panicked citizens.

You saw a cold gun muzzle emerge from the crowd, aimed at you.

Bang bang bang—

Accompanied by rapid gunfire, bullets with terrifying force pierced through your chest, and the twisted power instantly shredded your internal organs.

This gunfire ignited the crowd, bringing about even greater chaos.

The gunman in the crowd fired two more shots, one hitting your thigh and the other your shoulder.

You didn’t die immediately. Taking advantage of everyone’s panic, you broke free from control and dashed towards the corner of the street.

You heard alarms and shouting, seemingly from those presidential guards engaging with the gunman, and some bullets also hit your body.

You seemed to not feel pain anymore, just kept your head low and ran.

Your foot slipped.

Your mission is: Solve the assassination mastermind.

Wish you a pleasant game.

A simple task description, but this character doesn’t look simple at all.

A thick and acrid stench mixed with the smell of blood flooded He Ao’s nostrils, and intense pain spread layer by layer across his body, as if millions of hands grasped his body, violently tearing it apart.

This body seemed to have no place that didn’t hurt.

He Ao lifted his head, looking at the dim space around him, then raised his head again to look at the circular opening above him that emitted a faint glow.

Above the opening, it seemed to be a shadowy, secret alley.

A slight vibration and piercing alarm sounds were coming from outside the opening.

A familiar sewer; it seemed he had fallen into a manhole.

He Ao turned his head and glanced at the ’river’ flowing with dark liquid beside him.

Pretty lucky not to have fallen completely into the ’water’.

The sewer system of Denno City is actually quite well done.

Surveying everything around him, enduring severe pain, He Ao picked up a rifle next to him and slowly stood up.

Twisted contamination spread from the rifle, infiltrating his consciousness and soul.

This contamination could confuse people’s consciousness, to some extent helping Paxiu, allowing him not to feel pain at the last moment, to run forward desperately.

However, for He Ao, this level of contamination had no effect.

He glanced at the manhole above, then turned around and walked towards the other side.

There should be more than one manhole opening nearby.

Buzz——

And just at this time, he heard the piercing sound of a fan spinning.

He Ao lifted his head to look up.

A small inspection drone, flickering with a faint glow, descended from the open manhole cover above, slowly sinking into this sewer.

The drone adjusted its camera downwards, ’looking’ at He Ao below, and He Ao ’looked’ back at it.

Tap——

At the moment before the drone’s alarm sounded, a wooden rifle pierced through the darkness, stabbing through the drone’s propeller. The drone fell from the sky into the dark ’river’, accompanied by a slight corrosive sound, then fell silent completely.

He Ao stepped forward and caught the falling rifle.

Feeling the intense atmosphere around him, he struggled to move his steps and quickly walked deeper into the sewer.

Although this sewer was well built, it seemed it hadn’t been maintained for many years, and a lot of methane had probably accumulated. If it was ignited here...

Shaking his head, He Ao, dragging his pained body, rapidly rushed in the direction away from the alarm.

Soon, he arrived below a new manhole cover.

And there, a man in a black suit was standing there quietly.

He stared at He Ao, with a faint red electronic gleam igniting in his eyes.

"Cough—— Looks like that manhole cover is yours? So I would fall in here in a panic?"

He Ao observed the figure, hoarsely asked.

"The dead do not need to ask questions."

The man in the black suit opened his arms, and two mantis blades unfolded from his arms.

He raised his hand, took a step forward, and lightly leaped towards He Ao, with the black boots on his feet opening at the soles to reveal two jet ports.

He Ao watched his actions, slightly stunned.

No way, friend?

Boom——

As the jets of flames surged from the soles of the black-suited man’s shoes, a roaring wave of flame with a dull echo also exploded within the entire sewer.

The man’s massive form was momentarily frozen in time, blasted upwards by the fierce explosion, crashing against the manhole cover above, directly shattering it, launched towards the sky.

And He Ao, who had already been prepared, also leapt into the air with the blast from the manhole.

He looked at the black-suited man whose body was slightly torn in the fire and explosion in front, swung the rifle in his hand, and grabbed the barrel.

Suddenly swung.

Zi——

Amidst a tearing streak of light, the slender barrel with a wooden handle struck the sturdy mechanized body, like a stick hitting tofu, directly tearing apart the entire mechanized body.

Clank clank clank——

The shattered mechanized body crashed to the ground, producing a series of crisp sounds.

He Ao landed with his feet on the ground, stabilizing himself in excruciating pain, tore a piece of cloth, and slung the wooden rifle over his back.

Although this rifle could only fire once every eight hours, it was already a powerful extraordinary item, its hardness was enough, so it could be temporarily used as a club to swing.

He Ao walked up to the black-suited man whose upper body was still sparking, gazing at the man’s face.

Thud——

The manhole cover blown to the sky landed on the ground behind him, producing a crisp sound.

"Don’t ignite in the sewers."

He Ao shook his head, then bent down, gripping the two mantis blades on the mechanized body, enduring the severe pain, and pulled hard.

Sla——

With a sharp, crisp sound, the two mantis blades were suddenly yanked out by He Ao, sparking with a few electric lights and sparks from the small batteries at the base of the blades.

He Ao stared at the blades, flickering slightly under the sunlight.

The strength of these two blades was far superior to the metal that made up this man’s mechanized body.

It had already reached a level capable of harming a C-rank transcendent. Clearly, these were specially crafted to target powerful transcendents.

He Ao didn’t recall any company selling mantis blades of this strength.

Shaking his head, he reached out, fumbled a bit, and extracted a pack of cigarettes soaked in blood from the lining of his clothes.

He flicked a somewhat dry cigarette out, clamped it in his mouth, turned the mantis blade in his hand, and pressed the cigarette to the sparking battery at the base of the blade.

As the intense flames lit the blood-stained cigarette, He Ao lifted his head, slightly spread the mantis blades, and scanned his surroundings.

The breeze brushed his face, lifting the sparks from the lit cigarette.

The place he was in now seemed to be an empty square.

And around him, a group of robust men similarly dressed in black stood densely around the plaza, blocking all the surrounding roads.

One by one, silver mantis blades unfurled under the light.

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