Life Game In Other World
Chapter 203: The Original Federation and the Deceiver (Long - , Please Subscribe, Add to Favorites, Request Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 203: Chapter 203: The Original Federation and the Deceiver (Long Chapter, Please Subscribe, Add to Favorites, Request Monthly Tickets)

The moment He Ao clicked, the original directory page retracted swiftly to the left, and a new secondary page appeared on the right side of the screen.

This secondary page had five options, the first of which was twinkling with specks of blue light; at the top were three ideogram characters representing the language of the First District.

He Ao only recognized the middle character, ’one’.

The second option, however, consisted of a string of curved letters, a series of phonetic characters.

And He Ao could easily understand the meaning of this string of phonetic characters.

’Second District’.

Upon seeing this, there was no need to look at the following three options.

He Ao directly chose the second option.

The whole screen flashed instantaneously, and by the time the flickering ended, all the text on the screen had changed into characters familiar to He Ao from the Copy World.

In every segment of his character life, he had memories of learning these characters, and he had even used them for a time.

In fact, these characters were nearly as familiar to him as the characters from Central Earth.

He Ao returned to the settings directory page, once again reviewing these directory titles.

At the top of the directory, the line of text he previously couldn’t understand had now become legible, meaning,

[Long live the Federation, humanity eternal]

He Ao’s hand paused in midair, silent for a moment.

With clear divisions, the system could switch languages, and there was a slogan centered on the Federation.

This ruin didn’t belong to the First District but to the... Original Federation.

The people who perished within these ruins, all belonged to the Original Federation.

Why were they on this narrow dwarf planet? And why did they appear in this stretch of starless cosmic space? Why was there a channel opened to the main world?

One question after another arose in He Ao’s mind.

Moreover, why were they destroyed? Who annihilated the human civilization on this ruin?

Clearly, these questions could not be answered at present.

He Ao let out a soft sigh in his heart and dispersed these thoughts.

His priority was still to solve the immediate issues.

He scrolled through the directory, noticing many entries that looked quite important within the settings.

For example, the very first one was [Security Settings].

Such an option usually led to the modification of lock passwords.

But when He Ao clicked on this option, it did not take him to a secondary page but instead prompted a dialog box.

[Please verify administrator identity]

Below was an icon of a palm and an eye.

It seemed that biometric verification was required.

Clearly, He Ao was not the administrator.

He glanced at the skeleton on the ground. Could the person who died here be the administrator?

But now all that’s left of them was bones.

However, if they were the administrator, why didn’t they open the door and go in?

Or were they not trying to open the door, but rather setting something?

He Ao continued to peruse the settings directory and eventually determined that most options were unusable, only being able to modify things like screen brightness and themes.

Eventually, He Ao closed the settings interface.

At this moment, the text on the main interface had also been modified, and the line of text at the top of the screen, previously unintelligible to He Ao, read,

[Please place your palm]

He Ao did not place his hand on it but continued searching for details on the screen.

Then, at the bottom left corner of the screen, he found a small ’!’, a symbol often used to mark important information.

He clicked on it, and a new popup appeared on the screen.

The popup was filled with dense text accompanied by illustrations.

[Human Verification Mode Instructions]

[Please place your hand (as illustrated) on the Central Control Screen, and the system will conduct a soul examination.]

[If you are a Martial Artist, please move a strand of ’Qi’ or energy to the center of your palm during the examination (as illustrated).]

[If you are a Talent Sequences holder, please fully activate your Talent Sequences during the examination.]

[The examination process may cause mild dizziness, which is normal. Upon passing the examination, the Central Control Room doors will be unlocked.]

He Ao carefully read these instructions, which seemed to explain the usage of this intelligent switch. From these instructions, it seemed that as long as one was human, they could open the silver door?

Wasn’t that overly simplistic?

With such a setup, could not just anyone enter this so-called Central Control Room?

No, that’s not right.

Originally, this lock was supposed to require identity verification, but someone had modified this identity authentication, switching it to a mode that allowed any human to unlock the door.

He Ao’s gaze turned to the skeleton on the ground.

This deceased individual may not have been trying to enter the Central Control Room but, in the brief time before their death, set the intelligent door lock to Human Verification Mode.

He knew that no one inside the high tower had survived, so he set the safety mode to the lowest level to reduce trouble for those who would come to investigate the tower later.

But judging from the situation in the tower, maybe no ’person’ had come here in the past hundreds of years.

He Ao turned off the explanation and placed his hand on the display.

Streaks of blue light lit up on the display, and He Ao felt an inexplicable force assaulting his soul.

