Life Game In Other World
Chapter 268: If You’re Hungry, Go Eat Something (Large - , Please Favorite, Subscribe, and Vote for Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 268: Chapter 268: If You’re Hungry, Go Eat Something (Large Chapter, Please Favorite, Subscribe, and Vote for Monthly Ticket)

The shriek that could cause ordinary people to stiffen or slow down in their movements had almost no effect on He Ao, whose soul was solid.

However, if He Ao were truly hit by this mass of Phantom Shadows, his movements would inevitably be restricted, and his soul would gradually be eroded by these frenzied shadows.

He Ao turned his head and the Corpse Flower Solution he had clenched in his mouth flowed into his mouth.

As his Soul Power rapidly replenished, he fixed his gaze on the chaotic mass of Phantom Shadows in the sky.

Now was the moment!

Mental Disturbance!

In an instant, the entire mass of Phantom Shadows froze in mid-air, quickly dispersed, and was on the verge of collapse.

He Ao casually tossed the Puppet Crystal Ball, which had been hanging from a pouch at his waist, into the mass of Phantom Shadows.

The cost of using the Puppet Crystal Ball was the absorption of a fresh soul, in other words, the crystal ball itself had the ability to absorb souls.

The moment the crystal ball fell into the mass of Phantom Shadows, He Ao was already up close to the Psychologist.

At this moment, the Psychologist was enveloped in a thick wall of Phantom Shadows. From the previous battles, he had managed to grasp some of He Ao’s patterns of behavior. The barrier was supposed to be impenetrable to He Ao, who would be restricted by these shadows.

But that was based on previous experience!

Before, He Ao had never shown the ability to attack Phantom Shadows.

But from the current situation, it was clear that He Ao possessed the power to attack Phantom Shadows, and it was not weak!

The Psychologist now understood that the man before him had always had the capacity to attack Phantom Shadows, but he had been concealing his skill, waiting for a moment when his strength was exhausted, waiting for an absolutely fail-proof killing blow.

A bone-chilling cold crept up his spine.

He wanted to continue summoning Phantom Shadows to protect himself, but at this moment, most of the Phantom Shadows on the battlefield had been summoned by him, and his weakened spirit after using a powerful move could no longer support another large-scale summoning.

He watched helplessly as He Ao approached him, his potent mental power breaking through the barrier in front of him, and a cold glint of the sword flashed by.

The sea breeze, like a giant hand, shook the lonely cruise ship as the Psychologist felt a sharp pain emanating from his chest, and a huge wave of dizziness took his life away.

He Ao pulled out his bone sword.

He let the purple-tinted blood flow down the blade.

The Psychologist collapsed to the ground, toppling forward onto the deck.

A C-level, whether in the main world or the Copy World, was always a figure who stirred up turmoil.

The continuous rain finally fell from the sky, washing the blood-red deck with rainwater, soaking the Psychologist’s pure white coat.

He Ao crouched down and brushed his hand over the Psychologist’s eyes, closing his eyelids.

He then activated Super Memory and carefully searched the Psychologist’s clothes, only to find that the guy had not brought a single Transcendent item with him.

Let alone C-level, there wasn’t even a D-level item.

He Ao shook his head and stood up.

This guy was a bit poor.

He turned around and looked back.

Through the vision of Super Memory, he could see that at the very center of the huge mass of Phantom Shadows that had gathered in the sky, a deep purple vortex had formed, rolling and twisting like a massive beast opening its mouth, then suddenly contracting and swallowing all the Phantom Shadows at once.

Then the vortex vanished, leaving only a crystal ball shrouded in deep purple mist falling from the sky.

He Ao reached out,

Retrieve objects from the air!

The crystal ball appeared in his hands.

He wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but He Ao felt as if the deep purple smoke within the crystal ball seemed a bit denser and richer.

The presence of the Puppet Crystal Ball was concealed by the Miracle Wand’s ’Silence Concealment’ miracle, so this scene did not attract any attention.

He Ao put the Puppet Crystal Ball back in its place. Just then, he touched the Miracle Wand and suddenly felt a moment of realization.

The B-level Miracle "Mountain Collapse Tsunami" inside the Miracle Wand required the sacrifice of five C-level lives to use.

He Ao had always thought that this sacrifice needed to happen simultaneously, the five sacrifices had to be made together.

But at this moment, He Ao distinctly felt a progress bar inside the Miracle Wand,

1/5.

It turned out that the sacrifices for this ability could be accumulated; he could save them up bit by bit.

He Ao glanced at the Psychologist lying on the ground and then looked towards Yang De.

Yang De had already beaten Hu Wen to the ground now, and the bloodied Hu Wen lay motionless.

The huge D-level man dressed in prisoner’s clothes was also subdued by Underpants Superman, and Ye Feng ended his life with a single stroke.

Underpants Superman was cautious and careful in the morning, psychologically constrained, but now he was becoming more proficient.

The Speech Master had boarded the ship at some point and was now helping to rescue the wounded from the group of pirates.

With two C-levels defeated, the pirates seemed to have received an order. They shouted to each other, jumped over the ship’s rail, and retreated, controlling the speedboats to move backward through the waves.

He Ao turned off Super Memory.

He stumbled and almost fell.

