Life Game In Other World
Chapter 430: Assassination (Big - for Monthly Votes)

Chapter 430: Chapter 430: Assassination (Big Chapter for Monthly Votes)

As the lock core turned, He Ao’s Divine Sense passed through the tightly closed door.

The entire room’s reflection emerged in his mind.

Refrigerator, sofa, curtains, and the figure standing in front of the curtains that seemed to blend into the surrounding environment.

He Ao glanced at the tiles in front of the door, where a very subtle footprint made of fine dust was left on the shiny surface.

To an ordinary person, it seemed as if nothing had happened, but through the lens of Super Memory, this footprint was glaringly out of place.

As soon as He Ao got out of the elevator, when he was about to reach the door, he briefly activated Super Memory to scan the situation in front of the door.

That’s when he discovered the footprint.

That’s why he signaled his daughter to hide behind him.

However, what puzzled him was that the strand of hair he left in the door gap hadn’t moved at all.

Unless the other person also had Super Memory, it would be impossible to open the door and then restore the hair to its exact position.

This proved that the person hadn’t opened the door.

Perhaps they had left, or maybe they saw the strand of hair He Ao had placed, then used another method to enter the room.

That was also why he had just used Divine Sense to inspect the interior of the room.

The figure stood by the side of the curtain as if he were a part of it, hardly noticeable at a glance.

Yet, within the vision of Divine Sense, the energy circuits flowing through the figure’s body were clearly visible.

The intruder was C-level, and quite strong.

He Ao made a hand signal to his daughter behind him, indicating for her to step back a few paces.

Then he pushed the door open.

The hair caught in the gap of the door slowly fluttered down.

The smart device linked to the door lock automatically turned on the living room light.

In that instant, a pitch-black shadow surged like flowing water, aiming straight for He Ao’s heart.

He Ao instantly activated Super Memory, sidestepped, and pulled out the short sword from under his clothes to block the assailant’s attack.

Clang—

The short sword, emitting a cold light, clashed with the pitch-black spike, producing a crisp sound.

The assailant wielded a completely black, thirty-centimeter-long stiletto with three edges, and three wide blood grooves sunk between the edges.

He Ao had no doubt about the effectiveness of this stiletto if it pierced the heart.

The attacker’s strength was also stronger than He Ao had anticipated; even with Super Memory activated, his strength of over four hundred ninety barely blocked the strike.

Moreover, the ability to blend into the shadows seemed familiar.

Seeing that the initial attack had failed, the assailant did not linger for battle, but retreated and merged back into the shadows.

In that moment, He Ao marked the assailant using Super Memory.

Then he activated his Divine Sense, following the attacker’s steps; in an instant, he stepped forward and thrust his sword toward the Black Shadow’s body.

The Black Shadow was clearly taken aback, seemingly unaware of how He Ao had located him in such a short time.

Yet this hint of surprise did not affect his actions.

He turned and blocked He Ao’s short sword with his stiletto, then leaped backward into the shadow of the sofa and vanished from He Ao’s sight.

Gone.

He Ao was taken aback.

This time, even Divine Sense couldn’t capture the assailant’s figure, and the emotional fluctuations of the assailant from the Super Memory tag had also become faint and concealed.

As if he had truly disappeared within the room.

Complete invisibility?

No, it wasn’t necessarily true invisibility.

It could also be psychological interference.

Just like the Assassin.

He Ao finally remembered why the ability of this Black Shadow felt so familiar to him.

The C-level Transcendent from the World Tree who tried to ambush him in the main world had seemingly similar abilities to blend into shadows.

Except that the physical strength of this Black Shadow and his control over his ability were far superior to that C-level from the main world.

If the opponent’s ability involved psychological interference, there must be a flaw to exploit.

In an instant, He Ao memorized every detail of the room’s scenery.

Bang—

Just at that moment, the living room lights suddenly erupted, and the surroundings plunged into pitch darkness.

At the same time, He Ao sensed a vague emotion in his mind.

’Backstab.’

He immediately turned around, swinging his sword at the space behind him.

Clang—

The short sword clashed with the bayonet once again.

Accompanying a feeling of ’surprise’ that entered He Ao’s consciousness, the Black Shadow vanished once more.

Super Memory could not sense any further emotional fluctuations.

This Concealment ability was clearly many times stronger than the Assassin’s ’Stealth’, capable of even concealing thoughts...

The possessor of such an ability was a born assassin.

Following that, the whole scene fell into an eerie silence.

He Ao could neither feel the other’s thoughts nor sense their presence.

Soon, this kind of attack happened a few more times; each time He Ao preempted the other’s actions and blocked them.

