Life Game In Other World
Chapter 483 Chapter: The Fog is Coming? (Long - for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 483: 483 Chapter: The Fog is Coming? (Long Chapter for Monthly Tickets)

"Pete?"

The man lifted his head, looking at He Ao with a somewhat dazed expression, his eyes full of disbelief, "How did you get in?"

He slowly reached under the desk, flipping open the protective cover of the alarm button.

"Shh," He Ao, who had previously been by the door, instantly appeared at his side, gently pressing down on his hand, "Don’t make any sudden moves, isn’t it nice for old friends to catch up?"

"What do you want to do?" The man’s body stiffened for a moment, then he turned his head, staring at He Ao in horror, "This is trespassing on private property, it’s illegal."

"No, I’m doing a righteous act," He Ao calmly shrugged, his gaze sweeping over the ’material export’, "Isn’t that what a concerned citizen should do?"

Seeing where He Ao’s gaze landed, the man quickly realized what He Ao must have known, and looked at him, "I didn’t do it on purpose back then, I was under duress too, the corporation forced me to introduce people to the Research Institute..."

"I’m not here for that," He Ao cut him off mid-sentence, his eyes turning towards the computer in front of the man, and asked in a low, husky voice, "Is this computer connected to the mainframe of the ’Blood Pool’?"

"This..."

The man’s voice hesitated.

Clang—

With his other hand, He Ao pulled out a bayonet that was hidden inside his clothing, the pitch-black bayonet twirling in his hand before he thrust it with a thud into the solid metal desk, "You only need to answer yes or no."

The man looked at the sharp bayonet half-buried in the desk, swallowed his saliva, and said tremblingly, "Yes..."

He Ao casually booted up the computer, which was in use and not locked.

He connected the computer’s data cable to his wristband, and a hacking interface appeared.

Subsequently, a password verification box popped up on the computer screen.

He Ao looked at the man.

The man, trembling, typed the password into the keyboard.

"Is there only one mainframe for the Blood Pool?"

As Eve hacked the computer, He Ao continued to ask.

Some large areas use different mainframes to control different functions independently, and these mainframes do not communicate with each other, relying on external coordination and control.

This is to prevent a situation where one mainframe crashes or is compromised, leading to the entire area becoming infected and unusable.

Hearing the question, the man glanced at He Ao before saying in a low voice, "No..."

"How many are there?"

"Thirteen, each connected to different laboratories."

"Is there a directory?"

He Ao’s voice was hoarse as he asked.

"Yes."

Under He Ao’s gaze, the man opened the computer and retrieved a directory spreadsheet, identifying the laboratories with access control of the Blood Pool.

After confirming the location of all the laboratories, He Ao asked in a low voice, "Which laboratory handles the distribution of the Life Elixir?"

The man was startled for a moment, then slowly said, "On the 32nd floor."

"How do I get there?"

"Take the elevator at the end of the hallway."

"Where’s the ’Doctor’?"

"On the top floor."

"How do I get there?"

"After reaching the 32nd floor, there’s an elevator behind the central machinery that goes directly to the top floor."

By this time, Eve’s hacking progress bar had also finished, He Ao pulled out the bayonet stuck in the desk, released his grip on the man’s hand, and gently patted the man’s shoulder,

"Old classmate, do me another favor, take me to the other laboratories. Don’t worry, I’m a good guy, I won’t hurt you."

"Okay..."

The man looked at He Ao with eyes filled with madness and listened to his hoarse voice, tremblingly nodding.

Then, together with He Ao, he walked towards the office exit.

Walking in front, he opened the office door, and only after he had completely left the office did He Ao step out.

There were no cameras in this office; the surrounding researchers were still freely conducting their experiments, with no one paying attention to He Ao.

He Ao moved forward one step, coming right in front of his ’old classmate’.

He seemed to trust his old classmate again and walked boldly forward.

The man following behind He Ao glanced at his back, from which came the sound of tearing fabric and rustling.

Two rigid claws, filled with bones, slowly rose from behind him, aiming at He Ao’s back.

In just an instant, those bone-filled claws lunged towards He Ao’s heart like an eagle pouncing on its prey.

Boom—

The bone-filled claws struck the hard ground, sending stones flying everywhere.

Missed?

The man looked ahead in surprise; the spot where He Ao had been standing was now empty.

