Life Game In Other World
Chapter 1398: Serpent Among Bugs (Large - , Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 1398: Chapter 1398: Serpent Among Bugs (Large Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

"Alright, I’m currently with the Cow Horn Giant. I don’t need support for now, the giant seems to have collapsed. I’m collecting evidence, send a small team over here to seal off the surrounding area."

Vigina glanced at He Ao beside her and quickly said, "Continue to seal off the surrounding area and notify all Kewort Group executives to come to the company immediately to assist with tonight’s attack investigation. If anyone doesn’t come, go ’invite’ them."

She paused and continued, "Have those executives keep in contact with the CEO to confirm whether he’s lost contact or missing. Send the information to my wristband. Okay, I got it."

After saying everything, she put down the walkie-talkie and picked up the wristband, quickly clicking it.

"Is the CEO unreachable?" He Ao looked at Vigina and gently asked.

"Yeah," Vigina nodded lightly, while looking at the information projected from the wristband, she quickly said, "That silver-haired old man died in the attack just now, the remaining executives are like headless chickens, frantically trying to contact the CEO, urging him to come over."

She flipped through the information, "Originally, the CEO said he would arrive soon, but when the expected time came, the executives didn’t see him. When they called again, he was unreachable.

"Called the CEO’s villa, and the housekeeper said he had already left. The executives sent people along the road to search but found nothing,"

Vigina lifted her head, looked at He Ao, and rubbed her forehead, "Do you think he lost contact or disappeared? This timing is a bit too coincidental."

"Theoretically, as the actual controller of the Kewort Group’s Denor branch, no matter what happens, he shouldn’t be ’out of contact.’" He Ao pondered.

"Yeah," Vigina’s auburn curls rose and fell in the lingering heat wave, sweat appeared on her cheeks, she thought with slight suspicion, "Could he be the mastermind behind all this, fleeing in guilt?"

Then she shook her head again, "But it shouldn’t be. If he’s the mastermind, and also the helmsman of Kewort Group, as one of the few pinnacle powerhouses in the city, even if his identity was guessed, he shouldn’t be afraid.

"Besides, we haven’t even suspected him yet, no way,"

She frowned slightly, "Calculating the time, when he ’lost contact,’ the Cow Horn Giant was still alive. We hadn’t started speculating yet, even if he were ’escaping,’ it shouldn’t be at this time."

At this moment, her thoughts felt like a messy ball of yarn, tying knots in her brain.

She subconsciously lifted her head and looked at He Ao.

"Perhaps he’s not entirely ’willingly’ ’out of contact.’" He Ao looked at the gradually cooling lava on the ground, thinking deeply.

"You mean someone interfered with him?" Vigina was slightly surprised, "If he’s the mastermind, he might be a powerful Transcendent himself; who can interfere with him and make him ’out of contact’ without leaving traces?"

She pondered, "Or is he just a civilian? With no combat power? No,"

She shook her head again, "I shouldn’t rigidly apply the conclusions we just discussed, complicating simple issues. His case might not necessarily be connected with the President’s assassination case. He might not be the mastermind; he might just be a professional manager···"

Thinking so, she mused, "Then he wouldn’t have any reason to ’escape.’ His loss of contact,"

She lifted her head and looked at He Ao, "Either he was assassinated or kidnapped."

Professional managers of large financial groups are popular kidnapping targets in the underworld, although many large gangs know the terror of the huge conglomerates and are even often raised by them, many thrill-seekers and reckless individuals are keen on kidnapping professional managers.

They often believe that kidnapping a CEO or president of a group will greatly enhance their status in the underworld.

And they believe these professional managers are the owners of the conglomerates, able to mobilize vast wealth to extort a high ransom.

But the final outcome is often, they not only fail to get a hefty ransom, but they are quickly caught by the gangs under the conglomerates and permanently silenced.

As the top tier of company employees, although professional managers have great power and earn far beyond regular executives, their wealth is completely incomparable to the real owners of the conglomerates.

Moreover, conglomerates hardly ever pay hefty ransoms for professional managers; if possible, they rescue them; if not, they choose to mourn and hire a new professional manager.

In fact, even kidnapping a major shareholder of a conglomerate doesn’t threaten the conglomerate.

Once, a major shareholder of Kopes Mining was kidnapped by bandits, demanding Kopes Mining to hand over a series of classified commercial documents.

Ultimately, this major shareholder accidentally died in a costly ’rescue,’ and his son inherited his seat on the board; everything remained the same.

But many thrill-seekers don’t realize this. They can only take risks to kidnap what they believe to be ’big figures,’ attempting to extort some money.

"However, for someone like a branch CEO who knows a lot of secrets, Kewort Group should have security in place. Ordinary assassins and kidnappers shouldn’t be able to get close," Vigina’s thoughts gradually returned after a series of speculations.

But why hasn’t she seen any information about the CEO’s security personnel?

She looked down at the information on her wristband, "Wait a minute, the CEO’s main security team is off duty today? This timing is precisely when security is weakest? The entire security team is out of contact?"

She continued to frown, "Precisely during this brief downtime of security, how could such a significant drop in security strength occur, the person responsible for Kewort Group’s security···"

She paused slightly, realizing something.

She looked up at He Ao, "That head of security is part of the Presidential assassination organization. This security scheduling might have been arranged by him!?"

Her thoughts seemed to unravel at this moment, "The CEO isn’t the mastermind, but rather one of the targets of the mastermind?!"

She paused, "But why? Why capture the CEO? What does he want to know? Or what does he intend to do?" _{fre\e(w)ebn ov.e l\. co.m}

These multiple thought changes made her somewhat muddled.

"We’ll find out once we catch him." He Ao lightly shook his head beside her, interrupting Vigina’s increasingly complicated and chaotic thoughts, "Let’s take it one step at a time, first investigate all executives."