He Ao also discovered that while the other’s Concealment ability could hide some basic emotions, if an emotion was intensely strong over a short period, it could still be detected by Super Memory.

This ’Listen’ ability, being forcibly used, was indeed somewhat abnormal in real combat.

He wasn’t sure if all Super Memory abilities were this strong or if his was more powerful due to a better completion of the ritual than the regular version.

However, He Ao had no time to consider these things at the moment.

His time was limited, and he had to find the other’s whereabouts as soon as possible.

Ennie was still outside; if the enemy realized the assassination kept failing, they might go out and take Ennie hostage, forcing He Ao to comply.

But the enemy’s time was probably also running out.

He Ao had once possessed the Talent Sequences ’Assassin’.

The Assassin’s ’Stealth’, like Super Memory, had a usage time limitation, and exceeding that would consume life.

Judging from the similarity in abilities, it was highly likely that the Black Shadow had one of the advanced sequences of the Assassin, considering he hadn’t used this Concealment ability from the start, it likely also had a time limit.

He Ao took a deep breath, his Divine Sense spreading out around him once again.

In the brief exchange just now, when the other exposed their form, He Ao could still see the energy flowing in his body, though it was extremely faint due to the Concealment.

Even when the other disengaged from combat and concealed himself again, He Ao could capture the flow of energy inside his body, only to ’not perceive’ the location of the energy flow shortly afterward.

All things considered, He Ao inclined to think that this ’inability to perceive’ was more of a psychological influence.

So he definitely could ’see’ the other, only he ’hadn’t noticed’.

It was at this moment that a thought emerged in He Ao’s mind.

’Go outside?’

The other seemed to be hesitating whether to continue fighting with He Ao or to go outside and take a hostage.

In that instant, He Ao activated his ability, altering the other’s decision.

Then, a new thought emerged in He Ao’s mind, ’I’m going out, to take his daughter hostage.’

Had the ability failed?

He Ao stiffened.

No, after altering the decision, the other should definitely be inclined to stay and fight.

The other was probing, testing whether He Ao could hear and monitor his thoughts.

He Ao calmed down and made no move.

At the same time, he began combining Divine Sense and Super Memory to search the surroundings.

The refrigerator, the couch, the dining table, the bathroom door...

There was energy flow in the bathroom, which was normal; there should be an energy flow in the bathroom...

’I know you can hear, stop pretending.’

A new thought surfaced in He Ao’s mind.

’Can’t hear me?’

’Is my guess wrong?’

As these thoughts emerged, He Ao began the second round of checks with his Divine Sense.

The refrigerator, the sofa, behind... behind there was an energy flow, which was normal; there should be trace of energy flow behind.

The bathroom... There was no trace of energy flow in the bathroom.

This was normal, the bathroom was a non-living thing, a constructed space, why would there be traces of energy flow?

In that instant, He Ao’s thoughts paused.

Something was wrong, the memories and judgments from before and after were not the same.

Behind him!

This time, the enemy approached without any emotional fluctuations.

The enemy had already concluded he could "read minds," and those thoughts just now were deliberately misleading He Ao’s thinking.

There wasn’t enough time to turn around now; He Ao violently shifted to the side, allowing the sharp bayonet to pass under his armpit.

In that brief moment, the Black Shadow hesitated.

This time, he couldn’t figure out how He Ao had detected him.

However, during his brief moment of astonishment, a huge force struck his soul, causing him to lose control of his body momentarily.

Mental Disturbance.

He Ao twisted the short sword in his hand, holding it in reverse, and stabbed sideways at the Black Shadow behind him.

When he touched the Black Shadow’s body, he distinctly felt that the short sword was hindered by something, possibly some kind of metallic armor.

But it was clear that the quality of this armor wasn’t that high.

The sharp sword easily pierced through the armor’s defense, through the enemy’s lung, and then the heart sandwiched between the lobes of the lungs.

Bright red blood flowed down the blood groove on the sword.

He Ao then withdrew the sword, severing the enemy’s lateral muscles.

And the enemy’s energy convergence point was right there.

As the sword was drawn out, the Black Shadow’s body staggered as if its spine had been extracted, nearly falling to the ground.

Bright red blood flowed from his wound, yet he seemed indifferent.

Struggling, he reached into his chest, taking out a vial sealed with a white latex stopper, the translucent white liquid inside the vial swaying.

He bit toward the latex stopper, trying to pull it off.

However, he ultimately failed to succeed.

He leaned forward and fell to the ground.

The vial in his hand also rolled out, falling not far in front of him.

He reached out to grab the vial.

But his hand eventually stiffened in mid-air, then dropped powerlessly.

He Ao squatted down, picking up the vial filled with the translucent solution.

