Life Game In Other World
Chapter 185: The Ruins That Are Getting Closer (Please Subscribe, Favorite, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 185: Chapter 185: The Ruins That Are Getting Closer (Please Subscribe, Favorite, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

"Every person who enters the ruins will be randomly placed in any location within the 3 million square kilometer area of the ruins. In the vast majority of cases, it is virtually impossible for two people who enter the ruins to encounter each other; at least, based on our current experience, there have never been two people placed in the same region,"

Accompanied by the morning sunlight, Zhang Ansha rested his hand on the steering wheel, driving on the road heading to the airport.

He Ao turned his head for a last glance at the brand-new gate and the sign of the psychiatric hospital, shifting his gaze to the side.

Next to him sat a metal box crafted from mithril, inside which was the sealed item ’Magician’s Top Hat’ he had previously acquired.

Beside the mithril box, there was an open small metal box, neatly filled with mithril test tubes containing a black-purple solution.

There were three levels in this box, each holding six mithril test tubes, totaling eighteen mithril test tubes.

He Ao had obtained only fifteen Corpse Flowers previously, and Zhang Ansha, hearing his need, had taken out three Corpse Flowers from the storage of the Xidu Research Institute to prepare the solution for him.

Both the mithril test tubes and the mithril box holding the Magician’s Top Hat were ’lent’ to He Ao by Zhang.

He Ao had wanted to refuse these items, but Zhang only patted his shoulder and said with a smile,

"You’re now a person of the Research Institute, representing the Xidu City Research Institute; you can’t be too shabby."

Therefore, He Ao did not stand on ceremonial and accepted them directly.

After all, the ruins indeed posed a danger, and he genuinely needed these items; there was no need to be coy.

With these eighteen Corpse Flower Solution in hand, even at C-level he could attempt to take a few lives.

At worst, he could just help Zhang out if he needed assistance later.

Give and take — that’s how relationships are built up.

In the past, when he was at his most troubled, Liu frequently gave him extra money, both openly and in secret, which he accepted without fuss.

Later on, he solved quite a few cases for Liu — though he was paid for them, Liu also got promoted.

The distance from the Third Psychiatric Hospital to Xidu City Airport wasn’t far.

Soon, they arrived at the airport terminal.

Zhang had purchased two tickets, leaving from Xidu at nine in the morning and arriving in Dongdu by noon.

When they reached the airport, it was almost time to board, so both men passed through the security check directly.

He Ao was initially worried that the mithril box wouldn’t get through security, but it went through normally.

Then he followed Zhang Ansha into the boarding area, had their tickets checked by the flight attendant, and boarded the plane.

"Is this your first time on an airplane?" Zhang Ansha asked softly, seeing his somewhat restrained and curious demeanor.

"Mhm," He Ao nodded slightly.

Plane tickets in Central Earth were actually quite affordable most of the time, but He Ao had never had the need to travel far before.

In Ande’s memories, there were experiences of riding Floating Airships, but the Floating Airships from the Copy World and the airplanes in the main world were somewhat different; moreover, after returning to the main world, He Ao’s memories of those characters in the Copy World gradually became blurred, not as clear as they were in the Copy World.

"No problem, it’s the same as other transports. You might just experience some turbulence when we hit air currents. You’ll get used to it quickly; there’s nothing else to worry about,"

This was the first time Zhang Ansha saw curiosity for the unknown in He Ao’s eyes.

It was at this moment that Zhang Ansha felt He Ao was like a child who had just turned eighteen.

"Mhm."

He Ao followed Zhang Ansha and took a seat by the window in the middle of the plane.

They had economy class tickets bought by Zhang; it wasn’t a good time to continue discussing the ruins, so he settled down quietly.

As for why they were traveling in economy class,

it was because economy class tickets could be reimbursed.

Liu Nan was not with them; official researchers and specially appointed researchers were separate, as many specially appointed researchers needed to maintain a hidden identity, requiring additional privacy.

Of course, she didn’t move with the official researchers either.

She had already flown over last night in Liu Zhengyun’s private plane and even sent a message to He Ao when she left.

"What’s wrong? If you want to take photos, you can wait until the plane is in the sky, the view up there is much better."

Zhang Ansha, observing He Ao staring blankly at the airplane wing outside the window, asked gently.

"This glass, I remember reading material about it, is triple-layered," He Ao tapped on the airplane window, "I’m wondering, how much force would it take to shatter it? Is it legal to break this thing? It must be illegal, right? But what if it’s shattered in an emergency to escape, would that be legal then?"

You should at least try to hijack the plane in a normal way.

Zhang’s brow twitched as he began to wonder if he was getting too old to keep up with young people’s thought processes.

The three hours on the plane passed quickly.

He Ao didn’t actually try to break the airplane window to test its legality; instead, he quietly turned on his phone and browsed through the magic books he had downloaded for offline reading.

As he delved deeper into magic, he started to realize that the miracle magic he needed didn’t have to be overly complex.

Some simple sleight-of-hand magic, if actually performed, could create a sort of miracle, proving very helpful in daily life and combat.

During the flight, they encountered turbulent airflows that caused the plane to rock up and down.

Zhang Ansha was going to remind He Ao not to panic, but when he turned his head, he found that He Ao was still calmly flipping through the ebook as if the violent shaking of the entire plane had no effect on him.

After arriving in Dongdu, the two first went out for lunch.

Then, when no one was around, Zhang Ansha continued to explain the rules of the ruins to He Ao.

To summarize, it’s actually very simple.

Firstly, the passages that open into the ruins don’t have a physical form.

They don’t appear as a vortex or a door like in movies or TV shows.

They are located in a specific place but don’t cause any changes to it. However, as soon as someone approaches, they can sense a kind of ’calling’ that arises in their subconscious.

This description reminded He Ao of the ’background noise’ that would echo in his mind whenever he activated Super Memory after advancing to C-level, though this active, conscious, and informative ’calling’ was different from the erratic background noise.

Speaking of background noise, after He Ao returned to the main world, he could barely hear the chaotic background noise when activating Super Memory again.

He wondered if it was being blocked by something.

But back to the topic of the ruins.

Only a limited number of people can hear the ’call’ of the ruins.

According to Zhang, initially, only ordinary people could hear the calls and enter the ruins, but with time, people of higher and higher classes could hear the ’calls’, too.

C-level, E-level, up to the present where even D-levels can hear the call.

The Research Institute speculates that this could mean that on some level, the ruins are getting ’closer’ to the main world.