Life Game In Other World
Chapter 192: Copy World, First District, and the Ruins (Please Subscribe, Favorite, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 192: Chapter 192: Copy World, First District, and the Ruins (Please Subscribe, Favorite, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

He Ao crossed a shallow creek and walked amidst the desolate steel jungle.

Some weathered signboards still displayed remnants of the Ruined City’s former prosperity, He Ao could vaguely make out a few words, but not all of them.

Among them, "Shangping Middle Street" on a metal sign was one of the few sentences he could recognize completely.

Of course, it wasn’t the case that he couldn’t recognize a single sentence, for example, in the corners of this city, a type of small shopfront that was everywhere had simple characters, all of which were familiar to He Ao, called

Adult Products.

This was somewhat similar to Central Earth, where such storefronts were omnipresent. Just at Xidu University, where He Ao attended, there were two or three adult product shops at every gate.

If you searched carefully, you could always catch a glimpse of their presence in the most unanticipated corners.

However, the quality of the pink handcuffs sold in the shops near Xidu University was not good, and one could break free from them quite easily, only the ones from the shop at the north gate were indeed of decent quality.

He Ao looked up towards the dark tower that reached into the clouds in the distance.

There was something inside that high tower drawing him in.

This feeling was very similar to the sensation the Dancing Girl had given him before.

It wasn’t some form of curiosity or voyeuristic desire but an attraction stemming from the innate nature of the soul.

At that moment, He Ao was walking towards that high tower.

In the expanse of this city’s remains, he had hardly found any useful information.

Hundreds of years could erase most traces left by humans; even bones exposed to the open air would decay, leaving nothing but empty cement husks hidden among the giant trees and green grass.

He Ao attempted to capture a few robots to see if they could communicate or provide some information, but these robots seemed to have fallen into some malfunction, only repetitively doing certain tasks.

The street-cleaning robots wandered aimlessly on the highways, the domestic robots used for grocery shopping plucked grass blades and loaded them into steel baskets, continuing their relentless march forward.

These intelligent robots were like the persistent souls of the departed, endlessly repeating the actions they had performed in life.

And most of the contents of those buildings had already decayed, leaving nothing but bare husks behind.

Therefore, if He Ao wanted to investigate the specifics of this relic, to discern the connection between it and the First District of the Copy World, his only option was to visit some key buildings to look for clues.

Like that high tower drawing him in, soaring into the sky.

According to previous investigations by the Research Institute, the relic itself was a dwarf planet with a diameter of a thousand kilometers and an area of about three million square kilometers; and all regions were similar, within the same cultural sphere, utilizing the same script.

However, the Research Institute had not deciphered the script within the relics, so it was not included in the reference materials.

He Ao didn’t believe that the relic was the First District documented in the Copy World because, according to the data from the Copy World, the First and Second Districts (which is the territory currently governed by the Federation) were located on the same planet, separated only by a vast ocean.

Moreover, the records indicated that the area of the First District was far greater than that of the Second District, and the territory overseen by the Federation (present Second District) exceeded three million square kilometers from the start.

Of course, the units of measurement in the main world and the Copy World might differ, but according to the comparison of body height ratios between the two worlds, this difference should not be significant.

Unless there was a vast disparity in the height of people between the main world and the Copy World, akin to the difference between giants and dwarfs, but based on He Ao’s observations of the buildings within the relics, the physique of the people from the relic seemed comparable to those from the main world.

And since the relics were related to the Copy World, it could generally be inferred that the human forms in the Copy World were probably not much different from those in the main world.

All things considered, He Ao believed that there was a relationship between the relics and the First District of the Copy World; however, the relics were not located in the First District, and it was likely that they were not situated on a planet in the Copy World, and might not even be in the same cosmic space.

After all, there were differences in the flow of time.

As for the specific connection between the relics and the Copy World, further investigation was required.

He Ao looked up ahead and took a deep breath.

In fact, when he had seen the words "Shangping Middle Street" on the metal plaque, he felt as if he had broken through a dimensional barrier.

It was like a game you’ve been playing suddenly descended into the real world.

Although He Ao had already roughly surmised from the Talent Sequences that there was some connection between the Copy World and the main world, he was still somewhat shocked when this connection suddenly appeared before his eyes.

Considering the concentration of Transcendent power within the relics, it was possible that the Transcendent power in the main world came from the relics.

He Ao opened his attribute panel; his physical fitness was slowly increasing. He had only been in the relics for two hours, and his physical fitness had already risen to 187, an increase of a full 4 points.

During these two hours, he had done nothing but breathe and guide the energy obtained from breathing to strengthen his body.

Of course, this rate of improvement couldn’t compare to Regit’s initial practice, when his long-starved body suddenly absorbed energy, causing an explosive growth, while He Ao’s was normal cultivation.

Moreover, as one’s physical fitness increased, it became harder to improve.

Two points in one hour, this speed could almost be described as miraculous.

However, this pace would only be maintained for a while; as his physical fitness continued to improve, the rate of increase would definitely slow down.

And to nourish the organs, the ’Heaven Qi’ obtained from breathing alone was not enough; it had to be combined with the ’Earth Qi’ from food to synthesize the Five Elements Qi.

Only after nourishing the organs and gathering all the newly absorbed power could he practice ’Essence Refinement and Qi Transformation’ and continue to increase the amount of ’Innate Qi’ in his dantian.

As for the source of the Earth Qi, well...

A loud noise captured He Ao’s attention, and he looked up to see a massive ’Lizard’ slowly walking forward not far from him.

He Ao’s figure flickered, carrying the armor-piercing projectile box, he darted into a nearby building, and quickly scaled the broken stairs up six or seven floors.

Then he peeked out of the broken window to observe the massive lizard in the distance.

The lizard hadn’t noticed He Ao; its gaze was firmly fixed ahead.

Where its gaze landed, there was a tree with emerald-green leaves and tempting fruit, red like apples, layered upon one another on the branches.

A small animal resembling a squirrel seemed enticed by these fruits, scampering up the tree swiftly.

Just as it reached to pluck a fruit, the branch under its feet suddenly bent, wrapping around it. Almost instantly, the hard branch constricted into the squirrel’s flesh, crimson blood flowed out, drenching the tree’s brown-black bark and seeping into the trunk.

While the tree greedily savored this bloody meal, the lizard nearby opened its mouth.

A bright red tongue shot out like a sharp sword.