Suddenly, an intense pain erupted from his back as a sharp dagger pierced through the part not yet encased in bone, stabbing out from the center of his chest.

Drip-drop—drip-drop—

Milky white blood trickled down from the tip of the dagger onto the ground, producing a distinct sound.

He Ao pulled out the dagger, allowing the body of his old classmate to collapse powerlessly forward.

He lifted his head to look ahead.

The researchers who had been conducting experiments now had their heads raised, watching him.

One by one, claws floated behind them.

At this moment, He Ao somewhat understood the reason why this laboratory had windows yet the researchers remained indifferent.

They were already no longer ’human’ and naturally felt no empathy for the human corpses in the Blood Pool.

Now someone had picked up a hand ring, while another headed towards the laboratory door.

He Ao didn’t have much time.

He suddenly threw the dagger, shattering the ceiling light in the center of the room, plunging the whole room into sudden darkness.

Only the faint red light from the Blood Pool, filtering through the glass, illuminated each twisted shadow in the room.

Two muffled thuds came from the darkness.

Those were two individuals who had raised their hand rings and were about to send a message.

Click—

The sound of a lock core turning came from the depths of the darkness.

The only door leading to the outside world had been locked from the inside.

Chaotic shadows danced briefly on the dim walls.

Twisted assaults caused splinters of stone to scatter.

Vials filled with red liquid broke on the ground, their contents soaking into the tiny glass shards.

Seconds later, all the fighting came to a halt.

Accompanied by the final thud of a body hitting the ground, a dagger slowly extended from the broken glass, smeared with a trace of fresh blood, tracing an arc on the floor.

A soft glow spread on the ground, forming a lifelike tree pattern, and then the pattern slowly dimmed.

Next to this tree, a small device was emitting a faint light—it was an activated hand ring, its screen stopped on a customized, yet-to-be-triggered alarm interface.

Eventually, the light on the hand ring completely went out, slipping into a hibernation mode.

Everything returned to darkness once again.

Click—

The locked door was unlocked in a flash, and a figure clad in a pristine white coat stepped out of the room, closing the door with composure.

As he closed the door, the message on the electronic screen by the entrance to the testing lab changed.

[Confidential experiment underway, do not disturb]

He turned around and, like a janitor who had just finished cleaning, made his way down the corridor.

······ Half an hour later ······

After the message on the last laboratory’s electronic screen was altered, He Ao walked contentedly toward the elevator at the end of the hallway.

"Why are you covered in blood?"

At the elevator, a middle-aged man wearing glasses looked at He Ao with puzzlement.

Following his gaze, He Ao saw the white stain on the edge of his white coat, "Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention and got a little on me."

"If you’ve sneaked in here, you should be more careful."

A sigh came from beside him.

Sharp claws descended from above.

"Thank you."

He Ao pulled out the short sword that had been thrust into the chest of the ’person’ before him.

A milky white fluid ran down the blade.

Normally, human blood is red.

Ding—

The elevator had arrived.

He Ao glanced at the elevator, dragged the corpse into the nearest lab, and closed the door once more.

When he returned to the elevator, it had just fully opened, completely empty inside,

He Ao entered the elevator and pressed the button for the thirty-second floor.

Unlike the Research Institute, where there was only Reid as a ’monster’, in this building, there were monsters with white blood everywhere.

This place might have long since been devoid of humans.

However, these people who had been ’turned’ into monsters mostly had powers at E-level, with some team leaders at D-level, nowhere near the peak C-level Reid.

It seems that powerful ’monsters’ like Reid aren’t so easily ’manufactured.’

The elevator ascended rapidly, and in the brief time He Ao was contemplating, it had already reached the thirty-second floor.

As the elevator doors opened, the environment He Ao saw was entirely different from the Strengthening Potion area below.

Here, instead of laboratories lining the corridor in a replicated fashion, a spacious hall covered the entire floor, with everyone moving about in this single large space.

The hall, about ten meters high, was surrounded by steam pipes emitting heat and slightly rusted, with massive intertwining pipes covering the base of the hall.

In the center of the hall stood a huge square machine, with light milky-white steam continuously seeping through the gaps in waves of billowing vapor.

The whole hall was filled with a warm sensation, not just physically but also spiritually nurturing.

The life force around was so dense it seemed almost to condense into a tangible form.