He too had been tense during the recent battle, as this was his first time facing a C-level in the real world. Now that he relaxed a bit, a great wave of exhaustion hit him.

But he quickly adjusted his state.

And by his side, cheers erupted again and again.

"Is it over? Did we win?"

"We won!!!!"

Rain fell on everyone’s faces, but it couldn’t hide their joyful expressions.

And along with the cheers, there were sounds of people collapsing.

They had been on edge for too long, relying on adrenaline to sustain them through the fight. Now, with their nerves suddenly relaxing, intense pain swept over them, and they lost control over their bodies all at once.

One by one, doctors and nurses who had been protected inside the cabins rushed out to carry away those who had fallen.

"Good news."

The Speech Master, holding the little girl who had been rescued, popped out from nowhere, looking at He Ao, "No one is dead."

The battle had actually been short-lived, but the intensity of life-and-death moments made it feel as prolonged as a century.

The attacking pirates, though numerous and frenzied, were ultimately ordinary people. Most of those present here were elite Transcendents from the Research Institute. Although many were severely injured, thankfully, none were life-threatening.

Among them, Liu Nan, who had taken a vantage point to provide support, played no small part. She eliminated many pirates who posed lethal threats.

Of course, if the high-end combatants had been broken through, allowing the Psychologist, Hu Wen, or any of the C-level pirates in their ranks to free up their hands, the outcome might not have been so rosy.

"You’ve worked hard."

Yang De came over, speaking softly to He Ao.

He actually hadn’t expected He Ao to kill the Psychologist; he had only hoped that He Ao could stall him for a while. He planned to quickly finish off Hu Wen and then come back to support, but He Ao’s actions seemed to have been even quicker.

Looking at He Ao, Yang De felt more and more that the person standing in front of him was a treasure.

"It’s nothing."

He Ao shook his head.

Yang De watched He Ao, aware that as a Special Appointed Researcher, He Ao was not obliged to have come back to the rescue, risking his life to take down a C-level.

"I’ll file a reward application later, in the name of a special mission reward, and give you a stipend of 15,000 credits. This is a fairly large reward amount, so it will probably go through a process. I’ll have it deposited into your account within a week."

15,000 credits could be exchanged for quite a decent C-level Transcendent item.

Compared to this incident, the price was fair.

He Ao thought for a moment, then nodded lightly, "Okay."

He did not decline.

Good deeds, of course, should be rewarded.

"You’ve worked hard."

Yang De repeated to He Ao, then turned around to look at the somewhat dazed crew members, "Bring out those Mithril chests from the bottom of the cabin. We must deal with these C-level and D-level Transcendent corpses, or this ship will turn into a Transcendent item."

He turned his head, ready to say something, but suddenly paused.

Yang De blocked He Ao’s line of sight. He Ao shifted his position to look where Yang De was staring.

Where Hu Wen’s body had been lying was now empty, leaving only a pool of reddish blood.

He Ao walked over, carefully inspecting the ground in the rain, "While we were talking, he must have climbed over the railing and jumped into the sea."

When He Ao had looked at Hu Wen just before, Hu Wen was indeed in a ’dead’ state, even the Phantom Shadow had signs of dispersing.

"It must be some kind of Transcendent item for feigning death and concealing one’s form."

Yang De frowned. No one around had ’noticed’ Hu Wen moving, even he himself, after striking what he thought was a ’fatal’ blow to Hu Wen, had subconsciously neglected to check carefully. That life-saving Transcendent item must have been effective from that moment.

"His injuries are not light, he has to get treatment quickly," stood up Yang De,

"Hiding in the sea will also attract fierce fish like sharks. He won’t survive long in the water, he’ll definitely head for an island or a ship with medical facilities. The Research Institute’s support ships will arrive soon. We’ll arrange a search when they get here."

"Support?"

He Ao looked at Yang De with confusion.

"As we were heading this way, the Research Institute’s support was also on its way," nodded Yang De ever so slightly,

"In a maximum of two hours, we’ll rendezvous with them. But we don’t have to worry about new attacks. Even for Daybreak, deploying two C-levels at once is a big move. Their forces are too scattered to mobilize new C-levels to come here, and these pirates here don’t have the capability to attack us."

Actually, this was also one of the reasons why Yang De was willing to let He Ao and the others go out to scout in the first place.

By themselves, the Free Marines pirate group would actually have great difficulty breaking through the cruise liner’s defenses. Their leader Balan did not have the ability to defeat Yang De, and the combat strength of most of the pirates was actually not strong.

This time they had fallen into trouble entirely because of Daybreak’s unexpected intervention, sparing no expense to send two C-levels to suppress Yang De.

However, with the appearance of Daybreak, Yang De had also roughly understood the reason for this attack. The attackers weren’t after the money, but rather the items on this ship—Transcendent items carried from the ruins.

"Why do I feel like Commander Yang is quite confident?" said the Speech Master, standing next to He Ao, "Even if we can’t be beaten with brute force, they might still use..."

"If you’re hungry, go eat something," He Ao suddenly interrupted her, speaking softly.

"Huh?"

The Speech Master was startled, "I’m not hungry."

Just then, a crew member rushed out from the cabin, flustered, "Commander Yang, we’ve received a radio transmission... it seems to be... "

He hesitated, "Sent by the pirates..."