Eventually, the display flickered once and slowly went dark.

"Can’t open it?"

A cold question came from behind He Ao.

"Seems like it can’t be opened."

He Ao shook his head, unaware that the girl behind him had slowly drawn closer, "It seems to be a password lock, I need to study it."

"Oh, I thought you recognized these characters and had already figured this thing out."

The girl’s voice carried a hint of amusement as she gently lifted her hand, her slender and pale palm transforming into a silver, elongated cone.

"I was just pressing at random. This kind of display, if you press around on it, you can always open some pages," He Ao laughed and lifted his hand from the display, "When I couldn’t figure out puzzle games in the past, I would just randomly tap the screen and always managed to reveal some clues."

"Ah, you’ve never mentioned that to me," the girl gently laughed, "If we really can’t figure it out, let’s rest here for a while. I can stay with you,"

She paused, "We can be together forever."

The silver cone, like a streak of light flashing across the sky, stabbed towards He Ao’s back.

Kang—

A crisp sound suddenly rang out.

The bone sword that He Ao had slung on his back abruptly appeared in his palm, its blade positioned behind him, forcibly blocking the attack.

Retrieve objects from the air!

As long as one is willing to pay the price, they can take hold of anything, no matter how large.

Super Memory, activate!

In that instant, the bone sword was struck by the cone and slammed into He Ao’s back, sending him flying and crashing hard against the silver iron door diagonally in front of him.

He Ao staggered to turn around, a trickle of fresh blood spilling from the corner of his mouth. He smiled at the beautiful girl behind him, "I certainly don’t want to be eaten by you."

The girl seemed to have gained some interest in He Ao after the failed strike; she didn’t continue to attack but instead looked at him with an amused smile, "You really did discover it, intriguing little fellow."

Just like a cat toying with a mouse.

"Don’t you have any other appearance?"

Looking at her wearing Liu Nan’s form made He Ao feel somewhat awkward.

"Everyone sees a different me," the girl walked step by step closer to He Ao, "My appearance is actually the person whom you think should be by your side."

Is that so...

He Ao looked at her face.

Liu Nan was his only friend in the ruins. If it were a stranger who appeared, He Ao would have been extremely cautious and on guard.

But if a ’friend’ appears and the friend’s appearance seems reasonably plausible, it would naturally lower He Ao’s guard.

Actually, this was the case for everyone. This shape-shifting creature didn’t transform into a specific person to gain trust, but directly became the person whom the target felt most ’should’ appear at that moment,

This is ’should,’ not ’want.’ ’Want’ lacks plausibility, whereas ’should’ involves plausibility.

For example, if a student forgot to do homework, and his studious deskmate was seriously ill in the hospital, the person he most wants to see at the moment is his deskmate, so he can copy the homework.

This is ’want,’ and it doesn’t require plausibility; the student himself doesn’t think this can happen.

But in reality, the teacher who is most likely to come in to collect homework is the ’should,’ which has plausibility.

In the heart of this student who forgot to bring homework, the person who he feels ’should’ appear at that moment is also the teacher.

For this shape-shifting creature, when becoming the person whom the target feels most ’should’ appear at that time, she doesn’t need to fabricate plausibility because the target will complete the plausibility for her.

By now, He Ao had also roughly determined the opponent’s capability.

While he was pondering, the girl opposite had almost reached him, watching him with interest,

"Are you stalling for time? What are you waiting for?"

The silver cone was raised once more.

"Isn’t your ability related to mind reading? Guess what I’m waiting for?"

He Ao raised the bone sword, looking at the girl before him, the taste of iron rising in his throat as he forced back the blood.

His situation wasn’t good; the violent impact from before seemed superficially harmless, but the immense force had caused his ribs to crack and injured his internal organs.

He Ao was well aware that he couldn’t beat the opponent.

The entity before him was clearly the ’intruder’ who had deceived the entire herd of exotic beasts, making them use their lives to create a crack in the tall tower’s door and then instantly killing the tower’s defense robots.

Until now, He Ao hadn’t been able to distinguish between the opponent and Liu Nan based solely on their appearance or feeling.

The opponent was strong, at least B-level.

"Sorry, game over, little guy."

The girl shrugged her shoulders; she seemed to have run out of patience. With just one move, she could take the life of this little guy who hadn’t even reached C-level, then eat him,

Well, perhaps skewer him on a grill.

However, just as she was about to act, her hands suddenly paused.

"Wuu—"

A mournful cry suddenly echoed in their ears.