He Ao stepped out of the elevator, embracing the life force.

Around the edges of the hall were windows, through which one could see the neon-lit city outside.

The grand cityscape contrasted sharply with the steamy pipework structure inside the hall.

Only now, the city adorned with tall buildings was completely enveloped in a thick fog.

The enormous fog wrapped around all flickering lights.

He Ao walked over to the window and took a glance, standing at this vantage point, one could see no figures in the fog.

His arrival drew no attention whatsoever from those in the hall.

Perhaps it was because the lighting here was too dim to clearly make out the figures, or perhaps ’they’ just didn’t pay much attention to matters that didn’t concern them.

The ’people’ He Ao encountered in the Strengthening Potion research area below generally shared similar characteristics.

The creaking noise came from above his head.

He Ao looked up and saw the pipes above him seeming to tremble under the push of steam, as if they were about to crack open at any moment.

Waves of hot steam spread throughout the hall.

In the Federation, which relied on electricity, steam and flames seemed to belong to a distant past.

He Ao walked to the square machine in the center of the hall and stopped.

He felt a rich power within this machine, the power of Martial Arts ’Qi’.

This machine should be the one mentioned in the Research Institute’s data, capable of producing ’Qi’.

The massive machine was pitch-black, measuring twenty or thirty meters in length and width, the most conspicuous and largest object in the hall.

In front of the machine, there were rows of small taps neatly arranged.

Some researchers would take special test tubes to these taps and, after verifying their identities, a colorless, transparent liquid with a faint whiteness would flow out into the tubes.

These liquids looked like the ’Qi’ in the Life Elixir.

But Qi itself is colorless and formless.

Initially, He Ao was somewhat puzzled about how Stars Pharma had solidified Qi, but from this liquid, it seemed they hadn’t extracted pure Qi, but rather used a dilution liquid from the Fountain of Youth to ’extract’ the Qi.

From the hot steam occasionally puffing out of the machine, it seemed that this kind of extraction might only be possible with the steam of the Fountain of Youth’s dilution liquid.

The huge pipes at the top of the hall must be the ducts that transport and circulate this steam.

He Ao’s gaze swept around.

Unlike the Strengthening Potion, the Life Elixir didn’t need development; its compounding seemed to be a more mature operation.

Even so, this mixture was not safe.

Researchers would use mechanical arms to control the mix of ’Qi’ and the milky substance that seemed to be the Fountain of Youth’s dilution liquid.

This ratio appeared quite difficult to control, and just as He Ao was scanning the area, a test tube exploded. The researcher handling the tube was blown away, and the mechanical arm shattered into pieces.

At the moment the researcher was blown away, He Ao saw the exoskeleton protruding from his body surface. These hard bones shielded him from most of the impact and flying mechanical parts.

But he still spat out a mouthful of white blood and struggled to get up and leave.

Almost instantly, a new researcher took up the mechanical arm and sat in the previous one’s place.

These researchers might have consumed ’Fountain of Youth’ to some degree, having been transformed by it and granted inhuman bodies and long lives.

But now it seemed that eternal life might not be such a good thing.

Because it might mean never-ending work.

He Ao continued scanning, his gaze finally resting on a small machine in the corner, which was operating continuously, producing custom, transparent test tubes, one by one.

These test tubes seemed to be for storing ’Qi’.

As He Ao watched the machine, someone was picking up the shattered fragments of a recent explosion and, along with some small ’marbles,’ pouring them into the machine.

He Ao looked at a marble; it looked very familiar. He touched the inside pocket of his coat, where he also had a few similar marbles.

However, his marbles contained purple mist, unlike those poured into the machine, suggesting it was the device used to create the custom test tubes that isolated ’Qi’.

And those marbles were used Soul Devouring Pearls.

He Ao withdrew his gaze, took a step forward, and began to closely examine the enormous machine in front of him.

Typically, such machines would have an access ladder for maintenance purposes.

He looked up at the smoking crack on the machine; it seemed to have been in use for a while, and the lid wasn’t sealed very well, possibly allowing a look inside through the crack.

Soon, he found a series of vertical steel pipes welded onto the side of the machine, ascending.

This seemed to be a makeshift maintenance ladder.

He reached out his hand, grabbed the ladder’s steel pipe above his head, intending to climb up and see what was inside this machine.