The Black Shadow looked up at He Ao, his ability to conceal his form slowly disappearing, revealing his pale cheeks.

He watched He Ao, his gaze gradually losing focus.

He Ao looked at the vial in his hand.

The liquid in the vial was overall white, showing a translucent appearance.

This liquid was not so well-behaved; as He Ao watched it, it seemed as if some power was slowly disturbing it from the inside.

This power gave He Ao an exceedingly familiar and intimate feeling.

But separated by the vial, He Ao couldn’t immediately recall what this power was.

However, this power seemed very active; He Ao had no doubt that if he opened the latex stopper, this power would quickly escape.

This vial also seemed to be specially crafted.

It was not like other Mithril Test Tubes which were mostly covered with Mithril, but looked like an ordinary glass tube, transparent throughout, with only a ring of Mithril inlaid around the mouth of the tube.

From the Black Shadow’s last action, it was very likely that what was inside the vial was something ’life-saving.’

Theoretically, C-level beings in the Copy World are very hard to kill.

The Black Shadow hadn’t expected that He Ao had the ability to see through a Transcendent’s energy nodes and kill a C-level by destroying a node; he had been unprepared, so much that in the end, he didn’t even have the strength to open the vial and drink its contents.

The Black Shadow was clever and experienced. If he had managed to drink the liquid from the vial and saved his life, then He Ao would probably be the one in trouble.

Unfortunately for him, He Ao had a fairly accurate guess and understanding of his skills, but he knew almost nothing about He Ao.

After the Black Shadow died, the marks He Ao had used returned to his body.

He could mark up to five people at the same time; the first two he had marked were the earliest Doctor and the head of the Research Institute, Reid.

The markings of Super Memory can be repeatedly used as long as there aren’t more than five.

But He Ao also discovered a problem, with the increase of the markings, the consumption of Super Memory increased as well.

At present, Pete’s body probably couldn’t sustain such intense consumption.

Creak—

The door that He Ao had left ajar was slowly pushed open, and Ennie poked her head in.

"Dad, is it over?"

Although He Ao had engaged in many skirmishes in his recent battle, they were frequent and short-lived, so Ennie had been listening to a persistent clatter from outside.

Just now, she felt there was no movement inside, so she came to check.

The room was pitch-dark, and as she reached out to turn on the light, she found that it wouldn’t light up.

"It’s over."

He Ao stood behind his daughter and reached out to close the door.

"Ah!"

Startled by the voice behind her, Ennie turned around and, with the light from her bracelet, saw it was her father and let out a long breath of relief. She patted her heaving chest, "Dad, you scared me. So what happened just now?"

"Nothing, go back to your room."

He Ao waved his hand, signaling his daughter to go back to the bedroom.

Despite the darkness in the room, she had lived in this house for many years, so she should be able to easily find her way back to her room.

It was at this moment that He Ao turned off Super Memory.

The moment he lost the support of Super Memory, he felt weak and fell to the floor, leaning against the door.

He Ao felt an overwhelming dizziness and fatigue flood his mind, and his limbs felt as heavy as lead, making every movement extremely difficult.

This body was still too weak.

"Dad!"

Ennie turned pale with fright and quickly crouched down, "Dad, you’re bleeding from the nose, and there’s so much blood on you."

She hurriedly pulled out tissues from her pocket.

"I...I’m fine, it’s not my blood, go back to your room."

He Ao struggled to speak, gesturing for his daughter to go back to the bedroom.

He still had to clean up the scene. When he had entered the Copy World, the system should have had a recovery ability, which would help him heal some of his injuries.

But his daughter wasn’t listening to him at all.

Ennie stood up and turned on the light in the adjoining dining room.

The room was a dining-living combo, divided into a dining area and a living room by design.

The dim light shone on the living room, which was littered with broken light bulbs and bright red blood.

Ennie’s mouth fell open, but she covered her mouth with her hand to stifle a scream.

At that moment, she finally understood why her father insisted on her going back to her room.

Then she fetched a mop and broom from the balcony.

First, she wrapped Black Shadow’s corpse in a rug with difficulty, and then she started cleaning with the tools,

"Don’t use hot water; heating will denature the protein, making it harder to clean."

"Be careful not to get it on your clothes."

"Don’t directly mop it up, first use tissue paper to absorb what you can..."

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"Dad, aren’t you annoying!"

The young girl set the mop upright and glared at He Ao, visibly irritated.

But she still corrected herself according to He Ao’s reminders.

He Ao shook his head with a smile.

His body was recovering quickly.

He looked at the test tube in his hand, pondered for a moment, and then immersed his Divine Sense into it.

Instantly, the power within the test tube began to surge violently.

The translucent liquid seemed as if it was boiling.