"Right," Vigina snapped back to reality, lightly nodding, "One step at a time."

If He Ao hadn’t interrupted her and pulled her out of her thoughts, she probably would have already confused herself.

She turned her head and looked at He Ao. At this moment, He Ao had crossed the gradually solidifying lava and jumped back onto the rock, pulling out the curved blade embedded in the rock.

At this moment, the yellow light flowing through the entire heaven and earth had completely disappeared.

As the last trace of light merged into the curved blade, He Ao brushed the blade with his hand.

The originally crescent-shaped curved blade had now lengthened significantly, and the blade had become a bit straighter, the curve was much smoother than before, yet it looked more mysterious.

As He Ao brushed the blade, a strand of information was also transmitted into He Ao’s mind.

The blade’s name now is ’Devil.’

It wasn’t menacing, nor terrifying, the blade presented a somewhat ghostly silver sheen.

But when viewed directly, this knife resembled an eye emerging from the abyss, slightly narrowed, seemingly crossing time and space, gazing at the person ’locking eyes’ with the blade.

However, He Ao didn’t find the knife very frightening, after all, he’s seen the true abyss.

He raised his hand and gently pressed it onto the blade.

A scorching stream of light flickered on the blade, this stream gathered at the blade’s tip, compressing into a pitch-black line, and in front of this line, it seemed even the space around them rippled slightly.

Surging heat waves rose in the void, brushing against He Ao’s cheeks.

This is the knife’s first ability, ’Flame Blade’.

Once activated, the blade would emit a high temperature of over ten thousand degrees, accompanied by an armor-piercing effect.

He Ao withdrew his hand, and the black line on the blade slowly disappeared.

He put away his hand, tied the knife and wooden-handled rifle together, and carried them on his back, a slight stirring of desire and emotions arising in He Ao’s heart.

This is the knife’s second ability, called ’Chaotic Heart’, capable of selecting a target to explode the opponent’s emotions and desires, briefly affecting their combat state.

The horned giant attempted to use this ability to influence He Ao during battle.

However, when no target is selected, this ability releases indiscriminately.

Those around this knife become very emotional and impulsive under its influence.

But He Ao used the control array to suppress the outward dispersal of this power.

This knife is currently considered a B-level extraordinary item, perhaps due to the integration of some grace power, its partial effects far exceed the B-level.

Carrying the knife, He Ao looked up at the surrounding area.

The plaza seemed to be surrounded by some kind of mall building, currently closed, the area was pitch-black, almost deserted.

Behind the mall were residential buildings, and during the battle, with He Ao’s speed, coupled with the mall’s cover, no ordinary person could capture his movements.

However, the horned giant’s disturbance was too great, even Vigina saw it, and it’s clear the surrounding residents did too.

At this moment, the apartment buildings were lit up, with faint noise indicative of people clearly on the move.

Nevertheless, some daredevils were running over, curious to see what had happened.

He Ao walked back to Vigina’s side and whispered, "You go check on those executives’ status first?"

Vigina glanced at He Ao, recognizing this suggestion as taking the opportunity to ’split up’, she nodded lightly, "Alright."

"Ahem."

Watching Vigina return to the alleyway, He Ao coughed lightly, lowering his gaze to the already dried bloodstains in his palm.

Forcing himself beyond limits and overusing his power during battle prematurely accelerated his body’s breakdown.

He Ao originally estimated that his body could hold on until the morning after tomorrow, but now it seemed it would only last until tomorrow night.

He reached into his pocket, touching the envelope containing the secret silver test tube, his figure flickered and vanished into the night.

——

Beneath the Kewort Group Building

"Director?" Seeing Vigina emerging from the night, a young agent immediately approached her.

"Thank you for your hard work," Vigina glanced at the Kewort Group executives standing in front of the building, softly asking, "Are all the Kewort Group executives here?"

"Except for the missing CEO, we’re short of three," the young agent quickly replied, "agents have been dispatched to ’invite’ them from their homes, they should return shortly."

"Good," Vigina approached the group of executives with a soft smile, "Good evening, everyone."

"If you’re dragged out of bed in the dead of night while you’re sleeping soundly," a bearded man in pajamas lit a cigar, rasping, "I don’t think you can say ’good’, Miss Vigina."

At this moment, coinciding with Vigina’s voice, the young agent handed a stack of documents to Vigina.

Vigina received the documents, glanced at them, then looked at the bearded man, "You’re full of energy, lying in bed with a female secretary, subordinate, and superior, saves us the trouble of finding people."

Accompanying her words, in the corner, a female executive in a simple dress and hotel slippers, silently smoking, changed expression slightly.

The nearby executives instinctively glanced at her.

The bearded man didn’t expect Vigina to state these matters outright, he seemed to want to retort, but after glancing at the female executive in the corner, he remained silent.

Vigina surveyed the reactions of those present, it was obvious these executives were well aware of their colleagues’ affairs, but merely pretended not to know.

However, Vigina cared little for this, she looked at the now silent executives and smiled, "Enough about that, I’m sure you all know the reason I’ve summoned you here, one of your colleagues has died in the recent assassination, and your CEO’s office has been blown up."

Her gaze scanned the diverse emotional faces of the executives, "I’m sure some of you know something, I’ll give you time to think, and once everyone’s gathered, I’m certain someone will be willing to talk."

With that, she turned and left the executives’ area.

The remaining executives exchanged glances, each lost in thought.

Squeal——

At this time, the sharp sound of brakes echoed in the night.

Just as Vigina stepped away from the executives, she collided with a fast-approaching young man, he raised his eyes to Vigina, his voice cold and urgent, "Director Vigina, I heard you’ve caught Paxiu?"